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 LITERARY ANECDOTES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; 
 
 COMPRIZING 
 
 38tosrapi)ical 0ltmoixQ 
 
 OF 
 
 WILLIAM BOWYER, Printer, F.S.A. 
 
 AND MANY OF HIS LEARNED FRIENDS} 
 AN INCIDENTAL VIEW 
 
 OF THE PROGRESS AND ADVANCEMENT OF LITERATURE 
 IN THIS KINGDOM DURING THE LAST CENTURY; 
 
 AND 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES 
 
 OF A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF 
 
 EMINENT WRITERS and INGENIOUS ARTISTS; 
 WITH A VERY COPIOUS INDEX. 
 
 By JOHN NICHOLS, F.S.A. 
 
 IN S^^ yftUUMES, 
 
 -t i :i -I ' ; 1 
 
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 PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, 
 
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 1812.
 
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 N 5*^ 
 
 v^-^ 
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE SECOND VOI.UME, 
 
 Annals of Mr. Bowj'er's Press, from 1732 to 1765, ... p. 1--461 
 Essays and Illustrations. 
 
 No. I. Memoirs of Mr. John Bagford 462 
 
 II, Mr. George Ballard 466 
 
 JII. Rev. Thomas Carte, M. A 471 
 
 ' Rev. Samuel Carte, M. A ibid. 
 
 Samuel Carte, Esq. the Solicitor 481 
 
 Rev. John Carte, LL. B ibid. 
 
 IV. Rev. John Jackson, M. A. .^)19 
 
 V. Rev. Zachary Grey, LL. D 532 
 
 VI. Charles Compton, Esq 549 
 
 VII. Rev. John Jortin, D. D 550 
 
 Samuel Johnson, LL. D ibid. 
 
 VIII. Martin Folkes, Esq 57S 
 
 IX. Rev. Michael Lort, D. D 594 
 
 X. Nathanael Hooke, Esq 606 
 
 XI. Rev. Richard Farmer, D. D 618 
 
 XII. George Steevens, Esq 650 
 
 XIII, Isaac Reed, Esq 664 
 
 XIV. Additions to Dr. I^nt 673 
 
 XV. Memoirs of the Rev. Robert Maikham, D.D 682 
 
 XVI. LclttTs of Rev. William Cole to Dr.Ducarel, &c. 685696 
 XVII. Rc\ . Dr. Young and Rev. Mr. Jones of Welvvyn. . , . 697 
 XVIII. Additions und Corrections 699 724
 
 ( 1 ) 
 
 LITERARY ANECDOTES 
 
 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 vJNE of the earliest publications from Mr. Bow- 
 yer's press in the year I732 was, 
 
 " Marrnorum, Arundellianorum, SeldenianoruiTi, 
 aliorumque, Acaclemi<e Oxoniensi donatorum * ; una 
 
 * " The antic nt marbles that form the most authentic history 
 of Greece, collected by Thomas Howard, earl of Aiundel, and 
 given to this Uni\ersity by liis grandson Heniy Duke of Norfolk, 
 wi;re first illustrated with a learned comment, the year after they 
 came over, by Seldcn. Philip Earl of Arundel, father of the 
 noble collector, was the greatest Antiquary in Eurojxi, except 
 Ferdinand de Alcdiri. Persecuted by the intrigues of a jealous 
 Court, to whicli his own father the great Duke of Norfolk had 
 fallen a victim, he was pre[)aring to retire from England, and 
 indulge his only ambition, the study of polite literature. Eliza- 
 beth remanded liim, and, not content with a heavy line and im- 
 prisonment, had him tried fur treason. Being unable to convict 
 him of any thing but Poj)ery, she left him to languish nine years 
 in prison, where he sunk under her displeasure and his own 
 austerity. Among the celebmted Lii)rarles of the age in this 
 kingdom his wab the complctest in the antiquarian way. Hit 
 son Thon)aa inheiited his spirit and taste, witli better fortune. 
 Too much of a patriot to be estcemerl by James, too little of a 
 parasite to cringe to his favourite, too honest and disinterested 
 to have many fi iL-nds in their parliament, he could not attain to 
 the seals after the great Hacon, who drew his hist breath in his 
 house at Highgale. In Chailt-r^s fii.st parliament he was instru- 
 mental to tiie establishment of the; fundamental ))rivileges of the 
 peerage; and the King seeiui to have obhined liis fatlier's con- 
 VoL. II. U duct
 
 t LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l732. 
 
 cum varjis Coininentarlis et Indice ; secunda Editio," 
 
 duct towards liim, advancing him to emplojTnents unimportant 
 in (hcmselvea or in which he was not left free to act. After pre- 
 siding; with unimpeaehed impartiality at the trial of (he favourite 
 minir^ter, as the storm of ci\il distractions gathered roimd, hr 
 retivated from a scene \\here moderation coidd not be heaiti, to 
 pursue those studies to which he had always gi\ en the pieference 
 at home. The fiiend and patron of his late contemporari(>s, he 
 introduced the elegance and arts of Greece and llonie into this 
 aitgle of the world ; superior to ambition, with abilities and re- 
 venues equal to its largest views. Clarendon, without intending 
 him so much honour, has drawn in his character the picture of 
 au independent English nobleman. William Petty, aftenvards 
 knighted, whom the Earl sent into Asia in quest of antient mo- 
 numents, bought these of a Turk, who took them from the agent 
 of the famous Peircsk, who had paid fifty pieces of gold for 
 them, and was aftCi wards thrown into prison, anil cheated of 
 them. Petty lost (n^.a ship-load of his collections, and narrovvlv 
 saved himself. After the Earl retired to Italy, lf)4I, many of 
 these curious monuments, which lay at Arundel house in the 
 .^trand, were stoU n, or cut up by masons and worked into houses. 
 Above 130, which was scarce half, surviving this calamity. Hem y 
 l^foward, earl niavshal. grandson to the noble collector, when he 
 pulled down Arur.del house, made a present of them to this Uni- 
 versity, at the instigation of John Evelyn, esq. of Baliol. They 
 were ranged in the wall surrounding the couit of the Theatre, 
 marked with the initial letter of the donor's name, and a pillar 
 erected with an inscription under his arms. Upon .SekUn'-: 
 death, 1654, hi.-; executors added his collection of antiijuities. 
 ^ir George V\'heeler gave those he had collected, chieHy at Athens ; 
 and the University bought several other marbles of merchants 
 who brought them over. Those ])arts of the Earl of Arundel's 
 Collection which were not sent to Oxford were ])reserved at 
 Tart hall, or StaHord house, near St. James's-park gate, by Buck- 
 ingliani house, where some of the statues were buried in the 
 court-yard during Oatcb's plot. (8ee an account of their disper- 
 sion in Ml". Theobald's letter to Lord VVilloughbv, inserted in 
 " Historical Aneciioies of the Howard family, by Charles How- 
 ard, 17<>y. ' l^mo.) Many very fine statues, ^e. were removed to 
 the bottom ()f the garden of Arundel house, and placed under a 
 colonnade ; in pulling ilown which, by tln^ carelessness of the 
 workmen employed to build the new streets thereabouts, many 
 jeceivednmch dam;ige. Sir William Ferinor, however, purcluised 
 the best of them. Those that were too much injiued to deser-ve a 
 place at Oxford or Easton-.Nestor, near Tovvcester, Northampton- 
 shire, the seat of theEarl of Pomfret, when the site of Aruiidel house 
 wiis converted into a street, were begged by one Jjoyden Cuper, 
 who had been servant in the family, and removed them to Cuper's 
 aardcns, where they were nmch abused. Here Aubrey lost sight 
 of them J but when Di". Rawlinson published his History of 
 
 Surrey^
 
 1732-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 3 
 
 folio; which was begun in 1728, and contains 
 
 Surrey, he inserted, vol. V. p. 283, eight plates of beautiful frag- 
 ments of statues ahd bas-reliefs (all which were copied in the 
 " History of Lambeth, 1786)." Mr. Waller of Beaconsfield, and 
 Mr. Freeman of Fawely, gave Cujxjr 75 1- for them 1717* and divided 
 them between them. Dr. Stukeley says, the antique statues at 
 Thorp, near Peterborough, came out of the Arundel Collection. 
 (Itin. Cur. I. 79.) The statue of a Roman senator, which in its 
 mangled state shewed a fine drapeiy, and Avas lately in the gar- 
 den at Somerset-house, is believed to have come out of this Col- 
 lection. The rest having been I'emoved by the Duke of Norfolk 
 to a piece of ground on the opposite side of the river, were, upon 
 that gi'ound being converted to a timber-yard and \vhaif, buried 
 under the rubbish brought to i-aise it from the foundation of 
 St. Paul's. Mr. Theobald's father, who held the yard 171'2, 
 digging foundations, turned up many fragments, which his sou 
 gave to Lord Burlington. A bas-relief stands under an obelisk 
 at Chiswick. The late Lord Petre digging there afterwards found 
 six trunks, some colossal statues, witli fine drapery, which are 
 now at Worksop. Mr. Theobald cut some blocks of grey marble, 
 which had probably contained inscriptions, into slabs for his 
 house, the Belvidere, at Lambeth j and made a piece of a column 
 a roller for his country-house at Waltham, Berks. A colossus of 
 Apollo, whose hea.d is at Oxford, is said to lie under the liouses 
 in .\rundel-street (Stukeley, Itin. 1. 30) ; and I think I have some- 
 where read that an entire small obelisk is covered by the houses 
 of one side "of that street. Mr. Aislabie, who inhabited one of the 
 new-built houses here, found a broken statue in his cellar, which he 
 carried down to his seat at Studley Park in Yorkshire. The Society 
 of Antiquaries have Dr. Milles's drawing of a sarcophagus, of white 
 marble, belonging to Mr. Rogers, apothecaiy, of Howard-street, 
 1742. Theobald says this sarcophagus was in the cellar of Mr. 
 James Adamson, who lived in the cornei-house on the left hand 
 going into the lower part of Norfolk-street, IJoT- The Earl 
 endeavoured to procure the obelisk since erected in the Piazza 
 Navona, and would have removed several other statues had not the 
 Pope opposed it. (?2velyn's Numismata, p. 05. ) CUucndon says he 
 paid for them, but was not allowed to fetch them nway. (I. 50".) 
 The remaining cr.riosities lodged at Tart hall, afterwards Stafford 
 hoasc, were sold by auction about the year 1750; and theie 
 Dr. Mead bought his fine head of Homer, purchased at his sale 
 for 13C/. by Brownlow Earl of Exeter (uncle of the late Marquis), 
 who reposited it in the British xMuseum. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 Pictures/ sold for 812 7 O 
 
 Prints lOH 17 4 
 
 Draughts . . 299 4 7 
 
 Japaji G9H 1 1 O 
 
 (tilt, &c. plate '1(J2 1 11; 
 
 Crystal vases 30"4 3 O 
 
 u 2 Agate
 
 4 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l732. 
 
 175 slieets. This beautiful volume (of which only 
 300 copies were printed on a crown paper, and 
 
 Agate cups 1()3 Ifi O 
 
 Jewels, aiicl otlier curiosities . . . 24<>7 7 10 
 
 Medals 50 10 6' 
 
 Odd plate 170 7 
 
 Cabinets and ehina 1256 19 O 
 
 Houshold funiiiure 11 99 3 
 
 Odd lots 738 13 2 
 
 8852 114 
 Soiety of Antiquaries Minnfes. 
 Mr, Walpole (Anecxl. III. 83), says Mr. West had the printed 
 Catalogue (which was mi.seiably diawn up) with tlie prices, and 
 that the sale produced G53o/. 
 
 The rich collection of medals was gathered by Daniel Nisum (Eve~ 
 Ij'n, Nun:iinjata, p. 245) . The cameos and intaglios \\ ere by Mary 
 Duchess of Norfolk bequeathed to her second husband Sir John Ger- 
 mayne, whose witlow liaxing offered them to the British Museinn 
 for 10,000/. gave them to the present Duke of Mailborough. The 
 CVipid and Psyclie engra^ed by Bartoloz/i, is in the first edition of 
 Biyant's Antient Mythology, vol. I. 7"he same gem Avas al^o 
 engraved by Shenvin for the second edition of that w ork. Mr. Adam 
 Martin shewed the Society of Antiquaries, 1752, two hundred wax 
 impressions of gems and seals by the Earl of Arimdel. Sir Andrew 
 Fountain took an exact U.^t and description of them all. (Society of 
 Antiquaricii Minutes ) In Lord Onslow's grotto^ at West Clandon, 
 Surrey, is an Arundcliau marble re])resenting a tall p*>rson holding 
 a scroll, and taking a shoiler man by the hand, before a pillar sur- 
 mounted by an image ; behirul the tall figure a horse's head, and 
 two boys below. Inscription, O APIMOS AIONri:iON AIONYSIOT 
 TOT MHTPOAfiPOT : su})posed by Mr. Spence to be some jockey 
 of Argos in Pelojionnesus, admitted by agenius or officer to the 
 freedom of the city. Mr. Webb gave the Society of Antiquaries 
 a bad drawing of it l)y John Russel, 1758. This marble was 
 engraved with Mr. Spence's account of it in tlie Gentleman's 
 Magazine, April 1772, p. 17t. C'ompare Prid. Ixvii. Mait. cxlii. 
 Mar. Ox. cxlvi. Two reliefs in the latter (cxxxv. and cxxxviii.) 
 ha^e the horse's head, which is a funeral emblem, and the in- 
 scription is frequent there when the parties were buiied or hon- 
 oured with an epitaph at the public expence. Com]:)are also a 
 funeral moninnent in Count Caylus, tom. VI. pi. Ixiii. 1. ^I'hc 
 statues belonging to the Pomfret Collection being part of tlie 
 inheritance of tlie eldest branch of the family, since dukes of 
 Norfolk, fell into the hands of the Duchess who was divorced 
 1699, and being by her sold to the last Earl of Pomfiei's father, 
 were some time preserved at his seat in Northiuuptonshire ; but 
 in 1755 given by the late Countess Do\\ager of Pomfn^t to this 
 University. These, with the anlient inscriptions collected by 
 Sir George Wheeler, and Messrs. Dawkins, Bouveiie, and Wo(jd, 
 during their travels, some of which Dr. Kawlinson bought out of 
 
 Loid
 
 1732.] TlIE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 5 
 
 six copies on a large writing medium*) waspublislied 
 by subscription -f-. 
 
 The history of this elegant volume is thus given 
 in a contemporary Review; and was probably written 
 by our learned Printer : 
 
 " The Marmora Arundelliana were first published 
 by the great Selden in l6*28 :|;. In the year iG^G, 
 
 Lord Oxford's or Kemp's Collection, and vtuious frag'ments of 
 our own ;inti(}\uties, have been all united tOii:ethci', and engraved 
 by Millar, at the University's e.xpente, in " Manriora Oxoniensia. 
 Ox. 1763." fol. a work the desitjn of which will imnwrtalize the 
 Universily, the nation, and the age. Tlie inscriptions are trans- 
 cribed w ith great exactness, revised by Mr. Richard Chandler of 
 Magdalen college, ^vho prefixed an historical pieface, and a short 
 account of each with critical notes ; and a co])ious index by 
 Mr. Loveday, gentleman coinmoner of Magdalen." Cough's 
 Anecdotes of British Topography, vol. II. pp. 127 131. 
 
 * In a letter printed in vol. l.'p. \\)\, Mr. Maittaire tells Lord 
 Oxford that " he repents of having printed so many copies as 
 300, when 200 might have sufficed." 
 
 f It aj)pears by an advertisement, that 150 sheets were wrought 
 off in August 1/29 ; and that, though the work contained at least 
 half as many more sheets as were at fiist proposed, the price to 
 subscribers (which was two guineas and a half) was not in- 
 creased. To others, it was raised to three guineas. 
 
 \ " My copy of Selden has, ' Typis et Impcn>is Guilichni 
 Stanesbeii, MDCXXVHI.' Others have, ' Apud Joanncm Bil- 
 lium, 1629." In this Work Mr. Selden was assisted by 11. James 
 and Patrick Young, at the desire of Sir R(<bert Cotton. They 
 began with the treaty between the Magiiesians and Smynieans 
 to stand by Seleucns, whom all his subjects, except the last, 
 liad deserted, till his ill fortune brought them round again. 
 Copies of this being soon solicited, Selden, to prevent tlie in- 
 accuracy of transcriljers, printed it \\ ith twenty-eight other Gieek 
 and ten Roman inscriptions (some of theui liis own) under the 
 title of " Marmora Anmdeliana ; ."-ixe saxa Gnece incisa ex \ene- 
 randis priscie orientis gloria; ruderibus, auspiciis & impensis 
 herois illustrissimi Thom;e comitis Arundellia^ & Surri;e, comitis 
 mare.scalH Angliae, pridem vindicata & in aidiljus ejus hortisque 
 cognominibus, ad Thamesis ripam, disposita. .Accedunt iuscrip- 
 tiones alitpiot veteris Latii ex locupktissimo ejnsck'm vctui^tatis 
 the-sauro selects ; a\ictariolum item aliunde sumptuni : publica- 
 vit iSc connnentariolos adjccit Joannes Scldenus. 1. C. L)nd. 
 1629." 4to. That a single edition of such curious matters, 
 which too were rare then, should not be bought up y:re((lily at 
 home and abroad, doth no great honour to the tasic and haniing 
 of times whicli we are apt to admire. There is certainlv another 
 edition in the third volume of the magniticent edition of his W'oiks 
 in 1726, perhaps without any additions, which is extraordinary. 
 
 as
 
 6 LITERARY ANECDOTES Of [^75^- 
 
 the Marnwra Oxoniensia came out, which, besides 
 the Arundel Marbles, contained such as had been 
 presented to the University by Mr. Selden and sc?- 
 yeral other munificent benefactors. The learned 
 Mr. Maittaire has now published a second edition 
 of that work, which will doubtless be very accept- 
 able to all the learned world, particularh' to all 
 lovers of antiquity ; that gentleman's great abilities 
 for such an undertaking, being universally know n 
 and acknowledged *. In this edition the reader 
 will find first of all the Greek inscriptions, together 
 with the Appendix, then the Latin, and afterwards 
 four Hebrew, all in large capital letters. After this, 
 there is the Greek text again in a less character, 
 with a Latin translation by Selden, Prideaux, and 
 Price, p. 1 to 99. In the next plac^e, follow entire 
 Dissertations or Comments of learned Men, all apart 
 by themselves; as, 1. Selden s Commentaries, from 
 p. 99 to 197. 2. Price's Notes on the third Marble, 
 from p. 197 to 200. 3. Palmerius's Notes and 
 Supplements to the first Marble, from p. 200 to 
 222. 4. Lydiat's -j- Annotations ujjon the same, 
 
 a.s one should tliink the learned author would Ivcep inipro\ing 
 his copy. This quarto edition i.^ a poor uican blind one in 184 
 pages, including en^ata, &.c. and by no means equal in typogia- 
 phical execution to the merit of the subject. T. F.' 
 
 * " This might be said by a complimenting Re\i'ucr ; but 
 \\\\2X can we think of an Editor that woidd not {.a\ one single 
 vi-it to them all together at Oxford ?" T. F. 
 
 f " The upper part of t}ie Parian Chronicle, containing fcjrty- 
 five lines, is su{): osed to be workecl-up in repairing a chimney. 
 L' diat, while confined in the King's Btneh for a debt of surety- 
 ship for his brother, wrote annotations on tliis Chronicle, which 
 -Acre first published by Prideaux. Wood says, he criticized se- 
 vircix on Sel.ien's remarks j and, instead of calling him a most 
 ju. icons auth(jr, only styled him an inditstrions one, which 
 Selden was weak enough to re.-ent so highly, as to refii^o to 
 contribute tf.v.ards his release. Athen. Ox. II. 89. This stems to 
 he a nicf f' of mere tittle-tattle j for in the printed notes, p. 13, 
 h<- calls him i:nlvstrius tt eruditus amicus uo^ter Stldenas. This 
 tt;ne should ha.e been engraved in the Marmora Oxoniensia, 
 like the Marntor Sandviceiise. Tiiis copy h'd> some fault--, be- 
 r'de.- noi g^^i^.ir tlje truf: idea of the length (jf the gaps, or the 
 Uu>. i-csitica of the letters on tlie stone ia more than one single 
 
 iinc^
 
 1732.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 7 
 
 from p. 222 to 295. 5. jNIarsham's Commentaries 
 on the fifty-eight first Epochas of the same Marble, 
 from p. 295 to 309. 6. Prideaux's perpetual Com- 
 mentary on the Marbles, from p. 3 0.9 to ')0i). 
 7. Some Notes of Keinesius upon the Marbles, 
 from p. 509 to 524. 8. Sponius's Notes on some 
 of the Marbles, from p. 524 to 527. 9. ChishuU's 
 Notes on the third Marble, from p. 527 to 532. 
 
 10. Corrections from Smith's Epistle concerning 
 the Seven Churches of Asia, from p. ^S'i to 533. 
 
 1 1 . Other Corrections from Bentley's Dissertation 
 on Phalaris's Epistles, from p. 533 to 540. 12. Maf' 
 fei's Translation of the iirst and second Marbles into 
 Italian, with Notes, from p. 540 to 549. Lastly, 
 Dodwell's Chronological Tables on the first Marble, 
 from p. 549 to 553. 
 
 " After such various conmients by so many 
 learned men, our Editor tliinks he mij,';ht very v.ell 
 liave put an end to the work here, and bee^ excused 
 from any farther trouble ; but, having eu^:aged him- 
 self by promise in his proposal, he has given us some 
 conjectures and remarks of his own, as w( 11 upon the 
 comments of those learned men before mentioned, 
 as upon the Marbles themselves, from p. 353 to C05. 
 Besides which, he has added a very copious Index*, 
 both of Things and Words, witii short notes fre- 
 quently interspersed, from p. f)'05 toO'07. 
 
 " As to the order in which the Marbles are 
 ])laced in this edition, our Editor has not tliought 
 it necessary to keep to the same that was observed 
 in the Oxford edition, where thev were j)laced 
 according to the order in which they stood in 
 their repository near the Theatre; but, since they 
 have been removed from thence to a more com- 
 modious place, he judges it best to come, as 
 near as possible, to tlie method used by Selden, 
 (iruter, and others, wiio liave shewed their skill 
 
 line, uliich iilonc Inippciis to bo pcitrcr, ii*- T'ulincriu* Cj**;,- 
 Jilainrd loiij^- ;ii;()." (joic^li's iintisli I'ojKrj^rdjilnj. \ol. II p \'l\). 
 * On Mr. IMHillaiic '.- talent at indcx-inakir|J ;( c tlvj ' j\.-a\- 
 and llia-iiutions" in \ul. IV. .N'^XV. 
 
 Wild
 
 $ LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7S2. 
 
 and dexterity in recovering and adjusting curiosities 
 of this kind. Our Editor farther informs us, that 
 both in the Greek and Latin Marbles, where there 
 are statues or figures, either with or without inscrip- 
 tions, they are all placed last: and those statues 
 and figures are engraved anew, with the addition of 
 two that were before omitted * ." 
 
 In return for a copy of this work, Mr. Bowyer 
 received the following letter from Mr. Clarke : 
 
 " I thank you much for my copy of the Oxford 
 Marbles ; I am pleased with it, and believe there 
 is no great danger of a new impression-l". Mr. ISlait- 
 taire "j^ has shewn a great deal of modesty and dili- 
 gence, as well as learning, in the work ; I do not 
 see how such a heap of Commentaries can be other- 
 wise disposed of than in the manner he has placed 
 them . There is a note, at the bottom of the 
 first page of his Preface, that 1 was a little in 
 doubt about. He tells you that Colomesius in the 
 year 1665 had heard of a larger j| Commentary of 
 
 * Present State of Republick of Letters, vol. IX. p. 139. 
 
 f " Yet there luis been a new iniprtssion, tliouali without 
 notes, by Dr. Chandler. An anonynioiis writer (Gent. Mag. 
 vol. 1>X1X. p. 297), > in a liberal {}ii!-tle on the Arundel col- 
 lection, expresses a wish that the Lniversity would pive a fac- 
 simile of the Parian marljle; wi.ich was also the wish of that old 
 soldier and good Grecian, Jac. Palmciiiis U Grentr inesnil, who 
 published an excellent philological work in 16'6"8, ccni'iining 
 notes and corrections on thirty capital Greek author.- (reckoning 
 the \rundel Marbles as one) in about 800 quarto }>agcs; his first 
 work, when he was 80 years old, and had been a soldier from 20, 
 till difcabkd })y age and t!i;; .-^.tone. His ov. n short preface is worth 
 reading, and perhaps rerjrinting. I cannot help oliscning, that 
 30 or 40 years ago this b(;ok sold for 4.s'. and that now it gene- 
 rally goes for 2*. To be sure, later editions of s( vcral of these 
 autliors have, so fiir as tl;ey have gone, lowered the value of our 
 tixil\ honest Critic ; but as, like the !>iby1s' leaves, there is enough 
 in cons^-ionce s.ill left foi' the niiiney, I urn apt to think that these 
 studies are fallen one eighth in price : I wish they may ha^e taken 
 a better turn." T. F. 17S2. 
 
 I Of >vhoni see the lissavs and Illustrations in vol. IV. No. XV. 
 ^ They i: !ght have been disposed of in the manner of the 
 
 Vaiioiji"! edition of the Classici\s. T. F. 
 
 II It 1=1 .T^^ iuiprobabie but that Selden himself might ha^e en- 
 larfxed his Cf...'i"ientHry. T. K 
 
 Selden 's.
 
 1732.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 9 
 
 Seidell's *, and seen one of M. de Grenteines- 
 nil'|~, &c. then adds at last, Nulla autem UUus 
 Commenfaru, which is ambiguous ^, though to be 
 sure he means Selden's. Every reader does not 
 know immediately that M- de Grentemesnil is the 
 gentleman that follows at No. 3 ^." 
 
 Among other books printed in this year were, 
 *' Apparatus ad Linguam (liroecam, ordine novo 
 ac facili digestus, &c. Auctore Georgio Thompson, 
 E. A. P. jj Scholaeque (irannnaticae apud Tottenham 
 Allae Crucis Magistro." 
 
 " Sermons and Discourses on Practical Subjects, 
 never before printed. By Robert Moss, D. D. late 
 Dean of Ely, and Preacher to the Honourable So- 
 
 * " A person was employed to prepare a new edition of Sel- 
 den's Commentary, which had been found veiy incorrect, and to 
 insert the aiiditional marbles. This being delayed three years. 
 Bishop Fell employed Prideaux ; who published them imder the 
 title of ' Marmora Oxoniensia, ex Arundellianis, SeJdenianis, 
 aliisque couHata ; recensuit, et perpetuo commcntario explicavit, 
 Humphridus Prideaux, a^dis Christi alumnus, appositis ad coram 
 nf>rmulia Seldeni et Lydiati annotationibus. Accessit Sevtorii 
 IJr.-ati Patavini de notis llomanorum commentariis. Oxon. 
 I'i7()," folio. Many inscriptions in Selden's book, which never 
 got to Oxford, ^vere thrown with otiiers into an appendix. This 
 book gi'owing sciucc, Mr. Pearce of Ednmnd Hall undertook iu 
 17'21 to reprint it, with leave of the author, now advanced lu 
 year-i ; who recommended it to him to connect the many errors 
 0(,(a,innetl by his own youth and the hurry of the pi'css ; but, on 
 his decUning this. Dr. David \Vill<ins undertook it in 17*26, in- 
 teiulina; to a.-M the Ponifrct and Pembroke collections. Mait- 
 taire perforniel the first part of the design in 173'2, inserting 
 the conjecturt^s and corrections of various learned men ; but 
 never once consulted the marbles themselves, and totally omitted 
 Whelei'.s monuments." British Topography, vol. U. p. IMl. 
 " Coii-ini's exci'ilent accoimt of t!ie Greek Sighe would now make 
 a rnuci) more suitaiik- and interesting Suj)plement." T. F. 
 
 \ Or, as he is called in |). H, Palintrius, by which name he is 
 most commonly known. T. F. 
 
 4 Dr. Taylor had pointed out to me Maittaires ambiguous 
 language. T. F. 
 
 Mr. Clarke to Mr. Bowyer, July 14, 173.i. 
 
 I! i e. Ecelesiai .\ngricanie Pi'obvtrro. He was a'^sisted by 
 Mr. Morland, Master of St. Paul's, Mr. riiomas I'iigrim, (neck 
 Professor at Cambridge, Profc-iOr VV'aid, Dr. Patrick, and Dr. 
 {iamuel Ckirke. 
 
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 10 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l732 
 
 ciety of Cray's Inn, Published from tlie Originals, 
 at the Request of tlie Society, with a Preface, giving 
 some Account of the Author, by a learned Hand ;" 
 4 vols. 8vo. 
 
 A variety of Miscellanies by Dean Swift * ; which 
 involved Mr. Bowyer in a dispute with Mr. Pope, 
 
 * Tlie co])y-right of a coiusidorable number of Dr. Swift's 
 fugitive essays were convej'ed to Mr. Bowyer, for a \alual)le 
 cou&jderation, by the Rev. Mr. Pilkington, to whom tlicy had 
 been given by the Dean j as appears by some of Mr. Pilkington 's 
 letters to Mr. Bo\v\er, in the collection of Swift's Works : " I 
 have sent yo\i some of the pamphlets I promised, in as large a 
 parcel as I could venture," says Mr. Pilkington in one of those 
 letters, dated Aug. 28, 1732. " The De-an hits, with his own 
 hands, made some alterations in some of thom. I will, by ne\t 
 post, or next but one, send j ou another pamjjhlet at least, and a 
 new assignment ftoiii the Dean. He iecei\ed a letter from Mr, 
 Pope and Mr. Motte ; but neither have been of the least disad- 
 vantage to my request. I cannot say but 1 am proud of the 
 iirmness of his friendship to me." Mr. Pope appeai-s to have had 
 an intention of publishing a second collection of Miscellanies by 
 Dr. Swift ; who teUs him, "As to those ])apers of four or five 
 years past, that you are pleased to require soon, they consist of 
 little accidental things written in the countiy, family amuse- 
 ments, never intended farther than to divert oiu"sehes, and some 
 neighbours : or some effects of anger on public grievances here, 
 whidi wovUd be insignificant out of this king(lon>. Two or three 
 of us had a fancy, three years ago, to write a weekly paper, and 
 call it an Intelligencer. But it continued not long ; for the 
 whole volume (it was reprinted in London, and, 1 find, you ha\e 
 seen it) was the work only of two, myself and Dr. Slieiidan. If 
 we could haA e got some ingenious young man to have been the 
 manager, who should have published all that might be .sent to 
 him, it might ha^e continued longer, for there were hints 
 enough. But the Printer here could not afford such a young- 
 man one farthing for his trouble, the sale being so small, and 
 the }/rice one half-penny ; and so it dropt. In the volume you 
 saw (to answer your questions), the 1, 3, 5, 7, were mine. Of 
 the 8th I wiit only the ^cr^es (very vmcorrcct, but against a 
 fellow we all Ikated) ; the 9th mine, the loth only the verses, 
 and of those, not the foiu bust slovenly lines ; the 1.5th is a 
 pamphlet of mine, j)rinted before with Dr. Siieridan's Preface, 
 mejx'lv for laziness not to disapj>oint the Town ; and so was the 
 19th, which contains only a parcel of facts relating puiely to 
 The miseries of Ireland, and wholly useless and unentertaining. 
 As to the other things of mine since I left you ; there are in prose, 
 A lieu- of the State of Ireland; a Project for eating Children ; 
 ttJid .1 iJf'U'iHf, cf Lord Carteret : in verse, A I.ihel on Dr. Delanij 
 tnd l.",a Cirtcret; A Litter to Dr. Delanij vn the Libels vrif: 
 
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 1732.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 11 
 
 that ultimately tended to his advantage, as it 
 served to confirm that good opinion of his abilities 
 and integrity which Mr. Pope had long before en- 
 tertained *. 
 
 against him ; The Barrack (a stolen copy) ; The Lady's Journal ; 
 The Lady's Dressing Room (a stolen copy) ; The Plea of the 
 Damned (a stolen copy) : all these have been printed in London. 
 (I forgot to tell you that the Tale of Sir Ralph was sent from 
 England.) Besides these, there are five or six (perhaps more) 
 papei-s of verses writ in the North, but peifect family-things, 
 two or three of which may be tolerable ; the rest but indiflerent, 
 and the humour only local, and some that would give offence to 
 the times. Such as they are, I will bring them, tolerable or 
 bad, if I recover this lameness, and live long enough to see you 
 either here or there." Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope, June I'-Z, 1732. 
 
 On the subject of Swift's Miscellanies, the following letter to 
 Mr. Motte, dated Aug. 16, 17'S2 (of which I have the Original) 
 was first printed in Gent. Mag. vol. LXXIV. p. 9 : " Sir, Had I 
 had ye the least thought you \\^ have now desired what you be- 
 fore so deliberately refu.sed, I w'i certainly have preferred you to 
 any other bookseller. All I cd now do was to sj)eak to Mr. Gil- 
 liver, as you requested, to give you the share vou w<i have in ye 
 property, and to set aside my oljligation and co\enant with him 
 so fer, to gratify the Dean and yourself. You cannot object, I 
 think, with any reason, to the terms which he pays, and which 
 at the first woid he agreed to. 1 am. Sir, your friend and 
 servant, A. Pope." 
 
 * To this Mr. Clarke alludes, in a letter dated Dec. IS, 1732 : 
 " I hope the great affairs about property in Irisli \\'it are in a 
 way of being amicably adjusted, and that Mr Pope and vou 
 agree to divide the interest of it. It is awkward dealing witli a 
 man who stands foremost in his piofession, and at such a distance 
 fi'om the rest of them, especially if he be a W it or a Critjck. He 
 then imagines himself absolute in his own province, and that e\ei-y 
 thing he meddles with belongs to it disj)uting with him is 
 touching his pierogative, and the uay to fall luidt r hi.^ resent- 
 ment. Have )Ou come otf safe from tliis dangerous conti()\(rsy ? 
 oris Mr. Pope less assiunii)g since he has draw ii-offsucli a qvian- 
 tity of spleen into the Danvuid?" Mayo, 1733, Mr. Clarke thus 
 again begins a letter : " I wish you joy of the peaceful situation 
 you seem to be in at jnesent, and hope jour disputes are fini.-lif<l 
 to jour satisfaction. 1 have heard that Ladie.-, of the fnbt rank 
 begin to espouse your side of the question, and fall upon your 
 powerful Advcrsai-j ; that Lady Betty Gerniaiue particularly i)u 
 written a nuKst se\ ere satire upon him: 1 have not seen it, but 
 wonder you should take no notice that the fair sex are not at all 
 in lus interest. Tor my part, I gtner.illy j)ref('r peace before 
 victoiy ; and your letteis conlirm me in lln se sentiuK iits. You 
 talk of the dispute with more candour than cither the \ it tors 
 
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 12 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF f^732. 
 
 *' M. De la Motrayc's Letter to Voltaire." 
 *' Discourse of Architecture," by Mr. Gibbs *. 
 
 OT the vanquished are used to do. But, whatever are the terms 
 of yOTU' accormnodatinn, I like the issue of it extremely, as it 
 gives you leisure to talk of it with your friends in the covmtry." 
 
 * ITiis ingemoup Architect was horn at Aberdeen in 16'83, and 
 fttudied his art in Italy. Mr. Gwynne, in hLs " I^ondon ar.(i 
 Westminster improved," p. 44 46, says of him, tliat " no ar- 
 chitect since Sir Christopher Wren ever had a better opi^ortunity 
 of displaying his genius in the great style of Architecture. He 
 was employed in building and repairing several of the princij)al 
 churches in London, and he has acquitted himself up(m the 
 whole tolerably well. St. Martin's in the Fields is esteemed one 
 of the best in the city, though far from being so fine as it i> 
 \isually represented. The New Church in the Sti"and is an ex- 
 pensive rich design, without the lesist apptmrance of grandeur. 
 He also designed Bartholomew's Hospital, and a great numhor 
 of houses for persons of distinction; but there appears nothing 
 uncommon or new in them, and he was }'athcr a mannerist in 
 things of that kind. He made designs for three sides of tlie 
 quadrangle of King's college, Cambridge, in a modern style, 
 without any regard to the part already bvnlt, though he con- 
 fe-TCs the chapel is the finest Gothic pile he ever saw. This cus- 
 tom of mixing Gothic and modern architecture in the same pile 
 of building has also been practised in the University of Oxford 
 with gieat success, and serves to shew that very little attentio)i 
 is paid to taste and elegance in a ])lace where one would expect 
 to find hardly any thing else. It rather shews that modern Ar- 
 chitects do not understand Gothic, or prefer their own vagaries 
 to it. Both these obseiTations are too tnie. Another instance 
 of this erroneous practice he has given at Derby, where he has 
 added to a fine rich Gothic steeple a church of the Tuscan order, 
 which, in bis account of the work, he expressly says is suitable 
 to the old stee})le." At the opening of the Ratcliffe Library, 
 Mr. Gibbs was complimented by the University with the degree 
 of M. A. He so{m after published " A Description of the Li- 
 brary." Mr. Walpole observes, that " Gibbs, like Vanbrugh, 
 had no aversion to j>onderosity ; but, not being endued with 
 much invention, was only regiUarly heavy. His praise was 
 fidelity to rules ; his failing, want of grace. ' " About the year 
 1720 (I now use the words of Mr. Walpole) he became the ar- 
 chitect most in vogue, and the next year gave the design of 
 St. Martin's church, which was finisherl in five years, and cost 
 thirty-two thousand pounds. His likewise was St. Marys in the 
 Strand, a monument of the piety, more than of the taste f>f the 
 nation. Tlie new church at Derby was another of his Vforks ; 
 so was the new building at King's college, Cambridge, and the 
 senate-house there, the latter of which was not so bad as to justify 
 erecting the middle building m a style veiy dissonant. The Rat- 
 clitfe Library is moie exceptionable, and seems to have sunk into 
 
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 *' Proposals for printing by Subscription, Ehora- 
 cum ; or, the History and Antiquities of the City 
 of York, from its Original to the present Year. 
 Together with the History of the Cathedral Church, 
 and the Lives of the Archbishops of that See, from 
 the first Introduction of Christianity into the Northern 
 
 the ground ; or, as Sarah Duchess of Marlborough ?aid by an- 
 otlier building, it looks as if it was making a curtsy. Gibbs, 
 though he knew little of Gothic architecture, was more fortunate 
 in the quadrangle of All Souls, which he has blundered into a 
 pictuifsque scencrv , not void of gi-andeur, especiLiiiy if seen 
 thiough the gate that leads from the schools. 'Vhe a.-.-:e!nblage 
 r)t' buildings in that ([u^iiter, though no single one is beautiful, 
 always stiuck me with singular pleasm-e, as it con\eys such a 
 vision of large edifices, imbroken by private houses, fis the uiind 
 is apt to entertain of renowned cities that exist no longei-. in 
 172s Gibbs pubhshed a large folio of his own designs, which I 
 think will coniinn the clraracler I have given of his works. Hi* 
 arched wintlows, bis nistic-laced wiiulo\ss, his barbarous build- 
 ings for gardens, his cumbrous chimney-pieces, and vasfs with- 
 out grace, are striking proofs of his want of taste. He got 150(j/, 
 by this publication, and sold the plates afterwards foi- 4(X)'. moie. 
 His reputation was however established ; and the following com- 
 pliment, preserved by Vertue, on his moniunent of Prior iii 
 Westminster-abbey, shews that he did not want fond admirers : 
 ' While Gibbs displays his elegant design. 
 And Rysbrack's art does in the sculpture shine, 
 \\ ith due composure and pi-opoition just. 
 Adding new lustre to the tinished bust. 
 Each ai tist here j)erpetuates his name. 
 And shares with Piior an immortal fame. T. IV .' 
 
 " There are three prints of Gibbs ; one from a j.'icture of 
 Huyssing, another from one of Schiyder, a Swiss, v\lio was 
 ftflerwards painter to the King of Sweden, and the third [a mez- 
 '/otinio by Mac Ardell] from Hogxuth. (iibbs was atilicted with 
 the gravel and stone, and went to S;)a in 17-t*>, but did not die 
 till A'igu>t 5, 17")4. He be(ju(:ath('<l an hundred pounds to St. 
 liartbolomew'.-> Hospital, of which hi' was architect and g(tv<'r- 
 nor, the same to (he I'oundling Hospital, anrl his libiMry and 
 jrints to the Ratclitl'e Library at Oxford, Ix'sidt^ chai itiis, and 
 Ifgacie^s to his r'^iations and frientls." Aiiccdotrs of Pdlntini:, 
 )7.so, vol. IV. ]). 44 47. " The lines on Prior's ino)nnicnt 
 r-hevv at le.iht that this single siK-cimen of (iibl)s's .skill had one. 
 admirer; but who is 7'. U . and wiiat i.-> his wtiglit on this ckxh- 
 bion ? It is ceitain thiit dihbs was mncli euiidoved ; and that is 
 no contempt ii)le corniiUMidation for an arti-t, and looks jis if 
 there were no better at ttie time. He succeeded to a veiy bad 
 jw.-iiod of aichitcrts." T. I'. 
 
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 14 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l73^- 
 
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 authentic MSS. public Records, antient ChronicleSj 
 and Modern History. By Francis Drake, of the 
 City of York, (rent." 
 
 " A Re})ort from the Committee appointed to view 
 the Cottonian Librarj^, and such of the Public Re- 
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 Books, Instruments, and Papers, relative to the Sale 
 of the Estate of James Earl of Derwentwater were 
 referred ;" folio. 
 
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 of Commons, to whom the Petition of the Proprietors 
 of the Charitable Corporation for Relief of Industri- 
 ous Poor, by assessing them with small Sums upon 
 Pledfjes at Le2:al Interest, assembled in their General 
 Court, was referred; and the Proceedings of the 
 House thereupon ;" folio. 
 
 Several editions of the " Case of the Charitable 
 Corporation." 
 
 " A good Magistrate a Public Blessing; a Sermon 
 preached before the Right Honourable the Lord 
 Mayor, and Court of Aldermen, and the several 
 Liv^ery Companies of the City of London, at the 
 Parish Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, on Friday 
 tlie 2.9th of September 1732, being the Day of 
 Election of the Lord Mayor for the Year ensuing. 
 By John Middleton*, D. D. Lecturer of St. Bride's, 
 London, and Chaplain to the Lord Mayor;" 4to. 
 
 " The State of Physick, Antient and Modern, 
 briefly considered ; vvitli a Plan for the Improve- 
 ment of it. By Francis Clifton, M. D. Physician to 
 his Royal Higiiness the Prince of Wales, Fellow of 
 the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society, 
 
 * Of whom see vol. I. p. 430. 
 
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 not excepting even Foesius's, which is by far the 
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 by I'heodore Bathurst. Published by John Ball. 
 London, j)rinted by W. Bowyer," Svo. 
 
 ' Histoire du XVl'" Siecle, et la \\v de M. ])e. 
 'I'hou ;" by Mr. Durand, 
 
 ' This itif(ii<lt;(l puljUcation sceiiis uol to luivc* d\oI \\itli hiuTi- 
 cient cncuuiaiicmenl. lint \)y. Cliftou publi^litd " Tubul.u' 
 Ubjicrvutioiii tor the liiiprovtiiKiit of Phy-^ick, Lund. 17-'il. <S\(): 
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 l6 LITERARY ANECbOTES OF [l732. 
 
 A new Edition of Sir Roger L'Estranjre's Trans- 
 
 Havius Josephus. 
 " The Life of William Cecil, Lord Burleig-li," 
 &c. published by Arthur Collins *. 
 
 * Arthur Collins, the Historiognipher of the "Baronage" anil 
 *' Baronetage" of England, was born in 1()82. He was the son 
 of Williain C'ollins, esq. gentlenian-u.sher to (Queen Catharine in 
 1669, by his wife EHzabeth, daughter of Tlioniais Blyth, daugli- 
 terof John Honvood, esq. of Okely, in the county of Southuini)- 
 ton. Having received a libci'al education, and being iVuni his 
 youth much inclined to the cultivation of letters, parti( idarly 
 to the study of Antiquity, he conceived the arduinis design of 
 digesting a compendious accoiuit of the Nobility of these king- 
 doms, whose genealogies had till that time lain moiddering in 
 private cabinets. For the execution of this ra^k he was certainly 
 entitled to the gitititude of the Nobility, if we consider the grea,t 
 pains he took to investigate, and the pers})icuous manner ia 
 which he has recorded, the illustrious deeds of their ancestors ; 
 tracing with a faithftil and interesting pen the steps by which 
 each family had risen to eminence. Neither was a work of this 
 natiue without a considerable claim uj)on his countrjmen at 
 large; inasmuch as a faithful picture of the rewards attendant 
 on meritorious teer\ices and heroic actions, must necessarily 
 prove the strongest incitement to the statesman, the soldier, and 
 the citizen, to pursue the glorious career of virtue and honour. 
 The merit of the before-mentioned vvorks is unquestionable 5 and 
 to the present day they have continued the gre;it authorities to 
 which all subsequent writers on the same subject have had re- 
 course. But the fruits of them were not in proportion ; nor did. 
 their author experience that liberal patronage to whicii the many 
 midnight ngiLs he had ])assed in dry genealogical studies seemed 
 to give him an indubitable claim. The other literary jjroductions 
 which bear his name are, the " Sxdney State Papers ;" some 
 *' Historical Collections of the noble Families of Cavendish, Holies, 
 Vere, Harlc)', and Ogle ;" and a " Life of Edward the Blaclc 
 Prince." Delighteil with raking in the dust of the closet, with 
 poring over MSS. scarcely li gible, and rescuing half-devoured 
 sentences fiom the combined attacks of Time and the moth, he 
 lu.>t many years which might have been employed much more 
 proHtably to himself. While unfolding the pedigrees of other 
 families, he lost sight of tli'^ })rovision which was necessary for 
 his own. Such were the laborious productions of Arthur Col- 
 lins, and so inadequate his I'ewards ! Whatever piaise is due to 
 biographical literature in geueial, certainly belongs to one who 
 dipped even into the funereal urn to stamp his labours with au- 
 thenticity; and such is the credit they have obtained, that, while 
 ther<; remains a spark of vencratiim t(;r the ancestry and actions 
 of our Peerage, the volumes which record them, and Ijear Col- 
 lins's uame, will be consulted a^ the faithful liiitory of th.at 
 
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 of James-Edward Oglethorpe -f-, Esq. 
 
 splendid and necessary part (which has been so happily termed 
 the Corinthian column) of the British Constitution, Mr. Collins 
 manied about 17O8; died in 1760 5 and was interred in the 
 parish-church of Battersea, in Surrey. He had issue several 
 children ; of whom one son only survived him, viz. Arthur 
 Tooker Collins, esq. who died Jan. 4, 1793 (a major-general in 
 the semce, and commandant of the Plymouth dinsion of ma- 
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 with an ample and interesting " Account of the English Settle- 
 ment in New South Wales," is a son of Major-general ColUns 
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 * " h is easy to suppose, that the reading of lectxires upon 
 fossils was not an employment suited either to Dr. Middleton's 
 taste, or to the turn of his studies ; and therefore we cannot 
 wonder that he should resign it, as he did, in 1734. ' T. F. 
 
 t This truly resj>ectable gentleman was the descendant of a 
 family very antiently situated at Oglethorpe, in the parish of 
 Bramhum, in the West Riding of the county of York ; one of 
 whom was actually Reeve of the county (an office nearly the 
 "ame with that of the present high-sheriff) at the time of the 
 Norman Conquest. The antient seat at Oglethorpe continued in 
 the family till the Civil Wars, when it was lost for their loyalty ; 
 and several of the name died at once in the bed of honour, in 
 defence of Monai-chy, in a battle near Oxford. William Ogle- 
 thorpe (son of William, who died Nov. 24, 1631) was born in 
 1588; and married Susanna, daughter of Sir William Sutton, knt. 
 and sister to Lord Lexington. He died in Xovembtr 1634 j 
 leaving two childi-en, Sutton, born IGI'2, and Dorothy (who 
 aften^ards married the Marquis of Byron, a Treiich nobleman), 
 born lb"2(). Sutton Ogletliori)e, being Hned 20,000/. by the 
 Parliament, hii estates at Oglethoipe, &c. were sequestered, 
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 Theophihis : 1. Sutton, \v:is stud-master to King Charles II. and 
 had three sons (1. Sntton, i)age to King Charles H. ; ^2. John 
 coinet of the guards; and 3. Joseph, who died in India) ; 2. Sir 
 'J'heophilus was boin in IG.j^, and bred to arms ,- he fought 
 under the Duke of Monmouth in the allair at Bcjthwell-bi idge, 
 ^^'he^e a txmiultar}- insuirection of the Scots was su}>ples^e(l, 
 June "2, 16'70; rojunianded a party of hor?e at Sedgmooi-iight, 
 wliere the said Duke was defeated, July 6", 1(>8t ; and was licu- 
 Tfuant-colonel to tlie Duke of York's trooj) of his Majesty's hor^e- 
 guards, and ec mmissionei- for execxUing tlie ollicc of Master of 
 the Hoihe to King Cliailes II. He was afterwaids iirst ei[uerry 
 and niajfr-geneial of the army of King James II. 3 and liis at- 
 taehment to the family of Stuart eont inning after tluir ai)(liea- 
 tion, tAvocHtlerentjmx.'lainations, July 1'3, 1690, andMay 8, 16V2, 
 were issued for ajjjneliending him, amongst other }>ersons .'sus- 
 pected of et'vresponding with them. Having .seated lumself by 
 jnu'chase at \\ estbrook-jdace near (lodelming In Surre\ -, he was 
 ap])ointed de])uty-lie\itenant, ai\d put into the commission of tlie 
 ])eace for that county. In lfJ98 he was elected M. V. for Hasle- 
 mere ; and died A])ril 10, l/OQ, as appears by a jicdigjee in the 
 Collection of the late J.C. Biooke, esq.; though the following 
 Inscription in tlie parish-church t)f St. James, Westminster, %\hei'e 
 he Witft buried, has it a year earlier: "HIcjacet Thkoi'iulus 
 C)Gi,i.TH()Krr,, K(jues auratus, ab ata\o S'icecomite Ebonuii, 
 ]\ormann() a ictoiv, chicens originem. Cujus aiinis, ad jjontem 
 I'othwellienseni, sucdibuit Scotus : j\eenon Scdgmoriensi Pa- 
 lude fusi Kcbelics. (Jui, per \arios casus et renmi di.-crimina, 
 magnanimnm figa Princijiem et l^atriam fidem, sed ncc tenure, 
 su.'^timiit. Obiit Londini, anno I70I, fetat. 50." He mairieil 
 Eleanora Wall, of a considerable family in Ireland, by \\hom he 
 had four sons and foiu' daughters ; the live eldest of \shoni wt're 
 born in St. James's house ; and two of tiie daughters were in the 
 court of King James's Queen at St. Gennain's, and uiarried nuu 
 )f the hrst rank in France. Le\vis, the eldest son, was born in 
 February 1(>S()-1 ; and admitted of Corpus Chri^ti college ]n 
 Oxfojd in 1C9H-0, his matricidation bearing date March iG" iu 
 that year. He was equeriy tt) jQueen Anne ; represented th;- 
 boroug^i of Haslemere in Parliament in 1702 ; and ser\ed under 
 the Duke of Marlborough at the attaek of Scbelknijurgh, 
 where the Bavarians were routed, July 2, 1704 ; on wliieh oeea- 
 sion he recei\ed a wound, ol' whieii he .shortly afu.r died, iu the 
 
 f- Sec Maiining and Bray's Ilintyiy of tliutC'ount.y, vii!. 1. p. '-.lO. 
 
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 " Dissertationes duee de viribus *medicatis Olei 
 Animalis in Epilepsia aliisque affectibus coiivul- 
 
 sivis," Svo ; two editions. 
 
 '2itli* year of his age; and was inteirei also in tlie church of 
 St. Jauies aforesaid, with the following inscription to his memory, 
 on the same tablet with that of his father: " Hujus claudit latus 
 LuDovicus Oglethorpe, tarn paternae Virtutis quam Fortunae 
 ha^res; qui pr:elio Schellenbergeiisi (\ictoria; Hochstetensi pra2- 
 ladio) tempestivuni suis iiiclinaiitibus ferens auxilium, vulnera 
 )lone3ti^sima r( cej)it, et, pra-clane s{>e indolis frustrate, obiit 
 \ioesim<) secundo ietatii anno, attpie ])omini 1704." Under- 
 neath. '' Cla'i^simo utriu-><iue cineri iVIarnior hoc amantissinia 
 ( onjiix. t-T Muter posuit, Duaiina Elkaxora Oglethorpe." 
 >ution, tl'.e third son, died an infant. Jauies-Edward, the 
 fourtli and yoangcst son, was born in 16'93; was an ensign in 
 tiie army when Peace was proclaimed in 171-> j aid-de-camp to 
 the Earl of Pcterbi)rou^li, with whom Dr. Berkeley, his Lord- 
 shij)\ chaj.'lain, was fellww tra\eller in going express to the em- 
 l)a5-:adoi' in lialy : and admitted of Corpus Christi college in Ox- 
 ford in 17 M. Succeeding his brother Lewis in se\eral estates in 
 t!u- pa:isii of Cjodehning, he w;is elected a burgess in Parliament 
 for Ha^lemcre in 17'-'2, and again in 17'27-b. In 17'^9 he en- 
 gaged in tlie generous enquhy into the state of the Gaols, on 
 linding a gvntlenr.m wliom he went to visit in the Fleet loaded 
 with irons, and u-ed in the most baibarous manner. lie was 
 ( liairman of the Committed' appointed by the House of Commons 
 to make this entjuirv; oji which such f;icLs came out as were 
 allocking to humanity. It seem(>d incredible that such infamous 
 (>pprcssi(jni should havt^ -..o long renuiined unptinished, in a 
 <'>;intry where (happily) the law is superior to power. The 
 g'.jod el'iet> <jf this interposition have been felt e\cr simie by the 
 unhappy pri-fmcrs. .Ian. 19, 17^0-1, he was chosen a director of 
 the Jl'nal .M'lican C()!npany J and Jan. 19, 17.'il-'3, 13eputy Go- 
 \'-'ni'/]- i)f the rame. In 1732 lie di.->tinguishcd himself by several 
 '.iblc .-iKC(h(;5 iii l!ie House of Conunous, on the subject of the 
 Addle-- lo the Kiui!,- ((ient. Mag. \ol. H. )). SGC) ; on the Sugar 
 ( jjIohv Dill (ib. p. 9.'iH ; \<1. HI. p. '2(K)) ; on Sir John Lombe's 
 I'tlilion tor the Kitablishment of Silk Mill, at Derby (\ol. II. 
 ]'. 9 JO, 9H.">) i and on the ( haritable (orpuiation (ib. p. 9S9.) 
 June ;;o, 17 ./i, lie ua-> ajipointed a '^ru^t^t for the e.^tal>lisliment 
 of tli( new ( ()lon\ in (icorgia ; on which M'r\ ice he embarked, 
 in tin- -Xmie g.ille\ at Depllbrd, on tlu' 30th of ()rt(jber follow- 
 iiu;'. ills a'l ijtiiit of thi' Indian^ in in tin- Magazine, \ol. III. 
 )>|). lOH, IS.',; au<! a potllcal addre,--- on hi> -rttliiig the Colony 
 of (ifoigia, lb. p. '209. Fngagiug in thi' si r\ irr with that ar- 
 
 ' III tU.- '.j,'!! .r I .,.liii_' t.) till- inscii|)tiuii (111 li.- iiiMiiii!ii';iU. Hut it was 
 j).-\.-il i,y |.v:,l-:i. . .,11 u.uli, li'lurc th'- M..ii..' .,i C'..:iiiir.|i'i Nov. Ill, 1702, 
 til. il li.- v.. i> 1.1,111 ill l-.lMii.irv |i^S"-l ; si> tliur :,. ini'-' !:a\ . il il ;ii th-- i^i-ith 
 V-.u ui 111.- .1; ( ' .,-. /, . :.;. ],. :':. 
 
 I dour
 
 to LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [173^* 
 
 " A Critical Examination of the late new Text 
 and Version of the New Testament in Greek and 
 
 dour which marked all his undertakings, he succeeded, after en- 
 countering innumerable hardships and difficulties, and expeudiii<;- 
 in the course of it large sums of his private fortune, which, it i?5 
 believed, were never re-^aid. June 13, 1734, he was elected a 
 third time for Haslemere j and, arriving in England about tlic 
 same timefi'om Gleorgia, was, on the 19th of that month, graci- 
 ously received by their Majesties at St. James's, and afterwards 
 by the trustees of the Colony, who expressed their great satisfac- 
 tion in the eminent services he had perfonued on behalf of the 
 -new settlement. (See verses to him on his return, Gent. Mag. 
 vol. IV. p. 505 ; and in that year his head was proposed b\- Mr. 
 Urban as a prize-medal.) On this occasion, he brought \^ith 
 him into England Tomo-chi-chi, Micho of the Creek Indian, 
 Senauki his wife, Micho John Tooanahowki their son, and 
 Hillispilli the war captain, with other Indians, who were intro- 
 duced to their Majesties at Kensington, Aug. 1 ; and, having 
 been entertained here for some time at the expence of the (io- 
 v^nment, embarked at Gravesend on their return home on the 
 30th of October following. Oct. 14, 1735, Mr. Oglethorpe him- 
 self set out for Gravesend, in order to embark a second time for 
 Georgia ; and carried with him the two brothers John and Charks 
 Wesley, who went with the pious intention of instiiicting the 
 Indians. He arrived there Feb. 5, 1735-6 (see accounts from 
 him in Gent. Mag. vol. VI. pp. 219, 357, 680') ; in the latter end 
 of which year he made another voyage to England, and raided a 
 regiment to carry^ over, permitting every man to take a wife with 
 bim. In June 1737^ he was constituted general of the forces in 
 South Carolina in Georgia j as also, on the 25th of August fol- 
 lowing, colonel of a regiment raised for the ser\ ice of the Colony. 
 In 1737 he was officially complained of by the Sj)aniards (Gent. 
 Mag. vol. VII. p. 500) ; and in that year Tnade an excellent speech 
 in the House of Commons, on the Bill concerning the Riots at 
 Edinburgh (ibid. p. 712.) July 1, 1738, he sailed from St, 
 Helen's, with the Hector and Blandfoid men of war, for Georgia 
 the third time, where he landed Sept. 19 5 but had great diffi- 
 culties thiown in his way, aa well from tlie Spaniards, who 
 watched him with a very jealous eye, as from the mismanagement, 
 of those he was obliged to intrust, and from the want of sup])lies 
 from home ; the latter occasioned an attempt to assassinate liim 
 (Gent. Mag. vol. IX. pp. 48, 215) and a mutiny, which he quelled 
 by his pei"sonal courage and conduct. In 1740 he attacked the 
 Spaniards, took two small forts, and besieged St. Augustine, but 
 without success (ib. pp. 203, 242, 359, 468.) In 1741 he was, 
 in his absence, elected the fourth time burgess for Haslemere. 
 In 1742 the Spaniards attacked the new settlement, but were 
 repulsed by him. At length, after continuing about five years 
 in the sei-vice of the Colony from the time of his last embarka- 
 tioHj he aiTived in England Sept. 28^ 1743 i having been ap- 
 pointed
 
 1732.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 21 
 
 English ; Part the Third and last. Being a Defence 
 of the Divine Authority of the Book of the Revela- 
 
 pointed Brigadier-general in his Majesty's service on the 26th of 
 Febniaiy befoi-e. On his return Mr. Cook, his lieutenant-colonel, 
 exhibited several chaiges against hiuij which being all found to 
 be false, the accuser was broke. In March 1744, he was ap- 
 pointed one of the officers under Field Marshal the Earl of Stair, 
 TO oppose the intended invasion from Fi-ance ; and, having been, 
 promoted to the rank of Major-general, March 30, 1745, served 
 under his Royal Highness tlie Duke of Cumberland in the Re- 
 bellion that followed. In 1747, he was elected burgess for Hasle- 
 mere the fifth time ; and Sept. 13, in the same yeai", was made 
 Lieutenant-genei-al. Finally, Feb. 22, 1765, he was advanced 
 to the rank of Genei-al ; and for many years before his death 
 was the oldest general on the statf. He married, Sept. 15, 1744, 
 Elizabeth daughter and heir of Sir Nathan Wrighte, bart. of 
 Cranham-hall in Essex (a cousm of the Lord Keeper) by Abigail 
 his fomth wife, daughter of Samuel rryste, esq. of Culwoith in 
 the county of Northampton (see some good verses to him on this 
 occasion, by the Rev. Moses Brown, in Gent. Mag. vol. XIV. 
 p. 55S.) He was always very unwilling to tell his age ; perhaps 
 he was not certain about it. The news-paper-Sj soon after his 
 death, furnished stories of his shooting snipes in Conduit-mead, 
 hodie Conduit-street, Bond-street, &c. He was r-.-niarkably tall 
 and thin, and had an exceedingly shrill voice, v-hich could be 
 heard in the lobby, when he was speaking in the House. Re- 
 markable for his abstemiousness, Uc enjoyed good health j and 
 such was his activity, that to the kist he would outwalk younger 
 pei-sons. If he indulged himself in a sort of garrulity, it was 
 that of one who, having read and seen much, with much obser- 
 vjition, was willing to communicate his knowledge; and fevir 
 who attended to him did so without receiving information. His 
 private benevolence was great. The families of his tenants and 
 dej^endents were sure of his assistance whilst they deserved it ; 
 and he has frequently supported a tenant whose situation was 
 doubtful, not merely by forbearing to ask for rent, but by lend- 
 ing him mcmey to go on with his fami. He n^tained his under- 
 standing, his eye-sight (reading without sj)ectaclt), his hearing, 
 and the use of his limbs, till within two or thl^'e da}S of liis death; 
 which happened June 30, 17S."), in the 88th year of his age. 
 Ha\ing no issue, he devised his estate at Ifaslemere to his wife, 
 who bequeathed it on her decease Oct. 20", 1/87, to trustiics, to 
 be sold, for the benefit of the Marquis de Bcllegarde, gn^ut 
 fiej)hew of the General her husband. A monument has been 
 ereited in the church of (ranham to the memory of the (ieneral 
 and his wife, with the following inscription, written by Mr. 
 Cip'l J.ot: 
 
 " Near this place lie the remains of 
 
 Jamks Knu ako OoLKTHORrf, Esq. 
 
 who ej\ed under Prince Eugene, 
 
 ami
 
 22 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l /op- 
 
 tions, against the Edition of the New Testament, and 
 the Author of ' The Discourse Historical and Cri- 
 
 and in 1714 was Captain-Lieutenant 
 
 in the iii-st trooj) ol" i^uccn's Guartis. 
 
 In 1740 he was appointed Colonel of a regiment 
 
 to be raised for Georgia. 
 
 In 1745 he was appointed Major-genoral ; 
 
 in 1747 Lieutenant -genenil ; 
 
 in 17^5 General of His Majesty's forces. 
 
 In his civil station he was very eaily con.'^])icu(nt^. 
 
 He was chosen M. P. for Hasleniere in bsuiivy 
 in 172*2, and continued to represent it till 1754. 
 In the Committee of Parliament for encpiiring into 
 the state of the Gaols, formed Peb. 25, 1728, 
 and of which he was Chairman, 
 the active and ])ersevering zeal of his bene\ olence 
 found a trulv suitable employment, 
 by visiting, with his colleagues of that gencrou? body, 
 the dark and pestilential dungeons of the prisons 
 which at that time dishonoured the INletropoli.^, 
 detecting the most enormous oppressions ; 
 obtaining exemplary punishment on those 
 who had been guilty of such outi-ages against Humanity and 
 Justice, and restoiing mxdtitudes from extreme misery 
 to light and freedom. 
 Of these, about 700, rendered, 
 by long confinement for debt, 
 strangers and heljiless in the country of their birth, and 
 desirous of seekbig an as} lum in the wilds of America, 
 were by iiim conducted thither in 1*32. 
 He willingly encountered in their behidf a variety 
 of fatigue and danger, and thus became the 
 Founder of the Colony of Georgia ; 
 a Colony which set the n<^b]e example 
 of prohibiting tlie importation of Slaves. 
 This new establishment he strenuously 
 and gucces-sfiUly defencU d 
 against a poweiful attack of tlie Sj)aniar(U. 
 in the yeai- in which he quitted England 
 to found this Settlement, 
 he noblv strove to restore onr true 
 national defence by Sea and Land, 
 a free Xavy without impressing ; 
 a con.-titational Militia. 
 But his social affections were moie enlarged than 
 even the ttrm l^atriotism can exjiress. 
 He was the i'rienfl of the oppic.-sed \egro ; 
 no J art of tlie (dob( was too remote, 
 
 no interest too xuiconnccted, 
 6t too [muchj oj)poif;d 'c h.iz own,
 
 1732.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 23 
 
 tical on the Revelation ascribed to St. John;' wherein 
 particularly the Characters of many eminent Fatliers 
 
 to prevent his immediate succour of MiffLi-ing Humanity. 
 For such qualities he recei^etl fi-oin the ever 
 meuKH-able [John] Duke of Ai^yle, a fall 
 letlimonv in the Britii^h Senate to 
 liis militaiy cliaractt r, 
 his natural genero-in . 
 hb contempt of daiurer, 
 and r^aid fur tlie Publick *. 
 A -iniilar encomiuni i? jHTi)tmated in a foitism language f: 
 an'1. }>y one * of our most celebrated Po;.t. his i-emembi-ance 
 is iransinitted to Posterity in line- ju5tlv expres--i\e 
 of 'lie purity, the ardour, the extent of his benevolence 
 He hved till the Ist of July 17S5, 
 a venerable iii-tance to whar a duration 
 a life of temperance and arduous labour 
 is capable of beinsr prcti acted. 
 His -widow, 
 EhzJibeth, daughter of Sir Nathan Wrighte, 
 of Cranhdiii-lKdl, hart, and only ^iiier 
 and heiress of J?ir >amucl Wrig-hte, bait, of the same plac-^^ 
 sun i\ ing- with i eeret 
 (though witli due submission to Divine Pi'ovidence* 
 an affectionate husljand, 
 after an union of more than 40 year-, 
 hath inscribed to his niemorv 
 these faint tnices of his excellent clsaiactcr. 
 " Religion watcher o er his urn, 
 .^nd uli the A'irtues bending moiun. 
 Hum initv, wirh laniruid e\ej 
 iMelting for othei-s' iniseiy . 
 I'lauknce, wh<i-e hands a mea-tue hold, 
 .'\ud Tcuijjerauetj with a reia of guUl. 
 ridt-litv's tran-jiarent \e-t. 
 And rortitude iu armour dre^t. 
 
 * ^"c thf D.ike's Spee;-h in G-nt. Maj. IT-tl, v,,l. XL p. iOO. 
 
 + " Hisf'ire Philosophifjiic' il Col'tuii.-."' 
 
 J It ilio.ilii liave been /u '. 'i'ii(.>iii-')n, in an auinatoi Poem, .-.m--, 
 
 " Ia) '. swantii:i2^ Sijutimnni 'in rt. v.'i''ing sui;-, 
 
 '^'ay Coli.nios ext< n<i ; iho calm u'tn'.it 
 
 (>{ un<le:<er\-'d distres?, thf better (nf.ne 
 
 r>f thuo whom liiijiit- cliase fpjm for. icrn land?. 
 
 Not built on Ftapinr, St i\ itiide, and Woe, 
 
 -Ami in tlifir turn s>'im<? potty tyraii-!< prey ; 
 
 I'.ut, b'nui'lby social Ir-rd'ini, tjr.ii ;! y ri-i ; 
 
 Su-b as, of!fc, ail ri.btbiiri.f )i 1- I'lrni'd, 
 
 Au'l, erowdin, round, t!ic eilann'J "^.ivaniia'' tf-.."' 
 
 /.,'"... I'.iri\ . v.r.r,..^!-,.. 
 
 r.-A Mr. Pope: 
 
 " <Ji.; drivni bv '^r a: b.iv ''ib n i- uf < i 
 >!a!l fly lik'. r,^', i.i'j.e fioiu i'l'. t.j \\4' 
 
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 Wisdom's grey locks and Freedom join 
 
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 And pensive all around his ashes holy, 
 
 Their last sad honours pay in order melancholy." 
 " His disconsolate widow died Oct. 26, 1787^ in her 76th year, 
 and is buried with him in the vault in the centre of this chancel. 
 Her fortitiidc of mind, and extensive chai-ity, deserve to be re- 
 membered, though her own modesty would desire them to be 
 forgotten." 
 
 * Master of University college. He died Jan. 31j 1744. Mr. 
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 gument upon what is offered in one of those Tracts, 
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 Dissertation and first Defence ; and lastly, that what 
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 t " Mr. Caite, who under the borrowed name of Phillips, 
 resided in France in the year 172'2;, having collected there ma- 
 terials for an English translation of the History of Thuanus, 
 our learned Physician, Dr. Mead, quickly perceived that this 
 plan might be enlarged. He looked on his countiy as too dis- 
 interested to desire to possess this foreign treasure alone, and 
 was desirous England might do for Thuanus more than France 
 itself; by procuring for all Europe the fir.st compktc edition of 
 this inmiortal history. He therefore satisfied Mr. Carte for the 
 pains he had tjiken, and employed Mr. i3uckley as an PZditor 
 equal to such a task ; whose tliree letters, written in English to 
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 26 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7.1.'^ 
 
 ab Anno Domini 154^, usque ad Annum 1607, 
 Libri CXXX^'lII. Accedunt Comm;>ntarium de 
 Vita sua Libri VI. &o." In Seven Volumes*, folio; 
 a work which reflerts a considerable dejrree of credit 
 on the memory of Mr. Buckley -|~; and for which 
 
 Tlicsc lettei's woiv tianslated '.nto Latin by Mr. Profos-^nr Warri. 
 with, an elegance worthy tlie place they liold in the front of tiie 
 work." Dr. Mntij, Life of Mead, p. 39. In Mr. Buckley s 
 third letter to Dr. Mead the writer .says, he has " the pleasure 
 to acknowledge that Lord Carteret from time to time had fiivoiued 
 him with his directions and information concerning Thuanus, 
 and among other things had the goodness to put into his hantls 
 ^ character of that IJisrorian ." 
 
 * In the title-page of each a olume, the name of the bookseller 
 only appears, " Excudi curavit Sanmel Buckley, 1733." At the 
 end of tlie first, stands *' Liniuini imprinu bat Henricus Wood- 
 fall 3" of the second, " Sanmel Richardson ;" of the third, " Ja- 
 cobus Bettenham ;" of the fourth, '^'^ Jacobus Roberts 5" of the 
 fifth, " Tlaomas Wood." No printer's name occxu's either in 
 the sixth or seventh ; but the eight iirst books of vol. VII. Avert 
 printed by Mr. Bowyer ; and the remainder, I believe, with the 
 whole of the bixtii volum.e, by Mr. Edward Owen. These were 
 all veiy excellent printers. An Act of P.uliament wa^^ obtained, 
 '' for gi-anting to Samuel Buckley, Citi/en and Stationer of 
 London, tlie sole liberty of printing an<l reprinting the His- 
 toiies of Tiuianus, with additions and improvements, during 
 the term therein limited." Whilst the Bill wa> depending 
 in Parliamer.t, Mr. Buckley published " A Short State of the 
 public Encouragement given to Pnnting and Bookselling in 
 France, Holland, Germaiiy, and Limdon. With Reasons hum- 
 bly offered to the Lortls Spiritual and Temporal in P^irliament 
 assembled, for gi-anting to Samuel Buckley such Pri\ilege for 
 Th\iauus in Latin, as is alreaf!\- granted to every Briti;?Ii Subject 
 who is pos.sessed of the copy of ar.y book in English." 
 
 f 3Ir. Sauiuel Buckley (who has been hrietiy noticed in vol. I. 
 p. 290) is represented in The Tatler, No. IS, in the character of 
 a N( ws-writer, as a literaiy Drawcansir, " who spares n( ithcr 
 friend nor foe, but usually kills as many of his own side a.- 
 the enemy's." Seven \olume? of the original Spectator in folio 
 A\-ere published by Samuel Buckley at the Doljiliin in Lirtle- 
 Briiaiu. The Spectator being discontinued at the close of the 
 seventh volume, was succeeded In The Guardian ; and Po;)e 
 informs us, that taeele was ena'aged in articles of penalty to 
 Jac(jb 'i'onson, for all the papers he })ublished under this last 
 name. I'he same author sa\s, '' the true leason that Steele laid 
 down TheGuaniian wa.s a quarrel betvveen liim and tJi? bookseller 
 above mentioned ; ' he adds, " that Steele, bvdcsi.sting two da\s, 
 und altering the title of his paper to tliat of The Englishman, 
 
 !^ T'avk-? Kdl-icn of H.;nal andNy' le.U.-roi-'- vo' TV
 
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 circulated in the year 173O *. 
 
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 Gri3eciE trium Marmoruni-j- recens repertorum In- 
 scriptiones, &c. By the Editor oi' the Oxf-.^rd 
 Marbles. Sold by W. Bouyer." Pricel^-. 6W. folio. 
 
 " Bishop Hare's Hebrew Psalter," 8vo. The 
 celebrated Psalmanazar ;}; had some years befoi-e 
 
 got quit of his obligation." Additions to Pope's WorliSj 177G, 
 vol. If. p. 84, et srfj. In 1713 tiie perifxiical paper to which Steele 
 gave the title of 'The Englisliman, was in the course of jjublica- 
 tion ; it was prin^^ed by S. Buckley in Amen-corner, and an- 
 nounced :i.s '1 he Sequel of the Guardian. Tlie title of Spectator 
 was resumed some months after; number first of the Vlllth 
 ^ olume, printed by Buckley in Amen-corner, folio, is dated on 
 the 18th of the June following, in 1714. He was afterwards ap- 
 pointed writer of the Gazetteer, and was put into the commission 
 of the peace for the county of Middlesex. He wiis a man of au 
 excellent understanding and great learning, very sincere where 
 he professed friendship ; a pleasant companion, and greatly 
 esteemed bv all who knew him. 
 
 In Homscy-cluuch, Middlesex, on the North wall, and clore 
 
 to the j)ulpit, on the West side, a very neat and elegant mui-al 
 
 monument of wliite marble is thus inscribed : 
 
 " To the memoiy of 
 
 Sa.miel Bucklfy: 
 
 who, having not only di'^chai'ged 
 
 all the duties of life 
 
 with ability, indav-trv, and tenderness to each relation ; 
 
 but offices likewise of state and tru-st, 
 V itri prudence, fidelity, and a^utitude to his benefactors ; 
 
 concluded hi>^ days in the study of letters, 
 and the enjoynieut of iionest and honourable friendships, 
 Sept. H, 1711, in the (3Hth year of his age." 
 * See vol. I. ].. 1'25. 
 
 i These ndditional monuments (see p. l) were brought ijito 
 England in October 17-''2: from a town situated between Simrna 
 and f]phc-us. Tlu- inscriptions were carefully and exactly taken 
 off on ])a])er bv Mr. .Tosej)h.\nies, and j)re'-ented to Sli'Han-SIonne; 
 and Mr. Maittaire undertook to communicate them to the publick, 
 with a Latin trausliition :u!.l notes, 'f'he lirst of tiicsi*, v,f are 
 told in tlie Preface, rrcei\(> eon>idc-rable light from some of the 
 monuments pi-esen-ed in the (r.illery at Oxfoi'd, :uid pariicularly 
 firim rne of tho-e ])uhl'-hct| hy >.!!. (hi-iiuil. 
 
 I .Author of the fabulous " Hi-'.ory or' I'or'.uo-a ;" nv.l oC a 
 vrrv cousiderrible })art of " Tlie rniv<i-al ilirrloty." I's.ainiana- 
 /.:u'- portion of that u-i ful and lah<iri(>u.> woi k is |)arti( ul.uly 
 ]>oiiited out in his own '* Mer.!:iiis of llin;-< If," ])ul)li' lird thcxcru" 
 after his decease, Avhich Ir.'.i'.xr;'. d Ma_\ .;, 17*".'>. ;it th( age of ,s.{. 
 
 " j>rt})c.i\(|
 
 28 LITERARY ANECDOTES Of [1733- 
 
 ** prepared an edition of the Psalms, witli Leusden^s 
 Latin Version in the opposite column, and critical 
 Notes;" intending it should be printed by Mr. Palmen 
 who declined undertaking it, being in treaty with 
 Dr. Washburn to print the edition of Bp. Hare, 
 which passed afterwards through the press of Mr. 
 Bowyer *.** 
 
 * " This performance did not appear in print till seven or 
 eight years after, and then to my great surprize; for Mr. Palmer 
 had amused me with the belief that the design was set aside, 
 cither on account of its being found impracticable, or at least 
 too difficult and dangerous. It appeared, however^ that Mr, 
 Palmer imposed upon mej and that he knew that the design 
 was carried on in another printing-house, though with such 
 privacy, that I never heard or dreamed of it, though I had been 
 long acquainted ^vith Mr. Bowyer, who was employed in the 
 printing of it. So far from it was I, that I began to think Mr. 
 Pahafier had only invented that stoiy, to divert me from printing 
 my proposed edition, in order to set me vipon another work, in 
 which he was more immediately concerned, and expected greater 
 credit, as well as present profit from. This was his History of 
 Printing, which he had long promised to the world, but foi- 
 which he was not at all qualified. However, he designe4 to have 
 added a second part, relating to the practical part, which wa.^ 
 more suited to his genius, and in which he designed to have 
 given a fvill account of all that relates to that branch, from the 
 letter-founding, to the most elegant way of printing, im.posiiig, 
 binding, &c. in which he had made considemble hnprovements 
 of his own, besides those he had taken from foreign authors. 
 But this second part, though but then as it were in embrvo, 
 met with stich early and stremioiis oppositioi>, fiom the respec- 
 tive bodies of letter-founders, j)rinters, and book-binders, under 
 an ill-grounded apprehension that the discovery of the mystery 
 of those arts, especially the two fii^st, would render them t:heap 
 and contemptible (whereas the very reverse would have been the 
 case, they appearing indeed the more cnrif)us and worthy our 
 admiration, tlie better they are known) that he was forced to set 
 it aside. But as to the first pait, viz. the History of Printing, 
 he met with the greatest cncouragt^nent, not only from them, 
 liut from a veiy great number of the Learned, who all engaged 
 to subscribe largely to it ; particularly the late f'arls f)f Pembroke 
 and Oxford, and the famous D<Ktf)r Mead, whose Irliraries were 
 to furnish him with the noblest materials for the compiling of it, 
 and did so accordingly. The misfortune was, that Mr. Palmer, 
 knowing himself unecjual to the task, had turned it over to one 
 Papiat, a broken Iri>h bookseller then in London, of whom lie 
 had a great opinion, though still more unqualified for it than he, 
 and only aimed at getting money from him, without ever doing
 
 ^733] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 2^ 
 
 A Part only of " Memoirs of the Twentieth Cen- 
 tury : being original Letters of State under George 
 
 tuny thing towards it, except amusing him with fair promises for 
 near three quarters of a year. He had so long dalhed with him, 
 that they were come within three months of the time in which 
 Mr. Palmer had engaged to produce a complete plan, and a 
 number or two of the first part by way of specimen of the 
 work, viz. the invention and improvement of it by John Faust 
 at Mentz. And these were to be shewn at a grand meeting of 
 learned men, of which Dr. .Mead was President that year ; and, 
 being his siugidar friend and patron, was to have promoted a 
 large subscription and payment, whi(;h Mr. Palmer stood in 
 great iced of y\ that timej v/hcrcas Papiat had got nothing 
 ready but a few loose and imperfect extracts out of Che\-alier, 
 I>e Caille, and some other Fiench authors on the subject, but 
 which could be of little or no use, because he frequently mistook 
 them, and left blanks for the words which he did not uiu^er- 
 stand. These, howe\'er, such as they were, Mr. Palmer brought 
 to me ; and earnestly pressed me that I wcnld set aside all other 
 things I might be then about, and try to produce the expected 
 plan and specimen by the time promised, since he must be ruined 
 both in credit and pocket if he disappointed his friends of it. k 
 was well for him and me that the sul>jcct Jay within so small a 
 compass a.-^ the consulting of about twehe or fourteen princijtai 
 authors ; so that I easily fell upon a proper plan of tlie work, 
 which I dh ided into three parts ; the first of which was, to give 
 an account of the invention of the art, and its first essays by 
 Faust at Meutz, arid of its improvement by fusile or metal t3-pes, 
 varnish, ink. ixc. by his son-in-law, Peter fH'hoeffer. The secoml 
 was to C(mtainits proprigation, and farthei' imy)rovement, through 
 most parts of l<'urope, under the mOst cekl>rated Printers ; and 
 <he third, an account of its introduction and progress into Eng- 
 land. Tiiis, together with above one half of tiie first part, were 
 happily finished, and produced by the time appointed ; and met 
 with more approbatiuu and encouragement from his friends than 
 i feared it would, l>eing consci(jus hou much better it might 
 have turned out. would time have permitted it. And this I 
 chifcHy mention, liut so much to excuse the defects of so horrid 
 a |jerformauce, as because it hath given me sirue frecjueiu occa- 
 sion to observe h(w many umeh more considerable works have 
 been spoiled, both at home and aljroad, through the imj)atience 
 of the subscriber- , though this is far enougii fit)m being the 
 only or even the greatest inconvenience that attends most of 
 tho^.e kinds of subrc liptions. As to Mr. Palmer, his eiriuni- 
 ftances were by this time so unaccountably low and uufortuiuirc, 
 considering the laigeness and success of his business, and ihit 
 he was hini'^elf a soi)er industrious man, :iad fiee from all ex- 
 travagance, that he could nut extricate hiujself by any other way, 
 but by a .Statute of Bankruptcy, which caused his llistory to go 
 sluggishly on -. iu that, uotwithstandiiii; all fht.' cure and kind 
 
 x^jibtancr
 
 50 LITERARY ANECDOTES or [1733- 
 
 tlie Sixth; relating to the most important Events 
 in Cjieat Britain and Europe, as to Church and 
 
 assistance of his good fiiend Dr. IMt\id, a stubborn disfonipor, 
 TiiHch liis mistbrtiiiu'^ brought upon him, carried him oil" be- 
 fore the third part of it was hnished. This detect, however, 
 was happily suppHed by the hite noble Earl of Pembroke, who 
 being informed by Mr. Pain the cngi-aver, Mr. Pahner's hiother- 
 in-law, what condition the remainder Avas left in, and that I was 
 the pej'son Avho had wrote the former parts, sent for me, and, 
 vi'ith his usual generosity, enjoined me to eomi)]ete tlie work, 
 according to the plan ; and not only defiayerl all the chaiges of 
 it, even of the paper and ]irinting, but furnished me v.itli all 
 necessary irjaterials out of his Own libiary ; and, when the Avork 
 was linished, iiis J^ordship reserved only some few copies to him- 
 self, and gave the remainder of tlie impres.^-ion to Mr. Palmer's 
 widow, not without some farther tokens of his liboralitv." 
 
 To retuin to the edition of the Hebrew Ps;dler the cause of Mr. 
 Pahner's delay is thus related by Psalnranazar : " His I-ordsiiip liarl 
 excepted iigairsst Mi'. Palmer's Hebiew types, w hieh w cne of At bias's 
 font, and a little battered, and insisted Uj;on his lia\ing a new set 
 from Mr. (Jaslr)n. \v])!eh greatly exceeded them in beauty. Knt 
 Mr. Palmer was so d'^eply in debt to him, that he knew jiot how to 
 proeiue it from him without ready money, which he was not able to 
 s])are. The Bishop likewise insisted uj)on having some Roman and 
 Italic ty])es cast w it h some di.sl inguishing mark, to diject his teaders 
 to the Hebrew letters they weie designed to answer, and tliese 
 required a new set of jmnches and matrices befoi'c they could !x; 
 cast; and that would liH^e delayed the work, which Mr. Pabuer 
 was in haste to go about, that he might the sooner hnger some of his 
 Lordship's money. This ])ut him upon sucii an imtair stratagem, 
 as, wlicn discovered, tpiite disg\iste<i bis Lordship against him ; 
 viz. representing M)\ C'aslon as an idle, dilatory woi'kman, Avho 
 would in all probability make them wait se\eral years for those 
 few ty])es, if ever he iinished them. That he was indeed the 
 only Artist that could supply him with those types ; but that he 
 hated work, and was not to be depended upon ; and tluiefore 
 advised his Lord^hi}) to make shift with some sort which he could 
 substitute, and would answer the same purpose, rather than run 
 the risk of staxing so h)ng, and being ])erhaps disa])i)ointed. 
 The Bishop, however, being resolved, if po.ssible, to have the 
 desired types, sent foi" Mr. liowyer, and asked him whetliei' ho 
 knew a letter-founder that could cast lum such a set out of hand; 
 who immediately reeonnnended Mr. Caslon ; and, being told 
 what a sad and disadvantageous cliaracter he had lieaixl of him, 
 Mr. Bow)ei' not only assmed his Lordsliip that it was a \erv 
 false and unjust one, but erg'aged to get the aboxe-mentioned 
 tvpes cast by him, and a new font of his Hebrew ones, in as 
 thort a time as the thing could possibly be done. Mr. Caslon 
 was accordingly sent for by his Lordship ; and having made him 
 sensible of the time the new ones would rcfpiire to be made ready 
 
 fur
 
 1733-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 3I 
 
 State, Arts and Sciences, Trade, Taxes, and Trea- 
 ties, Peace, and War; and Characters of the greatest 
 Persons of those Times ; from the Middle of the 
 Eighteenth, to the end of the Twentieth Centur}^, 
 and the World *. Received and revealed in tlie 
 
 for use, cImI pi'oduce lliem acconling. to his promise, and the 
 book wiis soon after put to the press. As toon as I had finished 
 what I, and some of my friends as well its J, thought a sufficient 
 confutation of the Bishoi)'s peiformance, and in the same lan- 
 guage, though not so tiorUl and elegant J^alin, I sent to desiie 
 one of my booksellers to enijuire of Mi', liowyer, whether the 
 new type-: cast for his Lord^liip were still in his posse^^sion r and 
 wliether 1 might be pernii.tetl the use of them, in the answer I 
 liad prepared for the press ? I was answered in the atlirnwtive ; 
 but one bookbeUer took it into ins head to ask at the same 
 time, what number of co})ius his Lordh>hip had caused to Ixj 
 printed of his Psalter ? and was answeretl only five hundred ; 
 one half of which had been presented by las Lordship to his 
 learned frieiuis, both in and out of En^^land, and niost of tlie 
 rest weie still unsold, there being but few among the learned, 
 tliat were ciuious in sueli matters ; the ])erlV)nnance having been 
 disaj)],io\ed by all thai had seen it. This ne^ss so cooled the 
 Ijookselkis' eiigerness aftei- my answer, that, upon my coming 
 to town, and their acquainting me with the state of the Ciise, 
 1 was quite discouraged from printing it. For they concluded, 
 fiom what ]\Ir. liowyer hud said, that it wt)uld be dangerous to 
 j(rint above three hundred of mine, tlie charge of which being 
 (Icchictod, the prolit, upon a supposition ilrit they \vere all soki, 
 ^vould be so small, tiial tJiey could not aliiird me abcjve two oi' 
 Jhree guineas for my copy (wliich would have made about seven 
 or eiglit sheets of a middling octavo) without being lo-ers. This 
 was theii- wav of computing the matter, against wliicli ha\ing 
 noliiing to object, 1 Unked u]) my ]apers in niy cabinet, wiicic 
 tiiev have lain ever since. They did indeed oiler me better teiin?, 
 ajid to j))inl a grealer immber of copies, if I would be at, the 
 trouble u[' piinting it in 10ngli~h, which they ti\(Aight would be 
 m(jre uni\Lrsally rciid, out of dislike to thel5isho]); but, be- 
 sides that 1 cared n<it to be at tlie j)ains of EngU-.hiiig it, 1 
 thought it l>en('ath the subject to print it in anv otiier language 
 but that in which his was wrote 3 and ;o wholly declined it.' 
 Paabniuiazar'a MfitiKiir.i. 
 
 * There is something nivsti-rious in the histon of these .M-.- 
 moiis, which aic iiddre-scd.. in an iionical d( dication, to Fre- 
 (kiick I'nnce of Waits. Only one \oluuif of the work appeared ; 
 and uiielher a;iv more ^vere real!) intt.nded is un(_er;ain. Onii 
 thou-and coj)ic-, of it were jirintcd, \'.ilii such \tiy great dis- 
 ]iai(l:, tha three prinli.T- \\<;-t ;:..]!. )\ed m it {iiov,\er. Wood- 
 fall, and Iti/'-eit.-) ; ;u)(i tlie n.iuu - i;f an uuLonma^n nuuiber of 
 ie])Utabii; buokseU<rs '.ppeared lU tU. title-pai^e. In le-s th;m a 
 
 fu; ujj'iht.
 
 32 LITERARY ANECDOTES or [l733' 
 
 Year 1728 ; and now published, for the Instruction 
 of all eminent Statesmen, Churchmen, Patriots, 
 
 fortnight, lioweA er, 900 of the copies were deh'rered to Dr. Mad- 
 den, and probably destroyed. The current report is, that the 
 edition was supprtssed on the day of publication ; and that it is 
 now exceedingly scarce, is certain. Mark Cephas Tutet, esq. who 
 had a copy of it, never heard but of one other, though he fre- 
 quently enquired after it. A second copy of it (marked only at 
 lOs. 6d.) appeared in the Catalogue of H. Chapman, in Januaiy 
 1782 ; and was bought by Mr. Bindley. 
 
 Dr. Madden (" a name," says Dr. Johnson, " which Ireland 
 ought to honour,") received his education at Dublin ; and had 
 ?ome good church preferment in Ireland. He appears, however, 
 tb have been in England in 1729 ; and, having written a tragedy 
 called " Themistooles, the Lover of his Country," was, as he him- 
 self says, tempted to let it come out at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn 
 Fields, by the ofi'er of a noble study of books from the profits of it. 
 An epistle of jibout 200 lines by Mr. Samuel Madden, beginning, 
 
 " Tho' past the bounds David to man assign'd," 
 is prefixed to the second edition of Leland's " Life of Philip of 
 Macedon ;" and about 1743 or 4, he published a long Poem, 
 called " Boulter's Monument," from which the following very 
 striking lines are quoted in Johnson's Dictionary, art. Sport : 
 " Some grave their wrongs on marble ; he, more just, 
 Stoo})'(l down serene, and wrote them in the dust. 
 Trod under foot, the sport of ev'ry wind. 
 Swept from the earth, and blotted from his mind j 
 There secret in the grave he bade them lie. 
 And griev'd they could not 'scape th' Almighty's eye." 
 It is on Dr. Madden's authority also that Dr. Johnson has au- 
 thenticated the marriage of Swift and Stella. In 1731, we find 
 Dr. INladden in his native country ; projecting a scheme for pro- 
 moting Learning in the College at Dublin by premiums ; and in 
 1740 he settled an annual sum of 100/. to be distributed, by way 
 of premium, to the inhabitants of Ireland only ; viz. 50/. to the 
 author of the best in\ention for improving any useful art or 
 manutkcture ; 25/. to the person who should execute the best 
 statue, or piece of sculpture ; and 25/. to the person who should 
 finish the best piece of painting, either in History or Landscape ; 
 the premiums to be decided by the Dublin Society; of which thi.s 
 worthy man was the institulor, and which proved of infinite 
 service to tliat kingdom, by exciting a laudable spirit of emula - 
 tion amongst the artists and manufacturers. The foUovNing 
 premiums, given by Dr. Madden, were atljudged by the Dublin 
 Society before Nov. 14, 1751: Best flowered silks, 10/. j best 
 paduasoy, 10/.; best velvet, 10/.; planting most hops in 1749, 25/,; 
 best tapestiy, 10/. ; most fish caught and cured in 1749, first 
 premium, 15/.; second premium, 10/. ; total, 90/. Best imita- 
 tion of Brussels and Mechlin lace, 8/. ; second best, 5/. ; third 
 kefct, lil. ; best Dresden, 7^. ; second best,, 41. ; third best, 3/. ; 
 
 best
 
 1733-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 33 
 
 Politicians, Projectors, Papists, and Protestants. 
 In Six Volumes," 8vo. [By Dr. Samuel Madden.] 
 
 best needle-work in shades, 10/. ; second best, 8/.; third best, 6Z. ; 
 fourth best, 4/. ; fifth best, 2/. ; total, 60/. The premiums of- 
 fered for 1751 Avere these: Best tapestiy, 10/. j most salt of 
 salt-water only, "iol. ; best drawings by girls or boys under 16, 
 15/. } best sculpture in metal or stone, 25/. ; best invention in 
 arts or husbandry, if really tleserving; it, 50/. ; total 115/. The 
 good effects of those well-applied benefactions ha^e not only been 
 felt to advantage in the kingdom where they originated, but have 
 extended their influence to the sister countrj', having given rise 
 to the Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, &c. 
 in London. In an Oration spoken at Dublin, Dec. 6, 1757, by 
 Mr. Sheridan, that gentleman took occasion to mention Dr. Mad- 
 den's bounty ; and intended to have proceeded in the follomng 
 manner, but was prevented by observing the Doctor to be then 
 present. Speaking of the admirable institutions of premiums, 
 he went on : " Whose Author, had he never contributed any 
 thing farther to the good of his Countiy, would have deserved 
 immortal honour, and must have been held in reverence by 
 latest posterity. But the unwearied and disinterested endeavours, 
 during a long course of years, of this truly good man, in a \a- 
 riety of branches, to promote industiy, and consequently the 
 welfiu-e of this kingdom, and tlie mighty benefits which have 
 thence resulted to the community, ha\e made many of the good 
 peoj)le of Ireland sony that a long-talked-of scheme has not 
 hitherto been put in execution, that we might not appear in- 
 ferior in point of gmtitude to the citizens of London, with re- 
 i^ptiCi to a fellow-citizen [Sir John Barnard] (surely not with 
 more re:ison) ; and that like them we might be able to address 
 our patri(jt, Prccsenti tibi muturus largimv.r hunores." 
 
 " Sitting one morning with Dr. Johnson alone, he asked me 
 if I liatl known Dr. Mad<leu. On my answering in the affirma-^ 
 tive, and al'^o that I had for some years lived in his neiglibour- 
 hood, &c. he begged of me, that wlien I returned to Ireland, I 
 would endeiivfjur to procure for liim a poem of Dr. Madden's, 
 culled ' Boulter s Monument.' The reason (said he) wliy I wish 
 for it is tliis : When Dr. Madden came to London, he submitted 
 that work to my castigation ; and I remember I blotted a great 
 many Vines, anrl might have blotted many more without making 
 the potiu worse. Howt^ver, the Doctor Was very thankful, and 
 very generous, for he gave me ten guineas ; wluch was to me at 
 that time a great sum " Life of Johason, vol. I. p. 281. 
 
 There is a line mezzotinto of him, a whole length, by J. Brooks, 
 .villi this inscription : 
 
 " Samuel Madden, D,D. 
 Quiquo ^ui memorcs alios fecere mcrendo, 
 Omnibiii. his Divei cinguutur tempore vittft." 
 
 ViRG. Mn. vi. 664. 
 
 Voi . L D " Com-
 
 34 LI^Mary its ECDOtfis OF [1733 
 
 " Commeiitariuni Nosologicum, Morbos Epide- 
 mioos et Aeris Variationes in Urbe Eboracensi Lo- 
 cisque vicunis per sedeciin aniios grassantes complec- 
 tens. Authore Cliftone Wintringham *. Impensis 
 J. Walthoe." 
 
 " Tlie Natural, Experimental, and Medicinal 
 History of the Mineral Waters of Derbyshire, 
 Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, particularly those of 
 Scarborough. By Thomas Short -j~, M. D. of Shef- 
 field." 
 
 " An Account of the several Legacies, Benefac- 
 tions, and Charities, belonging to the City of Co- 
 ventry;" 8vo. 
 
 An edition of the " Periegesis of Dionysius," 8vo.. 
 
 * This learned physician died at York, March 12, 1748 ; and 
 his widow Jan. 6, 1749. The earlier part of the Commentary 
 above noticed, extending to the year 1725, had been publi.shed by 
 himself at York in 172G-7. The new edition in 1733 was edited by 
 his son and namesake ; w ho became rcgidarly fellow of the Roj al 
 Colleges of Physicians in London and Paris, fellow of the Royal 
 Society, physician-extraordinaiy 1759, ijhysician-geneml to thr 
 army ; was appointed chief physician to the Duke of Cmnberland 
 1749, and physician to his Majesty 17G2. In him wxre united 
 all those amiable Airtues which adorn and dignify human nature. 
 By a liberal education, and an intimate acquaintance with some 
 of the most admired classic wiiters, he luid acquired an elegant 
 taste ; and, by a long and successful practice as a physician, 
 great skill and judgment in his profession. ITais appears by his 
 edition of Dr. Mead's " Monita et Prajcepta Medica, jiennidtis 
 >innotationibus et Observationibus illustrata :" by " An Experi- 
 mental Inquiry concerning some Parts of the Animal Structure," 
 1740 ; "An Inquiry into the Exility of the Vessels of the Human 
 Body," 1743; and his two ^olumes, published in 1782 and 1791, 
 Intituled, " De Morbis quibusdam Commentarii," &c. He ako 
 published, " The Works of the late Clifton Wintringham [hi 
 lather]. Physician at York, now collated and published entire, 
 with large Additions ft-om the original Amendments," in 2 \ols, 
 1752. In domestic life be was good-natured, affable, and en- 
 dearing; in conversation polite, hvcly, and entertuitiing; in his 
 jriendship steady and jdfectionate. With regard to his political 
 jientiments, he was a tme Englishman, upon piinciples of loyalty 
 and rational liberty. With respect to rehgion, he was, without 
 bigotry or su])erstition, a sincei-e Christian. He died at Hiun- 
 juersmith, after a lingering illnets, Jan, 9, 1794, at the age of 
 5^4 ; and, as he lived uni\eTsally beloved, he died sincerely 1^- 
 H/ented. Gent. Mag. \ol.LXl\'. p. 92. 
 -fc Ui' whoiu see vol I. p. 4j1 
 
 " Relative
 
 1733-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. . ^5 
 
 *' Relative Holiness, a Sermon preached by Wil- 
 liam Richardson *, M. A. from Exod. iii. 5. on the 
 Consecration of the new Parochial Qhurch of St. 
 John's Southvvark ;" 4to. 
 
 " The Duty of non-conforming to the World ; 
 a Sermon preached at Oxford, by Thomas Cock- 
 man -f-, D. D. Master of University College, on 
 Rom. xii. 2." 8vo. 
 
 Dr. Jebb's edition of the " Opus Majus" of Friar 
 Bacon ; folio. 
 
 Two hmidred and fifty copies of the " Notitia 
 Parliamentaria," so far only as relates to the Borough 
 of Windsor; a single sheet :[: in folio. 
 
 " A Catalogue of Mr. Browne Willis's Gold 
 Coins ," by Mr. Vertue. 
 
 " Milner's Journal of the Duke of Marlborough's 
 Marches," for Colonel Montague, 8vo. 
 
 Dr. Middleton s Treatise " on the Power of the 
 Church." 
 
 * Of whom an account will be given in tlie " Essays ami Illus- 
 trations" iu vol. V. N" VI. 
 
 t M. A. July 6, 1697. He was installed Master, Dec. 14, 1722. 
 Afterwards the Vice-chancellor and Heads of Houses, being^ sup- 
 posed Visitors, declared the election null, and, Dec. 17, William 
 Denison was by a new election declared Master. Thereupon 
 commenced a hiw-.^uit. After six years, the King bein^ found 
 to be Visitor, ordered the cause to be tried befoie three Bis hops 
 (Oxfyiti, Bristol, and Pelerboi-ough) ; and it was at last deter- 
 mined in favour of Mr. Cockmtn. Gutch's Halls and Colleges, 
 p. 54 ; Appendix, p. S30. He t(X)k the degrees of B. and D. D. 
 June 14, 1733: and died in 1744. " Select Theological Dis- 
 courses, by Dr. Cockman," were published in 2 xols. bvo. 1750. 
 
 J This single sheet of " The Notitia Parliamentaria" is now 
 become a curiosity. See vol. I. p. 428. 
 
 Of this Catalogue I have seen two copies, one in the col- 
 lection of Dr. Ducarel, the other in Mr. Tutet's. Both these 
 copi(!6 were in large folio, on which size 100 were printed, and 
 100 in a smaller folio. r!)e title of it is, " A Table of the Gold 
 Coins of the Kings of England. By B. VV. Esq. a Member of the 
 Society of Antiquaries." The two engraved plates of silver and 
 gold coins ha'' been published by the >Socii,ty in 1732 3 ami this 
 Catalogue appears to have been drawn up Ijy .Mr. W illis, to illus- 
 trate tile plate of gold coiii'^, and was i)rintcd at the expence of 
 Mr. Vertue. An account <A' .Mr. \V illis's c(jins is supj)0'-<^d to exist 
 among liis MS papers bequeathed to the Bodleian Libraiy. 
 
 D 2 Dr.
 
 jS LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l733 
 
 Dr. Sykes's Answer to Whlston. 
 
 Rosalinda, a Novel. 
 
 "^ The Upper Gallery, a Poem." 
 
 Mr. Bowyer had some share this year in estab- 
 lishing a newspaper, called " The Weekly Miscel- 
 lany." Mr. Clarke, July 14, 1733, says, " I wish 
 you much success in The. If'fehly Mhcellarn/. I 
 nave taken it in, in hopes of meeting now and then 
 with one of your Lucubrations. If it does succeed, 
 you must enlarge the plan of it a little, llie ma- 
 nagers nmst remember the Proverb, that ' one ounce 
 of mother-wit is worth a })ound of Clergy.' In an- 
 other letter that year, Mr. Clarke asks, " How shall 
 I see your Essavs, or know who voted pro and con 
 about the 1 est * r" The professed I'^ditor of the 
 Miscellany was William Webster -j-, 1). 1). The 
 iirst number was published Dec. If), 1/33 ; and it 
 was continued till June 27, 1741. 
 
 In 1733 Mr. Bowyer wrote the following epigram, 
 intended to be placed under the head of Gulliver: 
 
 " Here learn, from moral Truth and Wit refin'd. 
 How Vice and Folly have debas'd mankind ; 
 Strong Sense and Humour arm in Virtue's cause ; 
 Thus her great Votary vindicates her laws : 
 While bold and free the glowing colours strike ; 
 Blame not the Painter, if the Picture's like." 
 
 This year was rendered remarkable in the literary 
 world by the brilliancy of the Public Act at Oxford. 
 Mr. Bowyer was highly pleased with the whole cere- 
 mony, and printed several of the little productions 
 which it occasioned. Among various others, I 
 iind mentioned a little Poem of his own, " The 
 Beau and Academick, a Dialogue, in Imitation of 
 
 * Seo some specimens of these Essays in the quarto edition of 
 Air. Bowyei'.s " MiscellrincoMs Tracts." 
 
 > Of whom fM-K the " E-says and lUu -'.i-atious/' vol. V. No. VII. 
 
 tlie
 
 1733.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 3.7 
 
 the Bellus Homo et Academicus spoken at the late 
 Public Act at Oxford ; addressed to the Ladies *." 
 
 * The Latin Poem is printed in Mr. Bowjer's " IMiscellaneous 
 Tracts," p. 80. A prose translation of tlie beginning; of it was 
 inserted in a j)amphlet called " The Oxford Act, A.D. 17383" and 
 tlie following slight attempt to imitate a part of it was an even- 
 ing's task enjoined by Mr. Bowyer to lus present Biographer^ 
 then at the age of 16' : 
 
 Dialogue between a Beau and a Scholar. 
 
 Beau. 
 What ! still attaeh'd to Ix'aining's dangerous lore ? 
 You 're surely erai'd ! Attend the dame no more ! 
 Schola'^tic toil^ forsake, and qviit those rules 
 VVhich bind in chains the reasoning of the Schools 
 
 Scholar. 
 Heyday ! 'o warm ! who can this prattler be ? 
 Is this discour.-e, kind sir, address'd to me ? 
 Go(xl hea\ ens ! my dear Philario, Ls it you ? 
 Forgive me ; for my fi-iend I scarcely knew. 
 But tell me, whence this change ? this mincing gait ? 
 And why this garb, .o studiously neat ? 
 Say, from what clime these fa-^hions have you brought ? 
 \Vliat foirign land this miracle has \vrought ? 
 
 Blau. 
 A traveller's search, my dearest friend, explores 
 Realms far remote from Britain's vulgar shores. 
 Tlu)se climes 1 've seen where Spring ettrnal reigU'i, 
 And those where Sol ne'er glads the desert plains. 
 <^)ft where the golden fruit of Tagus shines, 
 W here mellowing grapes surcharge the blushing vino*, 
 ^^ ith pleasui"C have I stfay'd ; as often stood 
 \\ here frosts eternal bind th' astonisli d Hood 
 In gelid channels ! Nor in vain mv toil ; 
 Full well 1 know each country's difkrent soil; 
 My skiU can trace each rivulet's secret course. 
 Each cuirent't spiing, each mightier torrent's force. 
 
 Scholar. 
 Perhaps, if femalefl were to judge the cause, 
 I.jib()urs like these might meet with just applause j 
 Their gentle judgments, innocently bUnd, 
 Implicit faith for ev'ry traveller find : 
 Tlie happier few, v\ith penetration blest^ 
 Tlic fool at once discover and detest. 
 
 Beau. 
 If sprightly Nymphs and raptur'd Beaux applaud. 
 Let peevish -Age declare the trutii a fr.uid ; 
 Let Schoolmen scot!, or sage Logician^ frown, 
 A feiuale smile shall weigh the balance down '. 
 
 ' J , ScwOLAI.
 
 S8 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iTSS- 
 
 The original Poem was published under the title 
 of " Bellas Homo et Academicus. Kecitarunt in 
 Theatro Sheldoniano ad Coinitia Oxoniensia, 1733, 
 Lodovicus Langton et Thomas Barber, Collegii 
 
 Scholar. 
 But tell me (since ymi "ve sctn each foreign coast) 
 What precious stores can Jtarned GalHa boast ? 
 Or say what treasures Italy imparts, 
 The niother and the nurse of social arts ? 
 What biass or Parian statues noblest shine ? 
 Wliat anticnt tomb^ or coiisecrated shrine ? 
 What stately column, scorning vales below ? 
 What animated scenes on canvas glow ? 
 Tell me what share of praise, or what of blame. 
 These \enerable reliques justly claim ? 
 
 Beau. 
 A comfortable task for youthful Squires 
 To view the crest-falln renmants of their sires j 
 Oiir age, oar afiiuence, and untutor'd ways. 
 Demand luxurious nights, and social days ! 
 I own, indeed, some modern portraits shine, 
 'DiLCO\cring gi-andeur, elegance, design ; 
 Bat (horrid thought !) can worn-out paintings please. 
 Can mouldering fragments charm the sense like lliese ? 
 C'iP- proud antiques, those dear-bought, trifling toy?. 
 Resemble hapjacr youth's substantial joys ? 
 C an time-worn statues sueli a value hear, 
 Or musty coins preserv'd w ith studious care ? 
 'Tk- strange that men of greatest learning prize 
 A face adorn'd with neither nose nor eyes ; 
 Such 1 ha'^e often seen a Monarch's head, 
 1 think 'twas Nero's 
 
 No charms like the^ie my soaring genius sought ; 
 Far ditf" rent scenes engag'd m}- ev'ry thought. 
 
 Scholar. 
 What mighty reason promj.ted you to \ icw 
 The fail' Jt-ilian regions, since on you 
 Their gieatest pride Mas Io>t, the grand rcmaiiis. 
 The curious marks of Roman taste and pains ? 
 
 Be At. 
 Mere empty trifles rather ! lliynks to Heaven, 
 INiy time to more important cares was given ! 
 The tuneful ciiorus gladden'd every hour ; 
 The mazy dance display'd its magic ptiwcr ; 
 Love, wine, and joy, maintain'd alternate sway .; 
 Love erowr.'d the night, and Pleusuie bles^'d tlie daj . 
 
 * * -^ * * x Catcra dc^unf.
 
 1/33.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CEVTURY. 
 
 I)iv. Magd, Commen sales. By W. Hasle<iine*, of 
 Magdalen College. Accedit Oratio Petri Francisci 
 Couraver-|-, S.l.P, habita in iisdem Comitiis, 5 Id. 
 Julii." 
 
 Dr. Coui-ayer was sneered at in a pamphlet of eight 
 Images I, signed at the end " Peter Francis leCourayer, 
 Kegular Canon and Book-keeper of St. Cienevieve at 
 Paris, and Doctor of Divinity at Oxford ^."j 
 
 ^ Wlio took the decree of M. A. Oct. 20, 1736.. 
 
 t A sepui"ate tran,slation of Dr. C our.u or's .>;peech was printed, 
 in 1734, under the title of " An Oriitiou sicken in tlie Theatre 
 at Oxford, at the Public Act, 17.'13, by Peter I'l-sincis Courayer, 
 I). 1). Translated from the Latin, by a Gentleman of the Uni- 
 ver^it} of Oxford," 8vo. 
 
 X This pam[)hlet contiiins two caricature portraits of Courayer, 
 in a white dress, and a bell in liie hand ; and in a c<)py of it 
 whicli Mr. Bindley possesses it is insciibed to the Duke of Mon- 
 ta^i'e. Dr. Coui-ayer was a Roman Catholic Cler^nian, re- 
 markiible for his moderation, charity, and temixn', concerning; 
 reUjijious aflah's ; and was presented l)y the University of Oxford 
 with a Doctor's degree, on the 2Hi\i of August, 1727. foi" Ids 
 masterly " Defence of Knylish Ordinations." As it is sometlunj^ 
 \mcommon for a Roman Catholic Clerfiyman to be admitted to 
 degrees in Divinity by Protestant lJni\er>^ities, the ciu'ious may 
 be gratiiied with a sight of tlie dii)loma, by referring to " Tlie 
 Present State of the Republick of letter-, for .Tune, 17'28," j). 458; 
 where they \\ill also tind (p. 487) the Doctor's answer, which ii 
 written with moderation, charity, and temper In 1728 wii 
 pubUshed, "A Letter froui the Reverend lather Courayer, D. D. to 
 the Reverend William Whiston, in Answer to his Letter concern- 
 ing the holy Oitler of the TerlnHijunltta in A-^ia Minor, being 
 Father Courayer's first Es-.ay in the Kngii.'h Tongue. To which 
 is prefixed, a sketch of the Habit of the Teitidlvaniles, which 
 the curious will not be soitv to see. Printed fur tlie Author ; 
 and sold by the Booksellers of Ivjndon arul Westminster, 17'2S." 
 
 This very pious Divine was born at Vernon in \unuan<I\ in 
 1681. Whilst canon regular and librarian of tlie ai)l)ey of St. (iene- 
 \ieve at Paris, he applied to Abp. V\'ake for the resolution of some 
 doubts, concerning the Episcopal Successions in England, and 
 the validity of our Oi'dinaticms; being encouiaged tluretJ) by tlie 
 fiiendly correspondence which had pa->ed between the Arch- 
 bishop and the late Dr. Du Pin of the Sorbonne. The Arch- 
 bishop sent him exact copies of the proper records, attested by a 
 Notaiy-public ; and on those he built his Defence of the Eni:li^h 
 Ordination-i, which was published in Holland in the year 17'-7. 
 The original j)ape!N, which the Archbi-ho]) >eut over to D-('<iu 
 rayer, together with several letters whieh pas->ed eoneeinlnt-, the 
 teniiii of a projtrted reconciliation between the Churehe.-. of 
 
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 40 MTERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7S3. 
 
 France and England, were in the possession of the late Re\-. ();*- 
 miind Beauvoir, master of the King's school at Canlei-buiy, whose 
 father was chaplain to the English enibass\' at Paris, and through 
 his hands the correspondence with Abp. Wake was cairiod on. 
 Some of the lettci"S ai'e published in tlie " Biographia Britannica," 
 article Wake. The author of " The Confcss>i<j;il " attacks se- 
 verely the rnemoiy of the Arcl^bibhoj), for tjiaritably treating 
 with the Divines of the Sorbonnc, as if he had fnitne(( a sclienie 
 for yielding np the Protestant doctrines to the Chiu'ch of Rome : 
 though this whole affair, on the part of the Archbishop, waa 
 conducted with all possible fideUty and resolutioji ; such us will 
 do him honour with the latest jjostei ity. The reader may see 
 him well vindicated by Dr. Maclaine, in the third number of bis 
 Appendix to " Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History," wliere the ori>- 
 ginal conespondence with Mr. Beauvoir is printed ; winch De- 
 fence by Dr. Maclaine was replied to, and ans^vered by the wri- 
 ter of '* Occasional Remarks upon some late Strictures on the 
 Confessional, Part II. 176"9 ;" in which Remarks it is prcsmned 
 (but this may be matter of opinion) the original charge against 
 Abp. Wake is confinned by his own letters, v^ hich Dr. Maclaine 
 has produced, notwithstanding they were furnished by Abp. 
 Seeker with a contrary design. The Cardinal De Noailles being 
 highly offended with Dr. Courayer's book, the Marshal De No- 
 ailles, his brother, endeavourai to pacify him, and restore Cou- 
 rayer to his favour 5 but without success. While the danger of a 
 prosecution, or rather a persecution, was depeivding, it was 
 thought most adviseable that he should take refuge in l-^ngland ; 
 but he was in so little haste on this occasion, that he made a 
 slow journey to Calais in a stage-coach ; and N\as d-.-taiacd there 
 some time by a contraiy w ind, so that he rniglit easily have been 
 apprehended. However, he got safe to England, wliere be A\;ts 
 well received j but he complained to Abp V^'akc, that it was a 
 bad countiy for a religious m;'n to ve-idc in, bcau-^e of the un- 
 happy differences in Religion, by which mutual 'hority is de- 
 stroyed 3 and the liberty wiiich many take of speaking agaiiist the 
 doctrines of Cliristianity, and corrupting 1 he minds of the peo- 
 ple. " His upright fortitude in declaring hi> seiitinients," Dr. 
 Maclaine says, " obliged him to seek an ;is}luni in Enicland ; 
 and, notwithstanding the persuasion of (he absTuditic? Avhich 
 abotmd in the Church of Ronic, he ne\er totallj- ^tparatt^d iiim- 
 4f from its communion." Erom a letter of Bp. Attcrbury, we 
 learn that that Prelate was e!iposc<l to some trouble on accomit 
 of Father Courayer's escape from France, wliich he was .su))posed 
 to have facilitated : and that all tr.e methock taken by Couraver 
 in that respect, and towardr. defending the di.-j)en*afi()i;-, of the 
 Church of England, had hem concerted \\]'h ]ip. .AtttTuuiy. The 
 French King and Cardinal FievTj' sent hhn a ni-^SMige on tlie 
 subject, bv the Lieutenant de Police, Ih- tells Mr. Morice, " I 
 said what wa-^ true on that head, wiiliout d;-g;jisc ; and, after 
 an hour's conversation, did, I thinks satisfy the Lieutenant, 
 that I had done nothing but wliat became me. He owned a^s 
 much J and promised to Uiuk'j his report accordingly, and to* 
 
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 1733-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 4I 
 
 justif\- me, not only a la cour, but la ville; and he ha? been 
 as ^oo(l as his word, and behaved liinisclf, on this occasion, 
 witii all honour, and with all civility, towards me; so that 1 look 
 U})on that matter as quieted." In a subsequent letter the Bishop 
 iulds, " 1 did not mincer the matter to the Magisti^ate ; nor am I at 
 all ashamed of what has hap\)ened, or concci-ned for it. I owned 
 my friendship for Perc Coiirayer ; toUl tliem frankly a great deal 
 more than rhcy knew of that matter, as far as I was concerne<l ; 
 and thought there was no rea-;on to wonder at, or blame my 
 conduct. I convinced them of that point, and I believe there is 
 an end of it. I shewed the Lieutenant the picture of Pero Cou- 
 rayer hanging up in my room ; told hi in I had visited hini in his 
 retreat at Hanraent, while he was in disgrace there ; and that 
 lie came to take hi.* leave of me the night before he left Pans ; 
 and that in all this I thought I had done nothing that misbecame 
 me." The Lieutenant, who behaved with great politeness, was 
 perfectly satistied with the Bishop's explanation 3 but this was not 
 the case v.ith the Cardinal, who was pei-suaded that Father Cou- 
 rayer's escape was entirely owing to Attcrburj" ; and displayed 
 much resentment on that account. The Marquis of Blandford, 
 soon after Couravers arrival in England, made him a present of 
 50/. by the hands of Niciiokis Mann, esq. With some difficulty 
 he obtained a p<nsi()n of one hundred pounds a year from tlie 
 Court; and, having translateil Father Paul's History of tlieCovuK-il 
 of Trent into French, in two volumes folio, 173G", he dedicated 
 it to Queen Caroline, the munittcent patroness of distressed 
 merit, in the mo.st elegant sti-ains of gratitude : " Exiled," he 
 ftJiys, " into vour .Majesty's dominions, by those en^'Uiies which 
 the love of Truth alone piocui'cd me; antl tlie Defence of a Church 
 whicli you have cw.i honoured with your esteem and protection ; 
 your goodness has been n\y as\lum in disgrace, .sustained me 
 under mv alllictions, rcUcved my ncessities, and suj)plied all my 
 ^vaiits; oft-tiuK's preventing, and e.xceediiig my occtisions; wliile, 
 to rrow)i tlie grandeur of your 'oenelicence, you have scarce suf- 
 fered me to thank you for those fivuin-s you deemed inconsitk'r- 
 a!)]e, though the weight of them ovenvhelined me. Delighted 
 with the ronsciousne>5= of well-doing, more than with all the 
 flogies that naturally attend your benevolence, you refuse to 
 admit even the jastest acknovvledgtnents ; and, to .save tho>e voii 
 .succour, as far ;is possible, the ;!iblishing their mi-forfunes, by 
 the n < ital of vour grace and clemency, V0.1 seek or.ly the divine 
 5'ti;<f.i( fion of solacing the unhappv, witiiout bai1t riiig your li- 
 bT:ditv for ajiplau^e." The Otiee.; incit;t-ed hl.^ |>'ii^ioii to two 
 hvindre^ pounds ; and, bv the ^;^ie of the uoik, he raiM ri liueeu 
 himdred poimdn more. He gave l(i()()i. to Lon' FeverMhiun, for 
 an annijity or lot)/, which he enjoy d for fifty \e:us. Tlri.-i he 
 io-c, by degp-es, to ve. y efisy eireuni-^anees ; v, iiieh were made 
 
 still more so bv the reception wiutli hi.n agi al)le and edifying 
 
 # onver^afion procmed him among gie;ir jxople, witli niany of 
 .vhom it was his custom to live for .-i-\' lui in"n'hs at a 'i'lie. 
 il' iuid two .'isterS; who were mm^ ; antl in 177*' had a br tt'xr 
 
 hMj.-
 
 j4r? LITERARY ANECDOTES or [l733- 
 
 ^ving at Paris- in the profesfeion of the Law, to wliom he gave a 
 handsome g<^d snuff-box, which had been presented to him by 
 <2ue>4i Caroline. 
 
 Courayer's works were many, and all in French. ;^He translated 
 Slei^an's History of the Reformation ; and >vTote a second De- 
 fence in support of his fii-st, against the arguments of tJie Jesuits, 
 Father Hai*duin, Cardinal Tencin, &c. In discoursing about 
 religious subjects, he was reserved and cautious, avoiding cou- 
 trovei-sy as much as possible. He never had any good ojiinion 
 of Bower, who came ovei" hither to wiite his History of the 
 Popes : he accused him of pretending to collect from books 
 which he had never seen ; and said he w:is a dark mysterious 
 man, of a veiy suspicious character. Soon after his retirement 
 to England (it is said) he went to a priest of the Romi8h Chiucli 
 for Confession, and told him who he was. The priest dared not 
 take his confession, because he was excommunicated : but advised 
 him to consult his Superior of Gene^'ieve. What was the issue of 
 this application, we know not ; but it is certain that, when in 
 JLondon, he made it his practice to go to mass ; and, when in 
 tjie country at Ealing, whither he frequently retired for piivacy, 
 he constantly attended the service of the paiish-church, declar- 
 ing, at all times, that he had great satisfaction in the prayers of 
 the Chuich of England. The Jesuits were his worst enemies y 
 yet, when that Order was suppressed, his great hvimimity la- 
 mented the fate of many poor men, who wei-e thrown out of 
 iheir bread, and cast, in a helpless state, upon the wide world. 
 
 He died October 17, 1776", after two days illness, at the great 
 age of 95 ; and, at his own desire, was buried in the ^tmth 
 cloister of VVestminster-abbey ; where, directly over the effigies 
 of abbot Vitalis, is the following inscription, the production of 
 the late Rev. John Kynascou* j by whose friendship a more ac- 
 
 * Son of Humphry Kj'naston, citizen of Chester (descended from a yoiin^-'T 
 branch of the Kynastons of Bronjjuin, in the county of Montgromery). He 
 was born at Chester, Dec. 5, 1728; admitted a conmiooer in Brazen Nose 
 college, Oxford, March 20, 1746; elected scholar on the foundation of Sarah 
 Duchess Dowager of Somerset, in the said college. Aug-. 1 of the same year; 
 took tlie degree of B. A. Oct. 16, 1749 ; was elected fellow June i4, 1 751 ; ami 
 took the degree of ,M. A. June 4, 17,'i2. He obtained no small reputation by 
 n Oratinncula, intituled, " De Impietate vL Comelio Tacito falso ohjectata : 
 Oratio ex Insstituto Viri cl. Francisci Bridgman, Militis, habita in Sacello 
 Collegii BLnn Xasi Oxon. Fesr.o Sancti 'I'honia', Decembrjs 21, A. D. 1761, a 
 J. K. A. M. Coll. cjusdem Socio;'' in which he endeavoured to disprove the 
 false .illeg^ations (for such he really thought tliem) of Famianus Strada (that 
 excelleni critic, and most elegant writer) against Tacitus, on that very hack- 
 nied topick, hi.s daring impietV) and sovereign conU^npt of the Supreme. 
 In 1764 he published " A Collection of Papers relative to the Prosecution 
 now carrying on in the Chancellor's Court in Oxford, against Mr. Kynastoii, 
 by Matihew Mnddock, Clerk, rector of Cotworth and IJolywell, in the County 
 of Huntingdon, and Chaplain to his Grace of Manchester, for the Charge of 
 Adultery alledged against the said Matthew Maddock ;" 8vo. From the 
 dale 'jf ih'S publication (the cause of which operated too severely on his high 
 sense of honour aVid ingenuousness of heart) he resided, in not the best state 
 of health, at Wican principally, loved and respected by a few select friends ; 
 .^mongst 'nhom th'^ writer of this article is hagpv to place himslf. Though 
 
 be
 
 1733-1 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 43 
 
 cui*ate copy of it than that upon the monument (which was put 
 
 up too hastily before the author's last revisal) was first preseuled 
 
 \.o the publick in the first edition of these '' Anecdotes:' 
 
 " H. S. E. 
 
 anuis morumque integiitate juxtk reverendus 
 
 Petkus Franciscus C'ourayer, 
 
 Ccenobii de Sanctd Genoveva dicti 
 
 apud lu'bem Lutetiam Paiisioixim 
 
 regrdaris olim Canonicus. 
 
 Vir, si quis alius, 
 
 de Ecclesi^ atque Politic Anglicana 
 
 animo pariter ac scriptis, optime meritus : 
 
 quipjie qui Episcopalium jus adininistrationmn, 
 
 jaindiu a Pontificiis acerrime impugnatuni 
 
 huic eidem Ecclesi 
 
 et Gallus ipse, et Pontificius, 
 
 inviclA arg^mlentoI^lm vi asseruit et vindicavit ; 
 
 quique adeo, ob id vindicandum, 
 
 pulsus jam patri&, j)rofngu3 
 
 omnibusque demum exutus fortunL?, 
 
 })ac in urbe quwrebat assylum, et inveniebat 
 
 ibique per annos prope quinquagrnta 
 hoaesta; mentis otio egregius fruebatur exul> 
 bonoruui omnium delicia? vivus, 
 onuiium commune desiderium. 
 Obiit ([uixitudecima die Octobris 
 anno post natum Chi'istimi mdcclxxvi^ 
 post se natum xrv. 
 Iliiic tali taiitoque Viro 
 marmor hoc, amoiis sui monimentum, |)Osueie Amici, 
 cui famam marmorc j)erenniorem peperit 
 defeasa \eritas, refutarus error." 
 In his iast will, dated Feb. 3, 177-4, proved at Doctors Com- 
 mons Oct. *34, 177^>, he declares, " that he dies a member of 
 tiic Catholic Church, but without ap[)ro\ing of m^uiy of the 
 <>j)inions ailtl su})erstitions which have been introduced into the 
 Jlouii.>h ( liurch, and taught in their schools and seminaries, 
 and whicii they have insisted on as articles of faith, though to 
 him thev apjxiar to be not only not founded in truth, but :dso to 
 he higidy improbable. ' He left 5(K)/. to St. Martin'.-, pari.-?l, and 
 ::<K)/. to the ])ari>h of St. .Margaret* Westminster, in which Im 
 dit'd ; a hancLome sum of money to the poor of Vernon in Xor- 
 
 li'- )|p\(r h;i<I fhi; |)I':iMirc nf seeing' Mr. Kyiiatton, lie Ii.ts oftiii he- n do- 
 lin'iitcd, ;iii'l liis own library lubKurs fanlitatcd, by liis valiiatili- corn spon- 
 <-)'ii<<-; partiriilarly in tli<^ ' S<;lt;.-t Collection of .Mi-; cllany Poi-ms,'' whert.' 
 .-oine of llic most valiiabl'- u<t(; cotninuuK atcd liy .Mr. Iwriistoii. Hi.s ciia- 
 r'.ibl" aUciiiions to the uiitort.niiate .Mis.s'i'-laiidy are noticed in (Jenf. M:\^. 
 .ol. I. III. p. 8<) '. ; and tlie literary aid lie pu ( at Oxford to Kak, a learned 
 pliysi'ian, in vol. I,V. p. K"i. On th<- -7th of March l"h>, Mr. Kynastrm 
 hid the ini>fortuiie to break liis left arm, near tlie shoulder. The bwnes, 
 >i\vcvr h^vin.; I)ecn properly replaced, he wuj tai-'iitrhl out of danger i but, 
 tj eij at W ;;au ill iLe J'lue following;. 
 
 mandy.
 
 44 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l733. 
 
 mandy, xvhefc he w.i-s bora ; ami, after many legacies to his 
 friends in England, the reet and residue to two uei)he\vs of his 
 name at Vernon. ITie prineij)al part of this article is taken 
 fi'om " Observations in a Journey to Paris," an entertaining 
 little vork, in two volumes, small 8vo, 1777, by the Ilev. W. 
 Jones, B. A. then rector of Pluekley, in Kent ; of whom f-ee 
 vol, IV. p. 1)1 ; and the account of Dr. Couraycr was connimni- 
 catcd to this intelligent traveller by James Smyth, e^.q. of Upper 
 Grosvenor-strect. 
 
 The picture of Dr. Courayer, mentioned in p. 41, wasgi^en 
 by Bp. Atterhiu'v's will to the Univei-sity of Oxford, and is now 
 in the Bodleian Libraiy. There is also a small oval j)ortrait of 
 him by-Elizabeth Gulston, from a painting of Hamilton, in- 
 gcribed, " Pierre Fmncis Courayer, who w;is bani,->hed France for 
 viTiiing in defence of the English Ordination. He was born at 
 Rouen, Nov. 17, ICSl, and is .still living. Pnbli.shed June 1, 
 1744." [Mr.s. Gulston was the wife of Jo.'-eph Gulston, esq. of 
 Ealing Grove, Middlesex, a celebrated collector of Briti.->h por- 
 traits. This Lady etched .several other jjoitraits, as may be .^ecn 
 in Bromley's Catalogue, which she gave away to her husband's 
 friends.] 
 
 Mr. Markland, in a letter to Mr. Bowycr, Sept. 29, 174G, 
 says, " iMr. Clarke has given me Fathei' Courayer's Translation of 
 ihe History of the Coimcil of Trent ; m ith who.-se IVeface I am 
 i-o greatly pleased (having just now read it) that if he be no more 
 a Papist in other tenets than he is in those he mentions (w Isich 
 are many, and of the most distinguished class) I daie say there 
 are ^ cry few considei'ate Protestants v\ ho are not as good C a- 
 tholics as he is. If you have not read it, you ha\ e a great plea- 
 sure to come," Bp. Hare had given that copy of Courayer to 
 Mr. Clarke. Notwithstanding the excellence of ( ouruyer's work, 
 there is reason to regret that an Engli.^h Translation, wiiicii was 
 begim in 17'^8, and some sheets of it actually piinted oH", was 
 not proceeded with. This assertion will be readily credited, wlien 
 I add that it was undertaken by Dr. Jonxsox. 'J'he part that 
 was printed luus long since been concerted into waste paper, and 
 (unfortunately) not a single copy of it is known to have Ijcen 
 preserved. An earlier Translation had been })ut)lished by Sir N. 
 Brent in 1G16. See the article of Cave, in the Illustrations of 
 vol. V.N" I. 
 
 Soon after thi.-^ article had appeared in the former edition, a 
 curious little work was pub!ishe<l, imder the title of " A Decla- 
 rition of my Kst Sentiments on the dilVeivnt Doctrines of Reli- 
 gion. By the late Pitnc Francois Le Courayer, D. D. Author of 
 the ' Dissertation on Vh(> validity of English Ordinations,' and 
 Translator of ' llij Hi.-tory of tiie Council of Trent,' by h'ru. 
 Paolo Sarjii, and of ' The Histoj^ of the Reformation,' by J<jhn 
 Sleidan. FailhfiUly translated fnmi the oiiginal French, just 
 publishefl from the MS. of the Author. To which is prefixed, 
 An Aecount of Dr. Courayer." The MS. of this remarkable 
 "^ratt w-us given i)v M. 1^; Courayer himself to the lute Princess 
 
 Amelia,
 
 1734.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 45 
 
 Among the other books printed by Mr. Bowyer 
 in this year were, 
 
 " An Oration, in which an Enquiry is made, 
 whether the Stage is, or can be made, a School 
 for forming the Mind to Virtue. Spoke March 13, 
 1733? iri the Jesuits' College at Paris, by Charles 
 Pcree, of the Society of Jesus. Translated by Jolm 
 Lock man *." 
 
 Amelia, wlio left it as a legacy to her chaplain, the Rev. William 
 licll, D. D. funnerly Fellow of .Magdalen college, Caiahridge, 
 and Prebendary of We.-tminster ; who published it as originally 
 written in the French language. ^The Translator (now known 
 to be the Rev. i)r. John Calder) says, " The {)ublick un- 
 doubtedly is much obliged to the very respectable Dignitary 
 <j1" the ( hiu'ch of England who has favoured them with the 
 original of the following Declaration, and wlu) was induced tu 
 the publication by a liberality of sentiment, and upright view.s 
 of usefulness, that do him gieat honour, and have distinguished 
 him through the course of his public life. As this gentleman 
 seems veiy desirous it should be known to the publick that he 
 has no concern in the following translation, the Translator take* 
 thi.s eai-liest opportunity to meet his wishes, and second his ad- 
 vertisement, by declaring, with the utmost sincerity, that, to the 
 best of his knowledge, he never saw the Editor of the oiiginul, 
 nor ever had any conespondeuce with hmi on this or any other 
 occasion." 
 
 * Secretary to the British HeiTing Fishery. His poetical 
 talents seem not very extensive, as the greatest part of what he 
 lias favoured the world with of that sort ha^ been onl^ a few 
 ongs, odts, &c. written on temporary subject^;, and intended to 
 receive the advantage of mu-^ical composition before they reached 
 the publick. Mr. Reed, however, found two pieces of the dra- 
 matic kind, both of them de-igned to l;e set to mu~ic, but only 
 the second of them, lie thinks, ever pei formed. Tiiey are inti- 
 tuled, 1. " RosaliJida, a Musical Drama, 1710,' 4to. '2. " Da- 
 vid's I^amentations, an Oratorio." Mr. I.ockman had been con- 
 cerned in .several translations and comjnh^mciit- of very consi- 
 derable works ; j)articulurly the " G<'neral Dictionary," and 
 " Hlaimille's Travels;" but, what is more to hi- praise, he wa.^ 
 a man of the most scrupuloas integrity. He died Feb. 'i, I771. 
 Hoswoll mentions liim as " remaikable for an extraordio.iry 
 nmnber of oerasional verses, not of eminent merit; " and notic(,s 
 I sneer of Jolmson's, on his being mciitiojied iu a foi\:ign publi- 
 catioa as I'Uluilre Lockman. 
 
 " A Pracr
 
 AO LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1734- 
 
 " A Practical Grammar of the Englihih Tongue ; 
 or, a rational or eaj^y Introiluction to speaking and 
 writing English correctly and proj)erl}', pecuHarly 
 adapted to the Nature and (ienius of the Language, 
 and free from the hard and unnecessary Terms of 
 the Latin Rudiments. Tlie whole treated of in 
 pressive Terms and familiar Style, anil in the most 
 natural and instructive Method ; viz. that of (Ques- 
 tion and Answer. Designed for the Use of Schools ;. 
 but, though calculated chiefly for such as require 
 only an English Education, may yet be a useful 
 Foundation to those wJio are designed for higher 
 Studies. By W. Loughton, Schoolmaster at Ken- 
 sington ;" 8vo. 
 
 " The Character of a Liberal Man ; a Spital 
 Sermon, preached at St. Bride's, before the Lord 
 Mayor, Aldermen, and Governors of the several 
 Hos})itals, on the Wednesday in Easter-week, 
 April 17, 1734, on Prov. xi. 25. By Joseph Ro- 
 per*, D.D." 4to. 
 
 "Six Dissertations: 1. The Testimonies of Jo- 
 ephus concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, 
 and James the Just, vindicated ; 2. The Copy of 
 the Old Testament made LTse of by Josephus, 
 proved to be that which was collated by Nehemiah ; 
 2- A Reply to Dr. Sykes's Defence of his Disser- 
 tation on the Eclipse mentioned by Phlegon ; 4. The 
 Chronology of the Sacred Scriptures, and their 
 Predictions confirmed by Eclipses, and Astronomi- 
 cal Observations ; 5. Remarks on Sir Isaac Newton's 
 Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and 
 the Apocalypse ; 6. A Demonstration that our Sa- 
 
 * Fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge; B. A. I7O6; I\I.A. 
 17IO3 B.D. 1717; D.D. 1720". He was presented May 2, 1720, 
 by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, to the united rectories of 
 St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, and St. Nicholas 01a%e, in the city of 
 London ; and in 1737^ as president of Sion-coUege, delivered the 
 *' Concio ad Cleruni, 1 Cor. ix. 16'." which was printed in the 
 same year. He jjublished aLo two other single Sermons ; one 
 before the Sons of the Clerg}-, 1 Cor. ix. 11, 1725, 4to j the other, 
 from John vii. I7, a Commencement Senuou at Cambridge, 
 1728, 4to. He died March 13^ 1746. 
 
 viour'.s
 
 1734.] TH EIG'HTEENTH CENTURY. 4f 
 
 viour's Ministry continued at least Four Years ; 
 oQcasioned bv a late Dissertation on that Subject. 
 By William Whiston, M. A." 8vo. 
 
 ''Britannia Romana; or, the Roman Antiquities 
 of Britain ; in Three Books. The first contains the> 
 History of all the Roman Transactions in Britain, 
 with an Account of their Legionary and Auxiliary 
 Forces employed here, and Determination of the 
 Stations per lineam valli ; also a large Description 
 of the Roman Walls, with Maps of the same laid 
 <Iown from a Cieometrical Survey. The second, a 
 complete Collection of the Roman Inscriptions and 
 Sculptures which have hitherto been discovered in 
 Britain, with the Letters engraved in their proper 
 Shape and proportionate Sizie, and the Reading 
 placed under each ; as also an Historical Account 
 of them, with Explanatory and Critical Observa- 
 tions. The third, the Roman (jeography of Bri- 
 tain ; in which are given the Originals of Ptolemy^^ 
 Antonini Itinerarium, the Notitia, the Anonymous 
 Ravennas, and Peutinger's Table, so far as they 
 relate to this Island ; with particular Essays on 
 each of these antient Authors, and the several 
 Places in Great Britain mentioned by them. To 
 which are added, a Chronological Table, and 
 Indexes to the Inscriptions and Sculptures, also 
 (Geographical Indexes, both of the Latin and Eng- 
 lish Names of the Roman Places in Britain, and a 
 general Index to the Work. The whole illustrated 
 with above an hundred Copper Places. Bv John 
 Horsley *, M. A. F. R. S. Printed ior T. Osborne.^ 
 and T. I^mgman ;" folio. 
 
 * " Tlie author of this well-written work was oducateil in the 
 public fj;rainniai'-scliool at Newcastle; studied afterwards in one 
 of the Scotch Collej^es, when; he took a degree; and died pa^tov 
 of a Dis-enting coiifrrcgation at Moi"])eth, in Nortlunnherland, 
 173*2, a little before tlie publication of his book ; which iniijht 
 be f;itatly enlarged from hi4<'cccding discoveries (taken notice of 
 in the "Anecdotes of British 'l'opogra])hy,") and still l^ter nft 
 known to the publick. " From a copy interk'a^ed and filletl 
 with notch by Pi-of<>ssor Ward, now in the British Muyum,'*' 
 fc^ys .\b'. Gou^li, ' \vhich nultai wau uii copied iuid uut-niented 
 
 witll
 
 48 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l734 
 
 " Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Paradise 
 Lost ; by Jonathan Richardson, Father and Son. 
 With the Life of the Author, and a Discourse on the 
 Poem, by Jonathan Richardson *, Senior ;" 8vo. 
 
 with ofhers from different quarters, as well as my own, I had 
 thoughts of re-publLshiug the book j but, havinj^ turned my 
 thoughts to otlier modes of illustrating our National Antiquities, 
 and obsening how incorrect the copies of the inscriptions were, 
 and how much more correctly later-disco\ered inscrijjtions have 
 been given to the publick, I leave the idea to sonic abler hand, 
 if our National Antiquities in so remote a periotl arc not bccnmo 
 unfashionable." The plates of Horsley's Britannia Romana re- 
 mained in the hands of Mr. E. Randall, who married one of his 
 daughters, and was clerk to a merchant in the Old South Sea 
 House. In 176"3, they were offered to the Society of Antitiuaries. 
 About the year IJdO, when they were at Mi'. Major's, late en- 
 graver, St. Martin's-lane, he asked Mr. Gough lOOl. for them, 
 who offeretl twenty guineas as their utmost worth. They were 
 offered to Dr. Giffoi'd, of the British Museum, for the latter 
 sum, 1780 5 at which time he kept a school at Loudon Wall. 
 Jan. 30, 1781, Dr. Gower had an idea of purchasing them at 
 twenty guineas, the j)rice asked in 1769 ; " if he could have 
 acquired the copy-right of the book ;" and would " h^ve re-pub- 
 lished it with additions, had he been sure of a return." In De- 
 cember 1784, the Editor of these "Anecdotes" would ha^c given 
 Inore than double that sum for them ; but they were unluckily 
 melted down about two hours oidy before he had an opportunity 
 of making the offer. 
 
 * 'I'his was a joiiit pu]:)licat;on of the two Richardsons, father 
 and son ; the former a celebrated painter, the latter a con- 
 noisseur. Both of them were, at the time of this publication, 
 eminent for their skill in painting, and the books they had 
 written on that subject (see vol. I. p. 158) ; and it is but justice 
 to the memoiy of Hogarth to add, that he destroyed the j)L\te 
 there mentioned ; and recalled the prints. 'J'he present work 
 was given as a specimen of their judgment in Poetry, and ability 
 as Commentatoi's. Mr. Richardson, as Dr. Johnson "^ays, " ia. 
 How better known by his books than his pictures ; tho\igh las 
 colouring is allowed to be masterly. " Jonathan Richarilson 
 was undoubtedly one of the best English painter,^ of a head that 
 had appeared in this country. There is strength, roimdness, 
 and boldness, in his coloining ; but his men want dignily, and 
 has women giacc. The good sense of the Nation is characterized 
 in his portraits. You see he lived in an age when neither en- 
 tliusiasm nor servility was predominant ; yet, with a pencil so 
 firm, possessed of a nmuerous and excellent collectioi of draw- 
 ings, fidl of the tiicory, and profound in reilections on liis art, 
 lie drew nothing well below the head, and was void of imagina- 
 ^on. The altitudes, draperies, and back-grounds, are totally 
 
 insipid
 
 17S4.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 49 
 
 " The History of Osman I. Emperor of the Turks, 
 and the Empress of Aphendina Ashada ; translated 
 from the French by J. Wilhams, Esq. 
 
 insipid and unmeaning : so ill did he apply to his own practice 
 the sagacious rules and hints he bestowed on others. Though he 
 >vrote with hre and judgment, his paintings owed little to either. 
 l\o man dived deeper into the inexhaustible stores of Raphael, 
 or was more smitten with the native lustre of Vandyck ; yet, 
 though capable of tasting the elevation of the one, and the ele- 
 gance of the otlier, he could never contrive to see with their 
 eyes when he was to copy nature himself. One wonders that 
 lie could comment their works so well, and imitate them so little. 
 He quitted business himself some years before his death ; but his 
 tern})erancc and virtue contributed to protract his life to a great 
 lengtli, in the full enjoyment of his understanding ; and iu the 
 felicity of domestic friendship. He had had a paralytic stroke 
 that atfected his aim, yet never disabled him from his customary 
 walks and exercise. He had been in St. James's Park, and died 
 huddenly, at his house in Queen-square, on his return home. 
 May 28, 1745, when he had passed the 80th year of his age. He 
 left a son, and four daughters ; one of whom was married to his 
 rlisciple, Mr. Hudson, and another to Mr. Grcgson, an attorne\ . 
 The taste and learning of the son, and the harmony in which he 
 Tned v.ith his father, are visible in the joint works they com- 
 j)Osed. The father, in 17H>> published two Discourses : 1. "An 
 Kssay on the whole Art of Criticism, as it relates to Painting ;"' 
 '2. " An Argument in Behalf of the Science of a ConnnJNseur - 3" 
 bound in one volume octavo. In 1722 came forth "An Accoiint 
 of some of the Statues, Bas-reliefs, Drawings, and Pictures, in 
 Italy, &c. with Remarks, by Mr. Richaiclson sen. and jun." 
 The son made the journey; and from his notes, letters, ant! olj- 
 scrvations, they both at his leturn compiled this valuable work. 
 As the father was a foiinal man, with a slow but loud and son- 
 orous voice, and, in truth, with some aliectation in his manner j 
 and, as there is much singularity in his style and expre.-.-ion, 
 those ])eculiarities, for they were scarce foibles, struck MUjHilicial 
 readers, and, between the laughers and the envious, (he book 
 WiLs much ridiculed. Yet both this and the foinier are full of 
 matterf, good-sen.-e, and instruction; and the \eiy (|uainttu>-- of 
 .*ome expressions, and their laboured ncnelty, shew the dilJiculty 
 the autlioi- had to convey mere visible ideas tlu'ough tlie niediuin 
 of language. Those works remind one of (ibher's iniinilai)le tn a- 
 tise on the stage. W hen an author writes (jn lii.i own j)i(ife-'ioiij 
 feel.- it [)r()foundIy, and is sen.-ible his readers do not, he is not 
 
 '^- \\f U:\h. Wi, tliat brjiii; in search of a pr(i])( r tcrtii fui tlii.s si-'u'in r. Me, 
 I'rior liri)|)Osi'(J to name it Ciiiinuis (tncr ; Init tlial wmd lia.^ li"t (jbl.iin.il 
 |)OS<;(,ssiori, as rn;;/;;;/.. i/7(r lias. 
 
 f- 'Mioir rriticisijis on ttic worki of r.ajili,'.' 1 and Miclucl .lii^'clo, at Koiii- 
 ai>- rcninrka'iily u'^'utc and iiidicioii;.. 
 
 \'oi, II 1" o;.!v
 
 S'O LrriRARY ANECDOTES Of [l734. 
 
 A considerable number of single Plays, for i\Ir. 
 Tooson, in l2mo. 
 
 <mly excasable, but meritorious, for illuminating the <nbJRCt by 
 new metaphors, or bolder figures than ordinary'. Hr is the cox- 
 coxah tlwt sneers, not he that instructs in appropxrited diction. 
 
 " If these authore were censured wiien conversant within their 
 own ciir.le, it wns not to be exjxjt'ted that they would be tieated 
 with milder indulgence when they entered into a j^ister rrgion. 
 In 1734 tliey {.iblished a very thick octavo, containing e.'cplana- 
 tory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paiudise Lost, with the life 
 of tlie autiior, and a discourse on the Poem. Again were the 
 good-seAse, the judicious criticism, and the sentiments, that 
 broke forth in this work, forgotten in the singularities that dis- 
 tingxiish it. How forcibly Richardson entered into tiie .spirit of 
 his author appears from bus comprchensixe cxpre^^,ion, that Mil- 
 ton was an Antient born two thousand years after his time. Rich- 
 ardson, however, was as ijicapable of rcac/ning the sublime or 
 hkuiuonious in poetry as he was ui paintmg, though .<) capable 
 of illustrating both. Some specimens of verse, that he has gi\>n 
 us here and there in his works, excite no curiosity for more ; 
 though he informs us in his Milton, that if Painting was his 
 wife, Pnetiy had been his secret concubine. It is remarkable tint 
 another Commentator of Milton has made the same confc-^sion. 
 sunt et tnlhi carmbia, )e quoqiie diaint 
 Vatcm pastores 
 ?avs Dr. IJentify. Neither the Doctor nor the Painter adds, sftl 
 non p;:o rreduJis illis, though all their readers are ready to supply 
 it for both. 
 
 " Besides his pictures and commentaries, we ha%e a feu- etcli- 
 mgs by hLs hand, particularly two or three of Milton, and h! 
 own head. ^TL'he sale of liis collection of (lra\\ing>. in Febniaiy 
 1747, lastefl eighteen days, and produced about 20f)OZ. his pic- 
 tures about 7OOZ. Hudson, his son-in-law, bought many of the 
 drawings. After the death of the son, in 1771, the remains of 
 ihe father's collection were sold. 'Iliere. were hundreds of por- 
 'raits of both in ehalks by the father, with the dates when exe- 
 cuted ; for after his retirement from business, the good old man 
 ;,eems to have amused himi^f^lf with writing a short poem, ami 
 drawing his own or his son's portrait, every day. 7 be son, 
 equally tender, had marked several witii expressions of ailectioik 
 r.n his dear father. There were a few pictures iind drawings by 
 the son, for he painted a little too " 
 
 Lord Orford's Works, '4to, vol. III. p. 413. 
 
 In June 1776 was publi.shcd an octavo vohunc of Poems (and 
 anf>ihcr promised) by Joiiathan Richardson .senior, with notea 
 by his son. They are chicHy moral and religious rof ditations. 
 Sow and then there is a picturesque line or image ; but in ge- 
 neral the poetry is vcr)' careless and inditl'erent : yet such a pic- 
 ture of a good m.ind, sertne in conscious innoeeaee, is scarcely 
 to be found. It is impossible liot to love the author, or not to 
 
 WJ::)i
 
 I734] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. $1 
 
 *^ Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor 
 Bacon ; collected by Robert Stephens *, Esq. ; 
 late Historiographer Royal/' 4to. 
 
 wish to be as sincerely and intentionally virtuous. The book 'u 
 perhaps moi'e capable of inspiring- emulation of goodness than 
 any professed book of devotion^ for the author perpetually de- 
 scribes tlie peace of his mind, from the satisfaction of havmsj 
 ne\er deviated from wliat he thought right. 
 
 * Fourth son of Richard Stephens, esq. 5 of the elder house of 
 that name at Eastington in Gloucestershire, by Anne the eldest 
 daughter of Sir Hugh Cholmley, of Whitby, in Yorkshire, baionet. 
 His first education was at VVotton school, whence he removed to 
 Lincoln college, Oxford, May 19, 1681. He was entered very 
 young in the Middle Temple, applied himself to the study of tlie 
 common law, and was called to the bar. As he was master of -a 
 nuflicient fortune, it may be presumed that thetemper of his mind, 
 which was naturally modest, detained him fronx the public ex- 
 ercise of his pi'ofession, and led him to the politer studies, and 
 an acquaintance with the best authors, antient and modern ; yet 
 he \\ as esteemed by all who knew him, to ha\c made a great 
 proficiency in the l^w, though History and Antiquities seem to 
 have been his favourite study. When he was about twenty years 
 old, being at a relation's house, he accidentally met with some 
 original lettei-s of the Lord Chancellor Bacon ; and finding that 
 they woidd greatly improve the collections then extant relating 
 to King James's reig-n, he immediately set himself to search for 
 whatevx^r ndght elucidate the obscure passages, and publisiied a 
 complete edition of them in 1702, with useful notes, and an ex- 
 cellent historical introduction. He intended to huve presented 
 his work to King AVilliam ; but, that Monarch dying before it 
 was publL^hed, the dedication was omitted. In the Preface he 
 requested the communication of unpublished pieces of his noble 
 author, to make his collection more complete 5 and obtained in 
 consequence as many letters as formed the second collection pub- 
 lished in 17;M, two years after his death. Being a relation of 
 Robert Harky, Earl of Oxford (whose mother, Abigail, was 
 daughter of Nathaniel Stejihens of E;utington), he was ])retcneii 
 by him to be chief solicitor of the C iLstom~, in which emplo\ nieiit 
 he continued with undiminished reputation till 17"0", when he 
 <leclined that troublesome ollice, and was appointed to succeed 
 Mr. Madox in the place of Historiographer Royal. He then 
 formed a design of writing a History of King Jamc-^ tlie Fir.t, a 
 reign uhich he thought to be mon- misrepresented than almost 
 any other .'ince the Coiuiuest ; and, if we may judge by the good 
 impression which he seems to hav; iiad of the-;*- times, his exact- 
 ness and caie never to advance any thing i)ut fiom uncjuestion- 
 vible authorities, besides liis great caruioMr and integrity, it 
 could not but have been a judiciou.- and valuable performance. 
 He married Mary, liie dauiJ!,httM- of Sir Hii!;h Lliuhnley. a lady of 
 i;r<.at worth , died at Gr,i\e-end. ne^r I'horabuty, Glouee-tvr-
 
 52 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l734- 
 
 ^^ A Sermon preached at St. Paurs, before the 
 Lord Mayor, Nov. 5, I734, on Ezra i\, 13, 14. 
 By William Crowe*, D.D." 4to. 
 
 " The Advantages of a National Observance of 
 Divine and Human Laws; an Assize Sermon, at 
 Maidstone in Kent, March 13, 1 733-4. By James 
 Batef, M.A." 
 
 shire, Nov. 9, 17'32 ; and was buried at Ea.'^tinuton, the scat of 
 his ancestors, where the following; epitapli pre^-encs liis ineiuDiy : 
 
 " ROBF.UT STEPIirNS, Eh(|. 
 
 fourth son of Richard Stephens, Esq. Lord of this Manor, 
 di.a Nov. 1'.', 17H2, a^'f-d fiT. 
 He w.is Barrister at Law of the iVIiddle Temple, 
 and Solieitor of the Customs to their late Majesties 
 Queen Anne and Kin;; (ieofic the Ilrst. 
 In his vohintary resi^jnation of whieh, 
 he was for a testimony of liis rid( lity ma(ie Hi^toriofrraplier. 
 A Gentleman for his skill in the Law, Anti<|?nty, and Polite Learning", 
 and for his justice and integrity in all hi- actions, worthy to be renienibt red. 
 He married Mar\, daughter of Sir Hugh ( hoiinhy, IJart. 
 of Whitby, in the County of Vork. 
 and relict of Nath. C'hohnley, of Leirctershire, E^q. 
 who, surviving, erected this Monument." 
 * Chaplain to Bp. Gibson, and in ordinary to King Gv^nrge IT: 
 rector of St. Botolpli Bishopspite, and of Finchloy in Mi(ulk'.-e\. 
 in the church-yard of ivhicli pari-h he was interred, with a tomb- 
 stone OAcr him to his n)emory. He pllbli^lletl foiu" other sinjili; 
 Serinons : 1. " The Duty of securing: the pul)hc Peace. P~;ilm 
 cxxii. 6, jjveached before the I.ord iMaM-r, Jan. 30, 17'2-t;' 
 2, Before the House of Commons, Piov. xvii. 11, .Tan. 30, \~i'.''>^-> ; 
 .S. " On the Death of Qneen Caroline, 1737 ; " The Duty of 
 PuVilic Spirit rei^nnmendcd," from Phil. ii. 4. " On the inu nded 
 Settlement of aCcdony at Georgia." Eleven of Jris "Sermon.- on 
 fccveral Occa-ions" weic also ptiblished in one volume Svo. 174 1. 
 f Son of Richard Bate, vicar of thiliiam, in Kent ; ofJ5enet- 
 college, Cambiidge, B. A. 17'23 ; IM..\. 1727, where he wa- ]re- 
 elected fellow, but reincned to St.. John's, wiiere he became fcliow 
 on an iannediate \a(ancy, anil di^itinguished himself bv his skill iji 
 the Hebrew language. He accompanied the liii;'ht Hon. Horalio 
 \\alpole, in his Enibassv to France, as lii- cliaplain ; and wa-^ 
 made the iii.st rector of the new church of St. Patil lXj)tf()rd, in 
 17.31. [Had he not also the vicarage of Hougr.ton l'ai\a in 
 Northamptonshire in 1729?] In 17o'2 he published "An !C->av 
 towards a Rationale of the literal Doctrine of Origin;d Sin; a 
 A indication of God's \\ isdoin, Gotxlness, and .Itistice, in permit- 
 ting the Fall of Adam, and the subsetpient Corru])tion of >atin'c:" 
 whieii in 17'>7 lie iej)ublished in a nnich larger octaM) volume. 
 Jk'sides the Sermon noticed above, he published also ."ix others; 
 1. " The Praetiec of Religion and Virtue, the (mh' ^lu'*^ Found;i- 
 ti)n of Friend.-hi])," :> Kings, x. 15, 1738; 2. " 'i'he Faith and 
 Praclicc oi a Christian the only true Fotuidalion of rational Libeit'. , 
 
 Juhu
 
 1734.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 53 
 
 " Remarks on Spenser's Pcems, and on Milton's 
 Paradise Regained * ;" 8vo. This little volume, 
 though published anonymously, was soon known 
 to be the production of the learned Mr. Jortin, 
 who very modestly thus closes his judicious and 
 instructive Remarks : " What I have here offered 
 on Spenser may be called an Essay, or rough 
 draught of a Commentary, deficient indeed in 
 many points, yet, I fiope, useful and entcrtaiiiinfr 
 to all lovers of this i'oet. Much more might be 
 done ; particularly towards settling the Text, by a 
 careful collation of Editions, and by comparing the 
 Author v\ ith himself; but that required more time 
 and application than I was willing to bestow 'f-S' 
 
 John \Vn. 36, 1740; 3. '' fluman Learning- useful to tiue Religion, 
 Aetsvii. 2, 1740;" (these two \sere " preached at St. Paul's Dept- 
 foid, Ijelbrc a sel.tt number of gentlemen who styletl them<el\e,- 
 the Order of Vb'upntarhins) . 3. A Sern-on on P.-ahn cxii. iJ, 4, 
 1742. 4. " Human I^'arning highly useful to the Cause of true 
 lleligion; preached at (Canterbury, Sept. 1,'i, 175.'i, at the Aimual 
 iMeuting of the(ientlemen educated at Canterbury Sehool ;" Piov. ii. 
 3 5. (). The practical Ur^e of public Judgnients, a Fast Seiinon 
 at De})tfor(l, Feb.G, 175G". He died in I'll'^^; and a Funeral Ser- 
 mon, preached at St. Paul's Deptford, by the Rev. Colin Milne, 
 l.L.D. wiLS publisiied under the title of "The Roldness and Free- 
 dom of Apostolical Flotiuence recommended to the Imitation of 
 Ministers." 
 
 * The Author of " Tlie Rejml)Iick of Letter-." savs, " \o 
 one who takes any {)leasurc in leading Spenser or Milton will bi^ 
 di-^jjlea-ed with peru-ing these Remarks ; whicli indeed are es- 
 j-ential to tlu- under-tandiiig of the former, as ihcy are very use- 
 ful in illustrating the other." .'Mr. Jortin, who was ih n a yoimg 
 Author, was >o gi'atitied with wliat he termed a " l'a\ oui'ablc 
 mention of his Remarks," that he sent \o " I'li'' Kepubliek of 
 letters " an additional letter, containing iUi'tlirr Remaii.- on hi- 
 ov, n publication, which appi'ured in .Marc li \'3'', \<'l- IX |'. l7-">; 
 where we are told tliat the publick were obliged to the sane' 
 leaiTied Writer for the " Remaiks on Si urc a," w lii<li li.i.l been 
 printed in \ol.\in. j>. H.') ; and " the faour nl' lii, (uiilimud 
 eorres])Oudenee ' ua- reuia -ted. 
 
 t Happily for the publick, l.'iih S]uii~c; {uid Millon Ii.ivc 
 fii\md in tlie Rc\ . Jdhn-ilmiy T'mIiI ;i ( miiiMenlatiir, ulm ii. 
 u pi'ofound knowledge of th( -Mb:e( l -nuitii r cf 1 lie 01 i:.'iii;ib, li;;-. 
 fiiitunate!\ united lei-nre and peise\ cram e l')purnrm I he t;i-!. 
 rfcuuinmeuik'd by Dr. Jortin,
 
 54 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l734^ 
 
 Montesquieu's " Reflections on the Causes of the 
 Grandeur and Declension of the Romans ; translated 
 from the French *." 
 
 *' The Usefulness and Authority of the Christian 
 Clergy's Instructions; a Sermon preached Feb. 21, 
 1733, before the Sons of the Clergy, on Mai. ii. 7, 
 By the Rev. Dr. Mangey ;" being the last single 
 Sermon which he published. 
 
 " Lettres ecrites de Londres sur les Anglois, et 
 autres Sujets. Par M. Voltaire." 
 
 A large impression of the Second Volume of 
 Archbishop Tillotson's Sermons. 
 
 " Some Thoughts concerning a proper Method of 
 studying Divinity. By William Wotton, D. D." 8 vo, 
 
 " Fables and Tales, from the celebrated La Fon- 
 taine, in French and English. To which is pre- 
 fixed the Author s Life." 
 
 Colonel Montague's " Journal of the War." 
 
 Dr. Barrow's " Mathematical Lectures." 
 
 Dr. Wilkins's " Proposals for printing the Coun- 
 cils."- ^ As a complete Collection of the British and 
 Irish Councils and Constitutions, ^nd other pieces 
 relating to the Ecclesiastical History of England, 
 has long been very much wanted and desired. Dr. 
 Wilkins, Archdeacon of Suffolk, has entered on, 
 and completed that important and laborious work, 
 under the f llowing title : * Concilia Magnae Bri- 
 tannioe et Hiberniije, a Synodo Vernlamensi, A. D. 
 446, ad Londinensem, A. D. 1717. Accedunt 
 Constitutiones, et alia ad Historian! l^xclesije An- 
 glicanas spectantia.' The Reverend Compiler has 
 spent many years in this work, and made a proper 
 u^e of all the advantages in his power; which have 
 been very considerable. A List of the Contents, 
 published with the Proposals, and filling 42 colunnis 
 in folio, give the publick an assurance that the Doc- 
 tor has taken uncommon pains in the execution of 
 his useful project. We are assured that the whole 
 
 * Of Uiis work see more particularly under tlie year i7-'5I>- 
 
 v.'ork
 
 1734'] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 55 
 
 work is now ready for the press,, and will begin to 
 "be printed as soon as 250 books shall be subscnl)ed 
 for, and delivered within twelve months after that 
 time. It will consist of about 90O sheets, in four 
 Volumes in folio. Tiie price to Subscribers is six 
 guineas ; three to be paid at the time of subscrib- 
 ing ; the remainder on the delivery of a perfect 
 book in sheets- Such gentlemen as are willing to 
 encourage the undertaking, are desired to subscribe 
 before Lady-day next *." 
 
 **' Proposals for printing by SubscriptioD, J\\i 
 Histor}^ of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde, 
 from his Birth in iGlO to his Death in l6'88. In 
 Avhich will be contained, an Account of the Affairs 
 of Ireland under his (government ; and a veiy va- 
 luable Collection of Lettei-s., written by his Grace, 
 the King, the Secretaries of State, and other great 
 Men of his 'I'iiiie. In Three Volumes in folio. 
 Pty 1 homas Carte, M. A. The Conditions : 1 . This 
 Work will consist of three volumes, amounting to 
 upwards of 400 sheets, and will be printed on the 
 ame paj>er, and with the same letter as the speci- 
 men annexed. 2. The price to Subscril>eTs is 
 three guineas ; one to be paid down, and the other 
 two ujon the delivery of the three volumes in sheets. 
 3. A number will be printed on royal papcT, at tlie 
 price of six guineas. 4- The work Avili be put to 
 the press in .lulv nes:t (by which time the Author 
 hojies to com[)ute the numl^er of his Subscribers), 
 and will be carried on with all pf>ssible expe<litiori. 
 Subscriptions are taken in by G. Stralian, at the 
 Golden Ball in Cornhill : F. Gyles, near Middle- 
 row, Holborn ; R. Wihiamson, near Gra\ s inn 
 Gate ; T. Wooton, at the Three Daggers over- 
 against St. Dunstan> Church in Fleet-stre'v t ; \V. 
 Lewis, under Tom's Coflee-house, in Un>sel->lrect, 
 Covent-(iurden ; and Mr. Clements. Bookseller in 
 Oxford f ." 
 
 * PrcHixt -State f tliC Rcj-uWick of lAttoii, lib ilM. \>. l.'T. 
 } ibid. .May 17 J 1;, p. S^'X 
 
 1:.,;..
 
 '^6 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l73a 
 
 1735. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer printed, 
 
 " The Usefulness of Matheniiitical Learning ex- 
 plained ^nd demonstrated. By Isaac Barrow, ]). I), 
 Translated by the Bev. Mr. John Kirk by *." 
 
 The first edition of Mr. Maurice Shelton's I'rans- 
 lation of Wotton's "Conspectus," &c. of IJr. Ilickes's 
 *' Thesaurus ;" of which a second edition was pub- 
 lished in 1737, where it will be fully noticed, 
 
 Mr. William Winston's new "Translation of Jo- 
 sephus," folio. 
 
 Mr. John Whiston's " Catalogue of Mr. ChishuU's 
 I^ibrary." 
 
 "A Discourse of Fundamentals; being the Sub- 
 stance of Two Charges delivered to the Middlesex 
 Clergy at the Visitations of 1734 and 1735. By 
 Daniel Waterland, D. D." 
 
 Bp. Bundle's ^ " Sermon on the Anniversary of 
 the Irish Bebellion, 1735;" 4to. 
 
 * Of St. .Tohn's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1726"; M. A. 1715. 
 
 -j- Thomas Rundle, of Exeter college, Oxford, B.A. 17 lO, was 
 chaplain to Bj). Talbot, archdeacon of A^ ilt.s, and treasurer of 
 Sarumj ])rcbcndary of Durham 1720} rector of Ledgeford 1722; 
 LL. I). 1723 j master of Sherburn hos])ital 1727. He was re- 
 commended to the King, in November 1734, by Lord Chancellor 
 Talbot for the bishoprick of Gloucester (on the death of Bp. Sy- 
 dall) 3 but the appointment was strenuously opposed by Bp. Gib- 
 fron, from a notion of the Doctor's being a Deist, founded on 
 fiome unguarded expressions which had been liropjjcd by him 
 fcome years before in a private conv( rsation, at Avhich Mr. Venn 
 (who was the informer). Dr. Stebbing, &c. were ])resent. In 
 consequence of this o})position, the Lord Chancellor was at 
 length induced to withdraw his recommendation. Dr. Benson 
 was promoted to the English bishoprick ; and Dr. Kundle, in 
 Feb. 1734-5, to the rich bishoprick of Deny in Ireland. He 
 p\!blished three other single Sermons : 1. "^ On the Fifth of No- 
 Acmber, I7IH;" 2. "A Sermon preached at St. George'.s, Hanover- 
 square, Feb. 17j 1733-4, reconmiending the Charity for estab- 
 li-^hing the new Colony of Georgia, 1734;" 3. " Before the fn- 
 ci.rpoiatcd Society for Engii>li Protestant Schools, 1730'.' The 
 b( -t ;ue!au)t of !'i>ho]) Bundle's {n'incijjle.- is to be seen in two 
 of l-i-i "wy k iters, which are ],.rintcd by l\lr. Duncombe ; one, 
 "'.\'. i, >., wiitten imm< '" v'y after his disap])ointment at 
 (.' ...(-tcr; the o i> pr. is 17-10. He died April 14, 1743. 
 
 ; -, ivu 2.j,C'J';'. ;:. i-uxiv oi ids fortune^ to Mr. John Talbot, 
 
 lijirt!
 
 1735.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 57 
 
 " Nineteen Sermons on several Occasions ; pub- 
 lished from the Originals, and never before printed. 
 By John Rogers *, 1). D. late Vicar of St, (iiles's 
 Cripplegate ; Sub-dean and Canon of Windsor, 
 and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. To 
 which is prefixed the Author's Life ; with an Eu- 
 logium written by John Burton -f-, D. D. Fellow of 
 Eton College," 8vo. 
 
 " The Chace, a Poem^ bv William Somervillet, 
 Esq." 8vo. 
 
 third son to his patron the Lord Cliancellor. An elegant com- 
 jjlimcnt is paid to this Prelate in Lord Lyttelton's " Persian 
 Jitters," Lett. ^9; and see the Life of VVhiston. A small coUec- 
 lection of Bj). Rundle's Letters to Mrs. Barbara Sandys of Miser- 
 den in Gloucestershire, with " Introductory Memoirs," was puh- 
 Jished by Mr. Dallavvay in \7^^ ; <->t which see some particulars 
 in (ient. Mag. vol. LIX. p. (i29. 
 
 * Author of "A Vindication of the Civil Establishment of 
 lleligion ; wlierein some Positions of IMr. Chandler, tlie Author 
 of Literal Scheme, ^c. and an anonymous Letter on that subject. 
 are occasionally considered. With an Appendix, containing a 
 Letter from the Rev. Dr. Marshall, and an Answer to the same," 
 8vo. Four Volumes of his Sermons (as mentioned in vol. I. 
 ]). 9,42) appeared at different times, the titles of which are as 
 follow. 1. " Tlie Neces!sity of Di\ine llcvelation, and the'lViitli 
 of the Christian Revelatioiv asserted, in Eigiit Sermons. 'Itj 
 which is prefixed, a Preface, witii some Remarks on a la(e 
 Book, intituled The Scheme of Litem I Propliea/, !xc. 17'27," S\(); 
 ^. "Twelve Sermons preached on several Occasions, 17. U);" 
 li. " Nineteen Sermons, lie." as above printed ; i. "Seventeen 
 Sermons, l7^iG." 
 
 ( Of whom a masterly accoimt ajrpcarrd in 177 '. in a l/itin 
 Epistle, intituled, "DeVitilet Moribus .)oham\is llintoiii, S.T.P. 
 Etoneiisis;" of which an epitome w^as given in (ient, Mag. 
 vol. XLl. p. 3()r) ; which 1 would have transcribed, iiad it not 
 been already printed, with improvements, in the tbird vohime ni" 
 the " Bio^rapliia Biitannica ;" where it is properK Ibllmved by ;i 
 well-written life of his ultimate fiitnd Dr. Edward Bentb.uii. - 
 It is very well obseived bv Dr. Kippis, tbal Dr. Kiu-toii, v.Iio vv;is 
 boin at Wembworlh in Devoashiie in \1'JS, and died I'rb. II, 
 1771. was " an able divine, a sound sc liolar, and .m c-^c client 
 acafk-mick ; and set an U'^eful example to Univi ritv nii!i, vvlu- 
 ther as fellows, tutors, oflieers, or editors ;" and that Dr. Ment- 
 hain, who w.as born in the college at i'Ay, .hily ',',;, 1707, and 
 died Aug. 1, 177^, wits " a di^'linguislied ornanieiu ot" tlu' I Hi- 
 versity of Oxford, of the Church of England, and ol' liic gem ral 
 cau-io of lieligion and Literature." 
 
 * Mr. Somci'v ilk', of whom Mime intcie^iin'r I'ruiicnl.ii''; oec iiv 
 jnthe Works of Siieu'tu;,'; ami in tlie LeltA-r- uf Ladv i-u\t)oron:i!i, 
 
 v\;i.v
 
 58 LITERARY ANECnOTES OF [l735- 
 
 " Eloqnentia Cioeronis, by Mr. Thomas Tamer, 
 of Wye in Kent," 8vo. 
 
 Captain Hall's " Accownt of the Settlement of 
 Vinrinia." 
 
 *' The Retributions of Charit)- ; a Sennon preache^I 
 before the I^rd Mayor^ on April 7. 1735- By 
 Richard [ReynoklsJ Lord Bishop of Linrohi*.'* 
 
 " Linguie Latinie Liber Dictionariu.s Quadripar- 
 titus ; a Latin Dictionary, in Four Parts. I . An 
 English Latin ; IL A Latin classicaf ; IIL A Latin 
 
 roper; IV. A Latin barbarous. Wherein the 
 atin and Enghsh are adjusted, nith what rare might 
 be, both as to Stfxik of Woi-ds, and Proprietieiv of 
 Sjjeedi. 0|x^ra et Studio Adanii Littleton, S.T.D. 
 Capeliani Palatini -f-/' The Sixth Edition, with 
 liirge Additions and Improvements." 
 
 was the author of sever?.! pleasing Poesars .- tlif- three prhicipa! oi 
 wiiich^ The Chace, Jlohbinn}, and Field Sports, )iave frequently 
 feeen re-printed ,- and the whole of hi\vTJting6 form part of evejy 
 elcgaut voileetxon of n'lisb Poetry. The short but fjiithfui 
 aifovint of Mr. SaQieiriUe by Dr. Johnscm renders it uixiieeesoary 
 to sjiy more of him here, than that he was an accompJi^hed gen- 
 tleman, an active ai\d skilful sportsman^ and an iisehil jnsticiR oi 
 the pcarc} that he died July 29, 1742, in his 50th ycai' ; and 
 Has buried at Wottoa, nf ar Henley on Avden. He whs the inti- 
 Biate friend of Mr. Sheiislone ; who placed a momnnentai myi* 
 at the I^\asowcs to hi.s memory (engravetl ia Gcni:. Mug. foi Seo- 
 iemlKT IS07), in^cribol ; 
 
 " Tng'enio et amieitiie 
 
 G. S. 
 
 posiiit, 
 
 Debita spargens lacsyrAa lavilk^jn. 
 
 vatis ainici. ' 
 
 * Richard Rfj-nolds, LL.1>. <^tf Trinity-haK^ Carnbyklgc; thaai- 
 
 cellor of the dioce.se of Peterhorou^hj and in 17iS,, dean of that 
 
 c-aTlv^-dxalj Bishop nfBanpror 1721; of Ijncoln i7'^3j di'ed Jan. Ii>^ 
 
 17 '13. He wiis buried at Huekden, near his wift, the Hon SaraU 
 
 Iteynoids, xvlio died xApril 7, 1740. The .lhlKi}> fKihli>iKd two. 
 
 other <inicle ScrmonA ; one prearhed before tlie Hou.-.*'. of L(id, 
 
 Jan. ?At, i"21 i the otliCT;, for the Pri>p;iirc4tr*>n of the Gc-pel, 
 
 1737- 
 
 t Tlic hr-.t (dition of this vaf\iable ^Xovk npp<:ared in ifJTS,. 
 with a dfdleatiort to King f harle;^ the Second. Ihi- kariieil 
 l.^xicogfapher, ie-eended from 'm antient faraifyj ^^a^ Yoni 
 Kuv. h^ i(Jvi7> at H'.tlcj-Owen, of which j>luce his- ia.iiu.'r wit^ mi-
 
 1735] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 59 
 
 Captain Ogilvie's " Historic of the Troubles of 
 Great Britain." 
 
 nister. Educated under Dr. Busby at Westminster-school, li* 
 was chosen student of Christ Chuich, Oxford, in 1647 but 
 ejected by the Parliamentary visitors next year. He became 
 xisher of Westminster-school soon after ; and in 1658 was made 
 second master, having for some time taught school in other 
 places, and, after the Restoration, at Chelsea, of which church 
 he was admitted rector in 16"74. He was made prebendaiy of 
 Westminster the same year } and had liken ise a gi^ant from 
 Charles H. to succeed Dr. Busby in the mustei-ship of that 
 school, for which he was highly qualified. He had been some 
 years before appointed king s chaplain ; and in 1670 accumu- 
 Lited his degrees in Divinity, conferred on him without taking 
 any in arts, on account of his extraordinaiy merit ; in attesta- 
 tion whereof he brought letters from Henchman, Bisho]) of 
 l^ondon, recommending him to the University as a man eminently 
 leai-ned, of singular hxunanity, and sweetness of manners, blame- 
 less and religious Ufe, and also for his exquisite genius and ready 
 faculty in preaching. He was for some time sub-dean of \\'est- 
 niinster 5 and in 1687^ licensed to the church of St. Botolph Al- 
 dersgate, which he held about four years, and tlien resigned it, 
 pt)ssibly on accoimt of some decay in his constitution. He died 
 June 30, 1694, aged 67 years ; and was buried in Ids church at 
 thelsea, where on a square white marble is inscribed, 
 " Hie propl' si turn est coi-pus 
 doctissirai viri et de liteiis optimfe meriti, 
 Adami Littleton, S.T. P. 
 CapeUani llegii, Canonici \\ estmonasterien-Js ; 
 hujus Ecclesiai 
 (per spatiiun xxiv annorum) Rectori.- -, 
 Ciniiibus hujuB parochia- incolis unicb chari : 
 E etirpe antiqufi et veuerabili oiiundi. 
 Obiit ultimo die .lunii 1(>94, 
 anno a; tat is sua; 67." 
 He was an excellent philologist and gnuumarian ; an indcfati 
 pable ri'storer of the l^atin tongue, as appears tioin l)i> Latin 
 Dictionary; and an excellent critic in the (jioek, a Lexicon in 
 which language he laboured much in compUing, but was j^c- 
 vented from linishing by death. He was al-o well skilled in the. 
 Oriental languages, and in Rabbinical learning ; in pro-ci uti(iii 
 of which he exhausted great p::it of his ftirtime, in j)ur( ha.-ii.i; 
 books and manu.script.i from all parts of Europe, A.-siii, and 
 Africa. Some time before his death, he made a .--niall essiy 
 towards facihtating the knowlcdae of the Ih brew, Chaldec, imd 
 Arabic tong\ics ; which, if he had had time, he would hau-. 
 brought into a natrowcr compass. lie was iarther vt i rd in (In- 
 abstriL'^e parts of the niathematits, and wrote a Jircat iiiauv jiiici - 
 concerning mystical nunuratii)n, wiiich canic into llu- handn (.1 
 lii-s broiher-ia-law. Dr. Hockia. Ik was t.\U(uu.ly clumtalil' 
 
 ca.-y
 
 6'0 LIlERARV ANECDOTES OV [l735. 
 
 Mr. Tvvells's * "Answer to the ' Enquiry into the 
 Learnin^r of the Denioniacks." 
 
 Mr. Thomas Cartel's " Protest and Reasons.'" 
 
 " Grammatical Treasure." (). what was it? 
 
 *' Tlie Works of Hildehrand Jacob -|~, Esq. 
 containing- Poems on various Subjects and Occa- 
 sions," 8vo. 
 
 ensy of access, communicative, affable, facetious in conversation, 
 free from passion, of a strong constitution, and a veneiable 
 ctnmtenance. Besides his Latin Dictionary, he published, 
 I. " Tragj-comcKdIa Oxoniensis, a I^tin Poem on tlie mad Pro- 
 ceedings of the Parliamentary Visitors, 1648," a single sheet, 
 4to, doubtful. 2. " P;istor metricus, &e. 16'.")8," 4to. (jreek 
 and Latin, 3. " Diatriba in oeto Traetatus distributa," &c. 
 printed with the former. 4. " Elementa Religif)nis, sive (juatuor 
 Capita catechetica totidem Linguis deseripta, in lisum Sehcjlarum, 
 1658," Sv o, to which is added, 5. " C om})lieatio Radicum in pri- 
 nitev^ Hebra?oruni Lingufi." (>. " Solomon's (iate, or an En- 
 trance into the Church, Ike. 1662," Bvo. Perhaps this title was 
 taken froiii the North gate of Westminster Abbey, so called. 
 7. " Sixty-one Sermons, 16S0," Svo. 8. " A Sermon at a so- 
 lemn Meeting of the Nati\es of the City and County of Worces- 
 ter, in Bow-church, London, June '24, 16H0," 4to. 9. " Pre- 
 face to Cicero's Works, I>ond. 1681," 2 vols, fob 10. "ATran:^- 
 lation of Selden's 'Jani Anglorum F'acies altera,' with Notes, 
 published urwler the name of Redman Westcote, 168.>," folio. 
 With this were printed three other tracts of Scldoi, \i/. his 
 " T)eati^e of the Judicatme of Parliaments, kc." " F^iiglands 
 Ejnnouiis." " Of the Disposition of Intestates' (iood.-'.'" 11. " 'I'tie 
 l>ife of I'hemistocles, fi'om the (ireek, ' in the first vol. of Phi- 
 tarch's Lives, bv several 'nands, 1687, 8vo. lie also published, 
 ' Dissertatio Epistolaris de Juramento JMedieonira qui OI'XO:^ 
 'irrnOKPATOr:^ flicitur, ivic." as also "A Latiji luseiiption, in 
 Prose and Verse, intended for tlie Monument of tiie I'iie of 
 London, in Se}>t. 1666." This is ])rinted at the end of his 
 J)ictionary ; as is likewise an elegant e])ist]e to Baldwin Ha- 
 jiuy, M.J). 
 
 ^ OC whom see before, \()\. I. p. 466. In a MS Icttt r to Dr. Z. 
 (rre\'. Ml'. T\v(lls sa}s, " I ha\e been here some time, piiutitig a 
 >ecoi)d \ indication of St. Matthew, against a new pei t'onuanci' of 
 niv Old Ad\er.-aiy on that subject. He tells me, it shall not be 
 in niv power to pro\oke him to v\rite any m(He; but 1 ha\T' Incu 
 faiilv tiving iiis patience in that res))ect j and next wck my 
 scriblde will come down to you, with another for Dr. Waterland, 
 which }Ou will excuse the trouble 1 siiall give you of con\e\ing 
 to him." 
 
 -|- 'I'liis gentli man was descended from Sir .lohn Jacob, of 
 Bromley, oik; of the farmers of the Customs, who was created a 
 baronet June IL 1661, His iiither, Hildcbraud liacob, esi|. 
 
 di<-d
 
 1735-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 6l 
 
 " Epistle to a Person of Quality/' and " Epistlt- 
 to Mother Lodge," both single Poems, in folio, by 
 Mr. Hildebrand Jacob. 
 
 Proposals for printing Mr. Bridget's " History 
 and Antiquities of Northamptonshire *," 
 
 " The Art of Dancing explained bv Reading and 
 Figures ; whereby the Manner of performing the 
 Steps is made easy bv a new and familiar Method ; 
 being the original Work-j- first designed in the Year 
 
 (lied June 3, 1739 ; and his gTandfather, Sir John Jaco"b. 
 March 31, 1710; when Hildebrand succeeded to the title of 
 baronet. He vviis a very extraordinai y character. As a 2:enorul 
 .scholar, he was exceeded Ijy few ; in liis know ledge of the He- 
 ])!cw language he scarcely had an equal. In the earlier part of 
 his life, one custom which he constantly followed was Aery 
 remarkable. As soon as the roads became pretty good, and the 
 line weather began to set in, his man w;is ordered to pack up a 
 few things in a jiortmanteau, and wiih these his msister and 
 himself set oif, without knowing whilhcr they were going;. 
 \\ hen it drew towards e\cning, thev enquired at the first \Lllag<r 
 the) saw, whetlier the great man in it was a lo\er of liooks, aiid 
 had a fine lil)iai'y. If the answer w<xs in the negati\e, thev went 
 on farther ; if in the aflirmative, Sir Hildebrand sent his com- 
 jiliments, that he was come to see him; and there he ni-cd to stuv 
 till time (tr curiosity inrhiced him to mo\e eisewhert;. In this 
 manner Sir Hildebi'and had very early pas.-5ed through the greatest 
 p;ii't of England, wilhoiit .-careeiy e\er .sleeping at uniiui, unl^-^ 
 whiTcTown or village did luji iiillird one j)crs(n ei\i!i/.ed inougli 
 1() be gkid to see a gentk'man and a scholar. Uv died iimnaiiic*!, 
 ;it Malvtrn-AV'ell.-,, aged 7(;, Nov. 4, iJ'JO; and wa-^ burii'd ai 
 St. Amie.i So'ivi. He was autlior of " 'llu' fatal (on~laiu\, a 
 'Tragedy, 17-3;' <'f " The \e.-it of i'la\>, 17-''^;' eon.-isli)!^- of 
 three ComccUe-; 1. " 'l"li<' Wrodigal ll( formed; ' 'i. ''Hie Hajijiv 
 ('on.-5tanev ; ' .5. " The Trjal of ( oiijugal JA)\e;' and of se\ei'al 
 Poems publi.-.hed .lingly in folio. 
 
 * For a particulai- hi^toiv of tlii>w()ik ->ee under tlie uar 17.57 
 i' " It mav .seem a little strange," .si\.-5 Air. Toiniiii-oi!, 
 '' that 1 .-hould claim the honour of having lir-t treated of th' 
 \rl of Dancing; when a IJoolv upon the >ame ^ui)ieel wa- jiuli- 
 lijhed in I'Vanee so long ago a^ I7'^'">. Hut the fillovsiug a( - 
 count vsill, I hope, clear \\\> all dnubt iti relation to the justice 
 of my j)retension-. In Mi-t'-^ Jor.inal, .Ian. I. J, l7'-7-''^. aji- 
 pi ared thi-; adverti-iiuent ; ' \e\l week will he jiuitli-lwd, Th'- 
 r)an(ir\gMa-ter, or the Ait of 1) niiin;' M'\j)!:iined, 1)\ i\l(>ii-ic-ui 
 llameau. Thi- ;ra\e me ^oiue -uiall M!rpi'i/>', a- 1 ne\i r liet'oii 
 heard of either an\ -uc h Ixiok, or \\illior. ! la^l il Ik ea in\ fni f;M<- 
 to ha\e known, eitlur heloie or at'u r 1 luidertoek luwriu- on 
 thi^ \it, that 'Ueh a buok \\a-e\Iaiit, iii\ ciaio-iU wiudd i<\- 
 luiuK ha\e led me lu hi\e (da nil' 'l il ai.il had 1 awi-n.iMii n
 
 2 titERAhY AS*ECDbTS o^ [1/3^- 
 
 1724. And now published by Kellom Tomlin- 
 5on *, Dancing-master. In Two Books Tulif alter 
 HoHores. Of this curious quarto volume, which i? 
 dedicated to Catherine Viscountess Fauconberg, I 
 
 it is highly probable I should have given the world a translation 
 of it, with some additional observations of my own. Tins had 
 been a much easier task than to compose a work entirely new 
 upon the same subject; which I had actually finished in 1724, 
 ready for the press, as it is now pviblishcd, without any material 
 alteration, a full year before the publication of Mons. Rameaus 
 Book, and near four years before this advertisement appeared ; th(! 
 truth whereof several credible witnesses have testified under their 
 own hands. I advertised this work of mine the first time, as ready 
 for the press, and that it only waited for a suflicient number of 
 subscribers to defray the expencc, in Berington 3 Evening Post, 
 Oct. 15, 1726; and again, in the .same paper, Oct. 22. This 
 advertisement was repeated in the Whitehall Evenii^g Post> 
 Nov. 12 ; and in the London Jom-nal, Dec. 3. In Mist's Jour-' 
 nal, March 4, 172G-7, I gave notice of the publication of my 
 Proposals, together with some Plates by way of specimen ; and 
 renewed that notice, on the 18th, in Berington's Evening Post; 
 and again, Oct. 28, in the same paper. Frt)m this particular 
 account it appeal's, that I had published seven Advertisements 
 concerning my ^^'ork ; the first of which was two years and three 
 months before e\er the Translation of Monsieur Rameau's Book 
 was ad\ertised in Mist's Journal, Jan. 13, 172T-S. To secme 
 myself in some measure from the damage I might receive by thir. 
 Advertisement, I thought it necessary to publish one myself, a 
 few days after, in Mist's Journal, Jan. 27 ; to which I prelixed 
 this motto from Virgil, Tulit alter Honorcs ; intimating that 
 another person had attempted to bear away the honour of my 
 invention; and, I may justly add, the profit of it too. To make 
 his Book appear moie perfect and complete, and mine less ne- 
 cessary or useful, the Gentleman w'no published it was not satis- 
 fied to present it to the A\orld merely as a Tianslation of Mon- 
 sieur Rami'au's Work, approved by Monsieur Pecour, the greatest 
 master in France j but v\ 'ti^ ynompted by his ingenuity and ge- 
 nerosity ta make such surprizing improvements in the figures ;\4 
 will be a lasting monument of his great abilities in the Art of 
 Dancing !" 
 
 An attestation is prefixed, from Josejih Sandys, gentleman, 
 and 1 Icnry Carey, master of music, that they hatl seen Mr. Turn- 
 liuson's Work, j)repared for the })ress, in 1720' ; and shnilar at- 
 t(.'stations from Alexander Jackson and Joseph Jackson, dancing- 
 mcU)ters, tliut they had carefully perused the Work, and that the 
 Second Part of it was composed long before a rival work intituled 
 ' The DaiiCing Master" liad appeared. 
 
 - Mr. Tomlinsoii says, " In April 1707 I ^vas placed as an ap- 
 prentice with Mr. I'homas C'averley, now living in (Jueen-square, 
 near Si, George the MartjT;, with whom I continued tUI the year 
 
 1714 :
 
 1735.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTIf CENTURY. lO% 
 
 hav^e never seen a copy of the first edition, of whidi 
 the number printed was only 375 ; and the number 
 
 1714 ; during %vhich time I Imd likewise the good fortxine to be 
 fmlher instructed in the theatrical way by that great" performer 
 Mr. Cherreii*, once contemporary with the inimitable Mr. L'AbJx'. 
 with whom also I Jiave iiad the happiness of a personal acquaintance. 
 1^'Ir. Cherreir's great mei'it,< after l\e had quitted the stage, was sup- 
 ported a long ti me bj-- the late I\l r. John Sliaw, v,'ho was justly esteemed 
 not only one of the finest tlKatrical daiicej-s, but one of the mobt 
 beautiful performers in the gentleiriaiilike way; the acquir-ition 
 of both whicJi evcellenoies iu practice mu;?! Ije chiefly owing to 
 those tidmirable iastnictions in the theory, which lie received 
 from Mr, Caverlc\', when he and I wci-e fellow-apprentices to 
 that great master. During the time of my appienticeship I 
 went generally by the name of Kellom, a coiruptioa of Kendm^ 
 my true Christia.n name; as it is very common foi' young pei's<in5 
 to be called Mr. John, Mr. WilUam, and tlie Yik-i, witjtout iUe 
 aiidition of their suniame. At th.e ex))iiation of njy ajjpjvmice- 
 *htp, several of my frieuds, oxit i>f res}K?Ce, failed nie Totuiuuor,; 
 but, being unwilling to dechne the u<i\ant.age I miirlit ]nx>- 
 bahly receive from the reputation of ha\ big lo;un(?d the Art of 
 Dancing under so great a master as Mr. ('averley, 1 chose ratlier 
 to retain the name oi' Kelloin, by which I had been so univer- 
 sally known to !x> undei- his in^^tnution. This duplicity of ap- 
 pellation turned afterwards to my great (lisadv.uitjgej ip.anv of 
 the \ol)ility and Gentry, vsho wouhi have liad their <;i)ildr.;? 
 taught by Mr. Kcllom, ivfusing to employ Mr. Tomlinsou, 
 though reconuucnded to them ; aud man\, who would )iH\e em- 
 ployei Mr. Tondlnao/f, rejecting Mr. Ktllom. To pv^isent 
 wiiich confusion tVir the future, I shall acknowledge luy.-elf 
 obhged to those, who, instf^td of either singly, sliall bo pU^r-id 
 to call me by both conjunctly, Kkmo.m Tomlvssow'' 
 
 " Two of my ^cholar-^ have appeared on the .-^tagc with no small 
 a])plause. The one w;>s Mr. JohuTHpfrdnj, who daucetl updu both 
 Theatres under the name of Mr. Kt:lloo>\- Srhnl<(r, wIum he had he<'n 
 with me. n longer than between 'i and :', \ears. Tlu> otlxr wa- 
 Mi^s Fiances, wh>, on the Theatre Royal in iJncoln's Inn Fields. 
 perfoninul the Pa:>saca)Ile de Seilla, coiisi-tiiig <tf aljovc a tin, u -and 
 measiirt-s orst!ps, without making the least lui^lakv--; but >!n id' 
 rue in tlie iuid->t of her imp)<ncmeuls. ' Mr Toniliu-ou ])iiii. ijul 
 invLsital profhutions were, llie I'as^^pied K<tiuiil ( ), in 17''), d.-- 
 flicated fo Mr. t'av<rlej' ; the Sheplierthx, inl/l'i: tl. ^i-i'iiii-;- 
 ion, in 1717. which, bytlie uanicof ,Mr. Kcllnm - \( \v l);ij((',w.i- 
 pei-formed 1>\ Monsieur ;uiil Mad.MUoiselh^ Sulli-, iln- \\\-) 1 rti!:h 
 children, at llie Tluatrein l.ineohiV Inn Melds, to vtry < ni'-idrv.ilde 
 audiences, foi'a uliulc. wi-tk t*^i:eli>er; the. I'liiK t l^uji ik-, ii; i; jS 
 the .Address, 17>^3'J: llu; (.avol', 17'iO; ;ind the I':i-- :ii -lille Diann. 
 17*21, dedicated to Mr. LA bin' ; all uhi' h he ((imij)i;m(!. wrote jn 
 characters, and published, tor I he iuq)i oven H lit oft he \rt oi'P I'.iriii;^. 
 Frym whatever cau^e it happeued (tertaml) not from pniii'-
 
 64 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l735' 
 
 of pages it contained, including the Preface and 
 List of Subscribers, was 152. But I have been fa- 
 voured with tlie loan of a copy of the second edition, 
 possessed by Mr. Bindley, which is enlarged to l6'0 
 pages*, exclusive of twelve introductory leaves; and 
 is dated 1744, having in the front a very fine en- 
 graving of Mr. Tomlinson, by Morellon la Cave, 
 dated 1754, from a Painting by R, V. Bleeck, 171O'. 
 Proposals for printing Dr. Drake's " History and 
 Antiquities of York." 
 
 too much to his Printer, an accusation I have more tlian once 
 heard from distressed Authors who have ne\er paid their Printer 
 a single faithing) is now neitlier known, nor is it material ; but 
 Mr. Tomlinson's finances were so straitened in 1735 as to require 
 from his creditors a hcence of forbearance for seven yeai s ; at the 
 end of which period he resided at the Red and Gold Flower-pot, 
 at the end of Great Ormond-street, Lamb's Conduit-street. 
 
 * The First Book treats of the beautifvd attitudes or postures of 
 Standing, the different positions from whence the Steps of Danc- 
 ing are to be taken and peiformed ; and likewise of the manner 
 of Walking gracefully. The several sorts of Jiows and Curtesies 
 are also fully desciibed ; and all or most of the Ste])s iwed in 
 genteel Dancing, as well as many of those properly belonging 
 to the Stage ; Illustrated with SLxteen Copper-plates, containing 
 Twenty-nine Figures. The Second Book contains Fourteen Plates, 
 consisting of Twenty-eight Figmes of Gentlemen and Lfulies, one 
 of each in a Plate, as dancing a Minuet; beginning from the Re\ e- 
 rence or Bow, and proceeding regularly on till the whole is finished, 
 shewing the graceful deportments of the Performers, in the 
 dilferent figures and circks of that celebrated dance ; together 
 w ith the instructions for understanding and keeping time . and 
 directions for the elevation, mo\ement, and a,raceful fall of the 
 arms in Dancing. To which are added, at the request of some 
 Pej'sons (jf iQuality, some instructions concerning Country Dances. 
 'J'he whole W'ork is adoriied \vith Thirty-seven Cop])er-})lates ; con- 
 sisting of Fifty-seA en Figure^, &c. TiieCuts were originally designed 
 not only for the better explanaticjii and lUKlersta.iding of the Art (jf 
 Dancing cx})lained ; but likewise to be pioper furniture for a room 
 closet, being of themsehes an intii'e and indejiemlent work; for, 
 if put in frames w ith glasses, they will not only shew the a arious 
 positions or postures at one view, but be very agrceal^le and instinc- 
 tive furniture. The Price of the Cuts, without tlie Printed Books, 
 i- Two (iuineas; and those \\ho are willing also to piuxha-e the 
 pj-intetl t)ait ma\ have it of the Author, at the Red and Gold Flower 
 1^)1, next door to the Widow Edwards's ('ort'ce-hou'^e, over-against 
 tl.e, Jk;i! and (kite in llolborn, for half a guinea, pursuant to my 
 printcul Proposals, wherein 1 assured the Publick, that the whole 
 \S ork, except t(j Subscribers, :-hould not be sold luider Two Guinea* 
 ,iil :t ll-.ilf, uceordinir to Act o'' Parjjuuicnt^ Jimc '2(S, 173'.
 
 J 735] THE EICHTEENTH CESTURV. 65 
 
 " I'he Mottoes of the Spectators, Tatlersj and 
 Ciiiardians, translated into Knglish." 
 
 " CoUnnharium ; or, the Pigeon-house ; being an 
 Introduction to a Natural History of Tame Pigeons. 
 By John Moore," 8vo. 
 
 ill 1735 appeared a work of considerable conse- 
 quence*; which it is proper to mention here, though 
 not })rinted b}' Mr. liowyer, for the particular in- 
 terest wliich he took in promoting its success, both 
 by his recommendation to the trade, and by the 
 exertions of his pen. Tlie book alluded to, is a 
 new edition of " Uoberti Stephanl Thesaurus Lin- 
 guae Latinae, in Four Volumes, folio-|~; much aug- 
 mented and amended, by the Rev. Edmund Law ;{:, 
 
 * " The old impressions of this great and valuable work, par- 
 ticularly that of Lyons loj-i, being- ex^cceding scarce, the pub- 
 lick is highly obliged to tliosc learned gentlemen who have fur- 
 nished us with a new edition, larger and more accurate than 
 any of the preceding ones. AVe ha\e the more reason to glory 
 in (he success of this noble and magnificent undertaking, which 
 does honour to our age and nation, as scleral attempts of this 
 nature have been heretofore made and imhappily miscarried; 
 l)arlicularly by Charles and Hear}- Stepliens, by our own cele- 
 brated coimtiyman Milton, by the Society of Baliol college in 
 Oxford, and by Di'. Kustei-, the excellent Editor of Suidas and 
 Ari-toplianes. Tiiis stntely performance, after a very eloquent 
 ileii('ation to hi> present Majesty, is intioduwd by a large Epis- 
 tolary Preface, insciibed to the most ingenious Dr. John Hol- 
 liiigs ; (;ontainiug a distinct and exact accuUTit of the most con- 
 FJderable J^atin J)iclionaries wliicii have appeared since tiie 
 n -^tomtion of learning:, together with some memoiis of the com* 
 pliers of them. Our i-eaders will b(; pleaded to .see them as they 
 stand in .succession, and observe their principal charactei-s j and 
 tin- rather, a." this i.-, a piece of literary history, which has hither- 
 to lain ;dmo^t altogether unru]ti\atei." Present State vf the 
 Riinibiiuk oj Litters, for .Tun': 17J5, vol. XV. p. 141. 
 
 t I'he literaiy hisfory of this work will be found in the " E3say.s 
 ami UhLstrations" of these .Anecdotes, vol. V. \o Vlll. 
 
 t I readily omit an article which I had j)rc])ared respecting 
 this excellent I'relnte, to substitute in its stead the following 
 account of him from tlie pen of Mr. Archdeacon Paiey, which wa5 
 fn-st printed in .Mr. Hutchinsons " History of Cumheiland." 
 
 " Kdmund Law, D. D succeeded to the see of Carlisle in 17GS. 
 He was born in the j^ari^h of Cartmel in Lancashire, in the 
 year l/O.'i. His father, who was a cler^ryman, held a small 
 chapel in that neigiibouiliooti ; but the family had been situated 
 at .Vkham, in tlie county of W'ertmoiland. He wa educated, for 
 
 Vol. H. F souic
 
 66 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l735- 
 
 Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge; John 
 
 some tiuip. at Cartmcl school, afterwards at the free grammar- 
 school at Kendal ; from wliicli he went, vei"y well instnxcted in 
 the learning of trrammar schools, to St. John's college in Cam- 
 bridge. Soon after taking l\is first degree, he was elected fellow 
 of Christ's College in that Uni\er.sity. During his residence in 
 which college, he became known to the ])ublic by a tran.slalion of 
 Archbishop King's Essay ujxm the Oiigin of Evil, with copiou.5 
 notes ; in which many metaphysical subjects, curious and interest- 
 ing in their own nature, are treated of with great ingeniuty, learn- 
 ing and novelty. To this Work was prefixed, under the name of 
 a Pi'eliminary Dissertation, a very valuable piece, written by the 
 Rev. Mr. Gay of Sidney college. Our Bishop always .spoke of 
 this gentleman in terms of the greatest respect. In the Bible, 
 and in the v.ritings of Mr. Locke, no man, he used to say, was 
 so well versed. He also, wliile at Christ College, undertook and 
 went thi-ougk a very laborious ])art, in preparing for the press, 
 an edition of Stephens's Thesauius. His acquaintance, during 
 his first residence at the Uni\ert.ity, was principally with Dr. 
 Waterland, the learned master of Magdalen college ; Dr. Jortin , 
 a name known to every scholar ; and Dr. Taylor, the editor of 
 Demosthenes. In the year 1737, he was presented hy the Uni- 
 versity to the li\ing of Graystock, in the county of Cumberland, 
 a rectory of abovit 2001. a year. The advowson of this benefice 
 belonged to the family of Howards of Gra\ stock, but devolved to 
 the University for this tuin, by virtue of an act of i.iarliament, 
 which transfers to these t\\o bodies tlie nomination to such be- 
 nefices as appertain, at the time of the vacancy, to the patronage 
 of a RouKiU Catholic. Tlie right, however, of the University 
 was contested ; and it was not till after a law-suit of two years 
 continuance, that Mr. Law wJis settled in his living. Soon after 
 this, he married .Mary, the daughter of John Christian, Esq. of 
 Unerigg, in the county of Cumberland ; a lady, whose chai-aeter 
 is remembered with tenderness and esteem by all who knew her. 
 In 1743, he was promoted by Sir George Fleming, bishop of 
 Caiiisle, to the archdeaconry of that diocese ; and in 17-1(J, went 
 from Gray.6tock to re.-ide at Salkcld, a pleasant village upon the 
 banks of the river Eden, the rectory of which is annexed to the 
 archdeaconry. Mr. Law was not one of those who lose and for- 
 get themsehes in the country. Diu'ing his residence at Salkehl, he 
 pubUshed " Considerations on the Theory of Religion:" to which 
 were subjoined, " Reflections on the Life and Character of Christ; 
 and an Appendix concernine: the Use of the words Soid and 
 Spirit in Holy Scripture, and tlie state of the dead there de- 
 seiibed." Dr. Keene held at this time, with the bisho])riek of 
 Chester, the mastership of Peter-house in C'ambi'idge. Desiring 
 to iea\e the University, lie procured Dr. Law to be elected to 
 succeed liim in that station. This took place in tlie yeai- 17;'J-i; 
 in which year Dr. l^aw I'esigned his archdeaeoni}- iii favour of 
 Mr. E\rc, a bi-other-in-law of Dr. Keene. Two] years before 
 
 + Me took his Dontor's Decree in 174,9. Sec p. CD. 
 
 this.
 
 J 735-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 67 
 
 Taylor, M. A. Fellow of St. Johns College, and 
 
 this, he had proceeded to hi-? degree of Doctor in Divinity ; in 
 his public exercise for wWch, lie defended the doctrine of what 
 is usually called " the sleep of the soul." About the year 1760, 
 he WAS ap])ointed head libi-arivui of tht,- University ; a situation 
 which, as it procured an easy and quick access to books, was 
 peculiarly agreeable to his taste and habitf. Some time after 
 iliis, he was also ap})ointed casiiistical professor. In the vear 
 17G2, he sufiercd an irreparable loss by the death of his wife ; 
 a loss in itself every way aiilicting, and rendered more so by the 
 situation of his faniih', which then consisted of eleven children, 
 many of them \eiy youni.";. Some ycai-s aftenvards he receive(J 
 several prefci-ments, which wac rather honourable expression"? 
 of regard from hi friends, than of much advantage to his fortune. 
 JJy Dr. CornwallLs, then Bishop of Litchfield, aftenvards Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury, who had been his piipil at Christ's college, 
 he was appointed to the archdeaconry of Staffordshire, and to a 
 prebend in the church of Litchiield. By his old acquaintance. 
 Dr. Green, bishop of JJncoln, he was made a prebendary of that 
 chmch. Rut in thf^ year 17t>T, hy the intervention of the Duke 
 of Newcastle, to who-,e interest, in tiie memorable contest for the 
 high-stewardbhip of the lj'nivci>:ity, he had adherel in opposition 
 to some temptation^, he obtained a stall in the church of Din- 
 ham. The year after this, the Duke of Grafttm, who had a 
 short time bt tore been elected t iumcellor of the Uni\ersity. re- 
 commended the Master of IVier-liousc to his Majesty for the 
 bi'^hoprick of Carlisle. 'I'liis reconunemlation was matle, not only 
 without solicitation on his part or that of his friends, but witli- 
 out his knowledge, until llie Duke's intention in his favour was 
 ^ii^nififd to liim by the .'Viclihi^hop. In or about the year 1/77, 
 our Hishoj* gave to tlie ])ublick a hand-^ome ethtion, in tlucii 
 \cihjmes quarto, of tlie Works of Mr. I^ocke, witij a L ife of the 
 Author, ;ind a Preface. Mr. Locke's wrilings and character he 
 held in the higiio-t esteem, and seems to have dniwn from them 
 uiunv of his own ])rinciph-s : lie was a discipk; of that ^^chool. 
 About the .-aiue time he published a tract, which engaged ^^ome 
 attention in the (ontn<v<isy conecrning .Subscription ; and he 
 l<ublij>licd new editions of liis two principal works, uith consider- 
 able addition'-, and some akcrations. Besides the works already 
 mentioned, Ik, jinbli-hed in 17^4, or 1735, a very ingemous 
 " Infjuiry int. the hleas of Sjiace, 'rime, &c." in which he com- 
 ))ats tiie Of)inioiu-( of Dr. ( l;uk>' and hii adherents on these sub- 
 jects. Dr. \j.i\\ held ttte see of Cailile almost nineteen years; 
 duiing wiiicli tiine he twice, only, omitted spendimr the s\immer 
 months in hi-, diocese at the nish(p's residence at Rose Cattle; a 
 .situation witli which he was nuich plea-icd, not only on account 
 of the natural beauty of tlie place, but becaiLse it restored him to 
 the country in whir h he had spent the be-^t part of his life. In the 
 year 17S7, he paid this visit in a state of great weakness and ex- 
 I^au-tion; and tlied at Ko--e^ about a montli after lus anival there, 
 
 r 'Z oa
 
 68 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l73S' 
 
 Register of the University ; the Rev. Thomas 
 
 on the 14th day of Augtist, and in the 84th year of his age. The 
 hfe of ])r. Ij\v was a life of incessant reading and thought, al- 
 most entirely directed to nietapln sieal and religious inquiries ; 
 but the tenet by which his name and writing^s are i)rincipally 
 distinguished is, " that Jesus Chri.>t, at hiii second coining, will, 
 by an act of his power, restore to life and consciousness the dead 
 of the human species ; who, by their own nature, and without 
 tins interposition, would remain in the state of insensibility, to 
 which the death brought vipon mankind by tle sin of Adam had 
 reduced them." He interpicteil literally tliat saying of St. Paul, 
 1 Cor. XV. <21, " As by ntan came death, by man came also the. 
 resuirection of tlie dead." This opinion had no other effect. 
 upon his own mind than to increase his reverence for Chri^ti- 
 auitv, and for its divine Founder. lie letained it, as he did his 
 other speculative opinions, Avilhout laying, as many are Mont ia 
 do, an extravagant stress upon their imj)ortancc, and without 
 ])retending to nore certainty than the .subject allowed of. No 
 man formed his own conclusions v\ilh more freedom, or treated 
 those of others with greater candour and equity. He never 
 quarrelled with any person for diHering from him, or considered 
 that difference as a sidlici(>nt reason for questioning any man s 
 f-incerity, or judging meaUly of his miderstanding. He was zea- 
 lously attached to religious lilx^'t}-, bocau.se he thought that it 
 leads to truth : yet from his heart he loved peace. 13ut he did 
 not perceive any repngnant-y in these two things, llierc w-ls 
 nothing in his elevation to his I)ishopnck uhich he spoke of with 
 more pleasure, than its being a proof that decent freedom oi 
 Inquiry was not discouraged. He was a man of great softness of 
 mannei-s, and of tiie mikiest and most ti'anquil di.-position. His 
 voice was never raised above its ordinary pitch. His countenance 
 seemed never to have been rulHed ; it preserved the same kind 
 imd comjiosed aspect, truly indicating the caiumess and l)enigniiy 
 of liLs temper. He had an utter dislike of large and mixed com- 
 panies. Next to his books, his chief sati.-faction was in the se- 
 rious conver.eation of a literary companion, or in the company 
 of a few friends. In this sort of society he would open his mind 
 with great unrc-crvtdness, and with a pccidiar turn and spright- 
 line.s.s of expression. His jjerson was low, but well formed ; his 
 complexion ftiir and delicate. Except occasional inttriuptions 
 by the gout, he had for the greatest part of liis life enjoyetl g(jod 
 health ; and wlien not confined by tliat distemper, was frdl of 
 motion and activity. About riine \eais before his death, he was 
 greatlv enfeebletl by a severe attack of the gotit in his stomach ; 
 ;inil a '^hort time after that, lost the use of one of his legs. Not- 
 withstanding his fondness for exercise, he resigned himself to this 
 chanije, not onlv without "omplaint, but without anv sea.^ible 
 diminution of his cheaifulness and good hiuiiour. His faidt (for 
 we are not writing a pancgyiic) was the general fault of retired 
 and .studioiis characttrs, too great a degree of inaction and fa- 
 cility
 
 i735] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Cg 
 
 Johnson *, M. A. Fellow of Magdalen College ; 
 and Sandys Hutchinson^ M. A. Library-keeper 
 
 oility in his public station. The modesty, or rather bashfulness 
 of his nature, to^etlier ith an e.vtreme unwillingness to give 
 pain, remlei-ed him sometimes less firm and ellicieut in tUe ad- 
 ininisti-ation of authority than as requisite. But it is tike con- 
 tiition of human mortality. 'Jhere i.-, an oppo.^itiyn between 
 ^ome virtues wliich seltlom ])eriiiits them to subsist together in 
 jK'ifeclion. The Bishop was inteirc",! w ith due solenmity in his 
 cathedral church, in which a haud.-ome monument is ercfted to 
 his memory, bearing the following in'<crij)tion : 
 
 " Column;e hujus sepullus eat ad })edem 
 
 En.MUXDCS Law, S.T. P. 
 
 per XIX ferfe annos hujusce eedesia; E])isc(5pu. 
 
 In evangelicri veritate cxquirendi'i, 
 
 et %indicanda, 
 
 ad cxtremum uscjue seuectutem 
 
 openim navaiit indefessam. 
 
 Quo autem studio et attectu \eritatcm, 
 
 eM)dem et libertatem Chvistianam coluit ; 
 
 Religionem simplieem et ineorruptam, 
 
 nisi sal\:'i libeitate, 
 
 stare non posse arbilnitus. 
 
 Obiit Aug. XIV. MDCCLXXXMI, 
 
 yKtat. Lxxxiv." 
 
 Dining the early j)art of Bp. Law s residence in the University, 
 
 he enjoyed the frien(l>)iip of the late eminent Dr. Jui'tin : and for 
 
 man)' years caiiied on a correspondence with Dr. Haitlev, upon 
 
 the subject of that Author's celebrated Work. He pivserved a 
 
 long iniimacy with l)i-. Hhickbuine, Aichdeacun of Cle\ eland, 
 
 vho died, at nearly the .-ame age, unb one week before him. 
 
 With fhe.se excellent ]ivons he was united ;ls wt-U in an anxious 
 
 and diligent .search after moral and f\;uigelic truth, as in a cor- . 
 
 dial love of civil and religious liberty. 
 
 From the MSS. of the Kev.. John. Jones of Wcbvyn, the follow- 
 ing cliaracter has been furnished. " Dr. J^aw, a gentleman of 
 excellent parts, exlensive learning, great inlegrit), andof amo.^t 
 sweet, Iwnevolent, and ( hristian di>positiun ; \en motle.-t, free 
 and open in con\('i>-ation, de\oid of ccieniony; an honour to his 
 <-'Ountr\, and to the iJniver.iiiv whenin he presides. His cha- 
 nuter is univeisiullv known, and appitncd by all wise and good 
 men. I shall here minute down only a few jjailiculars ; tlie n'-t 
 may be add'd afterwards. I heaid him, with great pleasiue, 
 fH-rform his exercise for bis Doctor's degi-e<> in the I'ublic schools 
 at Cambridge, Jan. 1748-9. Dr. Parne, the Moderator pro ttiit- 
 
 * M.A. of Miigdalen college, Cambridge. He ])ubli^hed, in 
 17;il, " I'he Insufliciemy of the Law of .Nature, a Sermon on 
 1 Cor. iii. j."
 
 70 LITERARY ANECDOtES OF [l7*r- 
 
 of Trinity Collep^e. Printed for Samiiel Ilardinc:, 
 Bookseller, at the Bible and Anchor on the Puve- 
 
 fore, was his opponent, who (I believe) was foiled. The Mode- 
 rator soon after grew mad, and died. One great Doctor (Head 
 of a great College) refused to sign his testimonial ; saying, " he 
 did not like cither his pei"son or his doctrine :' yet aftcr\\ards 
 was reconciled, when \j^\v became head of St. Peter's college, 
 and made him frequent visits, itc. Dr. Garnet (brother to the 
 Bishop of Fcrne) dining, as 1 also did, with the former of these 
 two, told him he was going to pay a%isitthat afternoon, to 
 Dr. Law. * Yon do veiy well,' said the entertaiiier ; ' I respect 
 him, although I cannot approve of his opinions in ^ome thing?, 
 and opposed his degree. Dr. Garnet said, " W hatever his opi- 
 nions bey this is \ei-y certain, and allowed by all, that he is a 
 sweet-tempered man, an excellent scholar, and a true Christian.' 
 The other assented. I waited on Law that evening, and told 
 him what had passed. ' Yes,' said he, * wa begin now, though 
 contrary to my expectation, and without my seeking, to be 
 pretty thick} and I thank God, who reconciles me to my adxcr- 
 saries.' A certain great Author, who did not at all know him,' 
 nor his character, said (very imcharitably) that he must be a 
 wicked man for proposing such an opinion. His wife an excel- 
 lent woman; a Christian indisposition as well as name. They 
 have sustained great afiJictioiv; with great resignation. iManj 
 children, and great charge. Their income not cacu yet answer- 
 able. On Sundays, in the afternoon, he instructed the young 
 men of his College, designed for ordci-s, jn the original Icin- 
 giuige, sense, and design, of the New Testament, and of the 
 Old in the Hebrew, &e. ; and has noticing moie at heart than 
 teaching the Christiun Religion in its native puvil)- and .~im[)licity, 
 of which he was a coiupleto niaster. Abp. Potter, he told me, 
 disliked his doctrine about in: juration, and repnned him. W'av- 
 bmton told him, he disparaged the Church, by which ire got his 
 bread. Abp. Herring, on heaving of his Thesis at Camlnidge, 
 .'aid to him, ' I neither justify nor condemn you. If your doe- 
 trine be right, I am no loser; if wrong, I am but as I was: I 
 am in the hands of a ju-t; and merciful (iod, to whom I wholly 
 commit m}self. I b< he\e his Go.-pels, and am persuaded you do 
 so as much as I, tho>igli we may have different scntinicnts about 
 some j)articulars. We shall both of iss, I hope, meet in Heaven.' 
 W hen, in going his: rounds to the Head.- of Houses, presently 
 after his keejnrg tliis act, hr came to Dr. Castle fthe worthy 
 ]^Ia.-ter of Corpus Cliristi college), he said to him, in h.ia blunt 
 and honest manner, ' 1 know that this is reckoned a Soeinian 
 tenet ; but I believe \ou de.-erve the degree, and will readilv sign 
 your testimonial.' In his return from London and C ambridge, 
 after thi,s bout, he kindly called upon me at Alconbuiy, reKitcd 
 to me many partierdais, styycd a nighty and vvould ])ul nie to no 
 cxnerAL'. J. Joxf. : ' 
 
 L.
 
 1/55.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 7I 
 
 ment, St. Martin's-Lane. N. B. To this edition is 
 prefixed a large Preface, giving an Account of the 
 
 In the lately-published Letters of Bishop ^\':irburton Dr. Law 
 i.~ charactei ized as a man unhackneyed in the ways of the world. 
 " Sept. 22, 1751. Our friend JJrowne is now on a vi:-It (on 
 invitation) at Mr. Georg'c Lyttelton's. It is about 250 miles 
 from him, and he is accompanied by hia friend, Dr. Law, as far 
 as Litchfield ; who takes tliis oj)portunily to visit Ids friend, 
 the Bisliop of Litchfield and Coventry. Which ^\ ill prove the 
 Ijetter Patron, the layman or the Archpriest, for an even 
 wager ? And }{)u shall choo-re yo-ar bide. I think they might 
 as well have gone to Hell (I mean the Classical Hell) to coa'^ult 
 Tiresias in the wa}s of thriving. God help them ! for they are a 
 couple of helpless creatures in the ways of this world ! and no- 
 thing to bear their charges but a little honesty, which, like 
 Don OiMxote's Chixaliy, ^vill pass current in never an Inn be- 
 tween Carlisle and London." And ag;iin, in April 17^3, " Your 
 reflections on ])oor Law please me for your own sak*;. They 
 shew such a state of mind as puts your happiness out of Fortune's 
 j)Ower; and \\oxdd force me to lo\e you for it, though you had 
 no other claim to my affection. But what are fifty jears to a 
 man whose studies have ne\er been occui)ied U];on mari 3 the 
 only .>^tUlly from whence true wisdom is to be got ? Lor, 
 ' Whether in IMeta])hvsics at a loss, 
 Or wandering in a wilderness of mo>;s,' 
 'tis pretty much the same, for all imi)ro\en)ents in life. Hence, 
 in his speculations, this ])()or n)an has Ijeen hurried from ex- 
 treme to extreme. One while j)ersecuting Dr. .Mi(klleton, at an- 
 other time writing 'ilieses ten times more licentious and paia- 
 doxical than the Doctor's. And now at fifty! ^hat a lui'-erahle 
 thing, to ha\e his head turned about a Mastership: of wliich, 
 by the way, he is not half so fit ;is Sancho Parica was fur hi-' 
 government." 
 
 Bp. Law had a very numerous fauiily, and was >ingul;uly for- 
 tunate in the different branches of it. His el, lest son, lAlmund, 
 a verv promising youth, went from the Chart er-iiou>e school to 
 St. Peter's college, Cambridge; wheie he died, in about a year 
 after his admission. The next son, John, echicated at the -amo 
 school, on the foundation, wa- entered of ( hri-t's college, in 
 the .same University, where he was a Tancred exhibitioner, and 
 afterwards fellow. Having taken his degrees, and holy ordei's, 
 he attended the Didic of Portland, lord lieutenant ol Inland, as 
 one of his <:haplains ; wliere h<' was fir^t promoted to the 
 bishoprick of Clonfert, and thence translated to the see o!' I';iphin , 
 which he now enjoys. Kdward, the thinl son, wen' ymiiig to 
 the East Indies, where he remained some yen- ; and iia. in;^ 
 made a handsome fort\uie, returned to ICngland, a!id niairivd a 
 daughter of Archbishop !\larkliani. The four'li -<>u. Ivlv.ard. 
 was likewise educated on the f()undatif)n of the ( liaiti r hou-e , 
 went to St Peter's college^ v. here he bc( ame felluu I la\ iii^r ::it :i' I v
 
 7* LITERARY ANECDOTES OF L^/S-''' 
 
 several Latin Dictionaries and tlieir Authors. Also 
 a short Account of Robert Stephens's Life, and a 
 complete Catalogue of the Books he printed, h}^ the 
 Author of the Lives of Stephens's, and of the chief 
 Paris Printers*." 
 
 The Proposals for this re-publipation, which had 
 been issued in 1732, provoked a discussion amongst 
 
 distinguished himself in the University, and obtained many aca- 
 demical honours, .he removed to the Inner Temple, intending 
 for the profession of thel^w; and has risen by due gradations to 
 the honours of King's Counsel, Attorney-general, the Knight- 
 hood, and finally to that of Ghief-justice of England, the Peer- 
 age by the title of Lord EUenborough, and a Privy-coimsellor. 
 It is worthy of notice, that his Loi'dship is the single insta)ice 
 ^ince the establishment of the Charter-house, in 1611, of any 
 person's having risen, from being a scholar on the foundation 
 there, to the rank of a Go\ernor thereof. The value of such a 
 distinction cannot be better expixisscd than in the words of the 
 late worthy and learned school-master Dr. Samuel Berdmore, in 
 an anniversary oi-ation spoken in the great hall there, by the 
 senior scholar, Dec. 12, 1785. (See Lusus Poetici ex Ludo Li- 
 terario apud ^des Carthusianas, &c. Sec. Londini 1791, p. 147.) 
 
 * A letter of bu.-iness, from Dr. Taylor, on the .subject of this 
 publication, maj- perhaps be. wortli preserving : 
 
 " I have paid Dr. Jl[obinson] liis demand against my judg- 
 ment ; his demand was, that he paid for seven copies of Stephens, 
 and received but six. I remember I was in a treaty with him, 
 to be perfected through you, to deal \viih him for six copies of 
 Stephens. Being at tliattime in to\vn, and my copies at Cam- 
 bridge, I would have had Harding advance tlie copies, or rather, 
 upon reflection, tlie copies not being delivered to me, I drew 
 upon him for si,\ copies to be delixcred to you, which he refused ; 
 doubtless tliat he might ha\e the selUng of them him.-ielf ; thq 
 reason given, because he presumed, as lie said, that 3 ou \\ ire to 
 receive them in ]iart of payment for the printing of lA>ias, and 
 therefore could atibrd to imdersell tliem : so tiiat I well remem- 
 ber I lost the sale of that set. .\ll tliis I jierfcctly remeuilxr ; 
 but tlien supp<^se that odd or seventh cojjy of mine sold and 
 charged to Dr. Robinson, I was paid but once, though he may 
 have paid twice. Nay, I could be but paid onee if he had hii 
 six sets from Harding, as I remember he had. How this charge 
 coruis to be nrade U[;on me, 1 cannot call to mind nor accoimt 
 for; but he has used me ill in the manner of making his demand; 
 a demand 1 cannot sati>fy myself of. Perhaps you may set this 
 matter right by acquainting him with what you know of it. In 
 his account, he made himself debtor to somebody unkno\\n for 
 binding one 8et of Stephens. I think I heard you say, that in 
 this negotiation you were out of pocket the binding a .ct. Pro- 
 bably this will help you to set it right. J. T.^ylor." 
 
 tlie
 
 1J35.] 3^E EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 73 
 
 the Learned respecting the purity of some of the 
 Latin phrases employed in it : whic^h drew forth 
 Mr. Bowver as an .idvocate for his Cambridw 
 friends * ; who were also not a httle gratified by the 
 followini^ elegant testimonial of approbation from 
 so competent a judge as Mr. Maittaire: 
 
 '"' Clarissimis Rob. Stephani Thesauri Editoribuf;, 
 Sal Litem. 
 
 " Quis sim, sciri paulum interest ; non certe 
 mea, qui innotescere non percupio ; minime om- 
 nium, vestra, Y'u'i clarissimi, quibus notissimis 
 quid ex usu fucrit nosse ignobilem ? Quid autem 
 velim, breviter expediam. Non potui me continere, 
 quin vobis, quas gratias nemo literatus non fatcbitur 
 se debere, ego quuque, particula quantulacunque 
 literaricB Reipublicse perexigua, agerem : et gratu- 
 larer, quod opus illud grande, consilio laudabili 
 susccptum, magna laboris pertinacia continuatum, 
 ad exitum tandem omnium votis responsurum per- 
 vcuerit. Ex quo Romanus sermo desiit esse verna- 
 <"tdus, illius liugUcC cultores, qui puram uictionis 
 
 legantiam studuerunt (etpauci admodum potucrunt, 
 ct etianmum possunt) assequi, coacti sunt cum 
 mortuis versari, frequentemque cum Authorum 
 veterurn scriptis familiaritatem inire, et eorum imi- 
 tationi paulatim assucscere. Cum autcm id pensum 
 requireret niultum operie magniimquc memoria; 
 vim ; Dictionariorum usiis introductus est, ut illam 
 minueret, banc sublevaret. Non long6 ab Artis 
 Typographicie initiis, prinuun Lexicon ])rodiit in 
 lucem. Deincejis, Uteris incrcmentum capicntibus, 
 
 xorti sunt ((ui huic studiorum ^^cneri excoltndo 
 nianus ftliciter adumvcrunt. Veriim omnibus pal- 
 luam prii-'ripuit jiobtrtus Stephanus; (jui, postquani 
 in perHciendo operis instituti, quod anno Ij.'JS pro- 
 po>uerat, tentaminc decennium cxcgiss^-t,, anno 154,'^ 
 orbcm literatum 'I'liesauro suo donuvit; in qucia 
 
 S^cMr. Bo\\yei'i> " Mis<;eIlanco\w Tract?," 4to. pp.86 i'2S. 
 
 LutincL'
 
 74 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iToTi- 
 
 LatiivdC linguu? opes undecunqne conquisitas recon- 
 didit ; novoque ordinis artificio tarn commode dis- 
 posuit, ut, cum nihil iitilius posset excogitari, multi 
 postea in Lexicis contexendis eandem rationem ser- 
 vare voluerint. Actum agerem, si Uoberti Stephani 
 laudes post Thuanum prosequerer. Annis deinde 
 hand paucis elapsis, Thesaurum illius recudere et 
 locupletare aggressi sunt Lngdunenses ; quos sua 
 lucri spes minimi fefeUit. Eoruni editioni dei'uit 
 neque laus neque pretiuni. Si cui tamen libeat et 
 vacet illam subacto judicio ])ropivis examinare, erit 
 nonnunquam, ubi in mentem veniat proverbium, 
 Thesaurus Carbones. Id vos non fugit, Viri doc- 
 tissimi. Quum enim in animo haberetis Roberti 
 Stephani Thesaurum hici redonare, et (ne quid in 
 re tanti monienti desideraretur) necesse esset evol- 
 vere, quid ahi priEstiterint, pnesertim Lugdunenses ; 
 tot in horum editione animadvertistis mcnda, ut in 
 lis corrigendis poni oporteret o])eram, fere qualem 
 Hercules in stabulo Augiae repurgando insunipserat. 
 Post editionem a Rob. Stephano finitam, nihil pro- 
 diit ad usus literarics magis necessariuni ; nihil 
 magis operosum attentiore diligentia, niliil grandius 
 elej^fantiore cultu. elaboratum est. Ille nunc The- 
 saurus preciosissimus novam seque dignam induit 
 formam ; et illius Author (si ad superos daretur de- 
 functis reditus) optaverit reviviscere ; ut suum ojjus 
 tanto cum honore, cum tanta bonae frugis accessione, 
 redivivum contemplandi voluptate frueretur. Vn- 
 Icte, 1735,, 5 id. Aprilis." 
 
 To advert to a .-ubject of somewhat more levitv. 
 
 It happening to fall to the turn of Mr. Bowyer 
 and Mr. Edward Cave to invite their bretliren of 
 the typograpliic profession to a social feast^ the 
 facetious person to whom tjie ofHce of summoning 
 them was deleuated addressed them thus : 
 
 ic I.; 
 
 Si]{, Saturdai/, Jan. 11, \lo5, 
 
 Voi; arc dosir'd on ^londay next to meet 
 ;\t Sniuialiou 'i;y--i'.<:\\. Newgate-street. 
 
 Siippci-
 
 1735-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 75 
 
 Supper will be on table just at eight. 
 Stewards, One of St. Jo/til's*, t'other of 57. John^s Guief,'''' 
 
 This summons produced the following extempore 
 answer, whicli I the rather transcribe, as the late 
 Mr. Samuel Richardson's |" poetical productions are 
 not very numerous ; 
 
 "Jan. 17, 1735. 
 To Steward St. John, Steward St. Johti's Gate, 
 Who meet to sup on Monday night at eight. 
 
 Dear sons of Pha-bus, darlings of the Nine ! '^ 
 
 Henceforth, through you, how will the Printers shine, > 
 Who ne'er without the Muse shall meet to sup or dine!.) 
 Blessings, say I, attend your rhyniiug pen. 
 No A'ing John's sure e'er cquall'd Saint Johi's men ! 
 
 But, tell me, Friends, nor blush, nor be afraid 
 To own the truth had you no third man's aid ? 
 Speak out like men to make the verse run sweeter. 
 Did not some mild-beer Bellman tag the metre ? 
 If so, I pray, invite the honest fellow, 
 Let him partake the praise, and make him mellow. 
 Perpetual Stewards may you voted be ; 
 No less such verse deserves perpetual Poet he I 
 
 For me, Pm much concern'd 1 cannot meet 
 * At Salutation Ta\crn, Newgate-street.' 
 Your notice, like }our verse (so sweet and short !) 
 If longer, I 'd sii.cerely thank'd you for 't. 
 Howe'er, receive my wishes, sons of verse ! 
 May every man wlio meets your praise reliearse; 
 May mirth, as plenty, crown your cliearful board. 
 And every one part happy as a Lord! 
 
 * Mr. Bowycr. t ^i'- Ca\ e. 
 
 X On llifse \er-i(s fpiintt-d in Cicnt. Ma;;-, vol. VL p..')]) 
 IMi'. C:ive tlui^ n murks : " Conccniiiii:: this fr(.'ntlt'ui<in, the com- 
 pany fb>'i'vtd, Ihut though the jmblick is often aaroi'ahly tiitcr- 
 tainc'd with his elc^xuit (lis([ui!-itioits in prose, not one iin.'iu'incd 
 that his e.Kten-ive l)Usini-,s would allow tiim the U-.l-I Ici.iure. 
 to invoke the iMuse- ; without who.-c uid, the Jolnuan.s in.^i.-^ted, 
 he could no! li;ai; k tuiiird so ])oetiea! and so speedy an an-swer . 
 " 'I'luii- Hclhiian, lienre, shall ernidation fire, 
 To rai^e, with jiialci'ul thanks, the nictir hi^h(^, 
 To hiui, who.-<' p'nius makes one Printer 'hiiie^ 
 Jilt h. Snn <j1" I'hu.'bu-, darlin;:- of the \u.l.'' 
 
 Th;.?
 
 7^ LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l735- 
 
 That when at home (by such sweet ver;;es fir'd) 
 
 Your families may think you all inspir'd I 
 
 So wishes he, who, pre-engaf::;'d, can't know 
 The pleasures that would iVom your meeting ffow. 
 
 S. 11. 
 
 The correspondence was thus continued : 
 " To Mr. Richardson. 
 
 Mondai/, Jan. 19, 1735. 
 
 Think not my Pegasus is jaded, 
 Or laurels are by winter faded. 
 They a perpetual verdure share, 
 And mock th' inclemencies of air. 
 Blest be the bounties of the Nine ; 
 I 've stores of verse, a Magazim:. 
 * A monthly course f these labours run 
 Attendant on their Pai*ent Sun, 
 So regular, that rigid Time 
 May take his measures ev'n from mine. 
 
 f'lrst then, we thank you much in few words 
 For compliments to us your Stewards, 
 For that great post how much unfit ! 
 One tastes no rcine I and one no -wit ! 
 How in both characters you'd ihine, 
 At once the God of Wit and V/ine ! 
 
 From you we 'U not admit excuses. 
 Though offer'd by our sister Muses. 
 Lame as I am with gout, I'll meet. 
 Though brought upon poetic feet ; 
 For oft I mount the Muses' steed ^ 
 
 And wing away with postboy speed > 
 
 To distant Berwick upon Tweed. ) 
 
 Now, to supply you (no reproach), 
 Say but the word, I '11 send the coach ; 
 
 * Other MSS. read thus : 
 
 " A constant coursn these labours run. 
 Attendant on their Parent Moon, 
 As regular as carrier's horse 
 
 Their burthen bear with music worse." W. B. 
 
 + The Gentleman's Magazine. 
 
 * Mr. Cave, being severely afflicted vvith the gout, found it 
 pnident to li\c very abstemiously. 
 
 I Ml
 
 1735.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 77 
 
 I '11 order John to put-to yEthon 
 I run with distichs t'other's Phiegon ; 
 For so in g-ratitude each horse 
 Is nam'd, procured by God of Verse. 
 
 Thus shall you ride in dignity, 
 
 Beyond yourself and worthy me ! 
 
 While City crowds shall wondering stare ve at. 
 
 And raise the envy of the Laureat. 
 
 I '11 place two seats, wliene'er you come, 
 This for your arms and tliat your bum ; 
 Or you shall take the elbow chair, 
 And be for once the Peerless Peer. 
 
 Bring, if you will, my hiothav Johnia7i*y 
 An honest merry simpletonian ; 
 ^\'ith student's face, but shallow pate. 
 All ! what's the College to the Gaie fi 
 But for the little man, F 11 this sav, 
 He 's sonitHliing siill for being an Essay. 
 
 Verse can, they saA , iiring down the Moon, 
 Exalted in her midnight noon. 
 
 Oh ! could it crain yonr rosy face, "^ 
 
 How the full orl) the l)oard would grace, [- 
 
 When flush'd with wine, and plump with praise ! ) 
 Diminish'd stars shall hide their head. 
 Twinkle awhile, then drop to bed. 
 While you shin<! forth serenely bright, *j 
 
 ilestore the day in midst of night, ^- 
 
 And make us scorn e'en Pha'bus liglit. } 
 
 Tliou jovial Bard, might 1 transfuse 
 'I'he wit of thy harmonious Muse 
 Into mv coiitprehensive paper, 
 I 'd add your titles to my wrapper. 
 lor vou, 1 riiink, print Journals Daily, 
 iiy namf^s unknown to Nathan Bailey I. 
 I long to mix: poetic rage, 
 ("ompanions like, adil page to page. 
 \\'hil(,' from your springs your streams shall run 
 'I'hrough my canals to ilehcon, 
 How in Its course will wit refine, 
 llai-,\l to C' Ic-l.'-i i: ai Sublime ! 
 
 * Mr Bowvor. t -^^i"- ( =ivf'.s alxxlr. 
 
 t Mr Ri( hiuilsou piintf d, at that tiiiu;, a Daily Journal : and 
 in N H;u!(.\'.s Dictioiiuiy (ouiant is gravely c,\{>laincd to mean, 
 
 " \]iK Title iifa .\(.;vsp:ipcr." 
 
 I Mi
 
 iS tITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l/^S* 
 
 I'll say no more; the Muse invites 
 To sacred Friendsbip's social rites. 
 Then come along, pretensions wave; 
 Your humble servant, Edward Cave 
 
 P. S. These lines, my friend, had sooner come, 
 But we were both engag'd at home ; 
 He in Parliament Addresses, 
 I in indulging spouse-caresses, 
 For Saturday at night, you know. 
 Though kings should want wives have their due 
 
 To Mr. Richardson : 
 
 Feb. 2, 173 5. 
 
 I hope 5'ou '11 think it not a scoff is, 
 
 That, 'though I now am out of office. 
 
 Yet second thus my landlord's letter. 
 
 And summon you again in metre. 
 
 To meet upon th' accustom'd plain, 
 
 Bestrow'd with shields and heaps of slain ; 
 
 There the little man* shall work ye. 
 
 Or spend his wiser rage on turkey; 
 
 His doughty arm shall sheath within 
 
 Its more than equal length of chine. 
 
 There ducks perhaps, a juicy food. 
 
 May sate his noble tliirst for blood, 
 
 Of which, digested into gravy, 
 
 May n*t you partake for all Delany f? 
 
 Soft apple-pye at least, or tanzy, 
 
 May mollify the cruel frenzy. 
 
 But I had somewhat more to tell you 
 
 Besides the mere concerns of belly; 
 
 There are to whom our lianniess letter 
 
 Appears than libel little better ; 
 
 Who see throughout some deep design, 
 
 And Cave is read in every line. 
 
 To these I've drawn this formal answer, 
 If proper, judge; ami so read on, sir. 
 
 * Mr. Bowjer. 
 
 f The celebrated Dean of Downc^ wlin had piibli-lied In 17?A 
 ''The Doctrine of Abstinence from Blood ddendcd, &c. - ' a 
 tract which (how much irony ou its vei'y ini^enioua author. 
 
 Tins
 
 1733.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Jf) 
 
 This night \vc 've try'd to please by secret ways, "^ 
 Have bravely borne the birch to gain the bays ; ^ 
 Such is, it seems, the modern lust of praise ! V 
 
 Conceal'd for once ourselves we satirize, '^ 
 
 As some put on a masquerade disguise, ^ 
 
 Themselves to cuckold, and debauch their Avives. ) 
 But now by what new arts will you commend ^ 
 Say, v.ill you damn the poet or the friend ? 
 Or, if his pictui'e 's with true judgment hit, "j 
 
 You'll all, I hope, to the young Hogarth sit, [- 
 .\or fear the midnifjht vigils of his wit. 1 
 
 Jmpassive sages, free from love or hatred, 
 Hold ridicule the test of all that's sacred. 
 So gold by mercury's refin'd, tiie ore 
 Witii even face contemns the subtle power. 
 
 Our verse we 've thus ex|)lain'd, to shun offence; 
 No second-sight can now find double sense, 
 See tilting armies in the iields of air, 
 The angry prelude of a liquid war. 
 If such tluTL; are (indulge the gloomy vapour) 
 I fdl my glass " To the well-staining paper." 
 So tlu; fell lion with severe delight. 
 Lashing his sides, provokes th' approaching ficrln 
 
 But hold, you cry, this ne'er can suit 
 
 Your dapper size e'en droj) a foot. 
 
 W'ell then, proceed we from the gues? 
 
 To th' luu)ible waiters on your feast. 
 
 l,o Pusn, f)erliaps, when we are gone, 
 
 May act tiie part tb.at I have done. 
 
 Slu> may with furious leaps assail 
 
 In airy rounds her sportive tail. 
 
 Ill silent holes the n\ic(; surve\, 
 .AVitli treml)ling hearts, ilie monster's ['lay, 
 
 Ucr s[)otted sides, her grinning jaws, 
 
 lier arch of back, extent of paws. 
 
 By Nature taught this lesion '^aj^e, 
 
 If sui'h her spirit, how keen her rage !" 
 
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 So LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iJS^* 
 
 Among the other hooks printed by Mr. Bo\v\'er 
 m this year were, 
 
 " The Charge of the Lord Bishop of Non'i icTi 
 [Dr. Robert Butts *] to the Clergy in his Diocese 
 in the Year 1735; and printed at, the unanimous 
 Request of the Clergy who heard it " 
 
 * Robert Butts, a descendant of Sir William Butts, physician 
 in ordinary to Hcniy VHl. by a younger branch of the tUuiily 
 seated at Thornage in Norfolk^ \va.s son of William Jintts, rector 
 of Hertest in Suflblk. lie received the first part of his education 
 at Buiy-school in that county ; and from thence was admitted 
 a student of Trinity college, Cambridji^e. After he liad taken \im 
 degrees, he became one of the preachers of Ihiiy ; and \\ as pre- 
 sented in 17 17, by the Earl of Bristol, to his own parish-church 
 of Ickworth in Suffolk. In 1728 he was made one of the chap- 
 lains in ordinaiy to King George II. who promoted him (then 
 D. D.) to the deanry of Norwich, in which he was installed 
 April 10, 1731 ; and in the beginning of 1733 advanced him to 
 the bishoprick of Nonvich, to which he was consecrated Feb. 25. 
 In 1734 he lost his first wife by a consumption j and thus em- 
 balmed her memory on a grey stone under the commimion table, 
 iu the chapel belonging to the Bishop's pala<e in Norwich : 
 " Infrii conduntur e.xuviie 
 
 Elizabeth.'T: 
 
 tabe ineluctabili dilapsse 
 
 Uxoris, non uno nomine charissima?, 
 
 RoEtJ Butts, Episcopi Norvie', 
 
 qua; mortem obiit xxii die Aug', 
 
 A.D. MDCcxxxiv. a^tat. suje xliv. 
 
 Qualis erat, liCCtor, non nostrum est perfen'c : 
 
 EuGK venturi Judicis Autor erit fidissimus. 
 
 O chanun caput ! 
 
 quando illucescet pntclarus ille dies ? 
 
 Me, ita spcro, in seternum tibi redditurus 
 
 quum Virtutes, quas cura:* fuit tibi 
 
 clam praistare, 
 palam faciet rcmunerai"e Dominus." 
 In 1735 his Lordship manied, secondly. Miss Reynolds ; and 
 on the death of Bp. Greene, in 173B, he was tiansl.ated to Elv, 
 in which see he w^as confirmed Bishop June 27, and inthroned 
 by proxy July 4 following ; where having sat Bishop 9 years and 
 6 months, he died at Ely-house, Holhorn, Jan. 26, 1747-8 j 
 and was buried in the cathedral church at Ely, in a vault on the 
 North side of the Piesbytery, near the East end ; where a very 
 handsome monument was soon after erected to his memory, 
 witli his bust thereon, and the following iasciiption 
 
 " Intra
 
 l/o^-] THE EIGHTEENTH CE>rrURY. 8l 
 
 " The Hardships of the Enghsh Laws in relation 
 to Wives; with an Explanation of the Original Curse 
 of Subjection passed upon the Woman ; in an hum- 
 ble Address to the Legislature," 8vo. 
 
 " An Enquiry into the Evidence of Archbishop 
 Cranmer's Recantation ; or, Reasons for a Suspicion 
 that the pretended Copy of it is not genuine. By 
 Wilham Whiston, M. A." 
 
 " The Duty and proper Conduct of the Clergy 
 under the Treatment of their Enemies ; a Sermon 
 preached at the Visitation at Towcester, July 2; 
 173^, held by the Bishop of Peterborough. By 
 Richard Grey *, D. D." 8vo ; two editions. 
 
 A third edition of Dr. Richard Grey's " jMemoria 
 Technica," 8vo. 
 
 " Sermons on several Occasions. By Benjamin 
 Newton -j-, M. A. Vicar of Lantwit, Glamorganshire, 
 2 vols." 8vo. 
 
 " Intra hos sacros parietes, piis cinciibus dicatos. Rev. admo- 
 dum in Christo Pater ac Dominus Dominus Robkktus Butts, 
 Kliensis Epi.scopus, situs est ; muri, nefas esset ilium posse dix- 
 erim, cujus Doctrina, I'ictas, ac Candor, vivere jubent niortiuini. 
 Xeque ci defuit aninii fervor Theologo dignus, zelo D. Petri 
 siniilis, et sanctfe, quoad licuit, ajmulus ; quoties seu Eccleoi.e 
 j)enclitjintis hostcs, sen Reijmbl. [lerduelles sint debellandi. Si 
 Principibas ])robis, doctis, ac sapientibus ])lacui!^se, in minima 
 laude ponenduni non e-t, hoc jnu'sertim nomine bic vcncrandus 
 Antistes, idem et multimi amandus Aulicus celeljraretur; cpiippc 
 sumnue .sapiential, mira> comitatis opinione fretus et deleciatiis, 
 (el>is.<imus (ii:oRi;ius 11. Rex .Anjjjlia; ilhun a Sacri.s (ooj)lan- 
 dum maxime voluisset ; deindf Eccles. \or\ie, ex Decano, ])(.<- 
 tea ejusdem Eccles. NOrvic. Infida ornandum jul>eret ; denuii 
 iisdem reiriis auspiciis, totii plaudenle .\ulfi, ad Epi^copatum 
 Eliensem meiitb evectus erat. 'i'envn vico, at bonc^to gcneie 
 Suflokiensi, natus iid onme Ix^num .Ian. 10, lf)H5 ; defunctus ad 
 nupi-emum Jan. '2(), 1747." Ihnthanis liistnrij of I'.lij, p. '211. 
 
 Up. liutts ))id)lisbed " A Sermon jjreaebed at the ( atlirdnil ol' 
 Norwich in 1710, on the .Annixejsaiy of the AeccN-^ion <if Kin;; 
 George I.,' and anotlirr. before the House of Lonl-', in 17^7. 
 on tiiat of King Cieorge II. He al>o pui)]i-bcd. in 17 10, a 
 Charge to his CJlcrgy at the l'run:u-y \i?itali<jn of the Dior*.?,- 
 of Ely. 
 
 '* Of whom, sec vol. I. p. 4C!5. 
 
 t Mr. Newton publi?hetl a i'.oth of January Sermon, 17 I"'- 
 
 Vdi.. II. (i ^-Cuncilia
 
 8 J LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l73^. 
 
 " Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae, a 
 Synodo Verolamiensi A. D. ccccxlvi, ad Londi- 
 iiensem A. D. CLinccxvii ; accedunt Constitu- 
 tiones et alia ad Historiani Ecclesiae Anglicanae 
 spectantia, a Davide Wilkins *, S. T. P. Archidia- 
 cono SuiFolciensi, et Canonico Cantuariensi, col- 
 lecta." four volumes, folio. 
 
 " Baronia Aiigiica ; an History of Land-honors 
 sind Baronies, and of Tenure in capite ; verified 
 by Records. By Thomas Madox-f-, Esq. late his 
 Majesty's Historiographer," folio (which was begun 
 March 25, 1730). 
 
 " Psalmorum Liber, in Versiculos metrice divisus. 
 et cum aliis Critices subsidiis, turn praecipue Me- 
 trices 0})e, niultis in Locis Integr-itati suae restitutus. 
 Cum Dissertatione de antiquu Hebraeorum Poesi, 
 aliisque Quaesitis, ad Psalmorum Librum pertinen- 
 tibus. Ad Finem Operiis adjecta sunt Poeseos 
 Hebraicoe Specimina, ex iis quae ediderunt, Fran- 
 ciscus Gomarus, Marcus Meibomius, et Johanne?; 
 Clericus. Edidit Franciscus Hare, S.T.P. Epis- 
 copus Cicestrensis. London : Printed by W. Bow- 
 yer, for S. Buckley, and T.Longman, 1736'. In 
 two Volumes I'," 8vo ; containing 403 and 449 
 pages ; besides the Preface and Preliminary Dis- 
 cpurse. 
 
 * Of whom see vol. I. pp..3,H4, 4S0. 
 
 t Of whom fccc vol. I. i)p. 243 '2-18, 346. 
 
 X " This work deserves the peculiar approbation of the 
 Teamed, as it is an atteni])t to aclii to their tre!i.urc a new ac- 
 quisition, in wliich theyh:uc not only heeu hitherto (Icfu-ient, 
 but which, though \ery desirable, they have long- since g:i^en up 
 the vciy hope of. The noblest discoveries ha\e been accidental, 
 and ha\e risen from incidents v\hich promised no such conse- 
 quences ; and this of our learned Author is owing to an acci- 
 dental discourse concerning- the word Selah, and Meibomius's 
 interpretation of it. It was what occurred in that convei>Htion 
 which set him on investigating the genius and rules of the He- 
 brew poesy ; things that have been buried in oblivion al><)\e two 
 thousand years, and their resurrection alt(jgeth( r despaired of 
 The sjucjuions of Hebrew poetry at the end are select ed from 
 thrt^ celt brated writers. Tney are an analysis of the xcist Psalm, 
 by Yv GoiDar; the .\xiiid and .\cvth psalujs, by Meibomius j and 
 
 tJv
 
 ^73^'] THE EIGHTEEKTII CENTURY. 8^ 
 
 " Antiquffi Inscriptiones Duse ; Graeca altera, 
 altera Latiiia; cum brevi Notarum et Conjectur- 
 arum Specimine," by Mr. Maittaire; folio. 
 
 "The Alliance between Church and State; or, 
 the Necessity and Equity of an Established Reli- 
 gion, and a Test Law demonstrated, from the 
 Essence and End of Civil Society, upon the fun- 
 damental Principles of the Law of Nature and Na- 
 tions *," Svo. 
 
 " Doctrine of Antiquity concerning the Eucharist 
 considered." 
 
 " The Prude's Purgatory," " The Unequal 
 Match," " Patriotick Love," and two editions of 
 " Donna Clara," all single Poems, by Hildebrand 
 Jacob, Esq. 
 
 A new edition of the celebrated Poem, by James 
 Sannazarius, " De Partu Mrginis Libri tres-j;'* 
 which has been allowed by Julius Scaliger, Erasmus, 
 and others, to have in it all those qualities that go 
 to the forming of a finished piece ; all that inven- 
 tion, judgment, elegance, and fine turn of senti- 
 ment, wliich is so much admired in the great 
 masters of antiquity. 
 
 tho xxxiid <;f Deuteronomy, by M. Le Clerc. The Bi'ihop shews 
 tliey are all mistaken in what they inttnded, and points out the 
 grounds of lluir errors. lie has reduced the xxxiid of Deut. to 
 the true Hebrew measure, and uiven it us, on npj)0site columns, 
 alon'j: nilh that of M. I>;('!ere." liepubUck of Letters, vol. XVII. 
 l.p. IGO, 107. [!?ee before, j). 27-] 
 
 * This \ohnne, ^vhielv wxs ])ublislied anonymously, was the 
 iirst inlrodiietion of Mr. 15(j\vver to Mr. Warburton, its very 
 learned author. It wa^^ pronouiKH.-*!, in " The jtresent State of 
 tlie Ilepul)li(k of J>etteis/' \()1. XVII. p. 471, to be " the work of 
 a fi^enlleman, \v]u).->e capacity, judf.'^uuMit, and learning, deserve 
 .,oine eminent (lit^uity in the Clnireh, of which," s:ays the writer 
 of the critique, " he is now an inferior Ministrr." 
 
 f Sanna/.:u ius i- said to have s])eiit about '20 years in perfect- 
 ing:^ lhi> I'oini. There are two Italian jii'-ees of his, " Aicadia" 
 and "Kiiue ," the furmer, a composition in ])rose and verse; 
 th'' latter, a poem. They have been often printed. Of this 
 I" u-ned writer it may be -ullicient to say, that he was descended 
 fiom rui anticnt and nolde family, that he was born at Naplci, 
 July Sis^ 1458 : and tiiol there in 15S0. 
 
 G 2 A n(.'W
 
 84 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [^TS^- 
 
 A new edition of Mr. Charles Leslie's *' Short and 
 easy Method with the Jews *." 
 
 " Les Amusements de Spa ; or, the Gallanti'ies 
 of the Spa in Germany ; consisting of an Account 
 of the Mature and Use of the several Waters, and 
 the Diversions of the Place ; intermixed with many 
 entertaining Histories of the principal Persons re- 
 sorting to the Spa. Translated from the French, 
 by Hans De Veilf , M. A." 
 
 " The Doctrinal Use of the Christian Sacrament 
 considered, in a Charge delivered to the Middlesex 
 Clergy, May 12, 1736. By Dr. Waterland." Two 
 editions. 
 
 '^ A Letter to the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn ; 
 containing a Defence of the Doxology to be used at 
 the Reading of the Holy Ciospels." 
 
 " Dissertationes et Conjecturae in Librum Jobi ij; ; 
 Tabulis Geographicis et Figuris ccneis illustrat.e." 
 Auctore Samuele Wesley , Rectore de Ep worth, in 
 Dioecesi Lincoln. In quibus, Textus Hehritus con- 
 fertur precipue cum LXX, etiarnque cum Para- 
 phrasi Chaldaica, et Versionibus plurimis tarn Gree- 
 cis quam Latinis, et A ernaculis nostris;|;. On<i'- 
 ritur inter alia, an Historia sit vera, necue r quo 
 Auctore, Tempore, Fine, Liber scri})tus sit ? (juo 
 seculo res gest^ r &c. &c. LoiKlini, Typis (iulielmi 
 Bowyer in White Fryars : Prostaut vcnales apiid 
 C. Rivington, et S. Birt, Londineuses : R. Clements, 
 etM. Fletcher, Oxonienses ; V. Crownileld, ct AV. 
 
 * Fir^t printed in IrtSO, 
 
 f Of Euuinuel colk-gc, Cambridjic 15. A. 17'-t. lie was Uie 
 sou of the faaioua Sir ["homns De \eil ; ;uul j;u-: been noticed a.-? 
 author of an epigram in \o\. I. p. 2'^.'"). 
 
 :J: Mr, Wesley collated all the eop'ie.s he coiili! meet wiih of the 
 original, and the (ircek and othtr versions aud editiori^j and 
 after his labours and hi- library had been burnt with his hou-e 
 (which it seems had su!tt;red the like fat(> once before, aljout the 
 year 1707) he resimied the task in the deehnc of life, oppres-ed 
 with gout and palsy through long liabil of study. Among other 
 assistances, he ])articul:u-ly acknowledges that of his three sons, 
 and his friend Maurice Jcihnson. 
 
 Of whom see tiie " Essav band lllustratitnts" iu^ol.^' \"IX. 
 
 'jlturl-
 
 173^-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 85 
 
 Thurlboum, Cantabrigienses ; Bibliopolas; I73G." 
 This is a verv handsome folio volume, printed 
 with a beautiful type, and supported by a respec- 
 table list of subscribers ; and appears to have been 
 the most laboured of its Author's numerous Works. 
 
 At the same jjeriod was printed, at another 
 press, " Poems on several Occasions." By Samuel 
 Wesley the Younger, A.M. Master of Blundell's 
 School at Tiverton, Devon ; sometime Student of 
 Christ-churcli, Oxford ; and near 1 Venty Years 
 Usher in Westminster-school," 4to. Printed for 
 the Author by E. Say in Warwick-lane, and sold by 
 S. Birt, at the Bible in Ave-Mary-lane. 
 
 " N. B. The Subscribers' Books will be deli- 
 vered by the Printer of each ; and may be had at 
 the Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald's, in Smith-street, West- 
 minster." 
 
 Two editions of '^ A Vindication of the Right 
 Rev. the Lord Bishop of Winchester [Dr. Benjamin 
 Hoadly], against the malicious Aspersions of those 
 who uncharitably ascribe the Book intituled, ' A 
 plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacra- 
 ment of the Lord's Supper,' to his Lordship. By 
 the Author of ' Proposals for the Revival of Chris- 
 tianity *.' 
 
 ' ff'lio IS this that durkeneth Counsel h\j Words 
 ivlthuiit Knowledge P' Job, xxxviii. 2. 
 
 ' Indignum ! scelerato profuit^Ara. 
 
 Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo r' 
 
 Ov. Met." 
 
 * " Dublin printed, l^ondon reprinted for T. Cooper, at the 
 (ilobf in Pateinoster-iwv; where may be had, just published, 
 
 I. Some Pro])osal.s foi- the Kevival of Christianity ; price Cd. 
 
 II. A I.<'tter to a J.ord, in Answer to hi-, late Book, intituled. 
 ' A jilain Account of the Nature and End of the Sa( rainent of the 
 Lord's Supper j' \mcv Cxi." Wickhj Misrxllany, Miuj 'I'J, HM. 
 Tlie "Profjosals for the Re\i\al of Chri>tianity " were re-jirintcd 
 in Cent, Mag. vol. A I. p. ^'l ; where they are -aid to l>e " in an 
 eminent Hand in Dublin" (meaning Dean ^wift ). J>ut in the 
 f-atnc \olumc, p. (')<><*, an apoloay is made for that >uppo.-ition. 
 " which had luen taken from tlic then loinmon njunt, anl |o-- 
 ribly rni^'-ht .-trt ii^'tlun it. IJut we aiv .-ince cretbbiy iiU'ornied 
 
 th.a
 
 $6 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l73^- 
 
 " The Harveian Oration, by Dr. Edward Wil- 
 mot *.'* 
 
 " Rudiments of Latin Grammar explained," printed 
 for Mr. Betts. 
 
 A new edition, beautifully printed, of Dean Moss's 
 *' Sermons," 4 vols. 8vo. 
 
 " A complete History of Drugs, from the French 
 of M. Pomet." 
 
 Latham's " View of Difficulties and Discourage- 
 ments," &c. 
 
 Dr. Richard Grey's " Miserable State of Religion 
 in England." 
 
 that the eminent Divine is not the Author of either of these 
 Pamphlets. The leflecticns cast on him therefore from any thing 
 they advance, are not justly f( uncled." Thei'e ^\as stimetl.ing 
 mysterious in these publications. They were ])rinted for Mr. C. 
 Davis, but publishe.l in the name of T. Cooper. 
 
 * This gentlemanj, the seeond son of Robert W'ilmotj of ( iiad- 
 desden, co. Derby, esq, \ as born Oct. "29, 1693 ; ?nd recei\t.u liis 
 education at Cambiidge, Mhcre he became M. D. He iii'irried 
 Sarah, the eldest daughter of Dr. Mead ; and was nuide physician 
 to Queen Caroline, and to Frederick Prince of Wales. After the 
 Queen's death, he was appointed one of the King's ph}s.ici:ms j 
 in May 1740, physician-general to Ids Majesty's forcisj end \\ii.% 
 created a baronet Feb. 17, 17->9. Retiring from l)nsiiies.s on the 
 accession of hiS present Majesty, he resided some years at Notr 
 tingham ; where his house was much resorted to by multitudes 
 of the poor of that j)Vi<^e, as well as from his nati\ c county of 
 Derby, to whom he ga\e ad\ice gratis ; so that his quitting that 
 town was greatly regretted. At the age of 77' howe\er, find- 
 ing the climate rather too cold for his years and constitution, lie 
 went, as he said, to spend the remainder of his days with his 
 tlaughter-in-law, Mrs. VNilliams, at Herringstone near Dorches- 
 ter; and continued to correspond with his worthy relatior^, John 
 Wihaot, esq. son of the Loj-d Chief Ju>tice, with all the \ igour 
 and sprightliness of youth, till within a few montlis of hLs death, 
 which hapi)ened Nov. 22, 17SG, wh<n he iiad more than com-r 
 pleted his 93d year. Sir Edward lefr an only son, Sir Kohcrti- 
 Mead VMlmot, bart. ; who married Mary sole heii'css of William 
 W^ollet, esq. by Rlaiy his wife, daughter and coheir of William 
 Roberts, of Harbledown, Kejit, esq, by whom he had ^wo sons 
 and three daughters; Mary; Robert (who .succeeded to liie title) 
 born July 5, 17t>5 ; Edward-.'^Hche\eri 11, liariict-Sidney, and 
 Charlotte-Sarah, Sir Robert-Mead Wilmot dii i{, in a fit of apo- 
 plexy, at his seat at Chaddesden, aged 63, Sept. f), 1793 ; three 
 days only after he hatl been a very active steward of the Dei by 
 musical festival, 
 
 *^ .F^casons
 
 1736-] THE EIGHTEENTIJ CfiKTURY. 8*7 
 
 " Reasons for excepting Cambridge out of the 
 Bill for alienating Lands ;" printed by order of the 
 Vice-chancellor. 
 
 " Eboraciim ; or, the History and Antiquities of 
 the City of York, from its Original to the present 
 Time ; together with the History of the Cathedral 
 Church, and the Lives of the Archbishops of th^t 
 See, &c. illustrated vvithCXVI Copper-plates, drawn 
 and engraved by the best Masters *. By Francis 
 Drake -f, of the City of York, Gent. F. K. S. and 
 Member of the Society of Antiquaries in London," 
 folio. Printed for the Subscribers. 
 
 By the recommendation of Mr. Drake, in May 
 ^7S^h ^ii' Bowyer was appointed Printer to the 
 Society of Antiquaries ; and began his work fot 
 them by a single sheet, in folio, utider the title 
 of " Collectanea Antiquitatum ;" and by anothel*, 
 
 * " Mr. Di-ake of York gives notice that his History and Anti- 
 ijiiities of that antient City, and its Cathedral Chiirch, being now 
 in the Press, and the many Copper-})lates necessary to the Woi'k 
 being unck'r the hamk of the Ijest blasters in that Ait, such as 
 are wiUing to subscribe to it, or ha\e not yet paid in their Sub- 
 scriptions, are desired to do it forthwith ; otherwise they will be 
 excluded the Benefit of the Subscription. Proposals, with a 
 full Account of the Work, may be had of, and Subscriptions 
 are taken in by, Messrs. (iyk's ami Wilkinson in Holl)ornj Mr. 
 (iosling in Fleet-street, Mr. Strahan in Cornhill, J^jndon j Mi's, 
 Fletcher and Mr. Clements in Oxford; Mr. 'lliurlbuurn, Cam- 
 bridge ; Mr. Mancklin and Mr. Hildjani in York, and by Mr. 
 Swale in Leeds, JJookwllers." Oent. Mag. vol. V. p. 2H0. 
 
 f Francir, Drake, Y. R. and A. S. was a suigeon at '^'oik, an 
 eminent An<i(piary, and much esteen)ed by Di'. Mead, Mr. I'olkc-, 
 the two Mr. (iakN, and all the j)rinci])al melnbcrs of the noyal 
 and Antiquarian Societies. .\ mezzotinto print of him. by Va- 
 lentine (ireene, was published in 1771, from a picture by 
 N. Drake, with this insciiption : " Franc. Drake, Annigii , 
 Eboi-aceiisis, Keg. Soe. necnon Antiqu. Socius." .\ copy of his 
 " History of York," with large MS addition-; by the uilllior, w;ls 
 in the haufls of his son, the late Rev. William Drake, F. A. S. 
 sometime master of the free achool at Fel-^ted in lv--(\, and 
 afterwards vicar of Islcwoith, Middlesex, who dihtingui>hed 
 liimself by several curious articles in the .\rf h;eolotria, IV'. Hi. 
 V. 137, :i79, :ind would ha\e re-published his fathers book if llie 
 plates could have been recovered, and e\cn had thoughts of uct- 
 tiug them engraved anew; but died without aceom|)li-liing this 
 very de-irable j)roiect. I have the coppei -jiUtis uf the Monn- 
 nieijts at Cauterburv aud York. 
 
 callrd
 
 88 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l736. 
 
 called " A Table of English Gold Coins from the 
 Eighteenth Year of King Edward III. when Gold 
 was first coined in England, witli their several 
 Weights, and present intrinsic Value, by Martin 
 Follies, JEsquire." 
 
 Mr. Bowyer was elected into that respectable body 
 on the 7th of July following ; and soon shewed him- 
 self to be a very useful member. It appears from 
 the Minute-books that he regularly attended their 
 ineetings * ; and frequently entertained them with 
 valuable communications. 
 
 Of the respectable Revivers of the Society in 1 7 1 7, 
 a general account is given in the Introduction to 
 the first volume of their Archa^ologia. Of those 
 original Members there remained only the follow- 
 ing persons at the time of Mr. Bowyer's admission ; 
 Mr. Alexander ; Mr. Becket, a gentleman of emi- 
 nence in his profession as a surgeon ; the two learned 
 brothers, Roger and Samuel Gale ; Mr. G'eorge 
 Holmes, deputy keeper of the Records in the Tower; 
 Mr. Maurice Johnson of Spalding ; Dr. Knight ; 
 Mr. William Nicholas, store-keeper in the office of 
 ordnance ; Dr. Rawlinson ; Mr. Robert Sanderson ; 
 Dr. Stukeley; Mr. George Vertue ; and Mr. Browne 
 Willis. 
 
 From the above worthy Veterans Mr. Bcwyer 
 experienced both patronage and friendship, as he 
 also did from many others who may more properly 
 be called his contemporaries. Of these I shall 
 enumerate such of his more immediate friends as 
 were members of the Society, either at the time of 
 his admission, or very soon after. 
 
 Among these, he was particularly noticed by 
 Mr. Ainsworth, the industrious editor of the best 
 Latin Dictionary this kingdona hath ever yet pro- 
 
 * Which \^ ere then held at the Mitre tavern in Fleet-street ; 
 where they were continued till 1753, when the Society, after 
 being incorporated, removed to a house in Chancery-lane; till in 
 17^0 they were seated by the bounty of their Royal Patron^ in 
 piagniilcent and convenient apartments in Somerset Hou.-e. 
 
 duced I
 
 1736-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. S<) 
 
 duced ; Mr. Ames, Secretary to the Society of An- 
 tiquaries ; Mr. Anstis and Mr, Leake, who siicdes- 
 sively enjoyed the ortice of Garter king of arms ; 
 Mr, Henry Baker; Mr. Beaupre Bell; Dr, Thomas 
 Birch, with whom Mr. Bowyer was associated in a 
 great variety of literary pursuits, and to whom I 
 with gratitude acknowledge that I was early in life 
 indebted for his friendly patronage ; Rev, Dr. Bor- 
 lase, the Historian of Cornwall ; Dr. Samuel 
 Chandler, the celebrated Dissenting Divine; Mr. 
 CoUinson, the ingenious Botanist, wliose researches 
 in natural history have immortalized his name ; 
 Mr. Charles Compton, Treasurer to the Society ; 
 Dr, Cowper, a physician of eminence at Chester ; 
 Mr, Drake, the Historian of York ; Mr, Edwards, 
 the celebrated ornithologist ; Mr. Fairfax ; Mr. 
 Folkes ; Mr. Frank ; Mr, Gordon ; Mr. Hall ; Mr. 
 Hardinge, Clerk of the House of Commons, and 
 one of the Secretaries of the Treasury ; Henry Hare, 
 baron of Colerane : Mr. Martin Leake; Mr.Lethieul- 
 lier; Dr. Charles Lyttelton, afterwards Bishoj) of 
 Carlisle, and President of the Society of Antiquaries; 
 Mr. Locker, many years clerk to the Companies of 
 Leathersellers and Clockmaker;^; Mr. Maitland, the 
 Historian of London ; Mr, Maittaire; J)r. Manges ; 
 honest Tom Martin of Palgrave, whose " Historv of 
 Thetford" Mr. Bowyer lived to begin })rintin<j;, but 
 died before it was completed at the press ; Dr. Cvn~ 
 yers Middleton, the celebrated Librarian of Cam 
 bridge; Mr. Morant, the Hi'^torian of Essex; Mr. 
 llowe-Mores ; Dr, Cromwell Mortimer; Mr. Niek- 
 olls ; Mr, (jeorge North, from whose rcscan-lu's uc 
 had great reason to have expected a History of the 
 Society of Antiquaries; Mr. David PapilliHi : Dr, 
 Parsons, to whose friendship 1 acknowlcd:;!' re- 
 peated obligations ; Bishop Pococke ; Dr. iJiehavd 
 son, Master of Fmanucl college, Cainbrl<l;;c ; Dr. 
 Tanner, Bishop of St, Asaph; ^ir Peter Thompson; 
 Mr. Tindal the Historian ; Mr. W'arbnrton. Somer- 
 set herald; l-'rofessor Ward ; Mr. INiilij) Carten { 
 Webb; Mr. James We^t, President of the |{..^.ll 
 
 Socieiv ;
 
 do LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l73^. 
 
 Society; and Mr. Francis Wise. Of each of these 
 gentlemen, some "Anecdotes" shall be given *. 
 
 1 return from this digression, if it can properly be 
 so called, to the subject which introduced it. 
 
 It has been already observed^ that Mr. Bovvyer 
 was a regular attendant at the meetings of the So- 
 ciety of Antiquaries; and his communications con- 
 tributed to the general stock of entertainment. 
 
 Among these was a letter to Roger Gale, esq. ^ 
 occasioned by an inscription on Vitellius, found at 
 Bath."}: in August 1736*. It was preserved in MS. 
 among the late Mr. Alkn of Darlington's curious 
 " Collections relating to the Antiquities of Great 
 Britain, transcribed from the Manuscript Papers of 
 Roger Gale, Esq." 
 
 Some inscriptions at the Earl of Exeter's seat at 
 Burleigh, communicated to the Society by Mr. 
 Bowyer, and his Dissertation on the Ciule or Yule 
 of our Saxon ancestors ^, remained in MS. till they 
 also were inserted in his Miscellaneous Tracts jj. 
 
 In the beginning of the same year (1736) Mr. 
 Bowyer was also an active promoter of the Society 
 for the Encouragement of Learning ; and an origi- 
 nal letter from their Secretary, addressed to the 
 Rev. Dr. Richardson, master of Emanuel college, 
 Cambridge, will explain the nature of the Institu- 
 tion, and the motives which suggested it : 
 
 " REV. SIR, London, Dec. 8, 1736. 
 
 " Not onlv your own character for promoting 
 erudition, but the experience we lately have had of 
 
 * See the " Essays and Illustrations" in the Fifth Volume, No X. 
 
 f Which, with some notes on it by the great Antitjuary to 
 whom it was addressed, is printed among the " Miscellaneous 
 Tracts, p. 133143. 
 
 J Dec. 23, 1737, a lettiT was read (from Professor Ward to 
 Mr. Bowyer) on the subject of the Bath Inscription ; and Mr. 
 Bowyer read afterwai'ds some other critic^al remarks ; for which 
 he received the thanks of the Society. Minutes, vol. II. p. 254. 
 
 On which Dr. Pettingal has learnedly treated in the Archae- 
 ologia, vol. II. p. O'O. 
 
 II P. 152 lO'O. 
 
 the
 
 1736.] THE EIGHTEENTH dENTURY. 9I 
 
 the generous and frank mianner in which you sub- 
 scribed to the Society for the Encouragement of 
 Learning, lately established, make me presume to 
 address you at ])resent, and to give some account of 
 the progress and advancement of the said Society. 
 We are every day increasing, both in number, and 
 in members, either conspicuous for their quality 
 and station, or learning and ingenuity. Next, as 1 
 have the honour of serving them in the quality of 
 their Secretary, I own 1 never saw any Committee 
 better attended, nor more unanimity among any set 
 of men. They have already entirely paved the way 
 for the reception of Authoi*s ; appointed Booksellers 
 for their service ; settled the regulations concerning 
 printers and the printing part ; being determined to 
 spare neither pains nor charges in what they shall 
 publish, so that it may be done in the most correct, 
 elegant, and beautiful manner. In fine, nothing is 
 wanting but to set out with some Author of genius 
 and note, in order to give the publick a s}>ecimen of 
 their desire to serve them as well as the author. 
 Several authors have already applied, and souk? 
 works are accepted ; but the Committee have laid 
 it down as a rule, not to begin or set out but ^^ ith 
 the work of some man of genius and merit in Eng- 
 lish ; wherefore, as the learned and ingenious Dr. 
 Middleton, of Cambridge, we hear, is about the 
 Life of Cicero, and greatly advanced therein, 1 
 should be obliged, if vou would take an opportunity, 
 or any of your friends who know him, to acquaint 
 him, that if he docs our Society the favour to lot 
 them pul^^lish it, I dare venture to assure him, tliat 
 it will be received with honour anil the liighest 
 ap])rol>ation, vvitliout the least formality : 1 shall 
 add, that, in point of interest, it will be a little 
 estate to the Author whose works they begin with, 
 for every mortal will buy it. 
 
 " You have no doubt heard in what a discourag- 
 ing way Dr. Bentlcv lias usctd our Society; for, 
 tiiough his work of Manilius was ready to be printed, 
 and he desired by several ix'f^plc to have it pub- 
 lished
 
 <)2 /K-ARY ANECDOTES OF [173^- 
 
 lished by the Society; he not only raised such ill- 
 oTounded objections a<]jainst the institution itself, 
 but chose to throw it into the hands of a common 
 Bookseller, rather than in those of the Society, which 
 has not only made several gentlemen of letters and 
 hi^h life exclaim against the discouraging and un- 
 generous act, but will be recorded to the learned 
 world, perhaps, when he is dead and rotten. Such 
 men deserve fleecing from Booksellers ; and I am 
 mistaken if he, or his Editors, will not meet with 
 it: I am sure none will regret them. But it 
 is hoped, nay expected, from the excellent charac- 
 ter Dr. Middleton bears in the world, that our 
 Society will meet w ith other treatment from him ; 
 for it is as much the duty of a great Author to lend 
 a helping hand to encourage and countenance so 
 laudable an institution as is that of this Society, as 
 it is for the Society to assist and encourage the 
 author. 1 he favour of your answer from him I 
 shall greatly esteem ; and the sooner you do me 
 that honour the better, that it may be deposited, 
 if favourable, at the next General Meeting, which 
 is the 3d day of Februar}\ My direction is, at 
 Slaughter s Coffee-house in St. Alartin's-lane. The 
 works of any other ingenious friend or acquaintance, 
 if recommended by you, will always be distinguish- 
 ingly received, I dare say, by the Committee, as 
 will \-our connnands at all times by, Bev. Sir, 
 " Your most humble and obedient servant, 
 
 Alex. Gokdox." 
 
 On the few books undertaken by this Society, 
 tliree Printers were employed (I suppose from eaeh 
 Authors having had the privilege to nominate his 
 own friend) ; Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Bettenham, and 
 Mr. Richardson, 
 
 '11 le statutes of the Societv were dated May :^7, 
 173^^'- ^'^ 'June that year the number of the iiieiii- 
 bers amounted to 102. 'I'lie Duke of Richmond 
 was their President, and Brian Fairfax, esq. Vice- 
 president : Sir Hugh Smithson (afterwards Duke of 
 
 North
 
 1736-] TME EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 93 
 
 Northumberland), and Sir Thomas Robinson, bart. 
 Trustees for the year. ^The first Committee of Ma- 
 nagers were, Charles Seymour Earl of Hertford, 
 James Hamilton Earl of Abercorn, Edward Harley 
 Earl of Oxford, Earl Stanhope, Lord Percival, Sir 
 Brownlow Sherard, bart, the Hon. William Tal- 
 bot, Dr. Richard Mead, Dr. Alexander Stuart, 
 Dr. Robert Barker, Dr. Addison Hutton, the Rev. 
 Dr. Thomas Birch, Charles Frederick, esq. James 
 West, esq. Major Edwards, Benjamin Marty n, esq, 
 George Lewis Scott, esq. Paul W^hitehead, esq. 
 Mr, John W^ard, professor at (rresham College, 
 James Thomson, esq, Samuel Strutt, esq. Daniel 
 Mackercher, esq. George Sale, esq. the Rev. (icorge 
 Watts. The Auditors were, the Hon. John Talbot, 
 Henry Talbot, Henry Kelsall, Edward Stevenson,. 
 and William Newland, esqrs. 
 
 It appears by Dr. Birch's MSS. that Mr. Gordon's 
 salary as Secretary was 50/. a year. June 30, 173.9, 
 Mr. Alexander Blackvvell *, " who had had a uni- 
 
 "* Son of Mr. Thomas lJl;ick\vell, who was one of the nrmi-^trr.s 
 of the town of Aberdeen, and prineipal of tlie Maiischal (,'<)iieii,-e, 
 in whicli office his son Thomas (the V^rotlier of this Alexander) 
 sueeeeded him, being at ilie same time professor of tlie (irerk 
 lanti^uaixt.' in the same universitv. After Itavinj^ received a IJbeial 
 education, he studied pli\sie innkT Hoei'haave at Tj<'V(kn, took 
 the degree of M. D. and acqnired a proiicieney in the "modein 
 languages. He jiosse.ised a good natural geinus, but was some- 
 what llighty, and a little conceited. IJis conversation, how- 
 ever, wa.-) facetious and agreeable; and he niiglil be eon-^iden d 
 on the whole as a uell-ijred accom))lished gentleman. On lii.r 
 return home, happening to stav lome time at The Hagui', be 
 eonti'acled an intimacy uith a Swedi-ih nobli'man. Marrviiig a 
 gentleman'.-^ daughler in the neighl)omhood of Aliiidccii, 1,,- 
 j)i()j)Oscd practising his jn'ofcssion in that part of the king'loiu ; 
 but in two years, lindinghi- expectation.-! di'-ai)iioinr( d, be f.v.v.c 
 to l.,ondon, where he mc( with still le.'-s cncouiartniiiit n- ;i 
 ph}.iieian, and commenced lorreetor of the ]tii-i for Mi' Wiiki;.^ 
 a printer. After some veais s])ent in tbi- ( uijilov mcnl, lie 'Cl 
 up a^ a printer him-c If, and (;u rit'd 011 .Mvcial i;irgc work-. liH 
 i7.il, when he became baidxiupt. In \vi;;il niiuuiti' lie ^ub : tiii 
 from this event till the ;;io\i -mi ntioncd aiijibu aliou vvi do :i it 
 learn, unle.-^ it vva-, in ibe iii^enuitv of bi^ wife, who juibl; b' l 
 ''A (urii^u-, Iieil);il, coniainuig I'iu Ibui. h'ed ( ni~, orthc in-.-t 
 useful Plant.-, wJiicb are novv u-eil in the I'Liclive (.-i' l'b'--''h.
 
 94 'i-lTERARV ANECDOTES OT [^73^'* 
 
 versity-education, undei'stood some of the modern 
 languages, and had practised the printing-busincsa 
 
 engraved on folio Copper- plates, after Drawins^ taken from the 
 Life, by Elizabeth Blackwcll. To which is added, a short De- 
 scription of the Plants, and tlicir common Uses in Physick, 
 1/39," 2 vols, folio. To the fii-st a oluine is prelixed a recom- 
 mendation fi'om' the distingtiishcd names of Dr. Mead, Dr. Teis- 
 sier, Dr. Stuart, Dr. Douglas, Dr. Sherard, Mr. C heselden, Mr. 
 Miller, Mr. Rand,- and Mr. Nickoils, dated Oct. 1, 17:>5 ; and 
 another from the president and censors of the College of Physi- 
 cians, dated July 1, 1737. In or about the year 1740 he went 
 to Sweden, and, rencAnng' his intimacy with the Nobleman he 
 knew at The Hague, again assumed the medical profession, and 
 was veiy well received in that capacity ; till, turning projector, 
 he laid a scheme before Ids Swedish ^Majesty for draining the fens 
 and marshes, which- was well received, and many thousands cm- 
 ployed in prosecuting it under the Doctor's direction, for which 
 he had .some small allowance from the King. This scheme suc- 
 ceeding so well, he turned his thoughts to others of gieater im- 
 iportance, which in the end proved fatal to him. lie was sus- 
 pected of being conccrnetl in a plot with Count Tessin, and was 
 tortured ; which not producing a confession, l)e was beheaded 
 Aug. 9, 1748. The British anibas.=ador \\as recalled from Swe- 
 den in 1748, among other reasons, for tlie impiitations thrcvn 
 on his Britannic Majesty in the trial of Dr. Blackwcll. Sooa 
 after this event appeared " A genuine copy of a Letter from a 
 Merchant in Stockholm, to his Correspondent in London ; con- 
 taining an impartial Account of Dr. Alexander Blackwell, his 
 Plot, Trial, Character, ant! Behaviovir, both undtM" K.xiiminatiou 
 and at the Place of Execvition, togetber \\ilh a Copy of a Paper 
 delivered to a Friend upon tlie Scaiibld; which may now ])erhap-; 
 be deemed a curiosity : " Gentlemen Spectators, I came into you.r 
 country as a stranger, in order to earn an honest livilil\()od in 
 the way of my piofession as a physician. For some years that 
 I ha\ c resided among you, I must acknowl(?dge tliat I met with a 
 reception and encountg-ement beyond any poor meiit 1 can bo^i~t. 
 of, nhicli in gratitude has begot in me a real and sincere allCec- 
 tion for this countiy, and its inlialiitants. As 1 met with civility 
 from all ranks, I cou'd have no j)avticular enmity at any per-on 
 in the kingdom. As my profession avsis all 1 minded (except so 
 far as I was happily instrumental in (h-aining the niarslies of this 
 kingdom), I had no ambition or capacity for meddling in court- 
 affairs, and consequently could have no plot of suj)planting any 
 uf the ministiy. As I had never suifered by the laws of Sweden, 
 and as the constitution nearly resembles that form under which I 
 have been educated, I could have no biass upon me to seek a 
 change in the constitution of this country ; where, whatever 
 form it might assume, I could enjoy no greater liberty than 1 
 did before, nor could ever expect to be any thing else bi;t a phy- 
 ician. Yet it has been my misfortune to come under the susj)! 
 
 cion
 
 173^-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUltt. r)-J 
 
 for some years, was a candidate to succeed Mr. Gor- 
 don." Mr. Daniel Lyon was afterwards Secretary. 
 
 Or. Birch's acconipts as Treasurer are presei-ved 
 among his MSS. Mr. Stephen Le Bas, who suc- 
 ceeded him in that office, receivedj Feb. g, 1739, a 
 balance of 59/. 3.V. 9^1. 
 
 However hberal the idea of such an institution 
 might have been, the execution of it counteracted 
 the intention of its Founders. It was in fact a 
 direct attack on the Booksellers, -who after all are 
 certainly no bad " rewarders of literary merit * ;" 
 and their assistance having been found indispensably 
 necessaiy to the undertaking, a contract was entered 
 into, for three years, with A, Millar, J. Gray, and 
 J. Nourse'l'. 
 
 cion of acting a pait inconsistent with my character, ability, or 
 even such principles as sliould direct me in the most trifling a^^ 
 well as the most important concerns of life, for which I am now 
 about to suffer J but, as 1 am a dying man, and in those circum- 
 stances wlvere falseliood is of the utmost bad consequence, and 
 can avail me notliing, 1 declare I never intended, plotted, or 
 contrived any alteration or disturbance of the Swedish constitu- 
 tion, nor ever received any encouragement whatsoever on that 
 head from any power whatever, Jis has been falsely surmised. I 
 die in charity with all mankind, and forgive from the bottom of 
 mr heart all those who have injun.'d, oppressed, or calumniated 
 me in any shape, and in the same maimer expect forgiveness 
 from all .such whom I may any ways have injured, espocially 
 of all tho.'^e w ho n)ay be any ways scandalized by the ignominious 
 death which my folly kis brought me to, and that the reputation 
 f the innocent may not sutf'er upon my account. 
 
 Alexander Bl.\ckwell." 
 
 * " I snp}>o.sc tliis Society for encouraging l^earning aJJum.^ 
 the Ii()ok.->eliers j for it nnist Ixj at la-st a dow might Tnuling 
 Society, a mere Coiigcr (forgive me if I mis-spell so mysterious 
 a word). [Shjc \o1. I. p. 340.] I hoj)e you will take care to be 
 one of their Printers, for they will certainly be a Society for 
 pneouraging Printing; I-^arning perha|)8 may be (<) far g<ine, 
 and })a>t all private encouragement." Mr. Clarke to Mr. lioaijtr, 
 f-arlij in IT-iT- 
 
 + In this period no more than four books were printed ; 
 " Di^.sertatio (k' StructurfV rt Motu Musculari, .Aurtore Ali \- 
 aiidp) Smart, .M.I). Screni-'sim.t! Carftlina' Mag. Rrit. i^c. niijur 
 ilt-gin. Med. Ord. C:oll. Reg. Mel. Iy.ri<l. et R. >.. S." 'Ito, 17.^S ; 
 (printi'd by Mr. Ili< luufUon ; for which tho Author obtained a 
 zold medal fjoui the Koyul Academy of Sciences, of wh'n h lur
 
 9(? LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l73^J 
 
 A new contract v/as afterwards entered into with 
 six other booksellers (Ct. Strahan, C. Rivington^ 
 1\ Vaillaut, J. Brindley, S.Baker, and .1 . Osborn, 
 jun.) ; whose profits on the bnsiness were so injudi- 
 ciously retrenched, that the avowed purposes of the 
 Society were entirely frustrated *. 
 
 In 1742, a third method was adopted, and the 
 Society chose to become their own booksellers. 
 The experiment was tried with ^lian " De Anima- 
 libus," 4to. in 1743. A few months were sulhcient 
 
 was a member J he died Sept. 15, 1742); Sir William Keith's 
 " History of Virginia," 8^o; "^ A Collection of Oiiginal 'setters 
 and Papers concerning- the Affairs of England from the Year 
 1641 to \660; found among tlie Dul<e of Ormond's Papers. In 
 two \()linnos. By Thomas ( aite, ]\I. A. 17-'ii>j ' Svo ; and Pi'O- 
 fessor Stuart's " Necessity of Revelation/' 8vo^ 1739. Neither 
 of thc-e \\ orks was large or expensive. 
 
 * On this plan two books only were published ; "The Negoti- 
 ations of Sir Thomas Hoc, on his Embassy to the Ottoman Porte, 
 from the year 16''2l to lfr2S inclu.-ive, &c." folio, 1740. Of this 
 volume Mr. Richartlson was ostensibly the eilitor as well as prin- 
 ter. He inscril)ed it to the King in a short dedication, %\hich 
 does honour to the ingenious writer. Proposals for publishing 
 live volumes of these Negotiations were circulated in 1730; but 
 the imdcrtaking failing of encouragement, ony this one volume 
 w^as published in 1740, so that the most curious and interesting 
 part of his pai)ers still remain in MS. See the Bioi^rajiJiia Bri- 
 iannica, ?-^. Roe, notelj. 
 
 " Maxinuis Tyrius" was published in 4to in the same year; 
 and Dr. Warburton, in a letter to Di'. Birch, says, " I am glad 
 that the Society for tlie Encouragement of Learning is in so 
 ijopeful a condition ; though methinks it is a little ominous to 
 set their press a-going with the arrantest so])hist that ever wrote, 
 prepared bv so aritmt a Critic ;" which probably alludes to Max- 
 imus Tyrius; at least the following quotation from another letter 
 shews l)r. Warbmton's sentiments on that volume : " I have a 
 poor opinion both of Markland's and Taylor's critical abilities, 
 f)etween friends : I speak from \\\\i\t I h.ave seen. Good sense is 
 the foundation of criticism ; this it is that has made Dr. Bentley 
 and Bp. Hare the two greatest ciitics that ever were in the work!. 
 \'ot that good sense alone will be sufficient. For that consider- 
 able part of it, emending a corrupt text, thoe must be a certain 
 sagacity, which is so distingiushing a quality in Dr. Bentley. 
 Dr. Clirke bad all the requisites of a critic but this ; and this he 
 wanted. ]>ipsius, Joseph Scaliger, Faber, Isaac V'ssius, Sal- 
 ina.-ius, had it in a gjeat degree; but these are lew among the 
 iiiiiuitc tribe of Crilic:>." MSS. in the British Museum. 
 
 to
 
 173^0 THE EIGHTfeENTH CENTURY. Qf 
 
 to demonstrate the impracticability of the attempt ; 
 and before the year was at an end, they again had 
 recourse to three Booksellers, on a plan in some 
 degree enlarged. Thus circumstanced, they pub- 
 lished Bp. Tanner's " Notitia Monastica *," folio, 
 in January 1743-4; and Professor Stuart's English 
 translation of Sir Isaac Newton's " Quadrature of 
 Curves" in September 1745. But their finances 
 were then become almost exhausted, after havinsf 
 expended a subscription of nearly two thousand 
 pounds. The " Bibliotlieca Britannica" of Bishop 
 Tanner was, however, completed under their patro- 
 nage in 1748 ; but, by "A Memorial of the present 
 State of Affairs of the Society, April 17," in that 
 year, it appears they had incurred so considerable a 
 debt as to be deterred at that time from proceeding 
 farther in their project of printing. 
 
 In this year, amongst other productions from 
 IVIr. Jiowyer's press, were, 
 
 " A Review of the Doctrine of tht Eucharist, as 
 laid down in Scripture and Antiquity. By Daniel 
 Waterland, D.D." 
 
 " Jlefiections Military and Political. Translated 
 from the Spanish of the Marquis dc Santa Cruz. By 
 Captain James Ogilvie." 
 
 A new edition of Mr. Ellis Walker's Paraphrase 
 of the ^"Enchiridion" of Epictetus 'l^. 
 
 *' An Answer to the iCnquiry into the Meaninf:^ 
 of Demoniacs in the New Testament. By Leonani 
 J wells, M.A." 8vo. 
 
 *' A Report, with the Appendix, from the Com- 
 mittee of the House of Commons, to \sIiom the 
 Petition of the Courehwardens, (Sec. ot the Parishes 
 
 '' Of whicli 500 fopics tlif whole iniprr-Mon, of an iinprovivi 
 cditiiin, with tt)ii.--i<kriible adciition-, i)iil)li^h(il by iMj . N.i^iiuiii 
 in 17b7, wtjc jiunl:i-n(l hy Mr. Niciiol-; autl by I'ar tin.- {^it.iic-i 
 part '.'f thf'iu coiisunicd by iirc in lb(W. 
 
 t An earlier editioahut bcfu particuKuly noticf.'iUiivfjI 1. p !'.;:. 
 
 A 01. II Jl '.f
 
 98 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l737- 
 
 of St. Giles in the Fields, &c. were referred ; and the 
 Proceedings of the House thereupon ;" foho. 
 
 A new edition of Mr. Whistons Translation of 
 Josephus, 4 vols. 8vo. 
 
 A Memorial, by Mr. Whiston, respecting' the 
 Longitude ; two editions. 
 
 Two Sermons by the Rev. George Whitefield*, B. A. 
 of Pembroke college, Oxford : 
 
 * From the considerable fig:iire which Mr. Whitcfield for many 
 years made as the founder of a very widely-spreading religious 
 society, a cursory memoir of his life cannot fail of giving: general 
 satisfaction^ and the following particulai's, selected from liis own 
 Jom-nal by the judicious compilers of "The Annual Register for 
 1770," vol. XIII. are very much to the purpose. 
 
 " I was born/' he says, '* in Gloucestershire, in the month of 
 December 1714, at the Bell-inn j and can truly say I was froward 
 from my mother's womb. I was so bruti>h as to hate instnic- 
 tion, and used purposely to shun all opportunities of receiving 
 it, I can date some very eai-ly acts of uncleanness. Lying, 
 filthy talking, and foolish jesting, I was nnich addicted to. 
 Sometimes I used to curse, if not swear. Stealing from my 
 mother I thought no theft at all, and u>ed to make no scruple 
 of taking money out of her pocket before she was up. I ha\c 
 frequently betrayed my trust ; and have more than once spent 
 money I took in the house, in buying fruit, tarts, &c. to satisfy 
 my seasual appetites. Numbers of Sabbatlis have I broken, and 
 genei^ally used to behave myself very irreverently in Gods Sanc- 
 tuary. Much money have I spent in Plays, and in the common 
 enteilainments of the age. Cards, and reading Romances, were 
 my heart "s delight. Often have I joined witli otliers in playing 
 roguish tricks ; but was generally, if not always, happily de- 
 tected. For this I have often since, and do now, bless and praise 
 God, It %vould be endless to rec^ount the sins and offences of my 
 younger days they are more in number than the hairs of my 
 head. My heart would fail me at the remembrance of them, 
 was I not assured that my Redeemer iiveth, ever to make inter- 
 cession for m.e. However the yt)ung man in the Gospel might 
 toast how he had kept the Conunandments from his youth, with 
 shame and confusion of face 1 confess that I have broken them 
 all fro)n my youth. Whatever foreseen fitness for salvation others 
 may talk of, and gloiy in, I disclaim any such thing if I trace 
 myself from my cradle to my manhood, I can see nothing in me 
 but a fitness to be damned , and if the Ahnighty had not pre- 
 vented me by hiis grace, and \vrought njost poweifuUy upon my 
 soul, quickening me by his free s])irit \\lien dead in trespasses 
 and sins, I had now cither been sitting in darkne.-s, and in the 
 rbadow of death, or condenmed, as the due reward of my crimes, 
 to be for ever lifiing up my eyes in torments. But such was the 
 iviic grace of Cod 10 me^, that liiough cwruptioa worked so 
 
 strongly
 
 1737.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Q^ 
 
 1 . " The Nature and Necessity of Society in ge- 
 neral, and of Religious Society in particular;" which 
 
 strongly in my soul, and produced such early and bitter fruits, 
 yet I can recollect very early movings of the blessed Spirit upon 
 my heart, sufficient to satisfy me that God loved me with an 
 everlasting love, and separated me, even from my mother's womb, 
 for the work for which he afterwards was pleased to call me. I 
 had early some convictions of sin ; and once, I remember, when 
 some persons (as they frequently did) made it their business to 
 teaze me, I immediately retirerl to my room, and, kneeling down, 
 with many tears, prayed over that Psalm wherein David so often 
 repeats these words, But in the name of the Lord luilt destroy them. 
 I was always fond of being a Clergyman, used frequently to imi- 
 tate the Minister's i-eading prayers, &c. Part of the money I used 
 to steal from my parent I gave to tlie poor ; and some books I 
 privately took frou othei-s (for which I have since restored four- 
 fold), I remember, were books of devotion. My mother was 
 veiy careful of my education, and always kept mc in my tender 
 years from intermeddling in the least willi the public businens. 
 About the 10th yeai" of my age, it pleased God to permit mv 
 mother to marry a second time. It proved what the world 
 call an unhappy match ; but God over-ruled it for good. When 
 I was about tweh e, 1 was placed at a school called St, Mary de 
 Crypt in Gloucester, the last grammar-school I ever went to. 
 Having a good elocution and memoiy, I was remaiked for mak- 
 ing speeches before the Corporation at their annual visitation. 
 But I cannot say I felt any davvnings of God upon my soul for a 
 year or two, saving that I laid out some of the money that was 
 given me on one of the aforementioned occasions^ in buying 
 Ken's Manual for Winchester Scholars, a book that had much 
 alfeoted me when my brother used to read it in my mother'.i 
 troubles, and which, for some time after I bought it, was of 
 great benefit to my soul. During the time of my being at school, 
 1 was very fond of reading Plavs ; and have kept from school for 
 days together, to prepare myself for acting them. Mv marter, 
 seeing how mine and my sclicolfeliows vein mn, composed s-jme- 
 thing of tliis kind for us liimself, and caused mc to drcis mvself 
 iu girl's cloaths (which I had often dene) to act a part before 
 the Corporation. The remembrance of this has often covered 
 nie with confusion of face, and 1 hope wiU do so even to the end 
 of my life. BefiHC I was 15, having, as I thought, made n suf- 
 ficient progress in the Classick?, and, at the bottom, longng to 
 be set at liberty from the coufincraont of asc!;()ol. i owe duv i-ud 
 my mother, ' sinco licr cIrcrTnotar.ces would not prrmit her to 
 give me an University education, ii.Dre icai-ning I tl'cught woald 
 spoil me for a tradc-^man, and tiie:cf(;ie I judg^-'d it boit not to 
 learn I^atin any longer.' Sh-' at liist refused to cnn<;cnt ; but 
 my corruptions soon got the better of her good-uatur'. licrc- 
 upon, for some tune, I went to leain t'. -.vn'^o only. Ivm, my 
 mother's circumstances being much un the decline, and b'.ing 
 
 H 2 tracuiwie
 
 100 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l737' 
 
 had been first preached at St. Nicholas' church, Bris- 
 tol ; and ajjain before the Religious Societies, at 
 
 tractable that way, I from time to time began to assist her occa- 
 .Monally in the public-house, till at lni)2;th I p\it on my blue 
 apron and my snuffers, \v;ishecl mops, cleaned rooms, and, in 
 one word, became a professed and commf)n drawer. Notwith- 
 standing I was thus employed in a large inn, and had sometimes 
 the care of the whole house upon my hands, yet I composed two 
 or three Sermons, and dedicated one of (hem, in ])arti('idar, to 
 my elder brother. One time, I remember, 1 was \ery niuch 
 pressed to self-examination, and found myself \-ery unwilling to 
 look into my heart. Frequently I read the Bible when sitting 
 up at night. Seeing the boys go by to school, has often cut inc 
 to the heart. And a dear youth (now with God) woidd often 
 come intreating me, when serving at the bar, to go to Oxford. 
 My genei-al answer was, / wish I could. After I liad continued 
 about a year in this ser\ile emplo3Tnent, my mother was obliged 
 to leave the inn. My brother, Avho had been bred up for the 
 business, married, whereupon all was made over to him ; an<i I 
 being accustomed to the house, it was judged best that I should 
 continue there n^ an assistant. But it happened that my sister- 
 in-law and I could by no means agree ; and therefore, after con- 
 tinuing a long while under a great burden of mind, I at length 
 resolved (thinking my absence would make all things easyj to go 
 away. Accordingly, by the advice of my brother, and consent 
 of my mother, I went to see my elder brother, then settled at 
 Bristol. Here God was pleased to give me great sensible devo- 
 tion, and fill me with such unspeakable raptures, particularly 
 once in St. John's church, that I was carried out beyond myself. 
 I felt great hungeiings and thirstings after the blessed Sacra- 
 ment } and wrote many letters tu my mother, telling her I would 
 oever go into the public employment again. Thomas a KempLs 
 was my great delight, and I was always impatient till the bell 
 rung to call me to tread the courts of the Lord's house. But in 
 the midst of these illuminations, something secretly whispered. 
 This would not last. And indeed it so happened. For (oh that 
 I could write in tears of blood!) when I left Bristol (as I did 
 in about two months), and returned to Gloucester, I changed 
 my devotion with my place. Alas ! all my fervour went off; 
 and I had no inclination to go to chiu-ch, or draw nigh imto 
 God. However, I had so much Religion left as to persist in my 
 resolution not to live in the inn ; and therefore my mother gave 
 me leave, though she had but a little income, to have a bed upon 
 the ground, and live at her house, till Frovitlenee should point 
 out a place for me. Having now, as I thought, nothing to do, 
 it was a proper season for Satan to tempt me. Much of my 
 time I ?j)ent in leafling Flays, and in sauntering froni place to 
 place. I was careful to adorn my body, but took little pains to 
 deck and beautify my soul. Evil communications with my 
 old =eliooUel!ovvs soon corrupted mv good-mannert. By seeing 
 
 Uieir
 
 '7S7] THE EIGHTEENTH. CENTimV. 101 
 
 one of their Quarterly Meetings, in Bow Church, 
 London. 
 
 their evil practices, all sense of Religion gi^adually wore off my 
 mind, and I at lengtli fell into a secret sin, the dismal effects of 
 which I have felt, and groaned under ever since. Having lived 
 thus for some considerable time, a young student, who was once 
 my schoolfellow, and then a servitor of Pembroke college, Ox- 
 ford, came to pay my mother a visit. Amongst other conversa- 
 tion, he told her how he had discharged all College expences that 
 quarter, and receive<l a penny. Upon that my mother immedi- 
 ately cried out, ' This will do for my son.' Then turning to me, 
 she said, * Will v ou go to Oxford, George r' I replied. With all 
 my heart. W liereupon, having the same friends that this young 
 student had, my mother, without delay, waited on them. They 
 promised their interest, to get me a Servitor's place in the same 
 College. She then applied to my old master, who much ap- 
 proved of my coming to school again. In about a week I went 
 and entered myself, and s[)ared no pains to go fonvard in my 
 book. God Wits pleased to give me his blessing, and 1 leained 
 much faster than I did before. But all this ^vhile I continued in 
 sin ; and at length got acquainted with such a set of debau^ched, 
 abandoned, atheistical youths, that if God, by his free, unmerited, 
 and especial grace, had not delivered me out of tlicir hands, I 
 should long since have sat in the scornc-r"s chair, Jiy keeping 
 company with them, my thoughts of Ileligion grew more and 
 more like theirs, I went to public .service only to make sport, 
 and walk about. 1 took pleasiu'e in their lewd conversation. I 
 began to reason as they did, and was in a fair way of lacing as 
 infamous as the worst of them. Dut (oh .stupendous love !) iGod 
 <ven here <topj)ed me, when running on in a full career to Hell. 
 l'"or just as I was upon the brink of ruin, he gave me such a dLs- 
 tastc. of their principles and practices, that I discovered them to 
 my master, who soon put a stop to their proceedings, lieiug 
 thus delivered out of the snares uf tlie Devil, 1 began to be more 
 and more serious, and felt the spirit of (iod at diiK.'rent times 
 working powerfully and convincingly upon my soul. One day 
 in j)articular, as I w;ls coming down ,'-t;iirs, and ovcTheard my 
 friends speaking well of me, (iod so dei-.ply convicted me of hy- 
 pofiisy, that though I had formed frequent but inettectual re.Mi- 
 lutions before, vet I had then pow cr given me ove,r my .secit.t and 
 darling sin. Nfjtwithstanding, some time after being oviriakcn 
 in liquor (as 1 liave been twice or tlirice in my life-time), Satan 
 gained his usunl advantage over me again ; an exjicri mental prool' 
 to my poor soul, how that wicked one makes use of intcniperati' 
 men as machines to work tliem up to ju-t vvliat h-' plea.'<es." Thus 
 far in Mr. \V hitetield'* o.vn words. Winn adiuilted a .servitor at 
 Pembroke college, he very soon dii'ingul>.hcd hini^flf by the au- 
 sterities of his devuLion, and acquired eonsidciible eminenec in 
 some religious assemblies in 0\tojd; ' lying whole day> and 
 weeks prostrate on the groouu ii . iini. or vocal j>ra)-er; laving 
 
 off
 
 JOS LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l737* 
 
 2. '* The Nature and Necessity of Self-denial ; a 
 Sermon preached at St. AndrewV, Holborn." 
 
 off the eating of fruits ; choosing the worst sort of food, though 
 his place furnished him with variety, thinking it unbecoming a 
 penitent to have his hair powdei-ed ; wearing woollen gloves, a 
 patched gown, and dirty shoes," to contract a habit of humility. 
 At the age of 21, the fame of Mr.^\'hitetield's piety recommended 
 him so much to Dr. Benson, the then Bp. of Gloucester, that he 
 made him a voluntary offer of ordination, which Mr. Whitefield 
 at last thought proper to accept ; and was accordingly ordained, 
 June 10, 1/36. On the following Sunday he preached his first 
 Sermon, at Gloucester, in the church where he had been bap- 
 tized, " on the Necessity and Benefit of Religious Society ;" and 
 in the week following, on his return to Oxford, took the degree 
 of B. A. } and, immediately after this regular admission into the 
 ministry, applied himself to the most extraordinary, the most 
 indefetigable duties of his character ; and was invited to preach 
 in most of the large churches in London ; till, in December 1737, 
 having at length made himself universally known, he embarked 
 for America, where the tenets of Methodism began to spread very 
 feat under his friends the Wesleysj and first determined upon the 
 institution of the Orphan- house at Georgia, which he afterwards 
 effected. He returned to London, after visiting Ireland, in 
 December 173S ; and in January 1739 was ordained priest by 
 Bp. Benson; after which time, the churches not being sufficiently 
 capacious, he preached daily wherever he thought there would 
 be a likelihood of making proselytes 3 in prisons, Jields, and open 
 streets; in church-yards ; on Kennington Common, and in Moor- 
 fields; and particularly to the colliei-s of Kingswood, on Hannam 
 Mount, neau' Bristol. In August 1739 he went a second time to 
 Georgia ; and preached inces-santly in various parts of the Ame- 
 rican Continent. On his return to England, in March 1741, 
 he found that " the Moravians had made inroads upon the socie- 
 ties ; and that Mr. John Wesley had been prevailed on to preach 
 and print in favour of perfection and universal redemption." 
 He preached, however, once, but no moie, at the Foitndery, a 
 place which his friend John Wesley had procured during his 
 absence; and "to have heard the weeping between him and Mr. 
 Charles Wesley, after praj'cr, would have melted any heart." 
 From this time a separation of these sectarian leaders took place ; 
 and a Tabernacle was erected by the friends of Mr. Whitefield, 
 near the Foundery ; which " he disliked, as it looked like erect- 
 ing altar against altar." After this he visited many parts of 
 Eise.x; and preached, on a common near Braintree, to near 
 10,000 persons. In this year he also visited Scotland ; and was 
 particularly noticed by many persons of considerable distinction. 
 In October, he travelled from Edinburgh to Abergavenny; 
 where he married Mrs. Jones, a widow lady; and from that time 
 till August 1744 continued in England. The next four years 
 ^^ ere jj^aised in America ; whence, after stopping at the Bermuda 
 
 Llandi,
 
 1737.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 10,^ 
 
 Of these two Sermons, which were among the 
 earhest of Mr. Whitefield's productions from the 
 
 Islands, he returned to England, in July 1748, after an absence 
 of four years ; but found his congiegation of the 'J'abemacle sadly 
 scattered, and his own pecuniary afiairs in a very deranged 
 state. But his congregation was soon recruited; and a veiy un- 
 expected incident occurred. The pious and benevolent Countess 
 of Huntingdon, having expressed a desire to see him at her 
 house at Chelsea as soon as he came on siiore ; he went, and, 
 having preached twice, the Countess informed liim, tliat several 
 of tlie Nobility desired to see him. In a few days, the Earl of 
 Chesterfield, and a whole circle of persons of fasliion, attended ; 
 and, having heard him once, they desired to hear him again. 
 *' I therefore preached agjiin," he says, " in t^e evenir^ ; and 
 went home never more surprized in my life. All behaved quite 
 w ell, and \\ eie in some degree affected. The Earl of Chesterfield 
 thiuiked me ; and said, * Sir, I will not tell you, what I shall tell 
 others, how I approve of you;' or words to that purpose. At 
 last Lord Bohngbroke came to hear ; sat like an .\i-chbishop j 
 and was pleased to say, I had ' done grtat juslice to the Divine 
 Attributes in my discourse.' Soon afterwards her Ladyship re- 
 moved to to\vn ; where I preached generally twice a week to 
 very brilliant audiences." In October that year he vwited Scotland 
 for the ihird time. In 1/50 he went to A^hby-de-la-Zouch, 
 to wait on the Countess of Huntingdon, \\ ho had been ill } 
 and, in his way thither, had " a most comf()rtaI)le inteniew, 
 at Northampton, with Dr. Doddiidge, Mr. Heney, and two 
 pious Clergjinen of the Church of England, both known to tlie 
 learned world by their valuable writings." After a long course of 
 peregrination, his fortune increa'^ed, as his fame extended among 
 his followers j and, after preaching for a short time in I^)ng 
 Acre chapel, where " he met all sorts of opposition and diflicul- 
 ties," he begun, May 10, 1750, to build a new Chajjcl at Totten- 
 hamcourt-road; which he opened on the 'iXx of .November; and 
 continued during that winter to preach couunonly in it about 
 fifteen times in e\ery week; and hei-e, and at tlie Tabernacle 
 near Moorfields, with the help of some as'-istants, he continued 
 for M\cr;d vears, attended by vei\- crowded congregation^, and 
 quitting the kingdom only occa^lon'il!\ . Besides the Tabernacle 
 ;uid Chapel already mentioned, by being cbaphiin to theCounteys 
 of Huntingdon, he was connected with two other nligiouH meet- 
 ings, one the cekbrated Ch:ipel at Bath, which lie oi)en('d in 
 July 17<i5, and the other at J'uubridge, chieliy crectt-d under 
 that Lady's patronage. America, however, which always en- 
 gaged much of his attention, wa^- de-tined to close his eye.-. ; and 
 fie died at Newberry, about iO niilr.s from Bo-ton in New Eng- 
 land, Sept. 30, 1701). l^Iis di^order was a vi(jlent asthma, which 
 in a ffW hours put a period to hi- hfe, in the ."iGth year ot his 
 age. Tor a fuller accouul of ihi- vtiy t'.vtraordinary Divine. th(? 
 
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 104 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l737. 
 
 press, repeated editions were called for^ both in this 
 and in the following year *. 
 
 A Dissertation, " De Vita, Scriptis, et -<3Etate 
 Hesiodi," by Dr. Robinson, prefixed to the Oxford 
 edition of Hesiod, in 4to. Of this work there were 
 three different-sized papers ; and of the largest only 
 ten copies were printed ; which accounts for their 
 extreme scarcity, and the enormous price for which 
 a copy has been sometimes sold. 
 
 A new edition of ** A View of the Present State 
 of Scotland -J-, in regard to the Tenures and Slavish 
 Dependencies of the Subjects of that Part of North 
 Britain. In a Memorial drawn up by William 
 Logan, Esq. a Scqtish Gentleman ;" 8vo. 
 
 " Carmen Epinicium Augustissimae Russorum 
 Imperatrici sacrum ;" a small poem, by Mr. Mait- 
 taire, printed only for private use. 
 
 " Concio ad Clerum Londinensem, Maii 30, 
 1737 ; a Josepho Roper ;:." 
 
 ' An Enquiry into the Natural Right of Mankind 
 to debate freely concerning Religion, wherein the 
 Maxims advanced by several late Writers upon this 
 Subject are examined, by a Gentleman of Lincoln's 
 Inn. Maxima quoeque duhia sunt. 1737," 8vo ; 
 beautifully printed ; is mentioned by Mr. Clarke in 
 such a manner as to shew that Mr. Bowyer had 
 
 reader is referred to the Memoirs of him by the Re-\-. Dr. Gillies } 
 and to a collection of his " Smmons, Tracts, and Letters," which 
 were published after his death, in six volumes, 8vo. 
 
 * I find but one printed Sermon of an earlier date ; " The 
 'Nature and Necessity of a new Birth in Christ ; a Sermon preached 
 at Bristol in September 17i>7j" sold by C. Favingtouj 8vo. 
 
 f First printed in 1733. 
 
 ; See p. 46. 
 
 " I did not apprehend, by your former letter, that I was to 
 read this Essay upon the Freedom of Debate either as Critick or 
 Corrector j and now I have not leisure to set seriously to it till 
 after next week. The Author, whoever he is, is master both of 
 himself and the subject ; but general taste is so uncertain a 
 thing, who can judge of it ? I think he is sometimes too dif- 
 fuse, and sometimes too methodical ; here keeping to the strict-: 
 ncss of demonstration, and there leaving the argument for the 
 cake of orjiaments. Besides;, the good design of it 'vvill be no 
 
 advan-t
 
 1737.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I05 
 
 paid a particular attention to it. The copy-right of 
 this volume was regularly assigned over to him by 
 the author (Mr. Henry Anderson*) with an express 
 permission to alter it as he thought proper; a liberty 
 xvhich, I believe, he exercised very liberally. 
 
 A new edition of Dr. Grey's " Memoria Technica." 
 
 The first part (164 pages in folio) of " The History 
 
 and Antiquities of the County of Northampton -j~^'* 
 
 advantage to its sale. On the right side of the question, a book 
 must be excellently well wrirtea in all i-espects to be generally 
 read ; when one with half the sense or spirit on the other shall 
 succeed much better. I wish it much succe.^ri, and think it de- 
 serves it. There are some little particularities in expression, 
 which I do not so well like ; p. IJ-i, 1- 3, ' with some Inde.v 
 expurgatoriusj' scarce English. Ibid. 1. 7, ' a book not near so 
 bold as the Grounds and Reasons and the Moderator." I do not 
 understand that sentence clearly I suppose it should be, or the 
 Moderator ; the comma is wanting. P. 270, ' The Heidlebergh's 
 Cntechismus,' why not The Heidlcberiih Qitechism P The Aus- 
 burt^h's Conftssio would .-jouud odd. Who is your author?" 
 
 Ji/'. Clarke to Mr. Bowtjcr, 1737. 
 
 * Who died March 18, 17G1. 
 
 t This valuable work ^^:ls lirst projected, and begiui in the 
 j-ear 1719, by John Bridges, cnq. of Barton Segrave, near Ket- 
 tering, a bencher of Lincoln's Inn. solicitor to the Customs lC9r>, 
 and a commissioner in I7II ; ca.-^hier of Kxcise 171ij. a governor 
 of Bridewell and Bethlcm hospitals; and F. 8.A. 171H ; a man in 
 the highe.-^t degree qualified to direct .-uch an undertaking, of 
 pound judgment, various and e\t('n.^ive learning, and e(|u:ii skill 
 and diiigenro in the invcstigatiftn of Antiquilie-; who ])r()j)Tly 
 commenced his career by a }>ers()n;il \i>itation of e\(i y parish in 
 the Countv. \Vc have it from the authority of a brother Anti- 
 quary, Browne Willis, that he exjK'Uckcl .-cveral ihousHud poinid- 
 on this pursuit; and the trai)sciii)ts thus collected eKtendnl to 
 wards of '-50 volumr.', in folio. llis practical attention to his 
 profps.sion was probably })rtvented hy the pro.-pect of a private 
 fortune, and the liiciative places uhich he enjoyed; but '-ouie 
 minont writers, and pmtitularly Hearne, have borne vtry hon- 
 ourable tf.~timony to hi.^ knowknlge, and jnvjfc-srd thcm-clvts 
 indfhtcfl to his friendly comnmnications. About lbV;,"> he pur- 
 chased the manor of Barton Segrave (Hi.-tory of N(;it]i;unpton- 
 .>hire, vol. 11. p. 218) ; and died, at hi- ( liainbi n in Lincoln's 
 Inn, March 16, n2'A-'i ; after having, by hi-, la-t will, dated 
 Aug. 8, 172;{, directed all his book^ and .Vl^S. to be >old, ard 
 out of the sale r,(K)l. to his brother. Nathaniel and Ralph. He 
 excepted .such MSS. as related to hia intended History of Nortli- 
 aniptori.-hire, with all bra.ss plate.-, print.-, or rlraughts, relating 
 to that design 3 \vhich wtie left a-: an heir-loom to liL- i'umilv, 
 
 to
 
 106 LITERARY ANECDOTES Of [l737- 
 
 by that able Antiquary John Bridges, Esq. of 
 Barton Segrave, near Kettering, who spent many 
 
 to- be comniitted to such person or persons as should be thought 
 
 proper to carrj'on that dcj^ign, and to be kept locked up in a distint^t 
 
 press and boxes. His collection of books was so judicious, that 
 
 the catalofcue of his librarj- (sold after his death by Cock, during; 
 
 07 daijs, each day in two parts, whith produced 4000'.) is still 
 
 retained as valuable by e\t'ry Collector. To the Catalogue was 
 
 prefixed a print by A. Rlottc, of an oak felled, and thi.s motto, 
 
 iZfio; tc;a-iji7r,; vret,; amp ^vX-ii-rxi an aifecting memento to the 
 
 collectors di great librai-ies, who cannot or do not lea-ve them to 
 
 j-ome public acces.sible repository. ITie prints and books of 
 
 prints, containing a fine collection of Hollar's Works, Nanteuil's^ 
 
 and Morin's heads, the antient and modem statues, buildings 
 
 and niins, &e. together with three famous MvSS. mentioned in 
 
 the last page of the printed Catalogue of books, were sold by 
 
 Cock, March 24, 1725. To this latter sale, Humphrey Wanley 
 
 aJhides (see vol. I. p. 93.) A portrait of Mr. Bridges, taken by 
 
 ^p Godfrey Kneller in 1706, was engraved by VVrttie in 17'26" j 
 
 and in the ehurch of Barton Segrave he is thus recordeil : 
 
 " JoHANNEM Bridges, Araiig. 
 
 Ltterarum et Literatorum amantissimum, 
 
 ingenti LibroiTim supellectili superbientemj 
 
 et quajdam de patriis Antiquitatibus 
 
 coa])tantem, 
 
 placuit D. O. M. 
 
 in pulverem et torram dirucrc, 
 
 ubi omnia ilia percunt. 
 
 Natus Binfioldiaj in iigro Berk. 
 
 Ufortalitatis exuvias deposuit apud Hospit. Lincoln. 
 
 anno SaUitis 1724, ittatis 58. 
 
 Hoc marmor sepulchi'ale 
 
 Brook Bridges propriis sumptibus 
 
 poni curavit, A.D. 1753," 
 
 Tlie Northamptonshire MSS. were (by his brother Williain, 
 Secretary of the Stamp-office) put into the hands of Mr, Gii)bons, 
 stationer and law-bookseller, at the Middle Temple-gate ; who 
 circulated proposals for a subscription, and engaged Dr. Samuel 
 Jebb, a learned physician at Stratford, in Essex, to prepare it 
 for publication in numbers. The fiist number, printed in aljout 
 four years after, was succeeded by a second, making together 
 160 pages, and containing the Inmdrcds of Fawley, A\arclon, 
 and Norton, with %iews of Daventi-y church and priory (now 
 both pulkd ilown), and Catcsby monastery. Four pages more 
 (containing the rectory of Green's Norton, alia* Norton Davy, 
 in the deanry of Bracklcy) ^vcre printed oft 'as the beginning of a 
 third number. These, with all the pajiers in Mr. Bowyer's 
 hands, were delivered in 1/42 to Mr. Gibbons ; who afterwards 
 becoming a bankrupt, the subscriptions could not be reco'i ercd^ 
 and the work was discontinued. The greatest pait of the plates, 
 
 which
 
 1737.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. IO7 
 
 years in collecting materials, and spared no expence 
 in surveying every parish, &c. Seven thousand 
 
 which had been engraved (from accurate drawings made by the 
 fornousTillemans,who was paidagxiineaaday, and by other artists) 
 were dispersed and sold, and few only were afterwards recovered. 
 Toms the engraver had several ; and Mr. Rawlinson purchased 
 ten, now in the Bodleian Libraiy. Mr. New, F. S. A. had im- 
 pressions of 20, and Dr. Ducarel of \6. Some views of Peter- 
 borough minster, &c. were in the hands of Mr. Bathurst, book- 
 seller, as specimens. Many uiiengraved drawings, with the map 
 of the county nearly finished by Tiiomas Eayre of Kettering, were 
 in 1749 in the pos.es.sion of Mr. Bridges's executor, the Rev. 
 Brooke Bridges, of Sidney Sussex, college, Cambridge, rector of 
 Orlingbury, Northamptonshire. In the MS library of the late 
 Marquis of Lansdown (No. 752) were, " Topographical Notes of 
 PaiTshes in Northamptonshire, collected for the Use of John 
 Bridges, Esq. of Barton Segrave, in that County;" and also 
 (No. 772, 773.) " More particular Enquiries, containing an 
 Account of 32 Parishes in Northamptonshire, collected for John 
 Bridges, Esq. 1719-20," 2 vols. 4to. (which are now in the library 
 of the British Museum). But the greater part of the collections 
 remained with Dr. Jebb, who had recei\ ed little or no compen- 
 sation for his labour ; till, in 1755, the gentlemen of the County 
 very spiritedly took up the basiness. The late excellent William 
 Cartwright, of Aynho, esq. one of the County-nxenibers, advanced 
 money to satisfy Dr. Jebb, and obtained pOisession of the MSS. ; 
 and a Committee was f(3rmed, of which Sir Thomas Cave was 
 chairman, for the express ])urpose of coiiducting the publication. 
 At an .Assize-meeting, 1755, the Rev. Peter ^Vhalley of Courteer- 
 haU, and Mr. Benjamin Buckler, of All Souls (afterwards D. D. 
 and keeper of the archives at Oxford) a gentlenian of abilities 
 and general eiuflition, attended ; and Sir Thomas (Jave recom- 
 mended r>r. Ducarel. Ihe geneial sense of the Committee was 
 in favour of Mr. Buckler (who \v;is to have had 600/. for his 
 trouble) ; and at the ballot Mr. Whalley had 5, Mr. Buckler had 4, 
 and Dr. Ducarel 3 votes. The Committee were, Sir Edwaid Isham, 
 and Sir Thomas Cave, barts.; William Cart u right, Charles Comp- 
 ton, Anibro.se Istcd, and John Palmer, eqr:>. ; Rev. Dr. Circy, 
 Dr. Stonehfuse, Rev. Messrs. Lockwood, L\c, Wilk.'-, and Wha- 
 ley of Ecton. Mr. Buclvler, after pfrii.sal, deelineil (he work us 
 too complicated. The materials were tlun cntni.-,tcd to Mr. 
 Whalley; by whom the compilation wa^ fonned, except what 
 Dr. Jebb had (hawn up, which wunud (.oncciion. a-, the whole 
 (iid enlargcnunt in bio^i,Taphical and otlicr article^. The fir-t 
 lb"4 pages wore reprinted, and coiniJri.M'd in 150, cxdus-ivc of 
 Sutton hundred, introduced before that of \oiton. The fir.-t 
 volume apjKi'.red in 1762, and the iir^t part of the seif)nd in 
 17'^''9 ; when a new delay aro.s*^-. from the (l('ath.-> of Sir Thomas 
 Cave and most of tie Cftunniifcf, uluch !)(< ame at la.st reduced 
 tu ior Xhoiriis Cave (soii of thf foimcr; and Sir WiUi^un Doibrn, 
 
 hart.s
 
 l-OS LITKRARV ANECDOTES U [l737 
 
 copies of his Proposals for printinpj the book 
 (>vliich were on a whole sheet, with red letters in 
 
 barts. The work stopped at the Uni^'er^ity press at Oxford seven 
 yeai-sj and Mr. Prince, being considerably out of pocket, applied 
 to the gentlemen of the County at the Assizes, when it w-as re- 
 sumed under a new Committee, and brought to a final issue. It was 
 announced in January 1791 for delivery, as soon as Mr. Ayscough 
 could prepare the index ; which occasioned a delay of near nine 
 months, during which it acquired several additional plates, and 
 Mr. Faden's general map, with the latest corrections; and was 
 delivered to the subscribers at the original price of four g\iineas. 
 Vol. I. contains 12 plates, and a large fnap ; vol. II. 2(> plates. 
 In this mimber 38 are included five or six new ones, given just 
 before publication. Those of Fothcringhay and Luffvvick were 
 contributed by J. Nichols ; who, jointly with Mr. Da.sh of Ket- 
 tering, gave also the plate of Northamptonshire Tokens. A 
 large collection of original drawings by Tillpmans, Eayre, and 
 others, lay for some time at Mr. Payne's, at the Mews-gate, with 
 a catalogue, for the inspection of those who might be di.-.posed 
 to contribute plates of their seats, or of any A'enerable remains 
 of antiquity. Of all these a list is given in Gent. Mag. vol. LXI. 
 p. 1129. Mr. Whalley deserves every praise for arranging this 
 mass of materials during the laborious engagement of superin- 
 tending the grammar-school of Christ'^ Hospital. His retire- 
 ment to the living of Horley in Surrey, in the gift of the gover- 
 nors of that Hospital, gave him leisure to complete it ; but an 
 mifortimate derangement of his affair.^, and the inattention of 
 tlie gentlemen of the County, delayed it from 1779 (at the close 
 uf which year it was actually proinised for publication) till 1791. 
 Though we are left, ho^^ever, to regret that a parochial \isita- 
 tion had not been repeated previous to the publication, as rruich 
 information might certainly ha\e been added ; yet, \mder all dis- 
 advantages, Mr. Bridgcs's History of Northamptonshire is a 
 model to all (-ounty Historians ; and it is heartily to be wished 
 that some Native may be found, heir to his skill and public .spirit, 
 and meet with due encouragement to continue the labours of 
 Mr. Bridges. I ha\c many materials for the purpose ; which should 
 not bo withheld from any one qualified for the task. 
 
 William Bridges, esq. secretary to the Stamp-office, married 
 Martha daughter of Robert Hart, of Brill, co. Berks, esq. by 
 whom he had one son, John Bridges, esq. of Barton Segrave ; 
 who married Margaretta Horton of Gumley, and died in July 
 1741. 
 
 Pfter IVhaUe.y was born Sept. 2, 17-2, at Kugby, in the county 
 of Warwick, although his father, Richard Whalley, w:i5 of an 
 antient Northamptonshire family. He was admitted at Tdei-chant 
 Taylois scliool, in London, .lanuaiy the 10th, 1731 ; whence, on 
 June 1 i, 17'1<), he was elected scholar of St. John's college, Ox- 
 ford 5 and three years after admitted fellow. After quitting the 
 University, he became vicar of St, Sepulchre. Northampton. In 
 
 1706
 
 1737-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 109 
 
 the title-page) were circulated in 1735, and sixteen 
 hundred and fifty more in 1737 * ; the subscription 
 four guineas. 
 
 " Wotton's Short View-|- of George Hickes's 
 Grammatical^ Critical, and Archeological IVeasury 
 
 1766 he applied to the Corporation of London, to succeed Dr. 
 Birch in the rectoiy of St. Mai-garet Pattens ; and in liis address 
 to them said, " I have neither curacy nor lectureship, but a small 
 country vicai-age, whose clear annual income is under seventy 
 pounds, and which, if I merit your indulgence, will be necessarily 
 Toid," He obtained this rectory Feb. 5, that year; and aftenvards 
 added to it the \icarage of Horley in Surrey. He took the de- 
 gree of B. C. L. Jan. '29, 176*S ; and in the October following was 
 chosen msister of the grammar-school of Christ's Hospital, which 
 he resigned in 1776, but aftenvards accepted ll^at of St. Olave, 
 and acted as a justice of the peace in the Borough, fie was the 
 author of, 1. " An Essay on tlie Manner of writing History, Lond 
 1746," 8vo, containing S28 pages ; 2. "An Enquiiy into the Learn- 
 ing of Shakspeare, with Remarks on several Passages of his Plays, 
 1748," 8voj 3. "A Vindication of the Evidences and Authenticity 
 of the Gospels from the Objections of the late Lord Bolingbrokc, 
 in his Ivctters on the Study of History, 1753," 8vo ; 4. "An Edition 
 of the Works of Ben Jonson, with Notes, 1756," 7 vols. 8vo; which 
 he had long since revised, and prepared for a new edition (the 
 materials for which passed into the hands of Mr. Waldron, the 
 ingenious continuator of " The Sad She])lierd, 1/83.") 5. " A 
 .Sermon preached at Sf. Sepidciue's, Nortluiinptcjn, on the Fast- 
 day, Feb. 17, 1758," 8\o; G. " The Institution of Public Chari- 
 ties ; a Sermon preached at Christ's Hospital, Sept. ^1, 1763, 
 before the Governors of the several Royal HosiJital.^, 1763," 4to ; 
 7- "Sernum before the Sons of the CUrg\ , at St. Paul's, May 17, 
 177'^>," 4to. Mr. Wliailev was also author of a Copy of Verses 
 prelived toHerveys "Meditations;" and, before he went abroad, 
 took in subscriptions, at a guinea ea( ti, lor a ijuarto lli-^U^ry ol 
 the several Rovid Ho-pitals of London. 
 
 * I mention tiie number of Prcjposals that were prinlcul, as at. 
 that peiiod an extraordinary eircuinstance ; and the more m), as 
 scarcely any of them are now to be met with. After repeated 
 inquiries, I have never seen a single eop\ of them. 
 
 f " Dr. Wotton's ' Conspen tu.- brevi^i' \\;is tron-lati d into 
 Engli.-h by Mr. Sbelton for bi-- own improvement, and publi-hed 
 to shew that one of hib Ma/^^tys Ju-ticis of the l\aee may have 
 hvw^i:. and a ta'<te for karning. Farther U'-e of liie publication we 
 know not ; for those wko "-eek ai'iei' thi.T or un\ othtT sort of 
 knowledge will have recourM; to tiie oris/inal-^." /)// liOin' Mtnti:. 
 Mr. Ciarki;. sa>-, "I am so niu( h .-urjii i/cd at tlm atehievcmeut 
 of your friend in Sutiolk, tliut 1 know not what to .>,;iv to it. H( 
 nmst .-ureiy have a great love fur trau'-l;iti<jn, to think of under- 
 uikintf such a woik. or perhap- h<. mi;_lu, imagin that il would 
 
 >;i^e
 
 lid LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7.S7- 
 
 of the antlent Northern Languages; with some 
 Notes, by a Lover of the antient Northern Literature, 
 
 give him a considerable figure among his Brethren of the jQuorum, 
 and shew that he was acquainted with our laws in their tii-st ori- 
 ginal, and able to take them, as Ralpho did first matter, all 
 alone, before one rag of form was on. I believe Di\ Wotton never 
 thought of making any improvements to this work, and might 
 possibly beUeve that it wanted none. He made a present of it 
 to Dr. Hickes, as a compliment for the great pains he had taken 
 in opening a way to the Northern Literature. I have some let- 
 ters of Dr. Hickes's by me ; but I think none of them worth 
 printing ; besides, they have all of them some little piivatc atlairs 
 not worth communicating to the p\iblick. Dr. Hickes took care 
 of the impression J and the notes (which I believe is a secret) are 
 all his, except those upon the Saxon coins by Mr. Tliwaites. 
 This Dr. Hickes had no mind to have known, that it might not 
 look too much like puffing ; and therefore they have been gene- 
 rally quoted for Dr. Wotton's, as in Water land's " History of the 
 Athanasian Creed," p. 129, second edition. By this you will see, 
 that Dr. Wotton could never think of any additions to this work ; 
 it was carefully examined by the author of the Thesaurus, and made 
 such as he would have it ; a little sketch of his design, to raise 
 the curiosity of the leader to farther inquiries, or (as you would 
 say in the Trade) to call-in customeis. It would be of no use to 
 let your friend in Suffolk be acquainted with this secret, who 
 perhaps would like the work never the better for thinking Dr. 
 Hickes had such a hand in it. As to the question about Juries, 
 Dr. Hickes (as you know) had taken much pains to shew ihiit 
 compurgators and juries ilifl (as he expresses it) toto ccclo differ re; 
 and for no other reason that I can see, but because juries were 
 antiently used in Scandinavia, and were in some respects dif- 
 ferently modeled from the old compurgators ; but I still think, 
 that the Welsh laws have a manifest agreement between them in 
 so many particulars, that the original of juries must be accounted 
 for in that manner. It is of no use to enquire, whether the cus- 
 tom of using compurgators had its original from the civil or th-e 
 canon law. That, from the seventh century downwards, com- 
 purgators were uni\ersally made use of wherever the feudal law 
 prevailed, is very evident ft'om those laws mentioned in Ina's laws 
 693, and in Lotiiaire and Edric's 673; [see Feud. lib. 1. tit. iv. 
 sect. 2. and tit. x. and tit. xxvi. sect. 1.] And what is more 
 observable in these lavv's, the number of compurgators is ex- 
 pressly fixed to twelve; Dabitur ei defensio cum duodecim sacra- 
 mentalibus. And the same number was frequently introduced 
 ainong all those nations whose laws were formed upon the feudal 
 customs, as Lombards, Aleman^^, &c. But the Saxons, thinking 
 it not so reas(jnable that the same number of compurgatoi's 
 should be neees-arv in all crises, ordered that tlie number 
 should differ aecor'ling to the NATiJRE and importance of the 
 question controvert.-: I'i quls Tcds miri.*ru-\ homicidii incusef, 
 
 ii
 
 1737'1 THE EIGHTEENTH CEMTURY. HI 
 
 and an Appendix to the Notes, faithfully and intirely 
 translated into English from the Latin Originals, 
 
 si se purgare audeat, faciat hoc xii ministris regis. Si qnis aut'erm 
 ministrum incuset, qui viinuris cognationis [t. e. conditionls] sil 
 quam miniater regis, purgabit so per xi siti cequales, et unum regis 
 viinistrum [i.e. duodecim sacramentalibus iaferioris ordinLs]. Et 
 ita in qualieet lite qua major est quatuor mancutis, fi. e. soli- 
 dis '24.) Leg. Sax. p. 47, sect. .3. If the thing in question, or 
 tlie damage sustained, was ^'ahlcd at above four marks, then 
 twelve compurgators were necessary; if not, a less number Aveie 
 vSufiicient. And, to guaid more eirectually jigjiinst ftaud and 
 perjury, the Saxons intix)duced two sorts of compurgatoi? to 
 determine the same question, called the greater and lesser oatlu 
 How this was, is indeed not fully explained in what remains of 
 the .Saxon constitutions ; but among the Welsh, who had the 
 siime custom, it is verv" clear. The greater oath consisted of 
 compurgators who were gentlemen ; the lesser oath, of comjmr- 
 gators of oitlinary condition. Their number was generally the 
 .-^anie, but the nature of their oath different ; the gentlemen weix; 
 to swear that the defendant's oath ap])ear to them most ])roba- 
 ble; the common people, that they believed the defendants true; 
 and with this nj0rt remarkable differem'e, that the oath of the 
 lesser comjiurgators, imlcss all tlieir number Jigreed in it, %vas of 
 no force: but the oath of the greatei- compurgators was valid if a 
 majority of their number agreed in it. There was therefore 
 among these compurgators almost every cusvom that i? remark- 
 able among our grand and petty juries. Tiiey were < ailed so, 
 not from the number of the jurors, or the nature of their office, 
 but from the condition of tlie persons who served in theui ; their 
 verdict or oath was exactly corresjKjndent to that of the juriLS 
 now in use; for, in the verdict of a petty jury, all of them must 
 be. agreed ; but the frrand jury can a(CUr-;e or acquit tiie par tv, 
 though all of them should not agree in thci)' opini(jn. Whv 
 therefoie ii\\i-it the original of juiii s be asc ribed to William the 
 Conqueror ? or wliat did he do that could entitle hiui to be tlie 
 author of them > Why he tixed them to the number xii, and 
 not less ; for grand juries are now (I believe) always more thaii 
 twelve. [Dehitoria excedat duodecim quoties Judici placueiit -, 
 uoa autem deticiat, ut in quibu.'-dam abis jurati'i irujuusiturlis.] 
 Was not twelve (or more than twehe) lVe(}uently, though not 
 con.stantiy, the number of compurgators in the Saxtm times ? 
 and was it not the oi iginal number in tiie old feudal lasvs ? But 
 the Nurmans, though by no means the authors of this custom, 
 acted vci-y }>olitiely in the management of it. C<jmpurgatoi'> 
 (for any thing that apy)ear-> to the conti'.iry) might be any per* 
 sons of a proper rank, whom the defendant could procure to 
 appear and swear for him. This did not so well answer thtt 
 Norman purposes in their first settlements here; the Saxons 
 would have succeeded n^iUeh better in their civil dispute^ with 
 them, than xt wa? intended they -).auld, if the old custom of the 
 
 J'fe'idaiifs
 
 11 S{ LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1/37. 
 
 by Maurice Sheltoii, of Barningham hall in the 
 County of Suitblk, esq. one of his Majesty's Justices 
 
 defendant's finding his compurgators had continued ; they were 
 therefore from this period placed in the nomination of the Crown, 
 and by that means the Normans had a greater influence upon 
 them. This I take to be tlie true state of the case with regard 
 to juries. Jiu'ies and .sacraninitnks are not supposed to be ex- 
 actly the same, but only its father and son, of one original ; and 
 as to Welsh antiquities, they only help to clear some of our 
 antiont customs with relation to ^compurgators, and make us 
 imdcrstand their oihce better ; they pro^ e nothing as to the 
 point itself. Spelmau's obscr\ations about the different extent 
 of povvei- in grand and jjctty juries, is a mistake ; there is now 
 no such difference, ^^ hate^ er there was in his time. As to the 
 compurgators beuig provided, or summoned by the defendant, 
 it is of no moment} they tried the cause, just as our juries do, 
 i. e. it was determined by their oath or verdict. What Dr. Wood 
 says may be very true, that he knows no law that obliges a grand 
 jiuor to be a freeholder ; yet I believe they are always gentUmen, 
 though by no other law now, but antient and perpetual tisage. 
 [See p. 16"0.] Jiuios in an assize upon a Writ of Right were 
 always liberl homines. ^Glanv. 1. ii. c. 11. 1. ix. c. 7- vol. II. p. 71.] 
 But Dr. Hickes's account of them is certainly very wrong : In ea 
 maxima dijferunt [i.e. compurgatores et juratores] quod numcrus 
 cunipurgaturum inccrtits erat, ut qui au^cri solebat pro rvi vcl 
 cansw quce agebatur momento ; et pro nuniero consacravientalium 
 qui jurabant compurgatio majus vel minus sncramentum dictum, est. 
 [Diss. Epist. p. i55.] The first part of this account is plainly 
 confuted by the Saxon kms, and the latter by the W^elsh. And 
 it is ridiculous to look for our customs among the old planters 
 of Scandinavia, where there is no sort of history before the tenth 
 century, when we can so readily account for thiise customs from 
 the feudal laws. [ilialmar. And Feudal Laws first written 
 under Fred. 1. A. D. 1158.1 I think it is high time to dismiss 
 the juries ; but, before I ha^e done with Dr. Hickc.-, I think you 
 might take notice that his fixing the Saxon pound always at lx 
 shillings, and the shilling always at v pence, is undoubtedly a 
 mistake. Silver in the Saxon times Wiis not alua\s of the same 
 value : when it was the highest, v pence made a sliilling, and 
 XLV III shillings a povmdj when it was lower, iv jnnce made a 
 shdling, and ix shillings a pound. The weight of the j)cnny 
 was probably the same in both cases, but the value lessened in 
 the latter ; and as the weight of their penny was not diminished, 
 there was no otlier method of accommodating it to the value of 
 silvei-, but by i-aising or lessening the value of the penny. Unless 
 this different proportion of the penny to the shilling be allowed 
 of, the computations of money in the Saxon laws cannot be ac- 
 counted for. i3ishop Fleetwood [Chron. Pret. ]). "29], to remove 
 this difficulty, was for altering the text of the laws ; but, with- 
 out taking so unwarrantable a liberty, aiteiing the value of the 
 
 penny
 
 ^7S7] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, II3 
 
 of the Peace for the said County, &c. Author 
 of the First Edition. To which are added, by 
 the same Translator, other curious and proper 
 Notes for a farther Illustration of the Text ; a short 
 Appendix of Notes of Correction, &c. and a Dedi- 
 
 penny clears all the difficulties. This might be another note 
 upon p. 61, of the Conspectus," 
 
 Letter from Mr. Clarke to Mr. Bowyer, without date. 
 " Neither of the gentlemen (p, 159) write with that clearness 
 and precision that they would ha\ e done, if they hod really been 
 right. As to gentlemen, I have been told that the late Sir Gregory 
 Page had three East India bonds of 100,000Z. each. I suppose 
 if he had had no title, nor an inch of freehold, but lived in hii'ed 
 houses suited to his fortune, nobody would liave questioned his 
 gentility, or doubted his fitness for being on a gi-and jury ; and 
 as to freemen, they may be totally different from freeholders, 
 though the confusion of them is very common. The excellent 
 Dr. Burn (Westm. p. "^l), describing ' a set of tenants in pure 
 villenage, who were bound to the lord, as members of, and an- 
 nexed to, the manor, and usually sold with the fann to which 
 they belonged' fcum eorum corporibus et eorum sequelis is the 
 veiy term, now applied only to cattle, as a mare or cow with its 
 follower, i.e. the young one), adds, ' It was in contradiction to 
 iliese, that the others [tenants] were called /ree; which observa- 
 tion ought es])ecially to be noted, otherwise we shall fall into 
 great confusion in abundance of instances ; for wherever free 
 men, free tenants, or free holders are mentioned of old time, by 
 these arc not to be understood what we now call free holders, 
 but only that they were not villans or bondmen. All our mili- 
 tary ancestors within tiK' se\eral customary manors are styled /rec 
 tenants, hut the lands vvcre not free hold [to them] according to 
 tl)'- m')dern acceptation .li'ilie word.' The same leained writer, 
 ]). ]'), tran.cribe3 from Litileton the form of performing homage, 
 which was the most honourable [i. e. the least dishonourable] 
 Sf^nice, and most huuible service of reverence, that a /ree tenant 
 can do to his lord, &c. <Scc, ike. Fealty was a much lower cere- 
 iiiony, and yet done by a free tenant, &c. &c. See the form in 
 the same place. It is j)robahle, iVom the universality of these 
 tenures formerly, that if these free tenants (who had sworn fealty 
 to their lord) luul Ix'cn tlicreby disqualified from appearing on 
 grand juries, that no granrl juiy could ever have been composed, 
 ns people of all ranks hold vmder one anotlier. Witness the King 
 of Scotland to our King for the earldom of Cumberland, and our 
 King to France for Normanfly. We now, therefore, see that 
 fiornlnea might be liber i. though they pei ibrmed homage and fealty 
 to others for their lands, and might not necessarily have an inch 
 of freehohl of their own ; yet they were probably caj)ablc of being 
 on juries of any kind. In general, the libcri /iominei would possess 
 the freehold land ; but they might be free tenants without it." T. F. 
 
 I cation
 
 114 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l737- 
 
 cation to the Right Honourable James Reynolds, esq. 
 Lord Chief Baron of his Majesty'sCourtof Exchequer 
 at Westminster. The second edition *, with emen- 
 dations and large additions, besides a Preface and 
 a general Index, by the same Translator." I'his 
 volume (" useful to Divines, Lawyers, Historians, 
 Antiquaries, and all Lovers of Polite Learning") was 
 beautifully printed, in a large quarto, on a tine Genoa 
 paper, " adorned with Cuts, artfully engraven by 
 George Vertue -j-. Price bound 10*." 
 
 * The first edition was in a single 8vo volume of only 17J) pages, 
 printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paid's 
 church-yard, 1718. Both editions are anonymous. " If this se- 
 cond edition takes better with the world than the first, so as to run 
 oif with a quick sakj the Author intends to offer in thie time, 
 in some of the best newspapers. Proposals for printing by sub- 
 scription (and without one he will not undertake it) an English 
 Translation of Dr. Hickes's Epistolary Dissertation to the late 
 ftimous Lawyer Sir Bartholomew Shower ; a piece that ought to 
 be recommended to the perusal of all gentlemen and la\vyer?, 
 antiquaries, and historians, in that there is to be found in it 
 a great deal of good learning, on the antiquities of the Uws of 
 England, wrote on purpose for the honour of our laws, and for 
 the use of the professors of it ; and if the Author should meet 
 with proper encouragement for the undertaking of it, he pro- 
 miseth to perform it with the utmost fidelity and accuracy." 
 St. James's Evening Post, Sept. 22, 1737- 
 
 I have now before me an autograph of Mr. Shelton, aflivcd to 
 SI formal discharge for excr to Mr. Btjv, yer, " for all manner of 
 books, papers, and preparations thereof, now or lately in his custody.' ' 
 
 f An anonymous octavo print by Mr. ^'ander Gucht is su- 
 perscribed, in the hand-writing of T. Martin, " Maiuice Shel- 
 ton, of Barningham, Suffolk. Anns in a circle. Azure, across 
 Or; supporters, two talbots ; crest, a Saracen's head ; motto, 
 lie vodute, and Thoh. This print was y)reiixed to the second 
 edition of Mr. Shelton's " Essay on Nobility, in 2 vols. 8vo. Lou- 
 don, printed for the Authoi', 1720." 
 
 Barningliam hall was purchased by the Duke of Grafton, fi'om 
 Mamice Shelton (the last of a family ^vhich, by Blomeiield's 
 History of Norfolk, appcr.rs to have beennumy years of eu'.incnee 
 in that county). His tomb in .''Itciton chvircli is thus inscribed ; 
 " Here lies die body of Maurice Shelton, Esq. 
 late of Barningham-hali in Suffolk ; 
 the last Male Heir of lus FamUy ; 
 died the .3 1st of May, 1749 i 
 aged G-") years." 
 He had l>een tnicc married. The fir.-^t \\i(c was buried in Barn- 
 ingham cinu'ch j the second (who sur\i\ed him) in Coney 
 Weston clmrcii. 
 
 "An
 
 ^737'] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. H3 
 
 '^ An Epistle to jNIr. Pope, in Anti-heroicks. [By 
 Lord Paget *] ." 
 
 " A Practical Grammar of the English Tongue : 
 or, a rational and easy Introduction to speaking and 
 writing English correctly and properly ; peculiarly 
 adapted to the Nature and Genius of the Language, 
 and free from the hard and unnecessary Terms of 
 the Latin Rudiments. The whole treated of in 
 expressive Terms and familiar Style, and in the 
 most natural and instructive Method, viz. that of 
 Question and Answer. Designed for the Use of 
 Schools ; and, though calculated chiefly for the 
 Use of the Fair Sex, and such as require only an 
 English Education, may yet be an useful Foundation 
 for those who are designed for higher Studies. By 
 William Loughton, Schoolmaster at Kensington. 
 7'he second edition, with improvements, in a neat 
 j)ocket volume, beautifully printed on a good paper 
 and large character -|-," 
 
 " A new and accurate Method of delineatinj; all 
 the Parts of the dilferent Orders in Architecture, 
 
 * Thomas Catesby, lord Paget, son of irenry first Earl of 
 Uxbrid^'-e, by Marv, daughter and coheir to Thomas Catesby, esq. 
 of Whislon in Northamptonshire. He was M. P. for Stafford, 
 1714 and 17'2'2 ; loi'd of the bed-chanibL-r to the Prince of 
 Wal''; and, on his accession to the tlr.one as George II. was 
 coniinucd in t]>c- iriie post. He died at Drayton, near Uxbiidge, 
 ia January 174'-, ubou 18 inoalhs before his father; so that he 
 i- t(j be rcgaide i u- one of iho-e piesumpti\e Peers %\hom I^rd 
 Orford lias " called uj) bv writ." He w;.s autlior of " An Essay 
 on iiuuian Life," in ver>e, \7-'A, 8vo. (of which the ^/<frr/ edition 
 was puijli.'ihci! in 1736. Hvo. and 12mo.) ; of "Some Refections 
 upon ih.- Adniini.^tiafictn of Government, 1740;" and of other 
 poems and c'.<^>!l^^., all whifh he cuilccted into one volume, 8vo, 
 1741, but printed only a few copies to give awav. Of this Col- 
 led ion, ncjw hicome e>:lrcm<^ly rare. Mi. Biiniley possesses a 
 <;()py. .See Park.; (ditioii of the Royal and Noble Authors, 
 vol. IV. 1). 178. 
 
 t Price \s.('ul. bound, v. ith allowances to school -masters, and 
 tli-Kc who buy a niunber : now read witii unl%cr3al approbation, 
 and is the bc:)t and cluape.'-t of it>5 kind. 
 
 ('niier^al Spcvtalof, Feb. 2G, 1736"-7. 
 
 See " The Proirrcs of l>an<inaL^e, a Poetical E-.say ; to Mi-, \\i\- 
 liam IvCJUghton, .School master at Kensington, on his j^ractical 
 (irammar of the Entjli-:h Tong'jc ,' Gent. Mag, vol. IX. p. 655. 
 
 I 2 bv
 
 tl$ LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l737* 
 
 by Means of a well-contrived, and most easily- 
 managed Instrument; whereon the just Proportions 
 of the principal Members, and of their several l*arts, 
 are so disposed, as wholly to avoid the DitHculty of 
 the Fractional Parts that usually attend these Opera- 
 tions. Englished from the original Italian of Ottavio 
 Revesi Bruti, by Thomas Malie, Gent. In folio, 
 illustrated with 5 1 Copper Plates, and dedicated to 
 the Right Honourable the Earl of Burlington. 
 Printed for Fletcher Gyles, over-against Gray's-Inn, 
 Holborn ; and Thomas Heath, Mathematical-In- 
 strument Maker, next the Fountain-Tavern in the 
 Strand. N. B. There are a few printed on large 
 paper for the Curious." 
 
 " Bibliotheca Uatcliffiana," a single sheet. 
 
 On the 27th of December, 1737 *, Mr. Bowyer 
 lost his father, at the age of 74 ; and it is evident, 
 from his scattered papers -j-, tliat he severely felt the 
 affliction ; applying to himself the beautiful apo- 
 trophe of .^neas to Anchises : 
 
 " Hie me, pater optime, fessum 
 Deseris, heu! tantis nequicquaui erepte periclis." 
 His friend Mr. Clarke, on this melancholy event, 
 again addressed to him an excellent lettei* of sym- 
 pathy and consolation : 
 
 " DEAR SIR, Uckfield, 1738. 
 
 " I SAW lately, by mere accident, in the news- 
 papers, that Mr. Bowyer was dead :|: ; and am very 
 
 * In the July of the same year, l)c had lost his aunt Dawks 
 (widow of the well-known printer of Dmrks's News- Letter), who 
 made him her executor. She was buried at Low Lcyton, and 
 left some small legacy to a ninnbcr of poor old women theie ; 
 and 5i. to the poor of St. Andrew Wardrobe. 
 
 f In one of these, endorsed " Cash laid out, 1737^8, after the 
 death of my father, who left no will, but given by W. B. his son, 
 ch'efly at his own discretion," it appears tliat Mr. Bowyer gave 
 lOOZ. to Mr. Wallis, who had married his only sister ; and '20/. 
 to Mr. Bettenham, who had nvanied hi.-: half-sister. He al^o jjaid 
 Mr. Wallis lOl. 4s. for mourning rinp ; :and t!ic funeral cx- 
 jx^nces were 37^. 105. at that tiiiT- :io srv.?.A sum. 
 . t 111 a fonner letter, dated Dec. 14, 1737, Mr. Clarke says, 
 " Though I have said nothing to you since your tir.-t melancholy 
 
 recount
 
 1737-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. II7 
 
 sensible of the great concern that you are under 
 upon that account. It is a natural, I believe I 
 might say, a desirable infirmity ; they who feel no 
 affliction at the loss of their friends, can have had 
 no pleasure in the enjoyment of them. A person 
 whom you have been so long used to look upon 
 with love and reverence must, at bidding you f are- 
 vx ell for ever, raise some sorrowfid sentiments, not 
 to be easily suppressed. I wish it was my good 
 fortune to have an opportunity of being with you 
 upon this occasion. Not that I could be of the 
 least use, or could say any thing which you have not 
 heard and thought of in a much better manner a 
 thousand times before. But I should like to iind 
 you so much alone, to see you planning out new 
 scenes of life, or pleasing yourself with the prospects 
 of those that will succeed when life is over. Pliny 
 has observed upon the loss of one of his old friends 
 (I do not remember whom), 'That nothing that he 
 
 account of Mr. Bowyer's illness, yet I have been but too sensible 
 of thp oncern and anxiety it must give you. My own fears ha\ e 
 tauglit me, in a iieai-er i-elation, what yoiii's mu=t have suj^gested 
 j{)on such an occasion. Air. Howycr's complaints are such as are 
 most ])robably incurable ; and at his age the strongest of us mast 
 expect .sonietiung that will place us among the incurables. Nor 
 do I tliiiik tliat alone, unless attended with great pain, to be 
 one of the most aHlicting circumstances : 
 
 -~' Tor evils that are known, 
 
 There 'ti certain remedy; for doubt, there's none." 
 When we ai'o taking leave of oiu- friends, we arc apt to look 
 upon tiiem in the lenderest liglit tiiat our relation to them can 
 place us : AVf consider the \alue of our loss, without lotlccling 
 upon the miseries we ha\e hail in not lo.sing it much sooner. It 
 is ^ofxl-nature that makes uu feel our atlliclions much sharj)er ; 
 and it unist he good .sense, or, what is nmch bettcjr, good ])ri!i- 
 ciple-, of K< ligion, that mu.'it teach us how to bear tliein. Your 
 fiiends will be persuadeil that yo\i are already in the hands of 
 the very best comfoilers ; and I dare say, if we .shouM x\i-.li thril 
 your .'^on should not lose his fither till he was as well prepared 
 for it, un\ would thiuk it a very friendly and atle< tionale wi'-h ; 
 and !-incIy such an event as you think your son oui!,h( not to 
 make too girat an aliliction of, should be looked upon with iIm; 
 srune e\f nness of mind bv you. I wish all (f jou happy in one 
 another wliile you stay here ; and 1 think then wt) have nolhiug 
 more tu uiih, but to leave the rc-t to God." 
 
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 Il8 LITER ARV ANfiCDOTES OF [l757- 
 
 had ever heard or read upon such occasions could 
 give him any rehef ; his sorrow was superior to all 
 usnal consolations.' Though I am always a little 
 apt to suspect the sentiments of such professed wits, 
 as not quite sincere, rather delicate than just ; yet, 
 if the observation was tn:e, it must be carried no 
 farther than the first natural impressions ; nothing 
 new that could be said could have more weight with 
 him than what had been said ten thousand times 
 over. I own there is something in the glitter of a 
 new thought, like that of a new coin ; it of course 
 catches our attention for some moments, and we 
 view it perhaps in two or three different lights ; 
 but, when that is over, we la}^ no more value upon 
 it, or believe that it has really any more weight, 
 than the coins of former princes : it is just so with 
 our thoughts ; they may lose something of their 
 lustre, by being given and taken so often uj)on 
 common occasions, but their real value is the same. 
 " I am writing this at ]Mr. Lloyd's ; a visit tliat 
 of late always gives me some concern : he wears 
 apace, declines visibly ; i. e. he is doing the very 
 thing that we must all of us soon do after him. His 
 distemper may perliaps let him live many years; but 
 in such a manner as to be too sensibly aflected with 
 the pains of -living. If such afflictions are made 
 truly useful to the interests of another life, they are 
 ill that view desirable visitations ; but, when that is 
 done, their friends should not shew any over-great 
 impatience at parting with them. I hoj)e 1 om * is 
 with you ; he will he one of your best companions : 
 I should be pleased to see him. as no doubt he is a 
 much r;re;)ter philosopher than his fatiier ; and that 
 yoj njity not leave him till yoa can do it with the 
 same satisfaction tliat vour father has now done, is 
 vhac I truly wish, who a!n, with tiie greatest 
 sincerity, 
 
 Your most affectionate, W. Clarke." 
 
 * Mr. Bowycr'i son^, then only ^even years old. 
 
 The
 
 1737-] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. H^ 
 
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 by the following advertisement : 
 
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 120 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [t738 
 
 1738. 
 
 Among the books of this year stand foremost two 
 editions of a work of no small consequence in the 
 typographical annals of Mr. Bowyer ; the first * vo- 
 lume of " The Divine Legation of Moses demon- 
 strated, on the Principles of a Religious Deist, 
 from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future 
 State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish 
 Dispensation, In Six Books. By William War- 
 burton, A. M. Author of The Alliance between 
 Church and State-f-" 8vo. Tiiis volume contained 
 the three first books |:. 
 
 " Faith working by Charity to Christian Edifica-^ 
 tion, a Sermon preached at the last Episcopal 
 Visitation for Confirmation in the Diocese of Lin- 
 
 * This volume was first published in Januar)' 1737-S 5 and in 
 March appeared " A Vindication of the Author of the Divine 
 Legation of Moses, &c. from the Aspersions of the Covmtiy Cler- 
 gjTiians Letter in the Weekly Miscellany of Feb. 24, 1/37-8." 
 The second edition of "The Divine Legation" was published in 
 November, 1738. 
 
 f Of which see before, p. 83. Some farther accoimt of this 
 very eminent Divine will be given in the " Essays and Ilhlstra- 
 tions," in vol. V. No. XL 
 
 X In the interval between the first and second edition; of this 
 volume Mr. Bowyer received tlie following acknovv ledgment of 
 a literaiy civility which he had shewn to the Author : 
 
 " DEAR SIR, Newarke, Jane'-IA, 1738. , 
 
 " I AM extremely obliged to you for a sight of the inclosed, 
 and esteem it for the most obliging act of friendship, for whicli 
 I have the greatest acknowledgements. As to the letter, the 
 wTiter of it seems neither to have an inclination to be pleased, 
 nor a knowledge of the subject. Of ali the particulars he men- 
 tions I hold him mistaken, except in the quotation of Jliero- 
 phanta, &c. j and this was ocCcL-ioiied by dropping a quotation or 
 two which were to follow in that very note, that would have 
 cleared up the jijLssage, as you will see : for I was in a great 
 hurry, not havir.g so much as comi,f):-ed half the book, when the 
 other half was ^one to tlie press. I repeat it again, that 1 hold 
 my self extremely obliged to you for this favoiuj and am, dear 
 sir, your very aft'ectionate, humble servant, W. W. 
 
 " The favour of hearing from you, on this or any other occa- 
 sion, will be always very acceptable j and no one's thoughts 
 will have a greater weight vviih me than your own, in whom 
 I have experienced so much candom", gooduebs, and learning." 
 
 coin :
 
 1738.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 12 J 
 
 coin ; with a Preface, shewing the Reasons of its 
 Pubhciition ; and a Postscript, occasioned by some 
 Letters lately published in ' The Weekly Miscel- 
 lany.' Hy \V. Warburton, A. M. Chaplain to his 
 Royal Highness the Prince of Wales." 
 
 The third and fourth volume of Bp. Atterbury's 
 Sermons, 8vo. 
 
 The second edition, with large - additions, of 
 " The Civil Law in its natural Order. Together 
 with the Public Law. Written in French by Mon- 
 sieur Domat,. the late French King's Advocate in 
 the Presidial Court of Clermont in France, and 
 translated into English by William Strahan. LL.D. 
 Advocate in Doctors Commons. With additional 
 Remarks on some material Differences between the 
 Civil Law and the Law of England." Beautifully 
 printed in 2 vols, folio, upon a superfine paper. 
 
 In August 1738, on his return from America, 
 Mr. Wliitetield published, complete -j-, from the 
 Original, price Six-pence, with a short Preface, 
 shewing the reasons of its publication, " A Journal 
 of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia. 
 In Two Parts. Part 1. from London to Gibraltar^ 
 Part IL from Gibraltar to Savannah. By George 
 Whitefield, A. B. of Pembroke College, Oxford. 
 Printed for J^mes Hutton, at the Bible and Sun, 
 next the Rose Tavern, without Tem})le Bar." 
 
 " Thankfulness for Mercies received ; a Farewell 
 Sermon, preached on board the Wliitaker, at An- 
 chor near Savannah in Georgia." 
 
 Several editions of Mr. Whitefield's Sermons on 
 *' Religious Societies" and " Self-denial." 
 
 * See an admirable cLaractcr of lip. At'uitiui v as a I^rcacher 
 in thcTatlrr; as a Poet, (icnt. Muj;. ^ol. VUi. j). .V22 ; and a 
 very jiibt one at larp' (iVom Bo^NSfU's .Vk-tliod (A' Siudy) in 
 Gent* M;i^-. vol. L. pi 13. 01" ni? juL-oiial lii.^tory ibe Aullmr 
 of these voluinrs ha.s gi\t.-n a full aiCKUiit, iii tht- lifih volume of 
 TIk Bi-i>u[)s F.pi.-tolaiy Cont -MondctK.', edit. I'i'.iH. 
 
 t \ spurious (^litioa had been ad\riti>td by T. C<)\, uilli an 
 5LS.s\iran( e that hh edition wa.'- ^^iuin>- Sci- the Weekly Mi.seel- 
 ]anv, Aup:. 11, iT'db; and London Kvenin|j;: i'o.-t, Au-; 10 and 
 Au^^'22, i7JH. 
 
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 122 LITERARY ANECpOlES OF [l738. 
 
 " The almost Christian ; a Sermon preached by 
 Mr. Whitefiekl at the Parish-church of St. John 
 Wapping." 
 
 " Of Justification by Christ ; a Sermon preached 
 bv Mr. Whitefield at the Parish Church of St. Au- 
 thoHn." , 
 
 " The heinous Sin of profane Cursing and Swear- 
 ing; or the common Swearer detestable in the Sight 
 of God and Man *. By Mr. Whitefield." 
 
 " The great Duty of Family Religion; or Joshua's 
 Resolution worthy the Imitation of every Master 
 
 * Some memoirs of Mr. Whitefield, principally on his own 
 authority, have been given in p. V8 : but the number of his 
 Scmions printed by Mr. Bowyer in 1/38 may be an excuse for 
 enlarging on the circvmistance of the poj)ularitv which with tlie 
 most astonishing- rapidity he attained. His debut as a j)reacher 
 was at Gloucester in 173G; at Bristol in 1737 ; and by the begin- 
 ning of 1739 he had displayed \\h> talents in the. pul{;its of many 
 of the largest churches in the Metropolis and its neighbouihood; 
 and in some particular parisl.es, where his interest was not suf- 
 ficici^t to obtain the use of tl^e church, he held forth on the 
 tomb-stones in the chu.rch-yai(l. Ihis 1 know to have been the 
 case at Islington ; where the no\eUy was so attractive, that tlie 
 then incumbent. Dr. Stonehouse, had to lament the temporary 
 desertion of the greater part of his flock ; a c'rcumstance which 
 he took so deeply to heart that it was thought to ha^c hn--tened 
 his death. The Sermons which Mr. Whitefield printed were 
 purchased with the greatest avifiity. His );ortrait was multi- 
 plied by various comjjetitors ; and his a;5sistancc was requested 
 Ijy the benevolent General Ogletliorjje, whom he accorciingly 
 accompanied to Georgia 3 prcaclnng con.-5tan{Iv during the 
 vovage, and in all places ^^here lie had tlie oj)})Oii'>a!!ty, till hi.? 
 return in 1738, when he published a Journal of hi- Voyage (see 
 p. 121), which, like his portrait, was eagerly contended for by 
 rival publishers. In the year 1739 a &a)ai1 voluuie of his 
 Sermons was pubhshcd by C. Davis, aj)pareiiily by authority, 
 with the Head of the Author, unckr tlie tiile of " Tlie Doc- 
 trines of tlie Gospel asserted and -.indicated, in Eighteen ge- 
 nuine Sermons, upon the following Subjects: vi;:. 1. Of Justifi- 
 calion by Clirist. 2. The Almost (Jhristian. 3, The Extent and 
 Reasonableness of Self-Denial. 4. Tiie Neces.ity and Bercfits of 
 Religious Societies. 5. Intercession every Christian's Duty. 
 6. The Great Duty of Famih Religion. 7- The heinous Sin of 
 piofane Cursing and Swearing. 8. Thankfulness for Mercies 
 received, a necessary Duty. 9. The Eternity <jf Hell-Toiments. 
 10. Directions how to hear Sermons. 1 1. Woildiy Business no 
 Pk a for Neglect of Religion, l'^. The Marks of the Xew Birth. 
 1:3. The Power uf Chri^fa Resurrection, 14. The Duty of 
 
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 1738-] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 123 
 
 of a Family ; preached by Mr. Whitefield at the 
 Parish Church of St. Vedast, Foster-Lane." 
 
 searchini^ the Scriptures. 15. Satan's Devices. IS. The Know- 
 ledge of Jesus Christ the best Knowledge. I7. The heinous Sin 
 t)f Drunkenness. 18. The Holy Ghost the Privilege of all Be- 
 lievers now, as well as formerly." " W'iien Religion is attacked 
 on all sides ; by the openly propliane, such as make a mock at 
 sin, and set the Almighty at detiance; by professed Atheists, those 
 fook that say there is no God ; by the miserly Worldling, who 
 makes his Religion truckle to his avunce ; by the false Hypo- 
 crite, who assumes a shew of godliness, mrrely to serve some 
 mean and selfish purpose : since, I say. Religion is thus hardly 
 beset; it is presumed that an attempt to \ indicate her honour, 
 to assert the purity of her doctiiues, to illusti-ate her native beauty 
 and loveliness, and recommend her as an oi:>ject worthy the choice 
 of every man, will appear at least pardonable. Many are the 
 ways bv which the God of this world endeavours to lead men 
 blindfold to destruction ; and surely it will not be thouglit a work 
 of supererogation to expose those deceits and delusions, and dis- 
 perse those mists of error, that cloud the understanding, and 
 bring the safety of our souls into tlic utmost peril. Whoever 
 professes himself, or would be thought a Christian, must confess, 
 that iheie is no other name given among men, whereby we can 
 be sa\cd, but that of the blessed Jesus; and that the doctrines 
 and precepts contained in the Gospel are the only rules for his 
 conduct and })ractiee, the ohjecls of liis tUitii, and the foundation 
 of his hope and ha])piness. He whose persuasion is thus grounded, 
 will not be displeased to see the way of his sahation made easy, 
 and the things which he is to believe and ja-actisc proved, ex- 
 plained, and enforced, from reason and irrefragablo argumcjit. 
 The design then of the following Sermons is, to establish such 
 truths as of late have been made the subjects of riihcule and 
 banter by the profane wits anil s:(jff"ers of the age; to set right 
 tho~ whf) have been misled liy soj)hi.;t ical ar;j:nnuMits of men tiiat 
 design nothing ies.s than the honour of Go;! and the gi'orl of souls ; 
 and to vindicate the honour of the Gospel, to dissert the truth and 
 reasonableness of its d(jctrines, anrl to defend its Author, tlie 
 bles.sed Je^us, ag'ainst the attacks of his profe,sse(.l enemies, and 
 (lie b;ise, cowardly, or treaclierous practices of his false or weak 
 fri( nds." Such y./.v ?Jr. fihitc/ieltl's first Prcfitve. 
 
 Anotlutr CoIie(;tiou was pn})li.-hed in the -aineyear, '"sold }i\the 
 Ijookscllcrs in Town and Country," iniitulci, " Tiic ( hri-iian's 
 Conii)anion: or, Sei'inons on .se\cral Sul/ii'ds-. containing, l.Di- 
 reeiions how tolieirS.-r.non- : aStn'monpicacIicdut ( ii: i- ['s( Imnh 
 in ^pilallield.-, London. ^i. Worldly iiiisiu'ss no J'iti iov the 
 -Neglect of Religion; a Sernio,i ])Vra(li;d at \\\r l',:i isli-Churcli of 
 St. Lawrence, bid Jcwjy, Londoii. .;. i'l-e M uks of the New 
 Birth; a Senuoa pnaehcd -.'X St. .Mary, Whiliv hapel. 4. The 
 l')\ver of Christ's Resurrer'tirn ; a S'imoa i-n aehed ; t WVr- 
 bo.rglis, in the City of Rristol. .'.. 'I'lu- Duty of ^ciuchii';- the 
 .Scriptures; a Sermon prcaciicd a, ilic l'ari.-:h-^- hun li u\ >t. Mi- 
 
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 194 LITERAllY ANECDOTES OF [173^- 
 
 Mr. Wliitefield's Sermon " on Early Piety." 
 Proofs of our Saviours Divinity; printed on a 
 large slieet, to be IVamed. 
 
 chad, Cornhill. 6. Satan'.s Dfvirrs ; a Sermon preached at 
 Great St. HeJcn'p. 7. The Knov.leWge of Jesus Christ, (he bc-st 
 Knowled'ce; a Sermon preached at Great St. Helen's. 8. The 
 heinous Sin of Drunkcnne?.s ; a Sermon jneached an board tlic 
 Whitaker. Q. The Eternity of. Hell Torments ; u Seruion 
 preached at Savannah in Georgia. 10. Thankful nes^.s for Blercies 
 received a necessary Duty 3 a Fare\NeU Sermon preached on hoard 
 the Whitaker, at Anchor near Savannah in Georgia. J I. Pray- 
 ers for several Occlusions, by George Whitefield, A.B. 12. Ilie 
 Iad\Aelling of the Spirit, the conur.on Privilege of alt Believers, 
 a ScrtJion preached at the Pail^h Chuich of Bexley in Kent, on 
 V.'hitcunday., 1739. 13. The Folly and Danger of being not 
 righteoxis enough, as well as of' being rigliteous over-mucli : a 
 tiermon preached at Keunington-Connnon, Moortieid.s, and 
 I^b-ck-Heath ; from Ecclesiastes vii. 16 ; ^\heYem Dr. Trapp's 
 Discourses ft-om the same \Vord.s (as well as the polite Entertain- 
 jiicnts of the Age) are considered, and proved to be iiK-onsistent 
 with true Christianity. 14. The Rev. JMr. \A'hitefield's Answer 
 to the Bishop of London's last Pastoral Letter; and a Supplement 
 to the Rev. Mr. Whiteiield's Answer to the Bishop of London's 
 last Pastoral Letter 3 containing, 1, Notes on the Pa=toral Let- 
 ter; 2, A Remark on theVV'eekly iViiscellany of August ISth, 1739 ; 
 with an Extract of a Letter from JNIr. Seward, relating w the 
 \A"iiter of the same. By aPresh>tcr of the Church of England." 
 The Ninth of these Discourses is thus particularly addressed (o 
 the Inhabitants of Sa\annali in Georgia : " My dear Friends, 
 Thotigh the following Sermon has been preacbed elsewhere, yet, 
 as th>e occasion of my prciiihing it among you wius jmrticidar, 
 as you seemed to g'ne an uncommon attention to it ij\ jjublick, 
 and afterwards expressed your satiefaetion in it to me wlien I 
 came to * isit you in your own private houses ; I thought pioper 
 10 offer it to you. And here I raimot but b.lefs Ciod for the 
 gericnJ fii^!ijve of Innetical principles that I haAC found among 
 you ; as also f[)r your zeal and ajfjjrobation of my conduct, when 
 the glo3y of God and your welfas c have obliged me to icscnt and 
 publicly declare against the antichristian tenets of some latelv 
 under my charge. I need only exhort you to l)"g of G(kI to gi\e 
 )0u a tiue faith, and to add to jour fiitii virtue, that you may 
 adorj"; the Gospi 1 of our Lord Jesus ( hri^t in all things. Your 
 con.-^tarjt daily attendance upon public woi'.-hip, th.e gladness 
 v.herevitb you h;ne reeei\ed mc into your houses, tiie mildness 
 wherewith you have submitted to my ie]-iXH)s, more esiRcial'y 
 the great (though unmcriudi concevn you shewed at my dej)ar- 
 ture, induce me to hop<> tljis will 1.*'. your erideavour. How long 
 God of his goofl piovidence will keep me from you. I kno\v not. 
 Howevn*, you may assure youisr']\es, 1 will return according to 
 mv promise, us sor-n as 1 ha\e rccivc-d imj)i;::.ilion of hands, and 
 .o;in)k'tt>d the other bi'sinet-s that called m** hivli.r. In the uieuu 
 
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 173 8-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I25 
 
 Rules and Prayers by Mr. Whitefield, composed 
 for the use of the Religious Sociefies ; with Psalms 
 and Hymns for the same purpose. 
 
 Two volumes of Archbishop Sharpe's Sermons. 
 
 Hie third volume of '' Sermons at Boyle's Lec- 
 tures," folio. 
 
 A second edition of " Nineteen Sermons bv 
 Dr. John Rogers *," 8vo. 
 
 A Sermon preached before the House of Com- 
 mons, Jan. 30, 1738,. by John Wilcox -}-, D.D. 
 
 A Sermon bv the Rev. W. G. Barnes '!". 
 
 .' -r 
 
 wlule, accept of tliis, as a pledge of tlie undissembied love of your 
 aifectionate^ though unworthy pa.stfr, G. Wiiitiu'hild.'" 
 
 In 1^2 a third Collection of Sennoas was published, under 
 the title of " Nine Sermons upon the following Subjects : 1. The 
 Lord our Ilighttousness. 2. Tiie Seed of the "Woman, and the 
 Seed of the Serpent, 3. Persecution e^erj- Christian's hoK 
 4. Abrdhatns ofi'uiing up his son Isaac. 5. Saul's C/mvcraion. 
 6. The Pharisee and Publican. 7- Christ, the Believer's Vv'isdora, 
 Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption. S. The iJoiv 
 Spirit convincing the World of Sin, of Righteoasncss, and of 
 Judgment. 9. The Conxersion of Zaccheus." W hiclx ui'iv- 
 thus introduced : " The following Sermons, I think I may say, 
 wsvc given me by the Lord Jesus Chri.->t 5 and, according to mv 
 present light, aru agreeable to the form of sound word.-, delivered 
 to us by the lively Oracles of God. They contain rlie .sum and 
 fcubstapce, I will not say word for word, of what was delivered iu 
 the pulpit; for, a> I had occivsion, in .\menca, Scotland, and 
 England, to pre ich upon the same hubj^cts, I was obii^"ed, ac- 
 cording to the f:;-. (luiii and iissistance ^i\en me from above, to 
 enlarge, or mak;" excursions, {igreeable to the jx ople's eircum 
 stances among'st wlioni I was preaching t-u- kingdom <>f God. i 
 had no Ici'^nie or fr.-o^'om to conucit any of tlieiu to wntmg, but 
 during mv last vov';;;c ; i)m America tn Kiiglarkl ; no.'- do I ex- 
 pect to find lei-ur- ^ill iv. shidl please God that 1 ern'oaik a^^ain " 
 
 * See vol. 1 p. 1.V2 ; vol. II. p. .07. 
 
 t John Wiko.K, of Clare hall : B.A. 17U; IvI.A. 1715; P. I>. 
 Com. Reg. ll^.H; and ma.-ter of Clare hail 173G. He had also the 
 valuable rectory of Kensington in Middle,e\- ; was subd-a!! of 
 York : and is noticed a-, ' good, though glcomy Wilcox, ' in th^ 
 " Capitade,"" a poetical ^^atire 00 tl'C ruling Meir.bei-3 of the l.iu- 
 \ersity of Canibridire, the autho! <'f wljicii wa- );e-.rr .-^ati^faetunly 
 ascertained. It was lii-t puhii-.hed in the, ' L<Jndoii KveniniT 
 Pon," Nov. 1, I75O; and ;t;-;iintcJ i:i Geiif .'i.;^. 17^1. vol. LI. 
 p. 530, with notes by the Kev. John Dunc(mibe, niio paitieuiarly 
 knew all the parties described .n it. 
 
 t; William George Barnes, M. A. lecturrr of Kt. Br''le'< ; wb'. 
 published, in 1752, "A sele^.t Noniber of Sermons :\r.i Hi eourses 
 on mural, theoio^icrJ, and prd';t)c:i! subj-^jt.- ," ": -.oU. h' >.
 
 12^ LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l738. 
 
 " Tlie present State of Bromley College," a single 
 sheet, for Dr. Joseph Wilcocks, Bishop of llochester. 
 
 " I'jssay on Foolish Questions." 
 
 Political a.ntl Miscellaneous Tracts, by the Author 
 of Gulliver's Travels," 8vo. 
 
 " A complete System of, Optics, in Four Books. 
 By Robert Smith *, LL. I)." 2 vols. 8vo. 
 
 " Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures, by 
 Roger Cotes -j-, M. A. late Professor of Astronomy 
 
 * Robpi-t Smith, LL. D. and D. D. master of Trinity college, 
 Cambridge, IJliG, and Master of Mechanicks to the Kin;^, was , 
 preceptor tci William Duke of Cumberland ; and in that character 
 is noticed, in the Poem jnst before cited, in p. 125, as 
 " Smith suproinely blest with every charm, ; 
 
 In Virtue's cause ev'n Royal Youth to warm." 
 He published at Ciambridge, in 1744, " Harmonics ; or, the Phi- 
 losophy of Musical Sounds," 8vo; of which a second eiiition was 
 printed in 1761; and a "Postscript" to it in 1763, confaining 
 an account of a'.i excellent impro\ement of the harpsichord. 
 (See Biog. Brit. vol. VII, p. 4130, note; Appendix, p. '229, text.J 
 Mr. Cumberland, in the Memoirs of his own Lite, p. 109, says, 
 '' Dr. Smith was "unquestionably one of the most lejirned men 
 of his time, as hi-> works, especially his System of Optics, tiicc- 
 tually demonstrate. He led the life of a student, abstemious 
 and recluse, his f hmily consisting of a sister, advanced in years, 
 and unmarried like himself, together with a niece, who in the 
 course of her rcsi dence there was married to a fellow of the Col- 
 lege. He was a i nan, of wliom it might be said PiiHosop/u/ had 
 marked liimfor Ji ir ihcn. Of a thin spare habit, and a nose pro- 
 minently aquilin*;, and an eye penetrating as that of the bird^ 
 th.e semljlance of whose b^-ak marked the character of his face. 
 The tone of his voi'^e was shrill and nasal, and his manner of 
 speaking such a.s denoted forethought and deliberatio)i. How 
 deep a theorist he was in harmony his IVeatise will evince; of 
 mere melody he was indignantly neglectful ; and could nc^t re- 
 concile liis ear t:<) the liarpnchurd, till, by a construction of bis 
 own, he had di lided the half tones into their proper flats and 
 sharps, lliosc Avho figured to themselves a Diogenes in Mason, 
 might have fan .cied they beJield an Ari?totle in Suiith, who, had 
 he lived in the age and fallen within the eye of the great designer 
 of the School of Athens, might have left his image there \vithout 
 discrediting tl le groupe." He diiid Feli. '2, 17t>85 and bequeathed 
 2000i. towards the repairs of his Cobege, and '2500/. to the 
 University. 
 
 f 'ibis ex.relient raatliematician, philosopher, and astfono- 
 rner, v.as 1, crn July 10, 16"82, at jiurbach, in Jveiceslersbire, 
 w here his J iither was rector. He was first placed at Leicester 
 school; w! jere, when he was bet',veen U and 12 vears of age.
 
 1738.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I27 
 
 and Experimental Philosopliy at Cambridge," 8vo ; 
 published by Roger Smith, D.D. Master of Trinity 
 
 he discovered a strong inclination to the mathematics. This 
 being observed by his uncle, the Rev, John Smith, he gave him 
 all imaginable encouragement ; and prevailed with his lather to 
 send him for some time to his house in Lincolnshire, that he 
 might put him forward, and assist him in thf)se studies. Here lie 
 laid the foundation of that deep and e\tensi\ e knowledge in Ma- 
 tliematics, for which he was after\\ards so desenedlv famous. 
 He removed from thence to London, and was sent to St. Pauls 
 school ; where, under the care of Dr. Gale and the succecdi)ig 
 master, he made a great progress in classical learning ; yet 
 found so nmch leisure as to keep a constant con-esponrience with 
 his uncle, not only in mathematics, but also in mctaphvsics 
 philosophy, and di\inity. This fact is said to ha\e been often 
 mentioned by Proi'esr^or Saunderson. His next remove was to 
 Cambridge ; where, April G, IG99, ho was admitted of Trinity 
 college; and, at Micliaelmas 1/05, cho.-en fellow. He was at 
 the same time tutor to Anthony Earl of Marold, and the Lord 
 Hemy de Grey, sons to tlie tlien Marquis, afterwards Duke (jf 
 Kent; to which noble family Mr. Cotes had the honour t( i;e 
 related. In January 1705-G, he was appointed profes-or of 
 astronomy and experimental philosophy, upon the foundation 
 made by Dr. Plume arclideacon of Rochester, being the first that 
 enjoyed that office ; to which he was xmanimously chosen, on 
 account of his liigli rejiutation aitd merits. He took the degree 
 of M.A. in 1706, and went into holy orders in 1713. The same 
 year, at the flesire (ff Dr. Bentley, he published at Cambridge 
 the second edition of Sir Isaac Newton's '' Matheinatica Piinc*ipia 
 Philosophi;c Naturalisj " and inserted all tlie improvements wliich 
 the atithoi- hail made to that time. To this edition he pre.Hxed 
 a most a<inii;d)le ]>reface, in which he e\j)ressed the true method 
 of philo.^o, !ii:-iniv- shewed the foundation on wl;ich tii<; Xewtonian 
 philosophvv.us built, and refuted the objections of the Cartesians 
 and all tither ])hi!osophi is against it. Tliis juihllcatiou ackled 
 greatly to the repataiion ?.lr. Cotes had acquireil among th;- 
 greatest men of tlie age for his profomid knowledge in the ;iij- 
 strascst parts of matheinatick.^: nor was tlie high opinion liie 
 ])ul>iick now conceived of him in tl^; least (liuiirii>hed, l)iii ratlitr 
 much increased, by several ])rodLicfit)ns of his own, whic.'i after 
 wards appeared. He gave a deseiiption of the great iu i\ nu - 
 teor that was seen March 0", 1716-10", v.hich was ])ubH>lie(i in 
 tlie Philosophical Transactions a little ni'ivr iiis death, llf l-.-fi 
 b'iiind liim also some adniirahle and judicious tracts ; |>art ol 
 wiii.h, aUer his dece.tse, were; jiuhlislied by Dr. I<ob<Mt ^'uiih, 
 hi- c'lu-in and successor in hi> profe^-^or-.hip, affi-rwaid- ina^tcr 
 of Tr'in-tv college in Can\bii'lge. His " HHriii(H\j,i .Meii-uru win,"' 
 &< ; that is "Hannony of ,"\b'aiun-s; o;-, .\iial\ii-. and >^u^lll-i^ 
 ad .Miccd hv the iMe;LSUies of l{alio>and Angles," u.i^ pi;!jii-h>'d 
 U Cimbridge in 17-.i'2, in 4lo, and dedicated to Di. .\Ieail l>\ th;
 
 128 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I'S?. 
 
 College, Cambridge ;" and dedicated to William 
 Duke of Cumberland, 
 
 learned editor; who, in an elegant and afFectionate preface^ 
 pi\es us a copious account of the perfonnance itself* the pieces 
 annexed to it, and Of such other of the author's works Jis are 
 yet unpublished. He tells us how much this work was admired 
 by professor Saunderson, and how dear the author of it was to 
 Dr, Bentley. The first treatise of the miscellaneous works 
 annexed to the " Harmonia Mensurarum" is, " Concerning the 
 Estimation of Errors in mixed Mathematicks." The second is, 
 " Concerning the differential Method;" which he handles in a 
 manner somewhat different from Sir Isaac Newton's treatise 
 upon that subject, having written it before he had seen that 
 treatise. The name of the third piece is, " Canonotechnia, or 
 concerning the Construction of Tables by Differences." The 
 book concludes with three small Tracts, " Concerning the De- 
 scent of Bodies, the Motion of Pendulums in the Cycloid, and 
 the Motion of Projectiles ;" which tracts^ the Editor informs us, 
 were all composed by Cotes when he was very young. He wrote 
 also " A Compendium of Arithmetic ; of the Resolutions of Equa- 
 tions, of Dioptrics, and of the Nature of Cunes." Besides the^e 
 pieces, he drew up the course of " Hydrostatical and Pneumatital 
 Lectures" noticed above, which are held in high rej)ute. I'his 
 uncommon Genius died, to the regret of the IJnivei'sity, and all 
 lovers of that science, June 5, 1716, in the very prime of hi;* 
 life; for he was advanced no farther than to his 33d year. 
 Newton had j)ronounced of him. Now the world will know some^ 
 thing ! And Dr. Bentley ncAcr mentioned him hut with the 
 deepest regret : he had formed the highest exj)cctations of new- 
 lights and discoveties in Philosophy from the penetrating force 
 of his extraordinary genius ; and on the tablet devoted to his 
 menx)ry in the chapel of Trinitj- college, has recorded his 
 sorro^vs, and those of the whole learned world, in the following 
 beautiful and pathetic epitaph : 
 
 " H. S. E. 
 
 Rogenis Robeiti fiUus Cotes, 
 
 Colleg-ii hujus S. Trinitatis Socins, 
 
 Astrouomiue et Experimentalis Philosophia^ 
 
 Professor Plumianus : 
 
 Qui 
 
 immature moile prisreptus, 
 
 pauca quidem ingenii sui pignora rehquit, 
 
 sed egregia, sed adniiranda, 
 
 ex inaccessis MatheseAs peneti-alibiis 
 
 telici solerti;\ emu priinum eruta. 
 
 Post magnum ilium Newtonuni 
 
 Societatis hujus spcs altera 
 
 et decus gemellum. 
 
 Cui ad suramani doctrinse laudcm 
 
 onxnes-
 
 1738-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 12flr 
 
 "A new and easy Method of learning Hebrew 
 without Points. To which is annexed, by Way of 
 Praxis, the Book of Proverbs, divided according to 
 the Metre , with the Masoretical Reading in Roman 
 letters, the Interlinear Version of Santes Pagninus, 
 a grammatical Analysis, and short Notes critical 
 and explanatory ; the whole designed for the more 
 speedy and perfect Attainment of the Hebrew 
 Tongue, by Richard Grey, D. D. Rector of Hin- 
 ton, in Northamptonshire," 8vo. 
 
 A part of the first edition of Mr. Zachary Cham- 
 bers's * " Cyclopedia, or Universal Dictionary of 
 Arts and "Sciences." 
 
 " The Vocal Miscellany ;" third edition, with 
 large additions, 2 vols. l:2mo. 
 
 A new edition of the Goes of Horace, published 
 by George Wade '[-, D. D. l2mo. 
 
 173^. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer printed " The Earl of 
 StrafForde's Letters and Dispatches, with an Essay 
 towards his Life bv Sir George Radclilie. From 
 the Originals in the Possession of his Great-grandson 
 the Right HonourableThomas Earl of Malton, Knight 
 of the Bath. By William Knowler :J:, LL. D. Rector 
 of Irthlingborough." 
 
 omnc3 moixim virtutumfj^ue dotes 
 
 in cumulurn acce^sorunt: 
 Eo niagis spcctabilcs amabilesque, 
 quod in fonnoso corpore eratiores vcniient. 
 Natus Burbag'ii, in agio Leicestriensi, 
 Jul. 10, l<Jb2 ; obiit Jun.5, 1716." 
 * Sse the " E:savs and Illustrations' in vol. V No. XII. 
 t Of Chmf s colletje, Cambmk^c, B. A. 171-S M.A. 1717; 
 D. D. Coin. Rpg. I7*2. 
 
 X VViliiain Ki,ov. ler was tbe third son of Gi^b- rt FCjiowVi', ^.'i.t. 
 of Stiov.d lioust;, .?t HcriH' in Kcr t; bapi.s. ' "1;;. ;>, 1<>"'. '.> Jle 
 Tvas enucaied at St. John's col!' ye, Oainbiio.'i^ ; V-. \. ll^lO; 
 M.A. 1724; LL. D. Conj. Rej,-. \Tl>^. He v.ab ch-aphnn to ilie 
 first MarqL-is of Itockingham, wlio pro-ontcd i.im lipst to tne 
 rectorv of Irtiilinjjboiow (coznni'mly called Aril"buiro\v). be- 
 tween' Wellii)gb(jrjugh and ) li'/baui Ft^n 1 , ;u:d alt toward- to 
 the more valuaUe one of Bo'Jdir:v;ton, 1-::^ :u Nuithauipici:- 
 VoL. II. K ^'^^^^-
 
 1^0 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7S9. 
 
 *' Jus Parliamentarium," by that celebrated Anti- 
 quarian Lawyer William Pety t *, esq. folio. 
 
 shire. He died in December 1773- Mr. Bowyer received 
 sojin after a polite letter from Mrs. Knowler, with an intima- 
 tion that a legacy of twenty pounds was ready for his accept- 
 ance. I \vish I had a copy of this letter and of his answer, 
 which I remember to have seen. The purport of the letter, 
 however, was a proper acknowledgement of tlie lady's civility ; 
 a very suitable condolence on her loss ; and a rcquest, " that, to 
 save trouble, she would keep the twenty pounds intended for 
 him, which othenvise she would have to recei\ e back from his 
 executors at a period which he had reason to think would not be 
 far distant." In 1766 Dr. Knowler had prepared for the jjress an 
 English translation of Chrysostom's " Comment on St. Paul's 
 Epistle to the Galatians ;" and I have now before me a preface 
 intended to have been prefixed to the translation ; in which Dr. 
 Knowler introduces this judicious obsenation on the Fathers : 
 " Some have thought nothing too much to be said in their 
 praise J others have denied them a share of common sense. 
 The present cry is against themj and, if it continue a few 
 years, they must be a prey to moths and worms, to the great 
 detriment of young students in Divinity, not to say to the \Aih- 
 lick in general. 1 think they have not had a fair trial. Their 
 woiks are locked up in the learned languages ; many ])ieces 
 have been ascribed to them, which, were they alive, they would 
 disown and be ashamed of. Hence they ai'e svvoln to an enor- 
 mous bulk. Then comes an enemy, and culls out of these spu- 
 lious pieces exceptionable passages j jjroduces them before a 
 packed jury J the laugh goes round; and they are condemned in 
 the lump." His own translation he represents to be ' a plain and 
 literal one ;" and acknowledges that the beauty of Chrysostom's 
 original " must suffer greatly in the garb a Country Divine has 
 given him, who has resided six-and-twenty years on his cure, 
 and seldom been absent from his parish." He then proceeds to 
 give a good account of his author; and also of Jerom, wlio was 
 contemporary with Chrysostom. Gilbert Knowler, esq. a nephew 
 of the Doctor, was the last of a family which Philipott mentions 
 as being settled at Heme in the reign of (^ueen Elizabeth. 
 
 * A student of the Middle Temple, afterwards a bencher and 
 treasurer of the Inner Temple. He was some time Keeper of the 
 Records in the Tower J and published, 1. " Miscellanea Parlia- 
 mentaria, 1680," 8vo ; 2. " The antient Rights of the Com- 
 mons of England asserted, 16S0," 8vo (of which a Latin version 
 was published in 1729, folio); 3. "Jus Anglorum ab antiquo; 
 in Confutation of the Answer to Mr. Petyt, &c. 1681," 8vo, 
 He died in 1707; and was buried in the West part of the Temple 
 church, with the following epitaph, which illustrates his liistory : 
 " Heic juxta sitae sunt reliquiaj 
 WiLHELMi Petyt, armigeri, 
 qui olim Medii almnnus fuit, 
 
 nuper
 
 17S9'] 
 
 t;ie eighteenth century. 131 
 
 " A Cataloojue of the MSS. of Sir Joseph JekvL 
 Master of the Rolls." 
 
 r nupei Interioris Templi Socius, et Thesaurarius. 
 
 Rolulorum ac Archivorum in Tuni 
 
 Londinensi remanentium 
 
 Cwstos fidelissimus ; 
 
 quampluriniis tarn genere qu^m doctriaSl 
 
 viiis insignibus bene notus, 
 
 et in magnk sestiniatione habitus. 
 
 Omnia sua 
 
 cum amicis habuit communia : 
 
 neqiie sanb cuiquam literaiaim veteium studioso, 
 
 vel ope ram suam, 
 
 vel consilium unquam negabat ; 
 
 quod in pluribus eruditcixim scriptis apparet. 
 
 Municipalia Patriae jura. 
 
 Historian!, Antiquitates, 
 
 Moniunenta, Actaque Parliamentaria 
 
 optimb callebat : 
 
 Antiquae Constitutionis 
 
 Legum ac Libertatum Anglias 
 
 strenuissinms assertor erat. 
 
 Et ne operam et oleum perderet, 
 
 et e\ anescerent labores, 
 
 mundo valedicturus, omnia sua MSS. 
 
 (quse varia implent volumina) 
 
 unk cum libris impressis, juridicis, historicis, 
 
 atque antiquitatum et processuuni 
 
 Parliainentorum monumentia 
 
 (qua; magno labore, studio, et sumptibus 
 
 sjbi comparavit) 
 
 amicis quibusdam melioris notae, 
 
 in fidei commi^so ad .sc>rvanda integra et illibata, 
 
 ultiuio suo testamento 
 
 publicai utilitatis giatiA, 
 
 legavit. 
 
 Quai)ropter l(x;um certum, 
 
 qui illis visus fuerit maximfe accommodate, 
 
 eos eligere voluit : 
 
 et centum et quinquiiginta libra* 
 
 Bibliotheca^ sditicandaj 
 
 dostinavit. 
 
 Obiit 1707, aetat. 7^. 
 
 " In Storithcs proi)t; Abbatiam de Bolton non ita longii i vico 
 
 de Skipton in Craven in comitatii Eboi-um natus fuit. Ad plures 
 
 abiit apudCheLeam in agro Middlesexiai ti-rtio die Octobris anno 
 
 Domini mdccvii, ajtatis suae lxxi. Neqvie dum vixit ipsiitJ 
 
 Chelseae immemor erat, sed erigf;bat ibi a-dificium, quod eidem 
 
 Parochiae alacri et libcri manu dedit ; in se complcctens (quod 
 
 dicitur) vcstiarium in usian parochianoruni, gymnasium ad 
 
 pueros erudiendos^ et cameras i>neccptyii sati* coaun^x^as 
 
 R 2 " Moftu-
 
 132 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1739- 
 
 A Latin " Catalogue of the Antiquarian Society's 
 Prints," folio. 
 
 A " Spanish and English Dictionary." 
 Another Portion of " Chambers's Cyclopedia.''' 
 The First Number * of " The History and An- 
 tiquities of Essex, from the Collections of Mr. Strange- 
 man ; with Notes and Illustrations by Nathaniel Sal- 
 mon \- ;" folio. 
 
 " Monimientum hoc Sylvester Petyt, 
 
 lie Hospitio Bamardiensi generosus, et cjusdem olini Principalis, 
 
 in memoriam charissimi sui Fratris posuit." 
 
 On a gra^ e-stone on the floor : 
 
 " Thf body of Wili,iam Petyt, Esquire, 
 buried here the 9th day of October, mdccvii." 
 
 * Tliis was begun in November 1739 ; and the nineteenth 
 number, with title-page and subsciiliers names, appeared in 
 Februaiy 1740-1. The author's death put a stop to this work, 
 when he had gone through about two-thirds of the county, so 
 that the hundreds of Chelmsford, Hinkford, I^exdcn, Tendring, 
 and Thiustable, are left xmfinishcd, 
 
 f Son of the Rev. Tliomas Salmon, M.A. rector of Mepsall (a 
 living of considerable value in Bedfordshire, and now in the 
 patronage of St. John's college in Cambridge) was admitted of 
 Bene't college, June 11, ItJ^O, under the tuition of Mr. Beck, 
 and took the degree of LL. B. 1695. Soon after which he went 
 into orders, and was for some time curate of Westmill in Hert- 
 fordshire, biit, although he had taken the oaths to King William, 
 he would not do it to his successor jQuecn Anne ; and when hB 
 could officiate no longer as a priest, he applied himself to the 
 .study of physic, which he practised first at St. Ives in Hunting- 
 donshire, and afterwards at Bishops Stortford, in the county of 
 Hertford. He did not, however, take tins turn out of necessity, 
 but by choice, since he had the oifer of a living of 140Z. f>er annuiii 
 from a friend in Siiffolk, if his conscience would have permitted 
 him to qualify himself for it by taking the legal oaths. He was 
 the elder brother of Mr. Thomas Salmon the historiographer ; 
 who, dying suddenly in London in April 1743, was buried in 
 St, Dunstan'> church. Nathaniel (who left three daughters) 
 was the author of, 1. " A Survey of the Roman Antiquities in 
 the Midland Ci/anties of England, 1726," 8vo. 2. "A Suney of 
 the Roman Stations in Britain, according to the Roman Iti- 
 m-i'ary, 1728," Svo. 3. ' The History of Hertfordshire, de- 
 scribing the County and its antient Monuments, particularly the 
 Roman, with the Characters of those that have been the Chief 
 Possessors of the Linds, and an account of the most memorable 
 Occurrences. London, 1/28," folio. This was designed as a 
 continuation of Henry Chaunceys Histoiy, and detUcated to the 
 Earl of Hertford. 4. " The Li\e3 of the English Bishop* from 
 
 the
 
 ^739-] THE EIGHTEEXTir CENTURY. I33 
 
 " Queries relating to the County of Dorset," a 
 single sheet, by the Rev. John Hutchins *, whose 
 History of that Count}'^ Mr. Bovvyer printed in the 
 year I774, where some particulars of the Work 
 and of its very worthy Author will be given. 
 
 " Lysiae Orationes et Fragnienta, Greec^ et Latin^. 
 Ad fiden. Codd. Manuscriptorum recensuit, Notis 
 criticis, Interpretatione nova, caeteroque apparatu 
 necessario donavit Joannes Taylor '(-, A. M. Coll. D. 
 Joan. Cantab. Soc. Academicfi olim a Bibliothecis, 
 hodie a Commentariis. Accedunt cl. Jer. Marklandi, 
 Coll. D. Pet. Soc. Conjecturae. Londini, ex Officina 
 Gulielnii Bowy^er, in iiedibus olini Carmeliticis." 
 
 Professor Stuart's " Necessity of a Divine Revela- 
 tion," 8vo. 
 
 Another edition of "Dr. Cockman's Tull}'," 12nio. 
 
 " Tabula exhibens Paradigniata \ erborum He- 
 hraicorum regularium et irregularium, per omnes 
 conjugationes, modos, tenipora, et personas, ple- 
 nius et accuratius excusa," a very large single sheet, 
 by Dr. Richard Grey; for whom he also printed, 
 
 A new edition J of Cicero " De Otficiis," by 
 Thomas Cookman, D. D. 1 2mo. 
 
 " Historia Josephi Patriarchae, literis tarn Ro- 
 manis quam Ilehrulcis excusa, cum vcrsione in- 
 
 the Restoration to the Revolution, fit to be opposed to <he /\s- 
 persions of some late Writers of Secret Hist(jrv. l^oiidon, 17.'W," 
 8vo. 5. "A Survey of the Roman Stations in Enuland, 1731," 
 (an iin[)roved edition probably of No. I. and 2.) '2 \oLs. 8vo. 
 ('). " Tlie Antiquities of Suirey, collected from the most Antient 
 Records, and dedicated to :5ir John Kvelvn, Hart, with some 
 Account of the Present State and Natnial Historv of the County. 
 London, 17.'56'," 8vo. 7. "The History and Am iquilici of E.-sex;" 
 as noticed above. 
 
 * See tl:c "Essays and Illustrations" in vol. V. No. XIII. 
 
 t Of tliis work, which is now become e\trenuly "caree, no 
 more tluui .'JOO copies were piinted on demy i);q)( r, ;,') on royal 
 {Kiper, and 2.'j on a tine writing royal. The D.x loi- ahvay, en- 
 tertained a fond h(jpe of reiHiniinj: it, bkr \\i> l)i nio^tlii-n<-s, 
 with aJi equal quantity of note> on i);iili i;:.i;v.. it was in part 
 P'pubiished at Cambridae, in Svn, !;. luul.r \hc tide of 
 "Lysi:- AlhcniensisOratione'^,, 'ini-c; it I.aine . e\ Im. rpntatione 
 et cum bnvibu-, Xuti.-, .Inanni.-' Ta-.l^vi. -m u mui 'tndi'>^f .Iincn- 
 tutis." S'c tliv i:sav'- .and ii!u-ti:ui"ii - in \'.A. 1\ . Xo. \lll. 
 
 t Tir-t prinl'.:<i iji"l7')o"; and fr< qui !! >y r -qfubu-I.tM!. 
 
 urljinari
 
 134 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l739. 
 
 terlineari S. Pagnini, et vocum indice analytico ; 
 praemittitur nova methodus Hehraice discendi, di^ 
 ligentius recognita, et ad usum Scholainini accom-^ 
 raodata/' 8vo, 
 
 1740. 
 
 The principal books of this year were, 
 " Maximi Tyrii Dissertationes, ex recensions 
 Joannis Davisii *, Coll. Regin. Cantab. Prtrsidis, 
 Editio altera, ad duos Codices MSS. Locis quam- 
 plurimis emendata, Notisque lociipletioribus aucta; 
 cui accesserunt Viri eruditissimi Jer. JNIarklandi 
 Coll. D. Petri Cantabrig. Socii, Annotationes;" 4to, 
 with a Dedication to Dr. Mead, by Dr. Ward, 
 
 " Examen ; or an Enquiry into the Credit and 
 Veracity of a pretended Complete History [Dr. 
 Kennett's] ; shewing the perverse and wicked Design 
 of it, and the many Falsities and Abuses of Truth 
 contained in it ; together with some Memoirs occa- 
 sionally inserted, all tending to vindicate the Hon- 
 our of the late King Charles the Second, and liis 
 happy Reign, from the intended Aspersknis of that 
 font Pen. By the Hon. Roger North -}-, 1 740," 
 4to. published by Mr. Mountagu North. 
 
 * "Mr.Markland having in the country, in the summer of 1739, 
 written some notes on the late Dr. Da\is's ediliim of Maximus 
 Tyrius, Cant. 1703, had a sight of the second bcibre it was pub- 
 lished, to add his own remarks upon it. He road it over with- 
 out looking at the Doctor's corrections, which proA ed materially 
 different from his former ones, and found his own to agree with 
 them in the main. His were therefore added to the sccrjnd edition, 
 after it was printed. The variations between the King of France's 
 and the Harleian MSS, and tlie version of Pan;! us are ^o great, 
 that they can only have proceeded from the autlior hi)ns(.lf. This 
 note is from Mr. Cough's copy of the former edition of these Anec- 
 dotes. 
 
 f Sixth son of Dudley fourth Lord North, and bj-otlicr to 
 Charles Lord North, and Francis Lord Guilford, with whom, 
 after having studied at the Middle Temple, he sjienl the greater 
 part of hii life. In the reign of Ciiarles II. lie was a counsellor 
 of note, and in that of James II. attorney-general. He has taken 
 great pains in the " Examen" to vilify Dr. Kennett's " Complete 
 Histoiy of England 5" and has, Mr. Granger says, " in several 
 instaxiccs conti-adicted facts founded upon jxntient records, and 
 
 decried
 
 1740.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I35 
 
 A second edition of Maittaire's " Anacreon ;'* of 
 which not more than 100 copies were printed, and 
 six only on writing paper, 4to. 
 
 " Psalmorum Davidis Paraphrasis Poetica. Auc- 
 tore Arturo Johnstono Scotto *, cum Indice Voca- 
 
 <lecric(l or extolled the characters of persons whose merit or de- 
 merit is as well established as these facts." He was also author 
 of, 1. " The Gentleman's Accomptant ; or, an Essay to imfold 
 ihe Mysteiy of Accompts by way of Debtor and Creditor, 
 commonly called Merchants Accompts ; and, applying the same 
 to the Concerns of the Nobility and Gentiy of England, &c. done 
 by a Person of Honour. 1714" l^mo, 2, <' The Life of the 
 Right Honourable Francis North, Baron of Guilford, Lord 
 Keeper of the Great Seal umler King Charles the Second and 
 King James the Second; wherein are inserted the Characters 
 of Sir Matthew Hale, Sir George Jefferies, Sir Leoline Jenkia, 
 Sidney Godolphia, and other the most eminent lawyers and 
 Statesmen of that time. 1742." 4to, 3. " The Life of the Hon- 
 ourable Sir Dudley North, Knight, Commissioner of the Cus- 
 toms, and afterwanls of the Tieasiuy, to- his Majesty King 
 Charles the Second. And of the Honoui^able and Reverend Dr. 
 John North, Master of Trinity College in Cambridge, and Greek 
 Professor, Prebend of Westminster, and some Time Clerk of the 
 Closet to the same King Charles the Second. By the Honour- 
 ablcTloger North, esq. 1748." 4to. ^These three very eminent 
 persons ^'.cre brothers to their Biographer. 
 
 * Arthur Johnston was born at Caskiebcn, near Aberdeen, 
 the seat of his ancestors, an antient family, fre(jiKM\tly honoured 
 vAxXx knighthooii; and piobably was educated at Aberdeen, as ht 
 was afterwards advanced to the highest dignity in tliat University, 
 whicli could hardly have happenetl ha<l he not belonged in his youth 
 to that learn(!d body. The study he cliieHy apj)lied himself to was 
 that of p!iy,-i;'k ; and, to improve hini'-elf in that science, he tra- 
 velled into foreign parts. He was twice at Rome; but the chief 
 place of liis icsidence was Padua, in uliich IJni\ersity the degree 
 of Doctor oF Phy.>:ic was ccmferred on liim in the yeaj* I'JIO, as 
 ap|)ears bv a manuscript copy of verses in the Advocates' Library in 
 I'Minburgh. After leaving Padua, hetnuelled thif)ugh tlie rest of 
 I lalv, and overGerm any , Denmark, England , and Holland, and other 
 (Duntries; and at last settled in France, where he met with great 
 apphiuse as a Ixitin poet. He lived there twenty years, and by 
 two wives had thirteen children. At last, aftei- twenty-four 
 years abscmce, he returned into Scothuid in the \ear H).':52. It 
 aj pears by the Council-books at Etiinburgh, that the Doctor hal 
 a suit at law before that court about that time, (n the year 
 following, it is very well known that King Charles the first went 
 into Scotland, and n)ade Bishop Laud, then with him, a mem- 
 of that Council; and b) this accident, it is probable, that an 
 actpuiiulance began betN\e''U the Doctor and that Prelate, which 
 
 jiroduced
 
 l^S LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l740. 
 
 bulorum ;" accompanied with " The Psalms of 
 David according to the Translation in the English 
 
 produced the excellent work which gives occasion to this note ; 
 for we find that, in the same year, the Doctor printed a specimen 
 of his Psalms at London, and dedicated them to his Lordship, 
 whxh is as plain a proof almost as can be desired that the 
 Bjsiiop prevailed upon Dr. Johnston to remove to London from 
 Scotland, and then set him upon this work ; neither can it be 
 GOiibtcd but, after seeing this sample, he also enc-aged him to 
 perftct the whole, which took him up four years j foi- the tirst 
 edition t)f all the Psalms was published at Aberdeen in 1 637, and 
 at London the same y ar. In 1641, Dr. Johnston being at Ox- 
 ford, on a visit to oae of his oaughtei-s, who was married to a 
 Di^ine of tlie Chuich of Englan;; in that place, v. as seized with 
 a violent diarrho:^a, of whicii he died in a few days, in the o4th 
 year of his age, nov without haxing seen the begmning of those 
 troubles tliat proved -c fiital to hi- v^tron. He was Inuied in the 
 place where he divu., which gaM; occasion to the following 
 lines of his learned friend Wedderburn in his " Suspiria." 
 " Scotia meesta, dole, tanti viduata sepulchro 
 Vatis; is Angligenis ccntigit altus honos." 
 In what year Dr. Johnston was maae physician to the King, 
 do23 r.ot a| pear ; it is mo;-t likely that the Archbishop procured 
 him iiiat honour at his coming into England in 1633, at which 
 time he transiatei Solomon's Song iwto Latin elegiac \erse, and 
 dedicated it to his Ma-jesty. His Vsalms were reprinted at Mid- 
 dleburg, 1642 J London, 1657 ; Cambridge, . . . . ; Amsterdam, 
 1706} Edinburgh, by William Lauder, 1739; and last, on the 
 plan c^ the Delphin Classics, at Li.ndon, 1741, 8vo, at the ex- 
 pence of Auditor Benson, who dedicated them to his pnsent 
 Majesty, and prefixed to tliis ediiion the memoirs of Dr. John- 
 ston (\vhex.ce I have extracted this notp), with the testimonies 
 of various lean ed persv^ns. A laboured comparison between 
 the two translatior.s cf Buchanan and Johnston was printed the 
 same year in Tnglish, in 8vo, intituled, " A Preiatoiy Discourse 
 to Dr. Johnston's Isalms, &c." and " A Conclusion to it." His 
 translations of the le Deum, Creed, Decalogue, &c. vere sub- 
 joined to the Fsalms. Hi.- othrr poetical works are his Epigrams, 
 his Parerga, and his Mu^.s Anglicae, or commendatory Verses 
 upon persons of rank in Church ana State at that time. 
 
 UULiayr: Lauder (mentioned above) was a Scotchman educated 
 at the Universiiy of Foirhtirgh, where he finished his str.riies 
 with great reputation, and ar^juired a consideiable knowledge 
 of the Latin tongue. He ait- rvvards taught with success in 
 the class of Humanity' stucltnis who were recommended to 
 him by the Professor thereof. On Way 22, 1734, he received a 
 testimonial from the heads of the University, certifying that 
 
 * So the Litin tonguo is called in Sootlaiid, from the Latin phnse Cla^sis 
 /fumuAKrrum Literuyum, the eJass or form whorft that l.ingnaj'^ is tauglt.
 
 1740.] THE SIOHTEE>iTH CENTURY. I37 
 
 Bible, with an Index of the \'\^ords," in 4to, small 
 8vo, and 12mo. To this work was prefixed an 
 
 ingenious " Prefatory Discourse/' by Mr. Auditor 
 Benson *. 
 
 he v-as a fit person to teach Humanity in any school or college 
 whatever; and in 1742 was reconiraenJed by INIr. Patrick Cuming 
 and Mr. Colin Maclaurin, Professors of Church History and 
 Mathematicks, to the mastership of the gnunniar-school at 
 Dundee, then vacant. Wliether he succeeded in this applica- 
 tion or not is luicertain; but a few Viars afterwards we find 
 him in London, contri\inir: to ruin the reputation of Milton, an 
 attempt which ended in the destruction of his own. His re;ison 
 for this attack probably sprung from the virulence of a violent 
 party spirit, whift\ triumphetl over every principle of honour 
 and honesty. He began first to retail part of his design in the 
 Gentleman's Magazine, 1747; and, findii^g that li's forgeries 
 were not detected, was encouraged i)i 1751 to collpct them, 
 with additions, into a volume, intituled " An Essay on Milton's 
 Use and Imitation of the ?vIoderns in liis Paradise Lost." 8vo, 
 The fidelity of his quotations had been doubted by several peo])le, 
 and the falsehood of them was so')n afrer demonstiated by Mr, 
 (afterwards Bp.) Douglas, in a j)aii)]jhlet intituled " Milton vin- 
 dicated from the Charge of Plagiarism broiight against him by 
 Lauder; and Lauder himself convicted of several Forgeries and 
 gross Impositions on the Pablick. In a Letter humbly addressed 
 to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bath, 1751," 8vo. TIk; ap- 
 pearance of this detection overv%h^-lme'l Lauder with confusion. 
 He subscribed a confession, dictated by his learned fiiend Dr. John- 
 son; wherein he ingenuously acknowledged his oiff-nce, which he 
 professed to have been occasioned by the injury he JkkI recei\ed 
 from the disappointment of his fvpcctations (jf jaofit from the 
 publication of Johnston's Psalms. This mlsforivme lie ascribed 
 to the couplet in Mr. Poyie's Dunciiirl cited in the following })agc, 
 and fi'om thence originated his rancour iigainst .M ilton. He after- 
 wards imputed his conduct to other uioti\t'S, abused liie few frieii<ls 
 who continued to countenance him ; and, fia.iing that hi.^ cha- 
 racter was not to be retrieved, quitted the kingdom, and went to 
 Barbadoes, where he some time laugiit .-ho-il. l!js bchiuinur 
 there wa- m^an and dcspicabli- ; and he pa-"-.')! liic n.-Mi:tii)i!; r of 
 his fife in universal contempt, lie died son;;- liiue alioui the 
 year 1771, as my late fiiend Lnac Ilecil wa^ iniurnicd 1)} liie 
 gentleman who read the furii ral sirviee over liim. 
 
 * Mr. Benson was the son of SirWiUiain !?( ''-,00, foi-inerly 
 sheriff of London. He w;;s born in t'i- \\ -.. ''Js..'; ;ii,d i)i Cue 
 reign of r>ueen Anne iwarle a U^y.r .-.l]'. -. I. -l.rjiig \vhi( li In; 
 visited Hanover and :.oin^'' other '^(.;i.!.!i ("'.n' . r.ii '"t"e! 'u;!-;;. 
 In 1710 he wa.s high hh.-rilfof V'-'ii;- J"^ -'" n .M'.-r v r.i.c l.i. 
 famous letter to Sir Jacob Hau'A.' of \1m. *<!, by hi; h ;i :/.( !< . 
 b\it naturalized; M'fi..iela he -et to.th ni u f i i* . vi '.he ;--.v. i, ., 
 
 ;,t(.-j
 
 138 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [*740. 
 
 The First Number of the " Magna Britannia ;" 
 which was afterwards extended to six volumes in 
 quarto. 
 
 after they liad made a surrender of their liberties to arbitrary 
 jiower, which was then making great advances at home. Being 
 bummoned ibr this Letter before the Lords of the Privy Council, 
 lie owi^d himself to be the author of it, in defiance of a prose- 
 cution then ordered by the Oueen s Attorney General, and put 
 his name to all the subsequent editions, of which not less than 
 100,000 wex'e sold in our ow n and foreign langujiges. He was 
 member for the borough of Shaftesbury in the fii-st parliament 
 of King George the First, who in the year 17 18 made him Suneyor 
 General of his works, in the place of Sir Christopher Wren, by 
 which he % acated his seat in i)arl lament. He was a great admirer 
 of Milton and Johnston ; on which account. Pope mentions him 
 in the Dunciad, book 4. 1. Ill : 
 
 " On two unequal ci-utchcs propt he came, 
 Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name." 
 To do honour 'to Milton, lie erected a monument to his memoiy 
 in W^estmin^ter Abbey, employed Mr. Tanner to engrave a medal 
 of him, and gave Mr. Dobson, of New college, Oxford, 1000^. 
 for translating the. Paiadise T^^st into Latin verse. He at- 
 tended King George L in a visit which he made to his German 
 dominions ; and while there gave directions for that curious 
 water-work in ihe gardens of Herenhau.sen, which is known to 
 excel the famous fountain of St. Cloud in. France. [Bishop Po- 
 cocke, in his Travels, vol. W. partii. p. 126, says, "' The gardens 
 of Hcrtnhai!,scn are deservedly admired; X\itjet d'eau is the finest 
 in The world, the water being forced t() it by machines which are 
 v\ell known, and are the invention of Mr. Holland, &C."] If we 
 may compare small things with great, the water was laid into 
 the town of Shaftsbury, t'nmi a farm at a small (I'lstance, by an 
 horse engine erected at bis expence ; but, the yearly profits not 
 ansuering the fund and rej)airs, it failed in about four yeai-s, 
 and wa5 renewed again ]714. Hutchins's " History of Dorset," 
 vol. H. p. !25. The Commentator on the Dunciad^ book IIL 
 verse 3'25, relates, that " Mr. Benson gave in a report to 
 the Lords, that their House and the Painted Chamber adjoin- 
 ing were in immediate danger of falling ; whereupon they 
 met in a Committee, to appoint some other place to sit in 
 while the House was taking dowri : but, it being jiropost'd to 
 take the opinion of sonie other builders, they found it in \cry 
 good condition : upon this tlie Lords were going to address the 
 King against Benson for such a misrepresentation; but the 
 Earl of Sunderland, then secretary of state, gave them assurance 
 that his Majesty would remove him, which was done accordingly. 
 In fivoiu' of this man, ])r(cecds the note, the lamous Sir Chris- 
 topher Vv'ren, who had been architect to the Crown for above 50 
 vears, buill n.o-t of the ( hurches in London, laid the first stone 
 (jf i>t Paul's, and lived to fmish it^ hud been displaced from his 
 
 cinith-jmcnt
 
 1740.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. l^^ 
 
 *^ Miltoni Epistoia ad Poliionem," folio (by Dr. 
 - King, of St. Mary hall, Oxford). 
 
 " Specimens of Paradisiis Ainissus," for Mr. 
 Vaillant. 
 
 " A Collection of State Papers *, relating to Affairs 
 in the Reigns of King Henry Vi II. King Edward VI. 
 
 emplo}-ment at the age of near 90 years." On the resignation of 
 this office, Mr. Benson received a short time after an ('vS.-ignment 
 of a considerable debt due to the Crown in Ireland, and also the 
 rciersion of one of the two oflices of Auditor of the Imprest, 
 which he enjoyed after the death of ]\lr. Edward Harley. About 
 the year 1735 a book was insblished jntitnled " The Cure of 
 Deism. The Author, Mr. Elislia Smith, liad the misfortune to 
 be confined in the Fleet-prison for a debt of 200/. Mr. Bensoa 
 was highly pleased with this w ork ; enquiretl v ho the autlior 
 was, and, having received the foregoing account, not only sent 
 him a vei'v handsome letter, but fiischarged the whole debt, fees, 
 &c. and set h^tn at liberty. This deserves to be recorded, as an 
 uncommon instance of generosity and good nature ; though 
 Mr. Benson, having been thrust into ihe O mciad, will probably 
 be known to posterity only as a bad critic and architect. The 
 following anecdt)te was I'eceived from a jierson well acquainted 
 with him. Though a man wi;D had spent the greater part of his 
 life among books, yet a short time before his death he acquiit;d an 
 a\ersiou to them which was unconquerable. He could not even 
 bear tlie sight of any, and reniaiued stedta-t in Ins abhoirenee of 
 tiiem as long as he lived. In the like nr.mucr, according to 
 Dr. VVarton (Essay on Poi;e, \(d. If. p. 109), Covvk-y kitterly 
 icoidd not endure the company of women. In tlie prime of his 
 life few persons were more distingiiihlied by the ciiaractcrs of 
 ^hc fine gentknnan, -^lie .s( :h(;lai', tlie statesman, and the patriot ; 
 hut in the latter part of it he lived very retired, chiefiy at W'im- 
 hleton in SuiTey, wliere he died February 2, 1754. I3c'*i;]es 
 Mr. Benson's " ConchiMion to his Prefatory l)i.-cKirsr,' t\c. 
 1/41, he pubhshed, in tlie same year, '"A Supplement to it, in 
 which is contained, a (ompariion betwixt Johnston and Bu- 
 chanan." On both of these some margiiral nit;'* liy the Be^. 
 Mr. SauHul Say, one of Dr. V\'att,-,'s felloW"puj)il'., and as suei> 
 menticmed with due eucomiums by Dr. (iibboiis, ::re preserved 
 in the (lent. Mag. 1780, p. GO/. No one had a b( Iter ta-te, or 
 a more ihorougJi acnuaiiUance with the ( ui^sies, ih:m Mr. Say. 
 It is no woniter tlierefore that he should prefer l'>\iebnn;in to 
 Johnston. Mr. Ben.'-on's other jntblicutions ^whit^Ij jkh'-os bomi 
 merit) were, "Vireil's Hu^banthv, f.r a)i iv-say on the (ii-oririci ; 
 being the Scco)id Book tiHn.-laled into En-lish Vd-Sf : to \shi( .t 
 are add<d thel..atin T. \t, and .Mr. Drydcn .< Version, v.;th Vnus 
 Critical and Rusth, 17'24, " yvo; a. id " '[>etter.-. c.-nc* ruing I'neiicil 
 Tran-lations,andVu\::il ^.'uidMiltouVAj-ts(jfVt'rse,6iC IT-iP,' Svo 
 * In 'he IVoposals for thi- \\(;rk it wa'- aid, " Tlv (..ollciion 
 v.ill contain {e^chi.-ive of theiapij- . lifting to (be ji'.jii.^ c'
 
 140 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l740. 
 
 Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, from the Year 
 1542 to 1570. Transcribed from original Letters 
 and other authentic Memorials, never before pub- 
 hshed, left by William Cecil Lord Burleigh, and 
 now remaining at Hatfield House, in the Library of 
 the Right Honourable the present Earl of Salisbury. 
 By Samuel Haynes*, A.M. Rector of Hatfield in 
 Hertfordshire/' folio, 
 
 Henry VIII. Edward VI. and Queen Mary) a period of above 50 
 years, in which are com])rised the several and successive minis- 
 trii s of William Lord Eurghley and his son Robert Earl of Salis- 
 bury. The papers left by Lord Jkirghley will illustrate the 
 liistoiy of the times, from his Lordship's establishment in the 
 dij'ection of p\iblic affairs, soon afier ^ueen Elizabeth's accession 
 to the throne, to the year of his death, 1598. Sir Robert Cecil 
 (aftenvards Earl of Salisbury), who succeeded to a principal share 
 iu the administration, has left materials for continuing.;- the pro- 
 :ress of this Collection fron^ the close of his father's ministiy to 
 tiiat of his own, which determined by his death, in the year 1612, 
 This Woj'k, great part of which is ready for the press, will con- 
 tain about four hundi-cd sheets; and will be printed on a super- 
 fine Cienoa paper, with the same chai-acter as tiie specirnen an- 
 nexed to the Proposals. Subscribers will be pleased to pay one 
 guinea in advance, one guinea u})on the deliveiy of the first two 
 hundred sheets, and one guinea upon the delivery C)f the remain- 
 der. Subscriptions are taken in for the Editor by Mr. Watson, 
 at the China-siiop in York-house, the corner of York-buildings 
 in the Strand." London Evening Post, Feb. 24, 1736-7. 
 
 * Samuel Haynes, M.A. (son (;f liopton Haynes, esq.) was tu- 
 tor to the Earl of Sfdisbury, with whom he travelled, and who 
 rewai'ded him, in June 173?',. with the valuable rectoiy of Hat- 
 field, Ii'erts. In March 1743, on the death of Dr. Snaj)e, he 
 succeeded to a canonry at Windsor; and in May 1747 lu' was 
 presented also by his noble patron to the rectory of Clothall, 
 tlie parish in which ti-.e Earl of Salisbury's seat called jQuicks- 
 wood is situated 3 whei'e his predecessor. Dr. John Savag-e, had 
 rebuilt the parsonage-house. Mr. Haynes, who died June 9, 
 175*2, w.i>; an amiable and chciirfVil companion. His father (Hop- 
 ton Haynes, e.'-q.) w;is assay-:r.abter of the IMint, and pj'inclpal 
 Tally-writer or the Excr.ecj'Kr; in both which places he always 
 behaved hims(^lf highly worthy of tiie great trust reposed in hitn, 
 being indefatigable and most faifViful in the execution of his 
 ofliccs. He Avas born in 1672; ami his first ajjpoinlniesit was so 
 early as 1(J96, to the place of weigher and teller in that depart- 
 nacnt; and his services tiirre, in one or otlur capacity, ex- 
 tended to a period of more than fifty jears. Whether he wrote 
 any thing relating to t:re Mint, or niorny aftahs in general, is 
 not known 3 but that rie '.vas anxious to mcuntain the inilepend- 
 
 enc;;
 
 1740.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I4I 
 
 " Academiqiies de Ciceron, avec le Texte Latin 
 de TEdition de Cambrige, et des Remarques nou- 
 
 ence and prerogatives of his ofRce, is apparent, from a tract, in 
 folio, which he printed, and privately dis])erseu, intituleci, " A 
 brief Enquu y relating to the Right of His .Majesty's Royal Chapel, 
 and the Privileges of liis Servants within the Tower, in a Memorial 
 addressed to the Right Hon. the Lord Viscount l^onsdale, Con- 
 stfdjle of His Majesty s Tower of London," 1/28, folio, signed 
 H. Haynes ; and which is now become, from that cireumstance, 
 extremely scarce. We may conclude, from his being in the 
 Mint at the time that Sir Isaac Xewt(m presided there, and 
 from his known piety, and lQ\e of learned cou\ ersation, that he 
 had frequent intercourse, and enjoyed the good opinion of that 
 excellent manj and, as a proof that the business of Mammon did. 
 not wholly engross his thoughts, or divert his attention fiom 
 better pursuits, he wrote, and left in the press at the time of his 
 death, " The Scripture Account of the Attributes and ^\'orship of 
 God, and of the Character and Oihces of Jesus Christ, by a candid 
 Knquirer after Truth," 4tu ; a curious and scai-i:e book, which, 
 from a religious regard to liis father's request, was published by 
 his son after his death, and of which a second edition appeared 
 in 1790. He was likewise the autlior of an exceik nt and weil- 
 written tract, intituled, " The Ten C^onnnandments better than 
 The Apot:tles' Creed." He died at his house in jQuecn-square, 
 Westminster, Nov. 19, J 749, at the age of 77. He was a moat 
 loyal subject, an affectionate husband, a tender father, a kind 
 master, and u sinceie friend ; charitable and compa~>ionate to 
 the poor, acum])lete gentleman, and consequently a good Chris- 
 tian. A ].oili'ait of hini, engi'a'sed by Nugent, from a jKiinting 
 by Highn)ure,waspublislied in Harding's " Biographical IMIirou!;' 
 see Noble'.- Continuation t)f Granger, vol.111. ]>. '25^>. The UA- 
 lowing tiibute was paid to his memory by Wells Egli'-h;\ni, a 
 worthy old journeyman printer, author of " A Shint Sketcli of 
 English Grammar, ) 77**)" *3VO ; a p'ea:3ant little vcjliniie of Song-, 
 intituled, " V-'inkc-y's Whims, 17(iy3" and many fugitive e--.:ij.i 
 jn "The Pi.:l*!ic Advertiser:" 
 
 " Worthv the ablest Muse ! accept tlie la\s. 
 Accept HiV tribuf', not thy uu', of [)rai-e ! 
 Mean tho' ;ny v..'rse, my tiicuic shall be appiov'd, 
 Praisin;^ of thee whonj every good nran lo\'d. 
 Who CPU repeat tiie virtues of thy mind ? 
 Or who a \i'tr.e, thou {xK-sess'd not, find ? 
 Great uiiivcr.^al friend of all mankind ! 
 
 O co;)ld mv i''n dejjict the glo\\ing thoii.'^J't. 
 With wliicli my warm, but heavy lieart i-, ti.ir.gbt. 
 Pie;-- .1 w'a'a the- ta-k, I (i ;t'l thy virtu*- raint, 
 But 1 d(^i^t, wheiv- Pope ^ ,-troiig Mu-e niigiii fiiiit. " 
 Y)v. Jdiu S ir.cijt, the pn'dcc:(--^or (jf Mr. Ihui^.c^ ;.! (loth, ill, 
 (who h.ad jjnvioij-lv b'-en rector of b)gia\>', ai.d w.'.i aK^i Ictuiir 
 uf St. (ieor.-re, Hanover-nqirare) wa-5 called \\\v. .'i.Ti-iipiiM- of tlu- 
 aye In hi-, v,r;-i -.: i!a'.-," sar-, Bi-k'-j) .\ 'Wloii, " Ix' trtd 
 
 ' tl.ivrllr,] 
 
 }
 
 142 LITERARY ANECDOTES Of [l740, 
 
 velles, otitre les Conjectures de Davies & de Mons. 
 Bentlev, et le CoiiimentairePhilosophique de Pierre 
 Valentia, Jurisconsulte Espai^nol ; par un des Mem- 
 bres de la Society Royale," 12mo; and " Acade- 
 mica, sive de Jiidicio erga Verum. Ex ipsis primii> 
 fontibus; opera Petri Valentiae Zafrensis, in ex- 
 trema Baetica Editio nova eniendatior ; Typis 
 Bowyerianis/' 13mo; both by Mr. (afterwards Dr.) 
 David Durand *. 
 
 travelled with an Earl of Salisbury, to whom he was indebted for 
 a considerable li\iiig in Hertfordshire: and in his more advanced 
 years was a lively^ plefisant, facetious old man. One day at the 
 levee George I. asked him, ' How long he had staid at Ronie with 
 Lord Salisbury ?' Upon his answering how long ; 'Why,' said 
 the King, ' you staid long enough ; why did not you convert 
 the Pope?' ' Because, Sir,' replied he, 'I had nothing better to 
 offer him !' Having been bred at Westminster, he had always a 
 great fondness for the scbool, attended at all their plays and 
 elections, assisted in all tlieir public exercises, there grew young 
 again, and among bo\s was a great boy himself. The King's 
 scholais had so great a regard for him, that, after his decease, 
 which happened March 24, 1747, they made a collection among 
 themseh es, and at their own charge erected a monument to his 
 niemoi-y in the Cloysters." The monvunent the Bishop mentions 
 is a small tablet of white marble on the right-hand side of the 
 door leading into the Chapter-house, and is thus inscribed 
 " JoHANNi Savage, S. T. P. 
 Alumni Scholae Westmonasteriensis 
 Posuenmt, 
 
 MDCCL. 
 
 Tu nostra; memor usque Scholae, dum vita manebat ; 
 
 Musa nee immemoies nos sinit esse Tux. 
 Ipse loci Genius te moeret Amicus .\micum, 
 
 Et luctu Pietas nos propiore ferit. 
 Nobiscum assiicras docto puerascere lusu, 
 
 Fudit et ingenitos cruda senecta sales. 
 Chare Senex, Puer hoc te saltem carmine donat ; 
 
 Ingratum Pueri nee tibi carmen crit." 
 
 '' Dr. Savage used to attend the school, to furnish the lads with 
 extempore epigrams at the elections. From a similaiity in their 
 character he has been sometimes mistaken for Dr. William 
 Savage, rector of St. Anne Blackfriars, who published a Sermon 
 on the election of a Lord Mayoi' 1707, and one before the Sons 
 of the Clergy 1715 ; was elected master of Emanuel college 1719 ; 
 and died Aug. '2, 1736. 
 
 * See vol. I. p. 343. In the title-pages of these books, in- 
 stead of an ornament, a blank shield was printed, in wluch 
 Mr. Durand, in many of the copies which he gaye away, wrote, 
 
 in
 
 1740.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 14^ 
 
 A new edition of Mr. Cheselden^s Anatomy," 8vo. 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer purchased a monument*, 
 which he intended should serve both for his father and 
 himself. The stone was completed, except the in- 
 scription ; ' and in that state 1 have frequently seen 
 it on the outside of the mason's house at Hampstead, 
 where it remained till, after having been exposed to 
 the weather for 37 years, it was unfit for use. 
 
 Thb following epigram was written about this 
 period by our learned printer : 
 
 " In syllabam longam in roce Vertiginosus \ 
 a D. Swift correptam. 
 " Musarum antistes, Phoebi numerosus alumnus, 
 
 Vix omnes numeros Vertiginosus habei. 
 Intentat charo capiti vertigo ruinani : 
 
 Oh ! servet cerebro naia Minerva caput. 
 'Vertigo nimium longa est, divine poeta ; 
 
 Dent tibi Pierides, donet Apoilo, breve in." 
 
 1741. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer corrected, and put into a 
 convenient form, two \&Ty useful little school-books, 
 " Selectae ^ Veteri lestamento Historiae," and " Se- 
 lectae ex Profanis Scriptoribus Historiee." The 
 prefaces to both these volumes ;!: were translated by 
 
 in a remarkably iicut hand, some little conipliuient to the friend 
 to whom he sent the book. And it is his pictme (not Dr. Jolin 
 Savage's) whieh is in the club-ro(jni at Rovston described by Mr. 
 Cough in G'nt. Mag. 17S3, vol. l^III. p. 814. 
 
 * " June 15, 1740. Received of Mr. William Bowyer ton 
 pounds, in part, for a monument to be erecteii at Low Leyton. By 
 me Rob. Scott." " Mem. Sept. 7, 1740. Fiid him more thrci; 
 pounds one (shilling; and agreed with him for twenty j)Ouiids 
 when it is put up." Mr. Boaijer, MS. 
 
 t In the Dean's well-known epigram on his own deafness.- 
 Mr. Bowyer was of opinion, tliat the false (juaiitity rendered the 
 line more expressive of tiie malady undi-r which Swift labomed. 
 
 X Both these works weie first published at Paris, in 17'<J0* 
 and 17-7, by Pvlons Ileuset, prufcv^-.or of Beauvais college in 
 Paris. The Author of the " Xew .Mi-moirs of Literature, 17'^7." 
 by the following account of tlvese little hook'^, first gave iMr. 
 Bowyer the hint fur re-priiit",ng them : " Wluii children havr 
 nia:e some proficiency in Latin, 'tis an usu:d thing to mak'' 
 them explain authors less eay, liiat is, very dillieult, whom thy 
 
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 144 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l741- 
 
 Mr. Bowyer ; and are inserted in the quarto volume 
 of his " Miscellaneous Tracts." 
 
 From his press also appeared in this year the se- 
 cond volume (in two parts*, containing the fourth, 
 fifth, and sixth books) of Mr. Warburton's Divine 
 Legation-^;" and a second edition also of "The 
 Alliance between Chui'ch and State," 8vo. 
 
 understand as well as they can, and who are of no use to im- 
 prove their mind, or their nieuiory, because they read them 
 tliroughout, whereat- they should only read select passages out 
 of these authors, which might at the same time instruct and 
 please them. Mr. Heuset, being sensible of this inconveniency, 
 has compiled out of the best Latin writers those passages that 
 are most instructive and agreea!)le, and placed them methodi- 
 cally in a new collection, designed chiefly for the use of children, 
 and yet useful to e\eiy body. He had two things in view, the 
 clearness of thoughts and expressions, and the usefulness of 
 the matters. With respect to clearness, he has frequently suj)- 
 pressed, in the maxims and histories collected by him, those 
 thoughts that are either obscure, or too subtle ; he has changed 
 those expressions that are too nice and sublime, into others 
 more simple ; he has contracted those phrases that are too long, 
 and preferred perspicuity and easiness to hai-mony. And because 
 the disposition of words in the Latin tongue is the gi-eatest dif- 
 ficulty for beginners, he thought it proper to place them in a 
 more natural order, and more like that of the French and other 
 modern languages. The author reduces to Prudence, Justice, 
 Fortitude, and Temperance, all the maxims and histories whicii 
 he has compiled, in ordei' to compose a number of books equal 
 to those moral a irtues ; and he has prelixed to them a very short 
 book concerning the Supreme Being, Religion, and the Nature 
 of Man. This work will be very u.S'^ful to young scholars, and 
 perhaps deserves to be re-piinted in England." 
 
 * To the end of Part II. was added, "An Appendix 3 contain- 
 ing some Remarks on a late Book, intituled, ' Future. Rewards 
 and Punishments believed by the Anticnts, ]>avticularly the 
 Philosophers ; wherein some Objections of the Rev. Mr. War- 
 burton, in his Divine Legation of Moses, are considered." 
 
 f To the Lettei' from this learned Author to Mr.Bowyer, p. 120,- 
 the following ones, dated March 3, 1739, and Nov. 24, 1740, will 
 be proper companions. " Dear .Sir, I esteem myself exceeding 
 happy in .such a learned printer, but much more in so candid a 
 friend. To yotir very ingeni(jus observatioii*, which are, and 
 always will be, an extreme pleasure to me, I have only this to 
 say: You know I have endeavoured to shew, that the Antients 
 are veiy confused in the natiue of the iiCgyptian Hieroglyphics, 
 and, by reason of the resembling nature of the several species, 
 frequently confjunded them with one another, and differed 
 much from one another. Tltese two Greek writers;, according 
 
 to
 
 1-741.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURV. I45 
 
 Dean Stanhope's translation of " Epictetus's 
 Morals/' a new edition, 8vo. 
 
 to my spntnnents, do so ; it is certain Herodotus does from 
 both. \ow I apprehend, that/ if this be the case, whenever we 
 find an instance of such confusion and contrariety, -we are to 
 take it for such, and not endeavour to reconcile them bv emen- 
 dations (as you have very ingeniously done) , on a supposition of 
 the texfs being- corrupt. Otherwise, indeed, ichere the writer 
 ivus ptrfect maj-ter of his subject, there, we must suppose, when 
 we find confusion, and the writer's ideas clear, that there is 
 corruption in tiie text. Tliis I make a Canon in Criticism ; and 
 I think it is one of the n^ost useful as well as certain. But, if 
 tlie Antients -^vere confused in tliis matter, the Moderns are 
 nmch more so, as you ha\e given me an iristance in the learned 
 Daubuz. I should be much obliged to you t(5 examine another 
 thing. I find by yours, v cl o-vu'^oXi-a.y), I have translated the 
 cthei- [i. e. '-2d and 3d] S[/rdhols. Tlic tiling is now quite out of 
 my head. But I think I make the U^ctPay.Yiv to signify tlie sacev- 
 df)tal character by letters j and if so, according to my present 
 ideas, the tu-'j kt^'o.'twv rci%:-a.'v y.v^ioXcyiy.r) should contain the two 
 kinds, Epistolanj and Sacerdotal. Pray, Sir, exiuiiine whether 
 I ha^e not conti-adicted myself in this matter. If I have, it 
 must be re-formed, and printed over again. If it be reconcileable 
 with the rent, it must stand. Upon second thoughts, if I don't 
 niis-rcniember, I make the Sacerdotal of two sorts, one by 
 inarks or images, and the oilier by letters. Perhaps I reconcile 
 it in that mannei'j but you will see (and I beg you would ex- 
 amine carefully) and you will be best judge. Tlie great Mode 
 had made an observation, that he fancied the ReAcdations, and 
 other such Vii-i tings of Seri})tiu'C, might be greatly illustrated by 
 the /Egyptian Hieroglyphics. It was a noble thought; and, I 
 think, I sii:i;! mucli conlinn it in this work, iiy what you 
 fjuole from Daubuz, 1 fancv he took the hint. I liave nev( r 
 seen ii. Ideire to know wlietlier he savs any thing co'i-i.ier- 
 cihle Oil the .snhjiet. If he doe?, I wish Mr. Gyles could lend nicj 
 tlv book. You know be-t wliethor he says any thing 1 e;iu 
 jnake u.^e of to mv subject. i have bc?ri \cry ill uf an iii'crmlt- 
 ting fc\ci-, for vhicli I have tal-ien a great deal of the Bark. 
 And this very instant I am apjjrchen^ive of a relapse, b-ing vciy 
 fe\f'rish, and having a good <ia}' avid bad. I ani, dear .:i)', vrllh. 
 much esteem and thanko, 
 
 your very allectionate humble servant, V.'. W." 
 
 " Dear 'Sir, I ani extiemely obliged to vou fir \<'-\y cure 
 with regard to the inclo.-;fcd sheet, aivd your V.'ivA ob-i i v;di<):ii 
 thereon, /is to ytnnmiiibus vlrk, that I t,'-)i: it t-i be abl. abso- 
 lute you Hiay sf.e by my tnmslUi.in in i\\r ]: p ; aivl by the 
 order in which 1 put' the'wo-ds p. '10 ; l!'.' >:'i' ini'il.e the ordtr 
 of the words wlih good reason ; ih-'K r '!(- I h;i\c all<Ted it, ;)? 1 
 would have it Suiiiiurii'hus rir;,- vcn (!r'-'i:'i r!,:iui':\ utjuentki v)- 
 terprete; and this J think will do. 1 h rta;on wiiy I did not 
 add their bt;ing abl. absolute wa , bccaiue that wiu not v.b;it n.y 
 
 Vol. II. L i'dvLiiury
 
 146 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l741. 
 
 " Artiiri Jonstoni Psalm i Davidis, juxta editionem 
 in usum Serenissimi Principis," l2mo; a neat editioiv. 
 
 " Epitres Morales, Lettres PhilosophiqueS;, et 
 Traits Matliematiqucs," par M. Silouette. 
 
 adverscry was mistaken in ; but only their being' put in ajjposi- 
 tion. The sheet won't beai- my ink. Pray take notice that I 
 have scra-vvlcd out by mistake jiart of the 31 and 32 hnes in the 
 20 p. I think cordentlvaqmi ad vencrationein or Figuris defcn- 
 dentlbns tiecre'ain a vilitate usque ad venerationem, h scarce sense ; 
 therefore I would have m}^ interpretation stand, only altering the 
 order of the v/ords thus, coiiicnU slut Rd'iqui Jigiiris ad venerutio- 
 ner.i cxcogitatis nor is there any thing here arbitrary; for /z'gv.ris 
 ad venerclia [^ve}ierati,onem'\ hjii^ia-esjor veneral'ui \j'.eneration('w7\, 
 as v/e sa\'. I much like your id instead of lis, because it i.s 
 nearer tiic Acrb, though I tliink the sense is equally good ; ar.d 
 desire you v.ould alicr it, and the translation confoniiably to it, 
 p. 25. As to indeed )wt so honest a vian, p. 9(>, if (his false Pho- 
 cylides, whose work I have not seen, did endeavotu" to cbtriide 
 his verses for the true Phoeylidrs's, or wrote like a Heathen, 
 then that censure must stand. But if he did not assume anoilicr 
 personage, they mu,-t be struck out, for the good reason \X)u gl'. r . 
 I lea\e this therefore to you. Only, if the writer was not to 
 blame, the Mords Cheat j). 26, and Forgery p. 27, must be suvck 
 out too. P. 28. Tl'.e voice of one crying you very justly excep: 
 to; tlierefore I desire it m.ay be struck (jut, an.d Tiie words ivitf, 
 his put in their room. I am sorry that my seeing the sheets 
 proves an inconvenience to you ; but my obligation is gre;!,t. 
 You see here what advtmtoge it is to me, by your judicious re- 
 marks. I have a Postscript to be added to this JjipeHdix. wide h 
 will m:'ke a good pwt of a sheet: It is in imswer to tv>o re- 
 flexions Master Sykcs tliought iit to honour the Divine Legati(;n 
 with. Pray tell IMr. (nles, J ^hali send it up the latter end of 
 this week. I am, \ith the best acavnowledgements for tlii- 
 favotir, dear Sir. your mcst attectionate hunible servant, W. W, 
 " The tending me the slicets before ])rinted o!f is a great servic;- 
 to me, because [ wrote this Appendix in a great luu'ry arid 
 very r.eghgent!}'. ' am sorry it is iiicon\enient to you." 
 Again, "March 9, 1/41. 1 am nuich obliged to you for send- 
 ing me Morgan's book, for?<Ioi-gan's it is every line speaks; and 
 5ucli exeeranle stidf tlie sun never saw ; and next to wiiting si 
 bad, woidd be answering so bad a writer. On th.e other si<le arc 
 two additions, which will occasion the reprinting two leaves in 
 (he second vohune, and an addition of one leaf. Tne fi)--t is aU 
 a.iJilion at p. 591, with as umeh as will make a leaf. So it is 
 only giving the number 59i to two leaves as if it uas a mistal.c 
 The other is at p. 6'27- and oidy to b.lot out one scotuidrel to put 
 in auoth(-)', which is all the rev enge I shall take. ] hope you will 
 make shift in the re])rinting (he l*af to get in tiie little note ; in 
 order to which there need be no new p.aragraplis , bu'. the lines 
 continued. And if you can Mud any unnecessary words tiiat 
 m;n' be iei't outj )uu mav dismiss tlieni. I can 'had :ioue." 
 
 Tlic
 
 I74i.J THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I47 
 
 I'lie first volume of an edition in French of Mr. 
 Samuel KichardioiVs * celebrated "Pamela," in l2mo. 
 
 On the 8t!i of November 1741, died of an apo- 
 plexy Mr. Fletcher Gyles^ bookseller in Holborn, 
 treasurer of the charity-school in Hatton Garden, 
 and an intimate friend of Mr. Bovvyer, in whose 
 hand-vYriting I find the original of an undirected 
 letter -j-, whieli, though written in the character of 
 Mr. Gyles's executor, is evidently Mr. Bowyer's 
 composition, and shews that he v/ished at least to 
 return by his kindness to the surviving daughters 
 the good oliioes he had constantly experienced in 
 business from their father : 
 " Rev. Sir, 
 
 " jMr. Bowyer having at my request acquainted 
 yon of my brother (ndes's death, I think myself 
 obliged to assure you of the same honourable deal- 
 mgs from his family t, that you might have ex- 
 i)ected from iiim if living : for I should be very 
 sorry to lose from it so good a friend, and one for 
 whom my brorlier had such a particular esteem. 
 I crmnot pretend to judge of the value of books, or 
 copies ; nor have 1 yet informed myrelf what profits 
 liave arose fr'in yours, a marked sale coming on 
 so close uj)on ']-v brother's death, that it has en- 
 u;age<l the. ch'n-i <jf my attention ; but, if you will 
 be j/leased to iUvoiir niv- with a line to let me know 
 what }OMr exjjectations arc for the impressions of 
 \ our ij<;,-ks ti-at ii'ive bc('i! already sold, and for 
 rlie right ofc^-p^v of ih^se t!:ut are nov/ in the press, 
 1 liave great reascni to hope I shall comply with 
 them. 1 wi.^ii this allair had been settled by my 
 brother himself; but as it v.as not, I shall endea- 
 vour to n-|.>r.'seiU him in eveiy respect, and be an 
 exeeutTir not only of his Will, but of his intention 
 as fai- a; i can discover ii. Collet Mawhood." 
 
 ' <')rt!ii- ruilr.cnt Pri.it'.r v.ud very excciiLnL j-'ovellist see tlie 
 '' ]!^.;i' - und UhiMirLitjn-/' mlA . Xt). XIV. 
 
 i P.i'o^t j)n)h:thly ianntled f ); 'li . \/ailiUrtoii. Mr Gylcs was 
 luil/ii-hi : *)[ "Til." .',iii;'U'.-f," :ui;l oi' "The Divine Lc'iti>ju." 
 
 t -Mr (isb.L LT'l r.*o unuiaiTic';! JaUf^litei:. 
 
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 148 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l74Sf. 
 
 1742. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer was tbe editor as well 
 as the printer of " Lectures on Poetry, read in tlie 
 Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford, by Jose])h 
 Trapp, A.M. Fellow of Wadhani College, and 
 Reader of Poetical Lectures latel}^ founded in that 
 University by Henry Birkhead*, LL. D. sometime 
 Fellow of All Souls College ; translated from the 
 Latin, with additional Notes." 
 
 This Work appears, from various letters of ^Ir. 
 Clarke -f-, to have been a joint production with 
 
 * Hcniy Bh'khead, born in 1G17 near St. Paul's cathedral in 
 London, after having been educated under the famous Farnabie, 
 was entered a conunoner of Trinity college, Oxford, in 1633 , 
 admitted scholar there IMa) 28, 16'o5, and soon after was seduced 
 to become a member of the college of Jesuits at St. Omer's. He 
 soon, however, returned to the Church of England, and, liy the 
 patronage of Archbishop Laud, was elected fello\v of All Souls 
 in 163S, being then B. A. and esteemed a good philologist. He 
 pi'oceeded in that faculty, was made Senicn- of the Act celebrated 
 in 1641, and entered on the law line. He kept his fellowship 
 during the time of the U.surpation ; but resigned it after the 
 Restoration, when he became registrar of the diocese of Nor- 
 wich. Tliis too he resigned in i6"84j and resided first in the 
 Middle Temple, and tiieu in other places, in a retired anrl scho- 
 lastic condition, for many years. " He \vas accounted," says 
 Wood, " an excellent I^tin poet, a good Grecian, and well 
 versed in all human learning." His works are, 1. '' Poematia in 
 Elegiaca, lambica, Polymetra, Antiteclmemata et ?,Ietaphrases, 
 membranatim quadripartita, 1656'," 8vo ; '2. " Otium Literarum; 
 sive Miscellanea qiuedam Poemata, &c. 1656," 8vo. He also 
 published in 4to, with a Preface, 165'2, some of the philclogical 
 works of his intimate friend Henry .hicob, who h.ad tlie honour 
 of teaching Selden the Hebrew language, or at least of improving 
 him in it. Dr. Birkhead a!:;o wrote several Latin elegies on the 
 loyalists Avho had .suffered in the cause of Charles the First, 
 which are scattered in various printed books, and many of them 
 subscribed //. G. Henry Birkhead, author of " Colon's Fi:ry," a 
 tragedy on the Irisli rebellion, was a different person. ,Sc9 
 fVood's Athencc, vol. H. p. 1006. 
 
 * " As to Trapp, I own I ha^ e been very negligent in trans- 
 lating3 both his matter and my own interniptions have pre\ente(l 
 me liaving any great taste or opportunity for it ; but 1 shall go 
 through it time enough, I hope, for 5 ou to correct before it is in 
 the piess. I v.ould by no means have you drop it, but here and 
 there besprinkle a few notes, to give it an advantage above the 
 Latin." Mr, Clarke to Mr. Bowyer, in 1737. 
 
 that
 
 1742.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I49 
 
 that gentleman. Each of them translated particu- 
 lar }3arts, and it was left to Mr. Bowyer to adopt 
 such passages from Mr. Clarke as he thought pro- 
 per *. Let his own account of this work speak 
 for itself : 
 
 * *' I A\'ould fain make this packet look as big as possible, 
 that you might receive it with some ])leHsme, tliough you rea<l 
 it with iiulianation. 1 am itiiiamed indeed to send so small a 
 part, when it has lain so lor.g by me ; but I must confess the 
 truth : As some of your other journeym-eu can jiover work with 
 a penny in their pocket, it L-, my misfortune to w of their mind, 
 as long as 1 ha\e time to spare. As to the woi'k, I question 
 nmcli wliether you will like this sample ; it mav very probably 
 not agree witli your^ ; but then jou hav e full power to do what 
 you please Avith it, and take h.ere and there a line, where you 
 approve of it most ; and this ])erliaps may gi\ e y ou as much 
 trouble as doing the whole. VhiW logical way of sifting and 
 canvassing definitions is not very pleasant to ivad or translate. 
 1 think I liaxe kept too clo^c to the original, though I ha^e 
 .sometimes taken the liberty to add a few words when I tliouglit 
 them necessary, either to clear and e\])lain a tliought, or to gi\e 
 a little more strength to it. I wLih I had taken the same liberty 
 in retrenching now and then ; for the same ideas arc sometimes 
 jnnsued too far in different \\ ords, where our laiigu:ig'c will not 
 bear the cliange, or furnish us with a pro])er \aricty so well as 
 the Latin. The connexion of his sentence- is (jften extremely 
 careless; but that is of no moment. As to ])<)ct!y, IlKueli-ans- 
 lated, or altered, or barely tianscribed, ju-t as it j)lra-ed my 
 own Immour. Some quotations wei'c not, that I know of, 
 iranniatcd any where, and others were so done, that the words 
 which tlie quotation turned u;)(>n were qiute dropped. It was 
 necessary to make tliem sj.erdv in English tf) t!ie same purj;o-e 
 they were prcjduced for in Jvatiii, tiiat liie KngH-h re:i;l r niiglit 
 guess wliv tliev can;e there. But 1 sl;all trouble you no Ciu-rhc r 
 U))OU this bu-iine.--, but only to tell yoii, that 1 could not forhear 
 adding three or f(jur note-; you have laugiied :it one of them 
 already, but 1 <;'.nnot forbear thinking tlic author is mi-taken in 
 that j)oinl, till 1 ^vv. more reason \u be of lil- ojiinion, and the ic-t 
 are mere trifles, only th'-y are not very long one-. I own that I 
 think youdo nothing, imle>s you scattei- a fvw no'.i - u[) and down, 
 something that i- not in the original, wlietlu r jiglit or wrong; 'tis 
 true ta.-^te in tiade, whatever you ma\ think of it : imi I am ill- 
 fiu-ni-hed for sticli an iinderiakiiia-. i have m i;l:( i' \ n--iu-. nor 
 Scaliger, nothing in that way. Who i-; tlil- I'atiirr bit.niov , that 
 'J'heobaid nicnticui? would he not now ;in(l iIk a ::l\r yni pretty 
 hints? KlKpiire abo'it him." Liltn from '!r. Chirhr. ])((.[), 
 17. ',7. 'i'ii!^ gentlenian. iiov.i'.r, -peak- \ir\ .li-hliuL'-ly of the 
 bf)ok in ap.otlier Icttci- wit^hcul d-ic; ' I now begin to tliink 
 th:it vonr tnmslation of li-'pp- Pr;rle( linn- will lukr; fur it is 
 reallvbut a vei v -nivrii'-i:;! I (.'"!.. 'I'hnM.ii. fT the i'utinv, I 
 
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 150 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [^742. 
 
 " Whatever reasons have been given for translat- 
 ing Virgil, and writing an English Counuent on 
 him, may be urged in behalf of these Enghsh Lec- 
 tures; which, as they are an illustration of Poetry 
 in general, so are they of Virgil in particular. The 
 notes to this edition were chiefly added as it went 
 through the press ; in which, though I sometimes 
 differ from my ingenious Author, yet I hope not 
 with greater freedom than he has taken with others, 
 and will pardon in me. 1 am well aware how easy 
 it is to let some mistakes slip in the heat of com- 
 position ; and when these had once passed the press, 
 the author, I suppose, was not very solicitous to re- 
 examine minutely the subsequent editions ; satis- 
 fied w4th the approbation he had received from that 
 learned Body, before wdicm his Lectures were first 
 delivered: an honour which I shall never wish to 
 see diminished by any thin,^^- I can say, or any one 
 else; and sha.ll now therciore with nmch greater 
 pleasure take this opportunity of repeating the tes- 
 timony of them from Mr, Felton*. The several 
 passages cited from Virgil are printed in English 
 from Dr. Trapp's Version. The other Poetical 
 Translations without a name the Editor is to be 
 accountable for ; tliough lie wishes lie had as good 
 a title to the excellence of two or tlu'ee of them, as 
 he has to the imperfections of the rest." 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer printed, among otiier 
 Looks, Dr. Mangey's'}- edition of ' Pliilonis Judiei 
 
 desire that we migiii: alv/ays say Lt-xlvres, in tlr, n;Otiem slyle ; 
 Preelections will never do in town. \{o lias uilcndcd lae ^c^y 
 much by aficeting to find fault, with '\'o--Ju3 nnou <.very little 
 occasion 5 and tli-iT'efore yoa inu^t c:c(ii>". v.ii- if I nnvv and 
 then speak peevi^d)ly of the Doccoi-. I iut\o endeavijurec' to 
 make Aristotle's dctinition of Trag'etly intclli;ihle; aiiil I tLhik I 
 have taken the rii:,'ht sense of it^ ^'.I^eu peii>ievd 11= a little lasC 
 summer. The Monita, NotaJ, &(.. %vhieh I ha^e added to the 
 tmnidation you arc to do just what \oa plca.'-e ^viih. I wrote the 
 yiotes in a gTeat hurzy this nionurj^j a.i>l d" Ir^y hxc liot -eiise, 
 or too lonjjj'j or too shoi't, or loo iusi.rnit'ea)i,t, alter them to 
 your taste, oi- de->tioy thcnj, a- you think hc-^L'' 
 
 * Spe the:;e in the Preface to Felton's Dissertations, p. xxi. 
 . f To the accoimt given of I)r. Miuigey in vol. I. p. 134, may 
 hf added the foliowiiifr sneorh ; ;,hl-"b, in +h" i'aTie of tbe Dean
 
 1742.J THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 151 
 
 i.)pera qucE rcperiri ]X)tuenint," two volumes, folio. 
 iiody *, " l)c (Ti-eFcis illustribus/' published by 
 Dr. Samuel Jebb, 8vo. 
 
 iud Cluipter of Durham, he made to EisLop Crewe^ on his first 
 aiTi'.ai ill tiieir city, on Thursduy July 12, I'tl'i. 
 
 " i\ly Loi'd, I am, in the name of my brethren, to bid you 
 V t^lcoine into this ymu' conntiy, and to wish vou tiie long po 
 r^e-siop. and happy adrniiustriiticn of this diocese and count\- 
 j)alH<ine. It is with savisthctuiii that we behold you vested witli 
 a doui;!" cl\arac'tci', anti can jjay iv.-pect and duty to yon both as 
 onr sj-.ii'lliial and ci\ il ^up^.vior. His Maj.\^tv, with a H.ood grace, 
 and ^reat justice, bv-stov.s tiiis branch of antient Repiiia uj)ou 
 ono, whose services to himself have been so manv an(i eminent, 
 and \\\\o by descent from nobje blood, and an entail (.>f noble 
 q'miities, is so well qualiiicd to manage the ri;^';hts, and support 
 The di^initv, of so high a station, ikit, mv Lord, your revcnue:- 
 ar,d juri-dietion lue not the only subject of our congratulations j 
 but \\e nuist Jikew ise add to these, w h;it must be nmch dearer 
 ro ) ou in your spiritual ca\)a(ity, the good ortler and regularilx 
 01 your lyioc(>e. We may veritinv to assure vour Lcjrdsliip (and 
 to the steady \igilance of voiU' two inimetUate Pi-edeec^sor? it is 
 ouing"), tJiat in thi.-, S;-e t'nere are as few defects to supply, as 
 f'W tiu'cs of licvcsv and fal.-c doctrine to v.eed out, as few 
 ai)ti.-ies dtser\ir.g episcoj)al correction, as ia any othei' of ttie 
 kingdom. Your Lord^hi;) comes no'.v to pr- r-ide over a Lnity 
 well alheted to our excellent Chuv/: h and your episcojjal cha- 
 racter-; over a Clergy oi'tho;!oK, ahd oirictly eonformalle with 
 oin- Canons, Articles, and I'ubrieks ; and o\er a Chiiptor, who 
 Ir.ith hithertu been so hap,)y, as neiilic!' (,; Fee] tre cen.- ue, noi 
 near the di^j)le;l'^Mre, of thrij" Aisitor. ir-iiiee our e.-veilon, oui 
 Jlnly halh ne. er h:-.d any contests or disjnites of ! i .i/. x'ith their 
 j;ioee'a!i-; : tliere haAC been no attempts for iini/uiim!cd powci' 
 oa eith.-r -ide, nor an\ struggle for unstatuteable evem];tion and 
 indeprndencv on oiu's ; biit we have ail alo'.a' hved m peifeet 
 .Tiiiiv a iJ correspondence Avilh ih' in, a-- onr i'ai.i\*.;.' a?)d spiri- 
 1;:.i! iaihers at home, as our Guardians and proteetci- at ( uiit. 
 Sucii hatii been our hap])iness, my ]^)rd, for neai u.-.t eriitiui. > : 
 'irid we liope for the contir.uanee of it undei' -.^^m- I or! hip'i 
 ..'2.!le a,nd v.i=e administi'ation. ^\i promise oar-.-bi-, iliat a 
 t'.'A\\Ar portion of that bcnelieent spirit, witli \.::'\i oin e\tr 
 1 ]>;'.tron Lwrd Crewe \\;i.-, l)ie.-sed, a;^! . rl; v.iiicli iie 
 ' ;.:l al).:;it \\\'.,\ hapnV; re.-ts nuw upon your i.i> I-- i,.,i, },\h\ 
 \\\i'.'.: nothing Hre;tter to \\i>h _\ou in il!i:> \> < . 1,:, ;...;.> '!i:'t 
 : !.:', n.eet with ihe .-anie returns of aiKiliv.i. .. /- !,;ii.t 
 1 ::[ i.'.oks of uH-n, and the like mea-m>' oi i. '1, Lr;- 
 .'.d p''>piri'.v, fioin Disine Pro\ id* lUv . 
 lii:;:' !.., \\iA\ uas de-c( ;.<ii'd fioni an an'i.M; i'>. /.'} in 
 ) r;t' lore,' and iiovn Ui.'d). at ()d< (.nibc, in tb u\.\\. ot 
 !i li;.. ("I'ii-r v.;.- r;T!nr. il-wa- ;i.linlUcd :ii .v',..;!i;i;.i .0!- 
 li'uC. -...O !-'i!i^\V ill' IV li;.'M -. :'.;id, wlien 1 r v.,.- liarrj", 
 
 ;uin'd 
 
 jV.'.y.
 
 152 LITKKARY ANECDOTES OF [l742. 
 
 Heister's " Siirp;ery," 2 vols. 4to. 
 
 The First raid Fifth Volumes of Dr. Birch's edi- 
 tion of " Thurloe's State Papers," foHo. 
 
 " Liber Jobi in Versiculos metrice divisus, cum 
 Versione Latina Alberti Schultens, Notisque ex 
 ejus Commentario excerplis ; quotqiiot ad divinum 
 plane Poema illustrandum (quoad vel argumenti 
 materiam et filum, vel sensuum pathos & sublimi- 
 tatem, vel styii copiam et elegantiam) necessarise 
 videbantur. Edidit, atque Annotationes suas ad 
 metrum preecipue spectantes, adjecit Ricardus Grey, 
 S.T. P. Accedit Canticum Moysis, Deut. xxxii. 
 cum Notis Variorum," Svo. 
 
 A third edition of the First Volume of " The 
 Divine Legation*," and a second edition of the 
 
 turned of 20, Avrote f<.j:C''^ii>.st Aiistoas' histor}' of the LXX Inter- 
 preters. He publi.-lied several polemical tracts against the Non- 
 jurors and about the Convocation, and in li'J74 a leai'ned Latin 
 work on the Original text and Gi t ek and Latin Vulgate versions 
 of the lii'ole. 'I'he piece above mentioned (containing an account 
 of those learned Grecians who retired to Italy before and after the 
 taking of Constantinople by the Turks, and re.^toivd tlie Greek 
 tongue and learning in the West) remained !n MS. till 17-12 
 (see A ol. L p. 1 6 1 ) . Dr. Hody died Jan. 20, 1 ; 06, and was bm ied 
 in the chapel of his college, in which he founded ten scholarship.^ 
 of ten poiuids each, live for the s'.udy of the Gi'eek, and ii^e for 
 that of the Hebrew languages. D)\ Jebb preiixed to this book 
 inemoii's of its author in Latin, fi'ora an English life by hiniself. 
 * The correspondence of the learned Author with hisPrinter wa^o 
 thus coiitinucd: '' MarcltSl, 1742. 1 hear nothing from you about 
 the finishing- the first volume of the Divine Legation . But perhay?.s 
 there may be at tiiis time some letter iVom you Ivii^g at Newaike. 
 1 hope )ou recc!\ed my last letter, ^^here weie two additio)is To 
 be inserted in repj'int' d lea\es. At the end of that }iote relating- 
 to Moi-gan jiray add: [ he hail:, I hear, httclij utoIc a^^ahift the 
 Divine Legation of Moses iiitd.'r the name of a Society of Free- 
 thinkers, hij the sarac kind of Fiv'i'e that lie in the Gospel called 
 liimself Legion, icho only ivas theforu-'irde.st Devil in the Crew?^ 
 1 suj)p(jse Mr. Knajjton hiis put a new edition of my ( ommentarv 
 on the Essay on Man into jour hands. I bog ir \v,\\ be printed 
 correctly. I make my corrections ar.d additions as iiitciligiblc as 
 I can to the comi)Ositor. ^\V)ut it be proper, wlien thc.-e new- 
 editions of the Divine Ler-ation are published, wiis n tlie second 
 vnluvu? is adve^lii^ed, to say, to 'Inch is add-d a Letter to the Lord 
 Bp. of Li' hjield and (y}Vi>nry :-' I have read over the -econd volume 
 of the LiMne Legation ; but th-re wants the ja;,t sheet of tlie 
 bcckj arid Uic i-i.;r Itaws of the Ap'pendi.x. There arc but few 
 
 errata ;
 
 1742.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I53 
 
 Second Volume*, tlie whole corrected and enlarged, 
 and the work announced in the thle-page to be ' In 
 Nine Books," vo. 
 
 rrrata ; and if tlrit ci'rscd erratum in the ]ov.g note of the Bp. of 
 Salisbury's Letter to mc nbout A!)rahain's offenng Isaac was but 
 rectiHeil by reprint! na.", I t!'.l;;k there would be no occasion for a 
 list of errata. My best resjyoets to j/r.v. Bili [w iio soon after was 
 Mrs. Boinjer]. Again, " Jpri! 10. I am glad tlie Di\inc Lega- 
 tion is in such forwardness. Wdien tlie second volume is adver- 
 tised, 1 woidd have the Letter to the Bishoj) of Litchtield men- 
 tioned. I hope you have got tlie tii'st edition of the Alliance, 
 for I hf^ve not one of them 'oy me. While 1 think of it, I desir^> 
 that tl;e first and second vohnnes, v. lien printed, may be sent to 
 Mr. Poj)e, Lord C)i rery, Lord Chesterfield, stiteiu d ; Air. Murray, 
 hand;iomely bouuil; and the Alhance with it, bound in tlie same 
 manner. Tlie second volume I would have sent to the Bishop of 
 Salisbm'y, and to Mr. Siloueite into Fiance, both .stitclied ; the 
 first volume to the honourable Cliarlc.-, Yorke, t-q. at Bene"t col- 
 lege, and to the Rev. Mr. Goddard at Clare hall, stitched both. 
 These are wiiat I think of at present ; and I hope Mr. (jylcs's 
 executor will take care to see all this done. Pray, wiien you 
 see IMr. Pope, ask him whether the first and second volume must 
 not be sent to Oxford ; and follow his directions about it. Be s.o 
 gocid to let me know when those to Lord Chesterlield and Mr. 
 Murray are delivered; for I must write to them. I de.iire by 
 all means that p. 9 of the Preface may Ije reprinted, with the 
 note on the other side added. It will make two leaves instead 
 of one. The wrong markiifg of tlie pagi's will Ijc nothing. J 
 will excuse the reprinting the Bishop of Salisbury's note, if it 
 be not ijone. I think I did not niention in my last liiat the fir-t 
 and second \olumcs must be sent handsomely bound to llalph 
 Allen, es(j, at Widcombe near JJaLli. I Ijcg this may be taken 
 care of. Tiic prf)vo("ali')ii Laa- has i^ivcn is intolerable. F ."aw 
 it but by aceii!nt." " Mai/ H. I am ania/ed i have heard 
 nothing fixjni \ou of late, or of tlie publicatidn of the new edi- 
 tions of the Divine Legation ; and ain aiVaid yon aiv or !ia\e been 
 ill. i\hi\vlK)0(i li.-es both me and Mr. (JyU's's d.uigh/KM's very ill 
 in this negk'Ct. But he has not ;is \et so much as scr.t nio my 
 ficcount, nor settled tiie balanee in order to juiy m'' v\l';:t is ikr 
 to me .accordiiig to airrcLinent. I hope tiie pre-cnt-book-. wlu'h 
 I ordered in two or three of my last to you, ai'e by this time- d-^- 
 livcre.d; pirtir ularlv lli(--e to .Mr. Muirav and Jv-rd Clu\-t( i-'irlil, 
 bccaust- I ha\(' .^ent t'lem wcjxl tliat thev wei'e o:d;rcd. I'ray b'- 
 s.) gc;od to take t .c\- ihi't the first \olnnu' stifchrd be iinnn'ii:- 
 aU'y -vv.'i t(i Mr. I ,!iL i';n, the I'rinct '- See r.l;iiy. in IMl Mall ; 
 and i\)'- s,(oi.id \,-,.;ii,)(', siilclud, to ni) Loid ^ arn iv t, in niy 
 i.a'.iH'. {'ray tcl! tlu- [((.ijiir < <i;i. 1 ; iicd, tiial I ;i.n ii;.,.ati<'nt for 
 f.h(' piihii'''ation of the l>i\iut I.ciiiion. I -ce. iioi'.\ iil^i.u'.'ling 
 all til! ir j'H !< WI-, liovv Mj-. Ci\li s i.^ goii", a strange nc:;ic'. 1." 
 
 ' To f!i;- ua-' al^o ;!nn'\( d a -ocond edition <jf tlie .ApfU Jidiv 
 -:h~: ;.flv n:- ;i(if ;i( <!_, \vith a I'. > in an-we.' to tlie " ]' i.',.' ipies and 
 
 '"'...( \Jons
 
 154 LITERAEY ANECDOTES OF [l742. 
 
 '' A Critical and Philosophical Ccir.irientary on 
 Mr. Pope's Essay on Man ; in which is contained 
 a Vindication of the >aid Jissnv ivcaii the Misrepre- 
 sentations of Mr. DeResnel, the French translator, 
 and of Mr. De Crousaz, Professor of Philosophy 
 and Mathematicks in the Academy of Lausanne, 
 the Commentatorj" 8vo ; and the additional Book 
 of the Dunciad, in 4tO;, very higbJy to the satis- 
 faction both of the Poet and of liis learned Com- 
 mentator. " I thank 3'ou for all your care." says 
 Mr. Pope on this occasion. Anvd Mr. Warhurlon 
 tells liim, " I am glad you have been printing for 
 Mr. Pope. Don't mention to any, I beg of yon, 
 your suspicion about the Notes. Is it not a noble 
 poem ? Mr. Rnapton has sent me the sjiecimen 01 
 tihe Commentary on the Essay, \Yhich I like ex- 
 tremely well. I thank you for yo^ir observation on 
 the quotations from fhc Optics '^\ You are certainlv 
 right; they should be in English. I don't knon"- 
 when I shall be in London again ; hut I have never 
 more pleasure there than when I loll and talk to you 
 
 Conr.ex'.oris of Natun\l and Rtncaled llclii^ion, In- Arthur Aslile}- 
 S^kes, D. D." s.nd a Letter to ISishop JSusarornkt', o;i liis new 
 piinled ''Charge to the Cler-^y> 1741." A .sliort AdwiLiscment 
 riefirted to this A}>pciKlix. preserves a curkms av.~cdote : ' The 
 Auti'.or of tliePaniphlet here c-vamined hath laleiv made a public 
 confe?.sion of his authorship, siti^iyd \siih irl.-= orva name-, and 
 tlicrc'by sa-\ed hini'ielf frora all farther correction of this kind, 
 For he v. iio is so lo.-.t to shame as a writer to 0'.m\ ',vhat he before 
 wioce, and so loit to shauie n^ a luau to o^vn vs'hat lie h;ith 
 now written,, nnhst ne( ds h.o p".-t ril airiewimint, I'.e on!^' r'^n- 
 souable vic^v in correetion, I haU !l;erfi')V'; hut do, \Ui;u: in- 
 deed (v.ere it any more tb-sn repeatino; v>;V,it iie ir<)-."!.-di' Jiatii dis- 
 covered to the pnbkck) wcn'-.l he, ,r:: r)y rvek'.aied {'re eruek-.-t of 
 all thinrrs, tell rov readv r thv' navuo or this i^iise/abie, whiidi ^to 
 fiadtobc J.T)llav<l.' The ;ynd:m;!n :o s:vo^ly bundled here 
 had been bred in tlii^ 5.nert":Tuiio prof:'Ssi:;.T, wh)^ a i-'.rc;:;^: i:ne- 
 ture of literature. JoLa 'J'iikrd, <f;f;. diof! ar l-j- bou- i, vby^al 
 JaiYies-streot, Bedf ;vd-rG\v, i;: inn ;nh' r irk-^. i'i- son ilUhyrtl 
 \'ica!' of South L'nerion, in \hr eo;.7,ty oi' >.':.-:ti!i.i;-La.n!, pnb- 
 liAefl " ''rhoj'ii^'^ts cnneeviiin;"': tiv Suf'iy jo..; K^j:('ben^^ of 
 grantin^C Relief to the CbViy in >b-'t.'r o:' Sn-j.-Oj'ijjtii;n, octa-i- 
 oned by jMr. "Wokaston'.-: A'kh .--.. ;77'>/' h-.o 3 asui <<i. io Tra<-r 
 relative to llmiTe's Hj-t(.v\, Sm;, 
 
 * Thio wants an ?'-;[)]^;.a;!on. ^^.'e!: \ am not abb' 'n :;;:ve.
 
 1742.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I55 
 
 at my ease^ de quoUbet entc, in your dining-room *. 
 You don't tell me how you like my improvements 
 of the Commentary. Thank you for your care of 
 commissions. I am glad the Dunciad has such a 
 run. The Greek, I know, will be well printed in 
 your edtion, not Lclthsta'nding the absence o/'Scrib-. 
 
 LERUS." 
 
 In this year he also printed the "Senilia" of his old 
 friend Mr. Maittaire; and was Editor of the seventh 
 volume of " Dr. Swift's Miscellanies;"' an Author 
 with 'wliose writings he had long been peculiarly 
 conversant; many of the Dean's separate tracts 
 having originally passed through his hands, and 
 some of them having been illustrated bv his notes. 
 The seventh volume is thus introduced : '' The fol- 
 lowing sheets have been collected and published to 
 gratify the wishes of all people of taste, who have 
 not been furnished with the Dublin edition of 
 Dean Swift's Works. I'hat edition \A'as corrected 
 and revised, as his printer ]Mr. Faulkner intimates, 
 by some of the Author s friends ; or (in another 
 place, perliaps more truly) by the Author himself; 
 an advantage, as that Editor rightly remarks, which 
 the London booksellers could not have. To that 
 Dublin edition we are obliged for the following 
 volume, some tracts excepted ; such as ' A Proposal 
 to Parliament for preventing.'; tlie Cirowth of Popery;' 
 ' ^ Free Thoughts on the ifiate of A flairs,' I714: 
 ^Apology to Eady Carteret, for not dining widi liei- 
 J^adyship, &c.' All ^viiich have been universally 
 
 * Thia was iKuLer tlie fir,-,t nor the Ltronii-e^t e\pivssion (if 
 the i-f'giir.i entertained for Mr. EowyL-r by Mr. Uurburton (vc 
 p. lli)). It ii not however to be concciiled, lliat a (iiiiirenre 
 afterwards aro^e, in which, as i-^ \\o\ univtiinnon. each \n\vX\ \^rl, 
 conHdeat that he wiis ii^;,ht. IMr. Iiou\cr (wlu) tlioii^rht hiiu^flf 
 flhirhted; has not unfietjiiently rnniikcd, iliai, af'(< r ih- dt li!', of 
 our i".i]i;h-.h iluiner (whicli Inpueu. d Vw\ ,;(). 17 i i), tii liitiTs 
 01 iiis I'Uiin d tVicii.i " wore a ('iiii-rfnt ennqileKioii. " Ihit \h'\'- 
 hai'i (id.-. Hi'.. , b'.' one oi" the niau-, iii-t;ii!c'--. \\liicii U'-v\\v I'linimli 
 life, (if th'.' iii:.:n;;)rie'_% *'t' .)i;d'-in.;; i'ur '.m: I'l.ts m ca^cs uldcii 
 afleft (u;r Jiiti-ntL w our t'l.e!';: ; 
 
 a-cnlicd
 
 156 LITERARY ANECDOTEi CF [l742. 
 
 ascribed to our Author, though llie Irish Editor has 
 thought proper, or been comnianded, to omit them. 
 Many of the following tracts are politicalj and once 
 made what is called a noise in the world ; they were 
 universally esteemed, even by those of the opposite 
 party, particularly that of ' The Conduct of the 
 Allies,' which will remain for ever a light into the 
 affairs then transacting in Europe ; an cTra not tlse 
 least remarkable in history. It must be acceptable 
 to the possessors of ' (iullivcr's Travels,' to have an 
 opportunity to correct the text by our comparison 
 of the Dublin edition with those of London, which 
 is to be found at the end of this volume*. It is 
 surprizing, that any one could have been so stupid 
 as to interpolate any production of this inimitable 
 Writer. The papers written by our author in ' The 
 Exammer' (which commence at No. 13, and end at 
 44 'I') gave, at the time of publication, a general 
 pleasure or pain, satisfaction or disquiet, as people 
 were inclined. A spirit of liberty diffuses itself 
 through all his writings, and proves him, as the 
 Dublin Editor has it, 07? enenri/ to tyranny and 
 oppression in any shape whatever T 
 
 *' The Life of the Rig-ht Honourable Sir Francis 
 North, Baron of Guilford, Lord Keeper of the Great 
 Seal under King Charles the Second ; wherein are 
 inserted the Characters of Sir ^Matthew Hale, Sir 
 George Jefferies, Sir Leoline Jenkins, Sidney (jo- 
 dolphin, and other the most eminent Law^'^ers and 
 Statesmen of that time." 4to. 
 
 ^ Under the title of " Some particular Pa;-,:-aj;'es in Gullivei-'s 
 Travels, compared with the Dublin Editions." This comparison, 
 I believe, is to be found only in the edition here notic&d. 
 
 J This is a slight niislake. Swift's EKaminers were wrong: 
 Tiuni])ered in all the early editions of hi;-) V\ oiks. His first was 
 pubJishijd Nov. 2, 1710; and in the original edition is marked 
 No. 1^. His hist, the first ])art of No. 46, (iated June 14, 171 1, 
 which had been oniitted in former editions, I ha\e since restored. 
 The \\roiig numbering arose from Mr. Barl)er's having omitted 
 the original No. 1.3 (a paper on Non-resisiancc) , when he first 
 tuUccted the Examiners into a ^oh^me.
 
 1/43.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I57 
 
 1743. 
 
 Ill tii'is year Mr. Bowyer printed the First Volume 
 of "' Dr. Pococke's * Travels through the East/' 
 folio. 
 
 The Greek Testament printed this year for the 
 Company of Stationers is remarkably correct. At 
 
 * Dr. Richard Pococke, w'no was distantly related to the learned 
 Orientalist Dr. Kdward Pocoeke (bein"' son of Mr. Richard Po- 
 cocke, secjucsliator of tlie church of All Saints in Southamp- 
 ton, and head-master of the five-school there, by the only 
 daughter of the Rev. Mr. Isaac Milles, of whom see p. 159) re- 
 ceived his school learning at Southam})ton, and his academical 
 education at Corpus Christi college, Oxford ; took his degree 
 of LL. B. May 5, 17i51 ; and that of LL. D. (being then precen- 
 tor of Lismore) June 2S, 17.i3: together with Dr. Seeker, then 
 I'ector of St. James's, and aiierwards Arclibi,-<hop of Canterbur\ , 
 He baga.A his Travels into the East in 17'7, returned in 17 12; anil 
 published in 1743 the iirst part of his Ti a\ els, under the title of ' A 
 Description of the East, and of some c.tlicr Countries. \'ol. 1. Ob- 
 ser\atioiis on Egypt." He was made precentor of VValerford in 
 17-14:3 and in 174.5 he printed the .^econd volume of ills Tra.cls, 
 under the title of " Ob>servations on PaLxstiiX^ or the H0I3 l-and, 
 Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, and Oaudia;"' whiclihededictcdtotiu' 
 Earl of Chesteriield, thou newly uiaue In-d-lieurenant of IicliuiLi; 
 attended hi-: Lordship tliit'.er as one of his domestic chapla'uv-i ; 
 and was so; p. after aypoij.teil archdracon of Dublin. f*?:'e a.'i 
 elogiiun ol .;'^ Description of Eirvpv in '^' Puuli lu'nesti .kiii!;;;is]-.l 
 Pantlieoii .' :> ptioi'um, Pra^fat. ad j)arr. iii.") He peneUMtod 
 no farliier up the Nile tlian to Phihe, now (.rleuiet rAl iUcreil -. 
 whereas Mr. ,\or<len, in 17;]7, went as fu' us Detri, beiw. ci tlu> 
 two ca1a)act>. The Uv(; unveller- are supjic-eii to Ir.n't riiuL ';.i 
 the Nile, in the neiglii;oiirhi)0>lof E-uav. in January I'J'.y-i. I'^ior- 
 (If.n's Trcfclx, Engii^li Editioi., H\o. }>. ISh). UwX. l!i" :'l t, ;<-" 
 Dr. Poeocke told some oi'lii-^ iViends, wa^,, tliat beinLV'U 1^'^ i '.r n. 
 not knowing UtW M'r. Xnrdim va>. go;;." U};, hei'i--"; oy !'.':; 
 in the liight, wi'.hoii! i!a\i;ig the ploa-i;n; ( t ^(ii;'.'; ):;;:!. 'i Im i 
 v.as an admirable Avlioic length of Dr. Poco. : ', ii; a ' ;::',' . 
 dros, painted by l.iolard,. 
 Dean of Exetei', bi^ iivii 1 
 viiitcd otiier ])l;ic( - be idi 
 on tiie V\f.st sidi' of J)nr. 
 tl\e (ii;u)t-(,'au-.( \\a\ . i- iii 
 Areliaohn'ia, \(.i II. 1..''.- 
 in Ireland. " Oik- (ji!;ii^> 
 
 ]'i-av<')>; in I'lugland, S<;.);lri.!, -.ri:^ tli" :i.i': > .-ii 1 :-',. ] I, 
 tiie lot weii', u) 17'.'"*, ill ''' ''- "' ' 
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 158 LITERARY ANECDOTES Oi [l743' 
 
 the end of the Gospels, in a copy of tliis volume, 
 Mr. W. Clarke thus writes: " Jnter varias Novi 
 '1 estamenti editiones correctioreni vix reperias." 
 
 ILadij Helton's Letter to Dr.Ducnrel, 17o8.] " When travelling 
 through Scotland [where he preuchcd sc-ieral limes to crowded 
 congregations], he slopped at Uir.gwal, and said he was mucli 
 struck and pleased with its appearance ; for the situation of 
 it brought Jerusalem to his renienibrance, and he jjointed out 
 the liill which resembled C'alvan'." (Cordiner's Letters on the 
 North of Scotland, p. 64.) The game similitude was observed by 
 him in regard to Dartmouth. In March 1756 Dr. Fococke wa^ 
 promoted by the Drdce of Devonshire to the bishoprick of Ossoiy. 
 vacant by the death of Dr. Edward Maurice. He preaclied 
 a Sermon in 1761 for the benefit of the Magdalen chaiity in 
 London 5 and one in 1762 before the Incorporated Society in 
 Dublin, for promoting English Protestant Working Schools in 
 Ireland ; both which were printed. He was translated, by the 
 King's letter, from Ossory to ,E!phin, in June 1765, Jiishop Gore 
 of Elphin being then promoted to Meath ; but Bishop Gore, 
 finding a great snra A^as to be paid to his predecessor's executors' 
 for the house at Ardbraccan, declined taking out liis patent; and 
 therefore. Bishop Pococke, in July, y,as translated by the Duke 
 of Xortlumiberland directly to the see of Meath ; and died^ iu 
 the month of September the ?anic year, suddcnl}', of an apo- 
 plectic stroke, whiLst in the coinse of his visitation. His Collec- 
 tion of antiquities and fossils was sold, by Mess. Langford, June 5 
 and 6, I766. Among these v,as a singular petrified echinus, 
 found in a chalk-jiit in Bovingdon par-ish, in Hcrtfordshiic 5 
 which Sir Thomas Fludjer bought for three guineas ; Mr. Sey- 
 mour offeied five guineas for it at his sale ; Mr. Foster six 
 guinea? 3 and it sold for ten. Among tlie MS treasiuTs in tlie 
 Biitish Museum are se\eral volumes (1811 4827) the gift of 
 Bishop Pococke; vh. "Minutes and Kegisters of the Philosophi- 
 cal Society at Dublin, from 1683 to 16S7, with a copy of the 
 papers read befoie them;" and " Register of the Philosophica! 
 Society of Duldin, from Aug. Fl, 1707, w'lih copies of some of 
 the pa})ers read before themj" also " Several Extracts taken out 
 of the Records of Berniingham's Tower;" "An Account of the 
 Franciscan Abbeys, Houses, ami Fricries, in Ireland;" and many 
 other curious articles of Irish Hiuory. The PluloftOi)hical Society 
 was founded, on tl\e plan of the Koyal Society of J^ondou, in 16H,':5, 
 by Mr. William Molyneux, the friend and corre.-^pondent of Mr. 
 Locke, under tlic cncourai;vinent of Sir William Petty, who was 
 the first president, as Mr. Moljneux was th(> liist secretary, in 
 which ])Ost he was succeeded by ?lr. Saint George A.'^he, pi-ofes- 
 sor of matiiematicks in the university of Daliiin.' Tiie Society 
 met at first wee!;Iy; ard their minutes vvcre from time to time 
 connnunicatcd to the Royal Society. In the confusion of 1688 
 they were di-pcrsetl, find never resimied theii- incctings. Cough's 
 i>xiti:-h Topogra];hy, -vol, II, p. 776
 
 1743.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I59 
 
 " Original Letters and Papers of State, addressed 
 tf) Oliver Cromwell, concerning tlie Aiiairs of Great 
 lii'itain, from the Year 1649 to 1G58, found anion"- 
 tjie Politic?.! Collections of Mr. John Milton; now 
 first published from the Originals *," folio ; pub- 
 lished by Mr. JohnNickoUsf, F.R. and A. SS. and 
 inscribed to Arthur Onslow, esq. 
 
 Isaac MUlcs, mentioned in p. 157, was .born Septombei" 19^ 1G"8, 
 at Cf/ckiK'ld, ncnir J3urv, in Suirolki and was the }oungci;t of 
 ('ie .en cUildren oi" Mr. Thomas Mille.s, of that \i\:\c^ ; all of \, horn 
 Jie bled up, and, by hL praderce and good maauj^enient, j.-laced 
 out coivifortably \\\ the world. After his education at I)ur\- school 
 he Avei\t to S^t. John's college in Cam1)ridge, where lie took his 
 degrees in Ailr ; and, going into orders, h.e was, surees-ively, 
 curate of Barli), undei- the very learned Dr. JoscjiU ikir.-nionT; ; 
 \ iear (jf VA'iecomlj ; and kistly, i-ector of Highclcar, a sii^nU vilia-iv 
 in ffampshirc, where lie ever after constantly resided, in tb.e 
 niost exemplary exercise; of his funcLion, for rlic lorg sy-^'ce or 
 near foriv years, till his death, in .luly lT'-20, at liie a:^^ of 8*3. 
 fie was biu'ie<l in the (hancel of his own churc;!, under a bhick 
 marble stor.e, on which is ;i long inscription to I'l.e raeni(*r\" of 
 hiniscif and wire. In tlie Register, also, very full and honouv- 
 abie nieni ion is made <jf iiim. This I')ivine ])a:?sessed sneh sirengtii 
 of miud, ;md goodness of heart, that .Viclib'siiop Ti'lctsoji de- 
 clared, when he was introduced to him, by Ids friend. Sir Kd- 
 \v;ud Aikyns, that he cotdd discern, from the lilile convev- alien 
 which had j-.-s-ed, tliej'e w;vs an " openne--; ami ckvunc-, a 
 ci'. il'tv arid, chiii-ingness oi" depcrtmeni" in I'iai, lie iiad n./v.r 
 found in an\ ')(h-r ii'.an. He was father (.f sc\e\'id cliil.'.:'?.-. 
 The ekle-t, Ti;.v nas, was appointeti Greek pi'oe .-or ac C.\i(.;;.., 
 \'\)''), ar.f'. bi-lvop of Watej'ford and Lismorc (JOS, wlure he d'.i J 
 1710, k;i\:ng Ids fortune to his n* jIu'w, the Lite Oca;: oi K-:;;t;i. 
 He pubiisl'.ed an account (if ids iaiiai's life, i:; 8vo, iT'-'l ; an 1 
 ;d.-o ercct'd ;i Ivand-opic uionumeiil to hi- uii'aior}, v. 'kli ;.i '-.;i>- 
 ai)!e iiisc! iiiticn, in tiie chore h ai Higlielear. '1 he -e;");f: .)(?i- 
 niiah, wr-..- ft Mow and tuiur (d' iiah.-l colh-ge, \',l!iv.h jtc-t-i.u i'. 
 hiiii, Vi'.'i'), !() ti.c !;( 'o;y oi' l)idn!V.'r.r ].'>!,>, ir. (J;. i'-..;'.ii. 't';..-. 
 third, l.-a;u-, v,ai tr'.'a-iocr of Waioibrd 17' h -.:;! *:i': ...;..: ci" 
 Jd.-imorc caihednd i7i7- 
 
 ' 'J'he origiiia!-. of ih.-e letters were ! -ng U.-va.;::;' rp l,-.- 
 Milton; frnm \vho;!i ;!-yca!;!;' \v.'..) t ;;' ;,-i-;-s:^i.,!! i.i' i'i.uwa.-; 
 J'dwijod, a pei'-on \,!iO '.\,y '.;j".i.y yi'i.rs '..: . ''.( '.. : r,'\.' :,:.>'[ \.:.i:, 
 and e.-U'ciii'-d bv Mii'on. JVo.:, ^^h^r;r ' :','> ( iM!;' 'o .);;']!! 
 W^etli, citi/ci\ and u> i. l.i,:t :< ^ ^:^ .'< w :. :>' I'l'i.: i\,el.. 'i 
 widow thi y wei'c obi. ilii^'^l hy ^:, \;r!. ;M<; aii' , ',!',:. d- i a-. u 
 ihey were ])reseril>(i by ho i'::; m . l'/ 'iif -hh, y j (;i' .Vii?.:]:::;! Ic :, 
 u^ apjM'ru's bv their nu.iiiu . 
 
 f Thi^ 'iiiion-t u;i.. i(,;- ," \)H;:;:dl^ vv;... .' f.u.d :. in ;i:'-t- 
 norsldp with hi- I'lll.c:' 1 ' !'. ,:'>' : ;;' 'lu/i.-J vv Ai .1 
 ft \\';ii'<' in Jh i-ttMi'il-hii: , ";id cj'iri s'<\.r.\\\:- .' '^: : b.
 
 lO'O LITERARY ANEt DOTES OF [l743. 
 
 ' Mr. Pope's '-Dunciad," in 4to and Svo. 
 
 London. He was chosen F. A. S'. .lun. 17. 17!<^; and possessed 
 the esteem of a respeetahlc number of fVienils, who were deprived 
 of him by a fever at the ai^e of 3 4, Jan. 11, 1/15. His remains 
 "vvere dejiosited in tl;e buiial-trround at Himliill Fields, on the 
 16"th. Prince Kiigene bas been i^eneraily Mipposed to Ix^ the 
 lirst collector of portraits in Europe, which on his death were 
 dispersed. He collected in rduiost every other ijraneli. Mr 
 Ashby, however, fnrnishetl Mr. (Sranger vv ii.:. :?<niie acfonnt of 
 collections earlier than Prince Eugene, from Lister's " Joiu-nev 
 to Paris," 'N'igneul ]Marville, &c. wliieh he does not appear to 
 have made use of. I'hii Earl of Oxford Ijegtui the lii'st collection 
 in England, wliich afterwards caiur in jjait to Mr. V/est, and on 
 liis death vvas dispersed by the rude hand of the uuetioneer. 
 Mr. ]\ickolls was the next .regular collector of Engl i.4i heads ; 
 and his collection, which was formed from Moorfields ;vnd stalls, 
 and consequently was iiot fir.st-rate, con.->isted of about '20{)O 
 heads, four volumes in folio, and six. in quarto, neatly let-in ; 
 which furnished Mr. Ames Avith h>s valuable catalogue ; and 
 came soon after the death of Mr. Nickolls into the library of 
 Dr. Fothergill, who piu'cha^ed it for eigl'ty guineas. Mr. Gi'an- 
 ger, in his I'n^face, had said iMr. Wcr^l bouglit the ten volumes ; 
 biu, on the better infornration of Dr. Duearel, corrected himself 
 in his Supplement, j). 2. On Dr. Fothergill's d. ath the en- 
 tire collection of portraits was sold to Mr. John Thane, print- 
 seller and medalist, in Rupert-street, Soho, for ijue hundred 
 and fifty pounds, who cut up the \ulumes and disposed of the 
 contents to the princi}>ai collectors of British ])ortraits at that 
 time; viz. Mr. Bull, Mr. Cracherode, ]Mr. Gulstone, Sir James 
 Lake, Mr. Blackburre of Lancasliuv, arid r\Ir. Dindley. Dr Fo- 
 thergill purchased likcwioC a j)retty large eeiileetion of tracts, 
 which Mr. Nickolls had picked up in his pvu'suit of heads, 
 written by those of his own j^evsu.tsion from their first ap- 
 pearance ; wliieh the beucolent ])ossessur informed the Edi- 
 tor of these Anecdotes, in 17B0, he then intended to leave to 
 The jMeeting to which lie then belonged, in Peter's-court. 
 Westminster. Bt sides these collections, RJr. Nickolls had se\eral 
 \iews by great masters; some of wlii( h fell also into the hands 
 of Dr. Fothergill. The Catalogue (f ?..',r. Niekoll.^'s Library, 
 in his own hatid-writing (inehuli^.ig 33'^ volumes of tracts in 
 folio, quarto, and octavo), was in the ];o.<se.-3sioa of Mr. Tut* t. 
 For a considerable part of the inforrjiation respecting Mr. Nickolls 
 I was indebted to Dr. Fothergill, v.\v^ died (before the former 
 edition was published) Dec. .5, l/SO; and of whom some ac- 
 count shall be given in a fiUure page. Anihony AVood, in 
 his account of Elias Ashmt^ie, tells us, '' Li his hbrary I 
 saw a large thick pa|)er itook. ne.u- a yard. h;ng, containing 
 on every side of the leaf two, three, or moj-e pictures or 
 faces of eminent persons of England, and e]-'.v,here, printed 
 from copper cuts pasted on tiiem, v.hi'h IMr. Ashmole had 
 with great curiosity collected } ar.d I renieuiber a., has told
 
 1743] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I6I 
 
 " ^liaii de Animalibus," 4to ; one of the works 
 printed for the Society for the Encouragement of 
 Learning *. 
 
 1744. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer printed " Notitia Mo- 
 nastica; or, an Account of all the Abbeys, Priories, and 
 Houses of Friers, heretofore in Enc^iand and Wales; 
 and also of all the Colleges and Ilospitals founded 
 before A. D. .aidxi. By tlie Bight Reverend Doctor 
 Thomas Tanner -j-, late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. 
 
 me, that his ini'.ul 'Aas so eager to obtuiii all face?, that whon 
 b.e covild not get a face by itself, he would buy the book, tear 
 it out, paste it in his blank book, and write under it from 
 whence lie had taken it." An admirable ])ortrait this of our 
 modern Portrait-collectors, who have sent b:ick nrany a volume 
 to the Bookseller's shop stript of its graven honours. A most 
 noted Collector t>jld a ]3rrson at Cambridge, \\ho now and then 
 sells a head, " That his own collection must needs be large and 
 good, as it rested on six. points : " 1. I buy; 2. I borrow; 3. I 
 bog; 4. I exchange; 5. I steal; G. I sell." ^Mr. Ashmole's book 
 wits consumed with the rest of his library. See the virulent 
 <cn.sure of Mr. Rowe Mores on this species of collectors in hi;j 
 l)is.-:ertation on Knglish Founders, p. 85. 
 
 * See p. 90. 
 
 f Tliis excellent .Antiquary, son of a father of both his names, 
 vicar of MarketLavington in Wilts, was born in 10T4, became a 
 student in Queens college, 0>cford, in Micliaelm;i.s term, IGSD; 
 admitted cleik in that house 1690; B.A. IG93; entered int(i holy 
 orders at (.hiistmas 1694; and became chaplain of All Souls col- 
 lege in .lanuary following; cho.~en fe.l!o\v cf the same 1G!)7; 
 C;Lancelloi- of Norfolk, and rector of Thoi-i)e, near that city, 
 1701, installed prebendary of Ely, Sept. 10, J 71-5 (which he 
 quitted 1723) ; Archdeacon of Xoifolk, Dec. 7, l/'-^l ; canon of 
 Christ (jhurcli, Feb. 3, 17'^3-4 ; prolocutor of the Lower llous^* 
 of Con\ ocatifju convened in 17^7, to which honour he w.xs 
 mrauiuiou^ly elected on account of his grei'.l abilittcs, Iiowevcj- 
 contrarv to liis own inclinations. He was coiisecrated Bisliop 
 of St. Asajih, Jan. 23, 1731-'2: died at Christ Church. O.xford, 
 i;ec.l4, 173."); and was buiied in the nave ot that Cathedral, 
 n>iar the pulpit j whcie a monument to liii memory, affixed ty 
 one of the piiiars, is thus inscribed : 
 
 '^ M.S. 
 
 TilOM.E Tanntr, S V. P. 
 
 Qui nat\:s Lavingtoni.i; in Agro \Viltonien-;i, 
 
 in Colleg'um Ri'-irnjn-e :uUniv::Us, 
 
 de:;;'.'? Oi'.nium A;ii:;K ram c.ij.elianus, 
 
 VuL. II. >i Jnc.v
 
 l62 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1744- 
 
 Published by John Tanner, A. M. Vicar of Lowe- 
 
 mox socins cooptatus est. 
 
 Optimarum ibi artium cultor, 
 
 Antiquitatis prsesertim studio ita trahebatur, 
 
 ut in patriae fastis, mominientisque eruendis, 
 
 nemo illo diligentior, 
 
 nemo in explicandis pevltior haberetur. 
 
 Hinc mature avocatus 
 
 ad munus Cancellarii dioceseos Nordoviceosis, 
 
 auctus est insuper Praibend^. Eliensi. 
 
 Academiai denuo restitutus, 
 
 banc aedem Canonicus ornavit. 
 
 A Clero interim Pi-olocutor renunciatus, 
 
 ad Episcopatum tandem evectus est Asavensem. 
 
 Vir erat 
 
 ad omne officium summS. fide et diligenti^, 
 
 rarS. pietate, 
 
 humanissimd erga omnes voluntate, 
 
 liberalitate in egenos effiisissima, 
 
 Obiit 14 die Decembris, A. D, 1735, ajtatis 62." 
 
 Another inscription, and a translation of it, are here subjoined, 
 from Gent. Mag. 1736, p. 692 : 
 
 *' Vicitne tandem morbus et senium grave 
 
 Tannere, te patrum decus ; 
 Fregitque nuUis territum laboribus 
 
 Suprema sors mortalium ? 
 Lustrare sacra suetus ohm rudera 
 Fanorum et antiquas domos. 
 Nunc ipse veterum puiveri admistus cinis 
 
 Sub ade veneranda jaces. 
 Quae tot capaci praesules docto sinu 
 Ipsamque Fiidswidam f tenet. 
 At tu sepulchri non eges honoribus, 
 
 Nostrive laude carminis, 
 Tn, quern peritum Antiquitatis iiltiniaK 
 
 Ventura dicent saecuia ; 
 Nomenque Pario scripta servabunt tua 
 
 Perenniora marmore." 
 " At length oppress'd by age and malady. 
 Must Tanner here a common victim lie t 
 Whose industry no trouble could allay. 
 Must he submit to deaths imperious sway ? 
 Pride of his ancestors ' Oijce wont to tread ; 
 Where now with sacred dust his ashes spread 
 Within these walls, wiiose bounds have close embrac'd 
 So many Prelates, spoil of ages past ! 
 
 ^ Fifidiwi Ja, a Saxon queen, foundress of part of the Collage, anJ buried 
 jt> the Cathedral thsre. 
 
 FridswJda"?
 
 1744.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 1^3 
 
 stoft in Suffolk, and Precentor of the Cathedral 
 Church of St. Asaph/' folio *. 
 
 Fridswida's self lies here! But you nor need 
 The numerous honours for the dead decreed j 
 Nor the small tribute which my verse affords. 
 The Herald's blazon, nor the pomp of words ; 
 Whom late posterity shall justly praise, 
 Skill'd in the monuments of antient days ; 
 Whose works more truly shall consign thy fame, 
 Than Parian marble could preserve thy name." 
 
 Bp. Tanner published, before he was 2'2 years old, "^ Notitia 
 Monastica, or a short History of the Religious Houses in Eng- 
 land and Wales," 1695, 8vo. republished in foho, 1744, with 
 great additions (which he began to collect in 1715), by iiis 
 brother Mr. John Tanner. His " Bibliotheca Britannico-Hiber- 
 nica," which employed him forty years, was published in 1748, 
 folio ; with a posthumous preface by Dr.Wilkins (see vol. I. p. 334), 
 His immense and valuable Collections, amongst which are ample 
 materials for the county of Wilts, and large notes on Richard 
 Hegge's Legend of St. Cuthbert, 1663, are now in the Bodleian 
 library ; and many interesting particulars concerning him may 
 be found in his own Letters in Ballard's Collection ; amongst 
 which (IV. 34 and 46) are his account and his character of both 
 his wives. He married a second wife in 1733, Miss Scottow 
 of Thoip near Norwich, with a fortune of 15,0(X)1. ; whose 
 death is thus recorded: " May 1, 1771, in St. Giles's Broad- 
 street, Norwich, Mrs. Elizabeth Britiffe, in the 78th year of 
 her age. The above gentlewoman was hrst the wife of Thomas 
 Tanner, D. D. upwards of 30 years Chancellor of the diocese 
 of Norwich, and BLshop of St. Asaph, who died December 15, 
 1735 ; she afterwards married the late Robert Brititfe, esq. re- 
 corder of Norwich, and one of its representatives in three suc- 
 cessive parliaments." His only son (ly his first wife) Tliomas 
 Tanner, D.D. (who married a daughter of Archbishop Potter) 
 was sometime prebendary of Cauunbun', and successor to Dr. 
 ^\'ilkins in the rcctoiics of Hadleigli and Monks Eleigh, SulTolk. 
 
 * This volume was published by Jolui 'Vhision, Jo!m Csborn, 
 and Francis Changuion, the thi-ee booksellers with whom the 
 last contract of the Society for the Encomagemeat of J^arnii.^ 
 v.as made. (See p. 96.) The Bishop's portrait, prefi.xcd to this 
 v.ork, is inscribed, " Revercndns adroodum Tiiomas Tanner, 
 Asaphensis Episcopus, Prlma^va; .^nfiquitatis Cultor. G. \ertue 
 sculp. 1745. ' This print was a copy of a larger, enc'-i^ed in 
 173G by Vertue. at the expence of the Society of Antiquarie-;: 
 with some uiilerencc in the decorati.m, ;ind th^> addition to the 
 inscription : " Hot ectypum fratri.-s sui digi;i-:siiTii antiqms moribus 
 oniati ]>osteris sacratum esse voiuit Soc. .\nt. Lond. 17.'''"-" 
 
 "Mr,Thoma^E\>T5, bookseller in the Strand, circulated pro- 
 posals for a new edition of Up. Tanners " Notltia MonoiticH, ' 
 but with what iinprcvtinents does not appear. Our nifilern 
 
 M '2 vubh.'^liei'S
 
 164 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l744. 
 
 * Two Editions of " The Essay on Man," with 
 Mr. Warburton's Commentary. 
 
 The Works of Mr. Pope *, in two volumes, 4to. 
 
 publishers judge of the. value of books by their arbitrary price, 
 and have been misled, to their cost, to re-print some books, whose 
 whole merit is their scarcity. This is by no means, however, the 
 case with the " Notitia ;" which is as valuable as it is scarce, 
 and, if reprinted with such improvements as it is in the power of 
 several gentlemen to bestow on it, would be an accej)table pre- 
 sent to the publick." The latter part of the above note was 
 written in 1781 by Mr. Gough, in whose rich Library wei-e two 
 interleaved copies of the "Notitia," with additions by Mr. Rowe 
 Mores and Dr. Winchester. Mr. Evans, though he did not li\o 
 to put his intention into etFoct, joined with the Editor of these 
 volumes in a contract with the late very learned Mr. Nasniith 
 for the purchase of an improved edition of Bishop Tanner's book; 
 which, by the libei-ality of the Uni\ersity of Cambiidge, wa:- 
 permitted to pass gratuitously through their press, for Mr. Niis- 
 niith's benefit. That conti-act, on the decease of Mr. Evans> 
 devolved on the present writer ; who accordingly piuehased the 
 whole impression, on the idea that, from the long list of names 
 which had been given-in as encouragers of the re-publication, 
 there would be a great demand for the book ; but (strange to 
 say) in the number of names set down, at least nine out of ten 
 pro\Ted men of buckram; and by far the greater part of the work, 
 after continuing ^^arehoused for t\\ enty years, was consumed in the 
 fatal conflagration of Feb. 8, 1808; an e^ent by which the " No- 
 titia" is again become scarce, and probably will ever so continue. 
 
 * \MiiIst these volumes were in the press, Mr. Bowyer recei\ed 
 the following letters from the learned Commentator : 
 
 " Jw;j. 29, 1743. Dear Mr. Bowyer, 1 have read over Colley. 
 He is all you say of him, and more. But I love the rogue when 
 be reasons. He is then a delightful ass, indeed. In a word, 
 is it possible thei'e can be buyers for such a paaipldet ? Never 
 
 fear but 1 will get the better of all my adveisaries at last. 
 
 And then as Pvrrhus said to his counsellor, we will sit down 
 and drink your ra^-in wine. Do but decypher my MS. cleve;ly, 
 and see if 1 don't make a rog-ue and an a?s of Dr. Jtionimaui. 
 .1 should ha\e told you, the reason why the inclosed came 
 no sooner was, because your letter, which sent it, was put into 
 a Avrong bag, and went farther North, and came back again 
 before I had it, either by the negligence or design of the clerks 
 of the Post-office. I think the Dutch frugality never a])peared 
 in a more signal instance than what I have ju.st now seen in 
 the newspapers. They ha\ e appointed a fast and thunksgivinL:, 
 in one, and to be observed together." Ever yours, W. W." 
 
 " Mvch 9, 1743-4. Mr. Pope thinks that his Works will be 
 co:n])rehended in two % oluines of 60 sheets each. But he is un- 
 willing that the ])aper should be at all worse than the other-. 
 No. UKK) of that paper, and 100 royal. Ever yours, W. W." 
 
 " B. Ihina^liiun,
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 1^-1 
 
 1744.] 
 
 " A Critical Commentary upon the Book of the 
 Wisdom of Solomon, being a Continuation of 
 Bishop Patrick and Mr. Lowth ; by Richard Ar- 
 nald *, B. D." foUo.' 
 
 " Remarks on several Occasional Reflections, in 
 Answer to the Rev. Dr. Middleton, Dr. Pococke-f-, 
 the Master of the Charter-house :{:, Dr. Richard Grev, 
 
 " B. Broughion, June 20, 1744. Dear Sir, I thank you for 
 both ) our last. You wiil oblige me with telling- me thai beast 
 Lintot's steps. I would do him all i-eason while he acts with de- 
 cency and justice, and shall never print any part of his property 
 with my Notes and Commentary without his leave ; but if he 
 acts like a rogue, I have but one word with him, the Chancers- 
 and Mr. Mim-ay. This inter nos. If the executors inquire of 
 you, and when they do, about the state of Mr. Pope's Works in 
 your hands yet imfinished (that is to say, of the Epistles), I then 
 desire you would let Mr. Mun-ay have a copy of all those Epistles ; 
 and you may tell him I desired you would do so: but say nothing 
 till then. Pray presene all the Press Copy, to the lea<t scrap. 
 I have looked over the corrected proof of tlie half-sheet, title. 
 &c. and of the leaf that wiis ordered to be cancelled, and find 
 them right : so desire they may be printed oft", and one sent me 
 by the first opportunity. My best respects to Mrs. Bill. I am, 
 dear .sir, your very affectionate friend -and sei-vant, W. W." 
 
 * Of whom, see under the year 17(>0. 
 
 f The learned Prelate of whom some niemoiis have been 
 given in p. 157; and whose accomit of Hieroglyphics, and thi* 
 relation they had to language, given in his " Obser\ations on 
 Egypt," differed from what had been said about tliem in " Tlie 
 Divine Legation." 
 
 X Nicholas Mann, esq. wardrobe-keeper at Windsor. " I?y 
 the death of Dr. King, there was a vacancy in the rnastershii 
 (jf the Chart(!r-house, a place which some considerable jjersons 
 ut different periinls have desired to fill. Bishop Benson and 
 Dr. J(irtin used to say, that there was a certain time in tlieir 
 lives, when of all jn-eferments they wished for it tlic'most. .And 
 now the coin{Mtit<<rs to succeed Dr. King were Dr. Middleton and 
 ^1r. M'.mn. Wlien Dr. Middleton applied to Sir Kobcrt U'alpoJe 
 for his vote and interest, Sii- Kiii)ert honestly told him, tliat, 
 talking with T?ish(jp Sherlock, he fotmd the Bi^llo))^ were gene- 
 rally against his being cho.-.en master. Mr. .Mann had been tutor 
 to the Marqnis of lilandford ; and it was ihi-ongli the intcRst of 
 The Marlborough family that he gained th' ascendant i)\er I)i . 
 Middleton. .... Di'. Middleton was nnicli hnit and pn>vi)ke<l at 
 the disappointment ; and, thinking Bishop *5lu-rlo( k to b<> the 
 primary cause of it, he wreaked i\is malice in his ili-natun-d and 
 ill-timed aninjadversions upon the Bishop s l)iscoui-:-e.. on Pro- 
 phecy, pretending that he had never seen them before, though 
 tii.y'ljid been pul)li?hed se\eral vears, and liad gone throuiih 
 
 .K \ trul
 
 l66 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l744. 
 
 and others ; serving^ to explain and justify divers 
 Passages in The Divine Legation, objected to by 
 those Learned Writers. To which is added, A 
 General Review of the Argument of The Divine 
 Legation, as far as it is yet advanced : wherein is 
 considered the Relation the several Parts bear to 
 each other and the Whole. Together with an 
 Appendix, in Answer to a late Pamphlet [by Dr. 
 Stebbing] , intituled. An Examination of Mr. War- 
 burton's Second Proposition," 8vo. 
 
 " Observations on the present Collection of 
 Epistles between Cicero and M. Brutus, repre- 
 senting several evident Marks of Forgery in those 
 Epistles ; and the true State of many important 
 Particulars in the Life and Writings of Cicero : 
 in Answer to the late Pretences of the Reverend 
 Dr. Conyers Middleton. By James Tunstall *, B. D. 
 
 several editions. Nor did he aftenvards spare the Archbishop 
 and his chaplaiiis, but took every opportunity of making Lam- 
 beth-house the subject of his wit and satire." Bishop Newton. > 
 Mr. Mann was elected master of the Charter-house Aug. 1 9, 17*37; 
 and in 1747 he published " Critical Notes on some Passages in 
 Scripture," as will be noticed under that year. Dying Nov. 24, 
 1753, he was buried in the piazza at the Charter-house, ; where, 
 over the chapel door, a tablet is thus inscribed : 
 " Attende paululum, quisquis es, 
 Subtus jacet Nicolaus Mann, 
 olim Magister, nunc remistus pulvere. 
 jQuis ille, vel quid egerit beiic aut sectis in viti, 
 oraitte quairitare : scit Deus. 
 IMonere maluit hoc quod ad te pertinet : 
 
 Benfe universis tu fac et fieri veils, 
 
 semper benigni Patris omnium memor. 
 
 Sic si paratus hue inires, 
 
 precibus tuis coelum patebit : 
 
 ipse quum stabis reus die supremSi 
 
 sub tremendo judice ratione vitae reddita laudaberis." 
 
 * James Tunstall, D. D. fellow nf St. John's coUege, Cam- 
 bridge, and one of the two principal tutors of that Society, was 
 " a person highly esteemed not only for his good learning, 
 but for the sweetness of his disposition. As a tutor, no 
 one took more pains for the improAcment of such as were 
 placed under his care ; ^d his success was answerable to his 
 warmest wishes. As senior Dean of the College, the mildness 
 of his reproofs wrought more upon the tempers of several persons 
 of ingenuous minds, than the sharpest censures, or the severest 
 
 discipline.
 
 1744.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. l$j 
 
 Fellow of St. John's College, and Orator of the 
 University of Cambridge. To which is added, A 
 
 discipline, would have been able to effect." Masters' s Life of 
 Baker, p. 1 14. Having refused the rectorj' of Saltwood, thinking 
 it not worth vacating his fellowship for, he was instituted to 
 the rectory of Stimner, in Essex, in December 1739; and elected 
 public orator (on the resignation of Dr. Wilhains) in October 1741, 
 after a smart opposition from Mr. Philip Yonge, of Trinity college, 
 afterwards Bishop of Norwich; and who was aftenvards chosen, 
 when Di'. Tunstall resigned upon being made cliaplain to Abp. 
 Potter. " I am persuaded by my friends," he says, " to otFer my- 
 self for the Orator's place as soon as Dr. VtilUams resigns, and 
 promise m\-self the continuance of your fevour. The Doctor does 
 not resign this year ; and 1 am thus forwartl, lest you should have 
 applications from other hands. Mr. Yonge of Tnnity is the only 
 competitor who has yet declared." MS Letter of Dr. Tunstall to 
 Dr. Z. Grey, .April J, 1740. Abp. Potter had only four chaplains 
 whilst he held the see of Canterbury ; and of those Dr. Tunstall 
 was the junior. He was created D. D. at the Commencement at 
 Cambridge, July 13, 1744; was collated by the Archbishop to 
 the rectory of Great Charte in Kent ; and to the v"carage of 
 Minster in the Isle of Thanet, on the death of Mr. Lewis, 1/46. 
 JKach of those livings was worth about 200/. a year; and he 
 bad good houses at both ; but the roads round Charte were so 
 deep with dirt, that though near Ashford, and in a good neigh- 
 bourhood, his fiiends coidd seldom get near him. He quitted 
 his Kentish livings in November 17>''i7 for the valuable vicai"age 
 of Rochdale, in Lancashire, given him by Abp. ffutton, who 
 married Mrs. Tunstall's aimt ; but the excbange, from many 
 untoward circumstances, did not answer his expectation ; he 
 wished for a prebend of Canteibuiy ; and " his death, which 
 happened March 28, 1772, was rather })remature, occasioned 
 either by family uneaiinesses or di<u))])ointnient of preferment ; 
 \et he was a ])erson of such equal ci\ilily, if not humility of 
 deportment, that it was .said of him for some time after he had 
 left I^mbeth, that many a man came iliere, as chaplain, humble; 
 but that none ever went thence so except Dr. Tunstall," says 
 T.F.; who " was not his p\ipil, hut, in the language of College, 
 belonged to the other side or line, yd willingly jws this mark 
 of respect to a learned and virtuous chai-acter." Mr. Dunconibe 
 adds, " The cause above assigjied contributed to his death. 
 Rochdale was reputed worth at least 900/. per mmnn, but fell 
 greatly short of it. Dr. Tunstall K-ft scxeral daughters, some 
 of them most unff)rtunately circumstanced in their health, 
 to whom their uncle, the Rev. Mr. Dodsworth, treasurer of Sa- 
 lisbury (who su|>erinteiidcd the publication of the " Jx'ctures") 
 has been a father. Mrs. Tmitall did not long survive her hus- 
 band." Dr. Tun-t;i!l (li-^iiiiKMi-hcd himself as one intimately 
 acquainted witlj Tuliv> Works and t!ic history of those time^, by 
 a lennied and sjjirited atiiiek upon t.i:it classical work of Dr. 
 Middletun's, so much admired in Italy, the " Life of .Murois 
 
 TuUius
 
 168 LITERARY ANECDOTES or [l744. 
 
 Letter from the Reverend Dr. Chapman on the 
 antient Numeral Characters of the Roman Le- 
 
 TuUms Cicero," by questioning the genuineness of Tull;.'3 
 Epistles to Bnitus. in his " Epistoln ad virum enirlitiin) Conyers 
 Middlelon, Vitae M. T. Ciceronis Scriptorem ; in qua, ex locis 
 ejus operis quamplurimis recensionem Ciceronis Episttilarnin ad 
 Atticum et Quintum Fratrern desidrniri ostfiiditiu', ^c. Canta- 
 brigiED, 1741 ." "As the Doctor had made givat vise f)f those na- 
 terials in his Life of TuUy, he would probably much vMther ha\e 
 sfien the genuineness of the Four Gospels calloil in question. 
 Accordingly he had recourse to eveiy expedient to save a sinking 
 cause ; descended so low, as to say the Public Orator's language 
 was not intelligible, and would have been veiy glad to ha^e 
 provetl it. I could name a well-known patriotic Duke, who 
 has lately not only read over the whole controversy (which is 
 neither siiort nor slight), but declares his astonishment that any 
 body could have any doubts about the merits of the cause. Yet 
 Dr. Miiidleion was much the more fashionable man, and many 
 super.^cial gentiy would have taken the vTong side Avith such a 
 popular wi iter. I cannot help mentioning, that Mr. Cumberland 
 informed me, that in tiie Library of the Escurial are 20 Greek 
 Letters, from M.Brutus to the Greek Cities j exacting contribu- 
 tions from them. Such is the illiberality of Spain, that lie could 
 onl", procure one. They are in Greek, which may occasion a 
 speculation, how far it is likely that a Roman General could 
 write in that language on a public business. From the only 
 word I have heard, \\z. y-aTccrKa-^cct, I presume that he threat- 
 ened them, in case of n()n-com})liance, with as severe a fate as 
 he inflicted on the brave Xanthians. One may wonder too that 
 20 such detached Ordf rs should any how be got together and 
 preserved." T. F. It is more probable they are the manufacture 
 of some Sophist. " ITiis information from Mr. Cumberland is the 
 more cinious, because I gave a list of ihcse very Greek Letters in 
 my Spanish Letters, p. 134. The remark which follows is wrong, 
 because the Greek language was then as fashionable in theCitv of 
 Rome and the Archipelago, asFrencii is now among us. Duke Fer- 
 dinand. sent all hisordersin French (not German) evcntothcEngli&h 
 pail of the armv." Rev. E. Clnrkr to Ah. Nirhok. Dr. Ti.nstaU's 
 other publications were, 1. "Observations on the present Collec- 
 tion of Epistles between Cicero and M. Brutus," &c. (.see p. }6(j); 
 
 2. "A Sermon before the House of Commons, May 29, 1T40." 
 
 3. " A Vindication of the Power of the State to prohibit Clan- 
 destine Marriages under the Pain of absolute Nullity ; particu- 
 larly the Marri;iges of Minors, made without the Con."!ent of th'=ir 
 Parents and Guardians, &c. 175.5, Svo. 4. " Marriage in Society 
 stated 3 with some Considerations on Government, the different 
 kinds of Civil Laws, and tiieir distinct Obligations in Con.'iciftnce, 
 in a second Letter to the Rev. Dr. Stebbing, occasioned bv his 
 Review, &c. 1755," 8vo. 5. "Academica: Part the first, con- 
 taining several Discourses on the Certainfy^ Distinction, and 
 
 Connection
 
 1744.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. l6$ 
 
 gions/' 8vo. Of Dr. John Chapman, who was 
 
 Connection of Natural and Revealed Religion, 1759," Svo. Thia 
 contains " Concio ad Clerum liabita in Templo beatae Marias in 
 Academia Cant, pro gradu S.T. B. anno 173y ;" the Tuesis read 
 wlien he took his Doctor's degree in 1744, and some Sermons. 
 Tlie second Part was to lia\ e consisted of Lectures, 1 . On the 
 Being, Perfection, and Providence of God ; 2. On the Laws of 
 Universal Benevolence ; 3. On a Stale of futiue Existence j ami 
 was, I supj;ose, the work published after his death, under the 
 title of " Lectures on Natural and Revealed Religion, read in 
 tlie Chapel of St. John's Caaibridge, i764 ;" 4 to. These Lectures 
 were begim by the Author when a tytor in St. John's, but he 
 was presented from finishing the comprehensive ])lau laid dowu 
 in the beginr.ing of them, by being called from that employn\ent 
 in College to the sen ice of Archbishop Porter. They were, 
 however, so nearly completed, that the Author, had he lived, 
 intended to have published them himself j and they were faith- 
 fully printed from his MS. without the least addition or coirec- 
 tion. A very large and i-esjjectable list of subscribers is pretixed 
 to the.se Lectures, of which 1500 cojnes were jjrinted, and eight 
 only on large paper. To the first editi(jn of IMr. Duncombe'.s 
 Horace are annexed some critical anuotatinns by Dr. Tuu.stall, 
 who in 1740 obtained fur Dr. Grey Mr. NN'arbixrton's remarks 
 on Iludibras, as is publicly nckuowledged in the Preface to that 
 work, and is confiruied by the following quotation from an vm- 
 published letter of Dr. Tunslall to Dr. Grey: " Immediately after 
 your fa\our came to hand, 1 applied to ^Ir. Waiburton, who 
 au-swers in these words: ' lean deny you nothing. Dr. Grey 
 shall have my Remarks on Hudibras ; and 1 will dcjjond upon 
 his honour. I had thoughts (as 1 had cousiilered tliis author 
 pretty much) to have given an edition of him, and h<ul men- 
 tioned jt to an eminent bookseller. I5ut I will tliink no more of 
 it, as this matter will oblige you. But I caimot possiidy set 
 about transcribing them for the Doctor till after Lady-day, be- 
 cause of my second volume.' Thus far Mr, Waiburton, whom I 
 had told that he might depend upon your doing him justice in 
 the note.' he connnuuicated ; for I knew I could .safely promi.-e 
 it." Yet Dr. Grey two vears after .-hbt some arnnvs at this Co- 
 lossus. From the readiness with which Warliuton suj)plied 
 Grey with his remarks on Hudiui.is, and the grateful acknow- 
 ledgement with \\hi(h they wtr<' ictcived (see Pic.^ace to Hudi- 
 bras, p. 35), the rud<TK;-.> of that Auiiior's mention ui' the edition 
 to which he had contribwied is tliilicidt to hi' acfuiuited for. 
 Speaking of criticks in his puface to SiKik.s])( :in\ }\c intr(Khices 
 Dr. Grey's Hudibras in tlie hdii-v.i.iu lu i.uu r . " I !i;ud!y think 
 there ever appeared, in -auv K:iri;( tl i;i!i;_-';:i;:r, <(, < \ecrable a 
 heap of non.sensc und'.rr the uaiii!- of' (''>i.".:ii'i;tar:is, as hath 
 been lately given u-. on a ctriii!!! .-utj:ic i oet of t!ic last age l)y 
 his Editor and Coadjutor. " I'or tlni ;it;,w I; Dr. (inv took hi^ 
 revenge in boine |)aniph!<ts mcutioiicd uii>i. r lii^ article, and in 
 1751 atrain noticed hi- ui:t.i;:oiM-f iu tiic f.'!!onini;- terms : 
 
 ' The
 
 1/0 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1744- 
 
 Archdeacon of Sudbury, some accovint will be given 
 under the year 1747 *. 
 
 * The first to whnni I am indebted is the Rev. Mr. Smith, of 
 Harlestoi), in Norfolk, the most friendly rind communicative 
 man living, >vho Avas greatly assistant to Sir Thcmias Hamner, 
 in his edition of Sbakspeare, as be was to me in Hiidibras, for 
 tvhich he has been spitefully called my Coadjutor, but by a gen- 
 tleman whose slander stands for nothing with eveiy candid and 
 ingenious person." Grey's Comment^rj- on Hudibras, notwith- 
 standing Dr. Wiu-hurton's censure, will, generally, be viewed 
 with favour. Tiifling and insignificant as the books he quotes 
 were allowed to be, they were s\ich as Butler himself saw, rc- 
 feired, and alluded to, and therefore were the piopcr sources ta 
 consult for materials to explain him. As Mr. Waiton has ob- 
 served of Shakspcare, " If Butler is v^orth reading, he is worth 
 explaining ; and the reseaixli^s used for so valuable and elegant 
 a purpose merit the thanks of genius and candour, not the 
 satire of prejudice and ignorance." It may be remarked that 
 the multiplicity of authors quoted in the Commentary on Kudi- 
 bras always inipress(>s a superficial reader in the same manner. 
 Fielding, vvho.se vvritings shew to what an excellent purpose he 
 applied his reading, and who did not attempt to conceal what 
 he obtained from books (little as it was, owing to business and, 
 dissipation), appears to have been struck in the same manner as 
 many others of Dr. Grey's readers. " If we should cany on the 
 analogy between the Traveller and fhe Conmientator, it is im- 
 possible to keep one's eye a moment otf from the laborious 
 inttch-read Doctor Zachary Grey, of whose redundant notes on 
 Hudibras I shall only say, that it is, I am confident, the single 
 book extant in whic'x above five hundred authors are quoted, 
 Bot one of which could be found in the collection of the late 
 Dr. Mead." Preface to Voyage to Lisbon. Among Dr. Birch's 
 MSS. in the British Museum is a collecticm of MS letters from 
 Dr. Tunstall to the Earl of Oxford, in 1738 and 1739, on Ducket's 
 Atheistical Letters, and the Proceedings thereon; there is also a 
 letter to Dr. Birch, dated "Great Charte, Nov. 21, 1744," com- 
 municating an original letter from Meric Casaubon, a predecessor 
 of his in the vicarage of Minster, whence it appears that Dr. 
 Tunstall was then jiosse.ssed of the livings of Minster and Charte. 
 * To the 65th page of Dr. Chapman's Letter the following ob- 
 servations from Mr.Marklandto Mr.Bovvyer, dated Jmie 30, 1743, 
 have reference : " W hen I had read yours, I looked for the fnii 
 copy (which I hiid accidentally kept) of that letter v.hich I had 
 written to Dr. Chapman, concerning the first epistle of Cicero to 
 Brutus. In my copy, instead of, ii:hieh was the case of C. Octa- 
 vius, whom irc commonly call Augustus. 1 find, which uas Augus- 
 tus's case. Whether I alteied it myself in tlie trau'^cribing, (jr 
 Mr. T. has done it for me, 1 cannot say, and it is no great mat- 
 ter ^ however it is more full and clear a-> it i.^ printed. Bt ^our 
 questions I perceive that you have not a perfect and dii^tinct 
 
 notion
 
 1744.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I7I 
 
 Mr. Edwards's *'^ Lettijr to the Author of a late 
 Epistolary Dissertation addressed to Dr. Warbur- 
 ton/' 8vo. 
 
 notion of this matter ; and therefore, since you desire it, will 
 endeavour to expkdn it to you ; tliouH:h I did not imagine that 
 it would want any explanation, for indeed there is no difficulty 
 in it either way, if a man has but the necessary pra'cog^nita, 
 which I took for granted all scholars have. You know that the 
 name of him whom we commonly call Augustus, was originally 
 Caius Octavius Thurinus. Tlie first was the preenomen; the 
 second the no m??z, or gentile, or name of Llie/</nu/y ; the third, 
 the cognomen, as wai usual. ITius it stood till towards the 19th 
 year of his age; when his uncle C. Julius Caisar dying, a}>pointed 
 him his heir, and at the same time ordered him to cliange his 
 name, and to pass out of the Octavian into the Julian family. 
 Some of his friends (especially his fdther-iu-law L. Philippus, 
 who had married the widow his mother) thinking that he had 
 noi interest and power enough to come at ^\ luit Caesar had left 
 him, which was fallen into the hands of IM. Antony chiefly, ad- 
 vised him to be quiet, and not to take upon him the name of 
 Cjesar. This deliberation took up (N. 15.) souietime; but at 
 last Octavius determhicd to strike a bokl .stroke, and to demand 
 his inheritance, and to change his name, which he did with the 
 accustomed legal fonns 3 and then, in^^tciid of C. Octavius Thuri- 
 nus, his name was C. Julius Caesar, with the iLsual addititm of 
 Octavianus to shew that he came out of the family of the Oc- 
 tavii. Several years after, when he vas scltled in the possession 
 of the empire, and had done great service to the state, the se- 
 nate resolved to comi:liiuent iiim with some new title of honour; 
 and after much consultation tliey agreed upttn tlmt of Augustus, 
 so that then he was C. Juliius Cai.-ar Of tavianus Augustus. You 
 now see that the title (for it v/xs no more) of Augvisrus had no- 
 thing to do with the name of Octavixis ; and that if it be put ;i3 
 you would have it *, ' which was the ( ase of Augustus whom we 
 commonly call Octavius,' it would have been unintelligible, and 
 without argument. As to the several passages fronj Cieero, 
 wherein you say he is called Octavius, look at them, and you 
 will find every one of them written in the internK';!ialc time 
 (which was the reason why I put in the N. B. abo\e) hetween the 
 death of Julius Cajsar and faviuss ciianging hi name, which 
 was some month.s ; after which, you vvill lind that Cicio from 
 that time never calls him Octavius, hut either C. C:r.-ar, or 
 Cajsar, or Octavianus; which l.Lst word ynu iiiu?t unders'aud in a 
 noun adjective, and signifies, belonging to the Oclavii; that is, 
 who was originally of the g'.ns or family of tli<' Octavii. This 
 was always the custom in adoptions, u, add liie gentile of their 
 own family to that into v.hich tlu-y pr-.-.-r-d. So the fainoua 
 
 * It stand* thus in Dr. Chapu.in't " CLjervstion*,"' p. Cj. 
 
 L, Ae-
 
 173 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l744. 
 
 Dr. Grey's " Answer to Mr. Warburton s Remarks 
 oh several Occasional Reflections, so far as they 
 
 L. Aemilius PaiiUus, who conquered Perses King of Macedonia, 
 gave one of his sons, P. Aemilius Paullus, to be adopted by one 
 of the Scipios, that is, into the Cornelian family : after which 
 the young man, instead of P. Aemilius Paullus, -was called P. 
 Cornelius Soij)io Aemilianus. This wns he who afterwards 
 finally demolished Carthage in the third Punic war, in which. 
 you often meet with him by the name of Scipio Aemilianxis, 
 Thus if M. Tullius Cicero had adopted Cn. Pompeius Miignus, 
 this latter would have been called Cn. Tullius Cicero Pompeianus j 
 as, on the other hand, if Pompey had adopted Cicero, Cicera 
 would have been M. Pompeius Magnus TuUianus. This is the 
 original of most of the pi'oper names that end in anus, which 
 are almost as numerous as the family ones which cud simply ia 
 vs; the reason of which is evident, because there was scarce any 
 family which had not, some time or other, adoptions made out 
 of it into some other family ; and then he who before was by 
 family a Cal{)urnius, or Titius, or Sempronius, &c. became a 
 Calpurnianus, Titianus, or Sempronianus. And now you per- 
 ceive why Lucilius Clodius cannot subsist in the same person, 
 viz. because both Lucilius and Chxiius (or Claudius) are gentUia, 
 or the names of families ; for if this L. Clodius Marcellus, whon> 
 1 wtis speaking of in that letter, had been ado})ted into the Lu- 
 cilian family, his name would hav e been from that time L. Lxici- 
 lius something (suppose, Longus, or any other cognomen be- 
 longing to the Lucilii) Clodianus, not Clodius. You likewise 
 perceive that you speak inaccurately (though Dr. Middletoj;i, I 
 find, does it, and so do some of the modern antients, if one may 
 so call them, Florus and Appiau } but none of the more skilful 
 ones) when you call Augustus, Octavius Augustus ; which is as. 
 if you should call Sir Robert Walpolc, Sir U'alpole Orfard ; for 
 while he was Octavius he was not Augustus, nov till several 
 years afterguards ; and when he was Augustus, it would ha\e 
 been more than an affront to have called him Octa\ius, and 
 nobody ever did do it, because it would have been a kind of 
 petty treason, and a verbal denial of his right to the name 
 and inheritance of his uncle Julius C;Esar ; and therefore the 
 sophist who forged these letters under the name of Brutus 
 to Cicero, in the famous Papistic, the 22d, never calls hinii 
 any thing but Octa\ ius ; or if he calls him Cicsar (as he does 
 once), he does it in a sneer, nd adds the word tiius. your. 
 Cajsar, p. 172. This is right, and consistent with the c luuacter 
 of Erutu.s. T'at, alas ! he coiild not go thiimgh with it ; for, 
 p. 7G, he foriTets himself, and calls him simply Ciesar, A\iiich. 
 the true Brutus would have lost his life sooner than luuc done, 
 had he once taken it into his head that it was wrong. But this 
 by the bye. Now please to read over that part of the sheet, and 
 teil me whether it be clear to you." 
 
 couceni
 
 1744-] ^HE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 173 
 
 concern the Preface to "a late edition of the Book of 
 Job ; in which the Subject and Design of that Di- 
 vine Poem are set in a full and clear Light, and 
 some particular Passages in it occasionally explained; 
 in a Letter to the Reverend Author of the Remarks/* 
 Mr. Markland, in a Letter dated Uckfield^, April 1 7, 
 1 744, tells Mr. Bon yer, "I got hither on Wednesday, 
 in three days from Twyford, without any danger or 
 diificulty_, except a little trouble which a hasty brook 
 gave us bv coming into the chaise and getting into 
 my portmanteau : by which accident the Cicero you 
 gave me has suffered a little. Mr. Clarke was with 
 me on Fridav; and I had been there before this, had 
 it not been for tlie almost perpetual rains and cold 
 weather, which at present spoil a very beautiful walk 
 between this place and Buxted*. He sent me i/our 
 paiupldet, m which I think I clearly see several things 
 that are certainly the Bishop's, and several that are 
 certainlv not so. He has sent me likewise Mr. Wvir- 
 burton's answer to his opponents, anil Dr. Sykes's 
 Examination, &c. ; the former of which seems to me 
 to liavc been published chieiiy with the design of 
 
 * Mr. Clarke, in a letter written al^out the same tlin(\ says, ' [ 
 tluuik vou ibr the answer to thcl'rial, c'vc. which I li;ul not seen, 
 and have iiixcn to Mr. Markland accordin'x to vour direction. He 
 tells me the paujphlet is Mr. Mo>-s: it i>, ui-ll done: he j)reserves, 
 what I tiiO'.ight was scarcely pcssiblt/, the diirrity of the subject in 
 answeriuLC siieh a trifle. 1 see vour fViend Mr. NCarbuiton is still 
 a hero; lie makes nothing; of attaekint:- wiiole batti'.lion- ahjne: 
 thon'i,li he p\es me the most jjlcasnre of nuy bod\, 1 < amioL bnt 
 say 1 am in ])ain for him. Is tlicro no k<'opii)si: liKii lire and 
 ^eniu^ within jjropcr limiJs ? He will lUU, as grent iik'U Ikwc 
 done before him, !)\ tin- thing's h'^ doniscii mo-t J)r. -\!-.(\- and 
 the H-'oplc. The Doctor lia-^ outdonr hi;;'-"!f, and 1 imi per- 
 suaded that he is riiilit in his three fii~v jxi-i^un-, tl\'' K\<;ii'iie 
 Doctrines, tiie SeiiM' u\ \\\Kt u\i\ 1>( ;r M.o ;i':i. ;'i!;l tisc Jf'.\i-h 
 'rhe<jrr;u V ; and 1 loni^ to see iiow tne .\\\:\ <': o!' ' Tlie l)i\inc 
 Legation' will di~ent:at;e liim^clf, thMici! I <-\\Hr\ ]) -liould 
 heat up his quartern, and ijear down itii '>< tnic liiin. 1 wnnler 
 none of ihem turn his ai;j;uin< nl- iVoiu \i'!.!n :iM.I W bi.iui the 
 Conqueror apiin-t liim : tiii-\ .v r^itiii'l^ ''1 > i l\e. aiii i)ro\r 
 the action- aMiH)cd to OAv to 'e :'il iiM:e:i-.i.,'.y , for \:;!.',n s 
 are undoubtedly v), anri his 1 .1 oiiMi. '.- in I'n c,- of >e-:.-ti i-t 
 had iiothi'i;;- .-o '.-trikin^- to . ...jr' > !m > ;- v,ii:U ..,<- i:Mii.)wcd 
 
 friym the ( Miunieror, 
 
 .'iVniL''
 
 174 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1744- 
 
 giving the General Review of the Argument of the 
 Divine Legation, \a hich is an useful thing ; and the 
 latter (Dr. Sykes's) seems to he a sly one. I shall 
 be glad to see an Answer, a direct one, to sdme parts 
 of it. I hope it is true what 1 see repeated in the 
 papers, that Dr. Taylor is made Chancellor of Lin- 
 coln. I shall be veiy glad to find myself mistaken 
 in my opinion, which was, that Lord Carteret (for I 
 suppose this comes from him) would never do any 
 thing for Taylor, or for any body else, merely as a 
 scholar. If this does not come from him, I resume 
 my old opinion." 
 
 The pamphlet was probably Bishop Berkeley's 
 " On Tar Water," which was originally printed 
 at Dublin, and re-printed in England at the very 
 time Mr. Markland dates his letter. It was published 
 by Mrs. Mary Cooper ; but the scheme of reprint- 
 ing it was Mr. Bowyers, and consequently it was 
 no unusual expression to call it his pamphlet. 
 Mr. Markland's observation exactly suits Bishop 
 Berkeley's pamphlet, and could not well apply to 
 any original composition of Mr. Bowyer's. Ac- 
 cordingly too we find Mr. Clarke a year after 
 saying, upon Mr. Bowyers publishing Julian, 
 " that it would not answer his purpose so well as 
 Tar-water;" which in fact he had frequently occasion 
 to reprint. He is also supposed to have written a 
 small pamphlet this year on the ^' present State of 
 Europe;" taken principally from PufendoriF. 
 
 Mr. Thomas " Carte's Account of the Collections 
 he had made for his intended IIi?tory of England." 
 
 1745. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer printed 25 copies of 
 ^' Acts and Observations of the Spalding Gentlemen's 
 Society in Lincolnshire, illustrated with Sculptures 
 from Models, Drawings, and Sketches, made by the 
 Members, and en2;raved by George Vertue a Mem- 
 ber. With an Allegorical Device designed by 
 
 Maurice
 
 1745-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 1^5 
 
 Maurice Johnson *_, esq. and engraved by Vertue, 
 1 J 46. London, printed by order of the Society, by 
 William Bowyer a Member, 1745," foho. This 
 was intended as a title-page to such of their minutes 
 as might afterwards be printed. 
 
 The second volume of " Dr. Pococke's Travels to 
 the East," folio. 
 
 "A Table of English Silver Coins from the Nor- 
 man Conquest to the present Time, with their 
 Weights, intrinsic Values, and some Remarks upon 
 the several pieces. By Martin Folkes f,''' esq. 4to ; 
 and a new edition of the " Table of Cold Coins," &c. 
 (see p. 88). 
 
 " Remarks on the Epistles of Cicero to Brutus, 
 and of Brutus to Cicero ; in a Letter to a Friend. 
 With a Dissertation upon Four Orations ascribed to 
 M. Tuilius Cicero, viz. 1 . Ad Quirites post redi- 
 tum ; 2. Post reditum in Senatu ; 3. Pro Domo 
 sua, ad Pontifices ; 4. De Haruspicum responsis. 
 To which are added, some Extracts out of the 
 Notes of learned Men upon those Orations ; and 
 Observations on them. By Jeremiah Markland, 
 Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge." 
 
 Mr. Squire's ;|: " Sermon at St. Bridget's ;" anil 
 his " Inquir}^ into the Foundation of the English 
 Government," Svo. 
 
 Mr. Whaley's ^ " Original Poems and Transla- 
 tions," Svo. 
 
 " Remarks on several Occasional Reflections, in 
 Answer to the Rev. Doctors Stebbing and S\ kes, 
 serving to explain and justify the Two Dissertations 
 in the Divine Legation, concerning the Couunand 
 
 * Of whom, and of the Spalding- SoriL-ty. of wliioh TMr Bouy.T 
 was an active inember, a full acctmnt shall be i^ivcu in iht I--- :i)^ 
 and Illustration?, vol. V. No. X\'. 
 
 t Of whom, -t-e vol. V. No. X. 
 
 * Aftenvaids Bisiiij}* of !?t. David's; of wiioin moi>- hcviiftcr 
 ^ John AVhr.ky, M.A. fd'.ow of Kiru';'s coil-gc. Can, bridge, 
 
 and an ing't-nioii's poet. He had publi'-hcd r.n eaihrr Collection 
 of Poems, in one volunit- Svo, 17;^';^ To tin; l.ihoiii^ of .Mr. 
 W'haley, 1 was indebted f';r .stveral ai title- .:. the- ' ^el^'Ct CoUl'c- 
 tion of Miscellany Pocui-. I7b0 ." 
 
 to
 
 176 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l745. 
 
 to Abraham to ofter up his Son, and the Nature of 
 the Jewish Theocracy, objected to by those learned 
 Writers*." Part the second and last-(~. By Mr. 
 Warburton. 8vo. 
 
 * " Arcades ambo, 
 
 Et cantare pares, tt respoudere parati." Virg. 
 
 f "I lia\e bid a iinal adieu to controversy, U)ilcs.s some verv 
 groat provocation draw nic back." Remarks, p. 242. The 
 whole conchision of this pamphlet is well worth attending to. 
 *' As to the manner in ^^hich 1 ha\e answered some of mv ad- 
 versaiies," says the learned wiiter, '' their insuil'erable abuse, 
 and my own love of quiet, made it necessary. I had tried all 
 ways to silence an iniquitous clamour; by neglect of it; by 
 good words ; by an explanation of my meaning ; mid all without 
 effect. The first volume of this obnoxious work had not been 
 out many days, before I was fallen upon by a fui'ious ecclesiasti- 
 cal news-writer, with the utmost brutality. All the return I 
 then made, or then ever intended to make, was a vindication of 
 my moral character, wrote \\ ith such temper and forbeartmce as 
 seemed affectation to those who did not know that I only wanted 
 to be quiet. But I reckoned without my host. The angry man 
 became ten times more outrageous. What was now to be done ? 
 1 tried another method witii him. I drew his picture; I exj)osed 
 liim naked; and shewed the publick of what parts and prin- 
 ciples this tumour was made up. It had its effect ; and 1 never 
 heard more of him. On this occasion, let nie tell the reader 
 a stoiy. ' As a Scotch bagpiper v\as traversing the mountains 
 of Ulster, he was one evening encountered by a hunger-star\ed 
 Irish wolf. In thi^ distress, the poor man coidd think of nothing 
 better than to open his wallet, and try the eifects of his hospi- 
 tality. He did >o, and the savage swallowed all tlutt was thrown 
 him with so improving a voracity, as if his appetite was but just 
 coming to him. The \^hole stock of provision, y(ju may be sure, 
 was soon tpent. And now, his only recouise was to the virtue 
 of the bagpipe ; which the monster no sooner heard, than he 
 took to tlie mountains with the same precipitation that he had 
 come down. I'he poor piper could not so perfectly enjoy his 
 deliverance, but that, with an angiy look at parting, lie shook 
 his head, and said, * Ay ! are these your tricks ? Hiid I known 
 your humour, you shoidd have liad your music before supper.' 
 But though 1 had the caduceus of Peace in my hands, yet it was 
 only in cases of necessity that I made use of it. And theiefore I 
 chose to let jmss, without any chastisement, such impotent 
 raiiers as Dr. Richard Grey, and one Bate, a zany to a mounte- 
 bank. On the other hand, when I happened to be engaged with 
 such verv learned and candid writers as Dr. Middlcton and the 
 Master 'i'the Charter-house [Mr . Mann] , I gave sufficient proof how 
 much I preferred a different manner of carrying on a controversy^ 
 would my ansv.erers but aftbrd me the occasion. But, alas ! as 
 I never sliould luue such learned men long my adversaries, and 
 
 ne-.er
 
 ^745-] THE EIGHTEENTH CE^fTURY. I77 
 
 Two editions of Two single Sermons by Mr. War- 
 burton: 1. *' A faithful Portrait of Popery^ by which 
 it is seen to be the Reverse of Christianity, as it is 
 the Destruction of Morahty, Piety, and Civil Li- 
 bei'ty ; a Sermon preached at St. James's Church, 
 Westminster, 1745," 8vo. 2. "A Sermon occa- 
 sioned by the present unnatural Rebeihon, &c. 
 preached in Mr. Allen's Ciiapel at Prior Park, near 
 Bath, and published at his Request, Nov. 1745," 8vo. 
 
 In tlie same year, 1745, to oblige Mr. George 
 Faulkner * of Dublin, Mr. Bowyer wrote this 
 short preface to a posthumous pamphlet of Deaii 
 Swift : " The following treatise of Directions to 
 Servants was begun some years ago by the Author, 
 who had not leisure to finish and put it into proper 
 order, beino- engaged in many other works of gieater 
 use to his Country, as may be seen by most of his 
 writings. But, as the Author s design was to ex- 
 pose the villainies and frauds of servants to their 
 masters and mistresses, we will make no apology 
 for its publication ; but give it our readers in the 
 same manner as we find it in the original, which 
 may be seen in the printers custody. The few 
 tautologies that occur in the characters left un- 
 finished, will make the reader look upon the whole 
 as a roii^h draught, with several outlines only 
 drawn. However, that there may a])pear no daub- 
 ing or patch-work by other hands, it is thought 
 
 jiover wo^'.hl have those other my frien*!^, 1 found that, if I wrote 
 at all, I must be condcnmcd to a manner, which all who know 
 me know to ije most ablnn-rent to my mitnral temper. So, on 
 the whole, I resolved to (luit my hands of ihcin at once, and 
 turn again to nf)hle]' giime, more rnitahie, as Dr. Stehbin^- tells 
 me, to my elerieal fanetion, tliat jie^lilenl herd of iibeHine 
 f-ciibbiers, wirh which the i-!and i.^ over-run; whom I w(;uld hunt 
 ilown, as y,ood Kini;' Ed;;ar did his wolves ; from the mighty 
 author of ' Christianity as old a3 the Creation,' to the dnuiken 
 bkupheming Cobler, viho wro'te againti Jesus and the Resurrec- 
 tion. Tiiis was a pamidilet intituled " 1 i-e Ret;ui reclion of Jcsus 
 tl<inontra!etl to have no I'loof." 
 
 * " As you are famous for wriiiup- Preface;, pray help mc to 
 one for " Ad\iee to ^;e.-\uiUa." Mr. fu ithmr tu Mr. Bcui;er, 
 Aov.8, 174.'>. 
 
 Vol. II. N most
 
 IfS LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l74I>. 
 
 most advisable to give it in the Author's own 
 words. It IS imagined that he intended to make a 
 large voUime of this work ; but, as time and health 
 would not permit him, the reader may draw, from 
 what is here exhibited, means to detect the many 
 vices and faults to which people in that kind of 
 low life are subject. If gentlemen would seriously 
 consider this work, which is written for their in- 
 struction (although ironically), it woiild make them 
 better oeconomists, and preserve their estates and 
 families from ruin. It may be seen, from some 
 scattered papers (wherein were given hints for a 
 dedication and preface, and a list of all degrees 
 of servants), that the Author intended to have gone 
 throuoh all their characters. This is all that need 
 be said as to this treatise, which can only be looked 
 upon as a fragment." 
 
 1746. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer projected (what during 
 his whole life he had in view) a regular edition of 
 Cicero's Letters *, in chronological order, en a 
 plan which it is to be lamented that he did not 
 complete ; as an uniform series thus properly ar- 
 ranged would have formed a real history of Tully's 
 life, and those which cannot be dated might be 
 thrown to the end without any inconvenience. 
 
 In the same year he published " The Life of tlie 
 Kmperor Julian ;" translated from the French of 
 F. La Bleterie, and improved with twelve pages of 
 curious notes, and a genealogical table. The notes 
 were not entirely Mr. Bowyer's, but were -drawn 
 
 * " Mr. Markland, Doc. in, 174G, says, "Made tvl hnlustrul, 
 as to C icero ; but I fear you will lind reason to be tired of it 
 upon two accounts ; one, l)eoause such a work as this will 
 require the whole man and his attention, at least for some con- 
 siderable timej and another, because such an Editor should either 
 have of his own, or have tiie command of, a library in which are 
 to be found all the liter atores; not to mention a third, that when 
 you have taken all these pains^ the book perhaps may hang upon 
 your hands." 
 
 U]
 
 1746.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I79 
 
 up in part by Mr. Clarke and other learned men. 
 This translation (by Miss Anna Williams *, a blind 
 
 * Daughter of a surgeon and physician in Sovith Wales, where 
 she was boi'n in 1*06. Her father, Zachariah Williams, during 
 his residence in Wales, imagined that he had discovered, by a 
 kind of intuitive penetration, wliat had escaped tiie rest of 
 mankind. Ke fancied, tliat he had been fortunate cnongli to 
 ascertain the I^ngiiude by niagnetisni, and that tlie variations of 
 the needle were equal, at equal di-tances. East and V\ est. The 
 idea fired his imaginatio)i ; and, prompted by ambition, and the 
 hopes of splendid reconijience, he determijied to lea^e his bu- 
 siness and habitation for the Metropolis. I\Iiss\\ illiams accom- 
 panied him, and they arrived in London about 17.^0 ; but the 
 bright -views which liad allured him from his profession soon 
 vanished. The rewards which he had promised himself ended 
 in disappointment; and the ill success of liis .^chAnes may be 
 inferred from the only recomj)ence which his journey and ima- 
 gined disco'.eiy procured he was admitted a pensioner at the 
 Charter-house. When Miss Williams first resided in London, 
 she devoted no inconsiderable poition of her time to its various 
 amusements. She visited eveiy object tl\at merited tlie inspec- 
 tion of a polished and laudably-inquisitive mind, or could attract 
 the attention of a stranger. At a later ])eiiod of life, she spoke 
 familiarly of these scenes of which the hnpression \vas never 
 erased, though they must, however, have soon lost (heir allure- 
 ments. Mr. Williams did not long continiic a u:ember of the 
 Charter-liouse. An iafringcmcnt of rules, or some other miscon- 
 duct, obl.ged iiim to remove from that comlbrtablr' as}ium of age 
 and povertv. He was now ex])0sed to severe t. ialr , and every suc- 
 ceeding day increased the gloominess of Iiis pro-pects. In 1740 
 Miss Williams lost her -^ight by a catar.iCt, wfiich prevent(-(i her, 
 in a great measure, from a^sistiug ids dK-tres-f-, acd alle\iaiing 
 his sorrows. She still, however, felt ht.T ^}.-.s-ioii for liieraiure 
 equally predominaut. She continue 1 tlie same aTtention to 
 the neatne.-s of her dress; and, uliat is more e.vtraordiiiaiy, 
 continued still the exorcist; of iiej- nee;lie ; a bninch of frmaie 
 accomplishment in which she had belnre displ.ucd great excel- 
 lence. During the lowncss of iier foiiuiie, -!i',> worked for her- 
 self with nearly as nuu h ue^tority and ie;i(i;ii.'^s u^ if -he li:ui 
 not sutlered a loss so irreparable, iler -.ovei'.- nf ( oevr-i- :i%ti!i 
 retained tiieir former \igour. Iier I'iii.d (il.l riwt si'ik u."(!.-r 
 the.se cahiijiiiies; and the naiund activity of her di-,.osiuou ani- 
 mated her to imcommoa rx : !i'):i' 
 
 " Though j'alle.'i o 1 ( \il day" ; 
 
 On evil days tiiougl-. i uUm ; 
 
 In darkness, and with daiigei criinp:!.-:. .1 i-ound. 
 
 And solitude ! ' 
 In IrW, notwithstanding her blindne.-:, --tie |.nhil-i;ed tiii: 
 " Life of the Emperor J Hli:i:u ri(Mi !i'- I m Lrh of r. Li nic'. rir." 
 It doe-s itot ai'pcar what j-'iu'iary ad\ai.i -"- ^;-- V\ i!ii:i:ii<. 
 
 N 2 MV'ilt
 
 iSO LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l74G. 
 
 lady, assisted by two sisters of the name of Wilkin- 
 
 might derive from this publication. They were probably not 
 very considei-able, and atForded only a temporary relief to the 
 misfortunes of her father. About this time, Mr. Williams, who 
 imparted his afllictions to all from whom he hoped consolation 
 or assistance, told his story to Dr. Johnson ; and, among other 
 aggi'avations of distress, mentioned his daughter's blindness. 
 He spoke of her acquirements in such high terms, that Mrs. 
 Johnson, who was then living, expressed a de-ire of seeing her ; 
 and accordingly she wjvs sonn afterwards bi'ought to the Doctor's 
 house by her father 5 and Mrs. John?ou found her possessed of 
 such qualities as rccommonded her strongly for a friend. A 
 her own .state of health, therefore, wa,s \veak, and her husband 
 was engaged during the greater ])art of the day in his studies,, 
 she gave Mi.ss Williams a general imitation. A .strict intimacy 
 soon took place ; but the enjoyment of tiK ir friendship did not 
 continue long. Soon after its commencement, Mrs. Johnson 
 was attended by her nev,- com})anion in an illness which termi- 
 nated fatally. Di'. Johnson still retained his regard for herj and 
 in 17o2, by his recommendation, Mr. Sharp, the celebrated sur- 
 geoji, imdertook to j)erform the operation on Miss Williams's 
 ryes which is usual in such cases, in hopes of restoring her sight. 
 Her own habitation was not judged convenient for the occasion. 
 She was, therefore, invited to the Doctor's. The surgeon's skill, 
 however, proved fruitless, as the crystalline humoiu" was not 
 sufficiently inspissated for the needle to take effect. The recovery 
 of her sight was j)ronounced imj;os: ible. After this dreadful sen- 
 tence, she for a long time never left the roof which iiad received 
 her during the operation. Dr. Joluison's kindness and comxa>a- 
 tion soothed her melancholv situation ; and her society seemed 
 to alleviate the sorrows which his late loss had occasioned. When- 
 the Doctor, however, changed his residence, she returned t(i 
 lodgings ; and, in 1755 her father published a ?X)ok, in Italian 
 and Engli.sh, intituled, "An Account of an Attem})t to ascertain 
 the Longitude a? Sea, by an exactTheory of iheniagnetieal Needle . 
 With a'iable of Variations at the mo.-.t memorable Cities in Europe, 
 from the year 16Y>() to 18G0," 4to. The English part of this book 
 was written by Dr. Johnson, the Italian bv Mr. Baretti f. In that 
 year, Mrs. Williams's circumstances were rendered more ea.-y by 
 the profits of a berxeiit-play, granted her by the kindness of Mr. 
 Garrick, from which siie received '200'. which was placed in the 
 public funds. While Mis.Williams enjoyed so comfortablcan asylum, 
 her life passed in one e\ en tenor. It was chequered by none of those 
 scenes wiiieh enliven biography by tlieir variety. The next event of 
 any consequence, i;4 the histoiy of I\Trs. Williams, was the publi- 
 (\ttion of a volume of " Miscellanies in Prose and Verse," in 
 176(). Her frien'ls assisted her, in the completion of this book, 
 bv several voluntary contributions ; and U)()/. (which was laid 
 out in a Bridge-bond) was added to her little stock by the liber- 
 
 -f- Sfveral iiitcre.stiiiij Letters of .Mr. Williams concernin.g' the LongUiicIf, 
 k.Q. may be seen in Gent. Mas;. vol.LVIl. pp.757, lOli, 1157. 
 
 ality
 
 1740.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. igl 
 
 soil) was made under his immediate inspection, and 
 was revised by Mr. Markland and Mr. Clarke *. 
 
 aHty of her subscribei-s. About 1766 Dr. Johnson remo\ecl from 
 the Temple, where he liad lived for some thne in chambers, to 
 Johnsou's-conrt, Fleet-street, and again invited to his house the 
 worthy fiiend of Mrs. Johnson. The latter (la\ s of Mrs. 'Williams 
 were nou rendered easy and comfortable. Tier wants were few ; 
 and, to suppU them, she made her income suHicient. She still 
 posse.ssed an imalterable fner.d in Dr. Johnson. Her acfjiiaint- 
 ance was select, rather than numerous. Their society made the 
 infirmities of age le.-s intolerable, and communicated (as I have 
 frequently witnc-sed) a clieeifulness to her situation, which soli- 
 tary blindness would othenvise ha\e rendered truly deplorable. 
 1 luiA e frequently taken tea with Dr. Johnson, made by Mi-s. Wil- 
 liams. .She could discriminate tlie colour of a ir(jwn or a coat by 
 feeling it ; imd was ccmtinually borrowing books t-o read, as she 
 called it, but which her friends read to her. She died, at the 
 house of her friend, in Bolt-court, Ileet street (whither thev re- 
 moved about the year 1775), Sept. G, 1/83, aged 77 j and 
 bcqueatlied all h(;r little ellects to a cliarity, whicli had been in- 
 (jtituted, in the parish of St. Sepidchre, for the education of 
 poor deserted giils, and supjjorted by tlie contributions of ladies. 
 * " I like youj" specimen of Julian \ei'y well, aftd fancy it will 
 answer yum* j)ur])ose ; not so \\ell indeed as Tar-icuter, but 
 better than any other holy water you could give us. 1 suppose 
 you don't finish your sheets off, till Mr. Markland has read them. 
 It is worth \\ hile to stay for their I'eturn ; for he sweeps all at a 
 single rending, and can tell by memory, whether Ablarius or 
 Abla\ius Ls the true name of a Consul tliat scarce an\ body i-ver 
 heai'd (jf. You umst take care that your fair tratnlators don't 
 keep rather too cU)se to the Frci.ch j it is pardonable in their 
 sex, Jjutwill not pass so well in yours; though 1 >aw little to 
 complain (jf. The French sj;elling' of the propei' names t/ietf 
 must ahva\s follow. They have too. Master of J ii Han, for what 
 is easier v^ith us, Julian's Master.- and in anoth(.'r place, to em- 
 ploy in d(wnggocd that liberty; more expressive, both the liberty, 
 &.C. But tiiesc are trifles. 1 fancy that most of the difficult irs 
 you find in medals are of the Antiquaries' own making, in lav- 
 ing down geneial rules, which are precari(jus. ("a:sars wen; 
 sometimes sent into provinces, as Juhan was, with full po\\>is , 
 ;ind liie niinls in those provinces might compliment th. ni with 
 the diadem, as knowing it would not di^plea'.e the Finpcroi-. 
 In others, the -ame person might go without it. F. Joljcrf 
 seems to be dear in this: 'On feroit voir de simples Ccsir- cou- 
 ronnez de lauricr, ou parez du (iiadnnc on niontrcioil ,:\rc la 
 meme facilii6 plusietus mefiailk'S d'Fni{)ereurs (u leur tete m- 
 irouve toutc nue.' What will you thlnl. then of \ .iliviu^'s a.~scr- 
 tion of uerer appearing with a coronet ' 'i'hi- nnist be for tiie 
 fcake (jf ail lupothesis ; unlcr^^ he had seen all the mc(!al.-> ot 
 Julian, tiicre i^ no usseitinti- it. Mr. Clarke to Mr. Bouuer. 
 
 Uii
 
 l8^ LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [174^. 
 
 His advertisement is here exhibited : 
 *' The following piece was recommended to me 
 by an eminent Writer *, who has had the good 
 fortune to please the world ; and is therefore best 
 entitled to judge of its taste. I found it, in many 
 respects, agreeable to my own. By authority, there- 
 fore, and inclination, I was led to communicate it to 
 the publick. It appears, perhaps, nnder some dis- 
 advantage, because the Author has not thought 
 proper to put his name to it ; which has precluded 
 the Editor likewise from the pleasure of adding his, 
 beino- obliged not to come behind his French orioi- 
 nal in point of delicacy, I trust it to make its way 
 iu the world by its own merit, without any other re- 
 commendation. That the English edition, however, 
 might receive some advantage, I have added a plate 
 of' coins, ?i\\(\ some notes -^-^ to illustrate the history, 
 sometimes perhaps to bring in fresh matter to it. 
 Those who have no relish for the knowleds^e of 
 medals, will find themselves interested enough in 
 the narrative, and may leave the showy part of the 
 entertainment to other readers. The motives which 
 led Julian to quit the Christian Religion will be al- 
 ways matter of enqtiir}^ ; for one Apostate upon 
 principle raises our speculation more than thousands 
 without principle, or against principle. Among 
 other reasons which arise from a yiev/ of his life, I 
 would suggest, the early prejudices he must have 
 conceived against the cruelty of Constantius ; the 
 reigning vice, 1 may say, of that family. We 
 imbibe in our youth the principles of our guardians 
 in proportion only to our veneration for them. 
 Perhaps our own Queen Mary's attachment to 
 Popery might be accounted for from a like cause; a 
 short reign, like Julian's and Christianity, as the 
 
 * Supposed to be Mr. VVarburton, whose in.afeteily Discourse, 
 under the title of " Julian," i\Ir. Bowyer had printed in 1750, 
 Mr. W'^uburton afterwards called in the irnjircssion of this Dis- 
 course. Why is not now knuvvu. ikit the fact i^ curious. 
 
 i W'liich may Ix; seen in ilie quarto volu.ii;e of Mr. Bowyer's 
 M; scellaneo'' Tracts,
 
 1746.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I83 
 
 Reformation, first established by a long reign, re- 
 covered the faster for a little opposition to it. But 
 I will detain the Reader no longer from the History, 
 and his own reflections." 
 
 The following letter was sent by Mr. BovNyer on 
 this occasion to the London Courant: 
 
 " It is one of the hardest things in nature to give 
 an enemy the praise which is due to him. I was 
 led into this reflection on a double account, from 
 reading a most entertaining piece, ' The Life of the 
 Emperor Julian ;' the author of it a Frenchman ; 
 the subject, an Apostate from the Christian Reli^ 
 gion. A writer of our own had heretofore attempted 
 somewhat of the same kind, the celebrated Mr. John- 
 son*, a man of wit, and a sprightly controversialist. 
 But very different talents are requisite to make a 
 good historian : an extensive view of the times he 
 writes of ; a methodical disposition of his work ; 
 a clear narration of facts, varied according to the 
 different scenes that occur in it, and carried on 
 throughout with a politeness becoming an attendant 
 on a prince ; and, above all, a true knowledge of 
 human nature, which traces out the springs of 
 action, whether actuated by prejudice, passion, or 
 policy, are ' qualities which the Knglish writer 
 wanted, and so remarkably distinguish the French, 
 that a man would scarce tliink he was reading the 
 same period of time in l)oth. Then for the subject, 
 the very name of an iVpostate carries with it so 
 frightful an idea, tliat we think it is inconsistent with 
 every virtue, and presently concUide, tliat the imu\ 
 who has deserted Christianity, has abandoned Ini- 
 nianity likewise. Others take a contrary turn : and, 
 having found a prince of distinguished sense, wliose 
 mind was not o]x-n to the conviction of revelation, 
 
 * Chaplain to Lnid Rus.scl in the tinu> of (harks II. Hi^ 
 infl'ixible j)atnotistn involved him in fro(iurnt dangers ; jiartic u- 
 Jarly, in K'/J'l, )is life was atlcniptrd by -e\fn a'->a.->in>, who 
 beat him in l)ed, and one of tluan <ut iii> luad with a ^Aord. 
 He lived till May 17f)3. All hi.-, tr.'ati-o weif collected in 171''', 
 ia 'Jiic fuii'j v(jlume, v,ilh iuinc uicuiuiiuls of liis life. 
 
 nia<inifv'
 
 1 84 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l74<?' 
 
 magnify every excellence in him, to the discourage- 
 ment of that. Both extremes this Author hath hap- 
 p ly avoided. 7 he Reader will tind here an agree- 
 able contrast of very different properties ; an Em- 
 peror and a Philosopher, intrepid in war, and yet 
 superstitiously fearful of omens; credulous, and yet 
 an iritidel, persuaded of the truth of miracles, and 
 yet rejecting the evidence of them ; a liero, and yet 
 a bigot in Religion ; and in that too of forbearing 
 principles, and yet intent upon establishing his 
 own ; a rational enquirer, and yet devoted to priests 
 and sophists ; a satirist, and yet good-natured ; in 
 short, an assemblage (as the Author expresses it) of 
 eminent qualities ill sorted, which, with the variety 
 of incidents and advantages that attended him, give 
 the history of his life, founded on tlie strictest trutli, 
 all the surprise of fiction *.'' 
 
 It was suggested to me, in 1780, that Mr, Bowyer 
 was the author of '' A Dissertation ; in which the 
 Objections of a late Pamphlet'*^ to the Writings of 
 
 * Mr. A.V. Desvoeux, a clergyman in Ireland, and chaplain 
 to his maiesty's regiment of carabineers, not knowin."; of Mr. 
 Bowj'cr's intention, had published proposals at Dublin f(:)r print- 
 ing a transial ion of the same work, \vitli ''' An A})pendix, con- 
 taining several Pissertations on Points relating to Julian's His- 
 tory." I have the titles of these Dissertations in tlie Author's 
 hand-writing; but luue never seen a })rinted copy of his transla- 
 tion. Mr. 'Oesvoeux published " A pliilosoj)hical and ciitical 
 Essay on Ecclesiastes. London, l/W)," 4to. dedicated to the 
 primate of Ireland. This work is well spoken of by Bishop 
 Lowth, in his <2ith Pra^lection, " Do Sacra Poesi Hebrceorvnn." 
 See the author.s pretacc ; and in p. 501 of the woi'k : " I have 
 shewn in another worlc," s:iys he, on which wf>rd? bis note is 3 
 ' See our Julicuis life and cliarncter ill'tst Diss. VII." 
 
 -} '"The late P;Kn/;//;*was written by i\ I r. John Ross, of St.,h)hn's 
 college; B.A. 1740^ M.A. 17-14; B.lV. 1751; andD.D. 1756; who 
 thus early declared that esteem which he ever afterwards profc-sed 
 for Dr. Middleton's elegant ta^te in literary accomjdishment. by 
 hazarding this elegant //j/oii agair.st one of tlie Doctor's n.ost for- 
 midable antagonists. " In this Pamj)hlet, however, he had the 
 a^sistrince of the late Mr. (iray and others, though Mi". Ko.-s always 
 took the credit of it to himself" Mr. E. Clarke, in a Letter to 
 Mr. Niihoh-. To Mr. Ross the publiek was soon after indebted 
 tor a valuable edition oi' Cicero's "Phiistohe ad Familiares, 1749," 
 Svo. (onv\hith see the Remarks of Mr. M.'jklarul, in vol. IV. 
 pp. 2bl. 317. 319). A MS. of these Letters, written in a fair and 
 
 legible
 
 1J46.'] ' THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 185 
 
 the Antients, after the Manner of Mr. Markland, 
 are clearly answered : those passages in Tully cor- 
 
 legible hand, on vellum, wa3 leijt by Dr. Mead to Mr. Ross; who 
 adiled English notes, preferriri^ the English langua;i,f lo bar- 
 barous Latin and hackneyed phi-ases of criticism, and imitating 
 Mongault's excellent edition of tiie Epistles to Allicus, with a 
 French translation and note;?. This edition was dedicated to the 
 late Lord Gower ; and the letteis are arranged according to the 
 order of time and persons, and as it is piobable they were rtist 
 placed by the first publi-^h;MS of theui, -Dr. Ross was appcjiuted 
 Kind's chaplain, and preacher at the Rolls, 1757; presented in 
 1760 to the vicaraM;e of Fronie Zehvood, co. Somerset, by Lord 
 Weymouth; who, when lord-lieutenant of Irelaml, nominateil 
 Dr. Ros.s to be h's cha lain. He was advanced to the see of Exe^. 
 ter I77B, on the de.ah of Rp. Keppel; ditcl at Exeter, Aug. 1-1, 
 1792 ; and, by his List will, made the f(dlo\\inii; lil>eral piovisioa 
 for his doinesticks : to his man 3{X)/. and his wardrobe ; to his 
 housekeeper, cook, footman, and grocjin, 1(X)/. each ; besides a 
 year's wages and mournijig to eatdi of them, and an additional sum 
 of 10/. for e\(iy ye;;r they had been re-ipecti\elv in his service. 
 As some had been v'ith him near .30 year.-., and none le^s than 14, 
 the whole bequest to servants ahme amounted lo 2(X)()/. He also 
 left to the Exeter infirmary 200 guineas; to the chapter of Exeter 
 great jiait of his library ; and, after a few li'gacies to distant 
 reluiions and iViends, bequeathed the residue (>f his property 
 to his kinswoman. Miss Garway, daughter-in-law of Sanutel 
 Collet t, esq. of Worcester. Bishop Ross printed iive sermons, 
 viz. L At the Cambridge Commencement, 1756"; '2. On the 
 E^>t, l/oG ; 3. On Januar) .'^0, before the Hoirse of (.onunons, 
 17 59; 4. On January .iO, before the llou-e of Lords, 1779; 
 5. On the Fast, before the House of J^)rds, 1779. In the former 
 edition of these .'\necdotes, the Editor, speaking of .Mr. Ross's 
 jiublications in 1744 and .'749, took occasion to add, '' U ho- 
 cver considers, that these were both verv eailv j)roductions, 
 ;ind knows that the Bishop has eonlined himself, through 30 
 years of the ))iimc of a life unconnnonly ai)stemious, to an 
 uneea-iing reading of the ver\ he^t books onlv on the mo-t im- 
 portant subjeei, will fuKl that l>i> admiration of them increa>es 
 his regret, that any rea--ons should ha\e preseiUed hi^ re- 
 ceiving more ami-'le fruits of this Fi-elaie's learning a;i:l judg- 
 nient. How nmch cause of I'e^n't would the iipulilick of 
 htter.^ have had, if anv consideration had indneed Hi-it');) I>outh 
 to \vithhold a late work from them, lliii, for tii" ni'dlijdieity 
 H.d iiriportance of its dise(neri!-, has pcrh:i|)^ not been e(|uallcd 
 since the p:d)Iiea'ion of the S lercd Autho!-, th<'in-' !w ! I iipjty 
 indeed it i^ f >r the CJhri tian worli!, when nn n of ilic-c :^i ;anlir 
 abilities condcvcc'nd loin-tiuet n-. :.;id. tin;!;; !< >-(n our.-oirow 
 f(;r tlie lo-s of a Sh<Tlock, or a sti'.i ::r:\.\ v " r'.-^ry." 
 
 Til'' iri!-.i'{':A p::yt of the |)r''e<dni:- \y \^ ; I inii-'i'ii i)V tlie 
 kite K<v. (ifoi-^e A-,!d)v, to whom ti," I'i-hou oi' rXctd- h id |n-t 
 given a >uiail prefi rm^ nt ; a f ircnm iinuc whicii orci-ioned tiie 
 i'olio'.ving Letters from that Laruc-d aui i<(-:vu)lcnt .';>! iti-. 
 
 " DhAK
 
 l86 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [174^- 
 
 rected, on which some of the Objections are founded. 
 With Amendments of a few Pieces of Criticism in 
 
 " DEAR MB. ASHBY, Exctcr, Sept.23, 1780. 
 
 "As soon as Johnson t informed me of hLs being in possession 
 of Stansneld + , I wrote to the Lord Chancellor, to desire him to 
 gi\e directions for your presentation ; ha\ing some suspicion, 
 that the dii-ections in the office, to which you refer, belong to a 
 living in Cornwall, which I had begged to have the disposal of 
 when it should become vacant. I have written also to Nir. Gell 
 to expedite your business, so far as he is concerned in it, as fast 
 as possible ; and I hope there will be no delay. 
 
 " I was much surprized at the printed notef^, which you en- 
 closed. I am much obliged to the writer of it ; but could not 
 have suspected that either of the Pamphlets would have been 
 worth remembering at so great a distance of time. I did not 
 know the author of the one, till I read it this last winter in the 
 Biographia. Excuse the hurry in which I write : I am in the 
 midst of the preparatory business of an ordination. J. Exeter." 
 
 "^ DEAR SIR, Frome, Oct. 4, IJSO. 
 
 " The Pamphlet in the manner of Mr. Markland, as, I think, 
 was exprased in the title-page, was undoubtedly mine. It was 
 known to be mine at the time ; and you must have known it to 
 be mine as \^ ell as others. You treat it ^ cry se\ erely ; but I am 
 not much disturbed at it. It was intended to laugh at Mr. Mark- 
 land ; and not, as you write, to serve him. The arguments, 
 though flimsy and puerile, were his ; and applied to writings un- 
 doubtedly genuine, in order to shew their insufficiency for the 
 purpose to which he had applied them : and I never knew who 
 was the defender of Mr. Markland till I read the article Bou-yer 
 in the New Biographia last winter. The note which you sent 
 me, from the ci\ility of it, I thought to be your oicti. But, 
 whoever writ it, 1 could not be offended at it, though the sub-r 
 ject of it might as well have been forgotten : or, if it was neces^ 
 sary in tiie execution of Nichols's plan to mention it, it miglit 
 have been drawn up in a different manner. I thank you for 
 your communication from Pallas ; but,. I own, I seldom cmjdoy 
 myself in speculations below the sui'face of the Earth j and think 
 J have little concern with any thing more than the small por- 
 tion which 1 am some time or other to occupy. J. E." 
 
 f "Sam'-icl J jlmson, late peqsetiia! curate of Cirencester, prpsented by the 
 Bishop of F.xfttfr to one of the tiiree perpetual curacies of Bampton, Oxford-? 
 shiro, worth 200/. a j'ear, vacant by the death of Dr. ,\tnphlet." T. F. 
 
 + What here follows is in the words of Mr. Ashby : " In October 1780 he 
 [Mr. A.] ".vas inducted into the living of Stansfield in .Suffolk, owinp,- to the 
 favour of Dr. Koss, Bishop of Exeter; who, entirely nnsolicited, gave him a 
 valuible portion of the vicarane of Bampton in Oxfordshire ; but whicli, 
 being out of distance from his Collegj living [Barrow] h'; procured an ex- 
 change of it for Stanslleld. Dr. Ross's friendsliip for him began early, in 
 College ; and continued uniformly steady through all following changes of 
 place and situation." 
 
 This was a proof sheet of the note as originally written ; in which se- 
 veral alterations were; afterwards made at the sug^" sti.ii of i^Ir. Ashby. 
 
 " MY
 
 IJ46.~\ THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 187 
 
 Mr. Markland's Epistola Crltica. 1746." 8vo. It 
 was certainly printed by him ; and if he did not 
 
 " MY DEAR MR. ASHBY, Froiiie, Oct. 14, 1780, 
 
 " I am much concerned that my last letter has given you 
 any uneasiness. It was far fiom my intention of doing it. I 
 had not taken the least offence at Avhat you had written^ nor 
 entertained any suspicion of your want of esteem for me ; and, 
 now you have explaineil the whole transaction with Nichols, 
 which you had not done before, I think myself particularly 
 pbliged to you for clearing me from the guilt of writing so sillij 
 a pamphlet, as it seems to be from the specinien which you have 
 sent me. I had entirely forgot the matter of it, as I have 
 almost that of my own; and i)robably, if I were to read this last 
 now, I should form the same judguient of it as I thought you 
 had done, and joined with you in dL-sOwning it. 
 
 " 1 hope, before you receive this, that you will be in full pos- 
 session of Stansfield. The opportimity which I have had of 
 doing \ou tliis little favour has been one of the greatest pleasure.-i 
 which I have had from my advancement ; and if it nere not for 
 oUch opportujiities as these sometimes liappc-ning, there is nothing 
 belonging to it which could make it of any value to me. J. E." 
 
 " MY nr.AR MR. ASHBY, jT/OWf, [1/83 f], 
 
 /' Though I mentitmed tlie number of letters of business which 
 I am obliged to aiiswer, as a reason for the sloivniss of my cor- 
 respondence, yet I ue\er intended to use it ;is a j)lea for not 
 answering at all the letters of particvdar friends ; and, whatever 
 my business may be, I shall be glad to' liear from them, and 
 always find time to acknowledge their favours, and to lliank 
 them for tliem. I au) fi;reatly obliged to you for yours ; and had 
 great jJeasure to be inf(jrme;l, tliut, in tliese tiuus of gent>r;d 
 necessity, y(ju are so mi'.ch at ea-.e in your own cin-unistaiKe-. 
 and that I iiave been in souu- ^mall degree a contiibutor to them. 
 I wish it were in my power to luld -oineihing niort', and to teiujii 
 you, by something of vulue, to sjx'ud a part of }()ui' time ai 
 i^xeter. liut 1 have no pro-peet of ever haviiig tiiat in niv 
 power. The dignities in mv cliurcli, wiiicii are in my dispo-al. 
 and t)f coii-^idi ruble value, luc few, and in p()--:,-sion ofjouiigi) 
 nien than either of Um ; and mv jjivbeiid.-^ ha\e no corps, witli 
 only an lumutd stipeml of twenty pomid-, aiid iia\e no oIIk i 
 value in theui tliaii a> a fpialiiieatioii for u e.u.oniy, \vlueh i.- in 
 the choice of the cliajitcr : to one oi' \v!ii( ii, if ihei e -liouhl be m 
 vacancy, 1 mav p(ih:ij)T la\e int' :e-t eni.'nL;li to nrocure ihe 
 t'lection of uiv (.uajilain ;, and llierefoi( , il'i'.^r il ^houl.! lie 
 jigree;Ll;le (o vou to in:.ke an e\< ;nM(i;i t(; th We-!, 1 e;ui c.nK 
 assure _\on o'i-i h' :i!t\ weieo.i.e in niv oa n hou-e, and a ri'-ideufi 
 thei'C. ;.- loiig a-i \ou please. 
 
 f- This lirti r was I'los: ](i<)':.i',jl'- uriitcii lew.-xrd-, tlic l.ittir ( inl <.i i],f 
 ye.ir 17<.". or enrlv ui O.ir Io.'i.a; 'ei.-; ; .-'.s Dr. r>.ii;ut ^ll(( r< did l'.i~li(ij> 
 Voiige ia Mav, autl conUiiii'jd iV. Ji'u-v .-.o arly al^|.^^vulvir< .'..> "-"I't t i.i'.i- r. 
 
 \
 
 iSS LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [ij-i^* 
 
 write it himself (which is extremely probable), he 
 W'as at least an assistant in it *. 
 
 " I had no doubt of jour Bishop's acquitting hirntielf well in 
 his Visitation. He is a veiy worthy man, and will cnclcpvour to 
 do all the good he can. He complained njiich to me of the state 
 of his Diocci-e in many respects, owing to the easine.s.s and inac- 
 tivity of his predccesj^nr; and was vuuler some apprehension of 
 meeting with dilMculties, which would be abo\e his strength to 
 contend with. But, indeed, the situation of a Bishop is in no 
 diocese a situation of case and pleasure. I certainly do not find 
 it such in mine. My velvet cushion, which without appears to 
 be so soft and easy, is witliin full of briars and thorns ; and, 
 when I change my seat, they stick to me, Avherever I am, and 
 even pursue me in my present retirement at Frome. But, whether 
 1 am at ease or not, whether 1 am at Frome or Exeter, or at 
 any otiier place, I shall ever remember our friendship with plea- 
 sure, and continue most sincerely yours, J. Exettu." 
 
 " MY DEAR MR. ASHEY, SoutJt Audlcij-strect, Dev. 10. 
 
 " At the sight of ymn* letter I received the greatest pleasure ; 
 for, though neither distance of time or place can e\ er )nake me 
 forget the many happy dajs \\ e passed together in Cambridge ; 
 yet it instantly excited the remembrance of them, and I fancied 
 juj'self in company witli you and Ruthertorth, and many of our 
 old friends J but ihe decejjtion lasted btit a short time. It was, 
 as it were, a dream, which ended in disappointment, and left 
 me alone to recollect, that most of them were no more, and 
 that you and I arc at such a distance, that, as we had not seen 
 each other for many years, we might most ])robably never see 
 one another again ; but, however, I still rejoiced to observe. 
 by your letter, that you seem to retain the same good spirits aiiti 
 activity of mind which you used to ha\ e ; and, as long as yoti 
 can retain that, by amusing yourself with that variety of literary 
 enquiries of which you have laid in a great stock, and in which 
 I ain told you continue to em{)loy yourself, life will Ije a happy 
 enjoyment to you. Employment, I am certain, is the great seci-et 
 of happiness; and I hope you \\ill experience the truth of it in a 
 large degree. " Dr. Heberden this moment called in upon me, 
 whilst I was writing j and I read him the ])aragraph of ytMir letter 
 3'elating to him. He was nmch ])ieased -with it. He seems to be 
 in perfect health, and almost free from :dl the iniirmities of age. 
 Such ere the good efiects of teni])erance and virtue ! 
 
 " I thank God, I enjov a tolerable share of liealth myself, 
 though 1 {ind an abateniCWi in my strength, and cannot read 
 without the assistance of Argeu.-,' hunp : but I do not want cm- 
 plovnicnt. Sometimes I ha\c too much ; and I fear that I want 
 the fortitude, and firmness of mind, which your Diocesan is dis- 
 
 * After the <leclaration in p. 187" the Readei- will b-e surprized 
 to hear that Ah. Ijowver has written on the title-p;ige of th(^ ;:- 
 cond jiohiplilt't, " Dy John Ross, the Author of the Objection:;.^' 
 
 llnirui^Ued
 
 1746'.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CEKTUflY. l^f) 
 
 Two other single sermons by Mr. Warburton 
 were printed by him in 1746**. 1. " The Natvn-e 
 
 tinguishcd for. He has, I believe, a great deal of business ; and 
 if you will come next suaimer, and spend two or three months 
 with nic at Exeter, which will lyive me the greatest pleasure, 
 you will iind that I cuiniot be idle. 
 
 " I am, most sincerciv, your atitcctionate and faithful ft'iend, 
 
 J. Exi;xKK. 
 
 " ?.Irs. Rutherforth died a day or two ago." 
 
 " MY DEAH MR. AsiiBY, E.wter, Auq. VI, 1790. 
 
 '' I received your very friendly letter of the 16th of July in due 
 time; and it gave me great pleixf-ure, not only to be remembered 
 bv 3'ou, but to be rememberwl in such a manner as to couAince 
 Mie of your affeciion to me, and of the full cnjoNinent of your 
 usual health and good .s[)irit.^ ; and it Is with great truth 1 assure 
 \ou, that none ssf y(var fiiends can rc^joicc in it more than 1 do, 
 or mai'c sincerely v,ish you a lung continuance of it. 
 
 " As to the state of my o\vn health, yoiu" account of it before. 
 1 left town was in part true. I recovered my strength and 
 spirits duriiOg the mild winter much more than I could have 
 expected ; and kive been free from any particular di.^oi-der for 
 the last four or tivt; mosiths of my residence at Frome and Exe- 
 tcr ; but, notwitlistaruling all this, I jx-rceive a great alteration, 
 everv week, in my general habit, and am aware that the infir- 
 mities of age are advancing rapidly uixm me. Though 1 retain 
 mv love for Cambridge, and was pleaded at reading your histoi/ 
 of the j.inpro\ ements which have lately been made in its streets 
 and buildings, ;ind recollected the many ha])i)y moments you and 
 I have passed there; yet the impression which was made on m<i 
 seemed to be uu.cli slighter than it used to be; and I could not 
 help considering that 1 had little or no intere^t in any events of 
 that kind. As to tlie new library, the arrangement and form 
 of the classes always offended me; aiul it would be well if the 
 whole building could be ren)oved or reformed; but tli;:t is impos- 
 sible. I }urp'ose to coutiriue here my usual tiuje ; and, after 
 holdint^ an ordination in .September, to remove to Fiome, in my 
 way t(> L(jndon, aiid thei(! to take up my winter-quartc:-s. I]ut 
 this is a languajic which is full of presum])ti():i, and doe.s jkA 
 belou"- t(j ine, -Mv plan will mo.-t |)i()bab;y be ii.;er)tij)ted, and 
 I ought not to jnurmur or com}:la:n. 1 h^^e u;isscd tlie age. 
 of seventy-one ; I have enioyed a great share o" the blcs-i.'i.^', (;f 
 Providence ; and am, 1 hope, neither unlharikful for them, nor 
 unwilling to resi;in them ; aiid. as l(;ng as I live, shall be glad 
 sometinu.-s to hear from yoii ; an 1 beg tiia^ )ou \sl\{ believe ny. 
 t(j be to mv last moment, 
 
 " Your a'.Fectionate und faithful friend. J. Exetek ;." 
 
 ^ In a letter to Mr. liowver, dated J.in. 'IQ, 174;'>-(;, I\Ir. War- 
 burton, aft'.T gi\ing some little connnissious, " in confidence tli;/. 
 his friend had suruved and g-A i!ie better of the ;darms fur iu\. 
 
 1 The- Ri^fjoTj lived tv.o -.rzTi i!..I t ^^ '^ y^ aft'-' t!": 'J"-'u- of t\y.-. letter.
 
 190 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l74^. 
 
 of National Offences truly stated ;" preached on the 
 general Fast-day, Dec. 1 8, 1 745 ; and 2. " A Ser- 
 mon preached at the Hianksgiving appointed to be 
 observ^ed the ^th of October, for the Suppression of 
 the late unnatural Rebellion." Of these, and of the 
 two single Sermons mentioned in p. 177, there 
 were several editions in 8vo. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer printed also Mr. War- 
 burton's " Apologetical Dedication to the Rev. 
 Dr. Henry Stebbing, in answer to his Censure and 
 Misrepresentations of the Sermon preached on ther 
 General Fast-day appointed to be observed Dec. 18, 
 1745," 8vo. 
 
 The first volume of " A new Method of learning^ 
 with greater Facility the Greek Tongue * -, con- 
 constitution, and frights fiom the Highlanders, that lately filled 
 the country with confiision,' tells him, " I have subscribed 30^ 
 to the Lincolnshire Association (which is more than any of the 
 Clergymen in the coimty) ; and I have published three sermons. 
 Have not I fairly contributed my quota both in temporals and 
 Spirituals ? I will neither be a civil nor an ecclesiastical slave j 
 but don't be surprized if I soon submit to the vinclajugalia. 
 To offer up my freedom to one of the finest women in England, 
 is being more than free. In the mean time, whetlicr bond or 
 free, depend upon my being always yours." Mr. ^^'arbvirton was 
 married to Miss Tucker on the fifth of September 1745. 
 
 * In a copy of this book Mr. Bowyer has left the following 
 memorandum : " When the first edition of this Grammar was 
 ti'anslated into English, as I printed one volume and Mr. Bet- 
 tenham the other, I thought it would be a means of recommend- 
 ing myself to the proprietors, Messrs. Nourse and Hawkins, if I 
 suggested to them to add Lowes Collection of Ligatures new en- 
 graved and improved. The engraver executed his part \ ery ill, 
 as the ixader w ill .'^ee ; but for the first edition it was to pass. 
 When a second edition was going to the press, I renewed my 
 application to print one of the v(jlumcs, as I had done before, 
 and reminded the proprietors tliat the plate shoidd be new en- 
 graved. 1 was rejected with .^corn ; and Mr. Hawkins told me, 
 I should not print a letter pf it : that my brnilier Bettenhmn 
 sfiould print the whole. Tie faults in the plate are monstrous; 
 and two ligatures arc oraitted, v.hich 1 had introduced into it 
 from H. Stephens's Epistola ad quosdam avticos, 8<c. printed in 
 Theodorns Janssojiins ah Almelovcen, j). 192, 19.3, in which h 
 complains of the people's want of ability even to read Greek in somfi 
 of Aldus's editions, particularly the abbreviations for e-* and xa. 
 It is very remarkable, that when Maittaii-e reprinted this epistle
 
 1746.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I9I 
 
 taining Rules for the Declensions, Conjugations, 
 Resolution of Verbs, Syntax, Quantity, Accents, 
 Dialects, and Poetic Licence. Digested in the 
 clearest and concisest Order. With Variety of 
 useful Remarks, proper to the attaining a complete 
 Knowledge of that Language, and a perfect Under- 
 standing of the Authors who have writ in it. Trans- 
 lated from the French of the Messieurs De Port 
 Royal. In two Volumes." 8vo. 
 
 1747. 
 
 On the 21st of August, 1747, Mr. Bowyer en- 
 tered a second time into the matrimonial state, with 
 a most benevolent and worthy woman, Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Bill, who had for some years before been his 
 houi^ekeeper. 
 
 In that year he printed ^^ A General History of 
 England, volume I. * containing an Account of the 
 
 in liis " Stephanorum Histoiia/' p. 331, 332, ed. Lond. ITOJ), he 
 has omitted to cxemphfy tiicse tv/o Hgatnres. By H. Steplieii 
 (Artis Typographiece Querimon'uij " 'Die Art of Printing" com- 
 plains of being a sulferer 5 now a Printer, W. I^owyer." 
 
 That Mr. Bowyer not only fre(jiienll\ experienced this .speciei 
 of moitification, but too heverely i'elt it, is apparent from vari- 
 ous testimonies of his own. In the margin of a copy of Homer, 
 in which are many of his correctiiiiis and observations, is the 
 foUowing memorandum: "T\\" c;;j)y-right of ]))inting the Odys- 
 .ey was bouglit at Mr. Knaptoii'.- -iie by .Mr. Millar, who, upon 
 its being knocked down to him, said ])ubiiclv, / honi^ht it icitli a 
 view to your prinllvL'' it, Mr. i->oriyfr ; therefore ivl/h you icotild 
 buy a copy in Ato, of Mr. Knaplon, frotu irhich you may print. I 
 did so, and affjuainrod .Mr. .Millar of it. He then told me, he 
 had altered his mind, and i'-.teuded .Mr. Bettenham should print 
 the fust volume, and I shoul 1 ))nnt the second volume. After- 
 wards, he said, .Mr. rkltenha:ii having urged that he had a eai*e- 
 ful corrector, he should print Ijoth vohnnes, and Ijade me deli\er 
 them to him ; h'- would !)iak(> me amends in >omewhat els*.-. I 
 never ))nnted a line, (if 'fomei' since. I would have givon him 
 the-(; .\1 S additions, if he had kept to hi- ])r()nu.-e; but I have 
 been, bv Mr. Hettenham and oihcr booksellers, treated niany 
 times in the ^arne manner, particularly in tlie (ireck (iranmiai", 
 by .Me-s. d Port-}loy;d, for .Nour-e and Hawkins, ]<rinted a 
 fccond time by riettenliam ; and in the book of 'surgery [Jh>is1er>] 
 printed lately by me tlie tirst edition ; afierwurd- r)nh one volume." 
 * Of the first volume of thi^ lii-tory, i .")0 copies weic printed 
 on roval ))aper, 850 on a second sizi!^ and 2(X)0 on small paper. 
 
 Of
 
 i92 LITEItARY ANECDOTES OF [^747* 
 
 first Inhabitants of the Country, and the Transac- 
 tions in it from the earhest Times to the Death of 
 Kino; John, A. D. 121^, by Thomas Carte*, an 
 Knoushman," foho. 
 
 Mr. ChishulFs " Travels in Turkey, and back to 
 England," foho; Avhich has been ah^eady noticed. 
 
 " Bibhotheca Radchviana ; or, a short Descrip- 
 tion of the Radchtte Library at Oxford, &c, con- 
 taining its several Plans, Uprights, Sections, and 
 Ornaments, on Twenty-three Copper-plates, neatly 
 engraved, with the Explanation of each Plate, ibiio, 
 by James Gibbs, Architect, F. R. S." 
 
 " The Evangelical History and Harmony. By 
 Matthew Pilkington, LL. B. Vicar of Stanton in 
 the Countv of l)erbv, and Chaplain to his Grace 
 the Duke of Cleveland," folio. 
 
 " Demosthenis Selective Orationes : ad Codices 
 MSS. recensuit, Textum, Scholiasten, et Versionem 
 plurimis in loci?^ castigavit, Notis insuper illustravit 
 Ricardus Mounteney '|~3 Coll. Regal, apud Canta- 
 brigienses baud ita pridem Socius. Praefiguntur 
 Observationes :^ in Commentarios vulgo Ulpianeos, 
 
 Of the succeoflini^ volumes, 100 only were printed on royal paper* 
 aiul G."50 on small paper. 
 
 * Of whom see the Essays and Illustrations in vol. V. No. XVI. 
 
 f I'his crentlernan, who in 17^5 went, from Eton to King's 
 college, wliere he became a felU.nv, published the lirst edition of 
 his Demosthenes in 1'31. He was a bairistcr of the Inner 
 Temple; and became in 17o7 one of the barons of the Excherp^er 
 in Ireland; when, in 17-13, there came on in that court the 
 famous trial between .Tames Aniiesley, esq. and Ilichai'd Earl of 
 Anglesey ; in which this Judge made a most resj)ectable iigc.re. 
 He was the author of " Obscrvatior.s on the probable Iss\io of 
 the Congress." ]>rintcd by Mr. Uowyer in 17-48, 8vo. His inti- 
 macy with Sir E<!ward Waljjole at college, and his excellent de- 
 dication of part of Demoslhenes to Sir Rnncrt, together with 
 his honesty au'l great abilities, raised him to llie honcsurs he 
 so well deserved. In September I7^i9 Baron Mouiitenev mar- 
 ried the t^'ountess Dowager of Mount .\lexander ; and died in 
 176'8. 
 
 + Tliesc were 1)y Dr. John Chapman, archdeacon of Sud- 
 bury, son (.>f WilJiam Chapman, curate and school-master of 
 VVaiebam, then rector of Stratfield Say. He was a fellow of 
 Kmg's college, Cambridge; i>.A. 17'27; M. A. 1731. lie was 
 afterwards D. D. ; chaplain to Abp. I'otter > rector of Mershara, 
 
 Kent ;
 
 174?.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. IQ^ 
 
 et Tabula antiquae Grseciae Demostlieni accomnio- 
 clata," 8vo. This work was inscribed, in a very 
 excellent Dedication, to Sir Robert Walpole. 
 
 " Letters on various Subjects, by the late Sir 
 Thomas Fitzosborne, Bart." 8vo. [by William Mel- 
 moth *, esq.] 
 
 Kent; and also (in 1739) of Aldington, with the chapel of 
 Smeeth. He was alhO tieaj^^iirer of Chichester, which, witii the 
 archdeaconiy of Sudbury, lie received as options. Being edu- 
 cated at Eton, and elected to King's, he was a candidate for 
 the provostship of that college, with the late Dr. George, and 
 lost it but by a small majority. A Charge to the Clergy of his 
 Archdeaconry, which he pubUshed in 1745, incurred the lash of 
 Dr. Middleton (see his Works). " Wliat yon say of Chapman's 
 Charge is pleasant enough. The Bishop of London told me of it, 
 and I own I could not forbear laughing while he mentioned it ; 
 as Gibber, when he told his Patron of an Ode ho made at sciiool, 
 said he was sure he could not foibear laughing at the sound." 
 Bp. Warhurtori s Correspondtnce. As executor and survi\ing trus- 
 tee of Abp. Potter, Dr. (;ha])man3 conduct in that tnist, particu- 
 larly his presenting iiimself to the Precentorship of Liiicoln, on 
 the death of Dr.Trimnell (an option) was brought into Chancery 
 by Dr. Richardson ; nhen Lord Keeper ik'nley, in 17ttO, made a 
 decree in Mr. Chapman's favour; but, on an ajipeal to the House 
 of Lords, the decree was reversed, and Dr. Richardson ordered to 
 be presented. (See the case reported in Burn's fvCclesiastieal Law, 
 art. Option.) On this occasion Bp. Warburton tells Mr. llurd, 
 "^Dr. Richardson is come off victorious in the appeal, {"he pre- 
 centorship of Lincoln is decreed ibr him llie Kecp'T"-: decree 
 reversed, witli co.sts of suit. Lord Mansfield sjjokeadnjiribly. It 
 has been tliree tiajs in tning." Aiul his I"riin<i r-vije , " Your 
 early intelligence of ti;c success of {).'. liivhar; -(!! ^vas vciy (jijl'g- 
 ing. I am glad of it, bic.'i.i-i- i krio'.v it will make hini very 
 happy; and because a pi^jce of ju-tice i.> done a'^ la-t u])()ii a 
 nian wi>o had no regard to tlie decency of ,i;is o-aii cinuacter."' 
 He died at M';r>li<un, ia tiis ,sotii yvxv, Oc^ 1 J, l/'Sl. His 
 publications were, '' Ivi.-t'iius, or tii(> (Jhri^tian'- D..f'i'nf.'t; 
 against the Moral Plii!ost;i)licr. i;.'.;)," '2 %;.!-. i-,\o: " Di- Ai\A\c 
 Ciceronis Libii de Legibus, ( anib. l/ll," 8>o; " 01' the .Mi- 
 raculous Powers aiiioiig tSie Fi imki- - riiii-;i;ui-, 17")'-, '^\'); 
 " Obsei'vationes in Comnu'nlario-. mi'^o i lt)i;ui(()-, pi. ti\ed to 
 Mounteney's Demosthenes, I7'j; (a-- n.oiii,", d al)i;\. ). lii- library 
 wac sold by I^.igh, iji 17M5. He e-;i'natc:l it at :">')/. ; and 
 used to say he had j^ot a fiiou^aiul ]M)unil- woith of kiKiulcdge 
 out of it. He left iiis j)ifture an.l l.i^ liltrarv !-> his brolix.r. a 
 draj)er ([lartner with She|)[)ar(i) ii.ar Soiiui-it hn-j-^- in the 
 Strand, who was then a widowei, w)th two danghic r-. 
 
 '' The excellent Tran^la;or n!" " l^Iter^ of I'liny tlic Consul, 
 with occa;-ional Remarks, 1740, ' 2 vols. b\o-, of wiiich a .-(cond 
 
 Vol. H. O editiu.n.
 
 194 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l74/ 
 
 A third edition of " The Alhance between Church 
 and State," 8vo. 
 
 " A Letter from an Author to a Member of Par- 
 hament, concerning Literary Property" [by Mr. 
 Warburton], 8vo. 
 
 "Critical Notes on some Passages of Scripture," 
 [by Mr. Nicholas Mann], 8vo. 
 
 " Objections to a Pamphlet lately published in- 
 tituled, * Critical Notes, &.c. in a letter to the Au- 
 thor." By Emanuel Langford *. 
 
 " A Critical Enquiry into the Opinions and Prac- 
 tice of the antient Philosophers, concerning the 
 nature of the Soul and a Future State [by Mr. 
 Towne-j-] ; with a Preface by the Author of ^ The 
 Divine Legation,"' two editions, Svo. 
 
 Mrs. Cockburne's ^ " Remarks upon the Prin- 
 
 cdidon, corrected, appeared in 1747; and albo of " Letters of 
 Marcus Tullius Cicero to several of his Friends, wirli Remarks, 
 1753/' 3 vols. Svo ; and of Cicero s " Essays on Old Age and 
 Fjiendsliip," 2 vols. Svo, 1773 and 177S. 
 * Of Christ Church, Oxford^ M.A. 17'2S. 
 f Who ^vill be further noticed under the year 17-"j''- 
 + This remarkable instance of an extiaordinary genius for 
 literatiu'e in the ilnnale sex was a daugliter of Cu])t. Da\id Tiottcr, 
 a native of Scotland, and a sea commander in the reign of King 
 Cliarles 11. She was born in London, Aug. IG, 1079, and Ija})- 
 tizcd in the Protestant church, according to which she was breti 
 up in her infancy a Protestant ; but, being a sprightly, ingeni- 
 ous, and beautiful child, she was particularly caressed by somr- 
 considerable families aiiKjng the Papists. This fa\our naturally 
 ViTOUght a good opinion of -uch friends 3 and entering into an 
 intimacy v/ith them as slie grow u]), she became an easy con- 
 quest to their faith, in which sjie continued many years. In the 
 mean time liei- genius ripiened apace, and shot forth proofs of 
 her talents for poetry, even before siio had passed her chiidhcotL 
 In her seventeenth year she produc(><l a tiagedv called '' -Vgnes 
 de Castro," whieh A\.:-i acted in 1(795. This })e)lwMi;ince, and 
 soine verses addiessed to 'Mr. Coni.;Teve upon his " Mourning 
 Pi-ide" in H;97j brought her into tije acquaintancie of that gen- 
 tleman. Thus encoumgcd in her fir.it att< ni])t, her Muse 
 hrotrrht upon the stage tlu'ce piu\s more before the death of 
 Ivlr. D'vi'en in 1701, to \\ hose memory she joined with several 
 t(tl;ev hull -s in payin.g a tribute of verse. However, poetry and 
 (hau'.atie v, riting were not ti-.e most disting-in.-lied of Miss Trot- 
 ter's talents ; ;die had a i-cmarkable philosophical turn, and cajia- 
 city ecpa;d to such researches. Mr. Locke'.-, " .Essay on Hnniiin 
 rnderetandijig ' came out during this interval: that ftunous Phi- 
 
 io-:i'i-^h(r
 
 i747-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I95 
 
 ciples and Reasoning of Dr. Riitherforth's Essay 
 
 losopher had dressed out Jogick and metaphvsicks in sucli a new 
 mode as Wiis veiy agreeable to the t;iste of the sex in general, 
 and particidarly engaged the attention and admiration of our 
 young' authoress, Avho had begiin to project a defence of the 
 Essay against some remarks of Dr. Burnet of the Charter-house, 
 which was finished so eaily as the beginning of December 1701. 
 She had but lately passed the 22d year of her age ; and the 
 masterly way in which the piece was drawn must needs have 
 given singular pleasure to her great Champion, who accordingly 
 expressed his sati-.tliction by a present of books to his fair dc- 
 fendress. Phi}oso;)hy s()journs in the neighbourhood of Reli- 
 gion ; these philosophic I'everies would natiu-ally lead a thought- 
 ful mind to that suijject ; and, taking int<j her consideration the 
 tenets of her present faith, she began to discover their indefen- 
 sible grounds ; she therefori? resolved to renounce it, and pub- 
 hshed a vindication of her change, in 1707; and, retui'niiig to the 
 Established Church of Scotland, she changed her condition like- 
 wise the next year, 170S, and was married to iMr. Cbckburne, a 
 learned Divine of that Church. The duties of a wife and mother 
 cidled Mrs. CockbunK; fiom her books and j)en mair-.^ years ; and 
 domestic cartas engaging her attention, we hear nothing of her 
 as a writer till 17'iO", when her zeal for Mr. Locke's opinions 
 drew her again into pidjlic hght. She exercised her pen after- 
 wards as occa.~ion offered ; and in 1739 she entered into the con- 
 troxersy concerning the foundation of moral dut} and obligation. 
 " Dr. Riuherforth's Essay, which was published in .May 1744, 
 ^oon eng-j^ged her thoughts ; and, notwithstanding an asthmatic 
 (U.-^order, which had seized her man\ years before, and now left 
 her small isitervals of ea^^c, she apjjlied herself ttj the (Mjnfutatiou 
 of that elatjorate discourse; and !ia\ing lin!-.hod it with a -piiit, 
 i'le.u-arice, ami j)ejipicuitv, e([ua!, if r.ot >uperi()r, to all her 
 Jurnu-r wiitinx-, tiansmitteil iicr manasciij.'. to Mi'. W.'riburtPi!. 
 wiio ]ntbIi^lK(l it with a preface of hi- own. ' Dr. BircfK .Mr-'. 
 Cockhuine -Mi vised this j)ublicatlo)i t\', o \ea!- 01. !y. '^'u- 
 dird in V'lA:); and was intcnvd al Eoiig ilov-lry, iu:ir iici 
 ]iu.-5band, who died th.e ye;>r befoie her, with thi- -linii v.m;- 
 icnee ujion llu Kjmb, " I>et ti'.eir work- prai-e tl;- I'l in tl.e 
 ii-aU's," ProV. \\v. .'A. Hei- Worki wvw (oll.rle,: :.;; ! j:;iii- 
 ii>hrd in 17.>1, in two vd'unic-, Sso, wiiii an ;i..;. ;ui'! nf :ir|- 
 life pi.ii\(d, !; whicli 1 am ()l;Ii^^d for tlu' -:;!:-;;;. <it liii- 
 note. " 'I'iii- (<;'ili'''tii>n i- ;ni ine<)nt<-li:j!i' ;,i(;:4' o'.' I'.i'. ;i-tl;iiis 
 g( niu-. l>'.it hi')- a.biiitic- ;-- '. '.\ liter \ui; w-:'. iv -;>m '.Mtlii^ut 
 ,',ttt n(.!in:r to Ih.' ];t<.'uii;'! ciMiiiii-t.e.h:-- i:i\'.niiii In r 'v'. :'i;iii:'.s 
 w.'V:- jirodiu cd : Ik'-ciuIs \oiitii. '.' >v i:i ,t ic',', w ii'-n -I'.e \Mo;e 
 -'AW.: hervery uhancedai.iv. a;id ;'!-!;: '-ol' In ah h.whe,;^ :i.- !:-. \v 
 up otl'/ !- ; ttie imra-;> -itu:.,i..n of !);.,' \'^r\\v.u- .Inriii ; t'ue w iioi.- 
 co.iv-i' oC Ikt liiV ; and ;',n iii:et".:d of wm '.\-\\'.\ \. ::-. i.i !!i 
 \i^:<iiir of it, -jX'ii, in liir c;!:' - o!" : J-':iiie. . wUho'iL lii^ 1 ::-'. 
 leisure for n-;id!!ii^- or ,-oi,t( iiipliUion ; -'S'^-v wtiw-i|, '.vid, .1 ^. \\\ ! 
 .i) \t)\v <\\y'iU-A >tud eMCJubci-ed. 1 ;:'.'.' nil!'.- i-.r AuVx- , 'i" m- 
 
 ,, Lilitlv
 
 ig6 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1747- 
 
 on the Nature and Obligations of Virtue*, in Vindi- 
 cation of the contrary Principles and Reasonings 
 
 stantly recovered its entire poweis ; and, in the hours of relax- 
 ation from domestic employments, pursued to the utmost limits 
 5ome of the deepest re.searchcs the human understanding is capa- 
 ble of." Dr. Birch. Her character is that of a most unconnnon 
 lady, no less celebrated for her beauty in her younger jears, than 
 foi- her genius and accomplishments. She was small of stature, 
 but had a remarkable liveliness in her eyes, and a delicacy of 
 complexion which continued to her death. 
 
 * Thomas Rutherforth, of St. John's college, Cambridge; 
 B,A. 17293 M. A. 17333 B.D. I74O3 D.D. 1745. He was son 
 of the Rev. Thomas Rutherforth, rector of Papvvorth Everard 
 in the county of Caml)ridge, who had made large collections 
 for an History of that County. He was born October 13, 17 12 3 
 apj)ointed Regius Professor of Di\inity, rector of Shenfield 
 in Essex, and of Barley in Hertfordshire, and archdeacon of 
 Essex. He communicated a curiovis correction of Plutarch's 
 description of the instrument ued to renew the Vestal lire (vit. 
 Num.) a-uvEDov7o? EK =v Kivl^o)/, as relating to the triangle with which 
 the instrument was formed, and not to the instrument, as mis- 
 taken by Lipsius de Vestalibus (c. 8.) and Catrouj so that the 
 triangle which hollowed the instrument will be isosceles, whose 
 two equal legs con^elged from a circumference to a ccnti'e, 
 i. e. a quadrant with the curve side h, g, cctto 
 Ts-XsupK? of this mixt triangle ; for Plutarch 
 does not say it was a plain one. It was no- 
 thing but a concave speculum, whose princi- 
 pal focus wliich collected the rays is not in the 
 centre of the conca^ ity, but at the distance of 
 half a diameter from its surface : but some of 
 the antients thought otherwise, as appears from Prop. 31 of 
 Euclid's Catoptrics 3 and though this piece has been thought 
 spurious, and this eiror a pi'oof theieof, the Sophist and Plu- 
 tarch luight each knovv as little of mathem.aticks. He pub- 
 lished " Two Sermons preached at Camb'itlge ]7'47," 8VO3 " A 
 System of Natural Piiilosophy, Cambridge, 1748," 2 vols. 4to ; 
 ''A letter to Dr. Middleton in Defence of Bishop Sirerlock on 
 Prophecy, 1750," Svo (see p. 1!)S) ; " A Discourse on Miracles, 
 1751," 8VO3 " Institutes of Nauiial Law, 1754," 2 vols. Svo ; 
 " A Charge to the Clergy of Essex," 1753^ 41(), repiiiited, 
 with three others, in \7Gl^, Svo ; " Two Letters to Dr. Ken- 
 nicott, 1761 and 1702 ;' " A Vindication of tlie Right of 
 Protestant Clmrches to require the Clergy to suljscribeto an 
 established Confes.-ion of Faith and Doctrines, in a Chai'ge deli- 
 vered at a Visitation, July 17 (JO. Cambr. i7G6'," Svo 5 a second 
 the same year ; "A Letter to Archdeacon Blackburn, 17 GJ" Svo, 
 on the same subject. He died Oct. 5, 177L ^gcd 59, having 
 mariied a sister of the late Sir Thomas Antb.oiiv Abdv, bart. 
 uf Albins in Essex 3 by ^vhom he had two sous, Thomas, who 
 
 died 
 
 h
 
 1747.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 1^; 
 
 inforced in the Writings of the late Dr. Samuel 
 Clarke ; with a Preface by Mr. Warburton ;" 8vo. 
 
 (lied an infant, and Thomas-Abdy, now in orders, rector in his 
 own light of Thcydon Gernon, in the same county, who suc- 
 ceeded to the estate and title of his maternal uncle, and mar- 
 ried Jan. 13, 1778, a daughter of James Hayes, esq. of Helliport, 
 and benciier of the Middle Temple, by whom he has i.-suc. 
 The following muial epitaph is erected in his chiuxh at Barley : 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 to tlie memory of the Revd 
 
 Tho? Rutheviorth, S.T. P. 
 
 formerly fellow of, and one of the pviblic 
 
 tutors in St John's college, Cambridge ; and 
 
 at the time of his tleath King's Professor of 
 
 Divinity in that imiversity; archdeacon of Essex, 
 
 rector of Shenfield in the same county, and also 
 
 of this parish. He married C harlotte Elizabeth, 
 
 one of the daughters of Sir William Abdy, baronet, 
 
 of Cobham, in the county of Surrey, by whom he left 
 
 one -on, Thomas-Abdy Rutherforth. He was 
 
 born on the 13th of October, 1712, and died on the 5th 
 
 of that month, 1771, in the 59th year of his age. 
 
 He was eminent no less for his piety and integrity 
 
 than his extensive learning; and filled every 
 
 public station in which he was placed with 
 
 genei'al approbation. In private life, his beha\ iour 
 
 was truly amiable. He was esteemed, belo\ed, 
 
 and honoured by his family and fiiends ; 
 
 and his death was sincerely lamented 
 
 by all who had ever heard of his 
 
 well-deser^ed chavaeter,' ' 
 
 Underneath, on a marble slab, is tlu- follcjwing inscription : 
 
 " Hie . ( livihtum . E\]);'ct . 
 Breves . Paivntum . Helicia; . 
 
 Thomas . Rutherfortli . 
 
 Qui . Natus . Tert . Id . Mai . 
 
 ?n)cc i.iii. 
 
 Dies . Lxxiv . Vixit . 
 
 Thomas . Rutlicvforth . 
 
 In . Acad . Cantab. S . T . P . Rc-ius . 
 
 Oul . Ainuiiii . agcns . i.x. 
 
 JMorluu- 5>t iii . Non . Ocl. 
 
 MDCCI.XM." 
 
 (Jf Dr. Rutherforlh's " Essny on llic Nature and Ohli-'atic^n^ 
 wf Virtue" tli(> following chanifler was giviMi 1)\ a coinpctcul 
 judge: "The lOlh or la-1 iiioi.lli 1 li;id the ii'i.i.'iir to fad Id 
 tile compaiiN, at a iiii'clii.'r of our "society, au al)>li-:i( I I \\\\\\ 
 mucli plfasunMJrrw u|i. oi' a (luai lo hooL, iilituled, ' \ii V.vs 
 on the Nature and Oblia.aio/;i of Viitue ; v lieu I cLUii..! \\\ 
 
 that
 
 lf)8 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l747. 
 
 " Answer to Dr. Rutherforth's Determinatio 
 Qu'cPstioiiis Tlieologicjp, by Joseph Edwards % 
 M. A. Vice-principal of Mas^dalen Hall, Oxford," 8 vo. 
 
 Two editions of " A Supplement to Mr. War- 
 burton s edition of Shakespeare f,'" 8vo. 
 
 that useful, ingenious, and learned piece, as a present from the 
 author, one of our worthy ine;n1>e)s, the Kev. Mr. Thomas 
 Kulherford, B.D. fellow of St. Jolni's college, Cambridge, and 
 R. S. wherein the noble author of the Characteristjcks, and all 
 other authors antient and modern, are, as to theii' notions and 
 dogmata, duly, candidly, and in a gentleman-like manner, con- 
 sidered, and fuliy, to my satisfaction, as best answered as be- 
 comes a ('hiislian divine. If you have not yet read that amiable 
 work, I must (notv',itli6tanding as we have been tf)ld some, 
 whom he answers in his xith awd last chapto's, do not so much 
 approve it) not forbear recommending it to yoiu^ perusal ; and 
 tiiis I can with the better grace, as my brother secretary. Dr. 
 Green, an old accpiaintance and contemporary of the Author's, 
 and the Rev. JMr. Neve, late our treasurer^ since foimder and 
 secretary of the Gentlemen's Society at Peterborough, ha\e, 
 with some other of our members, given it the same recommen- 
 dations. Upon their perusals." Mr. Maurice Johnson to Mr. Birch, 
 The following remarks are from the pen of an acute Cj-itic : 
 " If Ruthciforth's book against Middleton be in mere gratitude 
 to the Bishop of London, I siacerely honour him foi' it. If there 
 be any thing of gratitude, though it be with other inipui'e mix- 
 ture, I cannot but give him some share of my esteem, teut, if it 
 be only a soi'did view of interest, an itch for coiiirovei'sy, or the 
 vanity of shining, whicli sets him upon scribbli)ig, he is to be 
 laughed at; and, if he attempts to hide those moti^e3 by the 
 pretence of gratitude, he is then truly contemplible. I will 
 only venttu'c to say this, if he knows no more of Theology than 
 he does of ?,Iorals, he is the meanest pedant of tlie age. ^llie 
 aftectation of being singular has made him a bad Moralist. "Will 
 the af^ectati!)n of being orthodox, make him a good Di\ine ? Of 
 the two, i think Stehbing the more tolerable, who labo\u's to 
 support otlier people's nonsen:-e rather' than his own. And I 
 ra.n pardoji the joke in his preface, tliat he pretends to no iwir 
 discoverie.<<, for tlie sake of his bciiig in serious sadjicss as good 
 as his woid." Bp. ll'arhurton s Letters to Bp. Hard, p, 49. 
 
 * .Toscph Edwards, of Mat;Tlalen hall, M. A. 1731 : jmbhshed 
 f. nn- single .Sermons : 1 . "' Of jnibhc Pi'ayer," 1731.-2. Fiom 
 1 Cor. xi. Id, 1736. 3. " Of Forgiveness of Enemies," 1743. 
 4. " C'hri'-t God-Man ; before the Uni\ersity of Oxford, 174;." 
 
 f- By 'i'homas Eduards, esq. re-printed in 1748 under the 
 title of " Canims of Criticism."' Mr. Ed'.vards ]iosses^ed a small 
 p:iternal estate at Pitzhanger in Middlesex; ^^here he resided 
 till his purchase of Trirrick in Bucks; and was the lilst of his 
 fiimilv, as a^iiears bv his iifth sonnet in Dodsley's Collection (.if 
 FoemSj vol. 11, p. 320, where iie pathetically lauients tix loss of 
 
 foLir
 
 1748.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUHY. IQf) 
 
 1748. 
 
 Bp. Tanner's " Bibliotheca Britannico-Iiibernica," 
 folio. 
 
 i'oxiY brothers and as many si.-ters. His education. Avas at a pil- 
 ( ate r^ehool ; nor was he ever a member of either of the Univei-si- 
 ties. lie studied tlie law at Lincohi's Inn, and w>us called to the 
 bar (his father and grandfather were of tliat ])r()fe;ision). He 
 spent the latter part of liis hfe at Tuirick ; died on a \isit to his 
 friend Mr. Ricliardson at Parson's Green, unnrin-ied ; and a\ as 
 buried in the church-yard of Ellesborouoh in Buckinghamshire, 
 with the follo^vin^ inscription : 
 
 " I'nder this stone are deposited tlie remains of 
 
 Tliomas Edwards, esq. of Turriek in this pari.^h : 
 
 v.iiere lie spent the last seventeen years 
 
 of a studious, useful life. 
 
 He was sincere anil constant in the jH'ofession ar.d 
 
 })ractice of Ciii-istianity, w ithout narrowness or superstition ; 
 
 steadily attached to the cause of liberty, 
 
 nor less an enemy to licentiousness and taction ; 
 
 in hts j)oetry simple, elegant, jrathetic ; 
 
 in his criticism exact, acute, temperate ; 
 
 afTectionate to his relations, (?ordial to his fiicnds, 
 
 in the general commerce of life obliging and entertaining. 
 
 He bore a tedious and painful distemper Avith a ])atience 
 
 which could only arise from a Iraljit of virtue and piety j 
 
 and quitted this life with the decent imconcern 
 
 of one ^vliose hoj)cs aie Hrmly fixed on a };ettcr. 
 
 He died on the third day of January, mdc clvii, aged i.vin j 
 
 and tliis aione is in.-cribed to hi- meuion. , 
 
 with the truest coriCeni and gratitude, 
 
 by hii two n(j)]ie^'vS ;;n;l iicirs, Jijseph Paict; au'i Xaihanii 1 Mason." 
 
 ?,!> F.;'.'.;ni{-> v,;^.~ ('(iu;ul\' di^'Jngin-.iicd for his giMiius and the 
 goodiK -^ of !ii- licurt. His " (anon- of ( 1 itici-r.i" did Itim grr.it 
 credit, Iioth as a crili.t and ;i^ a sclm'ar; ;:iid diTw on him 
 the vengeance of I)i\ \V'ari)urion, who t'jok oc-- i-icii, in iMu~- 
 trating tiic nan.u'.-, of Jilackmojc v.)i'\ .Miliiournc in n note on iln- 
 " E~sa\" on {'|-iti>':,-m," \:'r. \''<.j, to olj-(i'\(', ''l'!i' ^c i;:f!i -.i''!' o!' nil 
 times, and ri->e uj) on ail o( a-ioi.-. sii- W ill; r i':.i: iv.h liad 
 AieKandei- liu-. ; ( 'lillinirv', oi; h l\ad (i:e_\)icl: 3,li;t.,.n :i iii-i 
 Eduar(k ; and Liykc a second : iMillicf (A' i'.<.<'ir. ici'lrd l<> tliC 
 llwrd l'2(I\\rn(U of .LiiicohiV-imi. 'i luy \v' re !)i.ii;'-- ol' ji:nt- ;in I 
 |i';irning : !ii:- a Critic' witiiow; (),, (j|- li:- oMr i'. ^ ci ci-- "Mr. 
 Pop-' -ays of Euke .Miibo'ai'ii 1 the i'.'iii-; (A':u\ < ri'i'-: l'"i . li.'.\ 
 ini-; wiiiw-n ivgah;-! i!ic l^fliloi'- l^in.irl.- on ^iKiiN-;- aiT. l.c 
 did him jn-lic^- in j)|-in':ii"\ ai ih." :::<<. tii'i". ".mi.' o! ai-. ow n 
 "All i:nji;u-tial ( ritic-,' lio\'. r-. cr, .t l)]-. W .n i. -a w.ll i'.l)-ir\<-, 
 
 ailoW tll.'-f I'CMUII '.^^ io ll-i\.' l)":'li (' ri-i\(: lUiii .H.Ul'K i! ; ::.:.{ 
 
 hi- CiiUoiia Oi C'ri'i=i iii ; i'.m-.:;i Hm i'-.UU :uid vniau .'. > i' :! ."
 
 200 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I748. 
 
 Mr. Bowyer endeavoured to relieve himself from 
 the fatigues of business, by an occasional retire- 
 Again, in the Notes on the Dunciad, book IV. ver. 565, where 
 Mr. Pope has a fling at those 
 
 " Who study Shakspeare at the Inns of Court," 
 
 the learned Commentator adds, " III would the Scholiast dis- 
 charge his thity, who should neglect to honour those whom 
 Dulne^s has distinguished 5 or suffer them to lie forgotten, when 
 their rare modestv would haA e left them nameless. Let us not, 
 therefore, overlook the services which have been done her cause, 
 by one Mr. Thomas Edwards, a gentleman, as he is pleased to call 
 himself, of Lincoln's-inn ; but, in reality, a gentleman only of 
 the Dunciad ; or, to speak him better, in the plain language of 
 our honest ancestors to svich mushrooms, a gentleman of the 
 last edition : w ho, nobly eluding the solicitude of his careful 
 father, very early retained himself in the cause of Dulness against 
 Shakspeare ; and, with the wit and learning of his ancestor Tom 
 Thiniblc in tlie Rehearsal, and with the air of good-nature and 
 politeness of Caliban in the Tempest, hath now happily finished 
 the Dunce's Progress, in personal abuse. For a libeller is no- 
 thing but a Grub-street critic nin to seed." Here again 
 Dr. ^\'arton observes, " This attack on Mr. Ed\vards is not of 
 weight sufficient to weaken the etlects of his excellent Canons 
 of Criticism." But Mi". Bannister subjoins, " Dr. Johnson knew 
 best how to appreciate the Canons of Criticism. After bestow- 
 ing on it the applause it deserved, as an etTusion of wit, on some 
 person's observing that the author had shewn himself to be a 
 better critic than Warburton, ' That,' replied tlie Doctor, ' is 
 going rather too far: a fly may sting and tease a hor-e; but vet 
 the horse is the nobler animal." See Bowles's edition of Pope, 
 vol. 1. p. 254 ; vol. V. p. 322. Mr. Edwards was more susceptible 
 of the attack than the cii'cumstance requireci, deeming his rank 
 in life imjjeached by the words " u gentlentan, as he is pleased 
 to call himself, of Lincoln's-inn, but, in lealitv, a gentleman 
 only of the Duncij.d," SiC. The gentleman whose assist- 
 ance Mr. Edwards acknowledges in tlie jneface, was Mr. Ro- 
 derick, fellow of iviagdtden college in Cambridge, and of the 
 Ro\al and Antiquarian Societies. He d'lvd July 20, 175G, not 
 long before his friend, bc<iiieatl:ing to him such of his pai'/ers as 
 related to tj:c " CanoM> of Criticism." '^Ihirtcen of his Sonnets 
 are piinted in Do:!flcy"b Co'lection, eight in Pearch's, ar.d four 
 in Nichols's " Select Collection," 17B(). Forty-nine appear in 
 tke la-. e(^itH)ii of his " Canons of Critici?-m, 17G5." lie was 
 also ai.ihor of a 1 retty jeu d'esprit, called " The Trial of the 
 Lc'lcr T, (''i(fs \, V hich is printed v-ith his "Cai'sons of Criti- 
 cism;" arid (if a j-amjilJet called '* Fiee and candid 'i'h oughts on 
 the Doctrine of Predestint.ti()n." Ti>is little piece appeared very 
 impropeily after his death, having never been intended for pub- 
 
 licatioii
 
 1748;] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 201 
 
 ment to Knightsbridge, where he appears to have 
 promised himself the satisfaction of prevaihno- on 
 Mr. Markland to accompany him *. 
 
 The principal books printed by him this year 
 were, " The History and Antiquities of Colchester, 
 in three Books, collected chiefly from MSS. with 
 an Appendix of Records and original Papers," folio, 
 by the Rev. Philip Morant-j- ; reprinted with im- 
 provements in his " History of Essex, 176'8." 
 
 lication by Mr. Edwards. A beautiful OdeAvas addressed to him 
 by Miss Mulso, afterwards Mrs. Chapone ; to whicli lie replied in 
 as eleg-ant a Sonnet. Dr. Akenside also addi'essed an Ode to hiin. 
 
 * " I approve of your Knightsbridge scheme lery mucli, not 
 \ipon my own account (though peiiiaps your kind)ie?s to nie 
 looics upon that as an article in the purchase), but as a good 
 bara"ain. If you were about to leave ofl" business, I think there 
 would be some iliiitrence in the case, for then I iniag'ine you 
 would get a little farther from London. For my own part, I 
 must get somewhere near the ^ea side, for the sake of bathing 
 and I'iding, which is commonly good upon the coast ; for of all 
 places in the world, London is the worst for an infirm person, 
 who has nothing to do in the business of it, and very little ia 
 the pleasures." Mr. MarkUind to Mr. BoKyer, Oct. 22, 1748. 
 
 t Philip Morant, ISl. A. and F. S.A. a learned and indefati- 
 gable Antiquary and Biographer, son of Stephen Morant, was 
 born at St. Saviours, in the Isle of Jersey, Oct.d, 1700 3 and, 
 after finishing his educatitm, at Abingdon school, Dec. 16, I717, 
 was entered at Pembroke college, Oxford, where hv took the 
 degree of 11. A. .June 10, 17'2l, and continued till Midsmnmer 
 17-2 ; when he was preferred to the office of )j!eaeher of the 
 English cruu'ch at Anistenlau), but never w(-at to Xnke. ])o.-ses- 
 sion. He took the degree of M. A. in 17'il. In llie I'leftce 
 to Raj;in"s Histoiy of England by Tindal, 17'2'^, "-M!-. Piiilip 
 iMoi'ant, minister of the Eii.glish church at Amsterdam," is 
 mentioned tis an a^^sistant in the work. He was jDc-cnted 
 to the rectory of Shallow Jiowelis, April 2(>, I'.-ii ; << tlie \icar- 
 age of iJromlield, ,bui. 17, \7'''-^-ii <<> '1"^' recton of Cbickiial 
 Smdey, Sejjt. I'J, \7.>o ; lo tliat of St. M.irv in Co'di. -,((!, 
 -Maicli 9, I7;i7; to tliat of \M(kliani-l>i-h()])'>, Jan.'Jl. \7 Vi-:i ; 
 and to that of .Aldliaai, Sept. 14, 1/15. All dic-c ijct'ciiccs are 
 in )lie coimtv of K~-i x. in 17!^> li'' i;u()liii. d lii> " Hi-'ciy of 
 C:()]ehester," of wiiich nidy 'ifV) Cf;;;ie.-- uci-' piin(( .!. ai lb.' ioiiif 
 exjiciirr r)f him-- a' and v;r. I' ).\;.cf, \\ !:') fiM-, -|;i,.|jtly inui.^tid 
 hi)ii-( If\ei-v niueli in the einhc'.ii-biiifiM n\ the bcok, ;t- w.ll as 
 in cai'nc-iilv i-ecjinuiciKliiig i' to -ub-criiK i>. " I b " , . i;[y!i.'(| 
 to .Mr. t'jro'.,i!e vV lib-," Vli-. !'.n" vrr a\-, in a 1 .iv lo Mr. 
 Moi.uit, P'.l-iN ;;, 17-IH, "for \r:i\r to d. (!i< ate :> v|a,,. to 'li 11. 
 iiv .siivs, he liiv- ju-J. nrarnt.d iu-^ diilUxu^ an:;, in iiciiii.; ib'- 
 
 laji
 
 202 LITERARY ANKCDOTES OF [l748, 
 
 A Second Edition of '^ Fitzosborne's Letters," 8vo. 
 
 yrart of a father, he has redured himself so low that he knows not 
 how to be a patron. \Miat thhik you of Dr. Mead ? Mr. Vertue 
 is better; aivi will exr)edite your plate?, he .says, with care. I 
 <li;I not see the sheet G betbre it was sent to vou ; if I had, I 
 shoidd ha\e ])roposed one or two alteteitions. I haAe presunx^d 
 to add a word or two to note if. Spanheim has so fully pi-o\ed 
 the law that laid oi)en the citizens!) ip o'' Home to belong to 
 Caracalla, that it would be inipardoiiable to let tlie mistake, 
 thorigh iieieto?ore supported by great names, be perpefvcated. 
 Strange, that the Bisliop of London [Gibson] .should not take 
 notice f)f so inatevial a pinnt of learning ! Spauheim's book was 
 printed iirst in London, and afterwards taken into Gr;vius"s 
 Thesaiu'us. P. 25, a complete pro\incc, not goveined by pro- 
 consular deputies, but accounted pra^bidial, and appropriatetl to 
 the emjseroi'S, as being annexed to the empire, after tlio division 
 of the provinces by Augu.stus, &c. This is ex;;re.s.sed, as if South 
 Britain was annexed to the empire by y\ugiistus, ^\]iich you do 
 not mean. 'W hat then do you mean r That pra;.-.i(Jial provinces, 
 in distinction to the proconsidar, were annexed to the empire? 
 Rather the conirary is true. In tiic tiist division under Augus- 
 tus, ten }>ra'rorian and t^vo consular proxinces were allottt-d to 
 the people's share, i. e. to the empire ; the rest the Emperor kept 
 tinder his own government. The governors of tlie people's pro- 
 vinces were called generally Provhicials ; tliose of the Emperor 
 never so; but either Icgati cnnsulnrca, oi' proprcetores, or legati 
 pra'torii, or Icgdti hnperatoris pro prcetore, whether they had 
 gone through the office of pi'ajtor or con.sul, or not. vSec 
 Salmasii Hist. Aug. Script, vol. L p. ^OO. 3/4. vol. II. p. 34G, &c. 
 But the Antiquaries will not regard this branch of learning, be- 
 cause it looks too classical ; they are more critical about things 
 that are more Gothic, or more Monastical." The er.gra-sings 
 were by Vertue and Mynde. Th.e Ichnogra})hy, inscribed to 
 Mr. Yorke, cost five guineas; the plate given by Mr. Polkcs 
 three guineas ; and f)ne was gi\en by the Society of Antiquaries. 
 In 17ol ^'i'- Morant was elected a nieniiKn" oT tiiat n^spectal^le 
 Body; on which occasion, Mr. Bowyer telis him, "I dont 
 know much of the steps which tlie Society of .\ntiqaaries \va\v 
 lately tak(>n. If you are chosen, you woidd Xvaw V^x-w calle;! 
 on for the money, a guinea Dt entrdiice, and a thiliing a month 
 aftcr^vavds. But they ha\e lately been mucii engai;-<'d in plan- 
 ning schemes for a clunter, Avhich may co.t a good deal of 
 monev, and I doubt whether it will be of gi'eat benefit. I 
 iuiagiiie some ))ersons want some new jilaces to be made, and 
 salaries annexed to them. In all .societies, the Rd\autages 
 of tlie publick are most talked oi" wluai there are the greavtst 
 pri\ate \ii\vs. As to Es.sex, I think, to sj)eak sincerely, you 
 had better brgin again with it. If }ou undertake it, 1 doubt 
 tlie siitccss of it. Tindal began it in -l!o, and was fcjrccd to 
 drop it. You (lO n\c much honour in ascribing ' Pompev the 
 
 "Little'
 
 1/48.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. SOJ 
 
 A new edition of Mr. Edward'/s ' Supplement to 
 Shakespeare: under the new title of " Ciaions of 
 Criticism," Svo. 
 
 Little' to nie. I ara obliged to yor. ; and shall be alad nevvY to 
 be suspected of a worse thing:." [i his was written bv the ii!a,'c- 
 iiious -Mr. Coventiy, minister of the donative of Eii^ware, Alid- 
 fUescx, and aut^i()! of Penshnrst, &:c. in Dodslevs Collec- 
 tion. He (iicd, of the small-pox, about the year 17.^9.] From 
 1751 till his .'le;tth Mr. IMoraiit continued a regular c.jnespon- 
 dence with Mr. Bowyer. " My intention for some months j)abt 
 was, to ha\e i)een in London either this week or t!;e next : but 
 an afflicting loss that has happened in my family the beginning 
 of this yeiir hindeis me from coming at present. Wiihin liu- 
 com])ass of three days I was so unliappv as to lose mv onl-. bro- 
 ther and sister-in-law; the former on the ith, and the Luicr on 
 the 1 1 th of Januaiy. My good brother indeed died at a di?i- 
 ance, and I could but seldom h.-ive the plea.'^uvfi of .'^eeiiiii,' him ; 
 but my sister-in-law li\ed with us, and had beoi a eoHMaiit ;md 
 ijiseparable companion to mv good Vvife for aljove oO uar,-, ;i!id 
 was withal a person of the most amiable (jUaiitie-i, and the mo. t 
 faithful friend, so tWat her loss is iyn^jjaniiilc It has so aileeted 
 )nv good \\ii'<i, that mv absence even for a day -inks lur spirits 
 to that detrree. that 1 tind I cannot leave lu-i' at ]>re.sent : but I 
 hope time, and the ch.eerfui weather that is cojniut;', will reeruir 
 her spii'its. [n tlu^ mean time, 1 should be obliged to you, if 
 you would be so kind as to di>po-e of the copv uf my Hi>toiy of 
 ('olchester, and the |)laU'S ; you have your>elf the best richt to 
 it, if vou will be ])lea,-ed to allow me something for it tliat i 
 reasonable: and 1 include therewith .such correction'^ and addi- 
 tions as I ha\e made to the work since ])ub'.ica(ion. if it s'lould 
 no wa\ suit you, Dr. R. Rawlin-on is a afeat colii'cto)', a,id will 
 Mvv proi?;iblv like it bc.ond ai.\ h'):'\ e!>e. Or. if voii know 
 ;i)i\ olh'!' )!-M-()n vvhf)ni itnould sun, le ))!e;>-ed to do fir )ne 
 ;!- \(ni wonkl <!( foi' votu'-elf. I slial! come to town a> .'(.nn a.- 
 ihe incon\eniences above n-.entioncd are a little worn oui bv 
 tin!':-; and jsossiliK we nr.iv Cwna- together, niv good vvi'V ami 1 ; 
 for iiKtlion, and clia.iL'C of pl.uc, a\( hoiiu- cure to nie! uieiinK ; 
 tlio'.igh il is ful! a-- bad when yni reian. t( ynur vur.iUil hubiLi- 
 tion, and mi-s v .'liv friend.'' .1//-, Mdiinil to Mr. ll lU-ijir, M.f/i 1, 
 17."'/.i. " I pri'po-ed t(( Dr. ]iawli)i-on voiu o;]) i- <.n '! Inii -duy 
 last, and '-hall <rc liim ;m;nn u(\\ 'I'hur-iiiv. lie fle^iic- to 
 know wiial vou ;'-k for the jilite-, ;i:rl th^' cowv oi' voii:- In )k, 
 7. <. ;>s I ;ipiiie!,''nd, a l';u!' eop_> corrceli. d In vour <)V a hand. v\ il li 
 a lib-'i'tv of r<'|)riniii!g it if he will: but of ihi- lii .iv i- no pio- 
 biibililv, -iiue we Ir.'.ve s'\er;d stii! iiniauiii'X- ^^ '' will -ay 
 
 then, a ci)])v ((>!T'.\"!'(|. ;iiid ihe -ev; I'ld pi:t(( . \ on -''11 I'or 
 
 1 am -"i-i-\ foi' t!ie iiiehtiir !;i)!\ -il ti:iti')ii of \ our I'uiiiiv -. bin ub- 
 /;<<!-, i hoj:'.'. vsil! i)e Ics-cx- 1 lo liic i,u inurv by tl.r di-l nier oi' 
 <iinc. ;;- tie \ .t; ; to the rv' bv tin :i'-; ei' < <\' -;i-eT." b' . /;../- ,/- r 
 /o M.. Mtniuit, Md.i <J, IT---. ' i iiad ine k.v<;iu- of vnnrl. !;.r. 
 
 ;ni
 
 204 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [174^. 
 
 A Fourth Edition of Pope's " Essay on Man.'* 
 
 and am obliged to yoii for what you have doiie to serve me. 
 The plates cost above thirty guineas, besides the copy ; and 
 therefore I should have been obliged to you, if you had been so 
 kind as to make the best bargain with Dr. Rawlinson, or any 
 body else, as if it had been for yourself. However, as you seem 
 to expect that I should set a price, I think fifteen pounds is veiy 
 moderate, for a copy corrected, and the several plates." Mr. Mo- 
 rant to Mr.Boinjer, May 12, 1752. The treaty with Dr .Rawlinson. 
 broke off, and the book was afterwards judiciously incoiporated 
 with tlie " History of Essex." In February 1768 Mr. Morant was 
 appointed by the Lords sub-committees of the House of Peers to 
 succeed Mr. Blyke (of whom see under the year 1774) in pre- 
 paring for the press a copy of the Rolls of Pailiament ; a ser- 
 vice, to which, from my own knowledge, I can say he diligently 
 attended till his death, which happened Nov. 25, 1770, in con- 
 setpience of a cold caught in returning by water from the Temple 
 to Vauxhall, in his way to South Lambeth, where he resided, 
 for the convenience of attending to his parliamentary labours ; 
 a work for which, as a native of Jersey, and excellently skilled 
 in the old Norman French, he was particularly well qualified ; 
 and which, after his death, devolved on Thomas Astle, esq. F. R. 
 and A. SS. who had married his only daughter, and by whose 
 favour I am able to lay before the reader an exact account of 
 Mr. Morant's writings, from a list of them drawn up by him- 
 self. 1. "An Introduction to the Reading of the New Testa- 
 ment, being a Translation of that of Mess, de Beausobre and 
 I-<enfant, prefixed to their edition of the New Testament. Printed 
 for S. Chandler and J. Batley," 1725, 172G, 4to. 2. " The Trans- 
 lation of the Notes of Mess, de Beausobre and Lenfant on St. 
 Matthfvv's Gospel. Lond. 1727>" 4to. N.Tindal translated the 
 text printed therewith. 3. " The Ciiielties and Persecutions of 
 the Roinish Church displayed, &c. Lond. printed for J. Knapton, 
 1728," 8vo. [translated mto Welsh by Thomas ]<ichards, curate 
 of Coychurch in Glamorganshire, 1746, with the approbation 
 of Dr. Gilbert, then Bishop of LandaiF.] 4. "I epitomised those 
 Speeclies, Declarations, &c. which Rapin liad conti'acted out of 
 Rushvvoith in the Life of King James i. King Charles I. &c." 
 1729, 173(f. 5. " Remarks on the 19th chapter of the second 
 book of Mr. Selden's Mare Clausmn. Priiited at the cr'.d of 
 Ml'. Falle's Account of Jei-sey," 1734. 6. " I compared Rapin's 
 iliatory with the 20 volumes of Rymer's F(Edera, and Acta Pub- 
 lica, and all the antient and modern Historians, and added 
 most of the Notes tliat were in the folio edition," 1728. 1734. 
 This is acknowledged at the end of the preface in the first 
 volume of Rapin's History. 7. " Translation of the Notes in 
 the second Part of the Othman History, by Prince ( anteniir," 
 foho, 1735. 8. Revised and corrected " The History of England, 
 by way of Question and Answer, for Thomas Astley," 1737, 
 12mo. 9. Revised and corrected " Hearne's Ductor Historicus," 
 and made large AclditLons therclOj for J, Knapton, 10. " Ac- 
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 1748.] 
 
 " A Critical Commentary upon the Book of the 
 Wisdom of Jesus, the son of Sirach, being a con- 
 tinuation of Bp. Patrick and Mr. Lowth, by Richard 
 Arnald, B. D." foho *. 
 
 " A Voyage round the World in the Years 1 740, 
 I5 2, 3, 4, by George Anson, Esq. compiled from 
 his Papers and Materials, by Richard Walter -j-, M. A. 
 
 count of the Spanish Invasion in 1588, by wm}- of Ilhistralion to 
 the Tapestry Hangings in the House of Lords and in the King-'s 
 Wardrobe J engraved and pubhshed by J. Pine/' 1739, folio. 
 11. " Geographia Antiqua et Nova; taken })artly from Dufres- 
 noy's Methode pour etudier la Gsographie ; with Ceilarius's 
 Maps. Printed for J. and P. Knapton," 174*2, 4to. 1'2. " A 
 Sunimarv of the History of England," folio ; and ' Lists at the 
 End of Mr. Tindal's Continuation of Rapiu's Histoiv, in \o]. li *. 
 being 55 sheets; re])rinted in three voIu'Tos," 8vo. i:J. " ihe 
 History and Antiquities of Colclitswn%" folio, j^o;idon, 1.. i8; 
 second edition Ivf^jy. " All the Lives in the Biographia Britan- 
 nica marked C." V^'^''*^- foiio, 17^9 1760. 1 al-o comjvjsed 
 Stillingfieet, which hath no mark at the end, 15. "The Historv 
 of Essex/' 2 vols, folio, l/O'O 1708. la the Pn-iac?, dated 
 Jan. 2, 1768, Mr. Morant says., " All t!:at rcinains f;;r rac vo do 
 is, to expre'^s my heartiest aeknowloi^gmcnts and cratitiule 1> 
 the great Author of my life and n'lppiness, who Iiath cn;JjlLd i.;c 
 to go throu'^h this and oliier kih;;v;;/;s employment-, i c:xn 'n::)k 
 back vvilh inexpressible satisfaeti(v.i upon a life nr.t spent in id'c- 
 ness or indolence, or in fruitless anursemfUi^ ; l;i;i in a c rji^-'aul 
 endeavour to do all the good in my pov.er. 1 laiiSL !>> g ie;/,,- t<# 
 adf], that if the \vorld is be licllteri l.y my lai,ou!-, tb,;; i;i<ti. e I <;!.: 
 to my only Patron good l;:-!:ojj (;:;- .'" .). " 1 }>;' yfcd '..ic 
 RjUs of Parliamcni for the Pre s." ' j)rej;ared ii.-.ni ;l- i/f :.- 
 10" Hen. IV.] Other v,or\- "MS. 1. " An Aur-vvcr :<) u:c t;i-i 
 Part f)f the Discourse of .rounds and lu'.>-on~ (/." iitc {.]\i-<~- 
 
 tian P.eligion, in a J>! tt. ' .* Tiiend, I iZi ; pre-' ::U(i in ,''i]'> '.o 
 Edmund Gib-oj., Bislioj) .>i London /' ni ver printed. .\. {>. i'ii'- 
 was the bcijinning of M:-. ?d(1ranrs ;ie iUHiniicif' wiilj i!;- 
 Bishop, wiio gave aim .sevejal lisiiu',-. iii tii'' fnimy jf lv,-\. 
 2. " The Life' of King Edward the (.onh-^^or." ,i. .\li .lat l.^O 
 Sermons. 
 
 * In riiis voknne is "A Di-cou;-" eon;' jMir,-- ;!:<,. l\vi Si!;i- 
 fhidfs, oiv' tl!c .Author, th" otlic- the (iixek 'i'j ui-iator, of the 
 Book of i;ee..'-'ast!f;'is." 
 
 t This '.diLirs thnr'^h c'^^^.iu.rly ;,!, ii,;(l 1o Mi-. W./ut. 
 who-e ninu- ajrx'.ui'd in tlic ii'!( ];;'g. , uu] wlio ii.id tuiv^ii-i,) 
 subscriptions, was the pro.I'ie/n-'.' !'' Hcni.nni:! i<il>Mi-. ("-(j. 'i h, 
 pul)l:tk had, for .-omc tiuif, l.f ; ii in \|:;'f l ition in -i ! in.r .m 
 account of the Vova^c, coi,j-K)"d niidi;r iii . l/);.K'!iij)'-> cwn in- 
 spection: for which i)Uipo-e Air, \'. .ibcr we-. cmplKW'd, ,i- i- .\ 
 ing been chaplain to the Cciitui-'o;. d.uiiiig ti;- giv:' . p iri >.;
 
 205 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l74^* 
 
 Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion in 
 tliat ExpeditioHj" 4to. 
 
 the expedition. W;ilter had iiocoidlngly almost finislied his task, 
 la\ing' brouii'iit it down to his onn (k"})aitiuc from Macao for 
 Jb-rjgland; when hv ])roj)oacd to print hi.s work by subscri])lion. 
 it Mas thought j)roper, hcnvcver, that an abk> judge shouki iirst 
 review and correct itj and Robins was a|)pointcd ; when, upon 
 examination, it was resfhed that the whole should be written 
 cntirel) by Robins j and tbat what Waller had done, being- almost 
 all taken verbatim from tiie joiu'nals, should serve as uuiterials 
 oidy. Hence the introduction entire, and many dissertations in 
 the body of the book, were composed by Robins, without receiv- 
 ing the least hint from Walter's manuscript ; and what he had 
 thence transci'lbed regarded chieHy the wind and tlie weather, 
 the currents, eo'urses, bearings, distances, offings, soundings, 
 moorings, the ([ualities of the ground they anchored on, and such 
 particulars as geno'alty fill u}) a sailor s account. No production 
 of this kind ever met with a more fiivourable reception, four large 
 impressions being sold off Vi ithin a twel\ emonth : it has been trans- 
 lated into most of the European languages ; and it still supports 
 its reputation, having been re};eatedly reprintetl in various sizes. 
 TheFrencii aiTect to call this clief dceuvre in its way a Romance ; 
 and we must certainly give the writer credit for some of the things, 
 to the honour of his llero, which lie would have us belie\e ; as he 
 would almost persuade us that the abilities of the Commander were 
 such, that we might fancy he planned the taking the Acapulco 
 ship before he left England. Jiouever, the account, from it.-, 
 grand di\isions, &c.is a master-piece of compo.sition, and certaiidy 
 has not been equalled (except by Dr. Robertson's Histories) in these 
 enchanting particulars. A list of the oiiginal writers on the sub- 
 ject of this Voyage ma) be .seen in Gent. Mag. 17S0, vol. L. p. 322. 
 The fil'ih edition of the "Voyage," in 1/49, was revised by Mr. 
 i^obins himself, who designed, if he had remained in Jingland, to 
 have written a second j);at of It; as a])])ears by a letter Irom Lord 
 Anson to him, dated "'iSath, October 2^, 1749. Dear Sir, When 
 I last saw }oii In town, 1 forgot to ask you, whether you in- 
 tended to ].mbii:^h the stx^ond volume of my 'Voyage' before 
 \ou leave tis : vdiieii, 1 confess, I am very .sorry for. If you 
 should haNc laid a-ide all thoughts of favouring the world 
 .vitli more of vour Nvorks, it will be much disappointed, 
 and no one in it more thasi your very much obliged hum- 
 ble scivarit, AN--OX.' llnving been appointed Engineer Ge- 
 nera! to the lCa,->t ln<iia C'cmipany, Mr. Robins left England at 
 Chii-tnas 1/49 5 and, afur a voyage in wliich the shij) was 
 near, being ca.-,v away, arrive! at the Indies, July Li, 1/50. 
 Tliei'e Ir.' iunncdiately set ahout his projjcr bu.siness with un- 
 wearied diligence, and fo.vmed complete plans for Fort St. David 
 and Madras^. Jiut he lived not to put tltem into execution : 
 for, li'.e areat diiicrence of the cliuiate being bi )o,ud his coiisti- 
 
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 tution to support, he was attacked by a fever in Se])tcnib!.T ; 
 and, though he recovered out of this, yet, about eii;iit mouths 
 after, he fell into a languishing condition, inuhieli he continued 
 till his death, vhich hap])ened July '2i>, 1/51, at the early asre 
 of 44. By his last will, he left the ]>ublishi)ig of his mathemati- 
 cal works to hi; honoured and intiniate frien.d .Martin Folkes, e.^^q. 
 president of the Royal Society, and to Jauie-, Wilson, 3:1. I>. doc- 
 tor of phy-ic ; but, the former of these gentlemen being incap:i- 
 citaled ijy a paralytic disorder for some time befoiv his death, titey 
 were afterwards published by tlie latter, in <2 \(;is, 8vo, 17Gi. 
 i\Jr. Walter, in March 1745, was a])!)ointed ch-qdain of Ports- 
 mouth dock-yard 3 which oihce (worth about ;];K)/. a year) he 
 held till his death, March 10, ITft^. 
 
 * J)r. Cobderi was early in life cha})lain to R}).Gii)-o;!, to^x'iO'-e 
 patronage he was indebted for the following prefermentr, ; \iz. ilu- 
 united rectories of St. Austin and St. Faith in London IT.IO, witli 
 that of Acton in Mi(idlese\ ; a prebend in St. Paul's -, (jf Crj)iri.j,'aam , 
 in the cathedral of iJncoln, 1721 , arid of Euckdea 17 If, (resigned 
 J7'27) ; and the arciideaccjnry of London, in v.liicb !;i.-l iie .suc- 
 ceeded ])r. Robcit Tyrwint in Juiv 17 i-- ili-! ca: ii( -; jiuuli- 
 cation wa,r, "A Letter from a Minister to Ids Pufi.-idoiv. r, up.-.a 
 his biukiing a Mseiing-house, ' b\o. " A shoit ( h.iructer of 
 Mrs. Jessop, widow of tiie late Rev. Mr. Jc-.-iOii, of Tci-.i-!'ord, in 
 fkdfordsliirc^, and .\{(*tlier of .Mrs. ( olj.lcn,"' is prime. 1 in his 
 Works. lie publislied nine biuiik- Sc>rn'.ons : L " fiiL' .-^e^end 
 Methods of Cioi's jud^inu- tic- World; an A >!/.; Sermoa, 17'i--. ' 
 2. "The Datv and Rev.ard of turnnig oiiicr to iUgiileou-nc.-- - 
 pireac!ied before the Socielx for Hel'oi'uiatior. '.i" .\!;i.!ii'.i-- . If.i'J." 
 '3. " 'i'he histructi(tn ai^'iidrd bv tli.- (.liurcii <.:' 1 i.;,'.eiii ; 
 prcach'--d at '^Ir. Hiitt i)iii-,'> Ltctdrc, 17.','.)." J. '-'i";!;' Me--^ -bi'.'-.-i 
 of tlie Mcreihil, \) ir..' o. "Tiir <)lI^ ;i!',v (Vo;:lf r,,i;-' .;,!( ;(> 
 V\ai'; a FiLst .Sermon, b i'civ llu' Loi.-' '.'.\or, !*!.'>."- --';. " hr 
 Parable nfll'.e 'I\d<.Mit.- : preucucd In-Tore ! i^.; i^n> ; ii.r,'- , iiic .'.i'u- 
 dlese\ Hospital, 174S.'' "/ " !'> r-ua,;-.;' i-i i. ! ;: ny. " i'i':^i,;(, ).. 
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 and [)ub]i.-hed in 174!). In .an a!v,i-,i ;i,i(:i; ') 1 1 !/,.. ;i i- 
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 208 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l748. 
 
 ^'^ Lusus Poetici, Editio tertia^ emendatior/' by 
 Mr. Jortin^ 4to. 
 
 " Bath, a Poem," 4to. 
 
 The ibl lowing extract from a letter which Mr. 
 Bowyer sent this year to a very near Relation 
 demonstrates that gratitude to his Father's Bene- 
 factors was always a leading feature of his mind : 
 
 " You have heard all the circumstances of the 
 late dreadful fire* which I can tell vou; and I shall 
 be glad if you have prevented me in all the reflec- 
 tions upon it which I can suggest to you. Your 
 grandfather, you know, suffered a like calamity. 
 We, therefore, from experience, ought more parti- 
 cularly to have a fellow-feeling with the sufferers in 
 this 
 
 " Kon ignara mall, miseris succurrere disco. 
 
 lege. In 1755 he published "An Essay tending to promote Re- 
 ligion," Svo ; in the title-page to which he styles himself 
 "lately Chaplain above t\\enty-t\vo years to his Majesty;" and 
 in 1756" " A Pooni sacred to the Memory of Queen Anne, for 
 her Bounty to the Clergy," 4to. The following letter from 
 Dr. Cobden to his parishioners of St. Faiths, on the subject of a 
 matter in dispute between them and the Dean and Chapter of 
 St. Paul's, is extracted from Maleoiui's " Londinium Redivivum," 
 vol.11, p. 103: 
 
 " To the Gentlemen of the Committee of St. Faith's Parish, 
 
 " MY GOOD NKIGHBOUKS, 
 
 " I THiKK mjself much obliged to yovi for having such 
 regard to my interest, as to refer the ati'airs containerl in your mi- 
 nutes to my opinion; but, inde<?d, my various inlii'mities have so 
 unqualified me forjudging ])roperl} of them, that 1 am at a loss 
 to resolve e^en about common matters; and nmst therefore leave 
 it to y(ni, to consider and act as you shall judge reasonable, sup- 
 posing me out of tlie question. If I am deprived of privileges of 
 no greater consequence than tliese, I ho})e in God it will not 
 much trouble me for the short stay I am like to make in this 
 world ; I only desire to be excused from being instrumental in 
 civing avvay my own rights, and the lights of timse who shall 
 succeed me. "I'hat the blessings of this vvorkl and the next may 
 attend you, and all my });aishi(!ners, i.-; the sincere daily pra\er.s 
 of, my good neighbouis, your atiectionate ])astor and humble 
 servant, Edv. akd Coedex. 
 
 " Actdn, Jan.lS, 1757." 
 
 His whole Works were collected Ijy himself, in 1757 in two 
 volumes, 4lo. He died Ai'ril 22, 1764, aged more than 80, 
 Mrs. Cobdcn died Jan. S, 17(j2. 
 
 > Which happened ill Cornhill, I\larch'Z5, 17'48. 
 
 1 on
 
 I74S.'] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 20CJ 
 
 You are not capable of contributing to their relief; 
 but, when you reflect upon the kind support he then 
 met with (the ettects of which you now enjoy), 
 what humihty should it excite in you, what zeal 
 and resolution, to repay by a useful life the obliga- 
 tions you lie under, and to become a helpful inem- 
 ber to society, to w hich you are so much indebted ! 
 Many are entitled to the favours of the woild irom 
 the merit of their ancestors. ( 'n the contrary, the 
 world has a right to demand good actions from 
 us, for the very subsistence we owe to it, who are 
 but the children of Providence and human bene- 
 ficence. Ma^ 28, 1748." 
 
 The following is a specimen of his more familiar 
 letters ; and was addressed to Mr. Matthews, a re- 
 spectable attorney, who was the agent of an estate 
 of his in Yorkshire : 
 
 " SIR, June 28, 1748, 
 
 " Inclosed I send you the accounts signed 
 by me. I hope we shall now go on regularly with- 
 out any more repairs for many 3"ears. i am sensible 
 they must have given you a good deal of trouble, 
 as well as expence to me. How much the former 
 is, I cannot judge ; but beg you would take out 
 of the next rent such a consideration for yourself 
 as you shall think reasonable. I have ventured on 
 matrimony again : but without any view to children ; 
 more with a desire to have a nurse than to make 
 one. We have been married near a twelvemonth, 
 and have a fair title to the Dun mow bacon. You 
 will naturally want to know if 1 have married a 
 fortune. Believe me, I am too much a philosopher 
 for that : I have married a good woman, who had 
 lived with me fourteen years, a reasonable time of 
 probation, in whom I doubt not but 1 shall meet 
 with every comfort. 
 
 *' I am, sir, with hearty wishes of happiness to 
 you and yours, 
 
 " Your obliged friend; and humble servant, 
 
 W. J30WYR." 
 
 Vol. II. P I74y.
 
 210 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l749- 
 
 1749. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer printed the first ecHtion 
 of " Odes of Pindar, with several other Pieces in 
 Prose and Verse, translated from the Greek. To 
 which is prefixed a Dissertation on the Olympic 
 Games. By Gilbert West, esq. LL. D. *" 4to. 
 
 * Gilbeit West, esq. son of the reverend Dr. West, and of a 
 sister of Sir Richard Temple, afterwards lord Cobham, was 
 educated at Eton and at Oxford, with a view to the Church ; but 
 obtaining fiom his uncle a connnission, either in a regiment of 
 dragoons or dragoon guards, entered into the army ; where he , 
 continued till his appointment into the office of Lord Townshend, 
 eecretary of state, with whom he attended the King to Hano^ er. 
 He was nominated ckik-extraordinary of the jnivy cduncil in 
 May 17'29 ; soon after which he married, and settled at Wick- 
 ham in Kent, where he devoted himself to learning, and to 
 piety. Fen- his " Observation'? on the Resurrection," which ap- 
 peared in 1747j he received from Oxford, by diploma, the de- 
 gree of LL. D. IMarch 30, 1/48. He was very often visited by 
 Lyttelton and Pitt 3 \\\\o, when they were weary of faction and 
 debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent 
 table, and literaiy con\ersation. Mr. Upton's " Letter conccrn- 
 ,ing a new edition of Spenser's Fairie Oueen, 1751," 4to, was in- 
 scriijed to Mr. West. There is at Wic;kham a \s alk made by 
 Pitt ; and, what is of far more importance, at iVickham Lyttel- 
 ton received that conviction which produced his " Dissertati(m on 
 St. Paul." " Lord Chatham, to the sublimer qualities of a great 
 minister of state, joined in an extraordinary degree the rare and 
 pleasing talent of dressing or ornamenting a country, which, 
 though slightingly spoken of by Dr. Joh)von in his account of 
 fclien'-tone, will probably be more esteemed for ages to come, 
 than the Pindarics, &e. of inany (jf the writers he holds out to 
 public notice. Lnluckily for many of this order, Mr. .Granger 
 has justly observed, that their head prehxed sells now for as 
 much as the whole work, or nither that the latter \\ uuld not 
 sell at all but foi- the fornier. It was at one of tiie lodges on 
 Kufield Chace that I\Ir. Pitt eaily in life disj)layed liis great taste 
 this way. lite spot was only Hfty acres, given by Government. 
 It stUl subsists, and is a.hnijx-.d, tiiough I\lr. Pitt sold it, and 
 afterwards exercised liis genius at Hayes. Tlie slightest parti- 
 culars of so great a j>erson;ige deserve to be reeoixled. When 
 he saw the astonishing spot at liam in Derbyshire, belonging to 
 Mr. Port, he said. The ground rolls and tumbles finely here." 
 Dr. 'J'>'yfor'.<i Friend. Mr. West's income was not large; and 
 his fiiends endeavoured, but witiiout success, to obtain an aug- 
 mentation. It is reported, that the education of the young 
 Prince, our preicut cxctlieut 6o'-'vic'>'p) , was oflered to him, 
 
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 1749 .J THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 211 
 
 "Liberty, a Poem," by J. Brown*, M.A. folio. 
 
 but tliat he required a more extensive power of supcrin- 
 tendance than it was- thought proper to allow him. In 
 time, howevei', his revenue was improved 5 he lived to ha%e 
 one of tlie lucrative clerkships of the Privy CouncU in 1752 ; 
 and Mr. Pitt at last had it in his power to make him trea- 
 surer of Chelsea Hospital. He was now sufficiently rich ; 
 but wealth came too late to be long enjoved ; nor could it se- 
 cure him from the calamities of hfe : he lost his only son in 
 1755 ; and on the 26th. of March, 1756, a stroke of the palsy 
 (to use the words of the incomparable \^''riter from whom I have 
 borrowed the greater pail of this note) " brought to the gra^e 
 one of the few Poets to whom the gra\e might be without iti 
 terrors." 
 
 * This elegant, ingenious, and unhappy author (who at the 
 time of printing tins poeai, and long after, lived in habits of 
 intimate friendship with Mr. Bowyer, from whose press such 
 part of his writings as made their liist appearance in I^ndon 
 Avere pi'oduced), was born at Rothbmy, in the county of \orth- 
 umberland, Noveniber 5, 1715. The family fi'om which iie was 
 lescended were the Browns of C'o!stown, near Haddington in 
 .Scotland. His father, John Brown, was a native of Scotland ; 
 and, at the time of his son's birth, was cumte to Dr. Thomlinson, 
 rector of Rothbuiy. He afterwards was collated to the vicarage 
 of Wigton in Cumberland. To this place he canied his son, 
 who there received the first part of his education. Tlience he 
 was remo^ed to the University of Cambridge, i7.>-, and en- 
 tered of St. John's college, under the tuititni of Di. Tunstall. 
 After taking the degree of bachelor of arts, in 17.'i5, v>il!i gieat 
 reputation, he returned to Wigton, and was oidained Ijv Dr. 
 Fleming, bishop orCarlir^le. His first preliennent was to a uiinor 
 canonry and Icctiueship of that cathedral. In IJM betook the 
 degree of iM. A. ; and some time after was jiro^ented to the living 
 of Morland, m the courUy of Westmoreland, ile rc-ignfM ]\i:> 
 preft.'rment in the cathedral of Carlisle ia ditvjiist: and reiriain(d 
 in obscurity at that city several vears, till the li-ebellion oi l', .5. 
 when he acted as a volunteer at the siege of the ca-i' le, unCi Lciuis cd 
 with great intrepidity. Having applied hinv-df .0 jxiiiv, T.d 
 composed "Ad Essavon Satire" (which hepubii-lu'fl), ocia^inncd 
 by the death of Mr. Pope; tluit production mai!'.' hiui Li:C).', ." iii 
 Mr. Wai burton ; who intro<iuced him to many >'.^' i.^ i.i i"i.-; 
 and, among the rest, to Mr. CharJch''''()i'ke; uy '..l-.f-e ;; (.ui- lie- 
 obtained of the Lord \iscount Kos^ton lUv i.'c:;);y <n iIo:i; ley. 
 near Colchester, worth ;{00/. a year. i'Wi^ Inir..- li- -oi.a afhi' 
 left, on a fpiarrel with hi- patronV f iiiiiiy ; and :kvc;)' d tu'-r 
 vicarage of \ewca-tie from the Bi-h'^j) of * '.ii !i-!'.' ^Dr. CNbal- 
 deston), wliose chaplain he was. On >c\i ral oth r (>< i ii-^ion^ he 
 also experienced the friendship of Di. Uarbiuton ; uiio, in a 
 letter to Mr. Hurd, Jan. 30, 17i;)-5(), s:i\-, " Mr. Brown has }ine 
 parts: he has a genius fovpo<>tn, and ha-s ac(|uiicd a .irci- of 
 versification very uncommon. Poiu Mr l'o;'e had .1 liido h(f(n(' 
 
 1 1 hi!
 
 512 tITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l749. 
 
 The Eighteenth Edition of his old friend Mr. 
 Nelson's work on the " Feasts and Fasts of the 
 Church pf England." 
 
 his death planned out an epic poem, which he began to be \ cry 
 intent upon. The subject was Bride. I gave this ])lan to Mr. 
 Brown. He has wrote the first book, and in a surprising way, 
 though an untinished essay. I told him this was to be the work 
 of years, and mature age, if ever it was donej that, in the mean 
 time, he should think of something in prose that might be useful 
 to his character in his own profession. I recommended to him 
 a thing I once thought of myself it had been recommended to 
 me by Mr. Pope an examination of all Lord Shaftesbury says 
 against Religion. Mr. Pope told me, that, to his knowledge, 
 the Characteristics had done more harm to Revealed Religion in 
 England than all the works of Infidelity put together. Mr. Brown 
 now is busy upon this work." A few days after, Feb. 10, he adds, 
 .... ''All you say of Mr. Brown's poetical scheme is exactly true: 
 and, to speak in the classical language, it must be committed to 
 the Gods. Time will shew whether they will mature it." Again, 
 Dec. 23, 1750, " It is generous and right in you, to take notice 
 in an advantageous manner of two such promising young men 
 as Mr. Brown and Mr. Mason, who prevent us from despairing 
 of the quick revival of the poetic genius. Mr. Brown is print- 
 ing his Remarks on the Characteristics. It will be much better 
 than you could conceive from the specimen you saw of it. Mr, 
 Yorke and I advised him to gj^e it a different form. We said, 
 that if we were to ansu er a gia\c, formal, methodical woik, we 
 should choose to do it in, the loose way of dialogue and raillery : 
 as, on the other hand, if we wrote against a rambling dlscuitise 
 of wit and humour, the best way of exposing it would be by logi- 
 cal argumentation. The truth is ("uUer riosj his talents do not 
 seem so much to lie towards fine and easy raillery, as to a vivacitj', 
 an elegance, and a correctness of observation in the reasoning 
 way." June 30, 17^3, Dr. Warburton says, " Our iiiend, little 
 Brown, seems to have been much pleased v\ ith the observation 
 I communicated to him on poor Law's folly. * Mr. Kurds re- 
 mark was like the man it came from ; like a man who sees b\ 
 an early penetration that which tlie generality never find out till 
 they have drudged on to the end of life. I assinc you, you can- 
 not love and esteem him more than I do. I flunk him amongst 
 the first rank of men on every accotnit.' Brown never said or 
 writ any thing that gave me a better opinion of his sense." 
 Oct. 14, 1754, Our honest little friend Brown is fertile in pro- 
 jects. He has a scheme to erect a chaplain and chapel in the 
 castle of Carlisle, and to be himself the man. Inter nos, I believe 
 he might as well think of erecting a third archbishopriek. He 
 wrote to me for Sir John Ligonier's interest with the Duke ; whose 
 application there would be enough to blast the project, could he 
 ever bring it to blossom. I was sorry I had a necessity to tell 
 him this, because it was a thing not to be spoke of. And now J 
 
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 i749.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 213 
 
 A very large impression of Lord Bolingbroke's 
 " Three Letters ; on the Spirit of Patriotism ; on 
 the Idea of a Patriot King; and on the State of 
 
 have done so, I question whether he will credit it." Nov. 13 
 1754, " Pray niiike my best compliments to our good friend 
 Master Doctor Brown (to address him in the old style, while I 
 am uncertain of his new) , and greet him on his fresh honours : 
 I thank him for his letter; \\ hich, as we shall see him so soon, I 
 forbear to trouble him ith the further acknowledgment of. He 
 knows he is ab\ays welcome to Prior-park." The Doctor s de- 
 gree was obtained in 1755 ; and on this occasion Mr. Hurd thus 
 addressed Mr. Bowyer : " i3rown, the antagonist of Lord Shaf- 
 tesbury, is now in College, and has taken his Doctor's de- 
 gree. He preached a Sermon here, which many people com- 
 mended ; it was to prove that Tyranny wiis producti\ e of 
 Superstition, and Superstition of Tyranny ; that Debauchery 
 was the cause of Free-thinking, and Free-thinking of Debau- 
 cherj'. His conclusion was, that tlie only way of keeping 
 us from being a French province, was to preserve our consti- 
 tutional liberties, and the purity of our manners." About this 
 period he wrote the Tragedy of " Barbarossa;" on which Dr. 
 VVarburton observes, Jan. 31, 1755-G, "Brown has told me the 
 grand secret; and I wish it had been a secret still to me, when it 
 was none to every body else. I am giieved that either these im- 
 rewarding times, or his love ofpoetrij, or his love of money, should 
 have made him overlook the duty of a Clergyman in these times, 
 and the dignity of a Clergyman in all times, to make connexions 
 with Players. Mr. Allen is grieved. You are sufficiently grieved, 
 as I .'-aw by your postscript in a letter to him, where you reprove 
 him for an advertisement. We told him, that we should both 
 have dissuaded him from his project had he comumnicated it to 
 us. As it was, we had only to lament the state of tliese times, 
 that forced a learned and ingenious Clergyman into these mea- 
 sures, to put him-elf at ease." In 1757, he ijiibliahed his cele- 
 brated " E,-timate of the Mannei-s and Principles of the Times," 
 a work which w;is nm down by popular clamour, but not. an- 
 swered. In this woik, after having endeavouitd to (k'j)ieciale 
 the literary spirit of tlie age. Dr. Br<J\vn tims ciiaracterizes his 
 fi-iend Dr. VVarburton, "True it is, amidst this general defect of 
 taste and learning, there is a Wiiter, whose force of genias, and 
 extent of knowledge, nn'glit almost ndeem the character t)f the 
 times. But that .superiority, whicli attracts tlie reverence of 
 the few, excites the envy and hatred of the many: and while 
 his works are translated and admired abroid, and |)atr()ni>ed at 
 home, by those who are most (lislingui.she<l in genius, taste, and 
 learning, himself is abused, and his friends in-.ulti(i for his sake, 
 by those who never rearl iiis writings, or. if they did, could nei- 
 ther taste nor com|)rfchenil tliem : while every link' a-jjiiing 
 or despairing scribbler c}es him a:; Cassias di'l Cic.^ar, and whis- 
 pers to hio fellow.
 
 214 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l749. 
 
 Parties on the Accession of King George the First;" 
 8vo, 
 
 " Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world 
 Like a Colossus ; and we petty men > 
 Walk under his huge legs ; and peep about 
 To find ourselves dishonourable graves!" 
 
 No wonder then if the malice of the Lilliputian tribe be bent 
 against this dreaded Gulliver ; if they attack him with pois(>ned 
 arrows, whom they cannot subdue by strength." Sept. 19, 1757, 
 Dr. Warburton says, " Brown h here; I think rather perter than 
 ordinary, but no wiser. You cannot imagine the tenderness they 
 all have of his tender places : and with how unfeeling a hand I 
 probe them. It seems he said something to them of another 
 Estimate. My wife told him, he must take care of carrying the 
 joke too far. To me he has mentioned nothing of it, nor have 
 I given him an opportunity." Obtaining the vicarage of St. Ni- 
 cholas, Newcastle, he resigned his li\ing in Essex to LordHard- 
 wicke; between whom, as well a-% Dr. Warburton and him, there 
 had seme time before been a coolness. June 17, 1760. " The 
 Vicar of Newcastle has, at length, ceded his place to the Estimator: 
 who, I suppose, will now gratify his resentment against his former 
 patrons, for their turning their back upon him." Oct. 9. " Brown 
 is just got here. His visits are always surprises. He is going shortly 
 to London, for institution to Newcastle. Your candour was mis- 
 placed. By his own confession, his purpose in the pro])osal to 
 B. D. [the Bishop of Durham] was to keep Horksley. Nor does 
 he seem sensible of any inconsistency between his i)retensions 
 and his conduct: so hajipily is he framed to satisfy himself." 
 March 18, 1761. " I am sorry for Dr. Brown. It is Aery pain- 
 ful, as I have heard Mr. Allen say with his usual tenderness and 
 humanity, to hear these things of one whom one has known and 
 esteemed. But whatever inclination his spite to tiie family, 
 rather than the value of the thing itself, might give him to hold 
 the living, he must needs think himself obliged by the good ad- 
 vice of his friends. When he comes to cool a little, he cannot 
 but perceive that both his ease and his honour required him to 
 resign Horksley, after what had passed between him and his patron. 
 But why is this deduction at Nev/castle ? It is impossible he should 
 have disgusted the Corporation already." Dr. Brown received 
 no higher preferment, which to a person of his sp'irit must have 
 been a great mortification. In the latter part of life, he had 
 an invitation from the Empress of Russia to superintend a grand 
 design which she had formed, of e.sLtending the advantages of 
 civilization over tiiat great Empire. He accepted the offer, and 
 actually prepared for his journey ; but, finrling his health in too 
 precarious a state to admit of his fuifiliing his intention, he was 
 obliged to relinquish it. ^fliis and other disappointments were 
 followcfl by a dejection of spirits, which he bad often been sub- 
 ject to. In an interval of deprivation of reason, Sept. 53, 176"6. 
 ht unfortunatelv destroyed \nms<Ai, in the 5J[st year of his age. 
 
 " What
 
 1749-1 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 21 5 
 
 " Isoci atis Opera, quae quidem nunc extant om- 
 nia. Varias Lectiones, Versionem novam, ac 
 Notas adjunxitGulielmus Battie *, M.D. Coll. Med. 
 Lond. et Soc. Regiae Socius," 2 vols. 8vo. 
 
 "A Description of the Machine for the Fireworks, 
 with all its Ornaments, and a Detail of the Manner 
 in which they are to be exhibited in St. James's 
 Park, Thursday, April 27, 1 74,9, on account of the 
 General Peace -j^," 4to. 
 
 " The last Words of David, divided according to 
 the Metre, with Notes critical and explanatory, by 
 Richard Grey X, I>- D." 4to. 
 
 A Second Volume of "Fitzosborne's Letters," 8vo; 
 with a new edition of both volumes in one, 8vo. 
 
 " The Songs in Jack the Giant ()ueller," a Comic 
 Opera, by Henry Brooke '^. 
 
 " What you predicted of poor Brown," says Bishop Wuiburton, 
 " you hear, is come to pass." On which Bi.>hop Hard oljstr\es. 
 " He was a man of honour and probity ; but his judgment, lying 
 too much at the mercy of a suspicious lemjjer, betrayed hisn, on 
 some occasions, into a conduct, which h)olved Hke unsteadiness, 
 and even ingratitude towards his bfst friends. But, wliat(\er 
 there was, or seemed to be, of tliis complexion in his life or 
 writings, must be imputed to the latent constitutional disorder, 
 which ended so fatally." Such of his writings as were piinted 
 by Mr. Bowyer will be mentioned under their sevex'al years. 
 
 * Of whom see under the year I'/^L 
 
 t This was printed under the ins{)oction of Ciaetano Rwggc vi 
 and Giuseppe Sarti, who superintended ihi.-^ bu-im-.-.-^ by dirtx 
 tion of the Boai'd of Ordnance. 
 
 I Of whom see vol. I. j). 4'2.5 ; to wliirli m'ly be added tliat, in n. 
 letter dated 1733, Dr. Richard (irey mi'niiuns his neing far ad- 
 vanced in " a Work upon the Downfall of IMonarchy and Kpi.-fo- 
 pacy. Something of this kind," Jie add'^, "' would be of ^er\icc, 
 to discourage thinking men, an',1 ;i)l who )ia\c nn\ irgmd for 
 Religion, from jjlaying vhe sauit- game (jver arain." in 17 J(> lie 
 was soUciting .Tub.-^criptions j'cr "a work whcie ihc i'\jn'.i(i- u:\- 
 to be exlraorfliiiary, and the leaders coiiipar;tii\t Iv t)ut ti u ; 
 yet he leceived mucli encouragi'niciU ii'om iii^ -iijin lor-. '! i:i' 
 Master of St. John's [in Oxford] .-,u!)m-i ibfd i'li- .-i\i n to|;i(-. 
 
 "A native of Ireiajid, when- in- pMvS"^M-d a jj.iiiTual i-wr.c, 
 in the county of Cav an, ;uid wii> also baii'acl. :aa.-iir of MuIIiiigar, 
 in the county of \V(-i!i)!';ah, ile gaiiicil gj'.it niuitation a.- a 
 writer by ' The r'an.Mrs Lc-ti.r.-,' iMj!;'i-!,id ni lahind i). in.- 
 time of the rebellio:!, aaul v. li.len afu : U.r iu;uuai- of ' ihi- 
 . J)rapier's Letters." iii.- u'vat .'-I a}i|>lii'a;ioii, iio'.\c\ti. .-tuns 
 to have bt.en to the diu!-.'-; . '.r. .u 17Jtj h'' hud iui ua'-cly
 
 2l6 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l750. 
 
 1750. 
 
 In this year a prefatory dissertation, and some 
 valuable notes *, were annexed by Mr. Bovvyer to 
 
 of * Gustavus Vasa' rehearsed at Drury-lane. The actors were 
 all ready in their parts, and no bar seemed in the way to its 
 public appearance, when an order came from the lord chamber- 
 lain to prohibit it. He met with the same ill success in Dublin 
 with regard to his opera of 'Jack the Giant guelier,' brought on 
 soon after the close of the rebellion, which after the first night's 
 representation was forbidden by the Government to be continued. 
 As to his first play, howcAer, the prohibition did him no kind of 
 injury, as he was immediately encouraged to publish it by a sub- 
 scription, which has been said to have amounted to 800^. In 1741, 
 his * Betrayer of his Countiy' was brought on the stage in Dub- 
 lin, and met with success; and about 17''>2, at the same theatre, 
 his ' Earl of Essex.' This last play, howe\ er, being the property 
 of Mr. Sheridan, manager of Smock-alley theatre, when that 
 gentleman acted at Drury-lane theatre, in the winter of 1761, 
 his emoluments being to arise fiom a certain proportion of the 
 profits of the house on those nights in which he performed, he 
 was allowed a right of reviving, or getting up, such plays as he 
 imagined vAould turn out the most to his and the managei-'s 
 joint advantages Among those which he fixed on as his choice, 
 was Mr. Brooke's 'Earl of Essex;' which, being licensed by the 
 Lord Chamberlain, was now brought out at Driny Lane, and 
 met v.ith good success. Tlnough the whole of IVIr. Brooke's 
 writings there breathes a strong s})irit of liberty, and patiiotic 
 zeal, which, though the natural and inborn principles of every 
 subject of thce realms, may have .subjected them 10 misrepre- 
 sentation ; and, what is far from an uncommon case, rendered 
 general sentiment susj^ected as particular reflection ; yet those 
 who have the pleasure of kno\\ing this gentleman personally 
 must be so well assured of the integrity ot his heart, and his 
 film attachment to the ]>i-esent happy succession, as will entirely 
 cie;u" him iioni tiie slightest .'-upposition of anv intent to excite 
 coiTuption, or awaken discontent, by ar.y of his writings. His 
 dramatic pieces in tht-nifcclves, indejiendep.t of these kinds of 
 considerations, though riOt to be ranked in the first class, have 
 rmdoubtedly a con'^iderabic share of merit. His plots are inge- 
 niously laid and well c(mducted, i:is cliaractcTs not iU-drawn, 
 and hi,- language bold and nervous ; though it must be acknow- 
 ledi.':ecl in the last particidar the author at times seems to pay 
 too little regard to the correctness of niOLSure, and to that po- 
 lish wiiich tie language of trage.ly oii^ht to icceive from har- 
 mony of niimbers." H'S drama ic pieces (of which there are 
 fifteeii) are all ineludei' in the general collection of his Work.s, 
 which werp printed in 1778, in 4 volumes, bvo. Mr. Biooke 
 died at L>ubhn. Oct. 10, i;83. 
 
 * Mr. M irkland, in a letter dated Oct. 21, 1749, says, "The 
 .specimen of Ku:ter I like very well, aiud your Annotations. 
 
 Ii<forc
 
 1750.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ^IJ 
 
 *' Lud. Kusterus de vero Usu Verborum Mediorum, 
 eorumque Differentia a V^erbis Activis et Passivis*." 
 About the same time Mr. Bovvyer wrote a Latin 
 Preface to the ' Veteres Poetae citati ad Patris Phi- 
 lippi Labbei de ancipitum Grascarum Vocahum in 
 prioribus Syllabis Mensura (ubi connrmanda esset) 
 confirmandam seiiteiitiam. Necnon ad indicandum 
 quibus Vocibus hcet corripere Vocalem longam 
 ante alteram in eadem dictione. Opera et Cura 
 
 Before this little volume was published, s^ copy of it was sent for 
 the inspection of Mr. Markland, who, Feb. 'ij, 1/49-50, savs, 
 " Tlie reason why you have not heatd from me is, because I 
 reaiiy ha\e not had time so much as to look into the Kuster 
 as yet. another ])art of the jiaicel you sent lia\ing taken up aU 
 the time 1 couki spare, and given me more trouble and per- 
 plexity than I ihink I ever yet experienced in the literary way. 
 If you know, or can guess, what I mean, I need not s;iy any 
 nuire ; hut it is probable you will know more of it hereafter, 
 which perhaps i^ as lenigmatical as the former sentence; how- 
 ever, I made an end of it, to my great joy, yesterday, and then 
 intended to rf'atl Kuster ; but la-t night aljout one o'clock I 
 waked in crtat <Iisordtr, and, ])utting n^v watch to niy ear, I 
 found 1 could not hear This (li^order and deafness still con- 
 tinues, but not in so great a degree as it w<is at tirst, which 
 makes me ho_ e chat it is nothin.g but a cold, or some temporary 
 malady vvliich will soon go off; but at present I am no more 
 able to read anv thing with attention than I am to command an 
 army ; s.) that if you are in haste for Kuster, or the loo.-e 
 leaves. Jet me know by the next post, and I will send them 
 forthuiiii" VV'liat trie literary con)munieation was with which 
 Mr. Markland was so perplexed does not appear. His remarks 
 on " the loo.-e lea\es ' may be seen in vol. IV. p. 323. 
 
 * Mr. Clarke, who communicated sucli remarks on Kuster as 
 had occurred to him, sav^ on tills occa^it)n, " 1 am alwavs re- 
 joiced when tlie press gives you tlie pleasure, as well as the 
 trouble, of attention ; and it would ainajs do tliat, if \ou would 
 keep some .scheme of vom* own on foot, 'llv.^ book will cer- 
 tainly do; anrl the more liboities you take with il , 1 shall likr 
 it the better." A new edition of this work, with fujthei 
 improvements, ap])eared in 1773. The l)i->ertation was like- 
 wise adoptfd by Mr. Holw< 11, in I'iGG, in hi-cuiious erlitiim of 
 " Selecti Dionvsii Ilalicavnasnensi.^ de Pri>ci.>i Niiptoiibus 'I'rar- 
 tatiis Gra:ec et Latine," with tiiis jjoliti- acknowledgement : 
 " Hanc Disscrtationeni >u;e L. Ku-tdi de \ero L'>u N'erhoiuni 
 Mediorum, &e. Cilit. 17r)(), ))r.eli\it (iuil. Ronsei', IVjiOgraphu-. 
 Eandeiu, aictior (piidf in, nt lia'K' no-tr.i.:i Select. Dion, il 1. 
 Tractat. cditioneni oriiaret, iiujiotra%i: ouo noinir.'', \ iro oj - 
 time de republica lileraia;\ merilo, r^^iatias av^o ' 
 
 Kdwartli
 
 2lS LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iToO- 
 
 Edward I Leedes, in Schola Buriensi ad acuendos 
 adolescentium animos, erga Poesetos studiiim (clim 
 ipse Poeta non sit) cotis vice fiingentis." 
 
 In 1750 he printed Mr. George Vertue^s "Cata- 
 logue of King Charles the First's Pictures," 4to. 
 
 "Officia ReHgionis ChristianaCj metric^ enume- 
 rata a Ben. Culm *, S.T. B." 4to. 
 
 "Epistola-f- ad Edw. Bentham, S.T. P. a Johanne 
 Burton t, S.T.B, Coll. Eton. Soc." 
 
 " Julian, or a Discourse concerning the Earth- 
 quake and Fiery Eruption which defeated that 
 Emperor's Attempt to rebuild the Temple at Jeru- 
 salem ; in which the Reality of a Divine Interposi- 
 tion is shewn ; the Objections to it are answered ; 
 and the Nature of that Evidence which demands 
 the Assent of every reasonable Man to a miraculous 
 
 * Of St. John's College, Cambridge; B. A. 1719; M. A. and 
 fellow 1723} B. D. 1731; and in 1745 (see Gent. Mag. 1779, 
 vol. XLIX. p. 249) he succeeded old Broom as rector of Fresh- 
 water, in the Isle of Wight ; where, on a flat stone in the nave 
 of the church, his history is thus recorded : 
 
 " Inira sepultee jacent 
 
 exuviae Ben. Culm, S.T.B. 
 
 Coll. Div. Joan. Evang. Cantab, quondam 
 
 prsesidis ; hujus ecclesise per annos circiter 
 
 viginti et trcs rectoris. Natus est in 
 
 eivitate Cestri:e, A.D. 1696-J, et evectus ad 
 
 ;. banc rectoriam cal. Octob. 1745, 
 
 ubi inter amicos parochianos suos 
 
 post plurimam annorum continuam 
 
 connnorationem amicam aniniam efflavit 
 
 secundo die mensis Januarii, 
 
 A.D. 176"S." 
 
 One of his predeces&ois is also thus recorded on a flat stone 
 near the altar : 
 
 " Hie jacet Joscphus Crefteild, S.T. P. 
 hujus Eccle^ia'. ])er annos 28 rector, 
 
 Radulphi Crelleild armlgeri de 
 
 oppido Colcesiri;E in agro Essexien3i 
 
 Alius natu sccundus. Obiit 18 die 
 
 Augusti, A. D. 1723, ajtat. G5." 
 
 f Annexed to bis " Ej)istola Critica ad Job. Gid. Thompson, 
 Pialogi Platonis, qui Parnienides inscribitvu', editorem. Accedit 
 Elogiam mernoviic sacruuj Johan. Rogers." 
 
 + Of v.hoiTi see before, p. 57. 
 
 Far.*-
 
 1/50.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. SI5 
 
 Fact is considered and explained. By the Rev. Mr. 
 Warburton^ Preacher to the Hon. Society of Lin- 
 coln' s-inn," 8vo. 
 
 The First Volume of " Remarks on Ecclesiastical 
 History," by the Rev. John Jortin *, M. A." 8vo. 
 
 A new edition of Mr. Cheselden's'|~ "Anatomy of 
 the Human Body," 8vo. 
 
 '^ An Account of the Doctrine, Manners, Liturgy, 
 and Idiom of the Un'itas Fratrmn, &c, by the ReV. 
 John Gambold ;*'." 
 
 * See the "P^ssays and Illustrations" in voI.V. No. XVII. 
 
 f Of this celebrated Anatomist sec some account in the " Es- 
 says and Illustrations," vol.V. No. XVIll. T'ne lirst edition of his 
 excellent work on Anatomy appeared so early as 1713, and wsis 
 inscribed to Dr. Mead, to ^yhom Mr.C'heselden ailinowledaes him- 
 self entirely indebted for the kind rece ])iion his in;!usti-y iiad met 
 with, '''particularly in tliat seat of learning [Oxford] which with 
 distinguished honours re\varded tho merit of Dr. .Mead ;"' and in 
 the Preface acknowledges his obligations to Dr. Douglas, to 
 " his honoured friend Mr. Gieen, surgeon to the Hosj^ital of 
 Christ Church and that of St. Bartholomew 5" and to liis lat..- 
 \yorthy master Mr. Fernc, .urgeon to Si. Thomas's hosjutal." To 
 this volume Vv'a.s added, " Svllabus, sive Index Humani Corjiu; is 
 pariium Anatomicus, in xxxv IVielectiones di~tinctus. i;i iisum 
 Theatii Anatomici Willielmi Che.-.tklen Ciiir'irgi, S.il.S. J'^rUtio 
 fiecunda." Mr. Highniore, tlie ceieb}'atef' jrainter, who liad 
 attended the lectures of Mi". Cheseld> 11 i>> ii^i^'iovc hii::-; If in 
 Anatomy, made aftei'wai'ds several diawings frt);n tli.; ica! .-u!>- 
 jects at the time of dissection, two of v.iiich Vvci-c i:igra\cd for 
 Mr. Chesclden's "Anatomy," and apjear, hut uillioai i;-- name, 
 in Tables XII, and XI 11. " 
 
 X This truly ]n'iiuitive Chvi.-tian, to uhose mnnojy I am 
 htippy in haviuu' this ojuxjrtiinUv oc' gratefulh aci\no-,vle(!ging 
 niv regard, wils born near Haverford West, in Soutii VVale,s, 
 and became a member of ( hrist Church at Oxford, where he 
 took the degree of M. A. May.'iO, \',M; luid wa^ af'erwards 
 vicar of Stanton ]iarcourt, in Oxfordshire, wheic. inl7lO, hu 
 
 5 The fdllowin-- piirlicuiars \ww coiiiinunir;:!'-! l<i tlu' Author of tiiiM' 
 " .Aii'icdotes' by a tViciul wh'i kii.w li'iii :ii t!u <-\v\' \i.\v\. of ?.> : " .Mr. 
 GanibulU w;is :t' siiigal.-ir, (a ..i- Z'-.iliMi-, Imt inii^ m . in hiivi.ist. lie h:l 
 not f|!iilL- fire < ii'ui-h in him to finn a -r,i,n<i Mm- wii '; vli'' ~. He u:is |>ir>- 
 Etiited to Manioti Haroourt hy Hishop Se-'h<-i\ I Ihiuk m \~.'M, but raiiiiot 
 b* cert;iin. Jlc hml been only cl apbiln '.!'( iir.si Ciiuj-.-ii, not a slud.-iit (! In- 
 tern) triven to liie tVllows), of tliat royal i'ortiKl.i'i'.ii. \U- tle-eitcd lnh llu.k 
 Ui ITii, witliout j;iv;ii,- any notice '.o hi- v,.,i;by d'oei sail .ind patron, to 
 :iss(.,-kU'.' with thf ."NicraviVais. Wh'T. h" u.is yown;;, lie liad ii.arlv 
 p.-nOied throiiu'b disn umi to liis prr^on. .M. tnis tune h-' was knidlv r. - 
 lieved bv hs brother cull'.' i.'.'i :u ti:e saiu.- livpiuWi'Mt ; Dr. I'lee, a p. rsoii 
 .'' !' I-Ujn m 1 vudon ; Lu. li..; tali; is uot wur.U ..imii^ " 
 
 vr^>te
 
 220 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1750- 
 
 Two Editions of Mr. Edwards's " Canons of Cri- 
 ticism/' 8vo. 
 
 wrote "The Martyi-dom of Ignatius, a Tragedy," published after 
 his death by the Rev. Benjamin La Trobe, with the Life of Ig- 
 natius, drawn from authentic accounts, and from the Epistles 
 written by him from Smyrna and Troas, on his way to Rome, 
 1773, 8vo. A Sermon, which he preached before the University 
 of Oxford, was })ub!ished under the title of " Christianity, 
 Tidings of Joy, 1741," Svo. In 1742 he published at Oxford, 
 fi'om the University press, a neat edition of the Greek Testa- 
 ment, but without his name, " Textu per omnia Milliano, cum 
 divisione pericoparum et interpunctvu^^ A. Bengehi," 12mo. 
 Joining afterwards tlie Church of the Brethren, established by 
 an Act of Parliament of the year 1749, and known by the name 
 of Unitas Fratrum, or, the United Brethren, he was, for many 
 years, the reg-ular minister of the congregation settled at la)n- 
 don, and resided in Neville's-court, Fetter-lane, where he 
 preached at the Chapel of the Brethren. In the year 1754, he 
 was consecrated a Bishop of the Brethren's Church. Soon after 
 he had joined the Brethren, he pubhshed a treatise, which he 
 had Aviitten whilst at Stanton Marcourt, and which proves hig 
 steady attachment to the Chiu'ch of England, entirely consistent 
 with his connexion with, and ministry in, the Church of the 
 Brethren. The title of it is, " A short Summaiy of Christian 
 Doctrine, in the Way of Question and Answer ; the Answers 
 being all made in the sound and venerable Words of the Common- 
 prayei-book of the Church of England. To which a)e added. 
 Some P^xtracts out of the Homihes. Collected for the Service of 
 a few Persons, Memljers of the Established Church 3 but ima- 
 gined not to be unuseful to others." I know not the exact date 
 of this treatise ; but a second edition of it was printed in 1767j 
 12mo. Mr. Gambold also published, in 1751, 8vo, "Maxims, 
 Theological Ideas, and Sentences, collected out of several Dis- 
 fertations and Di.-courses of Count Zinzendorf, from 1738 till 
 1747- ' His " Hymns for the Use of Brethren" were printed by 
 Mr. Bowyer in the years 1748, 1749, and 1752; some Hymns, 
 and a small Hymn-book foi- the ehiklren belonging to the 
 Brethren's congregations, weie printeil entirely by Mr. Gam- 
 bold's own hand, in Lindsey-house at Clielsca. A Letter from 
 Mr. Ganibold to Mr. Sjiangenberg, June 4, 1750, containing a 
 concise and well-written character of the Count of Zinzendorf ||, 
 was iriserted in Mr. Jamts Hutton's "Es^ay towards giving some 
 just Ideas of the personal Character of ( ount Zinzendorf, the 
 present Advocate and Ordiiiary of the Brethren's Churches, 
 
 The " Petition of the Bretiiren" on this occasion, most probably drawn 
 up by Mr. Ca)i)l)o!(J, ViCt.s print:'d by Mr. Bowyer. It is preserved in the 
 "Journals of the House of Conunons," vol. XXV'. p. 727. 
 
 11 The (Jomj)i!er of tiii:; No!)lc uishop's I.ifo in the " B,gra[)hia Britannica, 
 1766," atknowlcdg-es Li< oijlijration to Mr. Gambold, fcr sotnf? personal in- 
 tornKiHou on that subject.. 
 
 1755.."
 
 1750.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 221 
 
 In 1750 also, having been employed to print an 
 
 1755," 8vo, In 1752 he was editor of "Sixteen Discourses on 
 the Second Article of the Creed, preached at Berlin by the 
 Ordinary of the Brethren/' l!2mo. In June 1753 apjieared 
 " The Ordinary of the Brethren's Churches his short and per- 
 emptory Remarks on the Way and Manner whei'ein he has 
 been hitherto treated in Controversies, &c. Translated from 
 the High Dutch, with a Preface, by John Gambold, Minister of 
 the Chajjel in Fetter-lane." In the same year he published, from 
 Mr. Bowyers press, " Twenty-one Discourses, or Dissertations, 
 upon the Augsburg Confession, which is also the Brethren's 
 Confession of Faith ; delivered by the Ordinary of the Brethren's 
 Churches before the Seminary. To which is prefixed a Synotli- 
 cal Writing relating to the same subject. Translated from the 
 High Dutch, by F. Okeley, B. A." In 17.54 he wtts editor of "A 
 modest Plea for the Church of the Brethren, &c." Svo j witii a 
 Preface by himself. In the same year, in conjunction with Mr. 
 James Hutton, secretary to the Brethren, he also drew up "The 
 Representation of the Committee of the English Congregation^ 
 in union with the Moi'avian Ch\n"ch," addressed to the Arcii- 
 bishop of York ; and also, " The plain Case of the Representatives 
 of the People known by the Name of the JJnitas Fratnim, from 
 the Year 1727 till these Times, with regard to their Conduct in 
 this Country under Misrepresentation." And in 1755 he assisted 
 in the publication of "A Letter from a Minister of the Morauau 
 Branch of the Uiiitas Fratnuii; together with some additional 
 Notes by the English Editor, to the Author of the Moravians 
 compared and detected J " and also of "An Exposition, or true 
 State of the Matters objected in England to the People known 
 by the Name of Unitas Fralrum; by tiie Ordinary of tiie Brethren, 
 the Note.i and Additions by the Editor." In the }ear 175(i' he 
 preached at Fetter-lane chapel, and printed aficrvvard'^, a Sermon 
 upon a Puijlic Fast and Ilmnihation, setting forth "The Reason- 
 ableness and Extent of religious Reverence." He wa- nut only 
 a good scholar but a man of great parts, and of sing\il;u' mecha- 
 nical ingenuity. It was late in both tlieir li\ es before Mi-. Bo'vvyer 
 was acquainted with his merits; I)ut he no soonei' knew them, 
 than he was happy in his acquaintance; and very frecjuently 
 applied to him as an occasicmal aisi^tant in correc ting tin jire-s , 
 in which capacity Mr. Gambold sui-erinteiided (aniong-^t ia;iny 
 other valuable publicaticms) the beautiful and vi:yy accurate 
 edition of Lord Chancellor Bacon's Works in ]7<^'>; and in \~('>7 
 he was professedly the editor, and took an jictive part in the 
 translation from the High Dutch, of " The Hi-toiyc^'tiro nland , 
 containing a Description of the Countrr and its Inh il)itant- ; 
 and parti'idarly a Rehition of the Mission, carried on for ab<iM, 
 these Thirty Years by the Unitas Fnttrum at New Hernjliul and 
 LichtenfeLs' in that Omntry, hv David Crantz; illustrated with 
 Maps and other Copper Plates : printed for the Bnthnn's So- 
 ciety for the Furtherance of the (Jo-^pel among the lleatlicn," 
 2 vols. 8vo. In the autumn of 170'a he retired to liis native 
 
 c(junlrv.
 
 222 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l/SO* 
 
 edition of Bladen's* translation of CcEsar's Commen- 
 taries ; that work received considerable improve- 
 ments from his hands -^-^ and the addition of such 
 
 countiy, where he died, at Haverford West, universally respected,' 
 Sept. 13, 1771. , A good print of him is thus inscribed: 
 
 " The Rev. John Gambold, M. A. formerly minister of Stanton 
 Hiu'court, late one of the Bishops of the Vnitas Fro. A. L. Brandt 
 jnnx. J. Spilsbury seul. Published as the act directs, Dec. 10, 
 I77I;, by J. West, No. 10, Nevirs-comt, Fetter-lane." 
 
 * Martin Bladen, esq. of Abury Hatch, in the county of Essex, 
 was an officer in the army, bearing' the commission of a lieutenant- 
 colonel in Queen Anne's reign, under the Duke of Marlborough, 
 to whom in 1705 he dedicated this translation. Bladen dedi- 
 cates to the Duke of Marlborough, \\\\o was his school-fellow at 
 a little school in the country ; neither of them gi'eat scholars ; 
 though the Duke, fiom a polished beluniour, rose to the greatest 
 dignities, from the station of page of the back stairs, to the post 
 cf the first general in the world. In 1714 Mr. Bladen was made 
 comptroller of the Mint; and, in 17 17^ f>ne of the lords commis- 
 sioners of trade and plantations. In the same year he was appointed 
 
 envoy extraordinary to the court of Spain, in the room of 
 
 Brett, esq.; but declined it, choosing rather to keep the post he 
 already had^ which was worth 1000^. per aniunn, and \vhich he 
 never parted with till his ik^ith, which hap])encd Febniary 14, 
 1746. He was a representatiAC in parliament successively for 
 the boroughs of Stockbridge, Maiden, and Portsmouth. Coxe- 
 ter hints that he was secretary of state in Ireland, but in this he 
 seems not absolutely ceilain, making a query in regard to the 
 time when, which however must, if at all, have been in Queen 
 Anne's reign; for from the third jear of (ieorge I. to the time of 
 his death, lie held his place at the board of trade, and probably 
 was not oat of' England. He wrote two dramatic pieces, both 
 of wliich (for the one is only a masque introduced in the third 
 act of the other) were printed in the year 1/05, without the 
 author's consent. Their names are, 1. "Orpheus and Eurydice," 
 a ma-que ; *3. " Solon," a tragedy. 
 
 -( Mr. iNIarkland^ whom he consulted on a particular passage 
 in this translation, replies, " I think Jn all my life I ne\er saw 
 such a translation as that you haAc sent me of these lines. If I 
 were in your place, 1 v, otdd lesve it just as it is. You will have 
 an infinite deal of trouble, without any reward, or so much as 
 thanks from those wiiose affair it is : pei haps, just the contraiy. 
 1 i-epeat it ag-ain, do not meddle with it." Bladen translates 
 Britannia by England; and as he au'ects to modernize the names 
 of the scAeral people, he renders the 3Torini by the Tcrri'tennois, a 
 ctnmtry hard1\ heard of in England since the reign of Henry YHI, 
 who took that city in 1515. Dr. Pesqp- 
 
 note?
 
 1750.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 523 
 
 notes * in it as are signed Typcgr. In the subse- 
 quent editions of this work, though printed by an- 
 other person, and in Mr.Bowyers hfe-time, the same 
 signature, contrary to decorum, and even justice, 
 was still retained ; a circumstance which he always 
 mentioned with no small degree of dissatisfaction. 
 
 In the dispute between Dr. Burton of Eaton and 
 Dr. King of St. Mary hall (occasioned by the " Re- 
 marks -|~" of the former on the Latinity of a well- 
 known "Oration:}:" of the latter) he had the honour 
 of sharing w^ith Dr. Burton in the invectives most 
 liberally bestowed by Dr. King, in his " Elogium 
 famas inserviens Jacci Etoniensis, sive Gigantis ; 
 or, the Praises of Jack of Eaton, conuiionly called 
 Jack the Giant ; collected into English Metre, 
 after the Manner of Thomas Sternliold, John Hop- 
 kins, John Burton, and others. To which is added, 
 a Dissertation on the Burtonian Style. By a Master 
 of Arts, 1750." 
 
 The illiberalitv which 2:enerallv attends a con- 
 troversy of this kind, and of v.hich, from tlie 
 stanza quoted below, it will be seen tlie present 
 had its full share, is certain (after the v>'armth v/liich 
 produced it ceases) to sink, aiul very prop(.'rly, the 
 whole into oblivion. Let any reader peruse the 
 following stanza, which is here given only to in- 
 troduce Mr. Bovv'yer s defence, and afterwards de- 
 termine whether Dr. King was defensible in suf- 
 fering such lines as the following to fall from Ins 
 pen : 
 
 * These, with several additional (ics from his interleaved 
 copies of Bladen's and Duncr.n's trausVitions, arc pre-erved ia 
 the quarto volume of Mr. JJov.'yers " Miscerianetju.-, Tiact-." 
 
 t " Remarks on Dr. King's Speech befor*' the Ul1^ver^.ity of 
 Oxford, at the Dedication of Dr. ilailclilii- s libra: y, on the 
 13th of .'\prll, 1710. Bv Phileleiitber.is Ln;; liii',!!-is." fSco the 
 .Monthly Kevlir.v, vol. II." pp. 69, <219. 235. 
 
 + " Oratio in Theatro S;;.'lrioniano ! :i!>;t i i.'.ibns .^prilii. 
 >!DccxLix, die de<iicati()nis Jjiijhoihecic H : K hviaiue. ' 
 
 Iq size aad bulk h': (.-ce^'.^dcd th'.- ccai.iJuu staad.U'd. 
 
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 224 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l750- 
 
 " Some, loudly as the nightbird's screech, 
 
 Profess dishke ; some hint it ; 
 And Httle Sotopec damns the Speech, 
 
 Because he did not print it." 
 
 " Be it known (says Mr. Bowyer) that, for hav- 
 ing hesitated in private conversation, and with the 
 greatest dejerence, some doubt concerning the 
 Latinity of an eminent Orator and Poet, 1 have 
 felt the effects of his double talent of fiction and 
 colouring, and have been thus figured and disfigured 
 by his magisterial hand; A little man, hut of great 
 sufficiency ; as soon as Dr. Kijig's Speech was 
 published, took all occasions to abuse the Doctor 
 Is it not in the power, he goes on, of a scavenger 
 or chimney-siveeper, as you pass by him in the 
 streets, to spoil your cloaths * ? Yes, against the 
 laws of decency and good manners. But, within 
 these bounds, in the republic of letters we are all 
 CAPITE censi, and need no other qualification to 
 give a vote. I say, within the laws of decency ; 
 for he has shewn, that barbarity is not confined to 
 bad Latin, and, I hope, not annexed to any particular 
 profession. I will still then presume to be an ad- 
 vocate for freedom, while he is restless for dominion, 
 crying out, 
 
 Quid domini facia nt, audent si talia fares? 
 
 In English thus, 
 
 Gods ! such enormity for vengeance calls, 
 7/" Printers dare to censure Principals !" 
 
 The above-cited remarks of Mr. Bowyer were 
 intended for the conclusion of his preface to Mon-> 
 tesquieu's " Reflexions -j-, &c." but were omitted in 
 consequence of this hint from Mr. Clarke : 
 
 '^ DEAR SIR, _ Aug. 29, 1751. 
 
 " You seem to ask what is the rule of prudence 
 to a man of business in points of resentment. Re- 
 
 * These words are literally quoted from Dr. King's notes. 
 f See p. 235. 
 
 clu^s
 
 1750.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 22$ 
 
 cluses arie no casuists in such cases : your men of 
 business are the best judges : for my part, I think> 
 very few things are worth resenting ; either the per- 
 son or the insult makes them contemptible ; and v'^t 
 every person who offers a public outrage deserves 
 correction ; and it is necessary to make some ex- 
 amples for the sake of the publick, and treat them 
 as you do other criminals. I should probably think 
 Dr. King a person that deserved no quarter ; though 
 I am not very much jjleased with the last leaf of 
 your preface : I should either suppress or alter it. 
 The terms hesitate, private conversation, greatest 
 deference, look as if you set about this business of 
 self-defence with some sort of diflidence. Make no 
 apologies, and enter into no j)articulars. I should 
 be for new casting the whole from the middle of 
 page xxxiv. and draw the Baron s character for hu- 
 manitv and learnino; to as much advantajre as I 
 could; and then contrast it with Dr. King's as the 
 verv reverse without mentionin"; vour case at all.'' 
 
 1751- 
 
 in this year he printed Baron Montesquieu's 
 " Reflexions on the Causes of the Kise and Fall of the 
 Koman Empire;" translated the Dialogue between 
 Sylla and Socrates; made several corrections to the 
 work, from the Baron's " ]*]sprit des Loix;" and un- 
 proved it with his own notes *. 
 
 \n the same vear he introdu'^'ed to the publick 
 the first transhition that was made of liousseau's 
 paradoxical IVizi- Oi-ation, which aiiuounced that 
 singular o;ei>!US to the attention and admiration of 
 Europe. It was printetl under the title of '' 'J'he 
 Discourse which carried the Premium at the Aca- 
 demy at Dijon in 17:>(). On this Ouestion j)ro- 
 po^ed by tile said Acudeni} , Wliether the re-estab 
 li^lnnent of arts and sciences lia^i contributed to the 
 
 * Anew pflition of Mr. ]>)uy( r's work, witli many nltcnitions. 
 was j>riiitccl in 1/51); and tlu- pnt'ire, uitti soinf atldiiioiial iiotts. 
 mav be seen in liis " MiiCeUancoiH 'I'racts,' 41o, p. 'ilM. 
 
 Vol. II. <) re-
 
 526 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l751. 
 
 refinement of manners ? By a Citizen of Geneva *." 
 The preface to this pamphlet was Mr. Bovvyer's, 
 and shall be given below -jf. 
 
 * This translation was made under Mr. Bowyer's immediate 
 direction. A second translation of it ^^as printed, by W. Rich- 
 ardson, 1779j 12nu). 
 
 t " Tlie following Discom'se has mjide such a noise in 
 France, that 1 thought it, for its singularity, well worth the 
 translating: it must be owned to be one of the finest modern 
 pieces of oratory, and of so dangerous a persuasion^ that if 
 the a\ith()r, instead of gi\ ing it in writing, had pronounced it 
 with all tiie force which the fluency of tongue and the graces of 
 action usually add to such orations in publick, I should tremble 
 for all the Libraries of Europe, and dread his elocution almost its 
 much as the fire and swords of Goths, Vandals, and Mussulmen. 
 " All 1 can learn of the author is, that his name is Rousseau, 
 and that he is, as he says, of Geneva, or of some place in the neigh- 
 bourhood of Switzerland. I also have been assured, that when 
 the Pi-esident of the Academy acquainted him with the success of 
 his piece it was in these or the like words : ' Sir, the Academy 
 have crowned yoiu' Discourse, for its elegance and purity of lan-^ 
 g-uage ; and have overlooked your sentiments, because of your 
 country.' 
 
 " \\(i may sec by these words, that the Academy judged, as 
 mankind must, tliut he imdertook the wrong side of the ques- 
 tion, and, like the scholar at the Jesuit's, deserved the prize and 
 the .rod. I was really at a loss, for a time, to find his sincere 
 opinion ; but his pieface and notes, in support of Ids thesis, 
 convinced me that he spoke his opinion. I was tlierefore once 
 resolved t ) superadd a few critical remarks upon him, to shew 
 how absunl his tenets were, and detect the art with v\ hich he 
 would defeat art; but, upon a more mature deliberation, I feared 
 I might be laughed at, like the Prelate who gravely undertook 
 to prove tiiat there was no Pope Joan ; or one who should seri- 
 ously argue against the ravings of Hobbes, Agiippa, Spinosa, or 
 Nostradamus ; and, desisting from the undertaking, thought it 
 sufiicient to say two words by way of au\ eitisement to the reader. 
 " This gentleman would have us believe that the arts and 
 scifuces have injured our morals and manners, and therefore 
 woukl have them ai\d their professors banished. But has he for- 
 got that ujan, in ail diiiiates born naked and defeiicelesia, cannot 
 at all subsist v. itliout aits, nor, with any comfort, without sci- 
 ences? J-!'s situation and capacity prove, beyond doubt, that 
 they were by Providence intended to be improved by him. Is 
 n(.)t art necessary for his feeding, clothing, lodging, and de- 
 fer.ce ? and is not his daring mind a proof, thai some science 
 was ordered for his lecreation, and some for calti\ating the land 
 in ]>ioper seasons for his provisions ? 
 
 " Wis it ncjt by ait tliat Hannibal raised a reputation? and 
 were Xenophon, jipamauuudas, Caesar, and all the tauious Gre- 
 cians
 
 1751-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY* 237 
 
 Among the other books of 1751 were, 
 "Observations on the past Growth and present 
 State of the City of London, &c. By the Author of 
 a Letter from a By-Stander [Corby n Morris *, esq.], 
 foho. 
 
 " The History of the Church of St. Peter, West- 
 minster, commonly called Westminster Abbey ; 
 chiefly from Manuscript Authorities. By Richard 
 W id more -j~, M. A. Librarian to the 13ean and 
 Chapter of Westminster ;" 4to. 
 
 cians and Romans, ignorant of arts and sciences ? And since 
 this man would i-aise\Var into a Divinity belonging' to Ignorance, 
 how came it that the Barbarians could not stand before them ? 
 And if ignorance increased strengtii and valour, surely all our 
 common soldiers, nay, and a vast majority of our officers, ought 
 to be heroes. He frets at the European or French poli'-enessj 
 but upon his own system, and allowing his hypotheses, that it is 
 all counterfeit, is it not yet better tliat the rude, harsh, and 
 different characters of men should be veiled under even a false 
 urbanity and affected mild manners, than that an eternity of 
 broils should disturb society, by each savage mind's being visi- 
 ble in all its uncouth and unpolished behaviour ? Is it not a 
 happiness that I shall be, even outwardly, well used by those 
 from whom I expect no more ? or would lie prefer travelling 
 among the banditti of Arabia, or his own s;\\ ages of America, 
 before a tour through Europe ? and if the latter must be pro- 
 nounced the most agreeable, and that the arts and sciences are 
 the cause of the ditference, what becomes of his goddess Ig- 
 norance ? In shoit, he had taken a laudable subject, if he had 
 only lashed the abuses, which are ever the imfoitunate attendants 
 on all great systems : but to run down the sun because he some- 
 times scorches, or the rain because it sometimes fulls to excess, 
 contains hardlv any thing more delirious than what this orator 
 has seriously undertaken. JJke Jat k in the Tale of a Tub, lie 
 tears the coat to pieces because of a few useless cnibi'oitleiies ; 
 and yet, it must be confessed, his argument is worthy of achnira- 
 tion for its composition and elegance, and may be considen-d by 
 those of his own ojjinion (if any) as a proof of tlic danger of arts 
 and sciences, since, by their help, so murli could be made of the 
 worst of causes. 
 
 " I have endeavoured to keep up o his spiiil in the transl.i- 
 tion ; and if the English reado lind- my tiling fliikiiiir in it, I 
 shall put him in mind of the unsucce-sial or Lian orator, when 
 he heu'.-d his advei-sary's oral ion piai.-cd on ihi- r(Mding. and cry 
 out, almost in his words, " Vv hat wou'.d il be, if }()U understood 
 the original ?" 
 
 * Who was appointed a conimis-iniu! of i lie C ustoms March 15, 
 1763; and died Dec. '24, )77!. 
 
 t Of St.. John's C:()ll<ge,(;uiibriMgc,: B. A. 170I; MA. ITOH. 
 HewasappoiiUcdLibmnaniul :.'.!: and publi.-hcd, in 17'.'., " Aa 
 
 u ' I:iuuir\-
 
 28 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l751- 
 
 "The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Nine 
 Volumes complete *. With his last Corrections, 
 
 Inquiry into the Time of the first Foundation of Westminster 
 Abbey, as discoverable from the best Authoi'ities now remain- 
 ing, both printed and MS. To which is added, an Ac- 
 count of the Writers of the History of the Church," 4to. " A 
 syllab\is of the Dean and Chapter's J^ibraiy, made about tlie reign 
 of Charles II. by whom uncertain, with an alphabetical catalogue 
 of the loose chaitei-s in that Library by the late Mr. Widmore, 
 annexed by Mr. Astle, has been long expected." ]Jritish Topo- 
 graphy, vol. I. p. 666. 
 
 * " The Publick has here a complete Edition of his Works ; 
 executed in such a manner as, I am pei'suaded, would have been 
 to his satisfaction. The Editor hath not, for the sake of profit, 
 suffered the Author's name to be ma^le cheap by a subscription ; 
 nor his Works to be defrauded of their due honours by a vulgar 
 or inelegant impression ; nor his memory to be disgraced by any 
 pieces unworthy of his talents or virtue. On the contrary, he 
 hath, at a very great expence, ornamented this edition with all 
 the advantages which the best artists in paper, printing, and 
 sculpture, could bestow upon it." M'arburtons Advertisement, p.iv. 
 The extreme care which wjis taken of this edition, with it* 
 progress through the press, will appear from the follow ing curious 
 and expostulatory letters of the learned Editoi" to his Printer: 
 
 Dec. 12, 1748. " Dear Sir, I have examined the Volume 
 printed off, as to the press-work; and T must needs tell you it i 
 miserable work, and I cannot bear to ha^ e an edition appear so 
 badly done. Look into the books printed at Cambridge and 
 Oxford, and you will see other sort of work. Look particularly 
 into a very foolish book of Wood's, just printed at Oxford, on 
 Stonehenge. But your rascals, what between knavery and \il- 
 lainous neicspapers, do their work never fit to be read, and some- 
 times incapable of being read." " Mr. Knapton tells me he ha 
 given Mr. Bowyer Brown's Poem on Satiie. Why is it not yet 
 printed ? It is to be put at the head of that volume in which 
 tlie Essay on Man is. Vv hy is not tlie Index to tiie Dunciad yot 
 printed ? Send it to me by the beiu'er.' Oct. 14, 1749. "As to 
 that letter of Dr. Arbuthiiot to Mr. Pope in Curll's Edition, if 
 you are sure it be genuine, I ^vov^l(l hav^ it in : and what else 
 there is there that is geniiine and modest." March 9, 1749-50. 
 ** The inclostd is the conclusion of the Introduction corrected. 
 I would have it worked off. To fasten the concluding loose leaf, 
 I have sent the title-page, for tliere will be no advertisement to 
 make another leaf to that I once proiX)scd. And to make these 
 two leaves half a sheet, I ha^e sent two leaves to be repnnted. 
 I am surprized I have not yet had a proof of the first sheet, which 
 1 delivered wlien I was in London to be re-printed ; and think 
 myself very ill used by the neglect. I expect what I order to be 
 done, to be done out of hanii." March 1'2, 1749-50. " I have 
 sent the inclosed, tliat the work may go on with all expedition. 
 What is yet to print will make about four slieets. This (and the 
 
 little
 
 1751-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 229 
 
 Additions, and Improvements, as they were deli- 
 vered to the Editor a httle before his death ; toge- 
 gether with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. 
 Warburton," large 8vo. 
 
 ' De Principiis Animalibus Exercitationes *, in 
 Colle^io Reg. Medicorum Lond. habitat a Gulielmo 
 Battle, M.D. ejusdem Coil, et Societat. RegiaeSoeio.'' 
 in three parts, 4to. 
 
 " The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburne -}-, 
 Theological, Moral, Dramatic, and Poetical ; some 
 of them now first printed ; revised and published, 
 with an Account of the Life of the Author, bv^ 
 Thomas ?.irch, M.A," 2 vols. 8vo, 
 
 Dr. Sic-iihope's '' Paraphrase on the Four Gos- 
 pels," Svo. 
 
 Mr. Brown's '^' Essay on the Characteristics J," Svo. 
 
 litUe copy vou had before) is part. I shall insist on having two 
 sheets composed, and sent me to correct ; for I am resolved to 
 have the b ': out before the end of the month. Had you con- 
 descended . , (. what I desired, which was, to have the first sheet 
 re-comr-n 'd v, 'h speed, tiie compositor would now have had 
 nothing r-j Jo but fall to work on this. Y<ju need not fear 
 waiting- 'Vji tl rjst of the copy." Murch23, 174<J-.50. "I 
 he ct.nclusion of the book, with a leaf to be-reprinted, 
 i-'st I shall cancel. I expected more proof tiiis day. 
 the post tomes pvcry day." May 6, 1751. " I am 
 ..<- ^, Pope finished before I go out of town. There- 
 's you t(j pioceed with all expedition on the cancelled 
 ;'.>.;:. Is, title-pages, &c. And let them be done out of 
 i have Mr. Kiiapton's final direction about the title- 
 'ly, and without any more put-off's." June "3, 17.j1. 
 .yer, 1 take it extremely ill of you for not sending me 
 two copies of all the reprinted leaves, prefaces, tille-j)age>, ^v. 
 before I left town, as I ordered. If I thought what I .said would 
 be any way reg-arded by you, I would ha\e sent tju :n by Leake'?* 
 parcel. W. W." 
 
 * Deliverefl as part of the Lumleian Lecture, 
 f Of whom see p. 194. 
 
 X " It pleases me that Mr. Brown knows that Mr. Jialuniy and 
 you, as well as I, think his second flssay infi linr t.) the first, 
 because it will do a young author, who ai)])oarul to uie too ob- 
 stinate in this matter, home good. I tJKMight llie metliod in- 
 took in considering tiie d( tVrts of Lord .shal'te.-^bury's moiidiiv, 
 a wrong one. You will conclude too, 1 mu.-.t needs thiuk, liis 
 account of vwrnl oblis^atwn, a wrong one. But as to this, 1 
 told him, he must think for himself And 1 never liked a frii nd 
 the worse for being in a diilcreiit system. In amwer to this, he 
 
 -a:d. 
 
 have --e- 
 which i- 
 Sure; - 
 
 reso'ivvMi 
 for? ; d 
 leaves, t 
 ham; 
 
 pan- 
 
 "Ml ;
 
 SSO LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l751. 
 
 " Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola ad Augustum, with 
 an English Commentary on the Epistle to Piso ;" by 
 the Reverend Richard Hurd *, M. A. Fellow of 
 Enianuel College, Cambridge, 8vo. 
 
 " The Opinion of an eminent Lawyer [LordHard- 
 wicke] concerning the right of Appeal from the Vice- 
 chancellor of Cambridge to the Senate ; supported 
 by a short histor:;: J Account cf the Jurisdiction of 
 the University -f-. Jby a Fellow of a College" [the 
 Editor of the preceding Article] j^. 
 
 said, that I mistook him 3 and that when he speaks of happiness 
 obliging, he nsed obligation only in the sense of motive. This 
 gave me an opportunity to write to him ; and so, with the old 
 Casuists, Uberavi aiumam meam." " I agree with you that his 
 first Essay is a very fine one. It is entirety his own. The se- 
 cond Cinter nosj he i: not master of Aiid I find hiai much a 
 Strang;er to the subject of the thhd. It was from what I had 
 seen him capable of i' rhe fiist, that I put him upon tliis work, 
 9S what was in his profession, would be acceptable to the Clergy, 
 and useful to the pubUck. I now lind it would ha^'e been better, 
 had the project been laid, to pubhsh the first Essay alone ; to 
 have taken more time for the other two ; to have studied the 
 subjects well 3 and above all to have taken the best assistance of 
 his friends. Instead of this, he has hujried tla'ough the v\ork 
 with grci'.t precipitation 3 which, though it siiews the quickne.-s 
 of his parts, will not answer the end I proposed, his honour 
 and service. Though in this I may bo mistaken, and it may 
 take better with the world, than if it had been what we three 
 would have had it." Dr. IVarhurton to Mr. Hard, Feb. 15, 1750-1. 
 
 * Of thislear.ed and excellent Divine see the "Essays and 
 Illustrations," vol. V. No XIX. 
 
 f See an account of it in British Topography, vol. I. p. 226. 
 
 X The follo\ving letter to Mr. Bowyer is dated Cambridge, 
 Feb. 14, 175-2. 
 
 "You must endeavour, if possible, to get me Mr. Warburton's 
 Visitation Sermon at Lincoln, and the pamphlet against J Jr. IVeb- 
 ster. 1 want them exceedingly, to complete n)y collection of his 
 emaller trac's. Dr. Chapman, you see, has jjublished an aj.swer 
 to the Opin'con, of which 1 shall scarce think it Avorth my while to 
 take any notice. Bur would it not be proper to take the o^por- 
 tuiiiiy of advertising ag.an *he Opinion, that you may tiy to get 
 off the remainder of the tiiird edinon. 1 have considered 
 your proposal about Horace, and cannot bate a farthing of 
 what i mentioned in my last. We Authors, jou know, have 
 always some excuse to comfort ourselves for our books not 
 selliiig One reason at least for the Epistle to Augustus not 
 going orf was, I think, Thurlbourn's neglect to advertise it pro- 
 perly when it was published. I happened to be abroad at that 
 
 tiincj
 
 1751.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 231 
 
 A short Description of a Print of Sir Watkin 
 Williams Wynne. 
 
 The Bishop of Clogher's " Essay on Spirit*," 8vo. 
 
 I cannot but take notice under this year how 
 sacred the copy-right of books was then esteemed. 
 Mr. Bowyer's ideas on that subject will appear from 
 his claim to a share in the Woiks of ])r. Barrow, 
 in consequence of his father s having been possessed 
 of an assignment to a single Sermon -j-. 
 
 time, and he is apt to be very careless. I have lately met with 
 some of my own Mends who never observed it in the papeis 
 till the other day, when it was adveitised more carefully. You 
 say, if you purchased the edition, you shovdd expect to have the 
 right of the copy absolute. I suppose you only mean the right of 
 tlie copy of 750 ; that is, of this edition. Pray let me have vour 
 final answer as soon -as possible. What I propose is to have the 
 new edition printed otF directly, so as to be finished at the farthest 
 this summer 3 though I would not publish it till tlie edition of 
 the Epistle to Augustus be sold off. And, as I am sensible, as 
 you say, of the ditference betwixt a piece of dry rrilicism and a 
 no\el, I should not insist on the payment of the 40/. till a year 
 after the time of publication, if tliat would make any diH'ei'euce. 
 But, if I part with the copy foi- less than this sum, 1 think m\self 
 obliged in honour to let ^Ir. Thurlbourne have it, against wliom 
 I have no complaint, but that as he grows old he grows lazy. 
 I have not yet had leisvae to look into the new edition of l\Ion- 
 tesquieu's Book [see p. 225], which is vyell spoken of here. 
 " I am, Sir, your humble servant, R. Hurd." 
 
 * On this subject Dr. Warburton observes, " The iiisliop of 
 Cloghcr, or some such heathenish name, in Ireland, has just pub- 
 lished a book. It is made up out of the rubbish of" old hrre.-^es ; 
 of a much rai\ker cast than common Arianism. Jcsus Christ is 
 Michael ; and The Holy Ghost, G;>bn(>!, kc. Tliis might he heresy 
 in an English Bishop; InU in an Irish, 'tis only a blundci'. But, 
 thank God, our bisljops are all far from making or xending 
 heresies; though, for the good of the church, tluy liave excel- 
 lent eyes at spying it out whenever it skulks or lies liid." Ltltcr to 
 Mr. Hnrd, iVw. 'l8, 1751. 
 
 t I shall give this claim in his own words, fi-oni a letter to a 
 respectable bookseller, dated Dec. 3, 1751 : " I am (\\\\\c con- 
 cerned to undirstand that you luivc foigot e\er -i eing- l!ral):i/( n 
 Aylmer's assiginnent of Banow's ' Scr. ion on ihc 'rri-!ii\ ' ai d 
 the more so, because, as !5j'iiit'> ha\e gio'.^ii \\;u:ii -r -'luc f ha>e 
 been told 1 wa^ to blame for acquis ciii'j,- so t;M::"I\ ir. iint h-v. 
 ing a share in the last e<hti:)n of Bai-i-r,v\s V. (';\.. i'uiiais 
 Mr. Hitch, when he is wdl, may help }nu t > !-mi.,i!!.( , ^o,. e 
 circumstance relating to if, who told me (and I tli',ik Iimim \ni r 
 researches) that niy a.-;rigmuem was goc^ tor nothing, l-.cni c
 
 555 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l752. 
 
 1752. 
 
 On the publication of tlie third edition * of Lord 
 Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of 
 
 the Sermon was assigned over before. He added, ' That I need 
 not doubt the honour and vei-acity of the reporters.' I had be- 
 fore been told, that the Sermon was left out in the edition pre- 
 ceding youfs, and would be 50 ag'ain. The more you have forgot 
 the assignment, the more desirous am I of recovering it. I wish 
 you would look among your papers, though 1 own it is not 
 likely you shoqld be solicitous to preserve a claim %vhich inter- 
 fered with your's. 1 would ad\ ertise for Aylmer's executors to 
 help me ; but I think Mr. Hitch said he died poor. You will 
 please to observe, it is not a matter of indifference even now. 
 My fether printed the Sermon, and it is now to be seen. If he 
 had not a light to do so fi'om Aylmer, he invaded some one's 
 property. Lay your hand on your heart, and tell me whether 
 you would so quietly give up your property first, and secondly 
 your reputation (if such a thing there be) by letting the assign- 
 ment be forgot, forgot by the very persoiis whose interest it is 
 to forget it,'* 
 
 * " Learn to write like Lord Orrery (whose impression of 
 Letters concerning Swift was all sold in a day's time), and you 
 will have readers enough. It is full of beauties of all kinds. 
 His characters of men is not the least. Itamus, Thomas Aquinas, 
 and Descartes, were thought by Hooker, Grotius, and Locke, to 
 be three great original geniuses; but his Lordship has discovered 
 they were a set of asses. Nor should his great improvements ir^ 
 Astronomy be overlooked. He calculates the return of comets 
 to the greatest minuteness. But the imperial dower of speech, 
 the sovereign of this grove of delights, is what the French call 
 GalUnatiaa.^ut seriously, what would this noble Lord say of 
 his enemies, when he draws so charming a picture of diablirie 
 from his friend ? Yet he himself told me he pursued that friend- 
 ship so sedulously, that he suffered numberless indignities fi'om 
 Swift, before he could be admitted to any degree of familiarity. 
 Perhaps then he but takes his revenge in tiiis representation ; 
 which, howe\ er, I believe a true one. But it seems a strange 
 office in a friend to acquaint the publick with such truths." 
 \ Dr. Uarburton to Mr. Hiird, Nov. IS, 1/51. " As great a critic 
 as )0U are, I believe your patience would not suffei' you to read 
 those detestable Letters on poor Swift in such a manner as to 
 discover the hundredth part of the offeijices against common 
 sense and science, that may be met with in them." Ilnd. Dec. ^9, 
 " Don't you think that age iu want of a little trath and sense, which 
 gave credit to tlie BGltlc-man, and aj)plauses to Orrery^ s Letters, of 
 which the bookseller told me he has sold twelve thousand "r" Ibid. 
 Dec. 10, 1754. [A copy of these I-^tters, with Mr. Warburton'.s 
 free animadversions upon therti, entered on the margin^ in his 
 flwn handj may be seen in Hartlebury Library, i/.] 
 
 Dr,
 
 A 1 
 
 I752.J THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 533 
 
 Dr. Swift," in 1752, he wrote and printed, but 
 never published, " Two Letters from Dr. Bentley in 
 the Shades below, to Lord Orrery in a Land of 
 Thick Darkness." The notes signed B. in the 
 /linth quarto volume of Swift's Works are extracted 
 from these letters; which are re-printed at large 
 amono^ his " Miscellaneous Tracts." 
 
 " A Critical Commentary upon the Books of 
 Tobit, Judith, Baruch, the History of Susannah, 
 and Bel and the Dragon ; to which are added, 
 Two Dissertations on the Books of Maccabees and 
 Esdras * ; being a Continuation of Bishop Patrick 
 and Mr, Lowth, by R. Arnald, B. D." folio. 
 
 A considerable part of Ainsworth's-I- "Latin Dic- 
 tionary," 4to. 
 
 " Antonii Alsopi j^dis Christi Olim Alumni 
 Odarum Libri duo;}:," 4to. This little volume was 
 
 * In this volume there is also " A Dissertation on the Daemou 
 AsmodaMis, translated from Calmet." 
 
 f " When Patrick republished Ainsworth's Dictionary, he 
 affirmed to Dr. Mead he had found a new sense for gerxe, eje- 
 lashos, in the XII Tables, " Mulieres genas ne radunto." The 
 Doctor maintained it must be \iriderstood of not tearing their 
 cheeks for grief j but Patrick would have radeie signify to shave, 
 and then gence must be eyelashes. So he mistook prujiccre sei- 
 quipedalla verba in Hoiace for throwiiii^, uttcririi^:, spouting, 0..I; 
 whereas in that, ami all other in.-itaiices, it means rejcctiu;;-, 
 as seven times in Statius translated by Pope. Botli these new 
 senses were left in his edition. Mr. VVest had a iNlS. of Ain^- 
 worth's, which he proposed printing." Mr. Gou^h, MS. 
 
 X July "17, 174s, Proposals were published for printing' bv 
 subscription, "Antonii Alsopi Odarum Libri rhio, alter continens 
 Epistolares, alter Miscellanea;" and the following j)articulars 
 were then first given : " The Author of these Odes was educate ci 
 in Wostmin-ter College, and thence ( lected to C,'hri>t Church in 
 Oxford. Of this learned body he had the honour to !)(> a princi- 
 pal ornament at a time when it was in its liigliO't repute. For, 
 being soon di^tingui.-hed by tliat universal ni:i.-t(i- of liunian 
 science Dean Aldrich, he pa>-^ed through the u>Uid dflic c- to that 
 of Censf)r of the house ; and had, for some year.-, couuuiltcd to 
 liim the chief care of the young noldcmen and gcntleinen, with 
 which that Society aboundcfi. In tills u.-if il and eminent enj- 
 ployment he continued, till his merit- nconmiendcd iiim to 
 Sir Jonathan Trelavvny, Iiislio[) of Wine Iic-tc r, who appointed 
 him his chaplain; and soon alter, by pnfeiment, made an 
 ample jirovision hjr tlie K'arned ntiicnicnt, in whic h, ulica 
 
 once entered^ lie toiitinucJ to the cud of hl^ da\s. Tlub was -,(1 
 
 >uitcd
 
 iiS4 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l752- 
 
 dedicated by Mr. Francis Bernard, the ingenious 
 editor, in an elegant copy of Verses, to Thomas 
 Duke of Newcastle. 
 
 suited to his genius and inclination, that, for a course of years, 
 he would not be drawn from it by the repeated solicitations of 
 those who thought him due to a more public life and higher 
 station. Among the various branches of philaloglcal learning 
 for which he was eminent, his singularly delicate taste of the 
 Classic Poets was the chief. This induced him to make use of 
 the Sapphic numbers in his familiar coiTcspondence with his 
 most intimate friends j in which he shewed a facility so un- 
 common, and a style so natural and easy, that he has been not 
 unjustly esteemed inferior only to his master Horace. These are 
 to be the chief contents of the proposed volume ; and a singular 
 instance they are of the great power Avhich the merit of a work 
 has in its preservation. We have seen, in many examples, that 
 all the advantages of piint and paper cannot give duration to a 
 puny and sickly offspring, nor add one day to the montlis of its 
 life ; but these Odes, deserted by their parent, and left exposed 
 to the wide world, have, by the strength of their constitution,^ 
 without the assistance of the press, lived some to forty, and most 
 above thirty years. As the Author, whose modesty (the con- 
 stant companion of merit) made him disregardful of his own 
 works, never kept any regular copies of his compositions, the 
 manuscript collections of tliem have been chiefly made from the 
 original epistles. But as no collector, however industrious, can 
 expect to ha\e got together all the Author's Odes of this kind ; 
 as there are ruany others, besides the Epistolary, that well de- 
 sene to be collected and preserved ; and as the whole merit 
 the best dress the press can gi\e them is a kind of public due 
 to the literary world j this ]jublication has been often wished for. 
 But probably this work woiild have still been neglected, if there 
 had not intervened an unhappy occasion for the present under- 
 taking it ; this is, a very near relation of the Author's being, in 
 an ad\'anced age, by imexjx^cted losses, greatly reduced ; for 
 whose benefit the profits cy? the publication are intended. Great 
 care will be taken to make this collection as complete and cor- 
 rect as possible, and to keep out of it all spurious things falsely 
 attributed to the same Author. The size of the \ olume at pre- 
 sent cannot be exactly known j but it is believed it will amount 
 to twenty slieets. As the works of the Author are uncounnonly 
 dis})er^.ed, it is desired that they who ha\e any Potuns of hi* 
 would send an accovmt of the same, with the tii'st line of each 
 poem, and a direction where a copy thereof may be had, if it 
 shoukl not be already in the Editor's Collection, directed to 
 Mr. Bo\vyer, printer, in Wlute Friers, London ; and the favour 
 shall be thankfully acknowledged." This is followed by a list of 
 such Poems as the Juiitor at that time possessed ; and I have 
 now before me some curious specimens of Mr. Bowyer's fiee- 
 dom in correcting- the press. Oil the third sheet of ALsop's Odes 
 
 ,iA
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. a^x 
 
 Mr. Jackson's " Chronological Antiquities ; or, 
 the Antiquities and Ciironology of the most antient 
 
 is written, '' In the last sheet I made it ohstrevat against vour 
 authority, and will gi'.e you leave to adveitise nie if it is ui'ong. 
 I fear you have bad copies of these Poems; aiid I >vi!l be 
 bold to say, tliere is mucli bad Latin, and sometimes fal-- quan- 
 tity." In p, '-21, for stridant, Mr. Bowycr writes, sirident, 
 against the world and your copy, becuiise it follows, ef: moneaut." 
 P. "23, N't vetet.'] " The privited copies Nee vetat. Either mar 
 tie, but I like Nee vetul better. 'Phe sneer is the same either 
 way ; but the compliment heightened by Nee vetat." 
 
 jlr. AIsop was elected from Westminster to Christ Church, 
 where he took the degree of M. A. March "23, 1693 ; and B. D, 
 Dec. 1'2, I7O6. On coming to the Uni^crsity, he was very much 
 distinguished by Dean Akhichj and published " Fabularuni iEso- 
 picarum Delectus, Oxon 1G98," 8vo. with a poetical dedication to 
 Lord Scudamore, and a p?eface, ia hich lie took pan -ag-ainst 
 Bentley, in the famous dispute wiUi Jioyle. " This book," Dr. 
 Walton observes (Essay on Pope, vol. II. p. 393), " is not suffi- 
 ciently known." And Dr. Wai burton observes, that "a. power- 
 ful cabal gave it a surprizing run." Letter to Mr. Hard, Au;^. 19, 
 1749. Mr. iilsop passed lluoagh tlie usual ofPices in liia Col- 
 lege, to tliat of Cei;.s3r, ..ith considerable reputation 5 and 
 for some years had the ]>rincir-. 1 Noblemen and Gerulenien be- 
 longing to the Society com:^ :ued to his care. In thii useful 
 employment lie oonvinued tnl his merit recommended iiim to 
 Disiiop Trelawiiy, who soon after gave him a preljcnd of Win- 
 cli. i- jr, witli the rectory of Brightwell in I]erks ; fio^n which he 
 cojI.; iiotbedrn-. 1 by tlie repealed solicitations of tnohc who 
 thought him qi^aiiiied for a more public cliavacter and a iiigher 
 station, lie attended the Convocilion, uo\\e\e;-, a- Proctor for 
 the Cicrgy of Winchester. In 1717 (a- appears l)y several of 
 JiL-hop Atterbi'.ry's letcers) asi action was hroLigla a;. dust him, 
 by Mrs. Llizaberh Astrey of Uxfori, for oivadi of a marriage 
 couti'actj ). which a verdict wa.-. givt!i ag;un.-' li:in for 'JOOo/. 
 whicli uufonuuately com}.'-lied him to i.ii ilie .viiig.ioiii. 'ihe 
 la^rtime his name occurs in thnse leueis is i^t'C,'2, 1/ i9; and he 
 soon after vv.o enabk d to nlurn to Kiiglaiu Hi death, whirli 
 l(a[)pened June l(i, IJ'-G, was (M-casif,;.' 1 \)\ \.\\'i f;;!!iMg-in oi'iiic 
 bank, a:^ he was walking by the ri.ei- id*' 1.. :;!> ou,. gaidca, in 
 a place where the path wjis narrow. "^( \-i:i'. of hi.- p(K"i..- aie to 
 fx; toiind in ihceai'iv volume.- of (he dtiUK luan's "*i i_:.i/,iiir ; par- 
 ticularly in vol. Mli. p. Vl't , aii . ''.^anl ; (u la al c;/:.: Ic ;o Mr.Ioiui 
 Doiben', dated Brighlw ell, y:...0\ ~ \','-.': a Lat !;(;.!. to ! Ik smie 
 fi-iend, March r('24, vol. V i)..,4; the Ti- IXuin ui Latin vc !,,.-. 
 p. j()!;: and ...nD.ie, oeea:ii(.ai'd \>\ iil- o\\ . \'.\\\t', ail.ln,-,( d t(; Dr. 
 K'''li, tiicn !'iof(>s-,or(tf A-troiioniv at Oxford, vmI.IX. |,ji..;'i 1, .;;.% 
 Mr. I'ranci iJernard ..asal-o iducaU'd ;!t \\ c-tu.ii.Mu- m lion! ; 
 where, in l/^iJ, he was elc( ted into the ( (jiT ge ; '"' '" /'-!* 
 became a student of ( inist Churcii, 0\h.rd; vviunr-.' \\v 1. moved 
 to the MHidl*^ Temple, of which society he wa- i.fi.eruards a 
 
 beuchci".
 
 23^ LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l752. 
 
 Kingdoms, from the Creation of the World, for 
 the Space of 5 000 Years, &c. To which are added 
 proper Indexes," three volumes, 4to. Of Mr. Jack- 
 son, see the " Essays and Ulustrations" in vol. V, 
 Ko. XX. 
 
 bencher. He practised at the bar some years ; and, going the 
 Midland circuit, was elected steward of the city of Lincoln, and 
 also officiated as recorder at Boston in that circuit. In February 
 1758 he was appointed governor of New Jersey, and in January 
 1760 of Massachusetts Bay; of which last province he continued 
 governor ten yeai's, receiving, during that time, the repeated 
 and uniform approbation of the Crown, amid many successive 
 changes of the ministry at home ; and hkewise preserving the 
 confidence and good opinion of all ranks in the Province, till 
 the differences arising between the two countries, and the oppo- 
 fcition gi\ en to the orders sent from Great Biitain, made it a 
 part of his official duty to take decisive measures for suppoi'ting 
 the authority of Government ; which, however approved by mi- 
 nisters here, could not ftiil, on the spot, to weaken and gi-adually 
 undermine the degree of popularity he before enjoyed. His con- 
 duct in that difficult and trying" situation gave such entire satis- 
 faction to his Majesty, that lie wiis advanced while abroad, and 
 without solicitation, to the dignity pf a baronet, and was deno- 
 minated of Nettleham, from an estate near Lincoln, which is 
 still in the family 3 but his chief residence latterly was at Nether 
 IVinchendon and Aylesbury, in the county of Bucks, The fa- 
 vourable sentiments which the Province entertained for Sir 
 Francis betbre the contro\ersy took place between Great Britain 
 and the Colonies, ai-e shewn by the expressions of acknowledge- 
 ment and affection in their several addresses to him up to that 
 period ; but more paiticularly by the following unanimous vote 
 of the House of Assembly, which was agieed to by the Council, 
 and afterwards confirmed by his Majesty : " Resolved, That in 
 consideration of the extraordinary serA'ices of his Excellency 
 Governor Bernard, there be granted to him, his heirs and as- 
 signs, the Island of Mount Desert, lying on the North-easward 
 of Penobscoi Bay ; and that a grant thereof, to be laid before 
 His Majesty for his ap[)robation, be signed by the Secretaiy and 
 Speaker on behalf of the two Houses." The constant approba- 
 tion with which he was honoured by his I\Iajesty, appears from 
 the dispatches of the ditr'erent Secretaries of State laid before the 
 House of Commons, and printed by their order. The late Field- 
 Marshal Conway, when Secretary, thus concludes his dispatch, 
 31 March, 1765 : " I ha\e only to add, which I do Avith great 
 pleasure, that every part of your conduct hiis had the entire and 
 hearty approbation of yoiu' Sovereign, and that the judicious 
 representations in faAOur of your Province, which appear in your 
 letters laid before both Houses of Parliament, seem to have their 
 full weight in all those parts of the American interest to which 
 they relate 3 and as His IMajesty honours you with his fullest ;ip- 
 
 probation
 
 1752.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 237 
 
 " A Paraphrase, with Critical Annotations, on 
 the Epistles of St. Paul to the Romans and Gala- 
 tians ; to which is prefixed, an analytical scheme of 
 the whole. By Timothy Edwards ^, A. M." 4to. 
 
 The Fourth Part of Dr. Battie's Lectures " Do 
 Principiis Animalibus, Exercitationes in Coll. Reg\ 
 
 probation both for the firmness and temperance of your conduct, 
 so I hope your Province will be sensible of their obligations to 
 you, and will cordially feel what they owe to a Governor whom 
 no outrage could pro\oke to resentment, nor any insult induce to 
 relax in Ids endeavours to persuade His Majesty to shew indulgence 
 and favour even to the offending part of his people." Lord Shel- 
 burne, the succeeding secretary of state, in a dispatch 31st of Sep- 
 tember following, adds similar expressions of approbation. " It 
 is with gieat pleasure," says he, " that I ha\ e oliserved the manner 
 in which you have conducted yourself during the disputes of the 
 last year, which I cannot do without highly approving your at- 
 tention and watchfulness, on the one hand, to support the au- 
 thority of Government, and on the other, the tenderness and 
 affection which appeared in all your letters towards the people 
 tmder your government." Sir Francis alludes, in his official 
 correspondence, to the sacrifice which he was obliged to make 
 to his public duty. " Such," says he, in his dispatch of the 
 25th of Novcmbei-, 17C5, " I reckon my losing the general good 
 will and good opinion of the people, not by any act of my own, 
 but by the unavoidable obligations of my oflic^e, in a business in 
 which I had no concern but as an executive officer." Sir Francis 
 Bernard s"Case before the Privy Council ' was printed by Mr. Bowycr 
 in 1770 J and two editions of hi^ " Select Letters" in 1774. 
 
 In the year 1741 he married Amelia, daughter of Steplien 
 OfHey, of Norton-hall, Derby, esq. (by Mary his wife, sister to 
 John lord viscount Harrington) , by whom he had six sons and 
 four tlaughters. Amelia Lady Bernard died on the 'iGth of May 
 1778, and Sir Francis the ICth of .Tune, in the yeai- following. 
 Of the sons, Francis, the eldest, died uimvjrricd ; John, the 
 second, succeeded to the title ; and Thomiis, the third, of Lin- 
 coln's Inn, barrister at law, and chanctilor of the (iioce'* of 
 Durham, is well known as a sclujlar and a jdiilunthropi^t. 
 
 This Paraphrase was published, after the death of the Au- 
 thor, by Manister Barnard, A.M. rector of Whitestone, l)<'von. 
 Of Mr. Edwards 1 know no more than what his Editor inform^ 
 us ; that he was vicar of Okehamjjton in Devonshire ; was 
 esteemed a person of great learning and sound judgment, and 
 perfectly understood the original text ; that he for many years 
 made Divinity his chief study, and particularly applied hiniM If 
 to the explanation of thew' Kpi<tles, on which he bestowed gnai 
 part of his time, and, if he had lived, intended to ha\e gone 
 through all St. PaxiW Epi'-tk'-. 
 
 AledlcoruiH
 
 238 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iTS^". 
 
 Mediconim Lond. habitae a Gulielmo Battle, M. A. 
 ejusdem Coll. et Socittat. Regiae Socio," 4to. 
 
 Two Editions of Mr. Mason's * " Elfrida, a dra- 
 matic Poein, written on the Model of the antient 
 (ireek Tragedy/' 4to :jid 8vo. 
 
 * This cxcel'cat Poet was the son of a clergj^rnarVj who had tlie 
 living of Hull ; and was born there in 1725. He was admitted 
 of St. John's-collei;e, Cambridge ; where he proceeded B. A. 
 1745 ; wlitiice he removed to Pembroke-hall, of which society 
 lie was elected a fellow 1747; and took the degree of M. A. 1749. 
 In 1754 he entered into holj^ orders, and was patronized by the 
 then Earl of Holdernesse, who obtained for him the appointment 
 of chaplain to his Majesty, and gave him the valuable rectory of 
 Aston in Yorkshire. He was also precentor and one of the 
 reside ntiarics of York cathedral, and prebendary of Driffield. 
 Mr. Mason was an acknt)wlct5ged scholar, and possessed high 
 claims to a considerable degree of poetical reputation. All 
 that could be gatheied from the Greek and Roman stores cer- 
 tainly contributed to embellish his mind 5 but it may be reason- 
 ably questioned whether it was enriched by any great share of 
 original genius ; though it umst be admitted that his " Caracta- 
 cus" and " Elfrida" abound in passages marked by energy and 
 })irit. He was also the author of " The English Garden," 
 ' Translation of Fresnoy's Art of Painting," and several other 
 celebrated poems, the life of Gray, &c. The memorable "He- 
 roic Epistle to Sir William Chami)ers" has been often attributed 
 to this gentleman ; and, if he were the author of it (of which 
 there is scarcely any dcnibt, as he wrote many satirical things, 
 and so did Gray too), he certainly possessed no small portion of 
 satirical humour as well as poetical strength : but the work is 
 certainly different from the general character of his productions. 
 It is certain, however, that he never acknowledged it. In private 
 life his character, though v^ith something in his manners beyond 
 the juere dignity of conscious talents and literature, was distin- 
 guished by ph.ilr.'itlu'opy and fervid friendship. For the latter 
 quality we have only to observe his conduct iu relation to Gray, 
 whose genius he estimated with a zeal of enthusiasm, to bor- 
 row an expression of old Theobald, " amounting to idolatry." 
 Upon the whole, he is to be viewed as a mq.n who may be ranked 
 with the supporters of British literature and morals. Mr. Mason 
 is fi'equently mentioned with great respect in the Correspon- 
 dance of Bj). Warburton.- " Piay make my best compliments to 
 Mr. Mason," says that learned Divine to Mr. Hurd, Dec. 23, 
 1750, " I shall receive him as a gift frcjm your hands, and 
 shall cherish him accordingly : that is, he may be assured of 
 always fiiiding a servant and a friend in me. He had my 
 esteem before, and I thouglit myself much his debtor on dear 
 Mr, Pope's acccimt ; but, after the knowledge of your value 
 for him, nothing can be wanting to tie him very close to me. I 
 
 think
 
 1752.] TtlE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 239 
 
 '' OAOinOPOTNTO:S MEAETHM ATA she 
 
 Iter Surriense et Sussexieiise. Preemittitur, De 
 
 think the model he writes his Poem Elfnda] upon, not only right 
 in itself, but that his trial of the success of it is very com- 
 mendable ; and, one should think, promising ; as it unites 
 all that is admired, or affected to be admired, in dramatic pev 
 formances, music and poetiy." Dec. 29, 1/51. "I tinnk Mr. 
 Mason has in all respects judged right, to give his poem [EUnda] 
 to the pubMck as a classical pei-formance : and it is not im- 
 possible but that those who had been most averse to have seen 
 it brought on the stage the oj"dinary way, may be clamorous 
 for its appearance there, some time or other, in tkeii- owa 
 way." May 9, 1T52. " A kind letter I recei\ed fiom you this 
 morning leminded me that I should lia\e wrote to you before, 
 to convey a word or two, by you, to Mr. Maeoa. You know 
 how the thing stands with his Northern Lord, and you know 
 my sentiments on it. A little lificr Mr. Vinson had left us, Mr. 
 Cnarles Yorke, who is willing to do all obliging offices to uiy 
 friends, as well as ready to do justice to merit, chancetl to men- 
 tion that affair. 'He said he had met the Earl of Rockinghnia 
 at some public place, and complimented him on his dJspasition 
 to Mr. Mason, and thence took an opportunity of saying what 
 he .thought most advantageous of him. What passed of this 
 kind is of little moment : ordy I coidd fijid by it, that nil uho 
 had spoken tif Mr. Mason to LoitI llockinghani had rjeit'jer been 
 so candid nor so generous as Mr. y<;rke. The tiling nio.-t mate- 
 rial is, to let Mr. Mason know Mr. Yorke's opinion (jf the invi- 
 tation ; and I am the ratiier obliged to it, as Mr. Yorke's i.-, dif- 
 ferent from mine. He thinks Mr. Mason is likely to attach that 
 Lord's liking to him, as he is a young Nobleman of elegance, 
 and loves music and painting. His interest too, he savs, is a* 
 weighty as any great man's can be who is not likely 10 tuin to 
 business ; and, in a word, thinks Mr Ma.^on siumld n;)t refuse the 
 offer. I said to him aU on the other side 1 harl said to Mr. Ma- 
 son, and we parted like two of Tullv's dis})at;ints. He seeuied 
 willing I should tell yoa, to accjuaint you)' fiienrl with w\vjX 
 passed." Oct. 24, 1/54. " Mr. Mason has called upon me. I 
 found him yet uiires(;lved whether tie should take the ]i\i)!g. I 
 said, was the question about a mere secular eni]jl'n;!)c:it, 1 
 should blame him without reserve if he refu'^ed thi- o'.h's. Hut 
 as I regarded going into ordess in auotluM- light, 1 (V.iiikly 
 owned to him, he ought not to go, unle-i he hr.d aca//.- by 
 which I meant, 1 told him, nothing fmatital or suuer.itilious ; 
 but an inclination, and, on (hat, a re-oliitioii, to d(;(licate all 
 his studies to the .service of relig-on, and totally to abandon h..-5 
 poetry. Tliis sacnfice, I -aid, I tho'i,.'li! wa.-, ! (iniicd at ;niy 
 time, but more indi-:pen-!ii)ly ^o in H,!-., vslicnwc ax- fighl;: .: 
 with Infiiieiity pro cis ct Jocis. Eiii-^ wa-, -.vliut 1 .^aid -. :m(i I 
 will do him the justice to say, ti.al he i Jiii'<'.!y atrc'..! w lii .e 
 ill thinking, that dcceucv, reputaUon, and i-i:l;';ion, all rei- d 
 
 tki'--
 
 t40 llTERARY ANECDOTfiS OF [l752. 
 
 Linguae Graecae institiitionibus quibusdam Epistola 
 Critica." By Dr. Burton. 
 
 1753. 
 
 In 1753> when the Nation was in a ferment at 
 the indulgence proposed to be granted to the Jews, 
 Mr. Bowyer pubhshed, in 4t(), " Remarks on a 
 Speech made in Common Council, on the Bill for 
 permitting Persons professing the Jewish Religion 
 to be naturalized, so far as Prophecies are supposed 
 
 this sacrifice of him; and that, if he went into orders, he in- 
 tended to give it." The late Mr. Steevens, in aia article which he 
 furnished for the "BiographiaDi-amatica," thus ably characterized 
 Mr. Mason : " This gentleman is one of the few authoi's who are 
 intitled to the applause of the world, as well for the virtues of his 
 heart as for the excellence of his writings. He married a young 
 lady of good family and amiable character, but of a consumptive 
 constitution, which soon deprived him of her at Bristol Wells, as 
 aj)pears by her elegant epitaph m that cathedral. Mr. Mason at 
 piesent exerts himself as a politician in the covmty where he re- 
 sides, and seenjs to have been very active in fomiing the associa- 
 tion established there. The commendations bestowed on Elfrida 
 and Caractacus in tlicir original form, liave been seconded by aii 
 equal degree of applause since they wei(; adapted to the stage. 
 The first is perhaps the most finished, the second the most strik- 
 ing peiformance." After some masterly observations on these 
 two celebrated dramatic works, Mr. Steevens candidly adds, " The 
 real beauties, however, of both these performances so success- 
 fully predominate over every seeming imperfection they may 
 betray, that, on a review of what we have written, wc scarcely 
 think our remarks to the disadvantage of either deserve consi- 
 deration." Mr. Mason maiiied IMary, daughter of \Mllianj 
 Shermon, of Kingston-upon-Hull, esq. who died March 24, 1767, 
 in her ^Sth year, at Bristol ; in the '^^ firth aile of which cathedral 
 he erected to her memory a neat luonument Of white marble, 
 with the following inscription : 
 
 " Maiy, tiie daughter of William Shermon^ 
 of Kingston-upon-Hull, and wife of the Rev. William Mason, 
 died Marcli 9A, 17C7, aged 2S. 
 Whoe'er, like me, witli treml)ling anguish brings 
 His heart's whole treasure to these healing springs ^ 
 Whoe'er, like me, to soothe disease and pain. 
 These heaiina: springs lias visited in vain ; 
 CondennVd like me to hear the faint reply. 
 To mark the iaf'ing cheek, the sinking eye. 
 From tjis chiil biows to wipe the dam})s of death. 
 And war ch in dumb despair the shojtening breath 
 
 If
 
 1753-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. S4I 
 
 to be affected by it." The design of this sensible 
 little tract, which was written with spirit, and well 
 received by those who were superior to narrow pre- 
 judices, was to shew, that, whatever political rea- 
 sons might be adduced against the Bill, Christianity 
 would in no degree be prejudiced by the indulgence 
 proposed to be granted to the Jews*. It is printed 
 with Mr. Bowyer s " Miscellaneous Tracts." 
 
 In the same year some of his notes were annexed 
 to "A Journal from (irand Cairo to Mount Sinai, 
 and back again -|~, translated from a Manuscript 
 
 If chance direct him to this artless line. 
 
 Let the sad mourner know his pangs were mine." 
 
 Mr. Mason's death happened at Aston, of a mortification> 
 occasioned by breaking his shin, in stepping out of liis car- 
 riage. " He hurt his shin on Friday, officiated in his cimrcli 
 at Aston on Sunday, and died on the Wednesday following. He 
 was lord of a valuable manor in the East Hiding of the county 
 of York; and his income was about 1500/. per annum." Mr. 
 Gough, MS. The appointment of the four canon-residentiarica 
 of York cathedral is in tlie gift of the Dean ; who is obliged, by 
 statute, to give the vacant canonry to the first man he sees, after 
 the vacancy, capable of taking it. Mr. Markhani was his first 
 sight on the death of Mr. Mason. 
 
 * " The Je\v Bill is one of those things that characterize the 
 present age. The Bi^h(>i)s saw no harm, nor even indecency in 
 it, to Rehgion. The people thought tlioy saw, what (it is be- 
 yond ail question) they did not see. So that between the not 
 seeing at all, and the seeing falsely, I never met with so much 
 wickedness of a persecuting spirit on one side, and so much 
 nonsense on both, as in this pamphlet contioversy." 
 
 Dr. li urburton io Mr. Ilurd, Dec. 6, 1753. 
 
 i To the Society of Antiquaries, to whom this book was in- 
 scribed, Bishop Clayton (jbseived, "that as the Jounia! p;uticii- 
 larly describes many plactj^ in the wilderness, wliere great num- 
 bers of antient characters are hewn In the rocks ; if a jjcr-on 
 was sent to live some time among the Anibs, he miulit grt coines 
 of the chaj'acteir, and :>ome help.--, by which the aiiliiut Ililjnw 
 characters, now lost, may be n.CD' cred." He ad'lcd, " I don't 
 know whom to apj)ly tf), more projHilv to look out for a >uil;ib!e 
 pi^rson. As to the expcnc--, I am willing to Ijcar an\ propoiiiun 
 you .t>ha!l think piojM'i-, in order to Ii:i\u this dc-igii clii'eled." 
 [Tlie Bi-hop proiOb('(l to iiavc i::iun KX)'. /;/ ; (umam for live 
 yi;ai>l Tlie Pr. felt u of Kgvjit hadwitli him j.-fi-on^ acquainleJ 
 with the Arabic, Greek, Hetjrew, Syi'.tc, (optic, J.atin, Aimi- 
 niaii, Tmivi^h, l:]ngii-'li, Ill}ri':ui, (uniiau. and Bohemian laii- 
 guagea, }ct none of Ihem had any Liiouledgc of tlic thai act t.T.s 
 
 Vol. I'l. it' wiath
 
 242 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF \_175S* 
 
 \vritten by the Prefetto of Egypt, in company with 
 some Missionaries de propagandd Jide at Grand 
 
 which were cut in the solid rock, 12 and 14 feet high, with great 
 industry. ITie Bishop declared, that he did not make this pro- 
 posal as a matter of curiosity, but as it might be of great ser- 
 vice to the Christian revelation, by corroborating the history of 
 Closes. 
 
 From the learned Body to whom the Bishop of Clogher ad- 
 dressed his Journal, he received the following acknowledg- 
 ment : 
 
 " MY LORD, Nov. 22, 1753, 
 
 " The regard which yonr lordship was pleased to shew to this 
 Society, by addressing to tliem the Journal to Mount Sinai, with 
 your I^jrdship's learned and curious remarks on the origin of 
 Hieroglyphicks, has long since called for our thankful acknow- 
 ledgment. And we assure }'our Lordship, that this delay haa 
 been no ways owing to our not being duly sensible of the hon- 
 our done VIS by that address. But the Society being yet in tlie in- 
 fancy of its piesent establishment, \^e ha\ e been chiefly employed 
 in settling and adjusting such matters as more immediately re- 
 late to its future management and regulation ; which has hither- 
 to prevented our attention to several other things, though of 
 importance, that have come before us. And we now find our- 
 selves obliged to acquaint jour J^ordship, that, as well from the 
 nature of our constitution, which principally respects British 
 antiquities, as from our annual contribution.^, which at present 
 arc our only revenue, we are wholly inca])able, as a body, of 
 contributing to the suppoi-t of your Lordslii})'s truly generous 
 and laudable scheme, proposed in tlie above-mentioned treatise. 
 Whatever, therefore, can be hoped for of tliat kind, nmst be 
 done by particular persons of Iarf:;e fortuocs, who are v. illing to 
 encourage such curious and useful researches into the eai'liest 
 times. And for this purpose we have not been wanting to re- 
 commend it, both at our meetings and elsewhere, as occasion 
 has olfercd ; nor shall we, for the future, cer.se to do so, though 
 hitherto it has not had the deslri'd success. That your Lordship 
 may long live to see the ha])p\ effects, both of this and any other 
 good designs your Lordship may ha\e in view, for promoting 
 the interest of learning, and our holy r"'igion, is the sincere and 
 hearty dt>irc of, my Lord, your I^ordsliip's most obliged, hum- 
 ble servants, TiiF. Socikty of Axtiuuakies of London." 
 
 An excellent /Vntini'iiry, in a lettet on this subject (Gent. Mag. 
 I7.'>3, ]).331) s;iys, " 1 hope the gen^'icmen addressed will ])av a 
 proiKT regard to the proposal of tlie Bishop ofCaogher, and will 
 sen 1 some (jur.liried ])erson to take an exact cop>y of that very 
 aiiinic inserijUion on the rock at Moimt ^inai. It may seem 
 very iaring in 'axv, one, while \vc luivc so ft \v data, and whdr 
 liUR. uiwio is knoivn relating to lliij in.--crij!tion but that it 
 e\.l-ts, to advmtuie any conjecuue eouccruirig it, and yet I 
 
 thinl.
 
 1753-] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 243 
 
 Cairo: To which are added, Remarks on the Origin 
 of Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of the antient 
 
 think one may guess something, from analogy, about the sub- 
 ject-matter of it. I believe it \\ill prove to be historical, since 
 I have obsen'ed that such antient memorials have been preserxed 
 in that manner. ' That the most antient people,' says Mr. Wise, 
 ' before the invention of books, and before the use of scvxlpture 
 upon stones, and other smaller fragments, were wont to re])re- 
 sent things great and noble upon entire rocks and mountains, 
 seems so natural, that it is easily imagined, and assented to by 
 all. And that the custom was not laid aside for many ages after, 
 is plain from Histoiy. Semiramis, to perpetuate her memory, is 
 reported to have cut a whole rock into the form of herself. 
 Hannibal, long after the invention of books, engraved characters 
 upon the Alpine rocks, as a testimony of his passage over them ; 
 w'hich charactei-s were remaining about two centuries ago, if we 
 may believe Paulus Jovius. But, what is most to our purpose, 
 it appears to have been particularly the custom of the Northern 
 nations, from that remarkable inscription mentioned by Saxo, 
 and several ages after him delineated and published by Olaus 
 Woraiius. This was inscribed by Karold Hyldetand to the me- 
 mory of his father ; it was cut on the side of a rock, in Runic 
 characters, each letter of the inscription being a quarter of an 
 ell long, and the length of the whole iS4 ells.' (Mr. Wise's Letter 
 to Dr. Mead.) These Northern examples are indeed tiie most 
 for this learned Author's purpose, who contends that the White 
 Horse, in the Vale of that name in Berkshire, is a monument of 
 this sort, and was intended to perpetuate the remembrance of a 
 signal victory obtained by the Saxons at As>hdovvn, under the 
 conduct of King /Elfred, over the Danes. But the custom was 
 Eastern as well as Northern, as appears from that veiy rei)iark- 
 able instance which sve have in Captain Hamilton's Account of the 
 East Indies. The author, afv'^r giving a short hi^^tory of that 
 successful attack which the Dutch made upon the L-^land of 
 Amoy, in China, A. D. 1G45, a.lds, ' Tiiis history is wiitten iu 
 large China ch.aracters, on the face of a smooth rnck that faces 
 the entrance of the harbour, and ma\ be fairly s;'en as we pa-s 
 out and into the harbour.' This is but of late date, cc^mpared 
 with the monument at Mount Sinai; but. as (he Eastern jx-ojjle 
 in genei"al are extremely tenacitms uf their aniif r.t ru-loni'-. :u 
 appears from tiie travel- both of Dr. Pocoekc and ))r Slr.iw , tl;(^ 
 conjecture is not the less pnjbable, th.it tiiis \rabi..n in-eriii;.l(;ji 
 will be found to afford us some liisLorical fact." 
 
 " It '.'.ould have been a .^en-ib!e di-^apijointnicnt to our uuithy 
 Prelate, liad he li\ed to :ee that. afuT an attentive cxuniinalion 
 by the late Mr. Wortlcs .M()a':;gii, in IT'J.^, tli; -r 1 h:n;u:1ers ap- 
 pear tf) be nothing more than th woii; ot" < 'l:ri-ti.;n (onvfrt-, 
 pilgrims to Mount Sinai. Thc; ajuroHcli nc.uc-t lo ihc Hchrf.v 
 of any (character, and are in;ir;iii\'ilu!lii !i;MMc.^ olni^ nai.d f' ,!-< 
 Mr. Moiita-.-u's ucc:ii.li"ii of th- I'-l' - m '.li..- ru'.ki -.Uu -k bv 
 
 k - Mr'.-
 
 244 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF tl753 
 
 Heathens. By the Right Rev. Robert Lord Bishop 
 of Clogher *." This benevolent and very learned 
 
 Moses bears ample testimony to the Scripture Historj'. Sec Phil. 
 Trans, vol. LVI. article 8; and Gent, Map:. 1/67:, pp.374, 401. 
 The last account which we have of these written monu- 
 ments is by Mr. Nieubuhr. *' The inscriptions," says he, " on 
 the ro;ul from Suez to Mount Sinai, do not answer the idea 
 formed of them. I saw no rocks covered with characters for 
 half a league together each ; but very different inscriptions, 
 which Pococke copied before, and Mr. Montagu after me. As 
 thev are all engraved on very unequal and rough surfaces, my 
 copies of them could not be more distinct than those taken by 
 the travellers beft)re mentioned. They appeared to me nothing 
 more than the names of persons who have passed that way. Yet, 
 as they are unknown in Europe, I shall gi\e some of them in 
 the account of my tra\'els, with di\'ers well-written hieroglyphics 
 which I found in these deserts." Descriplion de V Arabic, Copenh. 
 1773, p. 85. Those who reflect on the fatigue of caravan-travel- 
 ling in these parched countries, so feelingly detailed in Mr. Ir- 
 win's late journey over land from Suez to Cairo, may perhaps 
 think it very extraordinary that Pilgrims should consume the 
 little leisure such journe}s afford in attaching themselves to a 
 rock (even the shady side) at the height of 12 or 14 feet, to 
 carve letters, which, while they are described to approach nearest 
 to the Hebrew of any known character, are intended to be repre- 
 rented as having no more meaning than the scrawls of children 
 with clialk on a wall." This note is Mr. Gouph's. 
 
 * Dr. Robert Clayton, advanced to the Bisiioprick of Killala, 
 Jan. 23, 1729.. was translated to the see of Cork, Dec. li), 1735, 
 and to that of Clogher, Aug. 2o, 1745. He ^vas Fellow of the 
 Boyal and Aiitiquju'ian Societies; was alv.ays considered as a 
 prelate of great learning, and of distinguislied worth and pro- 
 bity j and died, mucli laniciited, Feb. 25, 1/58. His publica- 
 tions arc, 1. A Letter in the Philosophical Transactions, No. 461, 
 p. 813, giving an acconiit of a Frenchman, 70 years old (at 
 Iniriianan, in his diocese of Cork), who said he gave suck to a 
 child. 2. " The Chronology of the Ilebi-ew Bible vindicated; 
 the Facts compared with other antient Histories, and^the diffi- 
 culties CT^^lained, f.-ora tlie Flood to the Death of Moses ; toge- 
 thei- V'ith soiiic Coiuecturcs in relaliur. to iigvpt, during tliat 
 Period of Tiuu; : alsO two Maps. In waicli are attempted 10 be 
 settled t:ie .Tou;:ie\ ings of the Chi'u'.reu of I.-:rael, 1751," 4to. 
 S. " Am inqiarli;'.! Jnquiry into the Time, of the Coming of the 
 filc^siah ; togctiicr wJLh an Abstract of tlte Iv.idence on which 
 tliu Belief of the Christian llcligion ' s foui; le.l; in two Latteis 
 
 to uPi eiiiiuent Jew, 1751," Svo. !. "An E.-!say on Sj;irit j 
 
 wh.r^'iii tiie Doctrine of the Ti-'nit;. !- coi^r-idcii d in the Light 
 of LN;ilnre ;uid Reason ; as well ;;-; u\ ii;e Li.-;ht in wii'ch it 
 v\ur h..Id hv the antient Hehrciv.s ; coiniv/iv* cl also with the 
 Doctiir.c (,{ ti.e Gid and New Testa, ueut ; to^vther \\i;h some 
 Remark.: (;u the AthauLisian and Nicene Cieeds, 17 51," 8\o. 
 
 On
 
 1753-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 245 
 
 Prelate highly esteemed the friendship of Mr. Bow- 
 yer ; honoured him with a regular and not unfre- 
 
 On this subject Dr. Warburton observes, " Tlie BishoD of Cloi>:her 
 or some such heathenish name, in Ireland, has just published 
 a book. It is made up out of the rubbish of old her(jsies 5 of a 
 much ranker cast than common Aiianism. Jesus Christ is 
 Michael ; and tiie Holy Ghost, Gabriel, &c. This might be heresy 
 in an English Bishop; but in an Irish, 'tis only a blunder. But, 
 thank God, our Bishops are all f;\r fi'(;m making or vendinr^ 
 heresies; though for the good of the Church, tliev liavc excellent 
 eyes at spying it out whenver it skulks or hes liid." I-,'oi\ IS, 1731. 
 5. "A Vindication of tlie Histories of the Old and New- 
 Testament, iu answer 10 the Objections of the late Lord Bolino-- 
 broke ; in Two Letters to a young Nobleman, 1/52," Svo ; re- 
 printed in 1753. 6. "A Defence of the Essay onSpirit, with Re- 
 marks on the several pretended Answejs; and whicli may serve .-19 
 an Antidote against all that shall ever ajjpcar against it, 1753," 
 Svo. 7- " A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount *^iuru, a;;'l back 
 again, &c. 1753," as above; two editions, 4to and Svo. It was 
 soon after this publication that his Lord^hip i>ee vaie (in .\Iarch 
 175-1) aFellow of the Society of Antiquaii;.-.-. 8. 'Some Tiioaglits 
 on Self-love, Innate Ideas, Free-wi'l, Ti.-ie, Sentiments, Liberty 
 and Necessity, &c. occasioned by reading .Mr. Hume's Works, and 
 the short Tivatise written in French bv Lord Bolingl loke on 
 Comjjassion, 1754," Svo. 9. " A Vindicatli . of the Hst'.M-ies of 
 the Old and New Testame.nt, Part II. \Vh>iein the ,<jo^ai(al 
 History of the Creation and Deluge is pliiiosophicallv ex :!ain (! ; 
 the Errors of the present Theory of theTi<les detected v lA inu- 
 fied; togetlier with some Remarks on the Plurality of Worlds. 
 In a Series of Letters to a young Xobleinan. Adoined %vitii se- 
 veral Explanatory Cuts, 1754," 8vo. 10. ' Letiers briween the 
 Bishop of Clogiier and Mr. William Penn, concerMing ila!>'.is:n, 
 1755," Hvo. " Having some years ago he; ;i indulu'cd \\\t]\ a 
 copy of the fodowing I^4ters, after souio inr-onuuit'. I Iv.w' at 
 length obtained a j)ermis-iun for theii- pu')ri(;iiin;i ; \vliicli I 
 was the more desirous of, eis 1 a])])rt'h! nd it iijn he of service (o 
 have a friendly debate on one of tiie Sac'r;\i;i.'i;tr^ of the ( i.ureh 
 of England made known; where the ilcn'.er, v.halcMi' p ^ll;^!l 
 determine, will recti vc a pleasure at le,bt in ^ i . i' a (:!- n'e, 
 eoneendng so important an article of jlciiuioii. cu'ii 'l '. ;i \vii;i- 
 iiiit a Ij-.t ueii of its essential cliara .teii.-iic-,, C';ru r.'.- :iiid ( ;in- 
 iit>ui-. ' .iiir.t I t.si'ini'ut of Ml. I',(>u:;':i\ p.'ji'di ii> /... /.!'',<. 
 1 I. '-.i >jK('ch ma.ie in the iloi-i ;)i" l,.u-i.-' iii !r i:i:i!, : ".Iimi- 
 da_\ , I'll). '2, 175^", fi;r oiiii;;ii;;: ;!. Mc'.iif :uid 'r.ii i,:L-ian 
 Crc!-<1,, i>.:l. ijf ih" Litur.:', o.c. '['.'.<.' in -Iim; i -in: .i .-u the 
 'i'iihi- s'. h; n ir W.1-; -pt)k< -i, by '). 'v i;,..;." Svo; i!i'-.-.l < niion, 
 177i. i'.:. "\ WiiUVX '"^ , r.iriili. ( 'Hifiii::!.,-; -.n!!:!' Oli-fi'- 
 v.itions on the Xatiire < f A ::.',( !-, an! lis- >;''tiM J Accmiim; o*" 
 the I'.ll c>:..l Rw;cni])ti;-u i' .N'u'nl.in't. In :i - . i* ~ '>i' l.rt.-.v (,, 
 axoung \()!;leman, J 75'-!," svo. i ic lln>. )) ni-^ i;i' \\\- ' \ iii- 
 dii:atio)j/' witli the "E--"- I'i. --[.ii i' ," v.i;-<' ![:':!: ! 1.. Mr.
 
 246 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l753 
 
 quent correspondence*; and presented him with the 
 copy-right of all his valuable writings. 
 
 In 1753 also he printed " Medals, Coins, Great 
 Seals, impressions from the elaborate Works of 
 Thomas Simon, Chief Engraver of the Mint to 
 King Charles the First, to the Commonwealth, the 
 Lord Protector Cromwell, and in the Reign of King 
 Charles the Second, to mdclxv. By George Ver- 
 tue-|~," 4to. A new and improved edition of this 
 
 Bowyerj in one volume, Svo, 1759 ; with some additional notes, 
 and an Index of Texts of Scripture illustrated or explained. 
 
 A good Life of Bishop Clayton has (since this note was first 
 compiled) been given in the Biographia Britannica, vol. III. To 
 which may be added the following paragraph from an unpub- 
 lished letter of John Earl of Cork to the Rev. Mr. Duncombe, 
 dated March 11, 1758 : "The Bishop of Clogher died in a lucky 
 time for his earthly welfare. The people were enraged against 
 him to a sanguinary degi-ee. He might have fallen a victim to 
 the imj.'ious rabble, whose piety never is so high as when it tends 
 to do mischief." 
 
 * That Bishop Clayton's confidence was not misplaced, will 
 appear by the following Letter, which was sent by Mr. Bowyer 
 to Dr. Bradley, the celebrated Astronomer Royal : 
 
 "key. sik, Nov. 9, 1758. 
 
 " Before the Bishop of Cloghcr died, he fell under the censure 
 of some Astronomers, for having asserted that the Moon kept 
 <he same face to the Earth, without turning on its own centre. 
 In A indication of himself, he sent me the inclosed letter to print, 
 if I thought proper. As I would not publish any thing now 
 under his name which should be thought a manifest absurdity ; 
 and as I am not a ])roper judge how far what he has here ad- 
 vanced is so, I would humbly beg the favour of you to let me 
 know if you tliink it barely plausiiDle. I do not presume to ask 
 your decision on the question ; but only to s;iy m hcther wliat he 
 hath produced hath the ap[)carance of probability, which is the 
 chief object of the press, and in general the utmost attainment 
 of human inquiries. I have further to a^k pai'don, if my regard 
 to his chaj-acter hath made me exceed my own, when I subi^cribe 
 mvsclf, Reverend Sir, your most humble servant, W. Bowyer." 
 
 I know not what answei' was returned bv])r. I5i;ullev, or whe- 
 ther his advancing infirmities prevented his rettjrning any 5 the 
 Bi bo])'s letter, however, did not appear in print. Dr. Bradley 
 died Jidy 15, 1762, in his /Oth year. See an account of him in 
 the ' Jiiograj'liia Britannica," vol. 11. p. .')50'. 
 
 t (leorge Verlue, an eminent eni;Ta\er anl diligent collector 
 of \!.tiinuti;'> rtlitive both to his Art atid the History of England, 
 an' no less iii-lin''.uisued by tlie amiable sincerity and Integrity 
 of liis hearr,, wiis born in the pari-h of St. Mia'tin in ihe Fields, 
 
 In his " V,iKlicai.ion of tbe Old and Nsw Testament," Tart 11. 
 
 IGS4.
 
 175^1 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 347 
 
 Work, with a valuable . Appendix by Mr. Goiio-h, 
 
 1684. His parents, he says himself, were more honest than opu- 
 lent. After serving three or four years as part of an apprentice- 
 ship with a master who engraved arms on plate, and had the 
 chief business in London ; but who, being unfortunate, retired 
 to Fi-ance, his native country ; Vertue entei-ed into a seven years* 
 engagement with Michael Vandergucht ; engraving copper-plates 
 for him ; till, in 1709, having recei%ed instructions and advice 
 ft'om several Painter^, he began business for himself, and pushed 
 the first year in drawing and engraving for boolcsellers. He 
 was earlv in life distinguished l:y Mr. Prior; v lio, in his li'.ies on 
 Tom Britton, joins Vertue with Sir Godfrey Kneller. He was 
 also introduced to many persons of taste and e.iiinence; which 
 gave a shining appearance to the morning of his fortune. His 
 mother was left a widow, with several children. " I was the 
 eldest," he says, " and then the onlv child that could heljj th.em ; 
 which added circumspection to my atFairs then, as v.eil fis in- 
 dustry to the end of my life." At intervals lie jjractised dra ving 
 and music; and studied the French, Italian, autl Dutch i.inpuages. 
 LordSomers employed him to engra' c a plate of Abp. TilU/tson; 
 which he pei-formed admirably, and was nobly rewarded. In 
 17 1 1 he was one of the first members of the Aendemv of Painting 
 then established, of which Sir Godficy Kneller was at the hrad ; 
 and he continued till the end of that year to engrave portraits fi-om 
 Kneller, Dahl, Richardson, Jervase, Gibson, and others. On the 
 accession of the present Royal Family, hs engraved an admir- 
 able likeness of the new King, from a painting b\ Kneller, of 
 which many thousands were sold. It was shewn at Court; and 
 followed by portraits of the Prince and Frince-s. He comn^'^nced 
 his re-earches after the lives of British Ar(i.--ts so eaily as 1713; 
 and soon found a Maecenas in that munifkent cnllrctor Robert 
 Harley, the second earl of Oxford ; and another j-Htron in He- 
 neage Finch, earl of VVinchelsea; who, having 1;t-e)\ eiecred 
 Presiflcnt of the Society of .\ntiquaries on their .e\i\al in 1717, 
 appointed ?Jr. Vertue, who was a men!i)or, to b" tiieir ICngiuvei-. 
 He continued to exteate the SocietvV joints iill his (k-a^h ; i-.r.d 
 the prices of some of his eailicst peifonnances ibr tin ni ^.wp : 
 
 1718. P.ichard II. in VVebtmin^ter Aljl^ey, cc.i-jKr-plalc in- 
 eluded yi/.; 
 
 1719. Llphus's Horn '21 ; 
 
 17'21. Shiine of Edward the Confessor (th^ S()(i'fy fimi;.! 
 
 the plate) 15/. ITxf. ; 
 Waltham (.'ro.-s, including paj)er and \voikin!;--(/li .")/. 
 
 5 Michn.'l V;uidersruclit drcfl Oct. IG, \\ !'>. a-. G;. H- Vfi. fo . ..|i^; 
 1, John, ail ei'.nn-iver of some cmiiieiKc : u!.i).-r ciilv sdn jici jiiiiei., tr. 
 of the <';irii(st suicUnts in the R<>v:.| Acmlniiv , x,.i>. .Irov, ned. i. nn^i -.ii - 
 from Chi.snick, Sept. Hj, I7y4. "'., (..nml. .i^-ilkiMU.,, l- ,! , ,., ,.;,- 
 tuns in Gri^av Hrook-trcet ; v.lio rlir.l March 1^, 177''; ^^nc 1 > i'U-tun^ 
 and LriMiZcs win- 'old bv ( hri^tic in i;:?. ) h-' v,r''>'y. . f (.i-ri-l iv 
 v.hnm he had 3<) ciiiUhciv died at raddin-tor., .Niarth IH, I'M', ii- h- r 
 ggthyear,
 
 248 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l753- 
 
 and two additional plates finely engraved by Basire, 
 
 He also engraved the Oxford Almanacks from 1723 to his death ; 
 and embellished them by views of jjublic buildings and historic 
 events. The visits he paid to most of the galleries of the 
 NobiUty, and to the. Universities, in search of English por- 
 traits, suggested a design of engraving a great variety of them, 
 as well as of historic prints. With Loid Colei-ane, one of his 
 noble patrons, he visited Salisbury, Winchester, and Stonehenge; 
 with Mr. Stephens the Historiographer, St. Alban's, Verulam, 
 and Gorhambury ; with the Earl of Oxford, after passing a 
 week at Wimpole, to Stamford, Buikigh, Grantham, Lincoln, 
 and Welbeck} and in 172S he accompanied the Duiie of Dorset 
 to Knowle and Penshurst. 
 
 In 1 730 appeared his twelve heads of celebrated Poets ; and 
 that he had taken some considerable pains respecting the authen- 
 ticity of them, appears from the follo\A ing letter : 
 
 " Mr. Christi.^n, Pray inform my Lord Harley that I have 
 on Thursday last seen the daughter of Milton the Poet. I car- 
 ried with me two or thz'ee different prints of Milton's picture, 
 which she immediately knew to be like her father ; and told me 
 her mother-in-law (if living in Cheshire) had two pictures of 
 him, one when he was a school-boy, and the other v.hen he was 
 about twenty. She knows of no other picture of him, because 
 she was several years in Ireland, both before and after his death. 
 She was the youngest of Milton's daughters by his first wife, and 
 was taught to read to her father several languages. Mr. Addison 
 was desirous to see her once, and desired she would bring with 
 her testimonials of being Milton's daughter ; but, as soon as she 
 came into the room, he told her she needed none, her face hav- 
 ing much of the likeness of the pictures he had seen of him. 
 For my part, I find the features of her face very much like tlie 
 prints. I showed her the painting; I have to engrave, which she 
 beheves not to be her father's picture, it being of a brown com- 
 plexion, and black hair, and curled locks. On the contrary, he 
 was of a fiir complexion, a little red in liis cheeks^ and light 
 brown lank hair. Geo. Vj-:rtue." 
 
 After this, he again ^i6ited Oxfoixl, Gloucester, Buiford, Ditch- 
 ley, Blenheim, and Cunibridge; and soon after published tlie 
 portraits of King Charles I. and his loyal adherents j and was- 
 employed thiee years by the Knaptons in iUustrating Rapin. 
 
 The name of Mr.Vertue is enrolled in the list of the Gen- 
 tlemen's Society ai Spalding; and that he v.;is an attentive cor- 
 responding member the following letter, adilrcssed to Maurice 
 Johnson, junior, esq. the Secretiuy of that Society, will testify. 
 " DEAR SIR, London, July ^9, 173'2. 
 
 " Yom- kind and obliging letter has much more than repaid 
 the courtesy you intended me of a visit, which I could no wavs 
 expect but with your con\eniency, when you had spare time on 
 your hands. Though that may not happen so soon as I desire it, 
 still yom- kind and friendly sentiments on t]\o.'-e few things I 
 ha\e heretofore shewn youj encouraged me tb.vn to \vish for an 
 
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 ^753-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 249 
 
 was printed, by the Compiler of these "Anecdotes," 
 
 opportunity of hearing your opinion about some others lately come 
 into my hands, and that I know not how long they may continue 
 with me, they being marbles, Roman, with inscriptions, and two 
 antique brass statues. Our Society lias adjourned. Mr. West is gone 
 to France. Messrs. Gale are out of toun. But, in relation to vour 
 request, I wish this sketch [of Roger Bacon] may be of an v' use. 
 The original, from w)iich I drew that I have, is painted in oil- 
 colours ; upon a thick board ; the ground blue, the habit of a 
 dark or black j the whole picture not quite so big as the life. It 
 is now at Knowle, the seat of the Duke of Dorset, in Kent. 
 With this picture of Bacon is also, in the same gallery, many 
 other learned men of early time in Europe : all probably col- 
 lected early in Qute^n Elizabeth's time, by Tliomas Sackville, 
 afterwards Earl of Dorset, and Lord Treasurer before he died ; 
 a nobleman excellent for his great learning and other noble en- 
 dowments. His picture I am now about to engrave : and that 
 of his great-grandson, tlie right noble Duke of Dorset, now 
 Lord-lieutenant of Ireland. I have lately made a tour for a few 
 days, and liave seen Mv. ^ViUis's Collection of English Coins ; 
 which are very perfect, and in great number ; esjjcciallv 
 amongst his silver, he lias a great many scarce pieces. And in 
 my ramble have seen those admirable remains of the Amndel 
 Collection of marbles, statues, busts, allai's, bas-relievos, Slc. 
 now in the possession of the Lord Poinfret ; with many other 
 fine paintings, there and other places. Mr. Folkes is in Norfolk. 
 For his use I borrowed a small piece of goM, a coin of King James 
 the First, from Mr. Willis ; b'lt still want one small piece more, 
 to complete a plate of ti^at King's coin that I am about, (that 
 in) a quarter-piece of gold of Ki;ig James, with jacob. o. g. 
 ANG. SCOT. IK. HiB. REX. ThpoC pivOAs v.'cre coined in the very 
 begiaiiing of hi- reign. The wli^de an:! tl\e half-piece, e have ; 
 but waiit tlie quarter. The oth^-r sceplje pieces have mag. brit. 
 i'li. &.C. whieli were struck the .'->(cc: eding years of his reign. 
 Sir, wishing you all the j>!->a-nre ofs'v^^ing daily im;)i'oveinent in 
 your young Academists, ih it '.'.r y ma\ cultivate so fine and rare 
 an oi)portunily, and dirijnguish t!i;^iii-,tl.e"^ to the world in a 
 virtuous and ciuiuent degree, iliat \\e may botli live to >!(; it, 
 tliat you ma\have the f Hc'iv of tli-ir gr<.teful ac!;n')wledg;uenl.-, 
 i<, clear Sir, trie h^'ai'l/ wkh-js of your adoetioiiatc and obliged 
 humble servant to coia!K..;i.l, (ino. VcKri.'i;.'" 
 
 In 1733 Mr. Beaup'-e Bell mti.'ious Mr. Vcitue as '-iKuin::: 
 more I)usiiiess ujjon his hiP.ds !h:i'i iic could d'~;':iti-'ii ; and, being 
 unacquainted v^/th tlie ;u)hi-'viatioi;-, cxc fjiie.il 0:1 <oiiH, uol 
 e;.ring to engage in a work wi'.ei-e ii.' -.vav j,i,)!)ab'y e.r, l!i.ii;.-ii 
 a greater j)rice was projxwed So !i^,i i! 11 any oiii.-r en:..;uer 
 woub! demand." (i?,eii(jir e 1 .1; -.1.'-. p. l:'.') !n !;3! I,e iv 
 ncwed Ids journ'.ns liu-oi!.-l! (.'i ' le^l. ;i 1 i ace > !ip niie 1 :Im.;u- 
 Cale to St. Albau's, \orliM,.r;o:, .^m ' ^'. ''V i'-.v ; un 1 io i;..; 
 tiie i:aH of L,!ce>ier cu-iie-! lo-i In I' ;;:;irr. lli.-. i.;-, IWr 
 portraiis at that pr risd ii.ay b: ^k'VUj ' :>i.u IV i.u \.:-^ a;i ^^e^ io a 
 
 'a
 
 250 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [^TSo* 
 
 ill 1780 ; and a copy of the Work, with Notes by 
 
 question from Dr. Z. Grey, July 19, 173/': " INIr.West is a gentle- 
 man so much my friend, that I can't forget easily any recommen- 
 dation from him, and on his account (if it was not my own inch- 
 nation) I should use every one civily. What you propose to have 
 done I can't justly be certain as to the expence of engraving ; 
 because for octavo plates, the head only of any person, I have had 
 different prices, as the difficulty or labour is more or less. The 
 general jirices 1 have had for such works, has been 10 guineas, 
 8 guineas, and 6 the lowest, fiom pictures, paintings being 
 done indeed, when from a print bigger or lesser than is already 
 engraved, it may cost a fourth or fifth part less, or near there- 
 abouts. In respect to a print, if it be any noted one, I can soon 
 send you a certain answer, if you please to let me know your 
 intention ; and shall think it no trouble, if you pleiise to direct 
 41 line as before to, Sir, your respectfid servant, G. Vertue." 
 At the end of this year he again \ isited Oxford ; and thence 
 went to Corapton Verncy, Warwick, Co\ entry, Birmingham, and 
 Colcshill, to Mr. Sheldon's at Weston, to Blenheim, Beacons- 
 field, Windsor, luid Eton. In 1738 lie made a tour through 
 Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire, v isiting Rochester, Canterbury, 
 Chichester, Portsmouth, Southampton, and ^V'inchesterj and 
 thence to Petworth, Goodwood, Stansted, and Cowdray, of which 
 he nvcule various sketches and notes. He next engaged with Mr. 
 Knapton in engraving the Illustrious Heads ; and in 1739 ac- 
 companied Lorci Colerane to Walpolc in Norfolk, who carried him 
 toWansted, Moulsham, Gosiieid, St. Edmund's Buiy, Sir Andrew 
 Fountaine's, Hougliton, and Lynn. In 1 740 he published Propo- 
 sals for a very % aluable series of historic ])riuts ; and copied, for the 
 Eail of Oxfoi'd, Queen Elizah-eth's Progress to Hunsdon, most ex- 
 actly, in water-colours 5 and received for it a handsome pi'esent in 
 plate. He was now at the .summit of his humble wishes ; but his 
 happiness A^as suddenly dashed, by the loss of his noble friend 
 the Earl, June 16', 1741. " Death," says he emphaticallv, " })ut 
 an end to that life that h;\d been the support, eherisher, and 
 comfojt of many, many others, who arc left to lameiU but 
 none more heartily than "\'ertue !" So struck was the poor man 
 with this signal misfortune, that for two years tiso'e is an hiatus 
 in his history he had not spirits e%'er to be minute. He re- 
 vived in 1743, by the favour of the Duke of Norfolk 5 for whom 
 he engraved the large plate of tlie Earl of Arundel and his family, 
 and collected two volumes of the \\'ork of Hollar. The Countess 
 Dowaaer of Oxford alleAiated to him the loss of her lord ; their 
 daughter the Duehvss of Portland befriended him ; as did tlie 
 Duke of Poitland ai\d the l^ari of Burlington; and he, for a Aery 
 short time, fmmd a Koyal Patron in Fredei'ick Prince of Wales ; 
 who died March '20, 1751, and whom Vertue most pathetically 
 laments. He lost his friends ; hut his piety, mildness, and in- 
 genuiiy, never forsook him. He laboured almost to the last, 
 Kolicitous to leave a decent com])etence to a wife with wjiom lie 
 Jiad h'.'cd manv vcars in tender harmony. 
 
 The
 
 1753.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 251 
 
 Mr. Gough, has been transmitted to the Bodleian 
 Library. 
 
 The three following letters to the late Dr. Ducarel, now first 
 printed from the originals^ are highly characteristic of the man : 
 1. " DEAR SIR, Tuesday, Sept. i, 1750. 
 
 Some day last week I called at your house in Doctors Com- 
 mons, and was told you were expected in town at the end of the 
 week. I doubt not Mr. Gale wiili you made your tour to Cam- 
 bridge ^'ery a^'reeable ; and you saw Mr. Barronglis and Dr. 
 Taylor J who I did write to, and sent a sketch, as you advised 
 (but not a word of answer). The strangest thing is that from 
 Glocester, after so long time and repeated letters on the account 
 of the Cross. Tliat yet (altiiough you ha\e advanced the two 
 guineas) after ail this, and positive notice of having sent up 
 the drawing, that you cannot yet get the sight of it, is surely be- 
 yond all comparison of things of tiiis nature. To be sure, your 
 trouble of writing again, as j'ou intend soon, is absolutely neccs- 
 fcary. I am very nmch obliged to you for the particidai's of the 
 Font at lAiton church. I do not remember any thing of that 
 kind J but in Norfolk in some churclies stone i'onts, with very 
 high pinnacle wooden spires, mighty riclJy adorned and carved; 
 but I do not remember any seats in them that 1 have seen; tliere- 
 fore a draught of it, with a sCide of tlie dimensions, woidd be 
 very proper, to exhibit its form and riianncr of structure. In my 
 visit to Oxford I met with several IVicnds. The iirst da\ there I 
 saw Dr. Browne Wiiiis, and parteti. He went to the Bishop of 
 Oxford's that day. I was uitli the President of St. John's ; saw 
 Air. Wise ; and went, with liim ar.d anotlier gcnt!cn;an or two, 
 to observe some old buddings, part of the old Christ Church; 
 now snid to be remains of tlie S;rvOn structure, by Dean L}'ttel- 
 ton. Mr. Lediieullicr and ?dr. \Vise ;u-e come into that notion, 
 that all sucli sort of buildings are S,i:-:on, and by them erected, 
 before the Gothic order w.is in n-^e ui' fasiiion in these !ungdom.s , 
 whereas it has long been tlioiigla, that there is very little or no 
 remaip.s of itoae buildings br-fore the Conipu^-l. However, if 
 this thongiit takes pLice, and tli-v em eonlirm th;nr ojunion^- 
 by necc.--arv undciialile prooil-, we b.-^ ond c\j)ectution had 
 manv and multitudes of tho,-" -oit ol' b'.r.luirjgs iT.de and unpio- 
 portionab!e in thrii- gales, pilhivs, ;nid w in;hAv>, iiinnnypnis. 
 Some sueh exactly that the other d;'v i)':--iiig bv Smilliiii'l.-i, in 
 old St. Bai-lholoaiew's ch'.u'ch, iou;.;!'.-a il i> .-aid by Rnlirruv 
 savs John St(nv, ahou; llO'i, near o.;(^ 'uMiuhvd year- al'irr tl:e 
 Noi-inan Conqucit, in Ilrury tlie Tn'-t's time ; uhx'Ii liki> >');ii 
 part of the Wiute Tower. Lomlon ; l);il very ilillercnt iVoiu the 
 Temple church, and St. ( nil.he;;'^ cinirr:], Durham, ionnrlcd 
 .soon' after ("neCoiujuest, and iini-hfd a'>n n IPK), ilowun! i; 
 lie pnsdble to reconcile t!i; -e tiuT-,' -:ir;- ol' -.iruetun r tlio-; / ' f 
 Savon) bei^)re tiie Xornan^, ;lu' n;::.Mivr of -^'mi-:- bnildin;.:- hey 
 l)i-)U^ht in u<e, and coaiiimcd the iii'e \w- or -i\ \ornian iviM-." 
 r<-ie;i^,libKing.)olmoriJ'nry;l)e'"'e, h a hen it i:> ,,:w-'lye rie, ,1 
 that the stafdv Gotliic nrun-.er U:.>\ \A;\v in n,M_,t y.:y\.. of ih-o 
 Western kin:rdoni>r Bui (ime, a;,d,in I on; n i -n^andr nnpi-
 
 252 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l755 
 
 A new Edition of Mr. Kurd's Commentary on 
 
 Horace's " Epistola ad Auirustum," &c. 8vo. 
 
 risons by curiovis Antiquaries, "will most likely ascertain these 
 j-et unfixed discoveries. It is sonietlung- strange tliat, after so 
 strict enquiries, so many \\ ays, and i)y friends acquainted with 
 books, that this small book gives an account of a most anticnt 
 structure of large stones, elevated in a large circle, mortized and 
 tenanted overthwait eacii other tis those at Stonelienge, still 
 remaining in Frizeland, and described in a printed account, 
 with the figure thereof, by . . . Picart, a QergvTnan living there, 
 by this pamphlet, quarto, dated KiOl. In this book he says, 
 from the best inquiries he could make aie said to ha\e been 
 erected by the Heathen Saxons, who came through that country 
 Conquerors, in their way to England, wni re he heard they had 
 erected such another monument on Salisbury [)lain. I had 
 almost, being in haste, forgot to mention that Mr. Wise's brotiier 
 is dead, and was, not long before I came to Oxford, buried. I 
 dined one day with Dr. Gregory, canon of Christ Church, when it 
 was resolved to fit up and finish the library in Christ Church. 
 Also the same workmen had orders from the Vice-chancellor to 
 finish the middle of the Picture gallery, where the statue of the 
 Earl of Pembroke is, to place there Mr. Willis's cabinet of coins. 
 1 should have had more pleasure, and of news to tell you, but I 
 was detained several days waiting for the Vice-chancellor ; who 
 WT.3 not at Oxford v. lien I came ; which prevented my intention 
 of sparing two or three days to wait on Sir Clement at Rousham, 
 and once more to have seen that pleasant seat and fine collection. 
 
 Geo. Vertue." 
 
 2. '' DEAR SIR, August thefirst, 1754. 
 
 I mentioned to yoii, when last I had the pleasure of seeing you 
 at my house, that I had a pictvue of King Edward the Sixth ; 
 which having found, and cleaned Uj) with the fr;une, I have sent 
 to you if you iike it. 1 tliink it may be worth half a guinea. At 
 least I will take half a ci'ovvn less, of you, if you please. Your 
 obliged humble senant and friend to command, Gf.o. Vertue. 
 
 " BIrs. Duplessis sent to me, to [)ay me Lord Coleraiie's le- 
 gacy pO?. for Kiom'ning] ; which I have recei\ ed of her," 
 
 3. " DEAR SIR, IVedncsday, Srpt. 4, 1754. 
 ^'This, I hope, will find you well, wishing some opportiriiity 
 
 at your leisure of seeing you tins vacation ; and to shew vou 
 a paper relating to the riistory of the Savoy Mouse and ilos- 
 ])ilal in the Strand ; and concerning its dissolution, in the 
 year 1702, by a process of the Lord Ciiancellor, with the seveial 
 iJoctois of the Commons ; which is the reason I otFer it to your 
 perusal, if it be agreeable to you ; if not, it niav be considered 
 V lietlier a copy of it will be u.-eiul for the explanatory note to 
 these jnints of the Society's done of the Savoy; more especially 
 if it v.nl engage ^our curiosity to see it, and what therein is 
 menlioned of tlie Doctors in Commtms that personally attended 
 that Couiiuission, I am yet so lame, by weaknes- Jn my legs, that 
 
 1 can-
 
 1753-1 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Q'cy 
 
 " The Princi])les of Natural and Revealed Reli- 
 gion occasionally opened and explained; in a course 
 
 I cannot go abroad. Mr. North was in town ; and last week iie 
 was with me, and returned my MS. concerning- the former Anti- 
 quaiy Society. This, witli hearty re.spects and best wishes, i.s 
 presented from. Sir, your obliged friend, &c. Geo. Vertue." 
 Tlie death of his last patron, Frederick Piince of Wales, 
 and a declining state of health, put a i)eriod, in 1756', to a life 
 of unremitted industiy and zeal for tracing out and preservin"- 
 British Antiquities. He was buried in the Cloisters of Westmin^ 
 ster Abbey, where a marble monument is thus inscribed : 
 
 " Here lies the body of George Vertue, 
 
 late Engraver, 
 and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. 
 He was bora in London, IGS4 ; 
 and departed this life on the '24th of July, 175G, 
 With manners gentle, and a grateful heart. 
 And all the genius of the graphic arc ; 
 His fame will each succeeding artist own, 
 J-,onger by far than monuments of stone." 
 
 Vertue applied himself so much to Portrait-engraving that we 
 have upwards of .500 portraits by him. Yet Mr. Gil])in, in his 
 " Essay upon Prints," says, that " he was an excellent Antiquarian, 
 but no Aitist ; he copied, with painful exactness, in a dry, dis- 
 agreeable manner, without foi'ce or freedom : in bis whole col- 
 lection of heads we can scarce pick out half a dozen which are 
 good." The foregoing remark (which appeared in my former 
 edition) produced soon after the following letter from an inge- 
 nious friend : 
 
 " SIR, Au::;nst 1, 1/82. 
 
 Mr. Gilpin asserts, that 'Virtue the Purtrait-tiigraver was no 
 Arti.-,t ; that he copied with painful ex;ictn: ;-., in a ciry di-agree- 
 able inannoi', witliout force or freedoui,' ike. The knowletlge 
 (I think) I have of the Ails, and tl.c re-ivct I ])ossc-s for \\\v 
 memory of Mr. Vertue, forces mo to tiiiiik, that ,Mr. ('i!])iii hu-i 
 -Stretched the bow-string wilh too tt'n;e a h;uid. 'l".- Irite. lii.ii 
 his Engravings from the jnctures of tlie Holbuiiis w;int i'i-rc ;.;;,) 
 relief; but tliis cannot reflect discredit (;n the .\i'ti-l, tii ii'i;.:i- 
 nals being singularly defective in llio-;; ]>ail!i'u';ir-. 'J"i- m.i 
 from the Arti^i's worst pfjifonna-.icc ilia; jadicioii^ rr'il.-.- iV.u.ii 
 a criterion: (lo speak with tiie i'oct) t';ey 
 
 " call i)v.- in'>i'it- fMi'th, 
 
 And give each dc";! t!i' r\:!fl iuu;!)-!" '.\..rt!i. ' 
 I believe, if the iv\eninl g- ntlrina;! Ka 1 ai icinliv! mo 
 to tiiose ciigraviiigs (>." .Mr. Vrrti'.'^ (().: I !V(-ii Kri'llci 
 ot'K'is more luo.lt r;i, ]i v.oul'l n/'kno',-- iclg V.nuf t,) | 
 int-rJl: as au Aiti-t in \\v ;T;a; iii;- I';"'. I -'n^ \s'\--\\\\\i .i 
 3ii";,, \vliicii 1 ])'-: uTviJU Vi ;.cc( im ; ...A ii'M'^ 1 uo m-; p; 
 
 do-.
 
 254 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l753' 
 
 of Sermons preached before the Honourable Society 
 of Lincohi's Inn, by the Rev. JMr. Warburton, 
 
 in saying the head you rercivc of Lord Somers] has cquid merit 
 Avith that of liira engraved by tiie jutstly celebrated Houbi'aeken, 
 in Birch's Lives. Many more instances I can produce, but 
 ^vishiug not to be tedious, subscribe m3self, &c. Tho. Nicholls." 
 
 Mr. Vertue woviid have had more admirers as an engraxer, if 
 his style had been more S])irited. But tlie Antiquiiry and the 
 Historian, who prefer ti"uth to elegance of design, and coo'cct- 
 iiess to bold execution, have properly appreciated his works, and 
 have };laced that ingenious artist, in point of professional indus- 
 try at leiist, next to his ]):edeccssor Hollar. '^I'he late Earl of 
 Oiford (better known as Horace Wal{)olc) was well acquainted 
 with, and hiis done justice to his modesty, his industiy, his good 
 sense, and his piety. After the death of Mr. Yertue, he ])ur- 
 chased his notes and sketches ; digested the valuable materi- 
 als, winch the Artist had got together with great labour and 
 expence ; formed them into an interesting " Historical Cata- 
 logue of Engravers ;" and closed the whole with a copious 
 List of Mr. Vertue's Works. By this means he has offered up a 
 grateful tribute to an ingenious countryman, who had done the. 
 same for that invaluable artist Winceslaus Hollar. A portrait 
 of Mr. Aertue, engraved by T. Chambers, from a painting taken 
 by Mr. Richardson in 173S, isgi\enin LordOrford s fourth quarto 
 volume, p. 113. Mi'. Stevenson of Norwich possesses a sjnrited head, 
 merely a protile, of Mr. Vertue, in chalk, also by Richaidson, 1735, 
 demy quarto size ; also a half-length, octavo size, by himself, 17-11 , 
 slight, but well touched in chalk, hohling a minijitvire of tlic Earl 
 of Oxford, sitting in a library, before a table, on wl.ich are prints, 
 coins, and medals, palate and pencils, engraving tools, &c. Charles 
 the First's bust o\ cr the chimney-]>iece, and in a little ornamental 
 compartment " Honor alit artes ;" face three-quarters ; which, 
 with the bcfore-uicutioned sketch of Friar Bacon (p. 249), nvdy 
 probably hereaftei' be gi\en to the publick. 
 
 Mr. ^'ertues books, prints, and dvav^ings, were sold by auc- 
 tion in March 17^7 ; ^s were his pictures, models, plaster and 
 wax imjires^ions, iimrrJngs, coins, and medals, in iMav the sam'"^ 
 year. Aiaong ti;o MS.S. which v,c:c purchased by Pilr. ^^'alpole 
 was one entii'c AOiunie on Engli.-!i t(;i)\s. His v.idow Margaret 
 presented the Sccitt}- of Antiquaries v.ith a number of his plates 
 of Enah->h Antiquitie.-; ; and they purchased of her his large his- 
 toric plates, allv.lich tin y Isiv.e repubiished. Mrs."\'ertue died 
 ?davchl7, 177<>", in i;er ;fjih year; and tlie lenraindcr of Ids 
 plates aiid prints wtic .-:;1J by Mr. Langfoi'd in 177(-> ^ind 1777- 
 l\lr. Fold iu the Ha}n-.;ui-.i -old by ;;uctiwn, in 177(J, the di'aw- 
 iugs ()f hi:- liro'iier Jan:r.-j; v. ]\o lia'' fc'h.wed the profession of a 
 painter at iJuUi, \\hcre he then ditc', aljout 1703. 
 
 ^ Tlii? and .Mi'. Tillji.scn arc rt.'''ji!y iuhnirable poitraits. J. X. 
 
 Preacher
 
 1753-] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 255 
 
 Preacher to the Society *. Volume the First -[-," 8vo. 
 The second was printed in 1754 (when these Ser- 
 mons will be further noticed). 
 
 In this year, as an answer to a commission which 
 Mr. Bowyer had undertaken for his friend the llev. 
 Samuel Pegge, he wrote the following Letter ;{: : 
 
 * " This reputable i>iece of preferment," as Dr. Warbuilon 
 styles it in a letter to Mr. Hunl, March '^24, 1/63, he had the sa- 
 tisfaction of obtaining for his friend in a manner hig'iily reputable 
 to all parties. "The salary,"' says Dr. Warhurton, " is only 311. 
 a term, that is, \2il.; and the chambers, which let for 30/, 
 Perhaps you would keep the chambers in your o\\n hands. So 
 that it reduces it to the 124/. out of which your assistant is to be 
 paid, which may amount to '241. or 30/. a year, at half-a-guinea 
 a sermon. But it is not the money, which now you do not 
 want ; but the station, which is the thing. You ha\ c commons 
 in the hall with the benchers in terni-tiuie, wliieh is the only 
 time of your residence."' " I hope tl.e I'reacher-hi)j mav be made 
 easy to you by the means 1 propose. Vou need not douljt of 
 your being liked as for your Hking, when I consider how easily 
 you accommodate yourself, I do not doubt of that neither." 
 Oct. 9, 1765. Ag-ain, Oct.3\. " What you suspect, Mr. Yorke 
 intends to request of you. I received a letter ho\n him by this 
 post, in which are the.-e words : It will be an elertion unnnmovs ; 
 but as little attentions please, I shall endeavour to prcTail itprm 
 him, when I have the pleasure of seeing him, to mount timber 
 on Sunday, as a complimfnt to them. 1 believe I may be more 
 prevalent with you than this great man, though so much your 
 friend, when 1 tell you, that in the very self-same circumstanee.<, 
 J wiiii prevailed upon by Lord M;'.nshrld, to viouut timber the 
 Sunday before the election, as a coinpiiinrAt to thttn." Again, 
 Nov. 14. " I tiiink von are quite rij_':lil to u ;> your ov.n cham- 
 bers. The IJenciiers, 1 am sure, will h- vct'v ready to n;:ike aiu 
 improvements for your accommodalior'. -. ilic lu^t lectupT wlio 
 condescended to usethi-m b<'iwg an Arcbhl.^' >!>. Mr. "^'oik.' r:.;ty 
 be right in your not being t(jo punctHuius ;;!)out sciiiiou.s, at i'.y-^'.. 
 Liat lake care not to accu:-toin tlniu i<) /; w/vv 0/ sx-irrcfi'^ati '; . 
 for, its jjurilanical as (Iky are, they lla^( a i;p ;i" ii.-.;ik .ii..; 
 aficr tliat I'o]ii-.h doctrine. " 
 
 i' In a prel':il(,iy inhC)i()ii(in to tlic w(i:-l;ii,rul Mii-'- i "'' the 
 jkiu 11, Mr. Warbuiton xcrv liand-ome'y ;uk:;f)\\ ImI;;-!-. \\<< oi>l! 
 gali(jn3 for the bunoiw done hiiu. ai il;- last v:t> liuy, o.'i tlu 
 gentrous ofi"<i' (/!' tiie P:(ai ii- lohiii <! t.i' "^oci, t\. 
 
 + Tlie W'oi'v to vA.l U t'li- ','.:t r ;,!.uui- u;l- :irt<r\\anK vv- 
 liil'.rd, and i)iii/.i-h( ;! j,i i;.'-.')', ii: 4io, vw.'icr tlu' iillr of A 
 S' ;ic:- (;f Di-.-<.ii,aions oa ,-:)!iK- ;!(-::.:!. :iiid \>ry v:ilvi;tl.;" '\;: jl ,- 
 S;'. .011 li.UKiius. I. A (I'li.i ( )ill iil till- I't . I. !)lo'iM'.il (,.);;! I. 
 in a I.ettci- to Martin 1 oHu-, \'.-'.\. lit- I'l' -; I- u' o!' tl^ |;,>>.i! 
 ^oilMv and Trlldss of tbe Sor.civ if Am iMUaries 'i]><<;\ (..i.i-
 
 ^5^ LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l/SS- 
 
 REV. SIR, March 10, 1753. 
 
 You wait with impatience to hear the result of 
 the Society's dehherations concerning your book. 
 Dr. Ducarel moved for its being printed ; but was 
 soon over-ruled, it being observed, that if they 
 printed any one book, many would be soon offered 
 them, and they should be under a necessity of dis- 
 obliging some by a partial refusal. They came, 
 therefore, to a noble resolution to print none. Dr. 
 Squire *, who was present, said handsome things of 
 vou, that he doubted not but your Work would be 
 a credit to the Society; but he was strong against 
 opening the door for solicitors for the press. 1 sup- 
 pose they will confine themselves to their own 
 works ; viz. some ])ictures, and a list of names ; a 
 copy of someAvhat dug out of the earth, any where 
 but from the closet of the brain. 
 
 I have corrected in your MS. the passage you 
 speak of. You had penned your compliment to 
 Mr. Casley in other words ; viz. hi/ the favour of 
 my much esteemed friend Mr. Caslei/. But, that 
 no punctilio might be lost, I have added, of the 
 LEARNED and mif much, &c. 
 
 I have desired Bathurst^l^ to send you the Causes of 
 the Declension of tlte Roman Empire; to which 
 I wrote a Preface, which may serve for any book, 
 and was at first only designed to lengthen this. But 
 I had no concern in the Translation, and no property 
 in the Book. However, if you see any mistakes in 
 
 mersham, 1751]. 2. A Silver Coin in the Possession of Mr. 
 John White [dated Whittington, 1751]. 3. A Gold Coin in the 
 Possession of Mr. Simpson, of Uneoln, in a I-.ctter to Mr. Ver- 
 tue [dated Godmer.-liar.i, 1751]. 4. A Jewel in the l^odleian 
 Library [no place or date]. 5. Second Tlioughts on Lord Pem- 
 broke's Coin, in a Letter to Mr. Ames, Secretary to the Society 
 of Antiquaries [dated VVhiltin:rton, 1755]." 'i'hese Dissertations 
 v,ve prefaceil by a question, candidly debated \vit!i the He v. George 
 North, "Whether the Saxons coined any Cold ?" 
 
 * A fter\^alds Bishop of St. Dcivid's. 
 
 f Ml". Charles Bathiirst, successor to Bcnianiin Motte, and 
 many yeiirs an eminent book^eilei- in Fleet-street, opposite 
 St. Diin.^taii's church, lie died Jul\ -1, IJSGj aged 77- 
 
 the
 
 ^753-2 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 257 
 
 the Preface, I should he glad to be inf\ rmed of them, 
 only for Truth's sake. Nay, you shall see I will 
 provoke you to it. 
 
 I think then in your copy, p. l6, you are a little 
 confused in your ideas; or, as Mr. W:trburton would 
 say, you write with less precision than you (iught. 
 *' The coin N^ova Colonia ferolarniiim, &c. f .vo^ne 
 corrections are then freely pointed out ; and 3Ir. 
 B. proceeds^ 
 
 To return to our subject. All that I propose to 
 be altered is, that when you have proved these sup- 
 posed Saxon coins to be struck in a Roman colony, 
 you will not call them British, or look on tiiem as 
 any marks of British Power, thou^jh they may 
 have the head of one who was sometime an inde- 
 pendent British king. They brought them over, 
 and liad instrumental sei'vitutis etiatn et reges. 
 You have restored the true reading, I doubt not, 
 to several of the Saxon coins ; and, wlien your work 
 is printed, we shall soon have many more. But I 
 will answer for it, you will never have aiiy hght 
 from the Society as a Corporate Body. Some of 
 you are distj-acted with Fellowships and a F<-ather ; 
 and others have designs which are imp Mietrable to 
 me. 1 am, Sir, <kc. W. Bovvyer. 
 
 A short time after, a second letter runs thus: 
 
 " DEAR SIR, I\Iiy ].-), I7r)3. 
 
 " Mr. \ ertue is got abroad again ; but, if I may 
 speak n)y own mind }jrivately, has so many diflerent 
 pursuits to go thnjugh iii the latter part oi" life, that 
 it will be some time before he will acconi|)lish your 
 plate, even when he goes about 'it. Vou have 
 opened your plan too fast, to too n;;uiy persons at 
 once. The undertaker of the work onlj/ should 
 have directed the engraver. If you ar(> so, you are 
 still right, and only direct Mr. \'erti;e what he is to 
 do. Time will Ix- lost ingoing to Dr. Mead, Dr. 
 Ducanl, &c. TIk; f\j)ence of ii, lu- says, he can- 
 not tell, b(;fore ho has engrn'cd the wlicdo. 'i he 
 cheapest way will he, imdoubtcdiy, to make all the 
 
 \'uL. II. S ' fojns
 
 258 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1753. 
 
 coins ill one plate, as you have drawn them ; and 
 let it come as an ornament in the first page. So 
 much for workmanship, I have a word or two still 
 on the whole design. * A View of the antient and 
 present state of the Anglo-Saxon Coins in the Cotton 
 Library/ is too narrow a scheme. A very little 
 trouble will enlaro;e it. Make it ^ A Catalogue of 
 all the Saxon Coins which have hitherto been disco- 
 vered, now first placed in the order of time ; shew- 
 ing the Errors of Camden, Speed, Selden, and Sir 
 Andrew Fontaine *, and others, who have ascribed 
 many of them to wrong Kings. In which is laid 
 <tpen a general View of the antient and present 
 State of the Anglo-Saxon Coins in the Cotton Li- 
 brary ; and a Plan for a more enlarged Treatise on 
 this Subject.' 
 
 " You say, ^ A Plan is interwoven for re-engraving 
 Sir x\ndrew Fontaine's Tables.' His plan is so bad, 
 that it does not deserve that honour: (l) because he 
 ranges them alphabetically, not according to the 
 order of time ; (2) because, except the last plate, I 
 think, he makes them all of one size. Now, you 
 might give one general Catalogue in order of time, 
 and pretix in it an asterisk to those now remaining 
 in the Cotton Library ; or you may refer to each 
 coin, where il is to be seen, ti/pe or original; as, 
 Cott. Sir A. F. 8^c. Doubts and disputes will arise 
 about the true reading ; but follow others where 
 you have not grounds for correction. Your express- 
 ing the difierent vveigiit is quite right, and w\\\ do 
 more to getting at the true knowledge of the Saxon 
 money, than any thing. Mr. Clarke's Work ^ (which 
 he will never publish in his li^o-tiirie) will shew all 
 hitherto have writ like children on this subject. 
 His business is, to trace the progress of the v/f ights 
 and pounds into our Nation, and to distinguish the 
 several species of coins ; yours is chiefly with the 
 legends. He mentioned, however, his conjecture of 
 
 * Of whom, see vol. V, p. 253. 
 t On Cuius i .see vol, IV, p. a(>7. 
 
 Audulfus,
 
 1753-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 359 
 
 Audulfus, which he reads thus, ADVLFI\'S VRln- 
 ccps Slgeberti ^epos. Sigebert was a man of that 
 consequence whom Acla0ius might be proud to 
 own his relation to, as the R( nan Emperors did to 
 Aitgiistus. He was NepQS just as Suetonius says 
 Juhus Caesar was l4viuicuIus to Augustus. This I 
 submit to you, as a reachng not yet hit on ; though 
 you offer some reasons inconsistent with it. 
 
 *' I find some of our worthy Society have got it in 
 their heads that your Phm is wrong. I do not find 
 they can teU me in wliat. But tlii-. is the effect of 
 makinii- a thing; too common in MS. 
 
 " The summer is the time for getting yopr book 
 through, so as to pubhsh it in winter. To forward 
 it, since you have apphed to Mr. Vertue, I would 
 advise you to direct him to engrave a plate as a 
 head-piece to a quarto page, only to place the coins 
 closer than you have drawn them. You will direct 
 him to take them from the books you refer to. 1 
 don't apprehend this need cost above three guineas*. 
 And that ex])ence, I believe, you will venture, what- 
 ever comes of the work, printed or not. If you can 
 draw un one geHer((l Catalogue, as I have proposed, 
 which need not iiuM-ease the book above two sheets, 
 I should like it much better, and think the piiblick 
 would likewise. I am, Sir, your most obliged 
 i'/ivnd and servant, W. Bowviiii." 
 
 " V.S. I rei't r 1.-. von to give in writing at once full 
 and nlain din^ctiorr^ ahout engraving to Vertue, to 
 save mvself the trouble of going to and fro ; which, 
 in my wrelciied bvisiiie-s, I have vutv little time for: 
 and 1 i'lnd eugiiivers in general bhuider infinitely 
 worse than printers. I have adde<l royoureo|)y the 
 citations fre,m Sinitii's Life of Sir fie,j)LTt ( 'otton ; 
 but they art- too long to come on the hack ot the 
 title, Vou nnist add a leaf of jjrel'ace or intn^due 
 tion." 
 
 * Mr V'.iUiewu: cxficiiicl) luodt.nitc in li-.- |in'.L-,, yr pp. '2 JT,
 
 ^60 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1754- 
 
 1754. 
 
 With a view to exonerate himself from fatigue *, 
 he entered into a treaty for a partnership with 
 Mr. James Emonson (a near relation) and Mr. C. 
 Spens, at that time a corrector of the press, and 
 afterwards editor of Lloyd's Evening Post -jf. In 
 consequence, however, of some disagreements not 
 material to mention, this connexion was not of long 
 subsistence ^ ; and I shall, therefore, pursue the 
 History of Mr. Bowyer s press. 
 
 The Second Volume of " The Works of Virgil, in 
 Latin and English ; the original Text correctly 
 printed from the most authentic Editions, collated 
 for this purpose ; the iEneid, translated by the 
 Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt ^ ; the Eclogues and 
 
 * Having taken on this occasion a house in Great Kirby- 
 street, Hatton Garden ; Mr. Clarke says, " I wish Mrs. Bowyer 
 joy of escaping into a freer and sweeter air. She must read 
 Cowley's Poem on Gardening with ten times the pleasure, when 
 she sees her own works blooming round her. I wish I could 
 send her a rood or two that here lies almost neglected. How it 
 would iloui'ish in her hands !" 
 
 f Tripartite articles of partnership were di-awn up, and printed ; 
 yet the proj)osals went off as far as Mr. Spens was interested, 
 but with Mr. Emonson the engagement took place. 
 
 X On their separation, in July 1757, Mr. Emonson opened a, 
 printing-office in St. John's s([uare, with a new evening paper, 
 under the title (jf " Lloyd's Evening Post." After canying on 
 business with reputation inure than twenty years, having sin*- 
 vived an only son (see Gent. Mag. 1805), vol. LXXIX. p. 917 ), he 
 retired with an ea.'^y competence, and died June 6", 1/80. 
 
 Christopher Pitt (sonof Robert Pitt, M.D.) was born at Bland- 
 ford, in Dorsetsliire, in IGy.Qj educated at Winchester school, 1714 ; 
 removed to New college, 1719 j chosen Poetry Professor in 172'3} 
 M. A. 1724. He was one of the most eminent poets of his time, and 
 pubiisiied a volume of Juvenile Poems on seveml Occasions, 17*271 
 Svo; a Translation of Vida's Art of Poetry, 12mo; and of Virgil's 
 Aflneis, 2 vols, 1740, 8vo and l'2mo. On his removal to New col- 
 lege, he presented to the electors a complete Version of Lucan'i^ 
 Poem, which he did not know had been ti-anslated by Rowe. 
 The sup})ression of such a work of early diligence is to be re- 
 gretted. If we compare his translation of the ^^neid with that 
 of Dryden, perhaps the result would be that Di'jden leads the 
 reaUej forwai'd by liis great vigour and sprigluliucas^ ami Pitt 
 
 ot'tea
 
 1754.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 26l 
 
 Georgics, with Notes on the whole, by the Rev. Mr. 
 Joseph Warton * ; with several new Dissertations, 
 by Mr. Holdisworth-i", Mr. Spence^, and others. 
 Also a Dissertation on the Sixth Book of the ^neid, 
 
 often stops to contemplate tha excellence of a single couplet ; 
 that Dryden's faults are forgotten in the huny of de%ht, and 
 that Pitt's beauties arc neglected in the hurrj of a cold and listless 
 perusal; tliat Pitt pleases the critics, andDrjden the people 3 
 that Pitt is quoted, and Diydcn read. 
 
 On a monument at Blandford, Mr. Pitt has thus preserved the 
 memory of Ids parents, and of an elder brother : 
 
 " Sub hoc mannore requiescit 
 
 Elizabetha Pitt, Qiristophoi-i Pitt, M.D, 
 
 Conjux dilectissima ac pientissima ; 
 
 Ob vicesimo 2*1" die Octobris, 1743, ait. ann. 69. 
 
 Juxta 
 
 conduntur exuviae Christophori Htt, M.D. 
 
 quem mira in arte medica sagacitas, 
 
 mirus animi candor 
 
 summis moi i^is, summa modestia conjuncta, 
 
 cunctis, qui' t.i- aut opitulatus est, aut innotuit, 
 
 chaiaini ac desideratum reddidere. 
 
 Ob. Aug. die 2<^<>, A.D. 17'23, a;tat. anno 61. 
 
 Juxta etiani conditiis est Ruhfrtus Pitt, A.M. 
 
 filius eoiTiai r/iitii maximus, 
 
 parochiie de Ower Moignv. iu hoc couiitatu 
 
 rector digni.ssiiaii<, 
 
 ob Ap. die vicL^inio sexto, 1730, ict. anno 37. 
 
 Ye sacred i-{)irits, Avhile vour fricids distrest 
 
 Weep o'er vour ii?hes, and lament the blest, 
 
 Oh ! let ilie pemive Muse, inscribe iiour .stone, 
 
 And with the general sorrous mix her own [\ ; 
 
 The penii\e Muse, vvlio, from tiiis mournful hour, 
 
 Shall raise the voice, and waive the string, no more. 
 
 Of love, of(hity, this hist jiledge receive 3 
 
 'Tis all a brother, all a son, can i^ive." 
 
 On a veiy small tfimb his own death is thu-> recorded 
 " In mcmoi-v of C'uK. PiTi , clcik, MA. 
 
 very eminent fcr his taUnts in Pcctry, 
 
 and yet more for the landour of liis mind, 
 
 and the pi-iinifive siniiilicity of !ii- nummis. 
 
 He lived . nodiit and dird IxloNcd, 
 
 Apriil'), 17 IH, aged l.S.' 
 
 * Seethe " Kssavs and IlUistratioiib " iuv.il.VI. No. III. 
 
 t See imder the \car I76H. I Sec untUr tli<- )ear 17<;i. 
 
 II The two lines in Ifali'-^ ar- a very close imit.itidii of Popr'v < |il:.i|.!i r,ii 
 the Hon. Simon Ilanciirt ; and tlic contludms linf, ot that on tin- Uou. Uobcrt 
 Digby and Uti> sister Marv. 
 
 bv
 
 562 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l754. 
 
 by Mr. Wnrburton * ; on the Shield of iEneas, by 
 Mr. W. Whitehc^ad-f-; on the Character of lapis, by 
 the late Dr. Atterbury, Bi-rhop of lloclifster J ; and 
 three Essay?., on Pastoral, Didactic, and Epic Poetry, 
 by tlic Editor." This original production of a bright 
 galaxy of genius was handsomely printed in four 
 octavo volumes. 
 
 " The Life of Pope Sixtus the Fifth (one of the 
 most remarkable and entertaining Lives that is to 
 be met with in Antient or Modern History;; in 
 which is included the State of England, France, 
 Spain, Italy, the Swiss Cantons, Germany, Poland, 
 Russia, Sweden, and the Low Countries, at that 
 time ; with an Account of St. Peter's, the Conclave, 
 and Manner of choosing a Pope : the Vatican Li- 
 brary, the many grand Obelisks, Aqueducts, Bridges, 
 Hos]jitals, Palaces, Streets, Towns, and ocher noble 
 Edifices, begun or finished by him. The whole 
 interspersed with several curious Incidents and 
 Anecdotes, not to be met with in any other Author. 
 Translated from the Italian of Gregorio Leti, with 
 a Preface, Proleg-^mena, Notes, and Appe.idix, by 
 Ellis Farvij'worti) !', ^vLA. some tune or Jesus College, 
 
 * " Dodsley's Editor.? Juffiidccl to frittrr my Pi^xourse on 
 Vire,-!!''; Sixth Book into Notes, \vhirh I could mii hinder hut by 
 allowing ttiem to tran?crii)e it entire. Bui I have done like 
 convio'n offenders when t-jey are trikcn, impeached my fiiends 
 and a-: com[-!ices. I i-iuc discovered to them where two excellent 
 notes are hid, on a pass-age in the thii'd Gcorgic j which they 
 ha\ seized uj. on with ^--reat eagerness, 'i'he truth of the matter 
 is, I si);;pose this edition of Virtril will be but a guUiui'ntfry 
 (fioni one concernrd in tbe direction of it, Spence, who is an 
 extreme poor creat;iro, and jia-. mt bis rcwai'.l, as all such do) ; 
 and I was wiHinp: to lia^'..' you in with n^e, to keep me in coi.u- 
 tenaare." Dr. Uarhunon to Mr. Hard, May'-ZO, 1753. 
 
 f See under the year 1 / > 4. 
 
 + See Bp. Ailerbury's " Epistolary Correspondence, 1790," 
 vol. ! I. p. 428. 
 
 An aiionvmous iian>laLion of this valuable work had been 
 priniCil in Svo, 1/04. 
 
 11 " It w^ould be un^ri'ati-fid in n\v. here to omit my thanks to 
 the Printi r, to whons I an; mnch oblip:cd for maiiy u.sef d hints 
 in the pr(!secution of ihi?) v.ork, and for the tare he has taken 
 in the t^pOi.!:raphicai part of it." Aulhors Prefacr, See an ac- 
 count, of Mr. 1 anicw'-rrh uncjer t]ie year IT^j'^. 
 
 Cam-
 
 1754.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 36$ 
 
 Cambridge, and Chaplain to several of his Majesty's 
 Ships during the late War," folio. 
 
 A new Edition of " Ecton's Thesaurus," improved 
 by Browne Willis, esq. 4to. 
 
 "^ The Dignity of Human Nature *, or, the 
 Means to attain tlie true End of our Existence," 
 by Mr. Burgh -f-, 4to. 
 
 * Of tins AoluinC;, So co})!^^; were printerl on fine paper. 
 
 -f Tliis ingenious Moral and Political Writer was born in 
 Perthshire, in 1714. His father was minist( r of the pai ish ; 
 and his mother was aunt to the famous Dr. Roiiertson. Jte Avas 
 educated in his native villa;re; aii!, being a lad of sprightly 
 parts,, was I'cmoved to tlie U;u\ ersity of St. Andrew with a view 
 to the Scottish Cliurchj but, being obliged to leave college from 
 ill health, and having had some money bequeathed to him, he en- 
 gaged in the linen trade ; in which lie proved unfortunate. I liaA e 
 good grounds for asserting, that, on his coming to London, one 
 of his first employments was^ to correct the {)rcbs for Mr. JBow- 
 yer, and occasionally to compile in-lvxes. This particular cir- 
 cumstance Di'. Kippis glosses over, as if th;; employment had 
 been degrading. " He was engaged in this way," v.\ are told, 
 " about a year." Tlie connexion was of longer du- ation : Init 
 the exact time is of little consequence 5 and I only mention it as 
 a circimr-tance not in any way disreputabb or <lisadvant:tgeons to 
 Mr. I^iirgh. On the contrary, he was intro luced by i to seme 
 resjji c :.J)le friend?, who were highly ser\icealjle to him in his 
 future j>!ans of life j ])'irticidarly to Mr. On^low, then Speaker 
 of the ifouiC of Commons, wliom he not untV>,-(jU( ntly attciided 
 with tlic> ju'oof-ftluet of Uie V^otes. On quitting Mr. How cv, he 
 became an as-istant in the Fn e Gramnuu' School at M:ir!o-.v ; 
 wh(M-e lie was the uutljor, at the L ginning (.'f 174G, of-' Brii;'.in's 
 Remcmbiancer." Of this pamphlet, in less than two year.-, li'.e 
 large editions were sold in England ; and ii was rein-inted in 
 Scotlacfl, Ireland, and America. It was a^ .ribcd to .sui.diy 
 Bislior* ; quoted both by the Clergy and Dis.senting Ministej= in 
 Their pulj)itS3 and universally allowed lo I>e a srtsoiialIe a;id 
 useful tiaet. Mr. Hai'..er, an e.ninent Diss> ating minister, ^pukc 
 highly (jf it in one of hi.- I^ei'mcjns, and jjubliely tl.:ink< 1 fin' :'utli<)r, 
 tliou';!. unknown, for so ^.casonable anil usef.d a . u'dUch i'tu. A 
 .i\l'i cditiouwas publish' d in 17i>^, for Geoire J''ie<'r, in IJclI- 
 Yarl, I'.inple IJ ir. In tiie prefice <o " Voutli Fncndlr .Moni- 
 loi, ' Mr. J5iii-gh .lavs, " iliat a series oF mi-f<>riunes in the early 
 part of life Iral detemiiiK'd hini to bri?tg his mind 10 rvlin'TPvnt 
 :iik1 ,1 \( rv moder;''"- income." He veiy soon e\c!ianged iMarlow 
 for a . uiiiar sit; , ii<.n wilh Mr. Kinro.s.-, of KnJield ; and in i; 17 
 oj)( ned an aca(Ien:\ himself at Stoke Newington ; and pnbliMied 
 in that year "Thoughts on Kdvualion ' Hi-^ next work w;'.r "An 
 Hvinn totheCrcator of the World;" to wlfu h v.a-, added, in ]>r(;M\ 
 ''An Idea of the Creatoi', from his VN'orksj" a second edition (.f 
 
 wliieli
 
 t64 UTERARY ANECDOTES OF [1754- 
 
 " An Enquiry into Patriarchal an^ Druid ical 
 Religion, Temples, &c. being the Substance of some 
 
 which appeared in 1750. The house at Newington not being 
 large enoui^h for the number of his scholais, Mr. Burgh reincjved 
 to Newiiigton Gre<}!. in 1750; where for many years he con- 
 ducted his school with great reputation and success. In 1751 
 he married Mrs. Hai'ding, a widow lady, an excellent woman, 
 and an able manager in his domestic arrangements. In that 
 year, at the request of Bp. Hayter and Dr. Hiles, he published 
 " A Warning to Dram Drinkers." By his next production, 
 " The Dignity of Human Nature," (published in April 1754, 
 and inscribed to the Princess Dowager of Wales, whose " gra- 
 cious condescension voluntarily shewn to the author on \ari- 
 ous occasions" is gratefully acknowledged) he acq\ tired much 
 reputation as a writer. He printed likewise, for the use of his 
 pujils, "Directions, prudential, moral, religious, and scientific 3" 
 wluch 'were piiated by a bookseller, and sold under the title of 
 *' Youth's Friendly Monitor." In 1 756 this work was published by 
 himself in 12mo ; and in the conclusion of an address to the reader, 
 p. xii, he says, " The character of an author is not what I aim at ; 
 that of a faitiiful educator of youth is my utmo.'^t ambition. I 
 ha\ e never taken the pen in hand but when I have been desired or 
 prompted to it ; and if I have got ten poimds by all I have pub- 
 lished, I have got a thousand. I have given an account abo\'e of 
 some of the writings which have been diawn from me ; and how 
 I came to trouble the publick with them ; and the case is the 
 very sanie whY: tl>e others ; as, one or two small tracts on the 
 destructive grievance of low-piiced .spirituoibi liouors, putjli.-hed 
 at the time when that affair was under eonsiiloation in par- 
 liament ; a sort of Faraphrase in Aerse on !ue civth Fsalm, to 
 wiiit b were added a lew };spers in prose, intitided, ' An Idea of 
 the C rraior from Lis VV'orkh,' wiiich was printed for the benefit 
 of ai> or})han, and raised hiin a very jTctty sum ; and some jie- 
 riodical nicrai e.ssr.ys in the papers, ot v-'hich I did not, when I 
 proJcciec> the design, imagine thai any considerable weight 
 vvoiikl be left U[)C)i! me. I am sorry it is ."so necessary for me (o 
 declare, in tld.^ public manner, that my own employment is njy 
 suprenie pursuit, and tiiat it is rot an itcii <)f scribbling that has 
 oocasioned my beina so often in *}ie press j but ihat I hiive been 
 pai ;ly drawn and partly dra^jrvd into it ; and thfit now I ha\ o 
 rea.-on to hope I have neari-'" rione with that ir,o.>t irk.some and 
 imjjvrfit'jhle labour." Tht ;'.ili title of ibis edition was " Youdi's 
 Fiivud'y ?vlonitor; being u .-et of Direciions, pri'.r.Mtial, moral, 
 relis;icus, and sci' mine ; first drann up for a Fare" ell Present by 
 tlie MH.5ter of an /cademy near L(ii.d(m, fo his Pupils on their 
 remo'. ing frcai under his Care. To %\hieh i.- j^refixed, an Aect/.mt 
 of the ex . .ordinarv Proceedings of scsmt Persons, which occasi- 
 oned the l.iblicati.r' cl this Trar t.. contrary' to the Author's ori- 
 ginal Inteniionsj t(;gf4her with Hieophilus, a Character worthy 
 of Imitation," A thousand co[)ies had been printed about the 
 
 yea.-
 
 1754.J THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 26^ 
 
 Letters to Sir Hildebrand Jacob, Bart, wherein the 
 Primaeval Institution and UniversaUty of the Chris- 
 year 1753, for the pui-}iose of tlistj ibiitin^ them among his pupils j 
 and some of them, by th iesire of Dr. Hales, were pi-esented to 
 Dr. Hayter, then Bishop of Norwich, for the use of the younger 
 part oi the chil(li> 1 of the Princf ss Dowager of Wales ; which, 
 says Mr. Burgh, " was what gave occasion tirst to my being taken 
 notice of by that most amiabie and illastrious Princess, in a 
 manner fai- enough above what I couki have thought of or ex- 
 pected." In 1758 he printed a pamphlet under the title of 
 " Pohtical Speculations ;" and the same year " The Ratio- 
 nale of Christianity," though he did not publish this last till 
 176'0 ; when Iv^ imnted a kind of Utopian Komance, intituled, 
 '' An Account of the First Settlement, Laws, Form of Govern- 
 ment, and Police, (jf the Cessai'es, a People of South America ; 
 in Nine Letters, from Mr. Vander Neck, one of the S. nators of 
 the Nation, tQ hi^ Friend in Hcillanri, vAlh Notes by the Etli- 
 tor," S\o. In 176'!2 he published "The An of S];eaking;" a 
 very useful book ia schools, whicii has passed through several 
 editions; ami in ?<;; appf^ared an exci llenr vo'uine in 12mo, 
 under the title of c'ro; or Essays on various Subject-, dedi- 
 cate] ' To the Right Rev. Father in (iod (of three yeais ')ld) his 
 Royal Highness Frederick Bi'^hop of Osnai)ur:!,ii ;" and a second 
 volume oi' the sime w;.vk in 17G7 ; in which year a new edition 
 of " The Dig'iitv of Mirnuu Nature" appeared, in '2 vols, Hvd. 
 Mr. Burgh wrote " Proposals (humbly oiiered to tlie jjublick) for 
 an Association against the inutuitous Practices of Engrossers, 
 Fore-ital!ci"s, Joboers, &:r. ar.d for reducing the Piice of Provi- 
 sions, fcspecial'v Butcl'.fM- Meat, 170"6'," 8\o. Ha\ing for many 
 years led a very laborious life, and having ac(piired a ( oqipetent 
 though not a large foruine, .Mi\ Burgh, do'.enniii'd to retire 
 from busine-5S In embracing liu^ rcsohiiion it wa.-, ')\ no nuans 
 his intention to be uncniployed. V\ liat i;e had jcj'iic-idarly in 
 conleiiipiation was, to compU^te a wo)k, for whicii he had during 
 ten vears been coH'c'lug suilaiile mateiiuls. On quitting his 
 .school at Newington (irt_en, wliicli was in 1771, he settled in 
 Colebrook Row, Islington ; where he continiu-i till his deeea^c. 
 He had not been long in hi-^ new hou-.e, bcf ire h" !)ecanie con- 
 vinced (of what was onlv susjjecud before) tiiat hr had a dreiid- 
 fid malady, tiie stone, which alilictrd him for 'he last foui- yeari 
 of hi- life. Yet, to the asLonishni'nf of liis frii iid-, lie \v<nt on 
 witli his literary labours, and i;i .huiuar. I77.i announced, as 
 "shortly to be publi-iied. in H\-o, the number of \olani> s e\|)i ctcd 
 not toexceedsiA, ' l-'oli!ie:d l)i~([uisitions, or, an Att. nipt todetide 
 tile most interesting Political Foiin-a:z. it;-!! inthe- I'inie-.iii order 
 to open the eves of the F((|>le, .uul . nai.i" tli in to ;:uard against 
 their most dangrron- iai. nie-, \ i/,. Ty rannieal I'liiaes, Doigning 
 Mini.-lers, foritij)! i'v.rli am -in-, and la!-. I'alriot-^; bydeteiniin- 
 ing, from autheiitic ilitoiv. a.nd the Ojiinion- of nianv of the. 
 be:.t Poliliciaiiij of \ari')u- .\g' - ;iii'.l .\aiioii-, the true Principles 
 
 a( conl-
 
 i66 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l754. 
 
 tian Scheme is manifested ; the Principles of the 
 Patriarciis and Druids are laid open and shewn to 
 
 according to which the British Empire ought to be governed, 
 and the Deviations from those Principles committed by Kings, 
 Ministers, or Parliamentsj and by exhibiting Instances of Impo- 
 sitions on the People by their pretended Friends, and pointing 
 out the distinguishing Marks of tnie Patriotism.' Th work, 
 he added, \vill treat of the foRowing, among other subjects, 
 gome more, others less cojdouslr, according to their respective 
 importance ; viz. Army, Aristocracy, Arts, Associations, Balance 
 of Europe, Commons, Citic^j Colonies, Con'uption, Commerce, 
 Corn, Continental Connexions, Customs, Courts-martial, Demo- 
 cracy, Duties, Duels, Debts, Disaffection, Excise, Education, 
 Favourites, Fn^ancts, Free Ports, Goveninient, Grievances, 
 History, Hospitals, Heroism, Health, Jmies, Juntos, Industry, 
 Instructions, Kings, Law, JJberty, Lords, IManners, IN'Ionarchy, 
 Ministers, Militia, Monopolies, Navy, National Prejr.dices, Parlia- 
 ments, Party, J-'olitics, Prerogative, Privilege, Proper<^y, People, 
 Poor, Placemen, Pensioners, Priest-craft, Population, Provisions, 
 Police, Patriots, Rejjublics, Rcsj)onsibility, Riot-act, Treaties, 
 Union, War, &c. And the Author humbly requests the assist- 
 ance of gentleuicn who have read extensixely on politicks, for 
 directijjg him to any other books, besides the following (from 
 which the maicrials of the work will be extracted) in which he 
 may iir.d uspfnl iiints for the improvement of his plan. Genuine 
 Parliamentary Speeches will be ^ery acceptable." [Then follow 
 a long li-t of Autliors wliich he had studied for that express pur- 
 pose.] 1 he two first volumes of this woi k v,e!-e publisl^ed in 1 77' , 
 and a third in 1/73, under the shortened title of " Political Dis- 
 quisitions ; or. An Enquiry into Pablic Errors, Defects, and 
 Abuses, lllu^tntfed by, and established upon, Facts a)id Re- 
 marks, extracted from a variety of Autliors rtutient and r'^sdern. 
 Calculated to draw the timely Attention of Go\ernnie}it and 
 People to a due Consideration of the Necessity, and the Meau'^, 
 of refonning tliose Errors, Dei'-cts, and Abuses ; of restoriui:; 
 the Constitution, and sewing the Stale." '.Fhe first li^linnc re- 
 lates to Govermnen.t in general ; the second treats of Places and 
 Pensions, tlie Ta\ation of the Colo!;ics, and the Army 3 and the 
 third considers Manners." }Ie was prevented ^i ivsuing the sub- 
 ject farther by tlie violence of his disease} whii-;' carried h'm off, 
 Aug. 2G, 1775, in his 6" Is', year. Besides (lie pubiieations already 
 mentioned, and a great variety of mantiscripts wiiieh he k^fi be- 
 hind him., he wrote, in ]7-'3 and 1734, sou)e letters in the 
 " Gtiieral Evening Post," called ' The Free Encpiirei-," and, in 
 1770, a number of papers, intiiu]:d " Tlie Constitutionalist, ' 
 Jii " Tb.e Gazetteer.' About the same iinie he also published 
 another periodical paper in "The Gazetteer," called "The 
 Coloni.-t's A;l-.';x:ate." From a long personal kriowledge of Mr. 
 Bm-gh, I ran cnnfjini Dr. Kippis's assertion " that he was a 
 mim of great piety, Inu-grity, and bencoleuce." He had a 
 
 warmth
 
 1754.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. . 26 J 
 
 correspond entirely with each otlier, and both with 
 the Doctrines of Christianity ; the eariiest Antiqui- 
 ties of the British Islands are explained ; and an 
 Account given of the Sacred Structures of the 
 Druids ; particularly the ^stupendous Works of 
 Abury, Stonehenge. (Xc, in Wiltshire, are mi.iutely 
 described. By William Cooke *, IM.A. Hector of 
 Oldbury and Didmarton in Gloucestersliire, Vicar 
 of Enford in Willsliirc\ and Chapliin to the Rii;ht 
 Honourable the Earl c'l Suliblk. Illustrated w-ith 
 Copper Plates ; the Second Edition, with Addi- 
 tions ;" 4to. 
 
 " An Account of a Spiritual Court Prosecution of 
 a certain Bisliop against a Clergyman of his Dio- 
 cese/' 8vo, 
 
 warmth of hearty which cnt;aa;e<l hiai to entor heartily into the 
 prosecution of any valuabl i'c^ii,n; -uid '-.A; temper v-Li couimu- 
 nicative and clieartui. U Li!.:t his ac.ijr,'. peinikt'-d, }:; hj'l great 
 pl:;';isuie in attending- a weekly aueiccy ;jf boin:; frien.'.s t; '."low- 
 ledire, virtue, and libe:^y, auioua whuiu w .c severed jxr.s(;n - of 
 no email note in tiie j.aitCc^ophii'.l ar-d lie;-; ry wcild. He had 
 once the honour cA' being introdu: -.d > .us p'.\-ent ^'.-'ji-sty, 
 wh' n Prince of Wales, and to t^e lat. Vi'ij '-., Dovi-gei' of 
 Wale;, from whom he met wit); a ju;)st .i,!uci.. i- v t eptioii, and 
 with whom he hoi' much di^coiu.^ie, e t ,uv. iubjevl a? eil-.u atlii.i, 
 and otner topics. --A pjio^a^v in tlie ^:-. v^ond voima'' of . n.o," 
 }). '207, illustMaes, in some de^i' . the nuti-re ol' \\-. l<..)\^:i's 
 intervj.-'v witii Uk Princess Df)\va.,'-. of ^\ .' . 
 
 * Mr. Cooke died at Enl'oi'd, Jh'U 25, 17^0, aftei I'lvijit,- en- 
 joy^^'d that \ic;iraii,'e niOi'e ti; .n it' ncu's. lie pi!M;,;.;d an 
 Ahridiceiiient of Dr. Stukeiey's >ton i: ii!i,c ..v;i /*.lurv, li;,. i.ircd 
 with lluitliin-onianisiU; .iiui aL--o Ciixi'' .;."! i'r;.;). j!> i',!' a mk 
 which, having; been left in tlie )/(.-- :;t hi.-. iL- i a-' \\a- ' 'sn- 
 pletcd I)v hiS son, and publisliod n ij-l, nii'l. the liiie of 
 " The .'S('-dallic Ii'i-torv of Imperii! R mi;; ; i'.M n J; !,. i 'J'li- 
 umviiate, under PouijkV, ( m-sus, :.i, i ( ;.^ ,;, ii> tiio i<:i:';':! of 
 the l:n;)( rial .Sear \t\ ( c.ri'-tunvii.:' tli; ( i. \\"''n -wvil M. ,i;ils 
 anil Co'ii-, a^'cniaiely couiecl and c;!:i* '-!- .':;i iw .' ''u .'liih 
 i.s ]/i'-iiN' '1 ''!) Iniro(hu:' liin . contan i:i' ;'. <u!; i' ;!i;'';-, ( '.' :]\c 
 R'.'i: '.I .Vicda!^, in. m, \()iu'.;n's. \\\ '.';'';.: m ' . c, }^, \. \\:\u- 
 of kiifoi'd in Wiltdili'. aiid reeioi- m;' ; 'i)i.;, -u.-i P.I, n'Vii; in 
 (d(HU:;-^:-!iirc," 'J\,)l-i. I'ai. M..' i>' > \n:'l:<-A,' (n. !;/.:!? 
 from llu- chi'.rj^c \)\()',u2,\tf u.-iiuNt 'I'li >\ I'.i'i . ihu no i.i'ii 
 Jrrl '-cvn onc-t!iii-d ;if ilie coiiis r'd!'i'il.' I 1'; ).':! . n\r. \\-r ini'iil 
 of tlic \vork i- j';'icall\ h. ; ncd l)y i'.t- v, . ;. d ,!' >.v m\\\ ,(i,r. ' t 
 eii:.',ia-. iiK:^ (/f tiic foiu-, which aiv for the ii. -; i art lak-i. i'ii:u 
 (.)> IVnihruke coiled ion. 
 
 Dr.
 
 f68 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l754. 
 
 Dr. Richard Grey's * Translation of Mr. Hawkins 
 Browne's poem " De Animi Imniortalitate," 4to. 
 
 "Queries to the (jentlenieu of Great Britain/' by 
 the Society of Antiquaries '\'. 
 
 A Second:}: Volume of Mr. Warburton's "Sermons 
 5^t Lincoln's Inn ;" with " An Appendix, contain- 
 
 * Of whom see some account in vol. I. p. 425 ; to which the 
 following paiticulat's may be added. He was matriculated June 
 20, 1712^ son of John Grey of Newcastle (fil. pleb.) setat. 16; 
 ordained deacon May 1, 1719. Mr. Richard Grey became B. A. 
 May 15, 1716. Kilncote rectory was given him by Lord Wil- 
 loughby de Biooke. In Sept. 1746 he was appointed commissaiy 
 of the archdeaconry of Leicester, having before that time been 
 official of the same. The copy of his Sermon for the Northamp- 
 ton Infirmary he gave to the Society ; and it was sold, by diiec- 
 tion of the Committee, for the benefit of the charity. April 13, 
 1742, Dr. Rawlinson received an account of Dr. Grey from him- 
 self, for his proposed continuation of the Athenae. Rawl. Ath, 
 Ox. 611. Dr. Rawlinson also mentions " Tabula exhibens para- 
 digmata verbonmi Hebraicorum," &c. (see vol. II. p. 133) in one 
 broad sheet, which was published June 20, 1738. 
 
 f See these, enlarged, in the first number of " Bibliotheca 
 Topographica Britaniiica," p'rinted in the year 1/80. 
 
 I A third volume was printed in 1767, hut not hy Mr. Borcyer, 
 under the title of " Sermons and Discourses on various Sub- 
 jects and Occasions, Volume the Third, by Dr. \^'illiam War- 
 burton, Lord Bi-sliop of Gloucester." 
 
 See some notice of the former volume in p. 255. Wliil&t: 
 Mr. Bowyer was printing these Sermons, he was also employed 
 in a new edition of tlie first vohmie of " The Divine I^egation," 
 and was favoured by the learned Author with the following ob- 
 jurgatory notes: " M?/ 23, 1752. Sir, I never now-a-days 
 send any message that ever I have what I desire complied with. 
 The other day I sent foj- another pro\)f shec^t of the Div ine Lega- 
 tion, and they sent n.e a i>roof of the Sermon. I sent to-day to 
 let you know this Uiistake ; and my man was tokl none was com- 
 mitted, for a proof v)f the Di\ine Legation was sent. In the 
 same paper to-day I desired (as plain as I coukl write) to send 
 me all the sheets that were printed off of the Sermon, and sheet 
 H \\i\s giveii to my servant : and when he said he wanted nUy 
 they told him this was all. In short, they pretend to know 
 what I want better than I do mxself ; and because I have the 
 other sheets before, they won't let me have them svgain. In 
 shoit, T am tired < f sendirr, any message to you ; for it is sure 
 ne^cr to be obsened. W. W. Suiur day noon. [^No date] "I 
 don't send, you the follo\i ing xuimarked gross blunders of the 
 press to uj)braid your carelessness, fur that I have often done 
 without elu ct : but to shev/ you what reason I have to take it ill 
 of \on when I dcsiied \<:n\ to examine those sheets you never 
 sent me : 3 of tlicse 4 biunders are in those sheets, P. xli. 1. 13, 
 
 should.
 
 1754.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 2(Jq 
 
 t 
 
 ing Three Sermons preached on the Occasion of the 
 late RebeUion in 1745*, and a Discourse on the 
 Nature of the Marriage Union -J-," 8vo +. 
 
 " A View of Lord Bohngbroke s Philosophy ^, iu 
 Two Letters to a Friend," [by Mr. Warburton] ; 
 (completed in the following year by two more 
 Letters, and a new edition of these) ; all in 8vo. 
 
 should, for, ice should to the violation of the sense and gram- 
 mar ; p, 99, 1. 12, story, for, true story which likewise obscui-es 
 the whole period; p. 9,62, 1.6, Brenmis's, for Brcnnus; a Sacrilege 
 is here used for Sacrilegm, not Sacrileg'mm ; p. "^Sl, 1.3, offered, 
 for, afford hurts the whole sentence." " I desire Mr. Bowjer 
 would let me see him. W. May 9, 1754." 
 
 * Large impi-essions of these were printed separately, by Mr. 
 Bowyer, at the time they were preached. See before, pp. 177. 190. 
 
 f At Mr. Allen's chapel, printed also separately. See p. 190. 
 
 X " i hope to have the second volume of Serm{)ns out by the 
 middle of next month, and the fii'st volume of Di\ ine Legation soon 
 after ; so you see I am winding up my bottoms a ravelled business, 
 if my answerers are to be believed. But (to use the expression of 
 an old formal Divine of my acquaintance, who did not, I will 
 assure you, apply it to me, but to a very {)iTident man of his 
 acquaintance), I hate all my ends before me. Warburton'' s 
 Letters to Hurd, Sept. 30, 1754. " I hope to send you the 
 second volume of my Sermons very soon. Theie is one, as 
 I told you, on the influence of Learning on Recelation. You 
 won't much like it ; for 1 do not. It by no moans pleases mp. 
 I could say nothing to the purpose ; and when it was too late, 
 I found it was a subject for a volume, i like the other Sennou 
 on the Marriage union better. It is more simple. But th.e na- 
 ture of the huliject gave it this advantage. In my hint I liiiited 
 that you had never laid your thumb on the Discourse I liked 
 best. As I said before, I will give you no directions to guess at 
 my meaning; not so much as tell you whethej- it be in this 
 volume." Ihid. Oct. 14. " I need not tell you how proud I 
 auj of y(jur apj)robation ; or, to speak more pioperly, of joui- 
 partiality for me. To tell y(;u the truth, I did mean the 'ilianks- 
 giving Sermon, Though I shall readily own mxsclf mi-^takin, 
 now you are of anotlier opinion." Ibid. Oct. "2 4. " Vou di->ap- 
 p>inted me in reading that imj)crf(et first edition of the TiiHuk^- 
 giving Sermon. However, you are riglit, the other is to Im; 
 preferred for the happy dis])osition t)f the subject." Ibid. Oct. '2^. 
 See also several oiher letters on the subject of the Serni(iis. 
 
 " I shall long Ni lie.u' tliat you have put the last iiaiid to tlie 
 View of Bolinglaokc. If ever you write above yourseli', it ii 
 when your zeal for 1 ruth and Religion animates you l( e\p,)>e 
 the ignorance oT foolish men." Mr ilurd to Dr. U'orhurtnii. 
 July 2, 1754. " .\s to my ' View of Bolingbrokc,' it is divided 
 into four Letters. The lirst on lii^ Temper, the btcond en lus
 
 SyO LITERARY ANECDOTES OF ^1754' 
 
 An unpublished Criticism on this performance 
 was written by Mr. Bowyer, witli an intention of 
 preserving' it in the pages of Mr. Urban, wliich shall 
 be given below*. 
 
 Principles, the third and fourth on his Talents. The two first, 
 which will make about twelve sheets octavo, 1 pro])ose publish- 
 ing* itlone as soon as y'rinted, which will be in three weeks or a 
 mon:h. I tell it you in confidence, I am apprehensive of dis- 
 pleasing some by it whom I most honom-, and at a critical time. 
 So that, I solemnly assure you, nothinjj but the sense of indis- 
 pensable dill) as a Christian and a C}eri:,yman could have in- 
 duced me to run ihe hazard of doing myself so much injurv. 
 But, jacta fitit alea. All other considerations are now past with 
 me. And let Pro\ idence take its course, without any solicitude 
 on my part. I keep the thing a secret. But I suppose, amongst 
 the pei-petual guesses at an anonymous author, my name will 
 come into the list. You know so miich of my love for Jirst parts, 
 that perhaps you will think the two last letters won't appear, or 
 that I wait to try how the first \vill fare. No such matter. I 
 go on with the two last, and they will be published about six 
 weeks after." Dr. If arbtirtvn to Mr. IJnrd, Sept. J. " Ere this 
 you will see the two first letters of the View published. The 
 truth is, I grew a little tired of such a writrr. You will see 
 there is a continued apology for the Clergy: yet they will neither 
 love me the more, nor forgi\e me the soonej", for all I can say 
 in their behalf. This I have experienced in a former a])ology 
 for them. 1 won't tell you wheie. but leave viui to guess, as a 
 punishment for the niortifieatiori you gave me for never mention- 
 ing once to me a Discourse that I most value nnself upon. Be- 
 forc Bolingbrokes Works vere published, 1 but g;uessed con- 
 cerning his svstem of the moral attributes from what he dropped 
 in one of his published things. For 'hou.':h the first and second 
 Essay had been shev/n me by Mr. Pope, -Mid afferwards by Mr. 
 Yorke, as neither of them \>ux vhem inru my hands, 1 had no 
 curiosity of leading moi-e of them in theirs tlian particular pas- 
 sages of ap.othei kind wh.'cli they shewed me: yet 1 guessed 
 well, as you will see hy ilie use I make oi three quotations fi-om 
 the Sern:on on God's u~ioral Government." Si.pi 30. 
 
 * " Whc n pejsons of e]e\ated stations vouchsafe to become 
 writers, they must be content to submit themsches to the judg- 
 ment of the publick. E^. ery reatlcr is their peer, to cojidemn oi- 
 acquit them. But it has been the lia5i]riness of the late Lord Bo- 
 lingbroke to be tried by a perso/i of < .ninence ; who, though by 
 his function exempt frt'iu sitting (!i.' hiui in a cause of blood, jet 
 is, (m t'i;it account, best entitkd to pass judgiaent on him in a 
 cause of divinity. He lias done it in so cleai-, con\incing, and 
 candid a manner, that I will venture to lay before you, Mr. 
 Urban, anil the world, sonic extracts from Lorfl Bolingbroke's 
 ^Letters, from whence vou mav judge of the equity of the Bishop 
 
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 17S4.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 2'Jl 
 
 A neat edition of "Anacreon," in 12mo, with 
 notes which Mr. Bowyer himself collected. 
 
 of Clogher's sentence. Letter V. p. IS^, -first edition, Lord B<}- 
 ling-broke, out of pure zeal for Christianity, raises scniples 
 against itj and at the same time declaies it as his opinion. 
 Letter V. p. 204, that ' Christianity has been on the decay ever 
 since the llesurrection of Letters.' P. 185. A now wav, one 
 would think, of expressing- his zeal for it. But how does he 
 prove that Christiaiiity has been on the decay ever since the Re- 
 suiTection of Lettei-s ? Why by artfully substituting in his proof, 
 Popeiy instead of Cijristianity. ' The demolition,' says lie, ' of 
 the Papal Throne was not attempted with success, till tlie f^'nn- 
 ning of the sixteenth century.' Bishop of Clogher's Vindication, 
 p. 2 6. Letter i. p. 6, he declares ' a thorough etrntempt for 
 the whole biiainess of the learned lives of Bochait, Petavias, and 
 Usher. Because [forsooth] they made use of such, materials as 
 they had ; which, it seems, are few, and t]\ere is a mond imjxis- 
 sibiJity they should ever have more.' Thus he recommends an 
 enquiry into antient history, and then deel uxs a contem])t of 
 those who have alreaily pursued such enquu-v. Vind. p. 7. 
 Now then let us see what wonders will he. discovcrtd under such 
 a guide ! He begins (Letter i. p. 8), ' The dynasties of Manetho 
 are broken to pieces by Eusebius, and such fragments of theni 
 as suited his design are sturk into his works. ^Ve liave, we 
 know, no more of them." But, (1) others kiiow tliat there are. 
 more than what occur in Eusebius; and. i^l) ihat Eu-obius [iro- 
 bably never saw Manetho. Vindic. }).>. Leiter i. p. 10, tlie 
 Chronicon, which we owe to Sync(;llus, he eulis the C<;dox Aiex- 
 andrinus, a title which the learned liad appropriated to a MS. of 
 the Old and New Testament. This Chi'oiucon hx-- been ];:utly 
 followed, and partly rejected, by Sir Joha M:uham ; a libi'rty 
 which L(;rd BoiiiLgbrokc! thinks not allowable, who admits tn- 
 reprobates by v. ii );;> le. Ibid. Tiie btory of tlie bead's nip.ni;! ; 
 to thnt part of tlic Circus wiiere their naiiw> soil vv:;-. laid, :u;:l 
 the i'aijle of tii-- iuiers Ixtvveen A!)gara> an-i .Ic.-v.-; ( iiii-t, ;u!' 
 twice cited by Lord Jjfjlin^broke [L,eit',;i ii. i...'il: and Ri'ilt'cion^ 
 on Exile, ])/^40j as JVom Josepiius, in^Uad of Eii-l.-iu-. Thi-, 
 with others of the like S(nt, are i:arc'.,).r.b!(' c;!^;-, no d iiii)i ; 
 but it is to be observed, lliat Lord noliiijiinkv ':i muriir-; Ia:- 
 tei were jirinted in his lir'e-tinu;, ruid di'-', ;i'!)u(( d In i;i- !. . iju'.i 
 friends for thfir com-ciion, lljMiirh. iic ^!i:! |)rot'.'--'.-i Xu <'.:> 
 by memory, to give them ihc air oi' a -lijnl cui- >)v ;( iff !.! - 
 uiiee. Vindic. ]). 1'2, \A. I would fitii'cr olc. : w, ii: an <\inu- 
 porary Sj'ceeh hvi'(,rc tiie Hour^c (;f Lti!-, tio-c Mii>iiu>, It 
 I rcmemher r'v^ld, If I ant iiol iulsi.' n, i\c. ii\,:\ li.i'c tij;;- 
 grace, because tlicy ex jjic-.t ;ui iin\.i!ii;:u!i' -- in tii. 
 
 (i::i: 
 
 deceive the audicrifc ; \a\\ in \-, .!?:::>.., -s in r.' i.>.iks ctn 
 at, and every |;art)C'dar a-C(M':;:u; ;!, il::it ^.'^lin.; :lijl;'t.'M(- 
 no long(;r a beautv, luiI a mark n.' m ll-roin; l.uii-'", atid :u: :t 
 of being sU])rrior to l lie read' r i -iirniioji iM- ;!:t. ruih'T. U
 
 572 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l754. 
 
 Poll for the Qounty of Hertford," 8vo. 
 
 cause I see this flower of speech coming into Sermons preached 
 before one of the Honourable Houses. Letter iii. p. 82, Lord Bo- 
 lingbroke tells vis, from Pliny, that Berosus pretended to give a 
 History of 480 years Uefore his time ; whereas Berosus wrote a 
 History of above 1700 years. What then is the case ? Why Pliny 
 says, Berosus informs us, that the Babylonians were in possession 
 of astronomical observations above 480 years. And what is this 
 to his pretending to give a history of that period ? Vind. p. 14. 
 But Lord Bolingbroke, to lessen the value of an antient history 
 which contained 480 years, says, ' If it was so, these years were 
 probably years of Nabonassar,' Arch enough ! He took years of 
 Nabonassar to be shorter years than common ; and knew not 
 that the Babylonians introduced an sera from the commencement 
 of that King's reign, about seven jears later than the building 
 of Rome ; but in which the years v^ere of the same length with 
 other years. Vindic. p. 15. Letter iii. p. 82, Berosus and Mane- 
 tho are put on a footing by Lord Bolingbroke, and represented 
 as equally admitted, altered, and contradicted by Josephus, Jul. 
 Africanus, and Eusebius ; whereas Berosus is appealed to with 
 the greatest regard by Josephus, and literally copied by Euse- 
 bius. Vindic. p. 16. He next draws a most convincing argu- 
 ment against the authority of the Old Testament, because a great 
 King thought it worth while to get it translated, and wonders 
 have been since related concerning that Translation. Vindic. p. 17. 
 Letter iii. p. 89, he poaches in Suidas for game against a book 
 which is somewhat more than licensed, but staits an old woman for 
 Moses. Vindic. p. 19. letter iii. p. 107^ he represents it as ridi- 
 culous ' that the sons of God are said to lie with the daughters of 
 men, and beget giants.' But he knew enough of the woild, if 
 not of the Hebrew idiom, to guess, that the sons of God might 
 be the men of power ; who, forcibly taking away the daughters 
 of the poorer sort, begat illegitimate children. These being 
 frequently men of strength, are calls* I giants. Anything high 
 or great, it is well known, is said to belong to God. Thus 
 Rachel's disputes with Leah are termed ' the wrestlings of God,' 
 Gen. XXX. S. Vindic. p. 37- If I mistake not, Selden says os sa- 
 crum is called so to this day, from the largeness of it. But the 
 most masterly objection is Lt-tter iii. p. 109, against Gen. ix. 22, 
 where, though Ham alone oilended, Canaan alone is cursed. 
 An objection founded on an error in the MS. to which all MSS. 
 are subject ; viz. an omission of two or three words in the latter 
 sentence, which are expressly inserted in the former. Verse 22 
 runs, ' And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his 
 father.' Accordingly, verse 25 should run, * curbed be [Ham the 
 father of] Canaan ; and ^erse 26, ' And [Ham the father of] 
 Canaan shall be his servant.' Allow but this error corrected by 
 the very text, as we see, and all the objection vanisheth. Not 
 o, says Lord Bolingbroke, for the curse fell on the posterity of 
 Caaaaji, exclusively of the rest of the posterity of Ham, in the 
 
 ex-
 
 1/54.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, SJg 
 
 Another edition of " Demosthenis Selectae Ora- 
 tioues," by Baron Mounteney, 8vo. 
 
 expulsion of the Canaanites. True, in that particular Case it did ; 
 but as the curse was general on the posterity of Hani, as we 
 may now be allowed to say, we must not look for the accompUsh- 
 ment of it in Canaan alone. Where then shall we find it ? Now 
 History will inform us, that Egyj)t, or the Land of Ham, wa* 
 made tributary to the offspring of Shem in the person of Caui- 
 byses and his successors ; who reduced Egypt, as well as Canaan, 
 to the Persian yoke j under which it continued till the reign of 
 Darius Nothus ; when the Egyptians recovei-ed their liberty, till 
 they were again reduced by Ochus king of Persia ; from wliich 
 time they remained in subjection to that empire, till Darius 
 Codomannus was defeated. by Alexander the Great. Thus tho 
 posterity of Ham wex'e first in subjection to the Persians, who 
 were of the line of Shem ; and were again subdued by the Greeks, 
 who were the descendants of Japhet. The reason wh\ the name 
 of Canaan alone, of all the children of Ham, was particularly 
 mentioned by Moses as included in the cui-se, was bec:u>e the 
 Israelites, the offspring of Shem, were then going to fulfill that 
 part of the curse, and to take possession of the land of Canaan 
 ibr the first time. Vindic. 39 42. Letter iii. 114,115, to shew 
 what little knowledge in the histoiy of mankind is to be k arnt 
 ft'om the Sacred Wi-itings, Lord Bolingbrol^e observes, that 
 " Though the Assyrians were neighbours of the Jews, yet we 
 liear nothing of that kingdom till just before Prophane History 
 makes that kingdom to end. Then we hear of Salmanasar, 
 who took Samaria in the 12tli year of the .r-ra of Naljont-.-ai-; 
 that is, VI years after uie Assyrian Em])ire was no more." 
 Now, (I) the affairs of -t'-syria and of Egypt are taken notice of 
 no farther in the Sacred Writings than as lliey had relation to 
 the Israelites; sometimes as entniies, raised up hy God lov their 
 puni-hnicnt; s-tnu'tinies as friends, for tlicir niob tion. ('2) \Mvd 
 BolingbiH)kc takes it for granted that the kingdom of Assvria was 
 at end when Naboup-tar ijegan to reign ia l'>abyIon : which is 
 just the same as to say, tliere wa-. an end of the kingdom of Spain 
 when the kingdoiri of Portugal nas separated iV; -.u it; for tlic 
 Kings of Assyria were Kintrs of Dabylou, :- well :;s \ini\e!- and 
 the rest of Assyria, lill Xal'OMassar aro-e, and separatd tli 
 kingdom of Bah'vloi. from 'lial of As^via : vjui llwn ll;e Kiii<r of 
 As.,yna still li\e(i , it Mni'.i'h, !>; ilic King ol" Bainion at F.ihy- 
 ion.' V\here then is the absu-lity in 'I Kings, wiii. D, \'. lun it 
 .said, * In the fourth of He/.eUi.di", Kii.g oiMndah, SUaln-ane-er, 
 King of Assyria, came up ag;iii>t Nimaria, and l>c-iege<i ii.'" 
 thowrh tliis e\ent happtiird in 'hr i'>l\\ ni' Nahon i^-ar's n\n\ at 
 Babylon ? This M;ay .-er-.r for a -ptcinuii of l-nrd Bolingbiok-^s 
 acciiracv shall I .sav,' or iiimiing - 'I'h'' Hi-1'<";' :>o-iliNi' jnoofs 
 for I he uu!!i. niieily of the Okl ;'nd NfwT< -uun. n!s I n.ay po-si- 
 bly lay Ij.'fuiC you vn anotlier occa-ion 1 aui; yjui -. 6cr. J, (>. ' 
 
 Vol. II. T l)i'.
 
 274 UTERAHY ANECDOTES 0F [1754- 
 
 Dr. Gully's * " Dissertation on pronouncing the 
 Greek Language/' 8vo. 
 
 '^ The principal Charters which have been granted 
 to the Corporation of Ipswich in Suffolk translated -!-,'' 
 8vo. 
 
 ** Barbarossa, a Tragedy/' by Mr. Brown ."f, 8vo. 
 
 * Dr. Henry Gall}', born at Beckenham, in Kent, in Au^ist 
 1690", was admitted peuaiouer of Jlen'et college, vuidei- the tui- 
 tion of Mr. Fawcett, May 8, IJH; and became scholar of tlie 
 house in July following. He took the degree of M. A. in 1731 ; 
 and was upon the King's List for that of D.D. (to vrhich he was 
 admitted April 25, 1728) when his Majesty honoured the Uni- 
 versity of C;mibridge with his jnesence. In the year 1721 he was 
 chosen lecturer of St. Paul's, Coveut Garden, and instituted the 
 same year to the rectory of Wavenden, or VVanden, in Bucking- 
 hamshire. The Lord Chancellor King appointed him his do- 
 mestic chaplam in 1725, preferred Ivim to a prebend in the 
 church of Gloucester in 1/28, and to another in that of Nor- 
 wich a'oout three years after. He presented him likev\ ise to the 
 rectory of Ashney, aZias Ashton, in Northamptonshire, in 1/30; 
 and to tliat of St. Giles in the Fields, in 1732 ; his Majesty 
 made liim also one of liis chaplains in ordinary, in October 1735, 
 Dr. Gaily died August 7, 176'9. He was the author of, 1. "Two 
 Sermons on the Misery of Man, pieached at St. Paul's, Coveut 
 Garden, 1723," 8vo. 2. " The Moral Charactei-s of Thsophras- 
 tus, translated from the Greek, with Notes, and a Critical Essay 
 on Characteristic Writing, 1/25," 8vo. 3. " The Reasonable- 
 ness of Churih and College Fines asserted, and the Rights which 
 Churches and Colleges liavc in their Estates defended, 1731," 
 Svo. This was an answer to a pamphlet called "^ An Enquiry 
 into the Customary Estates and Tenants of those who hold l-ands 
 of Church and other Foundations by the Tenure of three Li^es 
 nnd twenty-one Years, by Everard Fleetwood, esq." Svo, [Be- 
 sides the answer to this pamphlet by Dr. Gaily, tliere were two 
 others, by Dr. Roger Long and Dr. William Derham.] 4. " Ser- 
 mon before the House of Commons upon the Accession, June 11, 
 1739," 4to. 5. " Some Considerations upon Clandestine Mar- 
 riages, 1750," Svo. This was much enlarged in a second edi- 
 tion the year following. 6. The pamphlet on Greek Accents, 
 taken notice of above. 
 
 f By Mr. Canning, minister of St. Laurence ; who had pub- 
 lished in 1747, " An Account of the Gifts and J-iCgacies that had 
 been given and bequeatlied to charitable Uses in the Town of 
 l])svvich, with some account of the present State and ftlanage^ 
 inent, and some Proposals for the future Regulation of them,'' 
 Svo. Ill 1755 Mr. Rowyer piinted for hinj "An Address to the 
 Freemen of Ipswich," half a. sheet, folio, 
 
 ; Of whom see before, pp. 211 215. 228, 229, 230. In the 
 ' Biograjdua Bjitawnica," it is said that this tragedy was pro- 
 duced
 
 1754.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 275 
 
 Dr. Armstrong's * " Art of preserving Healthy a 
 didactic Poem," 8vo* 
 
 This year Mr. Bowyer sent a literary present (I 
 know not of what value) to the Cathedral Library 
 at Chichester -jf. 
 
 The principal books printed by him this year were, 
 
 " The History and Antiquities of the Town, 
 Hundred, and Deanry of Buckingham, by Browne 
 WilhsJ, esq. LL. D." 4to. 
 
 The fourth (and last) \^olume of Mr. Carte's 
 "General History of England." 
 
 "A Letter to a Friend in Italy; and Verses occa- 
 sioned on readiiig Monttaucon," [by the Rev. Ed- 
 ward Clarke '^J, 4to. 
 
 Three Volumes of Mr. Whiston's Translation of 
 Josephus, 8vo. 
 
 " Oeconomia Naturae in Morbis acutis et chronicis 
 Glandularum. Auctore R.Russell, M.D. F.R.S."Svo. 
 
 An English Translation of Dr. Russell's " Oeco- 
 nomy," Svo. 
 
 tluced on the stage in the bci^inning: of 1755. It was acted 
 Dec. 17, li-^-i; and published tlie <aine mouth. It first intrf)- 
 (luced itwuu.lior to the i'.''(]U;iintcince and frit-nflahio of .Mr. Car- 
 rick, \v';,) \'r-)te hoth the prohi ;-ae jMid ej, .ugiie to it, and spok'e 
 liiinselK the prul')g;.e in the chur.iLter of a counuy boy. With 
 the foil <.\in.^ pa-sagt. in tiie epiloi:"e, 
 
 " Ijit th(> ;0(>r do\:l eat, allo.v him ihi't, .S:e." 
 the author was nuc!! di~^p.>t'>d, ii- ii repixscnted him in the 
 light of an iiKiii^vnt person. Vawfy ^va^ un(li)nl)k-dly one of 
 the most j.n'ominent i" auncs in ihc ("harac tei' of P/y. !hr)u'n. 
 
 * Of whom, c ."nder tt'c .".ir 1' .')h. 
 
 f " In v')ur ^oncK'i'- di>,]jo-ilioii. 1 luar t]i;it you :11c incliued 
 t.(j think of our libnny. i\)viriy is innjrtin; ii". I ;".'k every 
 bofl'- t!'at I flecently cim, and ^inujl'l Ijr proad of \<iur name 
 amon;;- our i)enef.iclorb. Hm co.i.' UivA mc it; and tlicn yon 
 will say, tn.a so fine a looni \'. ill c wn-c ilii^ liii'Tty. ' Mr. Clarke 
 to Mr. li'/uji.r, Auii. U>, 17 >.">- 
 
 X Ofwiiom, sec: the- " K-:i)- ;in.l Iliu t lu' ic'Ji*/' vul.Vi. \o, TV. 
 
 Of whom, sec vol. IV, \). :',:-,' I. 
 
 T ' A Se-
 
 "^6 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l755. 
 
 " A Second Dissertation against pronouncing the 
 Greek Language according to Accents ; in Answer 
 to Mr. Foster's Essay *." 
 
 " Boerhaave's Aphorisms," 8vo. 
 
 Dr. Maty's " Autlientic Memoirs of the Life-}- of 
 Richard Mead J, M.D." 8vo. 
 
 " Museum Meadianum, sive Catalogus Nummo- 
 iTim, veteris evi iMonumentorum, ac Gemmarum, 
 cum aliis quibusdam Artis recentioris et Naturae 
 operibus, qua? vir clarissimus Ricardus Mead^ M. D. 
 nuper defunctus comparaverat," 8vo. 
 
 '^ Musei Meadiani pars altera, &c." 8vo. 
 
 "An Essay towards a new Ensjhsh Version of the 
 Book of Job, from the original Hebrew, with some 
 Account of his Life, by Thomas Heath ^, Esq. of 
 Exeter," 4to. 
 
 * This was, '''An Essay on the different Nature of Accent and 
 Quantity, with their Use and Application in the English, Latin, and 
 Greek Languages : containing Remarks on the Metre of the Eng- 
 lish; on the Origin and iEolism of the Roman; on the general 
 History of tlie Greek, witli an account of its antient Tones, and 
 a Defence of the present Accentual Marks, against the Objections 
 of Isaac Vossius, Henninius, Sarpedonius, Dr. Gaily, and other.-. 
 To which is subjoined the Greek Elegiac Poem of M. Musums, 
 addressed to Leo X. with a Latin Version and Notes. The Se- 
 cond Edition, corrected and much enlarged, containing some 
 Additions from the Papers of Di". Taylor and Mr. Markland ; 
 also, a Reply to Dr. Gally's Second Dissertation, in Answer to 
 the First Edition of this Essay. By J. Foster, M.A. late Fellow 
 of King's College, Cambridge. Eton. Cal. Junii, 1763." 8vo. 
 
 f Another, but far less interesting, Life of Dr. Mead, by Sir 
 Tanfield Leman, bart. M.D. a])pcared in 1749, Svo. 
 X Set^ the " Essays and lUustjations," vol. VI. No. V. 
 This gentleman was an alderman of iLxeter, and father of 
 John Heath, esq. one of the judges of the Common Pleas. His 
 brother Benjamin was a lawyer of eminence, and town-clerk of 
 Exeter. Benjamin was likewise an author, and wrote, 1. "An 
 Essay towards a demonstrative Proof f the Di\ ine Existence, 
 Unity, and Attribute.-. ; to \\ hieii is premised, a short Defence of 
 the Argument commonly called a Priori, 1740." This pamph- 
 let was dedicated to Dr. Oliver of Balli, and is to be ranked 
 amongst the ablest defences of Dr. Clark's, or ratlier Mr. Howe's, 
 hypothesis; for Dr. Clarke aiipears to have taken it from Howe's 
 " Living Temple." 2. " The Case of the ( ounty of De\on wilh 
 j-espcct to the Consequences of the new Excise Duty on C^yder 
 an4 Peny. Pubii.'shcd by the Dii-cctiun of the Committee ap- 
 pointed
 
 1755-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, S77 
 
 " Six Dissertations on different Subjects, bv John 
 Jortin, D. D." 8vo. 
 
 " Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison," by Dr. 
 Free (8o copies only printed). 
 
 " Remarks on the same Book, by Mr. Plumer," 
 (2^ only printed). 
 
 A neat and correct Edition of the Works of 
 Pindar, 12mo, (of which Mr. Bowyer was himself 
 the Editor,) with a Latm Version from the Oxford 
 Edition in folio of 1(>.97. 
 
 The following letter, on a subject of peculiar deli- 
 cacy, will perhaps be thought worth preserving, 
 though it does not appear to whom it was ad- 
 dressed *. 
 
 pointed at a General Meeting of that County to superintend tlie 
 Application for the Repeal of tliat Duty, 176"3/' 4to. To this 
 representation of the circumstances peculiar to Devonshire the 
 repeal of the act is greatly to be ascribed. The jjiece indeed wag 
 considered as so well-timed a service to tlie piibhck, tliat Mr. 
 Heath received some honourable notice on account, of it at a 
 general meeting of the county. .S. " Nota; siAC Lcctiones ad 
 Tragicorum Gra^corum Aeterum, .'Itschyli, &c. 1752," 4to. A 
 work which places the author's learning and critical skill in a 
 very conspicuous light. A principiU object of this publicatidri 
 was, to restore the metre of ihc Grecian Tragic I'oets. It is 
 m\ich to be regretted that the (ii-t:i-te for antient learning, which 
 for some years past liatli jjrevailed in lliis country, sliouid ha\c 
 left it for Foreigners to appreciate this work iiccording to ita 
 intrinsic vahie. The same solidity of judgment apj)aient in the 
 preceding, distingui->!ied the Author's last jjroductiou: i. "A 
 Revisal of Sh:i.ke^j)ear s Text, vvlierein the AUerations intro- 
 duced into it by tiie more modern Hditois and Criiics aii' parti- 
 cularly considered, 17^">," Hvo. It a])])Cars from the li-t of 
 Oxfoni graduates, that Mr. Benjamin Heath was created Doctor 
 of Civil I^w by diploma, March 111, 17<>-. 
 
 * 1 preserve this article as it oriiiMuidly stood, \\ith the mor 
 pleasure, a^ the mysteiy is Kiti^actorily ?x;)laine(l, to the u,'i"t.it 
 credit of all the parlies, in the following J>citi v fiom |)i\ Wir- 
 burton to Mr. llurd, Sept. 'II, 17."i:. " A \eiy iii-<:u;i('(:i!)ki 
 affair hits brought me to town a inonih hrfore my u-ii;il lime. 
 Mr. Knapiou, whom i-\vr\ bo(l\ , and I particuiarlN, thoUi;ht the 
 richest Ijookseller in to\vn, iia.-, i'ailcd. Hi- (i<l>;- arc 'io,(K)()'. 
 and his slock i.-, valued at .iO.OtK)/ ; iiut llii-. x.aluc i- suhjcc t to 
 many abating conlingeiicics and you never at iirst hear tin: 
 whole debt. It is lio))ed there v. ill !>', inon^h to pr.y every oiici 
 f don't know whui t'> iray to i.'.. U i-. a I'li-iiK'^j of ye.ii^. H
 
 578 tlTERARY ANECDOTES OT [^755* 
 
 Sept. 20, 1755. 
 *' I was last night informed that it was reported 
 I had advised taking out a statute against you. As 
 no one, I am persuaded, hath a deeper sense of ob- 
 ligations to you, or feels more for your present 
 troubles, I was shocked at this charge of ingratitude 
 and inhumanity. I knew, with the rest of the 
 world, that your good-nature only had brought you 
 into your present difficulties, and tliat your afflic- 
 tion under them arose more from the inconveniencies 
 you brought on others than on yourself. It must 
 add not a little to your disquiet, to think you have 
 a monster among your creditors : but I owe it both 
 to you and them to testify that you can have but 
 one ; for 1 never heard any of tliem propose taking 
 a step which might ill suit your inclin.ations ; or, 
 what was more tender, your credit. If a statute 
 was ever mentioned, it was feared only from the 
 intricacy of your aifairs, not suggested from the 
 malevolence of any lieart. I say th^s, to clear others, 
 not myself; for it is too much for me to think that 
 such an imputation should live, and be carried to 
 your ear. My heart, Sir, will ever wish you hap- 
 
 pwes me a great sum. I am his principal creditor 5 and as such 
 I have h;>d it in my power, at a meeting,' of his creditoj*s, to dis- 
 pose them favourably to him, and to get him treated with great 
 humanity and compassion. I have brought them to agree una- 
 nimously to take a ieuigKation of his etiects, to be managed by 
 ti'U3tees ; Lnd in the m; an tin.e, til; tiie effects can he dis- 
 poned of to the best advaatagt, which will be some years in 
 doing, to allow him a very handsome subsistence ; for I think him 
 an honest man (thoug'i he lias done extreme il! by me), and, as 
 such, love him. He falls with the pity and compassion of every 
 body. His fault was extreme indolence. I was never more sa- 
 tisfied in any action of my life than in my service of Mr. Knap- 
 ton on this occasion, and the preventing (which T hope I have 
 done) his being torn in pieces. Yet you must not be surprised, 
 I am sure I should not, if you hear (so great is tl^c world's love 
 of truth and of me) that my severity to hiin de-tioycd his credit, 
 and would have pushed him to extremity. 1 will a-sure jou you 
 liave heard many things of me full as true ,; which, though at 
 present a))ocryphal, may, by my never contradicting them, in 
 time become lioly-w^it, as the Poet says. God bless you, and 
 believe me to be, &c." 
 
 pinesr ;
 
 1755-] I'Hfe EIGriTEeXTrt CENXUltY. jj*ji 
 
 piness ; but for fear it should fall under any mis- 
 construction of it after so bad a representation of it, 
 1 must beg you will give me leave to renounce the 
 office of being one of your trustees, in which it will 
 be impossible for me after this to act with freedom, 
 though I intend ever so uprightly. 1 know not 
 whether another trustee must be chosen in m)'^ 
 place ; but, if there must, whatever additional ex- 
 pence that may occasion, I will tiiankfully defray. 
 I would further beg, that no enquiry may be made 
 who propagated the story of me ; for as I suspect 
 no one j)erson, so I would continue to harbour no 
 ill thoughts of any par^cular ; and 1 will rest satis- 
 fied in the persuasion you will ever retain your good 
 ones, of, Sir, 
 Your sincere friend and most humble servant, W. B. 
 
 " I would have waited on you with the inclosed 
 renunciation, but that 1 am hastening into th*^ 
 country." 
 
 This year produced from Mr. Bowyer's press t^^ o 
 valuable tracts in tiie Antiquarian line, by Philip 
 Carteret Webb *, esq. which proved a prelude to 
 
 * This distinguished Anticjiiaiy, boi-n in 1/00, \va.s rci2:i]I;iily 
 fared to the profession of the huv : and waa aihnittcd an uttcn- 
 ncy, bctbrc Mr. .Justice Price, .Tunc '10, 17-1 : he hved then in 
 the Old .Jewry; afteruaitls renio\(!d lo Budj^e Row; aiici tlience 
 to Great tjtieen-street, Lincoln's- J nn Fields. HeA\as jiecidiarly 
 learned in the records of liiis kinadoni, and particularly aijie as 
 a jiarliamentarv and eonstimtional hiwyer. In 17 47, l>e pub- 
 lished " Obsen'ations on Uie Course of Prooeedinf^s in tlu; Admi- 
 ralty Courts," 8\o. In 1*51, he assisted Ujatpjially in (ibtainiufj 
 the eliarter of incorporation for the Sociity of Antiquaries, re- 
 mitting: in that bu-i:i(--s tlie eu^tcnnary fi-c-; 'Aliicli were due .o 
 liim as a solicitor; an.l on many otlur occa'-ioiis proM'd iiiniself 
 a very useful member of i hat h-arned hndy. rurchaMna- a hous. 
 and Cytale at Busbridue, Sumy, wliere Ik- n -id. d iu the Mnnmcr, 
 it t^avc' him an inllm nee iu the borout'h of Ha-iemere, for 
 which he was chor.en member in 17-">t. :>' a-raiu in 174JI. He 
 became, imder the patrnr.auv of Lord ( liane< li-ir Hardui( K\ 
 ecretaiy of bankru])t' in the ( nuit of ( hancrry, and wa-. aj)- 
 pointfd one of the ioiiit suHciiors of the trcii-uiy in 17.)<>" In 
 
 .July.
 
 l80 . LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [175^. 
 
 the publication of the " Archseologia." They were 
 both read at the pubhc meetings of the Society of 
 Antiquaries, and were printed by their order. 
 
 July, 1758, he obtained a silver medal from the Society of Art$ 
 for having planted a larire quantity of acorns for timber. In 
 1760, he had the honour of presenting the famous Heraclean 
 ^ble to the King of Spain, by the hands of the Neapolitan Mi- 
 nister, from whom he received in return (in November that 
 year) a diamond ring, worth 300^ In April 1763, the period 
 of Mr. Wilkes's being apprehended for writing " The North Bri- 
 ton," No. 45, Mr. Webb became officially a principal actor in 
 that memorable prosecution, but did not altogether approve of 
 the severity vAth which it was carried on ; and printed, on that 
 occasion, " A Collection of Records about General Warrants j" 
 and also " Observations upon discharging Mr. Wilkes fi-om the 
 Tower." []Mr \^^ebh panicularly supported the issuing of the 
 general warrant by tne Secretaries of State, instead of a special 
 one ; for %vhich the opinion of the Attorney an^ Solicitor General 
 repoited there was sufficient ground ; and which was recom- 
 mended by the Right Hon. Etiward Weston, then under secre- 
 tarv of state, to the Earl of Halifax. fjiS Note by Dr. Charlea 
 Ifeston.J'] He held the offxCe of solicitor to the Treasury till 
 June 1765. ;-:nd continued secretary of banki'upts till Loic Nor- 
 thm.'2;toa quitted the Seals, in 1766. He died at Busbridge, 
 Jane 22, 1770, aaed 70; and his library (including that of John 
 Godfrey, tsq. which he liad purchased entire^ \v:ts so' i. with his 
 MSS on velium, Feb. 25, and the sixteen foilowini?; days, 1771. 
 A litlie before his death he sold to the K.'use of Peeis tlr-rty 
 BIS volumes of the P. oils oi' Parliament. His MSS. on paper were 
 sold^ c" his widovs and execLitrix, to the Earl of Shclburne; 
 since bought by Parliament for the British Museum. The 
 coins and medals were sold by auction the same year, three 
 days sale ; in which weie all the coin.s and medals found in his 
 co'iectioR at the time of his decease, but he had disposed of the 
 most valuable part to diiierent persons. The series of large brass 
 iiad been pickexi by a nobleman. The noble series of Roman 
 gold (among which were Pompey, Lepidus, &c.) and the col- 
 lection of Greek kings and towns had been sold to Mr. Duane, 
 ?ind afterwards formed part of the valuable mtiseiun collected 
 by the late Dr. Hunter Tlie aulicnt marble busts, broiizes, 
 Roman earthen-ware, gems, seals, &e. (of which there were 96 
 lots) '.vere -old in the above year. On the death of Mrs, Webb, 
 the remainder of the curiositie.-^ was sold by Mr. Langford. Mr. 
 Webb's publications were, 1. "A Letter to rlu' JJev. Mr. William 
 Warburtbn, M. A. occasioned by some Passajic-; ii^, his Book, in- 
 tituled, ' The Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated.' By a 
 Gentlf man of Lincoln's Inn, 1742," Svo. 2. " Remarks on the 
 Pretenikr's Declaration and Commission, 1745," Svo. 3. " Re- 
 marks on the Pretender's eldest Sons second Declaration, dated 
 tlie lOih of October 1745, by the Author of the Reni^^rks on his 
 
 iir.'.t
 
 1756'-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ggl 
 
 1. "A short Account of some Particulars concern- 
 ing Domesday Book^ with a View to promote ita 
 being pubHshed/' 4to. 
 
 first Declai-ation, 1745," Svo, Of tlicsc " Remarks" a second 
 edition was published the same year. 4. " Excerpta ex Instru- 
 mcntis publicis de Judseis/' consisting of seven yAs;es small 4to. 
 5. " Short, but true, State of Facts relative to the Jew- Bill, sub- 
 mitted to the Consideration of the Publick," three ptiges smtill 
 4to. 6. " Five Plates of Records relating to tlie Jews, engraven 
 at the Expence of Philip Carteret Webb, Esq." 7. "The Ques- 
 tion whether a Jew born within the Briiish Dominions^wasj 
 before the making the late Act of Parliament, a Person cai)able 
 by Law to purchase and hold Lands to him and his lieii-s, 
 fairly stated and considered. (To which is annexeti an A;)peudix, 
 containing Copies of Public Records relating to the Jews, and 
 to the Plates of Records.) By a Gentleman of Lincohi's Inn, 
 1753," 4to. Printed for Roberts, price 2*-. Gd. '^' A Reply ' to 
 this, in the same size, and at the same price, written, its it is 
 supposed, by Mr. Gro^e, author of the Life of Cardinal W'okey, 
 was printed for Robinson, Woodyer, and Swan. 8. "A short 
 Account of some Particulars concerning Doinesday-Book, with 
 a View to promote its being published, 17 56"," 4t(>. 9. " A.sliort 
 Account of Danegeld, with some farther Pulicalais relviting to 
 William the Conqueror's Survey, 175S," iu:. 10. " A State of 
 Facts, in Defence of his Majesty's Right ti) ("cilain J-'ee-Fana 
 Rents in the County of Norfolk, 1758,"' 4t'). 1 1. " An Account 
 of a Copper Table, containing two Irisciiptions in the (ii-.ek 
 and Latin Tongue-, discovered in the m.u' I73'i, near Heraclca, 
 in tlie JJ.iy of Tarcitum, in Magna Giecia. Bv Philij) Carteret 
 Webb, Kr^i|. Read at a Mee'ing of (he Sot:'.iy of .\nti(|ua;it>, 
 the Kitn cf Decerubcr, 175:>, and ordered to he printed 17(J()," 
 4to. 1.^ -''Some Observations on tiie late Deierminatioa for 
 dii(;iiari:lng M*'. Wilkes from his Commitment to the 'i'owcf of 
 Lotulon, for being tlu; Author and Pob'-'-iier of a Mditiou,^ Libel 
 calU'd 'The Xor.h Briton, N(j. 45.' J>y a M'inbei' of tlu> Uou.-e 
 of Counnons. 1763, 4to." lie also printed a quartcj pauii)iil( t 
 (supposed to ba\(! been coined bv Fref'.iiick Abmlagiie, ex].) 
 cont.iining a number of (iener:'.! Wnnanls i r.ed from llie time, 
 of tin; Revolution J and some other polilieiU i'lael-, pariieularly 
 ^t tbr^ time of tiie Rebellion in 17-J5 ; at th.' cIo-l' ol" uhicli hi^ 
 abilities, a.s soiieitoi' on the trials in Seol!;Miik ]irov(\i ot'ctnineui 
 .service to the publick. Mr. Webb \s.i-> twice iii.uiiul; and bv 
 his fir.-t lady (who died in M:iich Vi, 17 "><') '"'t "; -on of 
 his own name, adihitted of I'.i n( t coli* uc, ( :inil)ii(!u , 1755, 
 under the [)ri\ ale tui!i<m of the llr\ . .J./uii ibulg.-on; ivtnoMd 
 totheTemph:. 1757; marrie<l to Mi.-- Siiii;li. of Milford. Sni!\\. 
 JJCiA, by whom he Ir.id a son, bom in 17''!. ai.d a <l;iUL:.hli r. 
 ^ince dead. His second wife wa^^ Kho la, daimhlei- of .(olni 
 i-u^.v<} esq. of Dodington in (. h'. -hiiv. 1>\ Ki")Ja, one of tin-
 
 t^t liteHary anecdotes of [175^. 
 
 2. "A short Account of Danegeld; Nvith some 
 further Particulars relating to WiUiam the Con- 
 queror's Survey," 4to. 
 
 daugliters and coheirs of Sir John Huborn, bart. of Wanvick- 
 shire ; but by her he had no istsue, 
 
 John Godfrey, esq. (p. 280) was the son of Benjamin Godfrey, 
 sq. of Norton Court, near Feversham, in Kent, whom he suc- 
 ceeded in Ihat estate. He was vei-y corpulent, through indolencfr 
 or inactivity, and a great epicure, which shoitened his life. Mr. 
 Godfrey (who was related to Sir Edmondburj) was a persoft of 
 learning, and had a good collection of antiquities ; and also of 
 coins and medals, which, after his death, woe sold by auction. 
 His library (containing about 1200 valuable volumes) was bought 
 for 100^. by T. Osborne, who sold the whole again to Mr. Webb 
 before it was unpacked. Mr. Godfrey contributed the plate of 
 Roman antiquities in p. 248 of Dr. Harris's History of Kent, and 
 was a good friend and benefactor to Dr. Harris, who used to spunge 
 tipon him ; and, though a prebendary of Rochester, with good 
 preferments, died insolvent, at Norton Court, and was buried iri 
 the parish church, at Mrs. Godfrey's expence. After Mr. Godfrey's 
 death (about 1741) his widow retired to her native county (Staf- 
 fordshire, it is supposed) and carried with her the valuable MSS. 
 Tvhfch Dr. Harris had collected for the second volume of his 
 ttistoiy of Kent, which he nevei- published. The late Dr. Thorpe 
 and other gentlemen made what enquiries they could how she 
 disposed of them, or what became of them after her death, but 
 could never get the least intelligence. Mrs. Anne Godfrey (wha 
 died about 1746, and was buried with her husband at Norton) 
 was a vain talkative woman, and would often, when her husbaixi 
 was chatting with a friend on antiquarian matters, interrupt 
 him on the subject, and expose her ignorance. Her maiden 
 name was Gough ; her father was an exchange-broker in I.jon- 
 don ; her brother, who was bound apprentice to an apothecary, 
 but did not serve out his time, married, shortly after, Catharine, 
 daughter of George Ma.son, esq. and great grand-daugliter of John 
 Oneby, esq. (whose epitaph see in Gent. Mag. 1777, p. 316.) 
 This lady had a handsome fortui^e, which young Gough lost in 
 the South Sea bubble, and was afterwards in some degree de- 
 pendent on Mr. Godfrey, after wliose death Mrs. Godfrey impo- 
 verished herself in the assistance of her brihcr, so as to be 
 Tenable to pay her fAvn debts. Mr. Gough died at Caniberwell, 
 about 1755 ; and his widow in May 1771. On the death of the 
 latter, her effects were sold by auction ; and tlie Editor of this 
 work purchased the original portraits of Mr. and My-. Godfrey; 
 a curious old plan of Norton Coiut (mentioned in I3ri(i--h Topo- 
 graphy, vol. I. p. 497*, and which he presented to Sir Joseph 
 Banks) ; two miniature paintings of persons unknos^n ; and 
 fome other curiosities, Norton Court vvas afterwards partly 
 rebuilt, by John Cockayne Sole^ esq. 
 
 Dr.
 
 175^-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 283 
 
 Dr. Patrick Brown's " Natural History of Ja- 
 maica," folio. 
 
 " A Series of Dissertations on some elegat and 
 very valuable Anglo-Saxon Remains (see p. 256). 
 By' Samuel Pegge *, A.M." 4to. 
 
 Dr, Kennedy's -j- *' Further Observations on Ca- 
 rausius', Emperor of Britain, and Oriuna, supposed 
 by some to be a real Person. With Answers to 
 those trifling Objections made to the former Dis- 
 course. Together with some new Thoughts con- 
 cerning his Successor, Allectus, Emperor also of 
 Britain ; and particularly on that (iold Coin of 
 Allectus, sent to France from the same Hand. 
 Illustrated with twelve extraordinary Coins of Ca- 
 rausius, not hitherto published :|:," 4to. 
 
 The Kev. John Wesley's Translation of, and 
 Notes on, the New Testament, 4to. 
 
 " Free and Candid Examination of the Bishop of 
 J^ondon's Sermons, wherein the commonly received 
 System concerning the Jewish and Chris lian Dis- 
 pensations is particularly considered ^ ; by the Rev. 
 John Town^ll," 8vo. 
 
 * See the ''' Essays and Illustrations," vol. VI. N [V. 
 
 f See some account of Dr. Kennedy under the article of 
 Georse North, in vol. \. p. 420. 
 
 X This was soon followed by a jilatc, neatly eniz7*avcd by 
 Perry, intituled, " Numisi'nata .selectiora Alkvti ct Carau<-ii 
 IBritanniie luiperatoi-um, e Musieo Kennediuno," and a sinj^'Ie 
 leaf of " Explanatory Notes on the Plate of Ail<jctiis, lunperor 
 0/ Itiitaia, wilii tho^e of Caraui5iiis ;" and soon afterw.irds by 
 "A Letter to tiie Re%. Dr. Stukeley, on the iir-i Part iX his 
 Medallie Hisiory of Carausias, Emperor of Britain, hi-> iil- 
 grounded Opinions and most extraorvlinary As^erlions therein 
 contaned ;" 4to ; piice 6V/. 
 
 The desian of this piece io to shew that the coininon ystnin 
 %vhich makes redemption and a future stale a pop\iIar docliine 
 among" tin- ai;(ient Jews, abounds with absurdities and inivtnsi-- 
 toncies. The Authoi' warmly esjjou'^cs Dr. \Vai'i)anon'> schcnii' 
 ii])on the subjeeC, and his jnincipal view seems to be to j^et tlie 
 tjuestion thoroughly cxamitied, and the ,re\vi>h law frc^d from 
 tiie many perplexities in wdiieh those who p!(;ad for th" received 
 system have involved it. 
 
 ' !! JohnTinvup, of Clare hall, Cambrid,a:e. 15 A. 173^; M. A 
 i':.'>0: vicar of i'horpe-Ernald, jA-ieeUershire, I'M; archdf*a-
 
 2^4 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l75^- 
 
 ^ *'^ A short History of the Israehtes ; with an 
 Account of their Manners, Customs, Laws, Pohty, 
 and Rehgion ; being an useful Introduction to the 
 Heading of the Old Testament *. Translated from 
 the French of Abbe Fleury, by Ellis Farneworth '^, 
 M.A." 8vo. 
 
 " Collateral Bee-boxes, or a new, easy, and ad- 
 vantageous Method of managing Bees, in which 
 Part of the Honey is taken away in an easy and 
 pleasant Manner, without destroying or much dis- 
 turbing the Bees ; early Swarms if desired are en- 
 con of Stowe, a pi-ebendary of Lincoln, and rector of Little Paun- 
 tpn, CO. Lincoln; where he died, March 15, 1791, and was buried. 
 He was an eminent scholar, an affectionate parent, a sincere 
 friend, and an exemplary parish priest. From Bp. Kurd's Life of 
 Warburton I am able to subjoin the following elegant testimony 
 to the respectability of Mr. Towne. " The private friendships of 
 Kshop Wai'burtoii were with men of learning and genius, chiefly 
 with Clergymen of the Established Chiu-ch, and those the most 
 considerable of his time. It would be invidious to gl\e a list of 
 these : I shall only mention, by way of specimen, the learned 
 archdeacons of Stowe and Winchester. Tiie former of these, 
 Mr. Towne, was of his eai'ly acquaintance, when he li^ed in 
 Lincolnshire, and much respected by him at his death. He was 
 an ingenious and learned man, and so conversant in the Bishop's 
 writings, that he used to say of bun, ' lie uwdcrstond them better 
 than himself.' He published omc defences of the Divine Lega- 
 tion, in which, with a glow of zeal for his frien<l, he she\ved 
 much logical precision and acuteness. The following is, I be- 
 lieve, an exact list of them : 1. " Critical Inquiry into the Prac- 
 tice and Opinions of the antient Pliilosophers concerning the 
 Soul, &c. London, 174H," 8vo. 2. " Exposition of the Ortho- 
 dox System of Ci\il Rights, and Church Power -, addressed to 
 Dr. Stebbing.'' 3. "Argument of tlie Divine Legation fairly 
 stated. London, 17ol." 4. " Free and Candid Examination of 
 Bishop SlierlocVs Sermons, and Discourses on Prophecy. Lon- 
 don, 1756"." 5. " Dissertation on the antient Mysteries. I^ondon, 
 176'G. 6*. " Remarks on Dr. Lowth's Letter to Bishop \^'arbur- 
 ton. London, 17G6." ]Mr. To^vnc left three daughteis j and 
 one son, who was bred to the profession of a painter, but died 
 young. 
 
 * "This little piece of the learned Abbe had been btfmo tran.?- 
 lated by R. G. 1750, Sso." When the preceding lint- was added 
 by ]\Ir. Gougli to my former edition, I hail not the most distant 
 i<lea that R. G. meant himself. See, however;, the " Essays and 
 Illustrations" in vol. VI. No. VII. 
 
 I Of whom, see under the year 17G2. 
 
 #ouragedj
 
 -1756.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURT- 285 
 
 couraged, and late ones prevented; by Stephen 
 White *, M. A. rector of Holton in Suffolk," 8vo. 
 
 * This gentloman^ \\\\o was a member of St. John's coUei^c, 
 Cambridge, was founder of a cliarity-chool at Holton in Suffolk, 
 oh which he expendetl a considerable sura of his own, besides 
 what he collected by subscription from his friends. He pub- 
 lished, for the beneht of this school, a sermon, imdcr the title 
 of "A Dissuasive from Stealing, 1747/' and 1769, l^mo; and a 
 collection of " P.-alms ; set to Music by I\1j-. lliley," \':lxao, 1769. 
 His Treatise on Bees was rc-printed by Mr. Bowyer in 1758, 
 and ag-ciin in 176"4. " Mr. White liad the singular facidty of 
 being a ruminant. He masticated a second time his supper 
 at chapel the next morning. 1 kept ;ny bees by his books ; but 
 J believe his sclieme never made it's fortune. See the Pi-actical 
 Bee-master by John Keys. I^ondon ; no date, but ])robably 
 1780, S\(), where he talks of inconveniencies, whicli I never 
 found when I i)ractised the methods, but bis own was to be re- 
 commended at the expence of others." T. F. A dispensation 
 passed in 1733, to enable Strjihen \\0\ite, M. A. (chaplain to the 
 Earl of Morton) to liold S'.vali'ham Bulbeck V. co. Cambridge, 
 Avith Helton, co. Suffolk. He died Oct. "24, 1755, aged 71. 
 
 He was conteinpoi-ary with John White, B.D. fellowof St. John's 
 college, Cambridge, and vicar of Ospringe, Kent, and of Nayland, 
 Suffolk. \\ ementiou this because these two writers have Ix'cn some- 
 times mistaken foi- eacli other. The p'.iblication-i of Mr. John White 
 were, 1 . " A j^ttei- to a Gentleman of the Dissenting Pei-suasion 
 couceniing the Li\es of Churchuien and Dissenters, 1743," 8vo; 
 2. "A Second Jx;tter to a Dissenting Gentleman, 1/45," 8vo ; 
 which was the sanic year followed by, .'J. "A Third Letter." 
 These Letters were so well received, lluit they were several times 
 reprinted, in 1745, 1740, aiid 1717, and again (collected into 
 one volume) in 1748. IMr. J. VvKite wii'^ nl-;o author of, 4, "A 
 Sermon on the Fast. Doc. 18, 174.')," ])ruited in 1710', 8\o ; 
 5. "A Defence of tlie L^^ttei- to a ()i-;^eKliiig (ientleman, 1740'," 
 8vo, re-printed in 1748 and 174*), C>. '* .\ Second Dcfcuee. 
 1748 and 174ft," 8vo 5 7. "A Letter to Mr. Chandler, 1749," 
 8vo; 8. "ADiseour>e against the J)i>sentei-s, 1750," I'hno ; 
 9. " Appendix to Tlie Cuntioversy between the Rev. Mr. White 
 and the Di'-sentiUg (l-ntl-'niua, I7.V)," Hvo; 10. " Tiie Prote-ilaiit 
 Dissenter guided to thcChuyh of Eii';-land, 1750," 8vo; I L ".Aii. 
 Answer to the i'ree and Candid ])i-i|uiMiions, 1751," Hvo ; 
 12. "The Protectant Knglislnnui giiardMl against the Arts and 
 Aj-gunien1-> of ]l^nn^dl Papist.':, and le.nis-'ivie-, 1753,' Sv(j; and 
 souie other controversial Treatises, in 1755. He d!e<l in 1755: 
 and was buiied at Nayhmd, as ajineaiN I>y tlie tblluwing epitaph: 
 " Here lietli ill'- I'Oily of 
 the Rc\. JohnWlnle, 15. D. mini-ter 
 
 of tills pariJi \'l vear-i. 
 He departed tlii^ lif.- Oct ^l, 175.^, 
 a^.n:ii 71"' 
 
 -'Athtl-
 
 S85 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l75(> 
 
 '^ Athelstaii *," a tragedy, by Dr. Brown, 8vo. 
 
 Mr. Palairet's -j- Notes on the New Testament, 
 and Specimen of a Dutch Concordance. 
 
 Catalogues of the Libraries of Martin Folkes, esq. 
 and Dr. Hawlinson. 
 
 " Certificates and Receipts, in Latin and En^Hsh, 
 for the superannuated Scholars of Merchant Tay- 
 lors School," dra\Mi up Mr. Edward-Rowe Mores ;{:- 
 
 New Editions of Dr. Warburton's " V^iew of Lord 
 Bolingbroke's Philosophy ;" and of the first two 
 volumes of the " Divine Legation." 
 
 * Mr. GaiTick pcvforraed a principal part in this play, and 
 WTOte tho I'Zpilogue. Dr. Brown did not give his name to the 
 Avoild, either with JBarbarossa or Athelstan. 
 
 ,f Preacher in the Dutch chapel at St. James's, and author of 
 several treasises on the learned languages. He published, at 
 Lt^yden, in 1752, " Obser\ ationes in sacros Novi Foederis libros;" 
 and at L-jndon, in 175 i, " Eliaj Palairet, Ecclesia; Gallicaj Tor- 
 nacensis Pai-toris, Specimen Thesauri Critici Lingaia; Graecte ; 
 in quo specialcs vocabulorum significationes indicantur, ellipses 
 supplcntur, pieonasmi evolvuntur, et ex Scholiis anliquis illus- 
 trantm', cum indicibus necessariis," 4to. In 1756 he corrected 
 for Mr. Bow yer the Ajax and Electra of Sophocles, for an edi- 
 tion which \,ill be noticed mider 1758 ; and died Jan. 2, 1765. 
 
 X Of this eccentric genius, see vol. V. p. 389. 
 
 ^ Whilst these Aolumes were in the press, the learned Writer 
 indulged his printer with the following characteristic notes : 
 
 " Jul'j 12, 1755. I am wonderfuUv obliged to Mr. Bowyer's 
 care in his repriiiting the enclosed leaf, where his critical care 
 in letting Rome pass for home lay; -ne under great obligations to 
 him : but I liave been long seusiole of my great obligations of 
 this kind However, let the foul, the Coinpositor, mend it, if iie 
 can, before publication, by once more r-printi ng it." "Dec. 31, 
 I7r).j. Mk. Bowyek, I thought fit to give myself tliis tiouble 
 to tell you, that th;,' Large-Paper Books of the small edition of 
 the flew is mo3t.vilel\ pnnted; ].'articalarly the lines are a>.jy 
 and uneven (as in proof sheutb) from one end of the B< tok to the 
 otlier. Your humble Servant, W. VV." " Sir, If in corrcxt- 
 ing the small edition of tiie View of Bolingbioke you had paid 
 the least attention to tb^ reasoning (wliich, by the wf>y would 
 have done vou no harm) you woukl ndt iiave sutie'ed tii s alk^ur- 
 dity to jiabS you at p. 230. Jnd u:lun Llieij did so, that connider- 
 at'wn u:hiJi under an cxLraurdiiinnj Prroidence cami stro,i;^'lj/ in 
 aid of thf rural ari';ument far another Life, had no i.-'- -Hvy vi^der 
 the com, no: ove to open to i-hent the j)ros])eets of fi-f' j. Now 
 does not a hiJe common sense .siiew you tluif ' otmnou and extra- 
 ordinary arc got into each other's pkice ? If th>' suijject had bei n 
 some iinportaat critici^jui about aii ac or au el, \ suppose you 
 
 would
 
 1757] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, S^J 
 
 1757. 
 
 Under this year I find the following memoran- 
 dum on the back of a note for 50/. (lent April 8, 
 1755): "If I die before this note of hand is dis- 
 charged, I oi-der it to be released, and given up to 
 iny friend v/ho signed it. Witness my hand, 
 Feb. S, 1757- W. Bowyer." He had a consider- 
 able number of such notes for smaller sums, many 
 of them in like manner released, and some of more 
 than ;jO years date. 
 
 'jflie principal books of this year were, 
 
 *' Memoirs of the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord 
 Lieutenant of Ireland, and Commander in Chief 
 of the Foi-ces of Charles L in that Kingdom during 
 the Rebellion," folio. 
 
 " Travels or Observations relatins: to several Parts 
 of Barbary and the Levant. Illustrated with Cuts. 
 The Seajnd Edition, v.ith great Improvements. 
 By Thomas Shaw*, D.D. F.R.8. Regius Professor 
 of Greek, and Principal of St. Edmund Hall, in the 
 L^niversity of Oxford," 4to. 
 
 %voul(l ha-.e been more attentive. la short, the leaf must be 
 rc-j)iinted3 and let the passage he reformed thus: IJnd when 
 they (lid no, that cortsidiratlon, u-hiefi under an ordi-uiry Providence 
 came strvngly in aid of the inoral ar:^iantr,t fur another life, had 
 no tendency, under the tairaordinnrii, to ajicn t'l ihcin i'nc proapect 
 of futurity.] Your \ery liuiable .srrviint, Vv. W. P.V. l-i:f).2S, 
 17i3G." " [Enata, in View of Lord iJoliiKu'rok^;'.-. i'hilosophv, 
 fd. 175fi.] P. 'J05. 1. for, hi: b''ile.^6 Uieni i'.)oy read, Did he 
 believe them ioo^' ^.'y. I. '25. (iele lii- .sccoiid so. [VV. 15. thinks 
 it should be the lii^r .vy. Another uaitiole in whic ii he nJ'ine.s, 
 besides an ac and ei.'] P. yjJ. 1. 7- fo;', one <f u!:leh thln^j, 
 lead, one or i'A'n (f v:hijh thln-^s. V.'-J.77). \.9S). iui\ cu tlj.u , 
 r.iad, to their. P.:i H. 1, 17. dele In. 
 
 * Thi-i IcMrned tia\e!ler, sou of Mi-. Gahii.i Shav , \v:lj li.irn 
 at Kendal in vVe-tmoielanil, ai>'.-it I'm ycai- l(;9i. He rcdivcd 
 his education at tlie giH:ninar-.^fIiir >! f;f'liiat jj'a.'r; \s.i- a'iiuitiid 
 bachelwr at (queen's eollei'.e, C>.\.ford. (j';i. 5, I ,' I 1 ; v ]: \.' ,v took 
 the degree of B..\. July;', ]'l\(,; M. A. J.tn. ) '.. i; Hi: v.* 1 v into 
 hoiv oidei--:^ Jind vva-j appointed cli. I,. ''-;n to th J.;i:cll-li ilit^tuiv 
 at Algiers In thi'S station lie efjn'. inn d -:\erai uar-, invl 
 from tlienee took opportunities of iravclliiir into ^cv.ial parts. 
 J)uring hii ab-^cnei; Ik; wa- eh(;sen i"' iiow of iii- Coli<'L'v . iMivcli 1<;, 
 1727; and at hie- return, hi i7J3, took the derive ol' uo. i(,r iu 
 
 v'.iMIlilN,
 
 SSS' LITERARY ANECDOTES O^ [^757* 
 
 ^' Discourses and Essays, in Prose and Verse^ 
 by Edward Cobden, D. D. Archdeacon of London, 
 knd lately Chaplain to his Majesty King George II. 
 
 divinity, July 5, 1734 j and in the same year was elected F. R. S. 
 He published the first edition of his Travels at Oxford, in 1738. ; 
 bestowed on the Uni\ei'sity s.onlc natural cuiiosities, and some 
 antlcnt coins and busts, which he had collected in his tra\els ; 
 and three of which are engraved anionc; the Mannora Oxonien- 
 sia, 17^3, No. Ixxiv, Ixxvi. Ixxviii. On the death of Dr. Felton, 
 1740. he was nominated by his College Piincipal of St. Edmund 
 hall, which he raised from a ruinous condition by his munifi- 
 cence ; and was presented at the same time to the vicarage of 
 Bramley in Hants. He was also Regius Professor of Greek at 
 Oxford till his death, which happened on the 15th of August, 
 1751. His Travels were ti-anslated into French, and printed 
 in quaito, 1743, with several notes and emendations, commu- 
 nicated by the author. Dr. Pococke, afterwards Bisho]) of Os- 
 son', liaving attacked those Travels in his " Description of the 
 East," our Author published a Supplement, by way of vindi- 
 cation, in 17-lG. In the Preface to the " Supplement" he says 
 (he intent and design of it is paitly to vindicate the Book of 
 I'ravels from some objections that have been raised against it by 
 liie Author of "The Description of the East, &c." He published 
 '' A furtlicr Vintlication of the Book of Travels, and the Supple- 
 ment to it, in a Letter to the Right Rev. Robert Clayton, D. D. 
 Lord Bishop of Clogher." This letter consists of six folio pages, 
 and bears date in 1747- After the Doctor's death, the abo^e-men- 
 tioned second edition of his Travels came out, in ] 757- The 
 contents of the Suj^plement are interwoven in this edition ; and 
 improvements were nrade, and the edition prepared for the press, 
 by the Author himself, who expressly prepared the Work, witix 
 these additions, alterations, and improvements, to the publick, 
 as an essay toward-i restoring tlie anticnt gcogi-a])hy. and placing 
 in a proper light the natural and -(Jinetiuies civil lustory, of 
 those countries where he travelled. 
 
 For a ni^. re particular accoimt of liis character; I shall sub- 
 join the epitaph on his n-onument in Bi'amky clnu'ch, written 
 by his friend Dr. Joseph Brovvne, pro\ ost of Queen's college^ 
 O.xford, and pi'ofess or of Natural History : 
 
 " Perem'iuationibus variis 
 
 per Europam, Africair.. ^\siam.qtie, 
 
 felicittr abs'dutis, 
 
 et exuviis n^ortalibus liic loci 
 
 tandem depositis, 
 
 coelestem in Patrian} i-emigravit 
 
 ThOM.^S SHA^V, ST. P. ct R. >. S. 
 
 Gabrielis fd. Kendaliensis : 
 
 qui 
 
 consulibu* iinglicis apud Algcieases 
 
 primuim
 
 1757-] THE EfGHTEENTH CENTURY. 2Sg 
 
 above Twenty-two Years, in which Time most of 
 these Discourses were preached before him. Pub- 
 lished chiefly for the use of his Parishioners/' one 
 large 4to volume^ divided into tvTo parts *. 
 
 prinium crat h sacris ; 
 
 mox Coll. ]?pgin;e inter Socios ascrlptus ; 
 
 Auke deij! Saiicti Ednmndi Principalis, 
 
 ac ej-asdem muiiificus instaurator ; 
 
 Linj^Uie dennim Grsecse a})iKl Oxouienses 
 
 Frores.soi- Rea'ius. 
 
 De Uteris (luantum meruit auc-tor cclebratus. 
 
 odita 'iisuiie testabuntuv opera, 
 
 pyramid ibi:.- ipsis, qua-j penitius inspcxorat, 
 
 ptrenniora ibrsau extitura. 
 
 Hie, s'udiiri etsi scverioi-ibu.- indies occu})atusj 
 
 hor'is Uimcn siibsecivis emicuit 
 
 eruditus idem et faeeius conviva ; 
 
 0[}tw\i\ qirincpicn ir>< ntis indole 
 
 et inultipiici sci( ntia in-vrucius, 
 
 Uteratoruni (^/iiiiium, di'ini forisque, 
 
 suilr.r-jii.s euinprd'oaliis ; 
 
 iJiai^jiivtim, proccruirique popidariuni, 
 
 faniiliari iniirnitiis notitifi; 
 
 nee Kumniis in eeclc;.:ia dignitalibus impir, 
 
 falo tamen ini'.jao evenit, 
 
 ut }^runi!e\ensis obiret paroaeiai 
 
 Vicarius pcne sexagcnarius 
 
 XVIII. cal. SL-pt. A.D. 1751. 
 
 Uxor Jr</.XNA, Ed. iloidrn arm. consulis 
 
 A!g'..-re!i.si.s oluii (muJux, bis vidua, I\l. P." 
 
 " As the circi,;n!-:taiii'es of Hr;i;:;!' v \icaratre are not cxj^laineu 
 Oiie d(;tb not readily ;( tiie liLir^riLnic (jf dyin^ vicar oi' it. 
 If it b.'.d been c;dled a luod'ralc. or sri'di {;..'ile:';e-ii\in^j, we .should 
 have kno',\n at onee', that a nran of ids uvll-knoun g'uod clia- 
 rar ter ^<jt only \r! V tri.'lliig jjre'rnueni, and that too from \\\^ 
 ('(;11ege, ^^hl) peri'ajis inu^t i^ave given il to him had he h.id no 
 < haractiT at ali." T. F. 
 
 ''' Of this volume 'i.">() eopie- only were ]<iir.f(d, 5(J (if -ivhivii 
 V.ire :i;)pr(Ji)riat''d lo a charitable ii-c. The i'.i--t i;;nl i^r' ii i.'ii- 
 t;uii Tw.iitv-ei.^lit j)i-i,onr '- rV' .died on \ar.ir,ii (,c, ;::.: , -, o 
 1u>v-n the year> i; iO:-Mid i;..! : iirCi-iiied lo ihe ].:vi i ; iiers 
 111' .\(ion, an.l oi'llu- iinilcd j):i;;di(> oL" 'i. .\ii-'ie aad ><;. lailh, 
 i',,r \\], ( -i-;'> ice {h:'\ \.:.::- t !ii;i!\ <'oiiij.i:^i i. ,\!!;<ii::- ih ;,: 
 i'.- ' t oju i') ad (. li'i'Mn, \i. i al. Aiah, 1} ^> ^' a;.d 1 lir; r .^' rMuMji; 
 j ;v:; ! d r;i'ii.- \\\:' i.oird i,,i' ill.'..'!"', d in ; . 'J./i . i :.t. l:^^; 
 t!;.:t: h.- |,)-e;.;ii.J I>:'i')r.- the .-iiii'; \s:i> 1^ e. :,. )<,";!. JL ix- Lr.-.' 
 Ij;-^ wari'o.l t'a- i haidain X^n.'l.',, I7:. J; a.', i-hwinj; d( !i\ ici! 
 into hi- M 'j^-i\\ n'aid, iii- iva-.ai^ ii! ;\ .ilMii'; h;.' so douiLT. 
 '' A.- a-v .aid iidirunUci," ho l-'Il:^ llie:n, ' h.'.vc e\tu alnio>: r'i^-. 
 
 \0L.U. V iii'ltd
 
 2f)0 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l757' 
 
 In tills year Mr. Bovvyer having undertaken, at 
 the request ot ].)r. Warburton, to correct the proof- 
 slieets of the Third Volume oi" the Divine Legation, 
 l]\en printing at another press ; took the hberty of 
 
 jiVjled me from instnictino; you in the pulpit (after fifty years 
 constant discharge <jf that duty) ; it is my desire to preach to you 
 somewhat longer tVom the press; that those things you have 
 formerly heard, may be tixed deeper in your memories, and 
 copied out in vour conduct. I am in hojjes, the interesting re- 
 lation we bear to each other will engage you to read them a\ itli 
 candour, and consider them with attention. I can truly affirm 
 that T have given you no other directions than what I have my- 
 .self wished, ;md endeavoured to follow." The second part of 
 the volume is a re-publication (with additions) of the Poems 
 already mentioned in p. 207- It contains also " An Essay sacred 
 to the Memorv of ^ueen Anne, for her Bounty to the Clerg} ;" 
 and " An Essay lending to promote Religion ; inscribed to Sir 
 John Barnard, in token of respect for his integrity in a corrupted 
 age." Tiiis I'^ssay, the Author says, " is of a miscellaneous na- 
 ture, consisting partly of verse and partly of prose, and contains 
 some queer antiquated notions concerning tlie disposal of eccle- 
 siastical preferments." The immediate cause of it wjis, the Au-c 
 thur's being disapi)ointed of a canomy of St. Paul's, to which 
 he had " no other pretensions but Duty, Justice, and Reason, 
 imless it weie the exceeding couAcnicnce" of that pieferment, 
 as lie liad most of Pater Noster-ro\v already under his care. 
 "Anotlier reason," he says, " is, that as it is attended with riches, 
 it woidd at this time be veiy agreeable to let into my barren 
 pastures a small rivulet from t!\e sti'cam of plenty ; an.d, as Uiy 
 little prebe)ul in that church aiibrds me some money for Bread, 
 this would amply supply me will! I'utter. The last I sh:dl men- 
 tion is, that, as Ai'chdeacoii of London., mv place in the Choii" 
 is next to that of ova- v.orth}- Dean ; and when Striplings ar 
 niade llesidcntlarics, thcv arc still ])ru--!nng for precedence, wliich 
 they think they have a right to (and I never contested) as most 
 .Money incUtdes most Honour. Now the uniting a Canonry with 
 the Archdeacon.iy would j)revcnt al! dispute-, and make matters 
 quite easy, wiiicU would be an exccHcM ii;iag in a Catlieui-al - 
 for Clergymoi, as well as others, have ?. s]ice of ambition." 
 '' Hi? incfnnc, lie says, was but modoratv^ (all his ])referments 
 together not exceeding 8.50/. per annum clear, wh'.ch he would 
 ofrou say was as mucli as he desired, and more than he deserved. 
 i'his income, frugality and moderation converted into plenty, 
 ;vm\ foiiteatment into liaj'piness.) And about this time he met 
 \^!^h lo5^es amounting to above ':lOOOl. wliicli reduced his sub- 
 -Aance Aeiy low." 
 
 * A Letter which Mr. Bow\-cr sent to tb? learned Author on 
 1 \ as occasion cannor now be recovered ; but tlie ana s\ c was in tliese 
 v.o.'d.-: " Ma'j l(j, 1757. Siii, I am much obliged to you for tlie 
 favoio- of yoars. It has shewn m^ .-:oine little explanation was 
 
 necesiaiy
 
 1757'] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. SQI 
 
 proposing some alteration in the Preface, where he 
 is answering Dr. Taylor ; (and also in the Book it- 
 self!, as appears below). 
 
 necossary in one place, and the chanj^e of a word in anotliei-, 
 I n. xxxviii.] As for convicii, I really think the critics clumii-ed 
 it into conjuncti, for not tiuly apprehending the nature of the 
 Pagan charge of haired. I am your very humble ser\ant, W. W. 
 Pray let Mr. know that I desire he would be more ex- 
 peditious. I have received but two sheets in one month, t 
 don't understand convkti to signify convicted in a judicial pro- 
 cess, but it appearing e\')dent to all men in tlieir confession." 
 In the progress of the \(j]ume the two following letters were wriL- 
 ren : " Oct. 7, 17^>7. Rkv. Sik, You say, p. 109, ' The Jews 
 had lost the .--overcign administration of justice [or the judicial 
 power of life and death] from the time of Pompey." This is 
 hurely a mistake. Pompey, by conquering Jerusalem, made the 
 Kings of Judea tributary; but those Kings (as I believe all other 
 tributary Kings) retained the power of Life and Death, till the 
 country was reduced to a prcivince after the banishment of Ar- 
 chelaus, A. D. J. I need not iiu^uire into the usual state of tri- 
 butary Kings : Josephus is express in the very point bePin-e u-, 
 ^\'ars, ii. c. 8. 1. as in Whiston's version: And now Archdauss 
 'part ofjudcu iras reduced to a province; and Coponius, one of tlic 
 ]'.'puiitriuu order amott'^ the Romans, itYW se)it Procurator, havvv^ 
 the power of Life and Death put into his hands by Ca-sar. \ 
 j)()wer therefuiv wliieh Ai'chelaus exercised before. ^\'hat the 
 Jlistorian relates. Facts recorded in Sacred History contirni. 
 Did not Herod tlie Great think he had the power of Life and 
 Death when he .^lev,- the infants? A. D. .'-57. Caligula ga\e the 
 Tetrarehy of Philijj to Herod Agrijipa; and Claudius, A. D. 41, 
 added Judea ejid Samaria to it, Jos. Ant. xviii. c. 6. 10. Dur- 
 ing tins depul(^r! king-hii-', he exercised the power of the sword; 
 and as Herod Autipa^ had i>efore ix'headed John, so he [Agrip- 
 pa] put Jame-, to lieath, Acts xii. 2, S.c. Which, if I remember 
 right, Air. L;'.r;h; r ia iiis Crtdibidty, ixc. obsei-\es is a proof of 
 the verity oi" the ^-ciijjtui'e Hi^toiy, \viueli lixes fieti so aureeably 
 to the Con^tituiioa of the llD'.nan (ioverniiu'at, and plaee^ the 
 iieath of Jam; - iin.h'r a King wii!) ha:l not abu*c three year-, to 
 (xorvise that j)i)\\\r ovi'r hiai. )'. 101, 'Ar mis ti.mk (ononias, 
 a Roman Ki>ig!il, \s;i-, u:iui: d Pnnaira*or of Judea,' i.e. duriiig 
 the tlrret- oi- lour wwr-' ol' Clii-i-r's miaistjy. I ihinl: !ie w;i-, nol. 
 I'opoiiiu-, u.i- -.1) .\. \). 7 , '- ^^' ^'-" .i'''>"<e in tlie p;i-air'j i'rom 
 .!o^;v''''- -N^''.' Ml h;n> M-'.r.ii- \m!)i.lu-:. i'ir.ii .Ani'/n-, |{nfu->. 
 \fl,rtli;' il'ii'h of Ai.u:Mi-.iu^, (//7'/,7,s- was j)ru(-.nul.;r Ibi- eleven 
 \r;ir-^: ;u,l Ponl 'lii- Pii.Jr iie\t for t,n, Jt;-. \nt. \\i:i. c. 'j, C. 
 in A. i). ;;:,, I'il.U:' was .,eiu liai Iv to Il-i::- ; mm! A, 1). VAJ, they 
 \vt-)L without an\ itroeuiali-i-. A. 1). .'.;, I'iln liu^ dic.i. 1 need 
 go no fiutiier. 1 -.vrite I hi- tVoiii suili uv !noi:a(imii', as 1 had 
 cir.-orily n>a:lc, without now re-('\a'"!iiMiii ; them. \\ here }ou 
 are ati:i< Ivina" '-;reat men. vuu -houlil \\ lie: waril\ : aiid tiiyuii,-h 
 ' t : v'.>i;
 
 ZgY LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1757- 
 
 " A Natural History of Fossils, by Emanuel 
 Mendez Da Costa *, Fellow of the Royal and Anti- 
 quarian Societies of London, and Member of the 
 Imperial Academy Naturae Curiosorum of Germany, 
 Vol.1. Parti." 4to. 
 
 you are a Lion in cnntro\ers}', do not refuse the assistance of a 
 Mouse to diseijtaugle 30U ; even, Sir, your most humble ser- 
 ,vant, W. B. P. S. Since I had written the above, I see in the 
 Papers you have a new acquisition of Preferment [the Dcanry 
 of Jiristol.] I know not in wliat light I stand with you j but I 
 shall always rejoice in the rise of learned men, and in whatever 
 will add to your happiness in particular." 2. " Sir^ In answer to 
 what youha^e fo^()ured me with, I reyAy, 'That a power precari- 
 ously enjoyed, and ready to be abolished at the Nod of a Conqueror, 
 can never be called sovereign, which implies the being fi'ee and 
 independent, without the worst abuse of words, which is the 
 quibbling with them.' I am obliged to you for your congratu- 
 lation. Your adding, that yoii know not in what light yoii stand 
 loith mc surprizes me, since I have given you no occasion to m.ake 
 
 it a doubt 5 unless ?vlr. continuing to print this volumk 
 
 has afforded the occasion. But, had I taken it from him, I know 
 in what hght I must have stood v.ith honest and candid men. 
 Last year, afteu havixc; doxe so much work for me, and 
 while you had copy in jour hands to do more, you surprized 
 me with a message, that you could not print the second Volume 
 of the D. L. for me, because you and your Partner had squabbled 
 about the types. On tliis occasion I was forced to put it into the 
 
 handsofMr. . Could I in DECExcYand common honesty 
 
 take it out, because, before he had finished it, you was become 
 disengaged, and ready receive the work ? Howe^ er, on the 
 receipt of your letter at Durham, acquainting me with Mr. Mil- 
 lar's readiness to let you ha\e the remainder of the Volume 
 to print, I wrote to hint, to fell him, that if Mr. was so dis- 
 posed, you might have it ; l>ut tl>.at I would leave the m;itler to 
 himself. You talk of mv attacking great men: I hope you 
 don't reckon Taylor in tiie number. I lan your faithful friend 
 and servant, W." 
 
 * Librarian to the Royal Society, and member of the Botanic 
 Society in Florence. He publisiied, in 1776', " Elemems of 
 Conchology, or an Introduction to the Kno-ivledgc of Shells, 
 with some Plates, convainiug Figures of everv (ienus of Siiells," 
 Bvo ; and in 177S ''British Conchology, &e." in 4to. Proposals 
 for printing his " F'v;sils" by subscription were circulated in 
 17f>C; and in the Preface, Mr. Da Cosva declares, that "he then 
 published so much of the work as the a-sistance he had received 
 would enable him to do ; and tliat the rost was i-^ady for te.e 
 press, and would be published wivh speed proportioned to the 
 generosity of thcte whiO think su.'h researches '.^ orlhy of cucoii- 
 rit^reoitnt."
 
 1757'] ''^^ EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 2^3 
 
 Mr. Farneworth's Translation of " Davila's His- 
 tory of France," 2 vols. 4to. 
 
 "Of the Vices incident to an Academical Life; a 
 Commencement Sermon, at Cambridge. By the 
 Rev. Dr. W. S. Povvel * ;" two Editions. 
 
 A Second Edition of Dr. Brown's " Estimate of 
 the Manners and Principles of the Times," 8vo. 
 
 Bishop Hoadly's " Sixteen Sermons," 8vo ; and 
 his " Letter to Clement Chevallier -j~, Esq." 8vo. 
 
 * Of whom, see under the year 1776. 
 
 f This Letter was occasioned by the nefarious attempt of one 
 Bernard Fournier, by a forged note over a frank of Bishop Hoadly, 
 to defi-aud him of no less a sum than S,SOOZ. The Bisliop, it is 
 well known, was obHged to call Fournier and his note into 
 Chanceiy, where he obtained a judgment in his favour. A full 
 account of this iniquitous transaction may be seen in Chancellor 
 Hoadly's Life of his Father, p. xxiii. The Letter to Mr. Clie- 
 vallier was an astonishing performance of a Divine turned of 
 eighty-one years of age 3 and he recei- ed many compUments on 
 that account from some of the greatest lawyers of the age. Mr. 
 Walpole humorously said, ' Tne Bi.-iiop had not only got the 
 better of his adversary (Fournier), but of old age." I may add, 
 as a typographical anecdote, that this smdl pamjihht ii.p[)ears to 
 have undergone so many revivals and corrections, that the mere 
 typographical alterations cost the Bishop 10/. In the Preface 
 to this Letter the Bishoj) savs, " As Fcjurnier's atikir lias given 
 occa.sion to many to make very particular enquiries about an- 
 other convert from Popery [I mean Mr. Pillouierc], who once 
 lived with me, with regard to his ciiaracltT aiul whole beliaviour, 
 it may not be improper to speak a word or two about him ; by 
 which I may .salisfj' the curiosity of sOiiiu, and rectify tin; nn'.-.- 
 takes of others , who, I find, iia\e e()nfouud(,d them. Mr. Pillo- 
 nieic was of the iSocietv of Je.-^u-, ^.nil a ])ri''-t. lie came to 
 England at the end of the year \',\A ; but p.<u in -'fh !i.i-i',- as 
 to forget his instruments of ortiers, or as if lu' u:'.^ living {iom 
 justice. He was reeonnncu'led by several h'arned and gr..'at 
 men abroad, to their friends here; aiui to m,', ijy 1 he 'iu)~t un- 
 exceptionable persons ;it home -. as a man oi' p;.!!, an 1 1 :n)U!ig, 
 and good ehar.<cter. Wiiat greaily eonllrn^i'', ;l:e '.'vA good 
 0])inion of him \va<, tliav iiis own account of lu^ If.'.vuig iliat 
 Society, and their Cluncli, vva-. confirnud \)\ i-wv) cin', both 
 friends and enemies, at l':iii- ; whcit: '!.. '.vloii \:'.- -<> piiii'ie. 
 that it was known and attc-ied ijy nnui;. '!V;.^ >,iK i-, \\!;<) i)ap- 
 pened to be thereat ihat tinv. In Ih:- Acn-ni, ( ,ir\ -i. j) liy 
 which he was gradually Icfl to tul.v- hi- it liiiinn .a- lii.! h--- 
 fore the woild, uith so man}- minuic j-arti; nl:'!'-, tlial 'n-- <lit' it 
 must have been discoveied, if there had h;<'n :iny. .And \:\ in-. 
 private convcrsutioji, he wa>, from 'Ji- b- gmiiii'v;, al\v,i\-- ., Jv 
 
 m
 
 2^4 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l757. 
 
 ''Letters concerning Taste *, by [Mr. Cooper], 
 tlie Author of the Life of Socrates -J-," 8vo ; (th^ 
 jthird edition, with additions), 
 
 without reserve, to name eierv pbco ,in which he had hvecif, 
 through his whol; education, and residence, among the Jesiiits. 
 flow diflerent a procedure from that of the other, who.-e preci- 
 pitate flight, in the greatest hurry, is hardly yet explained. I 
 %ill not conceal fr>>ni the Reader, that Mr. Pilionieve did not, 
 for some part of his time, behave towards me agreeably to his 
 obligati(ni3. This, I soon founii, was occasioned by my not 
 judging it proper ^V^r me to interest myself at all^ by any solici- 
 tations of mine, for promoting and increasing a collection of 
 money, set on foot by some >vorthy gentlemen, in his favour, 
 without the least motion from me. And this by degi-eos put an 
 end to all direct coirespoadence between us. After this, he was 
 very profuse in giving away to others, in appearance of want, 
 that competency which had been most kindly provided for him 
 by his fiiends. By this weakness he ^oon found himself reduced 
 to great necessities ; and then acce{)ted from mc, through a 
 friend s hanr'.-, a small yearly allowance ; but without any at- 
 tempt, or suspicion of atteoipt, to supply his wants by forging 
 money-notes, over the names of others. At length, from the 
 study of the mathematical and other viseful branches of learn- 
 ing, he suddenly departed into the golden dreams of the lowest 
 chemical iirojectors. This cb.ange was suceeedetl bv a sort of 
 religious madness, in which he wsis not cojitent with his tisual 
 great temperance ; but brought himself to believe tliat, by the 
 promises of God in Scripttu'e, a good man might, by degrees, 
 come to live without taking any sustenance at all. In this 
 attempt, he went to such excess, th;it his condition at last coidd 
 not receive any benefit from a contrary regimen. And by this 
 nianag'ement he brought himself to death, in the midst of imagi- 
 nary virions and nightly con\ ersations with Hea\ en. Btit enotigh 
 of Mr. Pilloniere. In 1726 was pubii.-iicd, " La Republiqiie do 
 Platon ; ou de Juste et de I'lnjuste. Tradtiit par M. De laPillon- 
 niere : imprim-S u Londres, aux frais, ('t sur les yeux dti Traduc- 
 tetir ,' a handsome quarto volume of 310 pages, and SO of Pre- 
 face, dedicated to King George 1. 
 
 * On (he hrst a})pearance of the "'Letters on Taste'" it was 
 observed, that Mr. Cooper's "genius seemed to shine more in 
 descripticn than m definition; that he had more of imageiy than 
 of s[)eculati()n ; that his iuiaginatinn was tlie strongest talent of 
 his mind; and that, if he had nt)t attempted to ofilr ar.y tiling 
 new on the subject of Taste, he was ah\ays so cnteriainirig, 
 spiritc.i, and splendid in hi; diction, that the reader wlio is not 
 instructed by him, cannot fail of being j)Ieased and diverted.' 
 Literavv iNIagar.ine, 17.>7, P- 134. 
 
 i" John Gilbert Cooper, esq. of Thuignrton in Xotlingham- 
 shu'c, was the son of a gentleman of fortime and family. Afrer 
 passing through Weslmiaster school, nndrr Dx. i\ichols, along 
 ni<!i the la'e Lord Alix'niarle. Lord ButlJnglaamshirc^ Major 
 
 John
 
 K57'l 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 2^5 
 
 A Fourth Edition of Dr. Kichard Grey's *' Me- 
 moria Technica," 8vo. 
 
 Johnson, and the late Mr. George Ashby, he became fellow- 
 commoner of Trinity college, Cambridge, and resided there two 
 or three years. Soon t^fterwards he married Miss Wright, daugh- 
 ter to the recorder of Leicester, and settled at Ms "tamily seat. 
 He died in April 1769, after sutfering a long and excruciating 
 illness arising from the stone. " The Life of Socrates" may be 
 considered as his magnum opus; and in compiling it he was sup- 
 plied with authorities by his learned friend Mr. Jacl-zson (jf Lei- 
 cester. This publictiiion was honoured by the following notice 
 fi-om Dr. Warijurton : " As Ignonmce, when joined with hu- 
 mility, produces stupid admiration, on which account it is so 
 commonly observed to be the motlier of Devotion and blind 
 homage ; so, when joined with vanity (as it always is in bad 
 Cri+ics) it gives birth to every iniquity' of impudent abuse and 
 slantler. See an example (for want o ietter) in a late worth- 
 less and now forgotten thing, called ' The Life of Socrates 3' 
 whei'e thf head of the Autlior (as a man of \\it ob-er^'ed on 
 reading the book) has just made a shift to do the office of a 
 cameia obscura, and represent things in an inverted order, hina- 
 se\{ above, and Sprat, Roliin, Voltaire, and every other author 
 of reputation below." Thl-, s<trcasm pri)duced from Mr. Cooper 
 '' Cursory Remarks on Mr. vVarburion's new edition of Mr. 
 Pope's Works ; occasioned ny that inodern Commentator's in- 
 jurious Treatment, in one of his Ao.es upon the Essay on Lri- 
 ticism, of the /Author of the Life of Socrates 5 in a Letter to a 
 Friend, 1751/' yvo; from whicii an exiiacl shall li"re be given; 
 'I have uiidergone,' says he, "young as 1 am, too )nany dis- 
 a])pointments in life, to wonder much at many tilings which 
 the mob of mankind call extraordinary ; otherwise 1 migiit bra 
 sur[)ii;cfl that almost a tot;d retirement from tlie world would 
 not ahelter jjie from the injuries of it, especially too at an age 
 when few have had any concerns witli it. 1 tliouglit I might 
 have enjoyed an unenvied obscurity in the in^st undisturbed 
 jjeace and tranquillity, and Ihat (aiiiuuiy was too busy about the 
 names of thob<! who were candidales for fauu>, to lind tiiuo to 
 %i.sit t lie recess of (nie, wll(J^e contempt of every a(i\aut.igt.- of 
 life, but what conduced to quiet, slujuid, it was iioped, protcLt 
 hiin from the poisonous breatli of fliat dauj^htcr of Lavy. jjut 
 I was greatly mistaken, it seems, in m\ huuib'.- e\pL'f.ta(:..ii, j 
 fori hud scarceli ixgun to feel the calui couifort-) \.hi(h ttie 
 absence (jf coniention yields to a lhinkii:g crealur>'. hclijic 1 sv.is 
 inforirM'd by letters i'lom some friends in town, tlmi Mr. V\ ui'- 
 l;urt(m had, with his u-iial hiunanlly ami ;;(j(>(l nnniici-, \^ry 
 compendiously jussweri d t!ie ' Lif> ot' Sociitc-,' in llu' tail of one 
 note, hvtliefrcc u.se of tho-e a,Ji)eilation.-. li li.i> in<ii-eriniiii;uelv 
 tiuown out upon, not old} all Llir).s- \'. i.u luur < wv i.al anj- (oii- 
 tro\er-y v, ith iiiin, !)Ut ujiou all otliii- loo '.>;ioiu iu- t\tr ;;-- 
 P'ei;'-d to have the ra-hue^j to coiiinul'' t anv ul in- 'ipii);.!:-. 
 
 Ifnv-
 
 296 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l757- 
 
 "Travels in Egypt and Nubia, by Frederick Lewis 
 Nordeij," folio and 8vo ; with the original plates, 
 
 Howsoever this wouW have alarmed me heretofore, as aa au- 
 thor, from the pen of any other person, it had no effect upon 
 me then ft'om the wiiter it <?.;uiie from, and I sat dov^'n contemp- 
 tuously contented, without so much as being- solicitous to know 
 what abuse he had conferred upon my wjitina^s. I say abuse, 
 for he never ;>pe-a.ks of an opponent Tvithont it. But as indif- 
 ferent as I was about my character as a writei-, I can't say I wa^ 
 quite so easy \^'hen I was afterwards told that he had attacked it 
 as a man. Upon this I wrote to him, that I thought lie had 
 used me very ill, and should take a pi'oper notice of him for it in 
 pubhc ; in answer to which he tells a friend of mine, ' That he 
 was surprised 1 should think myself ill-used, for that he had 
 never mentioned my name or writings in public, or in conver- 
 sation, but with honour, till I had wrote a book wherein I had 
 , treated him through the whole with a seiuTility worse than Bil- 
 lingsgate ; and that he had now taken no other revenge than the 
 casual mention of the Author of the 'Life of Socrates' (without 
 the mention of my name) with a slight joke.' I will ask any 
 impartial reader, if there is the least reflection through the whole 
 ' Life of Socrates,' or the notes, upon Mr. Warburton's morals ? 
 whether I have not confined my criticism to his practice as an 
 author? a:ad whether every thing therein advanced cannot be 
 proved over and over again by citations fi'ora the ' Divine Lega- 
 tion,' and his other tracts ? At tb.e same time I desire one part 
 of the dispute betwixt us may be finished by an answer to these 
 questions: Is not calling a guiltless man an impudent slanderer, 
 calumny, and quite a dirierent revenge than a slight joke ? and 
 lias not Mr. Warburton done thit in the nele in question ?" 
 
 Mr. Cooper wrote some numbers of the periodical paper called 
 " The World 5" was author of " Ver Vert, or the Nvmnery Par- 
 rot, an Heroic Poem in Four Cantos, inscribed to the Abbess of 
 j)**vt** . translated from the French of Monsieur Gresset 3" 
 re-jvrinted in the first volume of " The Repository, 1777;" and 
 published a volume of " Poems on several Subjects, 1764," 8vo; 
 in which many of his little poems, originally printed in *' The 
 Museum," and in " Dodsley's Collection," are collected. "These 
 poems," savs Mr. Dodsley, " having been very fo.vourj.bly received 
 by the publick when they first a})peared, at different times, in 
 detached pieces, the author has been prevailed upon to permit 
 me to collect them into this small volume. When I requested 
 him to give jne a preface, he ivplied, "That to those v/hom such 
 triiles afforded pleasure, a formal introdaelion v,ould be unneces- 
 sarv ; that he wrote most of them when he was very young, for 
 his own anui.sem.ent, and i)ub'ished them afrervvards for my 
 profit; and, a'< they had once answered both thoe ends, was 
 very lifde so'ieitou- vvliat would be tlK- fate of them for the 
 future." "A Father's Ad\Jce to his Son,"' by Mr. Cooper, is in 
 the third volume of Fcarch'g Collection. He was author also 
 
 of
 
 i75y.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. QQy 
 
 procured by Mr. Lockyer Davis ; originally written 
 in French^ and translated by Dr. Peter Templeman*. 
 
 of "^A Project for raisinj^ an Hospital for decayed Authoi-s," re- 
 printed in the second volume of Dodsley's Fugitive Pieces." His 
 elegant Latin epitaph on an infant son, who died the day after 
 he was born, 1749, is printed in Gent. Mag. 1778, p. 4S6, with 
 a whimsical poetical translation. 
 
 * Mr. Norden was born at Gluckstadt in Holstein, Oct. 22, 1 70S. 
 His father was a lieutenant-colonel of artillery, and himself was 
 bred to arms. Being intended for the sea service, he entered, in 
 1722, into the corps of cadets, a Royal establishment, in which 
 young men are instructed in such arts and sciences as are ne- 
 cessaiy to form good sea-officeis. Here he is said to have made 
 a great progress in the mathematicks, ship-building, and draw- 
 ing, especially in tiic last. He copied the works of the greatest 
 masters in the art, to form his taste, and acquire their manner ; 
 but he felt a particular pleasure in drawing fi'om Nature. The 
 first person who took notice of this rising genius was M. De 
 l-icrche, knight (;f the order of the Elephant, and grand master 
 of the ceremonies. This gentleman put into his hands a collec- 
 tion of charts and topographical plans belonging tt) the King, 
 to be rc-touched and amended, in which Mr. Norden shewed 
 great skill and care ; but, con:-;idering his present employment 
 as foreign to liis protession, M. Do Lerche, in 1732, presented 
 liim to the King, and procured him, not onl\' leave, but a pen- 
 sion to enaijie him to ti-avelj tiie ICing likewise made him, at 
 the same time, second lieutenant. It was particukuly recom- 
 mended to him tt) study the consiruction (jf shij)s, especially 
 siich galleys and rowing vessels as are used in theiUediterranean. 
 Accordingly he set out i'or Holland, Vvhejc lie s0(>n became ac- 
 fjuainted with the admirers oF antiquities and tiie })olite arts, 
 and with several distinguislied arti.-ls, ])articulany De Revter, 
 who took great pleasure in teaching him to (rngrave. From 
 Holland he went to Marseille, and tlu'uce to Leghorn, staying 
 in each jjlace so long as to ii!t'or:n liin-.r^rlf in every thing the 
 place furr.i-hed relating to the design of his voyags'. At this 
 last port he g<jt models made (if the dili'en nt kinds of nnving' 
 vessels, vvliich are still to be seen at the Cliumber of f/n.'dels at 
 the Old Hobn. In Italy be spent n.'ar three y-.';;rs in p( rieeting 
 his taste, and enlarging bis knowledge, i lerr l.is ",!\.Li tali'ut'^ 
 tlrew the attention of jjcrsons of di-linc i';,'n, and pro'.n'ed him 
 an opportunity of seeing tl-e catjineN oi" i!u> eiirici'- both in 
 antifjuities and medals, and of makin'-', hi- ;id\;ini;i;:.' (.i" the 
 great works of painting and scii!])tun-, e^[)!'(ially at liw.nv and 
 Florence. At the latter city iie v>a> iiruie a uic^iii.er of the 
 Prav.ing Academy, and in this (ity li" .cciivcd ;.;i (nder from 
 The King to go into Egypt. C hri.rli::a '^ 1. \v;i,-- dc-irr.Uh of havin;:: 
 a circumstantial account of acounti\ ><> <i;-l;'.ii! and -o fur.oiis 
 iVoni an intelligent man, and onv w.'.n-i- lldclity could no! !< 
 .i;ie=tioned; and no one uas thou>;la more j.ropir il,;in Mr. 
 
 Nor-
 
 2yS LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l757' 
 
 The following Letter, printed by Mr. Bowyer, 
 was this year sent officially to all the Members of 
 the Society of Antiquaries ; 
 
 " SIR, Dec. 8, 1757. 
 
 " It is now near two years, since the Society of 
 Antiquaries of London printed, at the request, and 
 
 Norden. He was then in the flower of his age, possessed of 
 great abilities, of a fine taste, and a courage equal to e\ery 
 danger or fatigue ; and, to crown all, a strong desire of examin- 
 ing upon the spot the wonders of Egypt, before he rccei\ed 
 the oi'der of his master. How he acquitted himself in this bu- 
 siness appeal's in his " Tmvels." He stayed in these coimtrics 
 about a year, during a\ hich the King further promoted him j 
 and at his return, when the Count of Danneskiold-Samsoe, who 
 was at the head of the Marine, presented him to his Majesty, 
 the King expressed himself greatly pleased with the masterly 
 designs he had made in his travels, and desired he would draw 
 up an account of them. At this time he was made captain- 
 lieutenant, and soon after captain of the Royal nav}', and one of 
 the connnissioners for building ships. When the war broke out 
 between England and Sjjain, Coiuit Danneskiold-Samsoe jjroposed 
 to the King, that several of the officer^ of his Majesty's navy 
 should go as vohmteers into the sei*vice of the powers at war : 
 and chose I\Ir. Norden, in particidar, to accompany his own 
 nephew. Count Ulric Adolphus, then a captain of a man of war, 
 in such expeditions as the English should hajjpon to undertake. 
 On their arrival in Lfjndon, iMr. Xortlen, who^e fame liad pie- 
 ceded him, was received with distinguished favour ; several of 
 the most cc.nsiderable men at Court, and even the Prince of 
 Wales, hearing' of the drawings he had made in Eg}})t, were 
 curious to see iliem, and shewed him great kindness. I'iie fol- 
 lowing siunmcr he accompanied the Count on an expedition 
 under Sir John Norris ; and in 1/40, he again went on board 
 the fleet destined to America, under the command of Sir Cha- 
 loner Ogle, with a design to reinforce Admiral \'eruon. After 
 *^his, Mr. Xorden spent about one jear in London in great esteem, 
 and was admitted a member of the Royal Society. On tliis oc- 
 casion he gave the publick, under the i)atronage of Mi-. Folkes, 
 an idea of some ruins and colo.-sal statwe.i, intituled, " Drawings 
 of some Ruins and Colossal Statues at I'hebes inEg\ptj witli 
 an Accounc of the same, in a Letter to the lloyal Society, 1742." 
 Tliis Essay, with the plates belonging to it, gained him new 
 applause, and heightened the de.-Jre that the publick had before 
 conceived of seeing that work entire, of which this made only 
 a small part. About this time he found hi- healtli declining, 
 and propo;ed to the Count to take a toiu' to France, and to 
 visit the coasts and ports of that kingdom, in hopes that a 
 change of climate might have been a means of establishing his 
 health j but he died at Paris, in 1742j much regretted by his 
 
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 1757-1 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 29^ 
 
 for the use of its Members, ' A short Account of 
 some Particulars concerning Domesday Book, with 
 
 acquaintance, as a person who had done honour to his countrv, 
 and from wliom the world had great expectations. 
 
 * Di'. Templemun was the son of an eminent aitorney at Dor- 
 cliOriter, in tlie county of Dorset (by Maiy, daughter of Robert 
 llayneri, a gcntlen];m wiio was bred at VVadham coilege, Oxford, 
 and bec^imc a merchant at Bristol, b\it, when advanced in years, 
 quitted business, and rctii'cd to Yeovil in Someisetshirc)^ wlio 
 died 1749, and his widow 19 years after him, siged 9.5. Dr. 
 Templeman was bbrn March 17, 1711, and was educated at the 
 Ciiarter-hoase (not on the foundation), from whence lie pro- 
 ceeded to Tiinity college, Cambridge ; where lie took his degree 
 of Bachelor of Arts ^vith distinguished rejnitation. During 
 hii residence at (Cambridge, by his own inclination, in confor- 
 mity with that of his parents, he applied himself to the study of 
 Divinity, with a design to enter into holy orders ; but after some 
 time, from what cause we know not, lie altered his ])lan, and 
 apjilied Iiimself to tiie study 01 j.'livsiv'. In the year I73(i ho went 
 to l^eyden, where he attended the lectures of Dr. IJoerhaave, 
 and tilt; I'lofessdis i)f the (jther branches of medicine iu that 
 celebrated University, for the sjiuce of two years or more. 
 About the beginning of 1739 he returnetj to J^ondon, with a 
 view to enter on the practice of his profesoion, .u{>})ortcd liy a 
 handsome allowance from his tathei". Why lie did not succeed 
 in that line, was easy to be ;iccouutcd far by those who knew 
 liim. He was a inan of a very lib* lal tui'n of mind, of general 
 erudition, with a large ac(iuaintauce auiouv.-t the learned of dif- 
 ferent professions, but of an indolent, inactive dispo.'ilion ; he 
 could not enter into juntos with jK>()|>ie thiit were not to ]ii~ 
 liking; li!' could ncji cultivate the ac(ii'aini um'c to be met with 
 at tea-tables ; lie could not intrigue wicli nui: .--, nor a-^ociate 
 with the vai'ious knot-; of ])ert, insipid, wi'li-lircd, impcri incut , 
 good-humoured, malicious go.-iii;s, llial are often found so use- 
 fid to intiodiicc a young ph\>i(i.ui into i))a(;tice : but rather 
 clioe t(j employ hi- time at hoiiic in tlie pcru.-al of an ingciious 
 author, m' to spenl an Attic evening in a select company of men 
 of -rnr,.: ;uul lear:iii\g. In thi> he i^'-cmliled hi.-. i)r;)i!!< r .\nn- 
 stnjna', \vh(/-i: limitrd j)riictice in IiIt profession w a- owing to 
 til" .li'iue (au'^c. Ii: tlie latter end of ;iu' ycai' 17.")0!ie \\\\- iiUro- 
 dii''( (1 to i)r. I-"othcrgi!l (bv Pr. ('muin-.-, tlu '.'rier.d to \\lii)in I \\;is 
 i Ml!' hied foi'the iiironnatir.'n in thi- noie) \\\\\\ a%i->w ofin.-tiltitlng 
 ; .Mer.i' ;dSoc'ieI\ , i;i older to ])i-ocure the e:M!i(--t iiiieiiigcuee of 
 
 < 'erv impiOMiiienl in pliy.^ick from t\ei\ iiaif of luu-ojic. \\\ 
 r\l;:.(jt fjon; one of hi-, 1( tter- will \v\\v -ouie iilca of thi> plan, 
 A'.liic'n iie\cr took eliect. " 1 spent tli" '.-.hole afu inoou _\(-tei- 
 dav u Jth Dr. Fotheigdl in M-itlinu' lii p! 'u of our (! -i-n. whieli 
 in -hort i., thi,-, : liy a seit'i d n-^alar eoi k p.nidcii'c in tlie prin- 
 
 < ipal clues of Europe, to h,i\<' tiie \\\y<-' ;!> md lll:eiuc of tlie 
 Jaiiirovemcnt:-; in cheiai!rt)'\ . an.Uoinv boUun, ( l;itur;;<i\ . with 
 
 aicountj
 
 300 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1757. 
 
 a View to promote its being published.' In this 
 account, besides many interesting and curious par- 
 accounts of epidemical diseases, state of the weather, remarkable 
 cases, observations, and useful medicines. A Society to be formed 
 here in town, to meet regularly once a week, at which meeting 
 all papers transmitted to be read, and such as are approved of 
 to be published in the English language, in the manner of our 
 Philosophical Transactions j a pamphlet of 2s. or 2s. 6d. once in 
 three months. In a dearth of new things on each of those 
 heads, to extract out of the French Memoirs, German Epheme- 
 rides, &c. such things as shall appear to the Society to be usefiU 
 discoveries or observations, and not sufficiently known or at- 
 tended to. The greatest difficulty lying on us in the choice of 
 proper persons to execute this design ; some being too much 
 taken up in business, and others justly exceptionable as being 
 untractable, presumptuous, and o\erbcaving. The men of busi- 
 ness, however, will be of some use to us in communicating re- 
 markable cases and occurrences. Such a work will require a 
 great number of hands ; and besides good abilities, it will be 
 necessary they should be good sort of men too." MS Letter to 
 Dr.Cuming. At the same period he tells his friend, " Dr. Mead 
 has very generously oifered to assist me with all his interest for 
 succeeding Dr. Hall at the Charter-house, whose death has been 
 for some time expected. Inspired with giatitude, I have ven- 
 tured out of my element (as you will plainly perceive), and sent 
 him the following Ode : 
 
 " Ad virum celeberrimum, Ricardum Mead, M. D. ^c. 
 
 Horrenda scribant pra;lia ceeteri, 
 Martisque lavu'os sanguine roscidas ; 
 En civicam nectit coroiunn 
 Teque cupit celebrare Musa ! 
 
 Seu tu Patronus nobilis artium 
 Audis, benignus si\e salutifer 
 Morbos levare ; idemque ciariis 
 Artibus excoluisse vitam. 
 
 Ritu Herculis prima est tibi gloria 
 Angues domare et lurida toxica ; 
 Tu fraudibus lethi retcctis 
 Expedies per acuta corpu.s. 
 
 Cum peste languet Gallia livida, 
 Te quisque poscit sollicita prece ; 
 Et te docente artcs fugandi. 
 Diva Salus tua dicta lirniat. 
 
 Monstrare leges, queis mare turgidiim. 
 Nevvtonus audet ; fortitcr a(!ju\ans 
 Monstras easdem nos regentcs 
 Corporibus peperisse morboi : 
 
 O corda
 
 1757-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 30I 
 
 ticulars, which well deserve the attention of the 
 Antiquary, the learned Author has, with great 
 
 O corda fratrum ! lucida sidera ! 
 Ut vos amicfe luminajungitis! 
 Externa Newtonus retexit ; 
 Ipse homini interiora pandis. 
 Non mille prosunt, quels tua })ectora 
 Iniplentur, artes ; heu rapit omnia 
 Sors dura ! Divinum Senemque 
 Postera te celebrabit a;tas. 
 
 Tecum Vetustas marmora condidit, 
 Vultusque tictos undique colligis ; 
 Et mox tua infixi nepotes 
 Ora magis pretiosa ducent. 
 
 Jam fata semper vincere pertinax, 
 Prajccpta ti-adis fida medentibus ; 
 Sic tu brevi vita) supersles 
 Esto Opii'er venientis a;\ i." 
 
 Dr. Tcmpleman's epitaph on Lady Lucy IMcyrick (the only Eng- 
 lish copy of verses of his writing that we know of) is printed in 
 the Eighth vohiine of the '' Select Collection of Miscellany Poems, 
 I7SI." In 1753 he published the first volume of " Curous Re- 
 marks and Observations in Physick, Anatomy, Chirurgerj-, Che- 
 ini.^trv, Botany, and Medicine, extracted from the History and 
 Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris;" and the 
 second volume in the succeeding year. A third was promised, 
 but I bclie\ e never printed, it apj}ears indeed that, if he iiad met 
 with {jroper encouragement from the publick, it was Ins inten- 
 tion to have extended tiie work to twelve \()lumc3, with aa ad- 
 ditional one of Index, and that he was pre.jaied to publisii two 
 volumes eveiy year. This circumstance is taken from one of liis 
 own letter-i, in whi -h he adds, " All my golden dream is at an 
 end ; for though I have the satisfaction to have the applause of 
 those who.sc judgment I valuer yet the generality of the world 
 do not give me such encouragement us even to jniy my exjiences. 
 I could iail heartily; but it signihes nothing for p<<or IJ.im', to 
 fume, wlien tlie upper grdlery is dispo-ed to hi-^ ;uid jx it. ' MS 
 Letter. Dr. Templeman's translation <jf Nor.leii apijcan;! in 
 the beginning of the year 1757; and in that year he was eih- 
 tor of "Select (J:oes and CoiisuUations in l'h\-ick, by Di- \\o<id- 
 ward," H\o. On tlie estab!i/iini(.)it of i\\r I'liii-li .\Iu-i.iiji, iu 
 175;;, })' was :i])pointcd to tiie oflice of Kci ]>< i' of lUe lie.-uhiig- 
 room, wliifhhe resigned <jn ];eing ehn-cri, i;i 17''^-*. '^irji-lHry to 
 the then newly i;:sthuled Society of .\i ;-, .M;um:;i(!un.'>, and 
 ConuDCi-ee. in the year 'Tfri h<' ^\..- ciirtid a coi n- ji(iii(hno- 
 memb( r of the .floyal Ac;'. my u'i Seio;^., rX i'.uis. and ;i! '> of 
 the Oeeonomical Society at iienie. \'- ry ciily in \\w Dr. Tcm 
 pieman was afllicted witli sivcre paruxy-ius oi wu a^tlmia, \\hi(h 
 
 eliuLd
 
 302 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [^ 757' 
 
 industry, collected and pointed out several helps 
 and assistances from transcrijits and printed copies 
 of sundry parts of tliat venerable Record come to 
 his knovvledi^, which will greatly contribute to 
 lessen the expence of, and facilitate the completing 
 that laudable inidertaking ; hoping, from the ex- 
 tended and collective enc[uiries of other worthy 
 
 eluded tlie force of all that either his own skilly or that of the 
 inost eminent physicians then lixing, could suggest to him j 
 and it continued to harass him till liis death, which happened 
 Sept. 23, 1769. In 1/45 he mentioned this disorder to a medi- 
 cal friend as retuining more \ioIently and frequently tlian ever, 
 and in regular attacks, like an ague. His fiiends thought him 
 in a giiUoping consumption ; and by tiieir advice he went to 
 Hampstead, to drink sxsses milk. " After lodging there," he 
 says, " to no manner of purpose more than a month, I returned 
 to town, and now began to tliink 1 had nothing else to do but 
 to a])ply to quackery, and hesitated a little betwixt Ward and 
 the Bisliop of Clo\ne. I conchided, ho\ve\er, that the first 
 place was due to the Church, and accordingly entered upon 
 Tar-water." MS Letter. He was esteemed a person of great 
 learning, particularly \vith respect to languages, spoke French 
 witli great Uucncy, and left the character of a liumane, generous, 
 and polite member of society. Of his two brothers, Giles is now 
 rector of VVinborn St. Giles, and of ( hessilborn in the county of 
 Dorset, to \vhich he was presented by the Earl of Shaftesbury 
 and Lord Risers. Nathaniel, solicitor of Lincoln's Inn, one of 
 the sLxty clerks in Chancery, and one of the commissioners ol 
 hackney-coaches, died Dec. '21, 1774. Dr. Templeman's uncle 
 WiJliani was also an attorney, and was clerk of the peace for 
 the coimty of Dorset from the accession of George II. to the 
 time of liis dcatli, in 1751. He married Ehzabeth, daughter of 
 Andrew Purchase, ahlerman of Dorchester, and great grand- 
 daughter to Bisliop Ironside, by whom he had i'our sons, all living 
 in 1782: William, stew;ird to the late Prince of Wales for Dorset 
 and SouK^rset, for several \'ears, to the time of the Prince's death, 
 and one of the conunis^ioners of the Lottery; Natiianiel, rec- 
 tor of Aimer and Li^dera 17^3-4, and of the Holy Trinity and 
 St Peter in Dorchester, 17^^ ; Picli^.vd, rector of St. James, 
 Shaftesbur} , and of Con:![>ton Aubas ci \Yest Compton ; and 
 John, an atioi'ncy-at-law in Dctrcliester.-- Jt may not be improper 
 to distinguish Dr. Pever Teiuj^ieman from Mr. Thomas Temple- 
 man, the author of " Engraved Tables, i'!)j;taiuingC'alculations of 
 the number of square I'.sc-t and P.Jop!e iii t'le several Kingdoms 
 of the World ;" who was a wri.ir.g-iTiaster in th.e town of St. 
 Edmm.d"s Bury. Both are oflen eonf-ui: led, and the latter 
 occas* >nally appears in quotations vith theDoctoi's digrce of 
 the former, 'iliere was no con-ariguiiiity betwixt the Doctor 
 and Mr. Thomas Templeuian's family. 
 
 ]Mem-
 
 1757-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 303 
 
 Members, whose opportunities and means of in- 
 formation might be greater, to supply and reform 
 what was therein wanting. The kind assistance of 
 its' Members in a measure so conducive to this great 
 design, and which had received the sanction of their 
 approbation, the Society could not doubt of; and 
 therefore, having allowed sufficient time, they ap- 
 prehend, for finishing all necessary enquiries on 
 that head, they now think of collecting, and bring- 
 ing into the common stock, the issues of their joint 
 labours and researches. For this purpose I am di- 
 rected, by an order of this day, to acquaint you, 
 that it is their request, that you will be pleased to 
 communicate to them, by the first Thursday in Feb- 
 ruary next, an account of such transcripts, printed 
 copies of, or extracts from any parts of Domesday 
 Book as are come to your knowledge ; expressing 
 therein where, or in whose hands, the same are 
 now deposited*; with such further particulars as you 
 shall juilge material towards promoting and accom- 
 })lishing the publication of that noble Record, which 
 the Society have much at heart, and from which 
 they hope to reap no less emolument than honour. 
 I am, with great respect and esteem. Sir, 
 Your most obedient humble servant, 
 iVom the House of the WiLL. NoRRis, Secretary. 
 
 Society of Antiquaries, 
 1)1 Chancerv-lane. 
 
 1758. 
 
 " A Report from the Connnittee appointed to 
 enquire into the Origiiuil Standard of Weights and 
 iMeasures in this Kingdom, and the Laws relating 
 thereto; with the Proceedings of the House of 
 Commons thereujjon-i^; published by their Order," 
 folio. [77/ /'.y was one of thejirst IForks on which I 
 iV(fs employed as a Compositor. J 
 
 "' These enquiries ])roiluccd but few ivtiiriis. The objccl of 
 tlieui, however, \v:is afterwards eneelually obtained h\ the niuni- 
 cence of the Lr-i^-ishiture, in l)resenli:l^ ibe whol'j \sork to llie 
 jjubiiek, as will be noticed in the j)nij)er place. 
 
 I "This Rejjoit deserves to be nio.e kuown. Though it pro- 
 duced no etjcct, )et itdi-pla\ed -lUcU 'a sjiilit of eii'-ouy. and
 
 304 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l758. 
 
 " The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicar- 
 nassensis, translated into English, with Notes and 
 Dissertations*, by Edward Spehn an -1^, Esq." 4 vols. 
 4to ; a work of considerable merit. 
 
 such a thorough knowledge of so nice and iuiportant a subject, 
 that it would have done honour to the Koyal Society with 
 Sir Isaac Newton at their head. The late Lord Carysfort was 
 Chairman of the Committee. I think I have seen an article in 
 the Encyclopedie, that Alfred (or some other monarch) obliged 
 all England to use the same weights and measures, which they 
 gravely observe to be a very proper and desirable practice. But 
 EngUshmen often like better to suffer the inconveaionces of fol- 
 lowing their own fancies than submit to beneficial restraints," 2'. F. 
 
 * Namely, " A Dissertation concerning the Arrival of Mneas 
 in Italy;" and " A Fragment out of the Sixth Book of Polybius ; 
 containing a Dissertation upon Government in genei'al, particu- 
 larly applied to that of the Romans ; w ith a Description of the 
 several Powers of the Consuls, Senate, and People of Rome, 
 translated from the Greek, with Notes ; to which is prefixed a 
 Preface, wherein the System of Polybius is apj)Ued to the Go- 
 vernment of England] and to the above-mentioned Fi-agment 
 concerning tiie Powers of the Senate is annexed a Dissertation 
 upon the Constitution of it." Tiiis Dissertation had been ori- 
 ginally published in 1743, without a name. " I bad my rea- 
 sons," says Mr. Spelmau, " for not putting my name to the 
 book ; though my bookseller thought lit to annex mv name, or 
 something like my name, to what he called a second edition, 
 without my knowledge, and to udd to it a most imi)ertinent 
 thing of his own." VVhat the "most impertinent thing" added 
 by the bookseller was, or m hether there really was a second edition, 
 I have not been able to discoTer. It seems to in)])ly that the book- 
 seller added a new title, and perliaps a preface, to tlie unsold copies." 
 Mr. Bowyer afterwards printed for Mr. Spelman a few copies of 
 " A Dissertation on the Presence of the Patricians in tlie Tributa 
 Comilia," 4to; whicli were given grtituitously to his friends. 
 
 -|- Mr. S})clrnan, whose residence was at j4igii House, near 
 Rougham, xVorfolk, was the great-great-grandson of the famous 
 Sir Henry Si)elman. He wn also the tran:3iator of Xcnophon"s 
 " Expedition of Cyrus, 1740," '2 \oIs. ftvo ; which lie declicated 
 to Lord Lovell, a (ki,cendant from Sir Edward Coke, cliief 
 justice, afterwcirds Viscount Coke and Earl of Leicester, whom 
 he celebrates for his 1- arning and great tasrc. I'he original 
 pubhshcr was R. Wellington ; anJ it was I'c-printed in one 
 volume, 177o- Mr. Spelman dicil M;.;rch 13, 1767, In 1775 
 were ymblis'ied, "Two Tracts on the following Subjects: I. "Ad- 
 ditional Observations on the Greek Accents ;, intended as a Sup- 
 plement to what has been already said on tliat Subject, in the 
 Preface to the Rom'in Antiquities of Dionjsius Halicarna^-^en- 
 gis, by the late Edward Spelman, Esf|. PaLlishcd bv the F<v. 
 
 3Ir
 
 I75S.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 30^ 
 
 "A State of Facts in Defence of his Majesty's 
 Right to certain Fee Farm Rents in the County 
 of Norfolk," 4to. by PhiUp Carteret Webb *, esq. 
 (only 100 copies). 
 
 " A Letter to Dr. Stukeley." Q. what ? 
 
 Mr. Vertue's " Catalogue of King James the 
 Second's Collection of Pictures, Busts, Statues, &c.'* 
 4to. 
 
 " Kymber'}-, a Monody, to Sir Armine Wode- 
 house, Bart, by Mr. Potter J," 4to. 
 
 Mr. Lemon, Master of the Free-school in Norwich." II. ''The 
 Voyage of i^neas from Troy to Italy. By the Rev. Mr. Lemon." 
 In a Dedication to Dr. Philip Yonge, Bishop of Norwich, Mr. 
 Lemon apologizes for having delayed publishing the Obsei-vations 
 of Mr. Spehnan for five yeai-s, by their having been put into the 
 hands of Dr. Gregory Sharpej "whose close attention to his own 
 publications occasioned his postponing hi promise till Death 
 deprived hiw of an opportunity of completing it." "The abili- 
 ties of Mr. Spelman as an author," he adds, " arc sufficiently 
 established 5 the Literary Wovhl having, in several instances 
 expressed their regard for his Works ; and his Translations from 
 the Greek language have acquired him a lasting name." " I 
 happened to fall in with him once for a short time at Dr. Tay-^ 
 lor's, in Amen Corner. When I saw the Doctor next, he told 
 me that Spelman asked him who I vva!< ; and being told that I 
 was a Fellow of a College, he said, ' Gcjod God ! doth any Fel- 
 low of a College know any thing of Greek ?' It happened that 
 I had attempted to set him right in a pa.ssage that he had totally 
 mistaken. His speech was certainly a curious one, as Dr Taylor 
 had been of the order reprobated alm((->t all his life. I sliould 
 have thought it nide to ha\e said the same of country gentlemen, 
 though they are not obliged to understand Greek, \vhi("h can 
 hardly be said of gownsmen without affront : yet I understand 
 the sjjcech wa=; intended as a compliment to me." T. F. 
 
 * Of whom see before, p. '279. 
 
 f A ])anegyric on Sh- Armine Wodehouse and his anco^^tors. 
 
 X Robert Potter was educated at Etnaniicl coIl<>g<', (,anil)iid:j,i' 
 B.A. I74I; M. A. 1788; and prebendary of Xorwieh. His tir,i 
 prefermeni was the vicarage of Scaining, Norfolk. He wa-. a < iui- 
 racter of the highest di>tiiiction as a cla^.iical -cholar ; the litei iry 
 world having- S\wn most iutrinsi(;ally indehte! to him for excel- 
 1( at poetiial vcr.-ions of the three Greek Tra^xiiian-. He pub- 
 lished, l774,anorlav() voi(,ujicof Poem-, nio-i i)i"ulii'-h liad 1)^ f<.re 
 a[)})eare(! >^pj)arat-.ly, many very pn-.tty <:o!n(i(-iiions, particulailv 
 a beautiful Farewell Hynm to the CountiN . in ir.i(a!i,.ii of Sprn- 
 Rer. Tiiree \tars after thi^, his translation of .'l^sehyli,'^ ni:'.de 
 its appearance in a quarto volnm^", and ha-> -inc l-rrn .-prin'ul. 
 with the addilion of uotes, in 'v.- vulumcs uc'a\o. Of the \- 
 
 Vot, li. X c.ll'.i.ce
 
 306 LITEEARY ANECDOTES OF [175^. 
 
 ** Imitations of Horace, by Thomas Nevile *, 
 M A* Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge," 8vo. 
 
 cellence of this translation it is hardly possible to say too much j 
 many of the parts are so exquisitely beautiful as to leave us in 
 doubt whether any Poet could have accomplished the task with 
 greater success. In 1781 he published the first volume of his 
 translation of Euripides, u\ quartoj in the following year, the 
 second ; and, 1788, that of Sophocles, in the same size. These 
 last-mentioned versions are, on the whole, inferior to his first 
 production, yet they are each of them excellent performances, and 
 equal, if not superior, to those of Mr.Wodhull and Dr. Frankhn. 
 Besides these very laborious works, Mr. Potter published, in quarto, 
 1783, "An Enquiry into some passages in Dr. Johnson's Lives of 
 the Poets j" and, in 1765, in quarto, "ATranslation of the Oracle 
 concerning Babylon, and the Song of Exultation, from Isaiah, 
 tihap. XIII. and XIV." and "A Sermon on the Thanksgiving for 
 the Peace, 1802." " In his weightiest character, as translaioi* 
 of the Greek Tragedians, we must compliment Mr. Potter on the 
 very singular service which he has done to tiie literaiy world. 
 It was an undertaking wlrlch to many would have appeared too 
 great for tlie life of manj and, considering the success with 
 which so much labour has been accomplished, and the amiable 
 character Mr. Potter beai-s as a member of society, we may well 
 he surprized he had not early attracted the notice of those who 
 are able and willing to confer honours and preferments when 
 they meet with peculiar desert." Memoirs of L'mng Authors, 
 vol. II. p. 153. By his death the republick of letters lost one of its 
 best and most imassuming ornaments. His manners were sim- 
 ple, and his life exemplary. He was a scholar of the Old School; 
 and nothing tempted him to relinquish divine and polite litera- 
 ture. It was not till after he had completed his last translation, 
 that of Sophocles, that Mr. Potter obtained any preferment in 
 the church higher than that of vicar of Lowestoft. He had been 
 a schoolfellow of Lord Thurlow, and had constantly sent his 
 publications to that great man, with(jut ever soliciting a single 
 favour from him. On receiving a co])y of the Sophocles, how- 
 ever, his Lordship wrote a short note to Mr. Potter, acknow- 
 ledging the receipt of his books from time to time, and the 
 pleasure they had affoided him, and requesting Mr. i'otter's ac- 
 ceptance of aprebcndal stall in the catlicdral of Norwich, which, 
 Willi his vicarage, rendered him comfortable for the remainder 
 of a life devoted to those pursuits which best become a profound 
 Scholar and a true Christian. He was foun'.i dead in his bed, at 
 Ix)westott, Aug. 9, 1804, at the advanced age of 83. He is sup- 
 posed to have completed a work, not yet published, but Avhich 
 uoiild be a desirable acquisition to the literaiy world, consisting 
 of biogTaphical notices of Norfolk Literati, from the time of 
 Oucen Elizabeth to the present day. 
 
 * First of Emanuel, then removeii t(i Jesus college, Cambridge'} 
 B. A. 1745 ; M. A. 1749. In \7(i7 he publi-^hcd a translation 
 of ''Ihe (jeorsics of Virgil," ivoiw the C:.aii!>riilge pre::3.; and in 
 
 17Gi>
 
 175S.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 307 
 
 Two editions of " Sketches, or Essays on various 
 Subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq." [Dr. John 
 Armstrong *] . 
 
 17G9 completed " his design of familiarising to the young Reader 
 tlie Roman Satire consistently with the more immediate aim o^ 
 delineating present manners," by his Imitations of Juvenal and 
 Persius. " I received a very obliging letter from Mr.Nevile, in 
 answer to one acknowledging the receipt of his book. I will not 
 trouble him with my thanks ; but leave it to you to assure him 
 of my sincere thoughts of his performance, and of my constant 
 esteem and affection. If it was in my power to make him Master 
 of Jesus, I would offer him my friendship too ; for this being the 
 polite term which the honester part of the gi-eat use, when they 
 mean favours, it would be worth offering. As it is, it is of no 
 worth but to such disinterested men as you." Dr. Warburton to 
 Mr. Hurd, April 2, 175S. " Pray let Mr. Nevile know how 
 much I am pleased with his approbation." Ibid. Sept. 3. Mr. 
 Nevile died Sept. 17, 17H1. 
 
 * This gentleman, who was born in Castleton parish, Rox- 
 burghshire, where his father and brother were ministers, com- 
 pleted his education in the university of Edinburgh, where he 
 took his degree in ])hysick, Feb. 4, 1732. with much reputation j 
 and publislied his Thesis, as the forms of that University require; 
 the subject was " De Tabe purulenta." In 1735 he pubhshed a 
 little humorous fugitive pamphlet, in 8vo, printed for J. VVil- 
 ford, intituled, " An Es.say for abridging the Study of Physick ; 
 to which is added a Dialogue betwixt Ilygeia, Mercury, and 
 Pluto, relating to the Practice of Physick, as it is managed by a 
 certain illustrious Society. As also an Epistle liom Usbek, the 
 Persian, to Joshua Ward, Esq." The Dedication runs thus : 
 " To the Antacademic Philosophers, to the generous Despiser."* 
 of the Schools, to the deserxcilly-celebrated Joshua Ward, John 
 Moor, and the rest of the munerous sect of insjjired Physicians, 
 this little work is humbly in.seribed, by their most devoted ser- 
 vant and zealous admirer." This piece contains much fun rmd 
 drollery ; in the dialogue, he has caught the very sj)irit of 1..U- 
 cian. It is not marked with his name, but 1 can, on the best 
 authority, assert that he was the author of it. In 1737 he pub- 
 lished, with his name to it, "A Syn()}).^is of the History and (Jure 
 of Venereal Diseases," Hvo, inscribed, in an iii'rei.ious dedication, 
 to Dr. Alexander Stuart, as to "a ] lion who htul an indisput- 
 able right to judge severely of the pei foniiar.cc presented to 
 him." In an advertisement in " The Craftsman, " \n. 5G1, 
 April 2, 1737, Dr. Armstrong says, " This liook contains an 
 Abridgment of the bc\er;d Writers, upon tlie-e Discu-es, in the 
 Venetian Colleelion, and of Dr. Astrue s late Hook upon the 
 same Subjeet ; with Notes upon the v.hole Collection. To 
 which ia prch.ved a new Translation of Dr. IvKiluiaves Pn face to 
 the Leydcn Edition of tho^e Authors, aixl a complete Index of 
 tlie Contents bubjoined " This was soon tuUu'vcd by the " Ueeo- 
 
 X ^ nomy
 
 30B LinniARY ANECDOTES OF [l758^f 
 
 An Edition of." Cicero's Tusculan Disputations,'" 
 8vo. 
 
 nomy of Love," a poem which has much merit, but, it most be 
 confessed, is too strongly tinctured with the licentiousness of 
 h id. Let me add, however, that his maturer judgment ex- 
 punged many of the luxuriances of youthful fancy, in an edition 
 " revised and corrected by the author" in 1768, It appears by 
 one pf the Cases on Literary Property that Mr. Millar paid fifty 
 guineas for the copy-right of this poem, which was intended as 
 a burlesque upon some didactic writers. It has been observed 
 of Dr. Armstrong, that his w orks have great inequaUties, some 
 of them being possessed of every requisite to be sought after in 
 the most perfect composition, while others can hardly be consi- 
 dered a3 superior to the productions of mediocrity. The "Art 
 of presening Health," his best perf(>rniance, which was published 
 in 1744, and which willtiansmit Ins name to posterity as one of 
 the first English writers, has been honoured \\ith the following 
 testimony of a respectable Ciitic : "To describe so difficult a 
 thing gracefully and poetically, as the effects of a distemper on 
 the human body, was reserved for Dr. Aiinstrong ; who accord- 
 ingly hath nobly executed it at the end of the third book of his 
 Art of presening Health, where he hath given us that pathetic 
 account of the sweating sickness. There is a classical correct- 
 ness ajid closeness of style in this Poem that are tixily admirable, 
 and the subject is I'aised and adorned l^ nmTiberless poetical 
 images." Dr. Warton's " Reflections on Didactic Poetry," an- 
 nexed to his edition of Virgil, vol.1, p. 329. On this work 1 
 shall also transcribe a beautiful elogium from an eminent phy- 
 sician (Dr. James Mackenzie's " History of Health, &g." third 
 edition, Edinburgh, 1760, pp. 22/, 228) : " Of all the poeticaj 
 performances on this subject, that have come to my hands. Dr. 
 Armstrong's Art of preserving Health is by fer the best. To 
 quote every charming description and beautiful passage of this 
 poem, one must transcribe the whole. We cannot, however, 
 expect new rules, where the principal design was to raise and 
 warm the heart into a compliance with the solid precepts of the 
 Antients, which he has enforced with great strength and ele- 
 gance. And, u];on the whole, he has convmced us, by his own 
 example, that we ought not to blame Antiquity for acknow- 
 ledging 
 
 " One power of physick, melody, and song." 
 
 In 1746 Dr. Armstrong was appointed one of the physicians to 
 the Hospital for Lame and Sick Soldiers behind Buckingham 
 House. In 1751 he published his Poem " on Benevolence, " in 
 tblio; and in 1753, "Taste, an Epistle tf) a yoimg Critic." In 
 175s appeared, " Skeiches, or Essays on various Subjects, by 
 Launcelot Temple, Esq. in Two Parts." In this production, 
 above luentioned, which possesses much }^,nmour and k)iowledgc 
 of the world, und which had a remarkably rapid sale, he is sup- 
 posed
 
 i75'8.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. JQ^ 
 
 Two Sermons of Bishop Sherlock's, printed in 
 12mo, 1758, for his friend the Rev. WiUiam 
 Clarke, by the Bishop's express j^ermission. 
 
 posed to have been assisted by Mr. ^^'^ilkes. In 1760 he had the 
 honour of being aip5)ointed j)hysician to tlie army in Germany; 
 where, in 1761, he wrote a i)oem called " Day, an Epistle to 
 John Wilkes, of Aylesbury, esq." In this poem, which is not 
 collected in his Works [it is preserved in Ahnon'i " Ntw Found- 
 ling Hospital for Wit, 177^," vol. V. p. 110], he wantonly 
 hazarded a reflection on Churchill, which drew on him the 
 serpent-toothetl vengeance of that severest of satirists, whose 
 embalming or corrosive pen could deify or lampoon any man, 
 according as he acquiesced withj or dissented from, his political 
 priaciples. 
 
 " Escap'd from London now four moons, and more, 
 I greet gay Wilks from Fulda's wasted shore, 
 WTiere cloth'd with woods a hundred hills ascend. 
 Where Nature many a paradise has {)lann'd : 
 A land that, e'en amid contending arms. 
 Late smil'd with culture, and liutu riant charms ; 
 But now the hostile scythe has bared her soil. 
 And her sad peasants stance for ail their toil. 
 What news to-day ? I ask you not what rogue. 
 What paltry imp of fortune 's now in vogue 5 
 What forward blundering fool was last prefen*'d. 
 By mere pretence distinguish'd from the herd ; 
 With what new cheat the gaping town is smit j 
 What crazy Scribler reigns the pix?.sent Wit ; 
 What stuff for winter the Two Booths have mixt 5 
 What bouMcing Mimick gro\v.s a Roscius next." 
 
 In almost the last lines of poetry which Churchill lived to 
 write, after referring those who hinted that he wovdd " rim his 
 stock of genius oat" to some writers who had obtained what he 
 thought unmerited celebrity, he thus iK>iatedly concludes the 
 catalogue with Dr. Armstrong : 
 
 " Let them, with Armstrong, taking leave of Sense, 
 Read musty lectures on lienevolence, 
 Or con x\tc. pages of his gaping Day, 
 Where all iii.s former fmie was liirown away. 
 Where all but barren labour was forgcjt. 
 And the vain stifl'nos of a Letter'd btot ; 
 Let them witii Armstnjug y^x, the tenn ot light. 
 But not one hour of (hukm-ss ; when the night 
 >iusi)ends tiiis mortal coil, wlien Meinory wakes. 
 When for our past mitidoii^-t Conscience takes 
 A deep revenge, when, 1a RcHection led, 
 She draws his curtains, and look-^ ( onifurt dead, 
 IjpX. every Muse be gone j in vain lie lurus 
 And tries to pray for sleep ; an .'Etna burn.s, 
 
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 310 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l758. 
 
 A more than ^Etna, in his coward breast. 
 And Guilt, with vengeance aim'd, forbids him rest, 
 Tho' soft as plumage from young ZephjT's wing, 
 Jiis couch seems hard, and no relief can bring. 
 Ingratitude hath planted daggers there. 
 No good man can deserve, no brave man bear." 
 I make no apology for this citation ; as it will never obscure the 
 character of a humane, benevolent, kindly affectioned, man of 
 genius, who was incapable of the crime with which he is charged. 
 It may be here observed, that nothing appears so fatal to the 
 intercourse of friends as attentions to politicks. The cordiality 
 which had subsisted between Dr. Armstrong and Mr. Wilkes was 
 certainly interrupted, if not dissolved, by these means. In 1770 
 Dr. Armstrong published a collection of " Miscellanies," in two 
 volumes; containing, 1. "The Art of preserving Health >" 
 2. " Of Benevolence, an Epistle to Eumenes ;" 3. " Taste, an 
 Epistle to a young Critic, 1753 ;" 4. '' Imitations of Shakespeare 
 and Spenser J " 5. "The Universal Almanack, by Noureddin 
 Ali," 6. "The Forced Mairiage, a Tragedy;" 7. "Sketches." 
 In an advertisement to these volumes. Dr. Armstrong says, he 
 " has at last taken the ti'ouble upon him to collect them, and to 
 have them printed under his own inspection ; a task that he had 
 long avoided; and to which he would hardly have submitted 
 himself then, but for the sake of preventing their being, some 
 time hereafter, exposed in a ragged mangled condition, and 
 loaded with more faults than they originally had : while [when] 
 it might be impossible for him, by the change perhaps of one 
 letter, to recover a whole period from the most contemptible 
 nonsense. Along with such pieces as he had formerly offered to 
 the publick, he takes this opportunity of presenting it with se- 
 veral others; some of which had lain by him many years. What 
 he has lost, and especially what he has destroyed, would pro- 
 l)ably enough have been better received by the great majority 
 of readers, than any thing he has published. But he never 
 courted the publick. He wrote chiefly for his own amusement ; 
 and because he found it an agreeable and innocent way of some- 
 times passing an idle hour. He has always most heartily despised 
 the opinion of the viobilifij, from the lowest to the highest : and 
 if it is true,, what he has sometimes been told, that the best 
 judges are on his ."^ide, he desires no more in the article of fame 
 and renown as a writer. If the best judges of this ge honour 
 him with their approbation, all the worst too of the next will 
 favour him with theii-s; when by Heaven's grace he'll be too far 
 beyond the reach of their unmeaning praises to receive any dis- 
 gust from them." In 1771 he published "A short Ramble 
 through some parts of France and Italy, by Launcelot Temple;" 
 and in 1773, in his own name, a quarto pamphlet, under the 
 title of " Medical Essays ;" towards the conclusion of which, he 
 accounts for his not having such extensive practice as some of 
 his brethren, from his not being qualified to employ the usual 
 means, frf)m a ticklish state of spirits, and a distempered excess 
 of sensibilitv, |ie complaim much of the behaviour of some of 
 
 his
 
 1758.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 5 1 1 
 
 Mr. George Walker's * ^' Narrative of the Siege of 
 Londonderry," republished by Dr. Brown-|~, who did 
 all he could to reform and revive us, *' as a useful 
 Lesson to the present Times, with a prefatory 
 Address to the Publick," 8vo. 
 
 " Lectures concerning Oratory, delivered at Tri- 
 nity College, Dublin, by John Lawson J, D. D." 
 8vo. 
 
 iiis Brethren, of the herd of Criticks, and particularly of the Re- 
 viewers. He died in September 1779; and, to the no small 
 surprise of his friends, left behind him more than 3000/. saved 
 out of a very moderate income, arising principally fi"om his half- 
 pay. The late worthy Dr. Cuming, a most respectable pli3si 
 cian at Dorchester, his enabled me to add some further traits to 
 the character of this inj^enious writer : " I was early acquainted 
 with Dr. Armstrong, have visited him at his lodgings, knew 
 many of his intimates, have met him in company, but, from 
 my having visited the metropolis so seldom since my residence 
 in Dorsetshire, I was not so weU acquainted with him as I 
 should otlierwise have been, or wished to be. He always ap- 
 peared to me (and I was confirmed in this opinion by that of his 
 most intimate friends) a man of learning and genius, of consi- 
 derable abiUties in his profession, of great benevolence and 
 goodness of heart, fond of associating with men of paits and 
 genius, but indolent and inactive, and therefore totally unqua- 
 lified to employ the means that usually lead to medical employ- 
 ment, or to eibow his way through a crowd of competitors. An 
 intimate friendship always subsisted between the Doctor and the 
 Author of the Seasons, as well as with other gentlemen of learn- 
 ing and genius; he was intimate with, and respected by. Sir 
 John Pringle, to the time of his death." On the authority also 
 of a letter to Mr. Wilkes, in 1795, ftom the widow of Mr. 
 George Armsti-ong, who was the brother of Dr. John Ann- 
 strong, I can assert tliat " Dr. Armstrong had always in his 
 heart a veiy great regard for IMr. Wilkes, as a very pleasant 
 companion, who had always been kind to iiim. In his last ill- 
 ness he said that Mr. \V iikes had got him into tiic Army ; and 
 that, though he had been rash and hasty, he still retained a due 
 sense of giatitude." 
 
 * " Rector of Donaghmoorc, in the county of Tironc. The 
 work was originally pubiisiied in 1GS9 ; and occaMoiu'd a consi- 
 derable controversy. Mr. VValkci acquired such a military taste 
 by this gallant atchievement, that he sacrificed his life at the 
 battle of the Boyne. It was thought, ha<l he lived, he would 
 have been presented to the see of Derr\, \a(unt by the death of 
 Dr. Hopkins, three daj^ before." Goui^lis Briliih Topo<;ruphij, 
 vol. II. p. 808. 
 
 t See the full title, vol. I. p. 1^^. 
 
 \ Dr. Lawson died January 9, 17^9. 
 
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 312 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l758. 
 
 " Sophoclis Tragosdiae Septem, Scholiis Veteribus 
 illustratae : cum Versione et Notis Thomae John- 
 soni. Accedunt Variae Lectiones, et Emendationes 
 Virorum doctorum undecunque collatae. Duobus 
 Voluminibus." Four * only of these Plays were 
 printed by Mr. Bowyer ; but in those the publick 
 are indebted to him for more than barely the manual 
 operation, as is evident from the introduction ex- 
 tracted below -|-. I have his copy of the Seven 
 
 * Ajax FlagelKfer ; Electra ; Antigone ; Trachinise. The 
 other three, which were printed by Mr. Pote at Eton, are Oedi- 
 pus Tyrannus, or rather Rex Oedipus, Philoctetes, and Oedipus 
 Coloneus. 
 
 f " Typographus Lectori S. Ex Septem vSophocli* Tragcediis 
 Ajacem et Electram ediflit Johnsonus, A. D. 1705, quibus versi- 
 onem, notas, et variantes lectiones adjecit : Dein Antigonen, et 
 Trachinias cum notis, sed absque variis lectionibus, A. D. I70S. 
 Hse quatuor fabulae junctim recusae sunt A. D. 1746, quibus tres 
 caeterae accessere cum versione itidera Johnsoni, et scholiaste in 
 Oedipo non ante vulgato. Neve in h&c quasi posthumk editione 
 tribus fabulis sua deessent notarum a'djumenta, vir quidam in- 
 genio et doctrin&. solertissinms plurimas congessit, unde John- 
 soni opei-am in h^c parte leniiis desideraremus. Ea vero edi- 
 tione jam divendita, et nov& flagitata, merogat Bibliopola, ut 
 aliquem commendai'em, qui talem inoliretur. Cunique nemo 
 inveniretur, nisi qui esset aut impar oneri, aut mercedi plus- 
 quam par, nae tandem hortatur, ut ipse pro officio aliquem pan- 
 num attexerem, ne liber gratiS. novitatis penitus destitueretur. 
 Dum schedae igitur sub prelo properantur, imh sub duobus pre- 
 lis, variantes lectiones, quas Johnsonus ad finem duarum fabu- 
 larum apposuerat, suis paginis subjeci, quo facilius oculos alli- 
 cerent, et essent ad usuni promptiores. Tres'fabulas, duos sci- 
 licet Oedipos et Antig(inen, vir doctissimus Joannes Burtonus 
 Etonensis, S.T. P. edidit, dicam, an editurus est, aut alius quis- 
 pian:i sub ejus auspiciis. Inde lectiones in Antigonen transtuli ; 
 in aliis utrisque idem facturus, nis^i quod, cum sub alio prelo 
 essent elaborata;, nollena arroganter nimis falcem in ^.lienas se- 
 getes immittere. Versionem in quibus plerisque locis Johnsonus 
 refingendum admonuit, refinxi ; quod non in omnibus, faten- 
 dijm est non bene provisis consiliis id deberi. In h&,c ])arte spcr 
 rabam ^.liquid auxilii ex editione Londinensi, A.D. 1722, in 12*^. 
 cujus dedicationi subscribuntur literaj initiales A. B. Sed in 
 Ajace et Electrsi versionem Johnsoni, quai in lucem turn prodi- 
 crat, arripuit, in caeteris Winsemii. Hanc Kxrci sro^'a,; sequitur 
 editio Glasguensis, A. D. 1745, nisi quod Johnsoni notulas in 
 quatuor tiagcsdias ad finepi adjunxerit ; et tamen cqllectanea, 
 quae ad caeteras accessere, omisit. Emendationes in textum et 
 scholia imdccunque potui, Kccroi kt^o-di rS nataS, conrasi, et mes- 
 em, qu^m vir doctus ad duos Oedipos et Phil<;cteten contulerat, 
 
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 Plays, improved throughout with marginal observa- 
 tions; the Ajax, in particular, is accurate!}^ corrected 
 in the hand-writhig of Mr. Markland *. In revis- 
 ing the Ajax arid Electra, Mr. Bowyer had the as- 
 sistance of Mr. vPalairet ^-. The pains, however,, 
 bestowed on tliis Edition w&re most ungraciously 
 acknowledged by a subsequent Editor J, in 1775. 
 
 manipulo auxl. In caetem Tnigoe(^l<is notae, q^une T, J. nomine 
 non sunt in=ignitfe,^ nunc pj'iniumaccessere.' Inter has quse- 
 dain Iqca in sChpiiis '^ Ajaceiil videbis fcliciter itstituta a viro 
 docto ationytpo ; unde fecilfe seniiea^ fnatp multa restant restitu- 
 enda. /Dudtim conquestas est Henfkus'Stepliartiis in Schedias- 
 mate II. c. ISy.errorfei qujtinpkrtiinds ex^onipehdiadS MSStonim 
 ecripbara- es&e^ jiito^ *> )ti^es quidem n0n nisi eodtesn fonte, ex 
 quo pjiofKixete, sunt'dilygi(di.^^xritJ"oqvie prdi) iwvi eiTores ac- 
 crever^, qtios.petirnus ut'sequa'finimo fefas, luetnor nos aliquam 
 matefianri futuro editon'fuft'ecisse/ et paululSm iric^ria) tumul- 
 tuaii&. qukdani diligent iSl^comgefisSsse." V ' . z^- 
 
 * In a letter to Mr. lf6\vyet;'da.^ M^rth 6', 1758, Mr. Mark- 
 land says, " I see you ha^ e alt,ere(0he v^er of th^ Plays in So- 
 phocles, and^rit Ahtigwie iri'the^-^ird place, instead of Oedi- 
 pus T^rannu^, I suppose this was'don^^by tl\e command of my 
 lords the boo\?elleis : and ihe rracUinise I sho\dd judge to be 
 the last in your edition, by liic Kils, and the Addenda out of 
 Sam Petit, w^o, thougH'an xcellnt scholai*, had just as nmch 
 taste of tlvexoets;as a cow lias of a leg of;mutton. I would 
 send y&xt a gallant cori'QCticHi of that place 'in the Trachiniae, 
 V. 1176. n^^TiJv 'T^-j.yji/r-J'jj, &c. which jmizled Johnson so much, 
 andsojustl^^ butdt isfeoubksome to me to.write^ having the 
 gout ifi^both h:mds and both Teet, tand not abje to^^tir out of my 
 chair t6 get at any boolir'' ^-^ C - 
 
 f t'Sliall Resent thclcac^r with a short correspondence on 
 this auhject i^^" June '29 ^o(h '' Dolco te, vir floctlssinie, adversil 
 valetudline uti; et vehementei* vcrVor ne aliquis accedat'morbi 
 tui foiyes ex^ftipU^dis Sotohocl^ perl' I'-iiidis : imp^sentiarum ut 
 parcas tibi rp^o et obteAor, *t uf jjfiihi femil^^s schedam, quam 
 habes, incmendat;iia. t^jnn eavn iselegaiifi, et tu0B Jopis, quantum 
 j)()tero, vicem pnestabci. Ut l5eus saiutem tibi re^tituat, <irat ex 
 animo G. Bowi i:r."=>^^ Cafissiuve vir, melius mc ha!)eo ; cor- 
 rexi schedam, et Jiodir po^j^neridjem per jMjnnipostam tibi re- 
 misi. Ut prosper^ valet^dinpiutaris ex animo aj)precoi'. A'ale, 
 meque tui studiosum ag^are pergei Pauairkt." 
 
 X " In textu Gneco :e\hibefid(),, cditionem Johnsoniunam .'e- 
 cuti siuuus. . . . Yix dici potest quam iniinita Scholiokum far- 
 r;igo in postremfl editione, qu;e ])rodiit I^ond. 175S, in dii'ibn.-* 
 volimiinibus, Hvo. apparuit. Oninia ita vitiata et transposlta 
 crant, ut rudis indigestaque potius vocum moles, quam Soplio- 
 clis expositio, viderentur, Haic jam sub incudem revocata, ct 
 maximo cum laborc rocensita, nunc [)iiuiCmi ad siiuju p:igi;iain 
 
 pro-
 
 314 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l/O?. 
 
 A Seventli Edition of Dr. Brown's " Estimate * ;'* 
 and a very large impression of a Second Part of 
 that popular Publication; which was followed by 
 
 " An Explanatory Defence" of it. 
 
 Towards the close of the year a report was cir- 
 culated that Mr. Bowyer was about to retire from 
 business ; a report which gave rise to the following 
 correspondence with the celebrated English Roscius. 
 The letters, I believe, will not be thought a dis- 
 credit to the memory of either of them. 
 
 1 . To David Garrick -jf, esq. Southampton-street. 
 
 " SIR, Nov 1758. 
 
 " The last time I saw you, I had the honour 
 of your hand. I am since surprised to understand 
 that you have carried to the Speaker the interest of 
 
 proprio magis justoque ordine dispomintur. In reliquis ex- 
 purgandis longitis quidem elaboravissenius, si temporis angustiae 
 aliaeqiie curae non impedivissent." J. T. This quotation needs 
 no comment. If this editor had taken the text of Bow) er for his 
 copy instead of that of Johnson, he wotdd have saved himself 
 the trouble of vveeding-out many'oi the typographical blunders 
 he complains of. 
 
 * " You think so justly and generously of the foolish Estimator 
 and his mean rascally railers^ that I shall tell him what you say. 
 I am glad you have done the discourse on Chivalry; for this looks 
 as if you was got forward with the Dialogues." Dr. li'arburton 
 to Mr. Hard, Sept. 3. 1758. 
 
 f This excellent Actor, whose name will ever be held in re- 
 spect by the admirers of theatrical representations, was the son 
 of Peter Garrick, a captain in the army, who generally resided 
 at Litchfield. He was born at Hereford, where his father was 
 on a recruiting party, and baptized Feb. 20, IJUi, '^ appears by 
 the church register of the parish of All Souls in ihat city. His 
 mother's maiden name was Clough, daughter to one of the vicars 
 in Litchheld cathedral. At the age of ten years he was put 
 under the care of Mr. Hunter, master of the granuuar-school at 
 Litchfield ; and very early shewed his attachment to dramatic 
 entertainments, having in the year 1727 represented the charac- 
 ter of Serjeant Kite in the Recruiting Officer with great ap- 
 plause. From school he went to Lisbon, to vii^it his imcle ; but 
 .'stayed only a short time tjieie before he returned to England ; 
 on which he went again to Mr. Hunter: and in 173.5 became 
 the pupil of Mr Samuel Johnson, who about that time under- 
 took to teach the classics to a certain number of young gentle- 
 men. But even under this most able tutor, the vivacity of his 
 character unfitted him for serious pursuit^, and his attachment
 
 1758.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 3I5 
 
 your heart, in behalf of another, to print the Votes 
 for him. You did so, I doubt not, on a report 
 
 to the Drama prevailed over every other object. After a time^ 
 Mr. Johnson grew tired of teaching ; and Mr. GaiTick being 
 desiroixs of a more active life, the tutor and pupil took the reso- 
 lution to quit Litchfield, and try their fortunes in the Metro- 
 polis. They accordingly set out together, on the 2d of March, 
 1736 ; and on the 9th of the same month, Mr. Garrick was en- 
 tered of Lincoln's Inn, it being then intended that the Law 
 should be liis profession. Having had a reconiniendation from 
 Mr. VValmsley to Mr. Colson, master of the school at Rochester, 
 he, on the death of bis uncle, about 1737. went directly thither, 
 with a view to finish his education. In the company of so ra- 
 tional a philosopher as Mr. Colson, he was imi>ei-ceptibly and 
 gradually improved in the talent of thmking and reasoning ; 
 nor were the exaaiple and precepts of so wise a man vainly be- 
 stowed on a mind so acute as that of GaiTick. His father died 
 soon after, and was not long survived by his mother. He then 
 engaged in the wine trade, in partnership with his brother, 
 Peter Ganick } but this connexion lasting but a short time, he 
 resolved to try his talents on the stage and in the summer of 
 1741 went down to Ipswich, where he acted with great applause, 
 under the name of Lyddid. The pait which he fii*^.t performed 
 was that of Aboan, in the tragedy of Oroouoko. After a sum- 
 mer spent in the country^ he determinc-ti to venture on the 
 London stagfe. He had now essayed his p )\vers, and considered 
 himself as worthy to appear in a high form on any theatre ; but 
 it is generally said, that the then director-s of Dnny Lane and 
 Covent Garden could not be infiaced to entertain the -ame sen- 
 timents. He was therefore obliged to accept the offer of Mr. 
 Gifl'ard, master of Goodman's Fields play-house, who engat^ed 
 him; and he made his first appearance thcv. on the 19tn of 
 October, 17-iI, with great success, in the ciiaracter of Jlich^ud 
 the Third. [It appears by Davies's " Life of Cinick," ihat the 
 audience at first were totally at a loss whether to clap or hiss," 
 &c.] This deserves to be insisted on, as it siiews \\u\\ jttle qua- 
 lified people are to judge of any Ciiir^ at first, ^'er wards, 
 when half a dozen ])e()ple had thought proper to declai;: their 
 approbation, then servility, fasliiou, &c. folh.wed of cour.-e, and 
 joined the cry. I know nothing of music ; hut it i- certain that 
 the merit of the Italian music, which, liki" their painting, is 
 undoubtedly the best in the world, was not only not perceived 
 in England at fij'^t. (and in France not yet), but such people ai 
 Addison endeavoured publicly to dicry it as bad. T. F. 
 
 TliC seeing a young man, in no more than his twenty-fourth 
 year, reaching at one single step U) that height of perfection which 
 maturity of years and long practical e\penence had i.ot be<'n 
 able to bestow on the then capital peifbrmers of the l^ng'i>h 
 stage, was a pluenomcnon whicii could not but Ijeconu: the ol)- 
 jefjt of uniNcrsa! -ncculalion, and a:: universal adnuratio)i. The 
 
 theatres
 
 Sl6 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l75B< 
 
 that I was^o print them no more ; a report raised 
 without the least foundation, and propagated by 
 
 theatres towards the court-end of the town were on this occa- 
 sion deserted, persons of all ranks flocking^ to Goodman's Fields, 
 where Mr. Garrick continued to act till the close of the season, 
 when, having very advantageous terms offered him for perform- 
 ing in Dublin during some part of the summer, he went over 
 thither, where he found the same just homage paid to his merit, 
 which he had received from his own coiuitiymen. In the ensu- 
 ing winter, however, lie engaged himself to Mr. Fleetwootl, 
 manager of Drury L;ine playhouse ; in which theatre he con- 
 tinued till the year 1745, in the winter of which he again went 
 over to Ireland, and continued there through the whole of that 
 season, being joint manager with Mr. Sheridan in the du'ectiou 
 and profits of the theatre I'oyal in Smock Alley. From thence 
 he returned to England, and was engaged for the season of 
 1746 with the late Mr. Rich, patentee of Covent Garden. This 
 was his last performance as an hired actor ; for in the close of 
 that season, Mr. Fleetv.ood's patent for the management of 
 Drury Lane being expired, and that gentleman having no incli- 
 nation farther to pursue a design by \^ hich, fi'om his want of 
 acquaintance with the proper conduct of it, or some other rea- 
 sons, he had already considerably impaired his fortime, Mr. 
 Garrick, in conjunction with Mr. Lacy, purchased the property 
 of that theatre, together with the renewal of the patent j and in 
 the winter of 1747, opened it with the best part of Mr. Fleet- 
 wood's former company, and the great additional strength of 
 Mr. Barry, Mrs. Pritchard, and Mrs. Gibber, from Covent Gar- 
 den. In this station Mr. Garrick continued until the year 177^'. 
 with an interval of two years, from 1763 to 176.5, which he 
 devoted to travelling abaoad ; and, both by his conduct as a 
 manager, and his unequalled merit as an actor, from year to 
 year, added to the entertainment of the publick, which with 
 an indefatigable assiduity he consulted. Nor were the publick 
 by any means ungratefid in returns for that aseiduity. By the 
 warm and dese^^ed encouragement which they g-ave him he was 
 raised to that state of ease and affluence, to which it must be 
 the wish of e^ery honest heart to see stiperior excellence exalted. 
 After his return from his travels, Mr. Garrick declined the per- 
 formance of any new character; btit continued (o appear every 
 season in some of his favourite parts until the year 1776 ; when, 
 satisfied with the wealth he had acquired, and the fame which 
 he had established, in familiarity with many of the most re- 
 spectable pereons of the kingdom, ho retired to the enjoyment 
 of repose from the fetigues of his profession, and quitted the 
 stage on the 10th day of June, 17/6, after performing the cha- 
 racter of Don Felix, in ^Vlrs. Centlivre's comedy of The Wonder. 
 At this period the stone, a disorder to which he had been long 
 subject, began to make svich inroads on his constitution, that 
 the happiness which he expected from retirement was often in- 
 
 tenupted.
 
 1758'.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 3I7 
 
 many who wish it true. But might not I have 
 expected from your humanity, from your knowledge 
 
 terrupted, and sometimes destroyed, by the violence of the pain 
 he endured. He had been used to try the eftects of quack medi- 
 cines, to relieve him from the torments which he suffered, and 
 it has been thought that his health received much injuiy frorrt 
 this injudicious mode of tampering with his malady. At Christ- 
 mas 1778 he visited Earl Spencer at Ahhorpe, wheie he was 
 taken ill, but recovered sufficiently to return to London, and 
 died at his house in the Adelphi, after a few days iUness, on the 
 20th of January, 1779. His body was interred with great fune- 
 ral pomp, in Westminster Abbey, on the 1st of Februaiy follow- 
 ing. Mr. Gairick in his person was low, yet well-shaped, and 
 neatly proportioned; and, having added the qualifications of 
 dancing* and fencing to that natiu-al gentility of manner which 
 no art could bestow, but with which our great mother Nature 
 endows many even from infancy, his deportment was constantly 
 easy, natural, and engaging. His complexion was dark, and 
 the features of his face, which were pleasingly regular, were 
 animated by a full black eye, brilliant and penetrating. His 
 voice was clear, melodious, and commanding ; and, although 
 it might not possess the strong overbearing powers of Mr. Mos- 
 sop's, or the musical sweetness of Mr. Bany's, yet it appeared to 
 hav e a ranch greater compass of variety than either ; and, from 
 Mr. Garrick's judicious manner of conducting it, enjoyed that 
 articulation and piercing distinctness, which rendered it equally 
 intelligible, even to the most distant parts of an avidience, in the 
 gentle whispers of murmuring Ioac, the half-smothered accents 
 of infclt passion, or the professed and sometimes awkward con- 
 cealments of an aside speech in comedy, as in the rants of rage, the 
 darings of despair, or all the open violence of tragical cnthusisam. 
 " Were it our office to record the failings of Mr. Garrick, we 
 could only persuade ourselves to observe, that they were chiefly 
 such as are overlooked in characters of less distinguislied opu- 
 lence and celebrity. We forlxjar therefore to violate his fame 
 by a safe but ungenerous rornpitulation of petty errors ; a(kling 
 only, in excuse for his vvell-knov\Ti vanity, that perliaps no man 
 who had been fed with sucli excess of i)raise, wduUI have ex- 
 hibited fewer marks of self-;q>probation. We hope, indeed, we 
 may be foi'given, if we dwell longer on a singular inconsistence 
 in his chanicter, which has been often mentioned, but never 
 fairly staled. He has been loudly praised for liberality, and as 
 loudly censured on the sc('c of avarice. Perhaps the allcrnate 
 predominance of qualities, so opposite i;i the ir natures, may iie 
 thus accounted for. In any exigence lir.it presented itself on a 
 .sudden, he was readily generous, because hs knew benevoien'^'C' 
 was the most popular of virtues, and that rhe exertion of it would 
 
 * I am told that he had no f-i.r fi'r rniisic. ilioMi^h he observed ptjrfLx-t 
 Jinae in d*iu-iji;r. 7'. l-
 
 SlS LitERARY ANECDOTES or [1758* 
 
 of the world, may I add, from the knowledge you 
 M'ere pleased to express of me, that you would have 
 
 be expected from the possessor of a fortune extensive as his own. 
 But this hasty impulse was occasionally blasted by intermediate 
 reflection. Daring the interval that sometimes necessarily passed 
 between the promise and the actual disbursement, the tedious 
 process by which he had acquired a sum equal to that he was 
 expected to part with, impressed itself forcibly on his im;igina<. 
 tion. It was not till then that his disposition inclined to parsi- 
 mony *. This ungraceful narrowness, this inglorious repent- 
 ance, is often detected among those in whose thoughts their 
 own gi-adual advance towards wealth is always uppermost ; and 
 the frequent occurrence of an idea, like this, to Mr. Garrick, will 
 assist us in reconciling the contradictory tales of his deficiency 
 and excess of bounty ; for to deny chat he was sometimes mag- 
 nificent in his donations, would be to refuse his memory a tri- 
 bute that can only be withheld at the expence of notoriety and 
 truth. Such, howe\er, was the fate of his pecuniary fa\'ours, 
 that he often forfeited the gratitude due to them^ through his 
 backwardness in yielding what he had pledged himself to bestow, 
 and did bestow at last. By some, indeed, he has been charged 
 with raising hopes of relief, and finally disappointing them. 
 This charge however, if true, can be imputed only to a stronger 
 and less resistible operation of the cause already mentioned. In 
 the mean time, his example serves to shew us how resolutely we 
 ought to seize the moment that disposes our wavering natures to 
 benevolence, as second thoughts are not always prf)pitioui> to 
 the interests of humanity. We may conclude l>y adding, that 
 deliberation, so useful on many occasions, in respect to poetry 
 and charity, exerted a fatal infiuence over Akenside and Garrick. 
 It unstiomg the lyre of the one, and contracted the heart of the 
 other. Need I say that this paragraph was written by Mr. Steevens ? 
 To Mr. Garrick's reputation as an actor, the concern of the 
 publick at having lost him, bears a stronger testimony than 
 IMLnegyrick, in any other form, could supply. As to his praticn- 
 \a.T forte or superior cast in acting, it would be perhaps as diffi- 
 cult to determine it, as it would be to describe mimitely his 
 several excellences in the very different, parts in whicli he at dif- 
 
 * " Tliere can be little doubt of his avarice, from the general charge > 
 at least it is up-hill work to prove such a one's icenerosity. Generosity is 
 of too great notoriety to be (juesuoned. The ?Iarquls of Granby niig-ht 
 he unjust in the exercise of it, preferably to paying his debts; but nobody 
 makes a doubt whether he was avaricious. The Duke of Marlborough 
 paid his dei'ts, yet it is not a question whether he was generous or no. 
 The fact is, Garrick died worth 140,000/. all of his own getting, in less 
 than 40 years. Suppose he had died worth only 130,000/. would not that 
 have been enough to have left behind khn ? and no doubt 1U,OC)0/. pro- 
 perly bestowed must have established Iiis or Marlborough's fame. 1 
 don't say Garrick was obliged to do this. ]Jut ncitiier is the world ob- 
 liged to admire his geu'-rosity, if he ha'l it not : it is plain they wore 
 Tviiling; enovgh to applaud the merit he undoubtedly possessed." T. F. 
 
 fercnt
 
 3 758.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ^Ip 
 
 inquired into the truth of the report, even at the 
 shop where I had the pleasure of seeing you, before 
 
 ferent times thought proper to appear. Particular superiority 
 was swalloA^ed up in his universality j and should it eveu be con- 
 tended, tliat there have been performers equal to him in their 
 respective casts of playing, yet even tJieir partizans must ac- 
 knowledge, that there never existed any one performer that 
 came near his excellence in so great a variety of parts. Every 
 passion of the human breast seemed subjected to his powers of 
 ex})ression ; even Time itself appeared to stand stUl, or advance, 
 as he would have it. Of this no one can be ignorant who ever 
 saw him in the several characters of Lear or Hamlet, Richard, 
 Dorilas, Romeo, or Lusignan ; in his Ranger, Bays, Drugger, 
 Kitely, Brute, or Benedict. During the course of his manage- 
 ment, the publick were much obliged to him for his indefati- 
 gable labour in the conduct of the theatre, and the pains he took 
 to discover and gratify their taste: and, though the situation of 
 a manager will perpetually be liable to attacks fiom disappointed 
 authors and undeserving performers ; yet, it is appaient, from 
 the barrenness both of plays and players of merit for some years 
 at the opposite theatre, that Mr. Garrick cannot have refused 
 acceptance to many of either kind, that were any way deserving 
 of the town's regard. In short, notwithstanding this is not the 
 age of either dramatic or theatrical genius, the pains he took in 
 rearing many tender plants, added several valuable performers 
 to the English stage, whose first blossoms were far from promis- 
 ing so fair a fruit as they have since produced : and among 
 the several dramatic pieces which made their fiist appearance on 
 the theatre in Drury Lane, there are \'ery few, whose authors 
 have not acknowledged themselves greatly indebted to Mr. Gar- 
 rick for useful hints or ad\'antagecus alterations, to which their 
 success has in great meai^ure been owing. Add to tliis the revi- 
 val of many pieces of t.he more early writers ; })icces possessed of 
 great merit, but which had, either through the neglect or igno- 
 rance of other managers, lain for a long time unemployed and 
 unregarded. But there is one part of theatrical conduct which 
 ought unquestionably to be accorded to Mr. Garrick's honour, 
 since the cauac of virtue and morality, and the formation of 
 public manners, are veiy considerably dependent on it ; and that 
 is, the zeal with wiiich he ever aimed to banisli from the stage 
 all those plays which cany with them an immoral tendency, and 
 to prune from those vvliicli do not absolutely on the whole 
 promote the interests of \icc such scenes of licenticjusness and 
 libertinism as a redundancy of wit and too great liveliness 
 of imagination have induced some of our comic writci-s to in- 
 dulge themselves in, and to which tlie sympathetic disposition 
 of an age of gallantry and intrigue had given a sanction. The 
 .purity of the English stage was certainly much more fully cstab- 
 li-shcd during the ariinini-tration of this theatrical minister than 
 it had ever betu daring jirccedin^j ni.incgements : for what the 
 
 pulilick
 
 S'^0 LITERARY ANECDOTES OT [l758. 
 
 you took such a step, however undesignedly, against 
 me? 
 
 " As you did not design me an injury, so it will 
 be said you have done me none. Sir, I have heard 
 
 publick taste had itself in some measure begim, he, by keeping 
 that taste witlun its proper channel, and feeding it with a pure 
 and untainted stream, seemed to have completed : and to have 
 endeavoured as much as possible to adhere to the promise iriade 
 in the prologue which ^vas spoken at the first opening of that 
 theatre under his direction, 
 
 " Bade scenic virtue form the rising age. 
 And Truth diifiise her i-adiance from the stage." 
 His superiority lo all others in one branch of excellence, how- 
 ever, must not make us overlook the I'ank in which he is en- 
 titled to stand as to another ; nor our remembi-ance of his hav- 
 ing been the Jirst actor living, induce us to forget that he was 
 fer from being the last writer. Notwithstanding the numberless 
 and laborious avocations attending on his profe?r='on as an actor, 
 and his station as a manager, yet still his active genius was per- 
 petually bursting forth in vaiious little productions both dra- 
 matic and poetical, whose merit cannot but make us regret his 
 want of time for more extensive and important works. Of these 
 he has publicly avowed himself the author of thirty-five , some 
 of which are originals, and the rest ti"anslations or alterations 
 from other authors, with a design to adapt them to the present 
 taste of the publick. Besides these. Mr. Garrick was the author^ 
 of an Ode on the death of Mr. Peiham, which, in less than six 
 weeks, ran through four editions. The Prologues, Epilogues, 
 and Songs, which he wrote, ore almost innumerable, and pos- 
 sess a considerable degree of happy conception and execution. 
 It would be in vam to atteinpt any enimieration of them ; and 
 it is less necessary, as we cannot doubt but some one of his sur- 
 viving fnends will take care to give a ("cnnplete edition of his 
 works, in such a manner as will do hor.our to his memoiy. 
 
 The portraits of Mr. Garrick, in his {)rincipal dramatic charac- 
 cters, are numerous 3 and there remains, at !ii? houst in the 
 Adelphi, a V. hole-length, by Hogarth, of Mr. Ganick, sitting at 
 a table, with his wife behind him taking the pen out of his hand ; 
 w ! ich having never Ijecn engi^avcd, though it lu-s been aomewhat 
 hastily cerisured by Mr. Steevens, woiUd on eveiy consideration 
 be a \ aluable present to the publick ; and this is the rather to be 
 wished, as " Mrs. Garxiek, at a period of life when infirmities 
 migiit naturally be expected, still po.^.-;eses the power of delight- 
 ing by the t>riiiiancy of her con\e!sation, which unitrs the expe- 
 rience of age v.ith the liveliest sallies of youth." See the "An- 
 ecdotes of Hogarth," 1809," pp. 20. 258. 
 
 5 See thesf r-r.urnr rated in tlse " Eiogiai'lii.i Pr.Tni'^lica, Xl'il 
 Vrliich the greatc'i uait oi this note wa.s oiiginaliy {i-iutcJ. 
 
 of
 
 1758.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ^^l 
 
 of a person who was blinded while he was blooded, 
 which has been pretty much my case. The standers- 
 by cried out in concern for him, He is Jxiintivg, 
 he is dying ; till at length the poor man died in 
 reality. This remains to be my case. If it should 
 be so, I submit it to you, whether you would not be 
 accessary to the legal death of, Sir, 
 Your most obedient humble servant, W. Eowyer." 
 
 2. Mr. Garrick's answer, without date, but received 
 Nov. 29, 1758. 
 " Sir, I have been in the country, and did not 
 receive your letter till last night. I was much sur- 
 prised at it indeed; and think you have not well 
 considered the matter, or you would not have been 
 so warm in your expostulations. The fact is this 
 I was told by a man whom I regard and would 
 serve with justice, that the person who printed the 
 Votes had resigned it. Upon which, 1 wrote to 
 Mr. George Onslow, the Speaker's son, to recom- 
 mend a person, if the fact was true. Now, Sir, 
 upon my honour, I did not know that i/ou were 
 the Printer of the Votes ; and moreover, if you had 
 been my brother, I could not have acted with more 
 justice or delicacy towards you. If the fact had 
 been true, I should have been willing to serve a 
 person I regarded ; as it was not, there was no harm 
 <]one, and you have not in the least been injured. 
 Though I am always desirous to assist the man I 
 like, and do it zealously ; yet I would not know- 
 ingly do the least injury, I own, to one who had 
 injured me, and much less to Mr. Bowyer. This, 
 I iiutcer myself, is ray real character among those 
 who know me ; and you are really mistaken if you 
 think othcrv/ise of me. I cannot possibly answer 
 the last paragraph of your letter, because I don't 
 understand it * ; but, if you think my letter to Mr. 
 Onslow lias in the least affected your interest, let 
 
 * Mv. Garrick's observation requires some apology to be mack 
 for Mr. Ruwyer ; who evidently wrote in liaste^ for wluCii^ ho',T- 
 evor, his reply iniiLes anjpic mnends. 
 
 Vor. II. Y me
 
 322 tiTERARY ANECDOTES OF [l758. 
 
 me knoWj and I shall as readily repair the mischief, 
 as I have most ignorantly done it. I am, Sir, 
 Your most obedient humble servant, D. Garrick. 
 '^ P. S. I write in great hurry, and you must ex- 
 ruse it." 
 
 3. "To David Garrick, esq. 
 " Sir, Dec. 7, 1753- 
 
 ''As I before acquitted you of any intention to do 
 n\v, an injury; so 1 acknowledge your kind readiness 
 to repair one, if you had unwittingly done me any. 
 1 do so heartily, and the rather, because you have 
 heightened my obligations with that personage to 
 whom you applied, where I w^ould most wish to 
 have them placed. 
 
 *^ On the other hand, you will excuse me, I hope, 
 for remonstrating closely perhaps, but not icarmlif, 
 against suffering your weight and consequence to be 
 made use of, without having a true state of circum- 
 stances laid before you. But I find my sentiments 
 were too cold, whatever my expressions were; and 
 that your heart, in the cause of friendshij), will not 
 stay to weigh minute considerations. Convinced. 
 I humbly bow to that virtue which in your breast 
 scarce knows excess; and if it has any weakness, is, 
 like a complexion from fairness, the more amiable 
 for it. I trust then to the influence of it, as it 
 helieveth all things, that you will now place me in 
 the number of your most obliged humble servants, 
 
 W. BOWYER.'' 
 
 1759. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer printed, 
 
 " Chronographiae Asiaticae et Egy])tiaca; Speci- 
 men; in quo, 1. Origo Chronologia^ LXX Inter- 
 ]jretuni investigatur ; 2. Conspectus totius operi? 
 fxhibetur," 8vo, [by Charles Hayes *, Esq.] 
 
 -' This iriJuslriaus and learned gentleman, ^vho wa.^ known as? 
 an author only to hi intimate friends, and whose remarkable 
 modeaty guarde^d his great erudition from the too conunon 
 foible of ostentation, was born in the year IC78 ; and in 1704 
 
 became
 
 ^755-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ^2^^ 
 
 An Edition of " Theocritus/' 8vo. 
 
 became distinguished by his much esteemed " Treatise of 
 Fluxions," printed that year, in folio, with his name, the only 
 publication to which he ever suffered it to appear. In 17 10 
 came out a small pamphlfet of his, of nineteen pages in quarto, 
 intituled, " A New and Easy Method to find out the Longitude, 
 from the Observation of the Altitudes of the Coelestial Botlies ;" 
 and in 1723 he published, in English, in octavo, " The Moon, a 
 Philosophical Dialogue;" written in the most genteel and polite 
 language, and tending to shew that the Moon is not a mere 
 dark and opake body, but is mistress of no inconsiderable share 
 of light of her own. During a long course of years the manage- 
 ment of the late Royal African Company lay in a manner wholly 
 on Mr. Hayes (he being chosen annually either Sub-governor, 
 or Deputy-governor) ; yet, in tlie midst of these important avo- 
 cations, he spent much time and labour in making piiilosophical 
 experiments, and in gratifying his thfi-st after general knowledge. 
 To his skill in antient and modern languages he added the know- 
 ledge of the Hebrew ; and applied himself assiduously to the an- 
 tient Historians, and with more paiticular attention to the Sacred 
 VV^ritings. Endeavouring to sohe the difficulties which had per- 
 plexed the learned, he laid a plan to reduce all into chronological 
 form, according to 'vhat he thought to be the true order of time. 
 He much admired that translaiion of the Scriptures into Greek, 
 which bears ihe name of the Septuagint: and critically examined 
 the hi-^toiy of that version composed by Aristeas, which had been 
 looked upon by many peisons of great worth and learning as no 
 better than <.' forged story : and wiK-n he had com[)leted hi^ en- 
 quiries on this head, in 1736, he published, in 8vo, "A Vindica- 
 tion of the Hir>tory of the Septuagint" fioni the misrepresenta- 
 tions of its opponents. His next work was a learned piece of 
 criticism, intilule<i, "A critical Exaniinalion (jfliie Holy Gospels 
 according to St. .Matthew 'ind St. Liiki , with regard to the His- 
 tory of the Birth and Infu-ncy of our Lord Jcsu-, Christ, 1738," 
 8vo. He now returned lo his fiivourite study, the settling of 
 titncs; and in 1741 came out his " Dissertii lion oji tlie Chronology 
 of the Septuagint : With an .Vppendix, shewing, that the Clial- 
 dean and Egvpiian Antiquities, hitherto esteemed llibuious, are 
 perfectly consistent with the Computations of ihat niost antient 
 Vei-siou of the; Holy ascriptui'cs," 8vo ; a work of great labour 
 and siigacity, in wiiich tlie ages of the Patriarchs, and the varia- 
 tion there ia in tliis particular between the liebiew, S( ptuagint, 
 and Josephus, are largely considered j a pious i' -gard ia always 
 r<;tained both h;r the Hebrew an vJreek tevt, una xjme con'iec- 
 turcs modeitly offered for tiie in.' :,rily of them both; and those 
 who read this tract will in liie /vpijendix iiud matter sufhcieiit to 
 tatisfy a learned curiosity, anil to make them vit-w ihe Chaldean 
 and E^y])tian hiotoiies in another light tlian that in which tiiey 
 have hitherto appcartxl. .Not coutenled with going thus far, iu 
 1757 lie piiated, hi tlie tame size, "A Supplement" to tlie hi-t- 
 
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 " The Norfolk Dumpliiv eater/' [by the Rev. 
 Mr. Stona], 8vo. 
 
 mentioned Dissertation ; in which he gives a complete series of 
 the kings of Argos and Athens from Inachns, to the tiist year of 
 the first Olympiad ; and likewise of the old emperors of China, 
 from Fohi to the birth of Christ ; and at the same time shews 
 that the chronology of all these nations i>erfectly agrees with 
 the Septuagint. These, excejjting some occasional tracts ia 
 defence of the Royal African Company) are all the English works 
 of this learned and indefatigable author. A period being put to 
 the affairs and existence of tlie Old African Company in 1752, Mr. 
 Hayes found himself happily exonerated from that burden, which, 
 though he had long supported it, jet was not altogether suitable 
 to his inclinations. He had just before this purchased a pretty 
 retirement at Do^^ n in Kent, and, withdrawing thitlier, gave 
 himself up wholly to his beloved studies. He had now leisure to 
 look over his papers, and revise them ; and to consider what 
 materials he had already provided for his grand design ; and, as 
 ap})ears by the date on the manuscript, which he did not 4ive to 
 publish, he began in May 1753 to compile, in Latin, his "^Chro- 
 nographia Asiatica et iEgy|jtiaca." This was a laborious under- 
 taking for a person of 75 years of age ; but it j)leased God, not- 
 withstanding his recluse and sedentary life, to bless him with 
 tolerable health, aiid to preserve his intellects clear and strong 
 till within a few days of his death. The last date annexed to 
 this I^atin manuscript is 175G j so .that probably he finished it 
 in that year or soon after. In August 1758, he left Ids house 
 in Kent, and, for the sake of his health and of some more agree- 
 able conversation than that retired place could afford him, beihg 
 now about SO years of age, took chambei-s in Gray's Inn ; and 
 there, in 1759, he shewed, as he said, that he had not led an in- 
 dolent Hfe in the country, by acquainting the learned world with 
 what he had done, in his "Chronograpliia." Under the first part 
 he shews, that both the Seventy Interpreters and Josepluis took their 
 system of chronology from several antient wi'itings (distinct from 
 tiie sacred books of the Old Testament), which had for many age.> 
 been carefully preserved by the priests, in the library belonging 
 to the Temple of Jerusalem. [" Joscphus, who wi'ote to the 
 Heathens, might take his authority from whence he would } but 
 the Septuagint, who were only translators of a sacred Book, how 
 coidd they dare to substitute different numbers than their origi- 
 nal? And why would Jewish priests j;reserve with care in the 
 Temple writings which clash vsith the Bible, when they hardly 
 preserved that ? The Miihometan Ger.eral srid better, that the 
 MSS. in the Alexandrian Museum either agreed with, or contra- 
 dicted, the Coran ; in the first case they were useless, in the 
 l;vst hurtfid, and therefore in either case to be burnt. T. /<!]" 
 The second is a simmiary view of the v^hole great work, which 
 he left behind him in mamiscript, in a lai'ge folio size, all writ- 
 tea with his own hand, aijd that a suiprisingly fair and clean 
 
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 "An, Essay on Taste, by Alexander Gerard, M.A. 
 Professor of Moral Philosophy at Aberdeen, with 
 
 one, which neilher discovers any weakness of nerves, nor any of 
 those tremors incident to advanced age. This work, in the pre- 
 face to his specimen, he .^ays he hath happily finished 3 and give* 
 the title of it in the foliowina: manner : " Novum aggressi sumus 
 opus ; quod jam, auxiiiante Deo, feliciter absolvinms sub hoc 
 titido : Chronographia Asiatica & Jigyj)tiaca ab orbe condito 
 ad Christum natum per annos 5500, ad fidem scriptorum vetus- 
 tissimorum restituta et ilivistrata." The learned author did not 
 long survive the publication of this specimen, dying at his cham- 
 bers in Gray's Inn, Dec. 18, I76O, in his 82d year. I owe this 
 account of Mr. Hayes to a letter from an anonymous fiiend of 
 his, who had been indulged with a perusal of most of his writings 
 before they were sent to tiie press, with the liberty of imj)artui^ 
 his sentiments on them. " If I difibred in any thing from him 
 (says this friend), as I could not espouse all his opinions, and 
 never made him a compliment of my own, he would reply in so 
 mild a manner, that I never left him without admiring his great 
 fund of learning, the clear method in which he explained his 
 mind, and his scilate and serene temper." " When he presented 
 me with the printed specimen," says the anonymous Letter- 
 v,'riter, " I was thereby fiunished wiih a proper opportunity of 
 pressing him to begin the pulilication of the large work, telling 
 him it could never come Dut with equal advantage from aay 
 other hands, but those who composed suid wTOte it. It is no 
 wonder if the weighty labour of attending the press did, at his 
 time of life, deter him from undertaking it : but he was so fat 
 from neglecting this valuable periormance, that he enjoined his 
 worthy executor to put all his papers on this subject into the 
 hands of one who should either usher them into the world, or 
 collect them together", revise them, and ))ut tiie book into such a 
 condition as it might not be thought an insignificant present to 
 a public library in one of the universities. In short, after the 
 deatli of my friend, the papers were reconiiuended to my care, 
 however unequal to the task, and were carefully read over by 
 me : but, as they consisted mostly of loose quires, and partly of 
 loose sheets, and some of these were by hiin copied over more 
 than once, it was no little ti'ouble to collate them, and required 
 some judgment to distinguish which of those copies (uhicli were 
 not complete dujilicates, for they varied from each other) should 
 5tand as a part of the work : and tiiis I was to determine, some- 
 times from tbe date, where there was one annervcd, wliich dis- 
 covered which V. as his last thought ; ami sometimes from other 
 intiinsic considerations. I often met with correctidns and addi- 
 tions on the back of a slieet, wliieh I though; would be much 
 more authentic anrl satisfactory if they were left standing there 
 in the author's own hand-writing, than to transcrilie and insert 
 them in ihe'r proper places. And I was verv cautious of letting 
 n)y hand uppear in the work, except wliere correcting a mi.^takfn 
 letter or v.'.-rd, transcriljing of some slip of paper, or adding a 
 
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 three Dissertations on the same Subject, from the 
 French of M. De VoUaire, M. D'Alembert, F. R. S. 
 and M. De Montesquieu *," 8vo. 
 
 ^^ Moral aud PoUtical Dialogues ; bein^ the Sub- 
 stance of several Conversations between divers emi- 
 
 few lines by \vay of correction, required it. This elaborate 
 work consists of two parts ; the former, which is much the 
 largest, is a kind of Introduction or Prolegomena. The second 
 is styled, Canon Chronicus Generalls. These chronological tables, 
 in collateral columns, shew in one view the several contemporaiy 
 monarchs, and the times in which they lived. The first part of 
 it begins Avith the creation of the world, and ends at the founding 
 of the Temple of Jerusalem by Solomon. The second extends 
 from thence to the seventh year of Artaxerxcs Longimanus, 
 King of Persia. And here the Author's manuscript leaves off; 
 and the chronology of 455 years is wanting to complete the 
 design, which was to have been brought down to the year of the 
 world 5500 ; in which he fixes the birth of Christ. Tliis defi- 
 ciency I ha\ e endeaA oured to supply, as well as I could, accord- 
 ing to the Author's system, and have bound it up at the end of 
 the manuscript. In that part of the chronology in the Author's 
 writing, are several valuable notes, for explaining difiiculties 
 which occan'ed. Having thus discovered the true Author of the 
 above-named treatises, and made it known that the original 
 inanuscrij>t copy of this elaborate work, of neai- three hundred 
 pages in a largo folio, is now in being, and in safe hands, in the 
 condition above related, I think it time to conclude my long 
 lettf^r with one obser\a;ion concerning the usefulnass of it to 
 the curious searchers after the true doctrine of times. The 
 variation in the two co'nputations is very great, and learned 
 men have taken different sides in determining the important 
 question. What my sentiments are in this point is not material, 
 nor need I say which of the sides is nov.- n.ore generally espoused : 
 but as both of them are attended \vith no inconfeiderable difii- 
 culties, those whu take part with the Greek chronolo.;ists will 
 here iricet with the obiections of their opponents coolly silted 
 into, and all ta~ arguments in favour of the .Se.ptua5,i:)t; account 
 set in a strong and clear light : and those who receiA-e the Hebrew 
 computation will perhaps find something, before new to them, 
 urged against their opinion, which they will think worth',- of 
 their consideration, if not of an answer. A third sort, who are 
 unwilling to enter into a controversy of this nature, will here 
 meet with a greater store of Eastern and Eg yAmn history and 
 antiquities, laid down in a concise and ri-:i>tcrly way, and 
 founded on substantial authority, than any cnluT book of this 
 bulk v,ill afford them." Geqt. Mag. 17>;i, vol. XXXI. p. 543. 
 
 * This Essay was corrected through the press by the celebrated 
 David Hume ; who at that time had a temporary residence in 
 Lisle-street, Leicester-fields, where I frequently visited bim. 
 
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 nent Persons of the past and present Age ; digested 
 by the Parties themselves, and now first pubhshed 
 from the original Manuscripts ; with critical and 
 explanatory Notes by the Editor ;" 8vo. This in^ 
 genious volume was the production of Mr. Hurd ; 
 and contains four Dialogues, on Sincerity, Retire- 
 ment, the Golden Age of Elizabetli, and the Con- 
 stitution of the English Government *. 
 
 A "Treatise on Fluxions, bv Israel Lyons-I^j jun." 
 Svo. 
 
 * OF this Work, Dr. Waiburton says, "Dec. 14, 1758. " I 
 took down with me [to Prior Park], as I told you, all that 
 you had printed, to*the 208th i)age. If the Work does not take, 
 I shall think the times abandoned to their evil genius. I have read 
 to the 116th page, and find not a word to alter." Just after this 
 period one of those distressing (but not uncommon) accidents hap- 
 pened the loss of a parcel containing a part of the unprinted MS- 
 To this Dr. Warburton alludes^ when he observes, Jan. 30, 1759, 
 *' I am sorry your papers are not yet fomidj" and, Feb. 17^ " I was 
 in hopes that, on coming to Leicester, you would have had in- 
 telligence of your paper's. As that is not the case, you ought 
 immediately to advertise them, with a slight reward, as things of 
 no use hut to the owner. I can say this, after twenty years' exist- 
 ence, of the sheets of the Divine Legation ; and sure you may 
 say it of things not in esse, but in posse. However, we will both 
 hope they may be of nse to posterity. Seriously, Dr. Biich tells 
 me (for your loss makes much noise, so much does the malignity 
 of men delight in mischance) that 'tis very probable the packet 
 will be presently brought to you by sucli an advertisement." 
 The Printer received a few days after the follovving billet : 
 " Dr. W. has received a lettei' from Dr. H. who desires tliat 
 Mr. Millar or Mr. Bowjer would put into tiie jjapers an adver- 
 tisement for lost papei's, with a rea.sonable reward, as of no use 
 but to the person to whom they wei-e directed. Tuesdaij mont- 
 ing, Feb. 27 < 1759. Mr. Howyer, I would have this put in 
 directly. A.Millar. 2S Feb." N. B. Tlie papeis, which had 
 been mislaiid in tlie country, were soon after sent to Mr. Bowyer 
 by an miknown hand. 
 
 t Mr. Lyons was son of a Polish Jew silversmith, and teacher 
 of Hebrew, at Cambridge ; wliere he was I torn, IJ.iy. In Ids 
 earliest vouth he sliewed :'. wonderful inclination to learning, 
 particularly to matheinaticks; but though Dr. Smiiii, Lite niaster 
 of Trinity college, offered to pvU him to scluio! at his own ( x- 
 {)ence, he would go oidy a day or two, saying, he could learn 
 more by himself in an hour than in a tlay with hi-^ master. \lc 
 began his study of Botany in 1/55, whiih he continued to his 
 death ; and could remember not only the J>inna'an names of 
 almost all the English plant'-, but even th'j synonyma (jI" the old 
 
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 " A Review of a Free Enquiry into the Origin of 
 Evil," [by the Rev. Richard Shepherd*, M.A.J 8vo. 
 
 Botanists, which foraa a strange and barbarous farrago of gi-eat 
 bulk ; and liad lai'ge material.^ for a Flora CantabrigiensLs, describ- 
 ing fully every part of each plant from the life, without being obT 
 liged to consult, or being liable to be milled by, foraier authors. 
 In 1758 he published the above treatise on Fluxions, dedicated 
 to his patron. Dr. Smith; and in 1763 " Fasciculus Piantaruni 
 circa Can tabrigiam nascentlum quae post Raium observat fuere," 
 8vo. Mr. Banks (now Sir Joseph Banks, bart. and president of 
 the Royal Society), whom he fii-st instnxcted in this science, 
 sent for him to Oxford, about 1765 or 1763, to read lectures ; 
 which he did with great applause, to at least sixty pupils ; but 
 could not be prevailed upon to make a long absence from Cam- 
 bridge. He had a salary of ICO/, per annum for calculating tho 
 *' Nautical Almanack," and frequently received presents iVom 
 the Boaid of Longitude for his own inventions. He could read 
 Latin and French with eiise, but v^rote the former ill ; had stu- 
 died the Er^lish history, and could quote whole pa.ssages from 
 the monkish wiiters veroaiini. He was appoiiitcd by the Board 
 of longitude to go ^vith Ca])t. Piiipps (now Lord Pvlulgrave) to 
 the North Pole, in 1773, and dischaiged that omce to (.he satii^ 
 faction of his employers. After his return, he marrieil, and 
 settled in London, wliei-e he died of the nieazles, in about a 
 year. He was then eiigagcJ in ])ublishing some . papers of 
 Dr. Halley. His " Calculations- in Spherical Trigononietiy 
 abridged," were ]>rinted in Phil. Tvan*. vol. LXI. art. 46. 
 
 * Of Corpu.3 Chrisli colk'ge, Oxford ; where he proceeded 
 M. A. 1757; B.D. 17c5; and D.D. l/bS. KewasF.R. S. arch- 
 deacon of Bedfoid, and rector of Wethcrden and Helminghaui, 
 both in SuiTolk, and gixen him by Lord Chancellor Tnur- 
 low. He was an instance of very considei-able eiiidition imiled 
 with rare conde.^ceiision ; and, thuugli he filled an office of 
 dignity in the C!;''jvch, he was not the less attentive to the 
 humbler but equrJly important datics of a parish-priest. His 
 publications, which v.ere various, all breathe the s[>iril of a 
 mild licnevolence, and evi'.ice ihe liberal and enlightened Divine^ 
 added to the pious arid nitional Philosopher. His first publication 
 was, an excellent -'Ode to Lo'.e/' whicli aj'.pearLd in l7-'>6, and 
 was rcpublisl'.cd uiider the tillc of "The Philologist." He A\a.s 
 also author nf the " Rcvi.-w of a Free Enquiiy into the IMature 
 and Origin of Evd, 175.0,' 8vo. "^Odcs Descriptive and Allego- 
 rical," 1761, 4to. " The Nuptials, a Didactic Poem, in Three 
 Bocks, 17G2," lio. Letter:, to the Author of "A Free Enquiry 
 into the Natare and Origin of Evil. To which aic added, Three 
 Discoitrses : 1. On Conscience ; 2. On Inspiration; 3. On a 
 Paradisaical State ; 17(;.S," l'3mo. "Hector, a Draraatic Poem, 
 1770," iiu. " Requisition of Subscription to tlic XXXIX Ar- 
 lieles ar.d Litu'T;}-," a Sermon, Ord. v. 1, 1771, -llo. " Binnca, 
 a Trag"dv, l"'o," Svo, A Sermon on Con.-eicnce, 1776, Rom. 
 
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 Mr. Miirdin s " Collection of State Papers/' folio. 
 ^llie publication of this Work, which had been 
 long delayed through the pecuniary difficulties of 
 the Kditor *, was at length completed in conse- 
 quence of the following agreement : '^ Mr. Bowyer 
 
 ii, 14, 15, 8vo. A Sermon on Inspiration, preached on Whit- 
 Sunday, 17/'(>s Svo. "Concio de Statu Paradisi," at Oxford, 
 1776", Eccles. vii. 30. " Miscellanies," 2 vols. Svo, 1776. "The 
 Dying Hero, 177?/' 4to. " Free Exaniination of the Socinian 
 Exposition of the prefatory Verses of St. John's Gospel, 1783," 
 Svo. " An Essay on Education, in a Letter to "William Jones, 
 Esq. 1784," 4to. "The Ground and Ci"edibility of tlie Christian ' 
 Ilelirion, in a Coui-se of Sermons preached before the LJaiversity 
 of Oxford, at the Bamptoa Lecture, 17b8," 4to. " Polvajnus* 
 Stratagems of War, tran^ilatcd from the original Greek, 1793," 
 4to. "Two Sermons on a Future Str.te, 1797," 8vo; re-printed, 
 with a Third Sermon, 1799. "A Charge to the Reverend the 
 Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Bedford, delivered at the Easter 
 Visitation, ISO I," 4to. " Notes, Critical and Exjjlaaatory, on 
 the Gospel and Epistles of St. John, 1804," 4to 5 the -magmim 
 ofjusQ? X\\h learned and original iuithor. A volume of " Sermons, 
 180G," Svo. " The New Bocthius ; or, of the Consolations of 
 Christianity, ISOfcl," Svo ; inscribed to his Brother, the Rev. 
 Henry Shepherd, B.D. rector cf Brandburton, "in memory of 
 an excellent Father, \vlio formed their minds on those p^rinciples 
 which only can sustain the siiocks of Adversit}' with fortitude ; 
 as a pledge of fraternal afiection ; and a tribute to a studious life 
 pa.ssfid ia pjivatc; and to those virtues witli which he has adorned 
 the shades of obscurity." " Religious Union perfective, and the 
 Support of Civil Union, 1S07," Svo. His latest publication ivas 
 " No False Alarm; or, a Sequel to Religious Union, &c.; being 
 the Re-ult of a Parochial Visitation through the Arclideaconiy of 
 Bedford," 8vo, He published also, sevex'al years ago, a Latin 
 Poem, in quarto, piirited for Flexncy, the title of which I do 
 not Recollect, but b.e'ieve it was on the Imuiortalitv of the Soul. 
 Yift is also said (and I believe on good author!' y) to be the author 
 of "Canons of Ciilicism, extracted iroui the Beauties of Maiy's 
 Review," publislud in 17S4, Svo. lie died San. 3, 1809, at the 
 jjar^onage at Wcllierdcii, to. Suffolk, in hib iStli \ear, after aa 
 illnes.'^ of three days, 
 
 * "Sir, I am a subscriber to the 1A volume of the Burle.y 
 Papers, by Mui'din. 1 paid a guinea 10 \)\-. l>ircii. 1 desire 
 you would pay the 'i<l jjayi k nt foi' me, [vaA <c\\d liie Book in 
 boards to my hfui.-e in Cirosveno)--squar;. I hope we shall soon 
 have the 2d volunic df Dr. Jonin's J^ife oi' Eiusmu-*. It is hard 
 to know what the fantastic publick would have: i)ut thi.s I know, 
 I he first volume giv!S us tlie fur bt ;.t account we have yet of Enis- 
 jnuo [see p. 331], I am, Sir, vour very humble servant, W.\\'." 
 
 Bp. jju/iuiiu:: to m'. l'j;.';/,,,-. Juii.'::, \:3'j. 
 
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 and to deliver them when printed, on receiving the 
 subscription-money which fhall remain unpaid when 
 the book is finished, and on being paid for printing 
 the last 50 sheets, exclusive of the said subscription- 
 money *." 
 
 176^0. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bovvyer superintended a second 
 edition of Mr. Arnald's " Critical Commentary upon 
 the Book of the Wisdom of Solomon," and enriched 
 it with the remarks of Mr. Markland ; of which lei 
 us take his own account: " In this edition, the Rea- 
 der will observe that the many additions communi- 
 cated to the Author by a very learned Friend are 
 included in hooks, which he designed to have melted 
 down into the body of his work, and to have ac- 
 knowledged, no doubt, his obligations to the person 
 that sent them. But he had executed this design 
 in part only, the observations being transcribed no 
 further than Chap. IX. and the original copy of 
 them not found among his papers. This loss has, 
 by good fortune, been supplied by another Friend ^l^, 
 through whose hands the observations were trans- 
 mitted to him, and who was indulged the liberty 
 of taking a copy of them for himself; from whence 
 they are now given to the publick. They correct 
 often mistakes of the Author; which it was thought 
 proper to continue as he left them, that the Reader 
 might the better judge of the force of the remarks, 
 and that a liberty might not be taken after his death, 
 which himself only, while alive, had a right to make 
 use of." 
 
 " The Actor," a poem by Robert Lloyd :|:, M. Av 
 4to. 
 
 * From the original. 
 
 t Mr. Bowyer. 
 
 X Son otDr.PierEonLlonl (who was second master of \\estmin- 
 ster school, afterwardsChancellor of York, and port ionist ofWad- 
 desdon, Bucks; and whose learning, judgment, and niodei'ation. 
 endeared liim to all who partook of his instvuction^^ during a 
 
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 course of almost 50 years spent in tlie service of the pnblicli at 
 Westminster school. He had a pension from his Majesty of 
 4001. a year for his own life ; and died Jan. 5, 1781. The pen- 
 sion ceased on his death; btit 1(30^. a year, I am told, v. as afterwards 
 granted to his widow, and 50L a year to each of his two daughters. 
 But I am not certain of the sum ; as others say it Avas only 50^. 
 to the widow). Robert was educated, under his father, at \Vest- 
 minster; and was thence admitted of Trinity college, Cambridge, 
 and took the degree of B. A. 1 7 55 ; and M. A. 1758" At the Uni- 
 veraity, as at Westminster, he distinguished hiniself by his poetical 
 genius and (soiry I am to add) by his irregularities. lie wjis for 
 some time employed as one of the ushers of Westminster school, 
 where he wrote the Poem wliich gave occasion to this note, Avhich 
 not only gave proofs of great judgment in the subject he was treat- 
 ing of, but had also the merit of sraooth ver=iiicaLi<m and areat 
 strength of poetry. In the beginning of the Poetical \Var, 
 which for some time raged among tlie Wits of that age, and to 
 which the celebrated Rosciad bounded the tir?t ch.arge, ?ilr. Lloyd 
 was suspected to be the autlior of that ])oem. But this he ho- 
 nestly d\so\vned, by an advertisement in the jjvl>lic papers ; on 
 wiiicii occasion the real author, Mr. Churclnll, boldly stepped 
 forth, and in the s:ime public manner declared hin:sclf; ar.d 
 drew on that torrent of Anvi-Rosciad'^, Apologic-^, Murphiads, 
 C'hurchilliads, Examiners, &c. which for a long time kept up 
 the attention, and employed the geniuses, of the greatest pait 
 of the critical world. After Mr. Llo^d quitted his place of 
 usher of \\ estminster school, he relied entirely on his pcii for 
 subsistence 5 but, being of a tlioughi:Iess and extravagant dir^po- 
 fcition, he soon made himself liable to debts \vhich he wa> tmable 
 to answer. In consecpience of this situaticm, he was coniined in 
 the Fleet Prison, where he depended for sup'port ahnost wholly 
 on the bounty and generosity of his friend Churcliill, v, l.ose 
 kindness to him coiitinued undiminished during all his neces- 
 sities. On the death of tiiis liberal benefactor, Mr. Lioy<i sutik 
 into a state of despondency, which put an end to iiis existence, 
 on the 15th of December, 17G-1, in kss than a month after he 
 was informed of the loss of l\Ir. Cliurchill. IMr. Wilkes savs, 
 J.hat "Mr. Lloyd was mild and att'able in }/riv;ite lift', of gentle. 
 manners, and verv engaging in convtr.-atiijn. fie wr.s an ex^'e!- 
 lent '-rholar, and an ea^-' natural j;oet. ' lis ])eenl;ar fxcelleiK-e was, 
 the ores ing uj) an old thought in a i.ev., r.rat. :iiid trim inanii''; . 
 He was contented to scami>er roini<i the fooi of I'an'as-u- on liir 
 little Welsh ))one\ , wiiich stems ne\(r to li.i\e tirt d. Me it!*! 
 the furv of the; winged steed, and the dating iiei^-lii^ <i!" lii'- 
 sacnd nioimtain, io the s\iblime giiiins of hi-, lVien<l ( hurcidll," 
 A piu'tial colJeetion f)f his ])oetieai \\<ih-^ was niiKic bv !)r. Ken- 
 rick, in two vohimcs, ^vo, 177 J ; an.l a i.-(.(u\ imitation l;\ hiin. 
 ;Vom " The yj)CClator,'" iii.iy he ^^r^n in thf ."^ 'veiuh V'clunie ni 
 
 li'e
 
 338 LITfiRARY ANECDOTES or [l/fiO. 
 
 " Antient and Modern Rome, a poem, written at 
 Rome in 1755, by George Keate*, Esq." 4to. 
 
 the "Select Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, 1781," p. "2^3. 
 He was also the Autlior of " The Capricious Lovers," a comic 
 opera, 17 6-t, Svo; and of four other dramatic worlts. His imi- 
 tation of Tlieocritus, on the King's going to the House, deserves 
 much praise. 
 
 * This gentleman was descended from Sir George Hungerford, 
 his gix'at-grandfather, by Lady Frances Duchc, only daughter of 
 Francis Lord Seymour, and born at Trowbridge, about 1799 07 
 1730; educated at Kingston-school, under Mr. Woudison, wtience 
 he went to Geneva, and stayed there some years ; and at iris re- 
 turn was articled as a clei'k to the late Mr. Palmer, steward to 
 the Duke of Bedford ; whence he removed, as a student, to the 
 Inner Temple, and was called to the bar. He was elected F.R.S. 
 17 . . , and F. A. S. 1766. Soon after his return fiom his travels 
 he published, 1. "Antient and Modern Rome, 1760; a Poem 
 written at Rome, 1755." 2. "An Account of the Government, 
 Histoiy, and Laws, of Geneva, 1761," 8vo. 3. "Epistle from 
 Lady Jane Grey to Lord Guildf(jrd Dudley, 1762." 1. " The 
 Alps, a Poem, 1763." 5. " Netlcy Abbey, 17G-I ;" enlarged 
 1769. 6. " The Temple Student, an Epietle to a Friend, 
 1765," 4to. Whether the history of the Auti>or, prefixed, 
 be his own life (allovting for hjs death, there ment":)ncd to 
 sustain the disguise), cannot be ascertained. 7. A Poem on the 
 death of Mrs. Cibber, I766." 8. " Ferney, an F^pistle to 
 M. de Voltaire, 1769," 4to. 9. " The JMonunsent in Arcadia, a 
 Dramatic Poem, in Two Acts, 1773," 4to, founded on a picture 
 of Poussin, representing some Arcadian shepherds and shep- 
 herdesses contemplating a monument, inscribed Et in Arca- 
 dia ego. 10. " Sketches from Nature, taken and coloured in 
 a Journey to Margate, Published from the original Designs. In 
 Two Volumes, 1779," 12mo. 11. " Observations on the Roinan 
 Earthen-ware found in the Sea on the Kentish Coast, l^etween 
 VVhitotable and Rocalver, on the Borders of the Isle of I'hanet," 
 17S0, printed in "Arciicxilogia," \ol.\L p. 123. 12. "Epi.stle 
 to Angelica KauiTman, 1781." 13. In inij year he coUected his 
 Poetical Vv'urks, in two volumes, 12nio, with a dedication to 
 Dr. Heberdcn, and an excellent likene.-.s of himself, by Pott and 
 Shenvin ; and witii additions, the principal of which w-as " 'i'he 
 Helvetiad, a FnigviK-'it, wiiu.cn at (ieneva, 1756." 14. "The 
 Distressed Poet, a serio-comic Poem, in Three Cantos, 17S7," 
 stating the principal circauislances of his case in the long and 
 vexatious law-suit which he WJis engaged in wiiii an Arehittct 
 who professed himself his friend. He wrote several Pi-ologues 
 and Epilogues for Mr. Xewconie's scliolars at H;ickncy. Some 
 com[}lia.icntary Verses by him are io be foimd in tlic Euro|>t^an 
 Magazine ; and he had adapted Voltaire's Seniirauiis to the 
 stage, which was super.-eded at Drury Lane, 1777, by ('apt. 
 Avscough. Perhaps^ hfr.\-ever, the " Account of the Pelew
 
 1760.] THE EIGPITEENTH CENTURY. 333 
 
 " De Soils ac Liinae Defectibus, Libri V; P. Ro- 
 gerii Boscovich* Societatis Jesu, ad Regiam Socie- 
 tatem Londinensem. Ibidem autem et Astronomiae 
 Synopsis et Theorema Luminis Nevvtoniana, et alia 
 multa ad Physicam pertinentia, V ersibus pertractan- 
 tur ; cum ejusdem Auctoris Amiotationibus," 4to. 
 
 " An Account of a Copper Table, <kc. by Philip 
 Carteret Webb -j-, Esq." 4to. 
 
 " The Latin Inscription on the Copper Table, 
 discovered in the Year 1732, near Heraclea, in the 
 Bay of Tarentum, in Magna Greecia, and published 
 by Mazochius at Naples, in the Year 1758, more 
 particularly considered and illustrated ; by John 
 Pettingall j, D. D. read at the Meeting of the Society 
 
 Islands," which he drew np and published, 1788, 4to, is a more 
 lasting monument to his fame than all the preceding volumes, 
 Mr. Keate married, in 17G9, a sister of Sir Charles Grave Hud- 
 son, of Wanlip, co. Leicester, bart. j and died June 28, 1/97, 
 leaving one daughter, Chai'iotte, ^^ho was married, June 9, 
 1795, to John Henderson, esq. of the Adelphi-terrace. 
 
 * This work was wTitten at various periods ; a })art of it hav- 
 ing been publicly recited at Ro.ne in 1735. The judicious Au- 
 thor's learning and genius (to use an expression of Dr. Johnson) 
 ha^e " laboured Science into Poetry, and Inive shewn, ijy ex- 
 plaining Astronomy, that Vei-se did not refuse the ideas of Phi- 
 losophy." Father Boscovich was aRerwards professor of astro- 
 Jioniy at Milan. 
 
 t See an account of Mr. Webb in p. !279- Mr. Hodgson, 
 noticed in }). '2Sl, as tutor to Mr. Webb's son, came on this 
 occasion frc;>j Queen's college, Oxford ; and took liis degree of 
 M. A. at Cam'.jridge, 17rjo. He was also F. S. A. and private tutor, 
 while of Benet college, to the late l^iarl of Massaieene. The 
 dissertation on an antient Cornelian, in the possession 01 .Tohn 
 Lawson, esq. in the Archijcologia, vol. 11. p. i'2, was written by 
 him. He was presented, by Mr. Webb's interest, to a living in 
 Barbadoes, where he died, 176' I. The author of ;his siiort note 
 is sorry he cannot do greater justice to the character of tiiis ir;i}J, 
 unaffected, excellent scholar. 
 
 + Of Bene't college, Cambridge, M.. A. 17^'>- He was minister 
 of the chapel in Duke-street, Westminster ; and ])i'ebe;ulary of 
 Sneating in St. Paul's eatliedral. He was elected 1'. S.A. \7^''; 
 and puljlished, in 17;''7, "A Dissertauon on the (Jrigin of the 
 Equestrian Figm(; of St. (korgc and of the Garter, ICnsigns of 
 the most uoi.iie Order of th:ir.Nam(>; illustrated with Copjjer- 
 plates," 4t"> ; tlie substance of whicli may be. fo\md in Browne's 
 " ^'ulgar Errors," where the learned Autiior supjjoses it to be all 
 erablciuutical" (Dr. Pegge, A);onymiana, ix. <J1.) The same 
 
 in-
 
 534 tiTERARY ANECDOTES OF [ijGO, 
 
 of Antiquaries the first of May, 17(jO, and ordered 
 to be printed," 4to. 
 
 The Second Volume * of Dr. Jortin's " Life at 
 Erasmus -j-," 4to. 
 
 fntelligent Antiquary remarks (iii. 67), that Dr. Pettingall (in his 
 Dissertation) has these words, " of which (that is, of Tiyphon's 
 being a serpent) more may be seen in the Mythology of Nafalis 
 Comes, and Noel dc Comfe ;" as if these were two dift'erent per- 
 sons, ^v^. nas ;hc former is the Latin name, and tlie latter the 
 French ramc of the same person. In the ArchaM)logia also 
 (vol.V. })- ;?) Dr. Pegff:e takes considerable pains to overturn the 
 hyj/OLiicsi ^ of Dr. Peitingall cm the .subj'i'ct of St. George. In 
 17>0 Dr. rott:i:gall coinmunicated to the Society of Antiquaries 
 the Reraivks or. the Latin Inscription noticed above; and a 
 " Dissertatioi^ on tlie Courts of P} powder" whifh is printed in 
 the A!f'b;colo^'i, vol. !, p. 190; in l7Ct2 "A Di-sseitation on the 
 Gule of. gust," ibid. - ol. H. p. GO. In 17G4 he published ""A 
 DissertuU' : U]h:.\ ihe Tascia, or Legend, on the British Coins 
 t)f Cuno:-j. a and others," 4to. See a critique on it in the 
 Anonjiniana (vii. 5.';). In ITGGlic communicate i to the Society 
 of Anti(iuarie.s ' Observations on an Altar villi a Greek Inscrip- 
 tion at Covbridgc in Cuaiberland" (Arch^cologia, vol.11 p. 92). 
 He jjubbshed aUo " An Enqiury into tlie Use and Practice of 
 Juries among the Greeks and Romans: from whence the Origin 
 of the iu:tgli^h Jury may possibly !)e deduced ; in Three Parts," 
 17G9, -ivj. lie died in July l/Sl, aged about 6G. 
 
 * !\'ir. Bowytr made an Inde.v to this volume as it passed 
 throu^ih iiie press, which is printed at large in his " Miscellane- 
 ous Tracts ;" 4to. 
 
 t I'u the first \oliiine of this Work (which was not printed by 
 Mr.BowAvr, but by Mr. Kdvvard Say) the following remarks al- 
 lude : ' Poor Era-iiius, after all iiis undescr\cd abu. .>, has just 
 now found two Historians to record those abuses ; Burigny in 
 French, and )our old friend Jortin (I call him youi-s, for j ou 
 took him off my hands, wh'^n seivices C(juld not mend lum, to 
 try if just and delicate reproof could) ; 1 would ha\'e you read 
 these i)eiformanc:.s : I dare say they will amuse you. Burigny's 
 is well written, which I have read; and so I dare say will Jortin's 
 be, which I h?ive not read. Though from the rancour of liis 
 heart, I predict it wiil be full of ooiique reflections, and, if you 
 \ndge fi-om his motto, fall of self-nnportance." Dr. Warhi'.rton 
 to Dr. Hard, Sept. 18, 1758 (see p. 329). " Your last letter sets 
 tlie pool- n!an"b critici.->m in a M;ry ridiculous light, but certainly 
 not u false one. How doubly ridiculous n.ust it be, if it be ground- 
 less ; which it certainly is ; and vvliii-h you ])artly hiiit at. It 
 stands on this grammatical princijjlc, that if one Latin adjective 
 cannot be used ad\erbiaily, no other, of what are cidhxl the 
 s^ nonymous adjectives, can ; which is false in almost every lan- 
 guage. I told \ou he was ashamed of himself I made him 
 so by writing a letter to his book^jcUer, to be connuunicated to 
 him, to shew liim a true picture of him-:elf, by stating together 
 
 ouj-
 
 17^0.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 335 
 
 " An Enquiry into the Beauties of Painting ; and 
 into the Merits of the most celebrated Painters, 
 antient and modern*, by Daniel Webb -J-, Esq." 8vo. 
 
 onr different conduct to one another. I said, this required no 
 answer. However, I had one, which shewed how fz,lad lie was to 
 get out of the scrape. When 1 couie home, I will send them to 
 you, as I can then do, frauHed. However, I must not at pre- 
 .oent omit one ]).irticular in mine, to VVhiston. Speaking of his 
 paltry joke Oi eat sreum homiaiim, &C. \vhich, I say, * after it had 
 been so much worn by frequent application to many of my bet- 
 ters, might as well ha-.^ been omitted.' I add, ' I will requite 
 his kindness o^ pj- biceps Plato, but in a more secret way, by ob- 
 serving to him only, that where at p. 114 he translates the word* 
 of Bembus, apud inferos pozna, by the pains of hell, he should 
 have said, the paifis of purgatory, as Indulgences were from tlye 
 pains of jmrgatory, and not of hell ; and as P)2Tnbus's apud inferos 
 contained both a hell and a purgatory.' I did this to intimate 
 to him that his Translations were full of mistakes, and that this 
 was a gi'oss one, for a man to undertake a Life of Erasmus, 
 while he was ignorant of the nature and application of the Bulls 
 of Indulgences. I own I was well entertained with this Life, 
 and so I told AVhiston : but the publick think otherwise of it. 
 The want of a plan and method in the composition has given a 
 general disgust. They say, if you take away hi^ tianslation of 
 Le Clerc, and his numerous quotations, you leave him nothing 
 but his notes. Tliis seems to be the general voice, ilie conse- 
 quence is, it docs not sell. Vi'hat has increased the public ill- 
 humour is, its being only one vohime of a work, which, in the 
 public advertisements, was den;janced as c)mplete. But^ too 
 much on so ridiculous a subject." Ibid. Oct. '23. 
 
 * llemarks on some })a--ages in this work, by the late Mr. 
 Highraoi'c, arc in the Gentleman's Magazine, 176G, p. 353. 
 
 t" IMr. Webb, one of the sons of CajJt. Daniel Webb, was born 
 at Maidstown, in the county of Limerick, and his brother 
 'I'homas was Dean (;f Kilmore. " His Dissertation on the Jit au- 
 ties of Painting, " hrsl pubiislied in ITO'O, was follov\ed, in 1762, 
 by " lleaiarks on the Beauties (jf Poetr) ;" and in 1703 by a 
 little tract on the Poem of Os^ian, call'^d " Pingal Reclaimedj" 
 bv " Observations on the Correspondence between Poetry and 
 Mnsick, ITG'J," 8vo , and of " Literary Ai.msements, in Verse 
 .'iud P;o-;e, 1787," Svo. This little volujue was not wiglnally 
 printed for sale ; but a selection was made from it in . nplete 
 ednion of .Mr. Wsibb's \Vork.-<, wliicli he had hiuiSL'lf intruded to 
 have publislied, and for which a b^-.mtifnl frontispiece was de- 
 signed by his fiicntl Daniel Lock, esq. of \oibury, to v.hom Mr. 
 \v'.bb had prepared the following inscriptioii : " T(j the ingeni- 
 ous ilesigner of die fron'i pirce are tlie-A.' Tracts dedicated. To 
 whom more jjrop'rly than to on.' fiom svliose ha'-.l Drawings 
 come out Pictures, and single Figures tell the story of a Drama? 
 (). \v,' The Jea'h of Mr. Webb,' w'.iich h:ippened'Aiig. y, 17 98, 
 dL-luvd the intcnufed publicitlon ;. bat it wii;, completed in IJ'03, 
 
 in
 
 536" LITERARY ANECDOTES or [lj60* 
 
 " The Honour and Dishonour of Agriculture, 
 translated from the Spanish [of Father Feijoo*, 
 Disc. 13. vol. VIII.], by a Farmer in Cheshire -{-," 
 8vo. 
 
 in one handsome quarto volume, under the supeiintendance of 
 the Author's valuable friend the Rev. Thomas Winstanley, D. T). 
 Camden Professor of History in the Uni\ ersify ot Oxford ; vvlio 
 kindly corrtcted the press, and added to the vohmie " Some 
 Reasons for thinking that the Greek Language was derived from 
 the Chinese 3 in Notes on the Gramraatiea Sinica of I\lons. Four- 
 mont (part of the ' Literary Amusements' of 17>-^7 ) corrected and 
 enlare:ed from the Author's Manuscript." Of this vohirae but a 
 small impression was printed, and a ^cry few copies on large 
 pa}x?r; and of those few by far the greater part, 1 am sorry to 
 add, vvei'e destroyed by the melancholy tire in 1G08. Mr. Webb 
 published also, " Selections from Lcs Recherches Philosopiiiques 
 fiur les Americains, par M. Pauw, 17S9," Svo. Fifty copies only 
 of this were first printed, but it has since been published and sold. 
 It may not be improper to distinguish this ingenious Avriter 
 from another worthy character of the same name, foi- whom he 
 lias been sometimes mistaiven; and who is thus recorded on a 
 tablet against tlie East wall of the cloister of Christ's Hospital, 
 London : " Here lyes Daniel Webb, esq. who was Treasurer of 
 this Hospital twelve years. He died August 31, 1770, aged 71-" 
 
 * See Hughes's Lettei"s, vol. III. p. 49. 
 
 f Of this little volume the ingenious Mr. Benjamin Stilling- 
 fieet was the editor, if not the translator. He was grandson to 
 the Bishop of Worcester, and equally distinguished as a Natu- 
 ralist and a Poet, the rare union so much de'^ired by the inge- 
 nious Mr. Aikin. Both the Bisliop and our Authoi's father were 
 fellows of St. John's college in Cambridge. The latter, v.hose 
 name was Edward, took the degiee of B. A. Ib'Slj M. A. 
 1685; and M.D. 1(J9!3. He was also F U.S. and Gresham pro- 
 fessor of physick ; but, marrying in 1G92, lost his lucrative 
 offices, and the liishop's favour; a misfortune that affected bolli 
 him and his ])09terity. He took ordei's, however, aiui obtained 
 by his father's patronage, the recton' of Newington Butts, which 
 he immediately exchanged for those of Wood-Norton and Swan- 
 ton in Norfolk. He died in I7O8, leaving one son, Benjamin, 
 and three daughters. Benjamin was educated at Norwich school, 
 which he left in 1720, with the character of an excelknt eholar. 
 He then went to Trinity college, Cambridge, at the rsnuest of 
 Dr. Bentley, the master, v>ho had hv^n jitivate tutor to his lather, 
 domestic chajilain to his grandfather, and A\as niurh indebted to 
 the family. Here he was admitted April 14, \120; took the de- 
 gree of B. A. and became a candidate for a fclh^vship ; but was 
 rejected, by the master's inlkicncc. 'I'his was a severe and tm- 
 expected disappointment ; and but little alle'. iated afterwards by 
 the Doctor's apolog}-^ that it A\as a pity that a gentleman of 
 ^. Stillingfieet's paits should l-)e buried within the AValls of a 
 
 college.
 
 17^0.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 337 
 
 *' Observations on Miscellanea ^nalj/fica,"" by 
 the Rev. Dr. W. S. Powell, 8vo. This was the 
 
 college. Perhaps, however, this ingratitude of Dr. Bentley was 
 not of any real disservice to Mr. Stiliingfleet. He travelled into 
 Italy; and, by being thrown into the world, formed many 
 honourable and valuable connexions. The late Lord Barringtoa 
 gave him, in a veiy polite manner, the place of master of the 
 barracks at Kensington ; a favour to which Mr. Stillingfleet, in 
 the dedication of his "Calendar of Flora" to that nobleman, 1761, 
 alludes with great politeness, as well as the warmest gratitude. 
 His "Calendar" was formed at Stratton in Norfolk, in 1755, at 
 the hospitable seat of Mr. Marsham, who had made several re- 
 marks of that kind, and had commimicated to the publick his 
 curious " Observations on the Growth of Trees." But it was to 
 Mr. Windham, of Felbrig in Norfolk, that he appears to have 
 had the greatest obligations. He travelled abroad with him; 
 spent much of his time at his house ; and was appointed one of 
 his executors ; with a considerable addition to an annuity which 
 that gentleman had settled upon him in his life-time. Mr. Stil- 
 lingfleet's genius led him principally to the study of natural his- 
 tory, which he prosecuted as an ingenious philosopher, an use- 
 ful citizen, and a good man. Mr. Gray makes the following 
 favourable mention of him, in one of his letters, dated from 
 London in 1761 : " I have lately made an acquaintance with this 
 philosopher, who lives in a gan'et in the winter, that he may 
 support some near relations who depend upon him. He is 
 always employed, consequently (according to my old maxim) 
 always happy, always cheerful, and seems to me a worthy honest 
 man. flis present scheme is, to send some persons, properly 
 qualified, to reside a year or two in Attica, to make themselves 
 acquainted with the climate, productions, and natural history of 
 the country, that we may understar.d Aristotle, Theoj;hrastus, 
 &c. who have been Heathen Greek to us for so many ages ; and 
 this he has got proposed to Lord Bute, no imlikely person to put 
 it in execution, as hq iiim.self is a botanist." An EpistL' by Mr. 
 Stillingfleet, in 17^3, is printed in the " Poetical Magazine, 
 1764," p. 2'24. He published, about 1733, an anonymous 
 pamphlet, intituled, " Some Thoughts concernin.?,- Happiness;" 
 and in 1759 appeared a volume of " Miscelluneou > Tracts," 
 chiefly translated from essays in the "Amnenitatcs Acad.iuicie," 
 publislied by Linnaeus, interspersed with some observations and 
 additions of his own. In this volume he shews a taste for clas- 
 sical learning, atid entertains us v.ith some elegant poetic:d effu- 
 sions. He annexed to it s'^nnc va]u;'.t,le '' ( )I)-('r\at.ions on Grasses," 
 and dedicated the who!' to (ieoige Lord Lyttclton. A second 
 edition of it appeared in 1702; a third in 1775. Mr. Stiliing- 
 floct likewise publisiied " Sonic Thoughts occitsioned by the 
 late Larth(iuakes, 1750," a poem, in4to; " Paiadisf Lf)st." an 
 oratorio, set to nmsic by Stanley, I7<J0, 4to ; and "Tlie Princi- 
 ples and Powers of Harmony, 17*1," 4to, a very learned work, 
 built on Tarlinis " Trattato di Muiica sccondo la vera scienza 
 Vol,. H Z dcU'
 
 5S8 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I76O. 
 
 beginning of a controversy that produced many 
 pamphlets relating to the Lucasian Professorship 
 
 <lell* Armohia." These, and liis "Essay on Conversation, IfST," 
 in the first volinne of Dodsley's Collection of Poems, entitle him 
 to no small degree of rank among our English Poets. The 
 " Essay" is addressed tp Mr. Windham, with all that warmth of 
 friendship which distinguishes the Author. As it is chiefly di- 
 dactic, it does not admit of so many ornaments as some compo- 
 sitions of other kinds. However, it contains much good sense, 
 shew-s a considerable knmvledge of mantind, and has several 
 passagjes that, in point of hannony and easy versification, would 
 not disgrace the wntings of our most admired Poets, Here 
 ftiore than once Mr. Stillingfleet shews himseK still sore from 
 Dr. Bentley's cruel ti'eatment of him ; and towai'ds the beautiful 
 and moral close of this poem (where he gives us a sketch of him- 
 self) seems to hint at a mortification of a more delicate nature, 
 which he is said to have suffered from the oflier sex. This too 
 may perhaps account for the asperity with which he treats the 
 ladies in the " Verses" printed in the sixth volmne of the " Select 
 Collection of Poems, 1781." To these disappointments it was 
 perhaps owing that Mr. StUlingfleet neither married, nor went 
 into orders. His London residence was at a Sadler's in Picca- 
 dilly, where he died a bachelor, Dec. 15, 1771 j aged 69, leav- 
 ing several \-5duable papers behind him. To these Mr. Pennant 
 alludes in a beautiful elogivun on him, prefixed to the fourth 
 voliune of the " British Zoology," when he says, " I received the 
 tmfinished tokens of his regard by wtue of his promise ; the 
 only papers that were rescued from the flames to which bis 
 modesty had devoted all the rest." Mr. Stillingfleet's eldest 
 sister, Elizabeth, of a most amiable disposition, married John 
 Locker, esq. a gentleman much esteemed by all who knew him, 
 and particularly for his knowledge in polite literature, who died 
 May 29, 1760, bout nine months after his valuable wife, whose 
 losa, it is thought, accJei-ated his own death (see vol. V. p. 372) . 
 The two other sisters married two brothers, gentlemen of the 
 name of Sabourn ; one in the Church and the other in the Law; 
 the former, the Rev. Mr. Bartliolomew Sabourn, a very worthy 
 Divine, died Oct. 25, 1752, leaving one daughter. Mr. Stilling- 
 fleet was buried in St. James's church, without any monument at 
 the time ; but a tablet is about to be placed there by a worthy 
 son of the late excellent Lieutenant-Governor Locker. 
 
 A good portrait of him was engraved by Valentipe Green^ from 
 an original by J. Zoflfeny ; inscribed, 
 
 " Benjamin Stillingfleet, esq. 
 
 T revive in their memories the image of so worthy a man, 
 
 many of tb^e prints have been distributed among his friends. 
 
 Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit." 
 
 The original plate having been purposely destroyed, the 
 impresiions from it are veiy rare. But it is now copying, in 
 a smaller size, for a Selection from the Works of Mr. Stilling- 
 fle.et; which, with Memoirs of the .\uthor, and several original 
 
 Letters
 
 R'^t^ f^.TT A^-i[Trj^ g TEILIl-ItN'G^JLISIE.-T' JE -"^ ^ 
 
 ./' A/..-VV ..,vy/p. 
 
 
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 17^0.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. SS9 
 
 of Mathematicks at Cambridge when Mr. Waring 
 was elected. 
 
 " An additional Dialogue of the Dead," [between 
 Aristides and Pericles,] by Dr. Brown *, 8vo. 
 
 " Emendationes in Suidam ^ ; in quibus plurima 
 loca veterum Grsecorum, Sophoclis et Aristophanis 
 
 Letters and Poems, and hitherto unpublished Portraits of some 
 of his illustrious Friends, will be given to the publick (probably 
 before this notice of them appeai-s) by a gentleman of distin- 
 guished eminence in Literature. 
 
 * This Pamphlet is said to have been occasioned by an unin- 
 tentional affront given to Dr. Brown by Loi cl Lyttelton. That 
 Nobleman in a numerous and mixed company neglected to take 
 notice cf our author in so respectful a manner as he thought he 
 deserved, and in resentment of it he composed the above- 
 mentioned Dialogue. 
 
 f Jonathan Toup was descended fiom a family formerly settled 
 in Dorsetshire. His giandfather, Onesiphoiois T(mp, had been 
 a man of good property, and patron, as ^vell as iacumbent, of 
 Bridport in that county ; but he appears to have been embar- 
 j-assed in his circumstances before his death, as he parted v.ith 
 the advowson, and left a numerous family veiy slenderly provided 
 for. His second son, Jonathan, was bred to the church, and 
 was curate and lecturer of St. Ives in Cornviall. He married 
 Prudence, daughter of John Busvargus, esq. of Busvargus in 
 Cornwall, and by her had issue Jonathan, the subject of this 
 memoir, and one daughter. Mr. Toup was born at St. Ives in 
 1713. After receiving the first rudiments of his education at a 
 grammar-school in that town. He was placed under the care 
 of Mr. Gurney, at a private school in the parish of St. Merrin. 
 Tlitnce he was removed to Exeter college, Oxford ; where he 
 took his degree of B. A. His master's degree he took at Cam- 
 bridge, in 17;"6' j and obtained the rectory of St. Martin in 1750; 
 was installed i)reben(laiy of Exeter in 1 774 ; and instituted to 
 the vicarage of St. Mcnin in 1770". The two last preferments 
 he owed to tlie patronage of Bp. Keppel of Exeter. He had 
 lost his father whilst he was a child; and his mother some time 
 after marrying Mr. Keigwyn, vicai' of Landrake in Cornwall, his 
 uncle Busvargus (the hist male of that family) took him under 
 his care; ( onsidcred him as his own child; and bore the whole 
 charge of his i-ditcation both at .sciiool and at college. By tlie 
 death of this rxccllcnt man, without issue, in 17-")1, Mrs. Kcig- 
 W)ii succ(>eded, as heir-at-law, to his estate and ciTects. A will 
 was found, -upposed to have been signed by old Mr. Busvargus 
 two days before his death ; but there were so many suspicious 
 circunistaiK es attending it, that the per.-ons who would h.ive 
 been benefit (d by it never ventured to j)rove it. Mrs. Keigwyn 
 died in 1773, and left a will, ix^jneathing the wliole of her 
 estates to her son Jonathan. In 17^>0 Mr. J'oup published the 
 first Part of liis Eineuilulionea in Suidutn, and in 17'^! thf second 
 
 ^ 'i Part
 
 340 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I76O. 
 
 inprimis, cum explicantur turn emendantur, scrip- 
 sit Jo. Toup, A. M. Ecclesiae de Martin, cum 
 
 Part of the same work (on both which the Author of these 
 Anea'otcs was the Compositor). These Books procured him 
 the notice of Bj). Warburton, \vho, ft'om the time of their pub- 
 lication, honoured him with his con'espondence and patronage. 
 The Bishop, in one of his letters, laments his ha\ ing a see with- 
 out any preferment on it 5 " had it been othenvise, he should 
 have been too selfish to in\ ite any of his brethren to share with 
 him in the honour of properly distinguishing such merit as 
 Mr. Toup's." All, ho\^c\cr, tliat the Bishop could do, he did 
 with the warmth and earnestness of sincere friendship. He re- 
 peatedly recommended Mr. Toup to Abp. Seeker, to the Trustees 
 for disposing of his Options, to Lord Shelburne, and to Bp. Kep- 
 pcl ; and the favours that Prelate bestowed on Mr. Toup were 
 owing to the solicitations of Bp. Warburton. The third Part of 
 the Emeiidationes in Siiidum was published in 1766. In the fol- 
 lowing year Abp. Seeker expressed a desire that IMr. Toup would 
 lend his assistance towards a new edition of Polybius, which was 
 then in contemplation. Bp. Warburton strongly pressed his com- 
 pliance with this wish, and that he would lay by for a while the 
 Notes he was preparing for Mr. Warton's edition of Theocritus. 
 Whether this edition of Polybius was ever completed, is not cer- 
 tain. In 1767 Mr. Toup's Epistola Critica ad virum celeherrimum 
 Gul. Episcop. Gloc. made its appearance. In 1770^ Mr. Warton's 
 edition of Theocritus was printed at the Univei-sity press in Ox- 
 ford. Mr. Toup was a large contributor towards the corrections 
 and annotations of this edition j in the title-page of which is noticed, 
 "Epistola Jo. Toupii dc Syracusis, ejusdemque Addenda in Theo- 
 critum, necnon Collationes quindecim Codicum." A note of 
 his on Idyll, xiv. 37 + . gave such offence to some persons, that the 
 Vice-chancellor of Oxford prevailed on the Editor to cancel the leaf 
 on which it was printed, and substitute another in its room. In 
 vindication of Mr. Toup, it is sufficient to say, that Mr. Warton had 
 not stopped this note from going to the press, and that a respectable 
 friend, in a letter on this subject, declares his persuasion of Mr. 
 Toup's sincere veneration for Religion; and adds, that " no ma- 
 lignant censures could abate his regard for his merit, or friend- 
 ship for his person." This matter is before the publick, who 
 may form their own judgment upon it. The race of Critics are 
 well known to be no less irritable than that of Poets. The words 
 here quoted were found in a copy of a letter, without any signa- 
 ture, but dated April 1770. TJiis cepy is immediately followed, 
 on the same half sheet of paper, by the copy of another letter, 
 in Mr. Toup's hand-writing, wiiich was addressed by him to 
 Dr. Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury, and was plainly occa- 
 sioned by the foregoing letter. In 1772 Mr. Toup pubhshed his 
 " Cura; postcriorcsj sivb Appendicula iNotarum atque Einenda- 
 
 % 'fooA-jpioi, compared with John xiii. 23. a-roixv/AuoitlM o?.>. 
 
 tionum
 
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 Capellis de Loo, in Agro Cornubiense, Rectore,'* 
 8vo ; the first public specimen of this laborious 
 scholar's profound critical sagacity. 
 
 tionum in Theocritum, Oxonii nuperiimb publicatum," 4to; in 
 which the substance of the canceled note was inserted not im- 
 probably, all of that note which was omitted in the substituted leaf. 
 He concludes his preface to this work with these w ords : " Quod 
 verb scripsimus ad xiv. 37- verum est et honestum. Sed rem pro 
 singular! sua sagacitate mintis ceperunt nonnuUi Oxonienses ; qui 
 et me sugillare haud erubuerunt; homunculi eruditione mediocri, 
 ingenio nulio ; qui in Hebraicis per omnem ferfe viram turpiter 
 volutati, in Uteris elegantioiibus plane hospites sunt." By the 
 severity of his critiques^ Mr. Toup seems to have given grievous 
 offence to the learned Reiske ; who, in complimenting Mr. Tho- 
 mas VVarton for his urbanity, styles him " dissimiliimus hie in 
 re Toupio, homini tmculento et maledico, cujus literas majoris 
 sim factiuiis, si humanitis alios tractare, et ipse sibi parcere, suae- 
 que famae consulere melius didicisset." See Mant s Life of War- 
 ton, vol.1, p. xlvi. Mr. Toup's next work was the Appendiculum 
 Notarum in Suidam, printed in 1775. In 1778, " Longini om-> 
 nia quae extant, Graecfe et Latin^ : Reccnsuit, Notasque suaa 
 atque Animadversiones adjecit, Jo. Toupius. Accedunt Emen- 
 dationesDavidisRuynkenii," was published from the Oxford press, 
 in quarto. A second edition has since been printed in octavo. As 
 a writer of great learning, and of singular critical sagacity, Mr. 
 Toup needs no encomiast. The testimonies of Mr. Warton, 
 of Bp. VVarburton, and of every person in any way distin- 
 guished for classical learning at home ; of Ernestus, Hem-' 
 sterhusius, Ruynkhenius, Valkenacr, Brunck, Kluit, d'Anse de 
 Villoison, 1' Archer, he. &c. in all parts of Europe, suffici- 
 ently establish his reputation as an author. To most or all 
 of these he was assisting in the several works they published. 
 As his life was passed in literaiy retirement, his cliaracter 
 as a man was known but to few. It will appear from his 
 works that he was not wholly unlinctured with that self-com- 
 placency, which is the almost inseparable companion of too 
 much solitude. But this tiiHing intirmily was ain])ly compen- 
 sated by many virtues. He was a kind neiglibour, an indulgent 
 master, an aftectionate and tender relation. Among his virtues 
 may be enumerated his distiugui.shcd humanity to the inferior 
 animals. The children of his tenants were restrained fr(na 
 taking birds' nests on his extensive glelie of St. Maitin, or 
 from confining birds in c;iges; tbe cow that iiad long .supi)lied 
 his family was pre^cned from being killed, and was supported 
 in her ohl age ; the dog, who was the guard of his courl-vani, or 
 his companion in the pai lour, w;ls an object of his care and at- 
 tention. His theological studies were well-directed : he sought 
 for the truths of Religion, where only they eun he found, in the 
 vScriptures, not in the glosses anrl eomaieuts of men : it will 
 be needless to add, that he was a liberal and tcieiant Di\ ine.
 
 342 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l 76O. 
 
 " De Ratione Interpungendi, Auctore J. Ward, 
 P. P.C.G." 8vo. Of this very learned Gresham 
 
 He, was punctual and serious in the discharge of the duties of 
 his profession; and in his ])reaching singularly plain and forci- 
 ble. Ke died on the 19th of January, 1785, just entering into 
 the 72d year of his age, and was bxu'ied under the communion- 
 table in his church of St. Martin. Mr. Toup never was mar- 
 ried F'lr the. latter years of his life a half-sister of his, by tl\e 
 saiiie mother, a widow gentlewoman, with her three daughters, 
 lived in thr house wi*^h h'l:; 3 and they inherited, by his will, 
 what he left. It v> remarkable that thougln his name was 
 Joniuhau, in his latrr :itiiji.> Ue always calls himself in Latin 
 Joannes Toup. In some of the books he had when young, he 
 has written E lAbris Java Tovp. He was a Christian from 
 cor :>'ictkm ; not merely fron^. the acciflent of having been born 
 in a coiin.jy vhrre Chtiitianity was professed. He fulfilled the 
 duties f life conscic-titiously, and from principle j without 
 pai...d or Ostentation. In his pursuit of leaning he was actu- 
 ate, by the most honourable motives; by the desire of improving 
 his own mind, and of annising himself and others. If in Bishop 
 Warburton he found a patron capable of distinguishing merit, 
 and zealous to reward it, let it be remembered, to the honour of 
 both parties, that the Bishop's p;itronage was offered, not soli- 
 cited. In the year 1764 he was repeatedly pressed by another 
 Prelate, well known in the literary world, to (juit his retirement 
 at St. Martin's, and to settle either in London or in Oxford, 
 where he might have access to books, and miaht place himself in 
 the way of notice and preferment. He was assured, at the same 
 time, that the Bishop of his Diocese woidd him.sclf make a tender 
 of his connivance at his non-residence, without any application 
 from Mr. Toup on the subject. But everv proposal of this na- 
 ture he constantly rejected. What his sentiments on the subjt^ct 
 of residence were will appeal" from the following letter, sent by 
 him to the London Chronicle, at the time of the contro\ers3r 
 occasioned by Bp. Sherlock's last Charge to his Clergy. 
 
 " Sir, The Bishop of London's late Charge against Non- 
 residence is such a masterly, sensible, and seasonable piece, 
 that it deserves the attention of. every Clergvman ; nay I could 
 wish that every Parish would get a coj;y of it to be kept in the 
 vestry-room, for the service and inspection of future Incumbents. 
 For i am of the same opinion with the Author of a late spirited 
 
 Letter to the Bishop of K , that the residence of the Clergy 
 
 is absolutely necessaiy to the well-being of Christianity. The 
 
 apology which Dr. has lately published in answer to the 
 
 Bishop of London, is not properly an ap(>]oi;v for the clergy, but 
 an apology for a set of worthless insigniiicar.i Ecclesiastics, who 
 scarce deserve the name of Clergymen; who, instead of residing 
 upon their proper cures, where they are in duty and conscience 
 bound to reside, and living decently and hospitably in their 
 se^'^ral parishes are idling away their tinie in Borough towns, 
 
 aud
 
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 Professor some biographical particulars shall be given 
 in a future page." 
 
 and busying themselves there about matters which do not con- 
 cern them. These are the men that Dr. has set himself up 
 
 as an apologist for. And a pretty apologist truly he is. For I 
 will venture to say, a more shallow and frothy performance has 
 not made its appearance this great while 5 in which the good 
 man, for reasons best known to himself, has laid out a great 
 deal of pains to wash a blackmoor white. I will only mention 
 one argument of his, from which a judgment may be formed of 
 all the rest, \ iz. * that the learning and abilities of a Rector should 
 not be thrown away upon a Country parish, which might be 
 more usefully employed in a large and learned congr^ation.' 
 Where, by the by, the Doctor takes one thing for granted, which, 
 I believe, will scarce be allowed him, that the Rector of a parish 
 has always more sense than his Cuiate ; a point which I leave to 
 
 Dr. and his Curate to settle between themselves. I am. Sir, 
 
 your most humble servant, A West-country Clergyman." 
 
 Perhajjs in a passage towards the conclusion of Mr. Toup's 
 Eputola Critica, he might intend some reference to his own 
 voluntary retirement at St. Martin's, where he lived in the pur- 
 suit of literary amusement, and in the unnoticed exercise of the 
 duties of his profession. Having, on the authority of Eusebius, 
 restored Hebr. xi. '67 > to its proper order, he adds, " Notandus 
 Exitus Orationis, et acumen pen'enustum : they wandered about, 
 and lived in dens and caves of the earth, of whom the 
 WORLD was not worthy, magnanimi heroes. 
 
 " Sit aninia mea vobiscum !" [Gent. Mag. LV. 185.] 
 
 ''About the year 1750, or somewhat earlier, Mr. Toup offered 
 Mr. Fletcher, the famous Oxford bookseller, to publish Longinus, 
 if Mr. Fletcher would undertake to j)iint it on his own account, 
 which the cautious old gentleman declined, as Mr. Toup's saga- 
 city was not at that time known even to the University. The 
 reftisal was a fortun.-^te one ; and the publick, no doubt, lias 
 gained greatly by H\e-and-thirty yeais reading. When Mr. Toup 
 returned from Ounbridgo, where he took his master's degree, 
 he paid a \ isit to his friend in the Turl, and bought an unpub- 
 lished Gieek Dictionary in MS. for two guineas, which, by tlie 
 use the great Critic appears to Jiave made of it in his works, 
 mast have boon a ])ennyworth. 1 know no veiy great peculia- 
 rities in the life of this corrector of Suidas; the life of a leclu.se 
 seldom atlbnls any that are worth relating. Mr. T<jup censured 
 freely, and praised sparingly ; and he ,'^ccnis to have tliought, as 
 the generality of great men in his line are too apt tu tlunk, that 
 aftci theniselves, .since the world is for the most j)art dull and 
 undcstrving, the fewer they pi-aise the better. Tlieie is not 
 much entertainment in the courl.sliips, if 1 may so call theui, of 
 great Scholars ; they are like all others, bellum pax rur.sum; they 
 light, and shake hands ^ scold, and are fjicuds again; but whv- 
 
 ilur
 
 344 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I76O, 
 
 ** A Letter from Baron Montesquieu to Dr. War- 
 
 ther they deal in abuse or panegyiick, whether they call god or 
 dunce, it is darisiimut, it is illustrissimus, it is 6 w'>i/, like 
 Homer's hero. 
 
 Seu stat seu currit semper wo3'; wxuj 'A^'^^Xfuj. 
 Mr. ReisKe indeed complained bitterly, it should seem, to Dr. 
 Askew of Mr. Toup's usage of him, which made the Doctor 
 offer to get any thing printed in London against Toup. Reiske, 
 however, died without retaliation or apology, before or since, 
 though the case of Erasmus and Scaliger might have shewn that 
 great men can relent, and still maintain their dignity. But no 
 injured Scholar on the Continent can want a champion while 
 Mr. Schneider can hold a pen. Judge, O ye Muses ! of the 
 provocation, how slight ! Mr. VVarton, one of the most ingeni- 
 ous men vvc art^ possessed of, with great pretensions to a critical 
 ta-^te in Greek, make- a few innocent h'unders in re-publishing 
 aa edition of the Antiiokgia; upon which Schneider says, with 
 a sneer, 'Qualm decent An^'um.' I wish Mr. Schneider could 
 read Mr, VVarton's notes upon Milton, or any of his numerous 
 works, which are so highly prized by his countrymen. When 
 Mr. Toup republished the sub'tance of the canceled shttt in his 
 Appendiculuiii Xutarum ad Theocritinn, he spoke very indecently 
 of the Oxford Hebreeans, and treated them with the most con- 
 Bummate contempt. Upon which a late eminent Professor fired 
 an epigram in Greek at the Critic's head, and paid him in his 
 own coin. The turn of the e])igram was, if I remember, an 
 allusion to Toup's dedication of the Stratonics to the Arch- 
 bishop, * that he had hung up the ensigns of Priai)us in the 
 chapel at Lambeth.' I once saw a translation of this jeu <i esprit, 
 the work of a late eminent Chancellor, who was himself more 
 than equal to the writing of the original. If I were asked to 
 give an opinion of Mr. Toup's critical performances, I think I 
 ehould be founded in saying, that he was less happy in cf)njec- 
 turing, than in defending his conjectures; and in this he resem- 
 bled his great master Bentley, whose very errors were instruc- 
 tive. No one ever went away fi om the Emendations of Suidas, 
 without having been assured of something besides the vanity of 
 the Annotator ; and though he could by no means subscribe to 
 one half of the alterations proposed by the Note-writei-, yet 
 would he think himself happy to command the same respect 
 from others that they had extorted from him. Mr. Toup is often 
 ingenious, and alway; learned ; and by a peculiar felicity in disco- 
 Tering the places to which his author alludes, or quotes, has 
 explained difficulties, and illustrated obsourii'cs, with greater 
 plausibility, and more undoubted success, than any of his prede- 
 cessors. This learned gentleman, though he oijoyed but little 
 protection from the Heads of the Church, is said to have died 
 worth 12,000/. no part of which he can ever be suspected to 
 have got by his piiblications." Gent. Mag. vol. LV. p. 'MO. 
 The preceding Memoir, produced in the Magazine for 1786 
 Cvol. LVl. p. 652) some severe remarks on the personal foibles 
 
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 burton," prefixed to the Letter on Bolingbroke, 8vo. 
 
 of Mr. Toup ; which were ably refuted by the original eulogist, 
 in p. 860 ; and candidly noticed in p. 1030 by au impaitial Cor- 
 respondent, who iays, " That Mr. Toup was an eminent man, is 
 denied bv no person, and therefore any anecdotes relating to him 
 caimot be uninteresting. The only public meetings he used to 
 attend were visitations, and the Mayor's feasts at East and West 
 Looe, the former of which boroughs was within the parish of 
 St. Martin. His general behaviour at these meetings was in no 
 respect singular (except perhaps in manner, and that pecuiiiur 
 character which a life of solitude ;d\vays contracts) : he had the 
 common cheerfulness of the rest of the company. He was at 
 such tunes \eiy anxious to hear the public news, and was rather 
 credulous in what was related to him, as to the politics of the 
 day. But if any j>ert young fellow thought 1^ could play upon 
 the old Grecian, and i-aise a laugh at his expence, he was sure 
 to meet with the greatest monitication in the end : for Mr. 
 Toup's keenness and ability- to expose such characters, when 
 roused, \^ere indeed veiy severe and dreadfid. Hv has been pro- 
 voked loo with pei"sons, who, compared with lum, were mere 
 dabblers in Greek, when they forced a literary conversation upon 
 him. But i^an we wonder tliat his irritable temper should vent 
 itself, when thus provoked r would it not have been mar\ cllous 
 if he could al\\ays have checked it :" In a subsequent volume 
 (LXVII. p. '2lti) another friend observes, " That Mr. Toiip had 
 his foibles who can doubt ? for he was a man ; but one rt mark 
 niav be made vnth truth; that he w-as most beloved and 
 esteemed by those who saw him the noat"est. and knew him 
 the most intimately. If it be said, that all these were under 
 obligations to hun, wliat better tesrimony of goodness can he 
 desired, than that, for upwai'ds of thirty years, a man was 
 continually conferring obligations on his paiishioners, his ser- 
 vants, and his u-lations ? Tiiis account, therefore, shall he 
 cluseti ^\ilh the folUnving insorijuions to his memon- (the one 
 cnirra\ed on a mural tablet of statuan- marble, the other du a 
 medallion cf gill bi'as?, inclo>ed in black marble apj>endaut to it) 
 on the Soiuh wall of the church of bt. Martin : 
 
 " Near this place lie the remains 
 
 of Jonathan 'I'olt, A.M. 
 
 Rector of this parish 34 years, 
 
 Vicar of >t. Merrin, 
 
 and Prebcndan,' of Kxctor. 
 
 His abilities, and critical sagacity. 
 
 arc knoN\n to the Lt-arneil througliout Kuroj^e : 
 
 His virtue?, 
 
 from the retired piixacy of his life, 
 
 wtri' kjiown but to i\\v. 
 
 To iho.^c fow t'.uy ha\e eniioar il l\is memor)-. 
 
 J 'I', wa*; born December 1713 : 
 
 died Jan. lt>. 17S5."
 
 345 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [lySO. 
 
 " Letters from Juliet Lady Catesby to her Friend 
 Lady Henrietta Campley ; translated from the French, 
 by Mrs. Frances Brooke*," 12mo. 
 
 [^Underneath is this inscnption.'\ 
 
 " The Tablet above 
 
 was inscribed to the memory of her uncle, 
 
 by Phillis Blake : 
 The charge of it was afterwards defrayed 
 by the Delegates of the Oxford Press, 
 as a small testimony 
 of their respect for the character of Mr. Toup, 
 and of their gratitude 
 for his many valuable contiibutions." 
 * This very excellent lady, whose maiden name was Moore, 
 was the daughter of a clergyman, and the wife of the Rev. Joha 
 Brooke, rector of Colney in Norfolk, of St. Augustine, in the 
 city of Noi-wich, and chaplain to the garrison of Quebec. She 
 was as remarkable for the gentleness and suavity of her manners 
 as for her literary talents. The first literary performance we 
 know of her writing was " The Old Maid," a periodical work, 
 begun November 1.5, 1755, and continued every Saturday till 
 about the end of July 1756. The^e papers have since been collected 
 into one volume, 12mo. In the same year (I75G) she published 
 " Virginia, a Tragedy, with Odes, Pastorals, and Translations," 
 8vo. In the preface to this publication she assigns as a reason 
 for its appearance, " that she was precluded from all hopes of 
 ever seeing the Tragedy brought upon the stage, by there having 
 been t\vo| so lately on the same subject." "If hers," she adds, 
 *' shoidd be found to have any greater resemblance to the two 
 repi-esented, than the sameness of the story made unavoidable, 
 of which she is not conscious, it must have been accidental on 
 her side, as there are many persons of very distinguished rank, 
 and unquestionable veracity, who saw hers in manuscript before 
 the others appeared, and will witness for her, that she has taken 
 no adA antage of having seen them. Slie must here do Mr. Crisp 
 the justice to say, that any resemblance must have been equally 
 accidental on his part, as he neither did, noi' could see her 
 " Virginia" before his own v/as played ; Mr. Garrick haiing 
 declined reading hers till Mr. Crisp's was published." Prefixed 
 to this publication were proposals for printing by subscription a 
 poetical translation, with notes, of " 11 Pastor Fido," a work 
 which probably was never completed. In 1760 she jniblished 
 " Lady Catesby's Letters 5" and in 1763 " Tlie Hibtor\ of Lady 
 Julia Mandeviile," concerning the plan of which thcie were 
 various opinions, though of the execution there secm^ vo have 
 been but one. It was read with much avidity and gei^rral ap- 
 probation. It has been often, however, wished that the cata- 
 
 X " Virgioia," by Mr. Crisp, acted at Drury Lane, February 1754 j 
 anj " Appius," by .Mr. Moncrief, acted at Coveut Garden^ March 175.5. 
 
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 It was a peculiarity, if it might be so called, in 
 the character of Mr. Bowyer, that his engagements 
 
 strophe had been less melancholy ; and of the propriety of this 
 opinion the Authoress heiself is said to have been satisfied, but 
 did not choose to make the altciation. She soon afterwards went 
 to Canada vvitli her husband, who was chaplain to the garrison 
 at Quebec ; and there saw those romantic scenes so admirably 
 painted in " The History of Emily Montagrie, 4 vols. 12mo, 
 1769." The next year she published " Memoirs of the Marquis 
 of St. Forlaix," in 4 vols. 12mo. On her return to England 
 accident brought her acquainted with Mrs. Yates, and an inti- 
 macy was formed between them which lasted as long as that 
 lady lived ; and when she died, Mrs. Brooke did lionour to her 
 memory by an elegant and afiectionatc eulogium, printed in the 
 Gentleman's Magazine, vol LVII. p. 5S5. Mrs. Brooke had 
 with Mro. Yates, for a time, some share in the Opera-house j 
 and partook in the libellous abuse which the management of that 
 theatre dtu'ing the above period gave birth to. It has been alveadr 
 stated that her first play liad been refused by Mr. Garrick. After 
 the lapse of several years she was willing once more to try her 
 fortune at the theatre; and, probably, relying on the influence 
 of Mrs Yates to obiain its representation, produced a Tragedy, 
 which had not the good fortune to please the INLmager. tie 
 the) efore rejected it ; and by that means excited the resentment 
 of the Autiioress so much that she took a severe revenge on him, 
 in a novel puldished in 1777. intituled "The Exci'.riion," Si vols. 
 12rno. It is not certainly known v.hether this rejected T)';;gedy 
 is or is not the same as was afterwards acted at (>jvcnt Garden. 
 If it was, it will furnish no impeachment of Mr. Ganick's judg- 
 ment. It oug'r.t, however, to be repeated, tliat Mrs. B.o.ike 
 thought her invective too severe; lamented and retracted it. Iix 
 1771 she translated " Elements of the History of Eiiglantl, from 
 the Ir.vHsion of the Romans to the Reign of G.-cnge II. fi'oin the 
 Abbe MiHot," 4 \olb. 12mo. In January I78I, "The Sicgi> of 
 Sinope, a Tragedy," was acted at Covciit (iarden. This piece 
 added but little to her reputation, though the jirineipal charac- 
 ters were well sup])orted by Mr. Hend>'i',-50:i and .Mrs. Yalcs. It 
 went nine niglits, but never became popular : it wanted energy, 
 and had not mueVi originality; tiiere was little to di-aj;|irov.', 
 but not much to admire. Her next ;uid nlo.^t popuhir .}: lix-.i-in- 
 auce was " Rosina," acted at Covent Garden in Deccnib; r I ; s .\ 
 This she pie^ented to Mr Harri-j ; and ft \v picccs ])i\c b.cu 
 equally succss-ful. The simplicity of the story, the il .:;;ijicc of 
 the words, and the excellence of the mu-ic, pjomi < ; !')))g 
 duration to this drama. Her concluding \\(;rk -.vas " .Mui-.m," 
 acted 17BS, at Co\ent Ciarden, wiih some iUc:cc:T:, but v<>:' iuuch 
 infei'ior to " Rosina." Her Iui-IkiiuI difd oa th;- 21-! of ,' nunu-y 
 17-S9, a;id she herself e\pir('d on the 2<jth of tiie >.unc moutii, 
 at Sleaford, where she had retired to the house of her son, who
 
 348 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I76O. 
 
 as a man of business never were suflficient to divest 
 him of those sensibilities, which men conscious of 
 their superiority in respect to hterary abihties some- 
 times experience not to be among the blessings of a 
 learned education. As he knew himself the first in 
 his profession, he disdained the servility of solicita- 
 tion ; but, when he saw himself neglected, or an- 
 other preferred where friendship gave him a claim, 
 he could not suppress the impulses of resentment, 
 which he felt on such occasions. Many instances 
 of this might be produced. They did not, how- 
 ever, arise from avarice ; nor was the article of 
 profit that which acted with the greatest force upon 
 him. The most trifling consideration would pro- 
 duce as warm an expostulation as one of the greatest. 
 The following shall be produced as an instance to 
 shew how sensibly he felt himself hurt on such an 
 occasion. 
 
 His friend Dr. Samuel Squire *, then Dean of 
 Bristol, having preached before the House of Com- 
 
 has preferment in that country. Her disorder was a spasmodic 
 complaint. 
 
 * This learned Divine, the son of an apothecary, was born at 
 Warminster in Wiltshire in 17 14 3 and was educated at St. John's 
 college, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow 3 B. A. 1733; 
 M. A. 1737. Dr. John Wynne, bishop of Bath and Wells, appointed 
 him his chaplain, and in 1739 gave him the chancellorship and a 
 canonry of Weils ; and soon after collated him to the archdeaconiy 
 of Bath. In 1748, he was presented by the King to the rectory 
 of Topsfield in Essex 3 and in 1749, when the Duke of Newcastle 
 (to whom he was chaplain, and private secretary! ^^ chancellor 
 of the University) was installed Chancellor of Cambridge, he took 
 the degree of D. D. In 1750 he was presented by Abp. HeiTing to 
 the rectory of St. Anne, Westminster (then vacant by the death of 
 Dr. Felling), being his Grace's option on the see of London, and 
 for which he resigned his li\ing of Topsfield in favo'ar of a relation 
 of the Archbishop. Soon after. Dr. Squire was presented by the 
 King to the vicarage of Greenwich in Kent 3 and on the estab- 
 lishment of the houshold of the Prince of Walos (liis present 
 Majesty) he was appointed his Royal Highness's C.lik of the 
 
 -f- In this character, from an unlucky similitude of names, he was ridi- 
 culed in the famous Frag^meiit by the appellation of " Dr. Squirt, apothe- 
 cary to Alma Mater's (or the old lady's) Steward." His darit complexion 
 procured him in college conversation, and in the iquibs of the time, the 
 uick name of " The I\Ian of Angola." J. D. 
 
 Closet.
 
 IjSO.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 349 
 
 mons, on the General Fast-day, Feb. 13, 17O1 ; 
 Mr. Bowyer of course expected to print the^ Ser- 
 
 Closet. In 1760, he was presented to the Deanry of Bristol ; 
 and in 1761 (on the death of Dr. EUys) was advanced to the 
 Bishoprick of St. David's, the revenues of which were consider- 
 ably advanced by him. [" These improvements of the estates of 
 bishopricks, colleges, and other ecclesiastical revenues happen- 
 ing by fits and starts, make them the more noticed ; but in the 
 main they are not more extraordinary than those held in lay 
 hands." T. F.'] He died, after a short illness, occasioned by 
 his anxiety concerning the health of one of his sons. May 7, 
 1766. As a parish minister, even after his advancement to the 
 mitre, he was most conscientiously diligent in the duties of his 
 fimction ; and as a prelate, in his frequent visits to his see 
 (though he held it but five years), he sought out and promoted 
 the fiiendless and deserving, in preference, frequently, to power- 
 ful recommendations, and exercised the hospitahty of a Christian 
 Bishop. In private life, as a parent, iiusband, friend, and master, 
 no man was more beloved, or more lamented. He was a fellow 
 of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and a constant attendant 
 upon both. He married one of the daughters of Mrs. Ardesoif, 
 a widow lady of fortune (his parishioner) in Soho-square. Mrs, 
 Ardesoif had also a son, who, after being apprenticed to a mer- 
 chant in the city, went into the army, and died young. Some verses 
 to her "on making a pin-basket," by Dr. (afterwards Sir James) 
 Marriott, aie in the fourth volume cf Dodsleys Collection. 
 Isaac Akerman, esq. and Matthew Howard, esq. married her two 
 other daughters. Mrs. Squire, an excellent woman, by whom 
 the Bishop left two sons and a daughter, did not long survive 
 him. A SeiTi;ion, entituled " Mutual Knowledge in a future 
 State," was dedicated to her, in 1760", with a just eulogium on 
 Bp. Squire, by Dr. Dodd , in v, hich the occasion of the Bishop's 
 death, alre^.dy mentioned, is tiius alluded to : " Alas ! Madam, 
 we think with anxious concern of the exquisite sensibility of his 
 aftectionate heart." Dr. Dodd had been chaplain to tlie Bishop, 
 from whon^ he received a piebend oi Ihecoa. In Do Id's Works 
 is, "A Sonnet, occa'-ioncd by leading the Truth and Importance 
 of Natural and Revealed Religion;" " Gratitude and Merit," an 
 epigiam on Bishop Squire 3 and " An Ode written in the Walks 
 at Brecknock," expressive of gratitude to his friendly patron j 
 whom, in his "Thoughts in Prison," Week IV. he thus notices; 
 "And still more, when urg'd, ajjjjrov'd. 
 And bless'd by thee, St. David's, honourd iVlcud, 
 Alike ia Wisdom's and in Ijcarning's school 
 Advancd and sage, ike." 
 Bp. Sfjulre published the follfjuinii pieces : 1. "An Kjiquirv into 
 the iNature of the English Constitvuitni ; or, an Historical E'-say 
 on the Anglo-Saxon Government, both in Geriiianv and England," 
 ,V "Tiio antieut Hi^toj-y of th'.- H(.i)n ^v^ vindicated; oj. Remarks 
 
 on
 
 350 LITERARY ANECDOTE! OF [l'j60: 
 
 mOn. The profit attending such a small article, it 
 will be easily supposed, could be no material object. 
 
 on the Third Volume of the Moral Philosopher. Cambridge, 
 1741." 3. "Two E^snys. I. A Defence of the antient Greek 
 Chronoloiry. II. An Enquiry into the Origin of the Greek Lan- 
 guage. Cambridge. 1741." 4. " Plutarchi de Iside et Osiride 
 hber; Greece et Anpriic^ ; Graeca recensuit, emendavit, Commen- 
 tariis auxit, Versionem novam Anglicanam adjecit Samuel 
 Squire, A.M. archidiaconus Bathoniensis ; accesserunt Xylandri, 
 Baxtcri, Bentleii, Marklandi, C'onjeclurEe et Emendationes. 
 Cantab. 1744." .5. "An Essay on the Palance of Civil Power in 
 England, 174. . 8vo ;" which was added to the second edition of 
 the Enquiry, &c. in 175.3. 6". " Indii^eronce for Religion inex- 
 cusable, or a serious, inipnrtial, and practical Review of the 
 certainty, imjjortance, and harmony, of natxual and revealed 
 Religion, 1748/' ag-ain in 12mo, 1759. Of this work Mr. Sack, 
 junior, a pastor at Magdebourg (son of the late Rev. Mr. Sack*, 
 tirst chaplain to the King of Prussia), thiis expressed himself in a 
 MS letter to tlie Hcv. JohnDuneombe: "Bishop Squire's ' Indif- 
 ference for Religion inexcusable,' is extremely well translated, 
 and very much esteemed by every one who loves his Rehgion 
 moi'e than his Party opinions. You know that it is not the case 
 with every Divine. My Father in particular is extremely pleased 
 with the Method the Bi-hop employs In defending the Christian 
 rehgion, it Ijeing so much the same with that he n)ade use of in 
 his ' Defence of the Christian Faith,' that one would think the 
 two works had but one author. I am sorry 1 had but once the 
 honour to vis^it him." 7- " Remarks upon Mr. Carte's Specimen 
 of his General History of England, very ])roper to be read by all 
 such as are Contribators to that great Work, 1748," 8vo. 
 8. " The Princi; 'ps of Religion made easy to yoing Persons, in 
 a shoit and fan;iiiar Catechism. Denic:-.tcd to (tlie late) Prince 
 Frederick. London, 1763." 9. " A Lecter to tl.-e Right Hon. 
 the Eii'i of Hailifa.i on the I'eace, 1763," 8\o, by Dr. Dodd, 
 received great assistance from Bishop Squire. Nine of his Ser- 
 mons on jmbiic (KCHsions were sepatstch .pi-intec: : 1. On Spital 
 Tuesday, 1715j John xiii. 45. '2. At the Annual Meeting of 
 the Charity Schools, 1749: Mattli. vi. ]9,9.0. 3. Before the 
 Duke of Newcastle, Chnncellor, aiul the University of Cam- 
 bridge, on Commencenient S{ir;day, .Time], \7 i9 : ^fatth. xiii. 
 54. 4. Before the House of Coninions, Junt il, 1751, being 
 the Anviiveisary of hi- IShiirsu '* Acce-sion \o the ilirone j 
 1. Per. ii. 13. 5. A .speedy Rej.>entuiice, the m(;st etl'ectual 
 M*ans to avert (iod's .liidgnient-, rreacaed at St. Anne's West- 
 miii-ter, on the Fust-day, Feb *;, 1750"; Rev ii. 5. n. At St. 
 Andrew, Holborn, ijefore the Go.ernurs uf the Sinall-Pox Hos- 
 
 * Tills pa=ia!;:e produced tLe following billet: "The Rev. Mr. Sack 
 writes to iJie irr m ikrliii, tli.it in a note to Air. n..)wyor*s Life, yon put 
 his father and himself ainoi'.irst the dead, tli'jy 'Dcing both ali\t. Vour 
 Dio.st obedient, and moot humble servant, C. G, \VoiuE. jJug. 14, 17<i4." 
 
 pilal.
 
 1760.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 35 1 
 
 But he felt himself neglected; which drew from 
 him the following expostulatory epistle : 
 
 " REV. SIR, 
 
 " I understand I am not to have the favour of 
 printing your Sermon; which gives me reason to 
 fear that I have behaved in such a manner as to 
 
 pital, March 27, 1760; John xlvii. 1. 7. Before thg House of 
 Commons, on the Ftist-day, Feb. 13, 1*61; Psahn'xviii. 9. 
 
 8. Before the House of Lords, Jan. 30, l/G^; 1 Cor. x. 11. 
 
 9. Before the Governors of the London Hospital, 1765 3 Luke x- 
 28. He also left, in MS. a Saxon Grammar compiled by himself. 
 The following- just character of oe of his Patrons, prefixed to his 
 Grace's Nine Sei-mons, was written by this Prelate : "Archbishop 
 Herring s person was tall and comely; his constitution, from his 
 tenderest youth, weak and delicate; his address eaey,eng"aging, and 
 polite. He was generous without prodigality, magnificent without 
 profusion, and luunble without meanness. His distinguished ap- 
 plication to the business of his function, his learning, his waim 
 attachment to the Constitution in Church and State, and his 
 pathetic eloquence in the pulpit, having recommended him to 
 the early notice of the gi'eat, he ever afterwards maintained him- 
 self in tlie possession of their favour, esteem, and affection, by 
 his ingenuous conversation, and by his singular candour, temper, 
 and moderation. Every new preferment, by rendeiing both his 
 public and private virtues more known and conspicuous, con- 
 vinced the world that he w-as still worthy of sometliing higher ; 
 till, unsoHciting and unexpecting, he was called by his Sovereign, 
 with tb.e universal approbation, to the most exalted dignity of 
 the Church. So kind and o'oliging was his Grace's manner in 
 conferring favoui-*, that it added a dotible pleasure to the re- 
 ceiver. He felt the anxiety of the douljtful petitioner, and 
 removed his suspense as soon as possible ; and, when forced to 
 deny a recjut .st, he always seasoned the refusal witli every circum- 
 stance of benevolence wliich might render the disappointment 
 less grievous. His Religion was of that purest ;uk1 noblest kind 
 which true Christianity inspires : it was piety without snix-rsti- 
 tion, dc'votion without hypocrisy, and fakii which worketh by 
 love. Conscious of the uprightness of his own heart, and of 
 the sincerity of his belief of the doctrines jind j)rwepts of the 
 Gospel, he was willing to think the best of oliicr ])eopJe's prin- 
 ciples, and to hve the friend of mankind. Having no selfi.sh 
 views, nor private interests of his own to serve, he was always 
 ready to haeriliee h.is jjreferrrunis, his fortiuu-, ;ind even liis fife, 
 to tlie safety of his Majesty's person, to tlie, 'a-r and success of 
 his adniini.-Ji"ition, and to the perpetuily of tiu; Protectant Kstab- 
 li.-hment ; looking on lliat i:^stablislnne;H as the oniy support of 
 the Cluirch (jf England, as tlic l)uUv.t!k of our civil liberty, 
 '.ind tlie surc~A defence uf the iudep'endcni'y of Kurope." 
 
 torfflt
 
 352 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I76O. 
 
 forfeit a friendship which was founded on a natural, 
 I may say, a trading principle, considering I was a 
 pupil of Dr. Newconie. Your Tutor, say my brethren, 
 must have a mean opinion of you, since he could not 
 make a Printer of you fit to print for himself* or hfs 
 ephew -j-. Let me know wherein I have offended, 
 that I may endeavour to make myself more acceptable 
 to the W orld, the College, or at least to you. Sir; 
 who am, 
 
 Your most humble servant, W. Bowyer." 
 
 This was not the only instance in which he 
 strongly expressed his feelings at what he thought 
 a slight put upon him from a quarter where he 
 imagined he had a natural claim to favour. In a 
 letter, dated Jan. 11, 1767, to a then eminent Dig- 
 nitary of the Church, speaking of Cambridge, he 
 says, " My father (good man !) sent me thither, to 
 qualify me, by a new kind of experiment, for a 
 printer. But it served only in trade to expose me 
 to more affronts, and to give me a keener sensibility 
 of them. I'ime and old age are at last our best 
 instructors ; and I should have made an ill use of 
 the documents of nature, if I had not learnt to 
 take consolation from my approach to that state 
 where the great and the little will be equal." 
 
 Let us nov/ turn to a more pit asing trait in the 
 character of Mr. Bowyer, by perusing a letter dic- 
 tated by gratitude and manly liberality of sentiment: 
 
 " To the Right Hon. the Earl of Macclesfield. 
 
 '' MY LORD, July 4, 1:G1. 
 
 " I have no pretence to your Lordship's patronage, 
 but from what your noble Father shewed to mine ; 
 which I have presumed to perpetuate by the in- 
 closed letter, reposited, I suppose, in the University 
 of Oxford [see p. ^i)G.'\ 1 little thought of making it 
 
 * " The squib is better than the sermon," saitl Mr. Bowyer to 
 a friend on this occasion. " Dr. New come printed once a Ser- 
 mon . and carried it to Canibiidge, because he could not print 
 it in London decently unless v ith IV. B." 
 
 t Dr. Stiuire was nephew to Mrs. Newcome. See vol. I. p. 186. 
 
 a step
 
 l/^O.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 353 
 
 a step to introduce myself to your Lordship ; but 
 Mr. Richardson's death, which you will see mentioned 
 in the public papers*, has incited me to hope for that 
 family friendship renewed to me in my declining 
 years, which filled me with sentiments of gratitude 
 in my childhood ; and that I may have the honour 
 of being recommended by your Lordship to print 
 for the Royal Society, if that office shall be removed 
 to any other Printing-house. But, whatever shall 
 be the event, your Lordship will pardon me in 
 taking this opportunity of unburthening my heart 
 of those sensations which time cannot efface ; and 
 which will remain while I shall be able to subscribe 
 myself, your Lordship's most dutiful and obedient 
 humble sei-vant, W. Bowyer." 
 
 This letter was received with great kindness ; and 
 the noble Lord condescended to patronise a son of 
 the Printer his father had generously contributed to 
 support ; recommended him effectually to the very 
 learned Society over which he with so much dignity 
 presided ; afld Mr. Bowyer had the satisfaction of 
 continuing in that employment till his death, under 
 the friendship and patronage of five successive Pre- 
 sidents -\'. 
 
 Ever properly attentive to business, Mr. Bowyer 
 made the following ajjplication for supplying anotlier 
 vacancy occasioned also by Mr. Richardson's death. 
 
 " To the Honourable the Committee of the House 
 of Commons, appointed to consider of the re- 
 printing the Journals of that House. 
 
 *' The Petition of William Bowyer, Printer, 
 *' Sheweth, 
 ^' That your Petitioner, having had tlie honour 
 of printing the Votes of the House of Commons 
 above thirty years for the late Speaker, and conti- 
 
 * Mr. lli(;)KU(l.s')n died July 4, 17G1. See ihe "Easiys and 
 Illusti-atioas" vol. V. No. XIV. 
 
 t Tlie l'';irl> of M-.ircksticld and Mcjiton, Sir Juiues Burrow^ 
 .lames West, esq. and Sir John Pringle. 
 
 Vol U. a a nuing-
 
 354 tlTERARY ANECDOTES OF [176O. 
 
 nuing to print them for the present, thinks he should 
 be vvanting to himself, and even to the Honourable 
 House, if he did not hope a fair introduction was 
 opened to him to re-print the Journals now under 
 consideration. 
 
 " That, when he first printed the Votes, he had 
 the advantage for two or three years of printing 
 likewise several Bills for the use of the House : 
 But that the late Mr. Samuel Richardson, as well 
 from his superior merit, as his superior knowledge 
 of mankind, obtained, by the interest of the late 
 Nicholas Hardiiige, esq. the sole printing of a bene- 
 ficial branch of business, in which your Petitioner 
 was at (irst a considerable sharer. The Votes in- 
 deed were still continued to him by an honourable 
 Patronage; which, though it rendered light all 
 other disappointments, yet left room for a mortify- 
 ing self-reilexion, that your Petitioner could not 
 afterwards obtain the printing of a single sheet 
 for this House, besides what was granted by the 
 invariable friendship of him who so long presided 
 in it. 
 
 " That your Petitioner presumes again to offer 
 himself a Candidate for the favour of this Honour- 
 able Committee; which, if he shall obtain, he shall, 
 as in duty bound, ever pray, &c. *" 
 
 The letter to tlie Earl of Macclesfield gives me 
 an opportunity of clearing up a transaction to which 
 it alludes. Ihe Saxon types, which were used in 
 printing St. (iregory's Homily, having been destroyed 
 by fire (as has been already mentioned in vol. I. 
 p. 67) ; Lord Chief Justice Parker was at the ex- 
 pence of cutting a new Saxon type from Jac similes 
 prepared for Mrs. Elstob by Mr. Wanley ; the 
 punches and matrices of which Mr. Bowyer's son 
 presented, by the hands of Edward-Rowe Mores, esq. 
 
 * This application was not successful ; but he obtained, a few 
 years after, a decided preference in the Ujjper House of Parlia- 
 nient, in the appointment of Printer of the Journals of the 
 House of Lords, against all other competiiion, 
 
 to
 
 \ 7^0.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 355 
 
 to the University of Oxford, with the following 
 letter : 
 
 ".To Edward-Rowe Mores, esq. at Low Ley ton. 
 " Sir, Dec. 4, 1753. 
 
 " I make bold to transmit to Oxford, through 
 your hands, the Saxon punches and matrices, which 
 you were pleased to intimate would not be unac- 
 ceptable to that learned Body. It would be a great 
 satisfaction to me if I could by this means perpetuate 
 the munificence of the noble Donor, to whom I am 
 originally indebted for them, the late Lord Chief 
 Justice Parker, afterwards Earl of Macclesfield, 
 who, among the numerous Benefactors which mv 
 father met with, after his house was burnt in 1712-13, 
 was so good as to procure those types to be cut, 
 to enable him to print Mrs. Elstob's Saxon Gram- 
 mar. England had not then the advantage of such 
 an Artist in Letter-cutting as has since arisen* : and 
 
 * Mr. William Caslon, born in that part of the town of Hales 
 Owen which is situated in Shropshire, in 1692, and who is justly 
 styled by Mr. Rowe-Mores " the Coryphaeus of Letter-founders," 
 was not trained to that business ; " which is a handy-work, so 
 concealed among the artificers of it,' that Mr. Moxon, in his 
 indefatigable researches on that subject, " could not discover 
 that any one had taught it any other; but every one that had used 
 it learnt it of his own genuine inclination." Dissertation upon 
 English TyjK)graphicul Founders and rounderies, p. I7. He 
 .erved a regular apjirentice^hip to an engraver of ornaments on 
 gun-barrels ; and was taken from that instrument to an employ- 
 ment of a very different tendency, the propagation of the Christian 
 fuiih. In the year 1720 (the year in which his eldest son was 
 born) the Society for jromoting Christian knowledge, in con- 
 eecjuence of a repieseutation made by Mr. Salomon Negri, a 
 native of Damascus iji Syiia, well skilled in the Oriental lan- 
 guages, who had been professor of Arabic in places of note for a 
 great part of his lif.;, deemed it expedient to print, for tiie use of 
 the Ka-^tern Churches, the New Testament and I'salter in the 
 Arabic language, for the benefit of the jjoor Christians in Pales- 
 tine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Arabia, and Egypt ; the constitution 
 of which countries allowi d of no piinting ; and Mr. Caslon was 
 pitched upon to cut the fount Avhich in his specimens is distin- 
 guished by the nan)e of Lni;!ish Arabic. Mr. Caslon, after he 
 had finished his Arabic fount, cut the letters of his own name 
 in Pica Roman, and placed the name at the bottom of a speci- 
 men of the Arabic ; aud Mr. Palmer (the reputed author of 
 
 KK'i VijX-
 
 556 LITERARY ANECDOTES or [ijSO. 
 
 it is to be lamented, that the execution of these 
 is not equal to the intention of the noble Donor ; 
 
 Psalmaimzar's " History of Printing"") seeing tins name, advised 
 Mr. Caslon to cut the whole fount of Pica. Mr. Caslon did so ; 
 f,nd as the performance exceeded the letter of the other foimders 
 of the time, Mr. Palmer, whose circumstances required credit 
 with those who, by this advice, were now obstructed, repented 
 of having given the advice, and discouiaged Mr. Caslon from any 
 farther progress ; a circumstance which was verified by the cele- 
 brated Dr. Franklin, who was at that time a journeyman under 
 Mr. Watts, the first printer that employed Mr. Caslon. Mr. Cas- 
 lon, disgusted, applied to Mr. Bowyer ; imder whose inspection 
 he cut, in 1722, the beautiful fount of English ^hich was used 
 in printing Selden's Works, 1720 ; and the Coptic types which 
 were used for Dr. Wilkins's edition of the Pentateuch (which let- 
 ter, having accidentally escaped the conflagration of 1808, I still 
 possess) ; Mr. Caslon was encouraged to j)roceed farther both bj 
 Mr. Bowyer and his brother-in-law Mr. Be ttenham ; and had 
 the candour to acknowledge Mr. Bowyer as his master, and that 
 he had taught him an art, in which, by diligence ard unweaiied 
 application, he ai'rived to that perfection, iis not only to remove 
 the necessity of importing types from Holland ; but in the beauty 
 and elegance of those made by him so far surpassed the best pro- 
 ductions of foreign artificers, that his types have not imfrcquently 
 been exported to the Continent; and it may still with great jus- 
 tice and confidence be asserted, that a moie b;autiful specimen 
 than his is not to be found in any part of the world. It appeal"? 
 by the Dissertation of Mr. Mores, p. 86, tiiat Mr. Caslon had a 
 brother named Samuel, who was his niould-iiiaker, and after- 
 wards lived with Mr. Geoi-ge Andcrton, of Birmingham, in the 
 same capacity. Mr. Ci^slon's first foundery was in a small house- 
 in Helmet Row in Old Street ; he afterwards removed into Iron- 
 monger Row ; and about the year 1 735 into Ciusweil-street, wliere 
 the foimdery was carried on at first by himself, and afterwards in 
 conjunction with William, his eldest son ; %vhose name first ap- 
 peared in the specimen of 1742. In or about the year 1/50, ?.Ir. 
 Caslon was put into the conmiission of the peace for the coimty 
 of Middlesex ; and retired from the active jiart of business to a 
 house opposite the Nag's Head, in the Hackney road ; whence he 
 removed to another house, in Water Gruel Row ; and afterwards 
 to Bcthnal Green ; where he died, Jan. 23, 17^>C ; at the age of 
 74 ; and was buried in the church-yard of St. Luke, Middlesex ; 
 in which parish all his dilrcrent founderies were situated. A 
 monument, erected to his memoiy, is thus briefly inscribed : 
 * W. Caslon, esq. ob. 23 Jan. 176'6', fet. 74. 
 Also, W. Caslon, esq. (son of the above) 
 ob. 17 Aug. 177H, aet. 58 years." 
 One particular in his character is thus excellently described by 
 Sir John Hawkins (History of Music, vol. V. p. 127)- " IMr. Cas- 
 lon, meeting with eneoiu'agement suitable to his deserts, settled 
 in Ironmonger row, in Oid-streetj and, being a great lo\er of 
 
 music.
 
 1760.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 357 
 
 I now add, to the place in which they are to be re- 
 posited. However, I esteem it a peculiar happiness, 
 
 music, had frequent concerts at his house, which were resorted 
 to by many eminent masters 3 to these he used to invite his 
 friends, and tl^ose of his old acquaintance, the companions of 
 his youth. Jle afterwards removed to a large house in Chiswell- 
 street, and had an organ in his concert-room ; after that he had 
 stated monthly conceits ; which, for the convenience of his 
 friends, and that they might walk home in safety when the per- 
 formance v.as over, vsere on that Tlnusday in tlie month which 
 was nearest the fu! I moon ; from which circumstance 1 lis guests 
 were wont humorously to call themselves Lunatics. In the in- 
 tervals of the performance the guests refreshed themselves at a 
 sideboard, which was amply furnished ; and when it was over, 
 sitting down to a bottle of wine, and a decanter of excellent ale, 
 of IMr. Caslon's own brewing, they concluded the evening's en- 
 tertainment with a song or two of Purcell's, sung to the harp- 
 sichord, or a few catclies ; and about twelve retired." There is 
 a good mezzotinto print of him by J. Faber, from a painting by 
 F. Kytc, inscribed (iulielmus Caslon. His second son, Thomas, was 
 for many years a bookseller of eminence in Stationers' couit ; whei-e 
 he died, March 29, 1783. Of tlie modern state of this undoubtedly- 
 most capital foundery in the world, the particulars are gi\en by 
 Mr. Mores, with gome attempts at pleasantry. His ridicule, 
 however, before the publication of his book, had lost ts sting 
 by the death of the second of the Caslons, who, as an artist, 
 had certainly great merit, though not equal to his father. He 
 died in 1778; leaving a widow, whom, in the history of this 
 celebrated foundeiy, it would be improper to pass unnoticed. 
 She wfLs the oidy child of Dr. Cartledgc; ?nd her mother marry- 
 ing again imi)rudently, she was put to school by an uncle, who 
 took care to pro\ ide for her. Her merit and abilities in conduct- 
 ing a caj)ital business during the life of her husband, and after- 
 wards till her son was capalde of nianaging it, can only be 
 known to those who had dealings with that manufactory. In 
 quickness of understanding, and activity of execution, she hris 
 left few equals among lier sex. On the death of her liusband, 
 and their eldest son's establishing himself in the magniMceut 
 building now oceujned by Messrs. Lackington and Co. in Moor- 
 fields (the Tcm])le of the Muses), she conducted the foundery 
 herself, and continued to do so till disabled by an attack of the 
 palsy; which she survived but a few months, dving Oct. 23, 
 179;"j, aged about 70. After t'ne death of the mother. There 
 were still two very large foimderies carried on; one of them 
 by a third IVUiuini Caahni, wh(^ having quitted Mooriields, had 
 become the purclr.ist r of the Javkson fuimdcry in Dorsut-street ; 
 since given up -to his son, a fourth H'lUktut ('.aslnti, ii young man 
 of considerable abilities, to whom I cannot recomn)end a better 
 Uiuiiel than his great grand-father, who was universalK esteemed 
 as a {irst-icite artist, a lender master, and an honest, fiiendlv, and 
 
 bene-
 
 358 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [176O. 
 
 that as my father received them from a great Patron 
 of Learning, his son consigns them to the greatest 
 
 benevolent man. The original foundery in Chiswell-street was 
 purchased by Mr. Charles Catherwood, a distant relation, who died 
 June 7, 1809, aJt. 45; and is still carried on by Mr. Henry Caslon 
 (another great-grandson of the first William) under the firm of 
 Caslon and Catherwood. 
 
 It is but common justice to mention in this place the names 
 of Cottrell and Jackson, as Letter-founders who were trained 
 up under the auspices, and pursued with commendable industry 
 the steps, of their excellent instructoi-. Mr. Mores says, " Mr. 
 Thomas Cottrell is in order ii primo proximus. He wa in the 
 late Mr. Caslon's house, an apprentice to dressing, but not to 
 cutting. This part he learned, as Mr. Moxoii terms it, ' of hi 
 own genuine inclination.' He began in the year 1757, with a 
 fount of English Roman ;" [and afterwards cut a fount of Nor- 
 man, intended (but not used) for Domesday-b(>ok] . " He lives 
 in Nevil's-court, in Fetter-lane ; obliging, good-natured, and 
 friendly; rejecting nothing because it is out of the common way, 
 and is expeditious in his performances." Mr. Cottrell died in 
 1785, 1 am sorry to add, not in affluent circumstances, though 
 to his profession of a Letter-founder were superadded that of a 
 Doctor for the Tooth-ache, which he cured by burning the ear ; 
 and had also the honour of serving in the Troop of his Majesty's 
 Life-guards. " Mr. Joseph Jackson was in Mr. Caslon's house 
 too, an apprentice to the whole art, into which he launched out 
 for himself upon the same principle as did Mr. Cottrell ; for, 
 actuated by the same motives, they both flew off together. Mr. 
 Jackson lives in Salisbury-court, in Fleet-street ; he is obliging, 
 and communicative, and his specimen will, adjuvante Numinti 
 have place amongst the literate specimens of English letter-cut- 
 ters." Of Mr. Jackson Mr. Mores would have said more, if he 
 had lived to witness the progi*ess of his diligent exertions. He 
 too, after cutting a variety of types for the Rolls of Parliament (a 
 work which will ever reflect honour on the good taste and muni- 
 ficence of the present Reign), employed his talents on Domesday, 
 and in a manner more successful than his fellow-labourer. I have 
 much gratification in stating, that the two beautiful volumes of 
 that valuable record were finished at the press in 1783, on a 
 plan which I had the honour of projecting, and Mr. Jackson the 
 skill to execute, under the title of " Domesday Book ; sive Liber 
 Censualium Willielmi Regis Angliae, inter Archivis Regiis in Domo 
 Capitulari Westmonasterii asservatus. Jubente Rege Augustissi- 
 mo Georgio Tertio prelo mandatus. Londini, Typis J. Nicliols, 
 1783." To Mr. Jackson's Occidentals may also be added a 
 beautiful Pica Greek, which he cut under the express direc- 
 tion of Mr. Bowyer, who used to say, " the types in common 
 use were no more Greek than they were English." And (under 
 the direction of Joshua Steele, esq. the ingenious author of 
 " Prosodia Rationalise an Essay towards establishing the Melody 
 
 and
 
 ..^t^.^'^'^^h/,
 
 1760.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 359 
 
 Seminary of it, and that he is, Sir, your most obliged 
 friend, and humble servant, W. Bowyer." 
 
 and Measure of Speech,") Mr. Jackson augmented the num- 
 ber of musical types, by 8\ich as represent the emphasis and 
 cadence of prose. See Mores' Dissertation on Typographic 
 Founders, pp. 82, 83. 97. Mr. Jackson, born in Old-street, 
 Sept. 4, 1733, was the first child baptised in St. Luke's church j 
 and received his education at a scl.ool in tliat neighbourhood, 
 the gift of a Mr. Fuller; whence he \vc:s appi'enticed to Mr. Cas- 
 lon. Being exceedingly tiactable in the conunon branches of 
 the business, he had a great desire to learn the method of cutting 
 the punches, which is in general kept profoundly secret; his 
 master and master's father locking themselves in whenever they 
 were at that branch of the business. This difficulty he sur- 
 mounted by boring a hole through the v/ainscot, and observing 
 them at different times, so as to form some idea of the mode in 
 which the whole was performed ; and ap])lied himself at eveiy 
 opportunity to the finishing of a punch. When he had com- 
 pleted one to his own mind, he presented it to his master, ex- 
 pecting to be rewarded for his inpt:emuty : but the premium he 
 received was a hard blow, with a threat that he should be sent 
 to Bridewell if he again made a similar attempt. This circum- 
 stance being taken in dudgeon, his mother bought him what 
 tools were necessary, and he improved himself at her house 
 whenever he had an opportunity. He continued to work for his 
 master, after he came out of his time, till a quarrel arose in the 
 foundery about the price of work ; and a memorial, which ter- 
 minated in favour of the workmen, being sent to the elder Caslon 
 (who was then in the commission of the peace, and had retired 
 to Bethnal-green) young Jackson and Mr. Cuttrell were dis- 
 charged, as the supjMJsed ringleaders. Compelled thus to seek 
 empU-yment, they united their slender stock in a pixrtneiship, 
 and \^ent on pvospernusly till, Jackson's mother dying, he en- 
 tered, in 1759, on board the Minerva frigate, as armourer; and in 
 May 1761 was lemovcd, with Captain Alexander Hood, into the 
 same situation in the Aui-ora; and proved somewhat successful, 
 ha\ing aljout 40l. prize-money o receive at the Peace of 17(j3. 
 Dviiiig the time he was at sea, he was visited by a se\ere lit of 
 sickness, in wliich he vowed, if he recovered, to lead in future a 
 very penitent life; which promi-^e lie ]Mmctually fullilled. On 
 his return to London, iie woiked for ^('nie time uixler Mr. Cot- 
 trell ; till, (letenuiuing to adventure into business for himself, 
 he WAS encouraged to do so by two Lifc-gnuidsnien, his fellow- 
 workmen, who eng-.iged to allow him a small piitartce for sub- 
 sistence, and to su})plv money for carrying on the tra le, for two 
 years. Taking n small house in Co( k-!;ine, he soon satisfied his 
 partners that tiiC business wnuld be j^roduetive hctore the time 
 promised. W'h.en he had pui.sued his labours about six months, 
 Mr. Bowyer accidentally calling to inspeei some ofhis punches ( for 
 he had no specimen), approved them so much, that lu. promised 
 
 to
 
 360 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [17^0. 
 
 Among the specimens of the University types, 
 these Saxon characters are preserved, under the 
 following title : " Characteres Anglo-Saxonici per 
 eruditam foeminam Eiliz. Elstob ad fidem codd. 
 
 to employ him-, adding, " My father was the means of old Mr. 
 Caslon riding in his coach : how do you know but I may be the 
 means of your doing the same ?" A short time after this, he 
 put out a small specimen of one fount ; which his young master 
 carrying to Bethnal -green with an air of contempt, the good old 
 Justice treated it otlicrwise ; and desired his son " to take it 
 home, and preserve it ; and whene\ er he went to cutting again, 
 to look well at it." It is but justice to the third ^\'illiam Caslon 
 to add, that he always acknowledged the abilities of Jackson ; 
 and thougli rivals in an art which requires the gi'catest exertions 
 of ingenuity, they lived in habits of reciprocal friendship. Bu- 
 siness iticreasing rapidly, Mr. Jackson removed to Dorset-street, 
 for a more capacious workshop ; and about 1771 was applied to 
 by the late Duke of Norfolk to make a mould to cast a hollow 
 square. Telling the Duke tliat he thought -this was practicable ; 
 his Grace observed, that he had applied to all the skilful me- 
 chanicks in London, Mr. Casldn not excepted, who declared it 
 inipossible. He soon convinced the Duke of his abilities j and 
 in the course of three montlis producing what his Grace had 
 been years in search of, was ever after held in great estimation 
 by the Duke, who considered him as the first mechanick in the 
 kingdom. In 1765 he married Eliz. Tassell, originally a whinstcr 
 in Spital-fields, a very worthy woman, and an excellent wife, 
 who greatly contributed, by lier care and industiy, to his getting 
 forward, on his first entering into business. She died Dec. 3, 
 1783, at the age of 4d ; and, in about six months after, he mar- 
 ried Mury Pa.'^ham (the widow of a printer in Black Friars), 
 who died Sept. 14, 1791, at the age of 52. Surviving tlie 
 second of his \Ai\ es but a few months ; he died of a ,scarlet-fc\ cr, 
 at his founder_v< in Dorset-street, Salisbury-square, Jan. 14, 17'.>2; 
 aiid his remains were on tlie 53d deposited^ in the same grave with 
 them boih, in the front ground cf the Spa-Fields Chapel, a neat 
 orfition being delivered on the occasion by the Rev. Mr. Towers ; 
 who preached aiso a funeral sermon on the 29th, at hj's meeting- 
 house in Barbican, of which ?.lr. Jackson was one of the Deacons. 
 By the death of this ingenious artist, and truly w orthy man, the 
 poor lost a most excellent benefactor, his own inmiediate con- 
 nexions a steady friend, and the literaiy world a valuable coad- 
 jutor to their labours. To particularize tlic articles of his foun- 
 deiy which were more peculiarly superior, when all were excel- 
 lent, would be imnecessaiy. Let it sufiice to mention, as matters 
 of difficulty and ciaiosity, the fac-siniile types which he formed 
 for Domesday Book, and for the Alexandrian New Testament j 
 and, as a jjattern of the miost perfect sjmmctry, the types which 
 printed tlie splendid edition of the Bible published by Mr. Mack- 
 lin. Mr. Jackson had acn\iired some considerable property, the 
 
 bulk
 
 1760.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. $6 1 
 
 mss. delineati : quorum tarn instrumeiitis cusoriis 
 quam matricibus Univ. donari curavit E. R. M. h 
 Collegio Regin. 1753- 
 
 bulk of which, having left no child, he directed to be equally 
 divided between fourteen nephews and nieces. On his only ap- 
 prentice, Mr. Vincent Figgins, the mantle of his predecessor has 
 fallen! With an ample portion of his kind instructor's reputation 
 he inherits a considerable share of his talents and his indiistry ; 
 and has distinguished himself- by the many beautiful specimens 
 he has produced, and particularly of Oriental types. And here 
 I hope 1 shall not be accused of being ostentatiously vain, if I 
 close this note "\\ith a P. S. which is subjoined at the particular 
 request of the only person it could possibly offend. " I am 
 greatly obliged to you for the very flattering mention of my 
 name ; but you have not done yourself the justice to record your 
 own kindness to me: that, on Mr. Jackson's death, finding I had 
 not the means to purchase the Foundery, you encouraged me to 
 make a beginning. You gave me large orders, and assisted me 
 with the means of executing them ; and, during a long and 
 difficult sti-uggle in pecuniaiy matters for fifteen years, you, my 
 dear sir, never refused me your assistance : without which I 
 must have given it up. Do mention this that, as the first 
 Mr. Bowj'er was the means of establishing Mr. ( aslon his son, 
 Mr. Jackson it may be known, that Vincent Figgins O'wes his 
 prosperity to Mr. Bowyer's successor." 
 
 * On the first face of this business there is at least an unhand- 
 some suppression of Mr. Bowyer's name. But the following short 
 series of letters will set the matter in a clearer light : 
 1. "To the Rev. Mr. Shepherd, Fellow of Corpus Christi College. 
 " Rev. Sir, Dec. 24, 1760. 
 
 " A letter, of which the inclosed is a copy (sec p- o;"}."3), waa 
 sent, agreeably to the date of it, Dec. 4, 1/53, with the Saxon 
 punches and matrices mentioned in it, to ICdward-Rowe-'Mores, 
 esq. at Low Levton, in Essex ; who soon after put them irito the 
 hands of Mr. Ciislon, letter-founder, to repair, and rciKfer them 
 more fit tor use Mr. Cnslon having kept them for four or five 
 years without touching them, Mr. iiowyer removed them into 
 the hands of Mr. Cottrell, another letter-founder, from whom 
 Mr. Bouycr received them litted up, and delivered them a second 
 time to Mr. Alores, in the year 1758, togetlier with 151b. of letter 
 fresh cast from those matrices, and with them a copv of IMrs. 
 Eistob's Saxon Grammar, bound and lettered, the book for 
 which tiiey were originally cut ; all which arc s;iid by .Mr. Mores 
 to ha\e been <lclivered to the University of Oxfoid, agieeably to 
 tlie design of the inclosed letter. Mr. Bowyer looks on his dona- 
 tion as of no moment in itself; but sonunvhat remarkable for 
 the historv att*"n(lii\g it; and, having had nnaithentic testimony 
 of the University's receipt of it, would be glad if you would give 
 him any information about it. Perhaps Dr. Randolph, who 
 was at that time Vice-chancellor, iis he thinks, and to whom he 
 hath the honour to be known, would assist you in it. I am, 
 feir, yovu mo^l obliged humble servant, W. Bowyf.k. 
 
 P. S.
 
 $6f LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I76O. 
 
 Cusoria majuscula 42. desunt A et p. 
 Matrices majusculae 44. 
 Cusoria minuscula 37. desunt e et 7. 
 Matrices minusculae 39." 
 
 P. S. I need not have gone back in my narrative further than 
 to the year 1758, if it were not to account for the early date of 
 my letter, December 1753." 
 
 2. " To Edward-Rowe Mores, Esq. lx)w Leyton, Essex. 
 " Sir, White try ars, Jan. IS, 1761, 
 
 " I desired you last week, or before, by letter, to let me know 
 to whom you sent the matrices and j)unches of the Saxon, des- 
 tined to Oxford. I now again earnestly entreat that favour, 
 because I am to send an answer to be laid before the Vice- 
 chancellor, I am. Sir, your very humble servant, W. Bowyer." 
 3. "To Mr. Bowyer. 
 " Dear S/.r, Leyton, Jan. 19, 17ol- 
 
 " The pvmches and matrices are very safe at my house ; they 
 came one day too late for me to take them the last time 1 went 
 to Oxford; I have therefore kept them with intent to carry them 
 the ensuing spring', when I hope to spend a little time there. I 
 am, dear Sir, your wtxy humble servant, Edward-Rowe Mores." 
 4. " To the Rev. Dr. Randolph. 
 " Rrv. Sir, Jan. 20, 1761, 
 
 " I am ashamed I have given you so much trouble about a 
 very trifle in itself, but which ceases to be so to me when the 
 University does me the honour of accepting it. Mr. Mores's 
 letter, which I hav e now received, and have here inclosed, will 
 testify what my intentions long since were, and what his are 
 against the ensuing spring. 1 am, Sir, &c. VV. Bowyer." 
 
 5. " To Mr. Bowyer. 
 " Dear Sir, Jan. lO, 1773. 
 
 " I am heartily obliged to you for that which I have tliis mo- 
 ment received, and I must acknowledge it as a rei)roach to my- 
 self, for I too well remember what ! promised : yet, as the best 
 excuse I can make, be pleased to take this. The day after I had 
 the pleasure of being with you, a pleasure which 1 long to enjoy 
 again, I met with an old acquaintance of the stock of Israel just 
 returned from parts al >road, who had brought with him a volimie 
 of Almanacks for yeai.-s to come, written in Portuguese; he was 
 to bring it for me thij next day to his house in London, which I 
 dare say he did ; bu t your life and my life are pretty similar, 
 and I have not been in London since. As 1 write innnediately, 
 1 cannot tell whethei: jou have had occasion for it or not, that 
 pleasure 1 propose to myself crastino primo diluciilo." [Mr. Eow- 
 yer had it at that tir ne in contemplation to print a He brew Ca- 
 lendar, to answer. tlie purpose of a modern Almanack. He in- 
 tended also to have printed a Calendar shewing the holidays of oki 
 Rome, I have the copy of both, which he had begun to prepare 
 for that purpose.] " I shall take it as a singular favour if you 
 will oblige me wit Jh the anecdote of the French Polyglott and 
 
 Cardinal
 
 1760.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. $6$ 
 
 " De Graecorum Ouinta Declinatione Imparisyl- 
 labica^ et inde formata Latinorum Tertia Quaestio 
 Grammatica ;" a valuable little Tract, in 4to, of 
 which only Jorti/ copies were printed*. 
 
 Cardinal Richelieu, inserted in the margin of your Palmer." 
 [This anecdote is inserted in Mr. Moies's Dissertation on Typo- 
 graphical Founders, p. 11.] " Now, Sir, to give a further 
 proof that you are not out of my thoughts, permit me to trouble 
 you with what 1 intend to say in defence of the Vice-chancellor 
 of Oxford, the late Dr. Browne, Provost of Queen's, a most 
 worthy gentleman, and not to be blamed xipon this occasion, 
 because 1 believe that he did not fully comprehend the matter. 
 " She [Mrs. Elstob] procured a fount of English Saxon to be 
 cut according to lier own delineation from the manuscripts 
 of the times ; they ^vere cut by Mr. Robert Andrews, at the 
 expence of the Earl of ?tlacclesfield ; she used them in her 
 Gi-ammar only. The punches and matrices are now in the 
 Clarendonian, a present n:iade at the instance of one who 
 would gladly "hew a greater instance of affection and duty, 
 by Mr. Vvilliam Howyer, a follow of the Society of Antiquaries 
 of London, a typogifipher of the Stephanian age, a son of 
 Alma Cant. ; but a letter of Mr. Bo\vyer's will speak better 
 than we can speak for him, and we insert it with the greater 
 pleasure, as it mentions with hono\ir those who live in our 
 eteem. 
 And now, dear Sir, be pleased to correct what I have said, and 
 make it agreeable to yourself; there should be no ceremonies 
 betwixt us : add what you pletise, but I can abate nothing. The 
 letter cannot be altered, for it is at Oxford. [It is printed in 
 his Dissertation on Typograi)hical Founders, p. 2S.] 
 Dear Sir, I am, yours affectionately, Euwako-Rou k Moris." 
 G. " To Mr. Nichols. 
 " Sir, Orford, Ju::. S, 1778. 
 
 " I had yesterday a letter from Mr. Price, jirincipal Bodleian 
 Librarian, who hupi)ened to be from hence for a few day.s at 
 the Duke of Beaufcjrt's. Mr. Price inclo.-^ed to mc a letter from 
 Mr. Gough ; the questions in which letter Mr. Gough (k^'^ire9 
 maybe answered to you. Dr. Browne, Provost of Queen's college, 
 was Vice-chancellor from 17^19 to 1709 inclusive. On loolaug 
 over the papers of a gentleman, since dead, of Queen's college, 
 and who used to assist Dr. Browne, I find that i\lr. .Mores, about 
 Dec. 4, 1753, rtceived from Mr. Bowver a small box of Saxon 
 pvmehes and matrices, the same in which the letters were ci-t for 
 Mr>. K 1.1 tob's .Saxon Grammar; and it alsoapjjears that ,\lr, Morrs 
 did not send the bcjx of matrices and pimehes (nor anv tvpes) till 
 Oct. 0, 1/04; when Dr. Browne was (|uite iiraltenti\i' to lui-iiic.-r-; 
 for he dicfl in that last year of iiii oMiee. The box oi" jjuiiehe? 
 anil matrices are now in my posse>si)n, a.<( jtriiitcr to ih" L'lii- 
 versity. lam. Sir, vour mosl humble Bcrvaut, Dan. Pkinck." 
 * See vol. IV p. '297. 
 
 17^1.
 
 3^4 >,^^ LITERARY ANECDOTES or [l76^1. 
 
 ^%. 
 
 , 1761. 
 
 The principal books of this year were, 
 ** Verses on the Coronation of their late Majesties 
 King George II. and Queen Caroline, October 4, 
 1727 ; spoken by the Scholars of Westminster School 
 (some of them now the Ornaments of the Nation), 
 on January I5 following, being the Day of the 
 Inauguration of Queen Elizabeth, their Foundress ; 
 with a Translation of all the Latin Copies: the 
 whole placed in the Ordfer of the Transactions of 
 that important Day. Adorned with the Coronation 
 Medals of the Royal Pair, and a Bust of our present 
 King. To which is subjoined, the Ceremonial of 
 the august Procession, very proper to be compared 
 with the approaching one * ; and a Catalogue of the 
 Coronation Medals of the Kings and Queens of 
 England -I-." The original part of this pamphlet 
 
 * That of their present IMajesties. 
 
 f The following account of this pamphlet was given by Mr.Bow- 
 yer, in the Gentleman's Magazine/' 1761, vol. XXXI. p. 422 : ^ 
 
 "Among the numerous forms of tlie proceeding at a Coi'ona- 
 tion, which are in general but a list of dignities, and a new 
 arrangement of the Court Calendar, I am not a little pleased to 
 see one which gives life to the splendid shew ; and which, while 
 the 6} e is entertained, affoids reflection for the understanding; 
 I mean, the Epigrams spoken by the Westminster Scliolars upon 
 the Coronation of his late Majesty ; which are now very season- 
 ably re\ived, and aj)])ear new to tlie present generation. The 
 Editor has ranged them in order of the procession ; by which 
 means, as he observes, the business of the day gradually opens 
 before us, and we shall be improved, as well as entertained, 
 
 spectators In short, we are enraptured with genuine gold, 
 
 dazzling gems, and s])arkling wit, throughout the ceremony. 
 After this, it is but just we should give the reader a specimen 
 of one or two of the Ejjigrams ; and shall lca\ e him under the 
 pleasing uncertainty of determining which are originals, and 
 which translations. 
 
 On the Favoiu's [an Original, by the late Duke of Leeds], 
 Thy name, great Prince, inscrib'd in silk behold. 
 On glittering favours rough with wo\tn ti,old. 
 The man ci'cct displays it on the crest. 
 The softer fair-one wears it at her breast. 
 Thus Britain her united wish imparts : 
 Thine arc the wisest heads, and truest hearts. 
 
 On
 
 1761.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 3^5 
 
 was entirely Mr. Bowyer's ; the Latin verses were 
 translated, partly by him, but principally by the 
 person who now inscribes these Anecdotes to his 
 memory. The advertisement to this pamphlet, 
 which was entirely his own, is a curiosity : " Two 
 things, we trust, the great names subscribed to 
 these Epigrams will pardon ; the one, that we have 
 not observed the method in which they were deli- 
 vered ; which being in an extempore manner, a 
 neglect of order was then becoming ; but, as they 
 describe a ceremony long since past, and now to be 
 revived, it was more natural to place them in the 
 order of the procession, that the reader might see 
 the business of the day gradually open before him, 
 and be again a spectator at it. Ke will recall the 
 solicitude of Chloe, rising by candle-light ; the 
 laying aside of hoops, and putting on favours ; 
 the eager expectation of the people ; the opening 
 of the procession with the herb-woman ; the im- 
 portance of the Beadle of Westminster, by the 
 help of his staff; kettle-drums, organ-blowers, 
 beef-eaters ; the charms of peeresses and maids 
 
 On theOpenini^ of the Procession [a Translation, by J. NiclioLs]. 
 First in procession of the pompous (Uiy, 
 W\i\\ fragi-ant Howers a niuti'on marks the way : 
 Next trumpets, kettle drums, a various band. 
 Too liard, loo many, in a verse to stand : 
 Then peers, earls, <iukes, their dillcrent lights display. 
 And last both .Ma,)esties meridian day : 
 To small bei::innin2;s what tcieat things we owe. 
 Since one old woman leads up such a show ! 
 
 On the Diamonds and Coronets [a Translation, by Mr. Bowyer], 
 In mimic scenes, where counterfeits will pa-s. 
 The* crowns are tinsel, and the diamonds glas: ; 
 No fictions here ])ro])haiie the sacred roof, 
 The heroes' virtues and their gold are proof. 
 \'ol)Ies and gcuii display a ilcjod of light : 
 Tiiuir lilood un^taiu'd, as is tlieir water blight. 
 
 On the Sceptre borne bv the Oueen [an Original, by the Hon. 
 Spencer Cowpcr, afterwards Dran of Durham]. 
 SceJCaroline sustain the ivory dove. 
 An emblem, not of greatne--,, but of lov ; 
 ('onsci(nis that sacred vows, and beaut\s amilcs, 
 Make sweets of power superior to its toils. 
 More ])roud her iMonarch's heart tliaa throne to iharo ; 
 Let the Queen-Consort still be Regent there 
 
 of
 
 566 LITERARY ANECDOTES or [I76I. 
 
 of honour; Jictitwns dukes*; the dazzling profusion 
 of sincere gold and real diamonds ; the attractive 
 majesty of Queen Caroline ; the strength of British 
 forces, and the antiquity of the English Monarchy; 
 the Bishop bearing the treasure of divine truths ; 
 the King, the ensigns of Royalty ; the Queen, of 
 love and harmony ; the cross on his crown, and 
 the spurs on his feet ; the venerable chair, brought 
 from Scotland, A. D. 12^)6; the people's concern 
 for the absence of Prince Frederick, and gratitude 
 for the presence of Duke William ; the act of crown- 
 ing proclaimed by cannons, and beaming forth with 
 the concentrated blaze of coronets ; the medals of 
 the King and Queen, ennobled less from their metal 
 than their impresses ; the toil of the day ; the nar- 
 rowness of the hail ; the leveling of the Law courts; 
 the King's majestic seat between them ; the sump- 
 tuousness of the present tables, and the frugality of 
 the antients ; the small-beer fee ; the tribute of 
 three maple cups ; the pyramids of sweetmeats ; 
 the terror of the champion ; the ill-timed slumber 
 of an over-tired spectator ; the candles touched into 
 light ; the rapine of the vulgar ; no abatement of the 
 universal joy from an unhappy accident ; the King, 
 in his turn, a partaker of the Lord Mayor's pomp, 
 having first contemplated it in the peaceful mansion 
 of a Quaker, &c. On each particular the reader will 
 find some reflexion, which will prevent his being, 
 in the ensuing procession, an unimproved spectator. 
 " For another particular we have more reason to 
 apologise, that, though in the Translations [which 
 are distinguished by being included in crotchets] 
 we have in general kept close to the originals, yet 
 in some few instances we have deviated from them, 
 when we thought the point of the epigram might 
 be somewhat sharpened, without any injury to the 
 scope of it. This we have sparingly done ; and, 
 whenever we have taken that liberty, have marked 
 it out by Italic characters. 
 
 * The persons in the procession representing the Dukes of 
 Aquitane and Normandv, 
 
 "As
 
 1761.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 3^7 
 
 "As the Poets here have been Prophets, the Reader 
 will with pleasure compare the events with their 
 predictions. We have seen our venerable Monarch 
 go down to the grave full of years and honours ; 
 and though it was some abatement to the comfort 
 of them, that his laurels were earned with toil 
 amidst destructive wars, we may promise ourselves 
 that Heaven hath reserved the blessings, which 
 were wanting to him, to be accumulated upon his 
 Grandson ; in whom the hearts of his subjects are 
 united beyond what History can parallel, or Poetry 
 itself can paint. Duty and affection in all orders of 
 men seem to flow in such uninterrupted streams, 
 that he will want but the exercise of one of his royal 
 virtues, that of forgiveness." 
 
 A copy of the pamphlet was sent, by Mr. Bowyer, 
 with the following letter : 
 
 " To the Rev. Dr. Markham *, Master of 
 Westminster School. 
 
 " REV. SIR, April... 1761. 
 
 " My father being honoured with the friendship 
 of Dr. Freind, he owed to him these Verses on the 
 
 * This eminent scholar, a native of Ireland, was born in 1724; 
 admitted King's scholar at Westminster 17^4 ; elected to Christ 
 Church, Oxford, 1738; M. A. 1749; head-master of Westminster 
 school, 17,53 ; prebendary of the second stall at Durham, July 20, 
 17''>9 ; resigned Westminster school in January 17<ji ; a'ld in 176'.5 
 obtained the deaner}' of Rochester. He had been chaplain to King 
 George II. and wtL< contiimed in that oHice by liis present Majesty, 
 He was also vicar of lloxley in ivent (which he resigned in 1770) . 
 He was presented to the deanerv of Christ Church Oct. 12, 17G7 
 B.C.L. Dec. ir-i, 176-8; and D. D. four days after; Bishop of 
 Chester in Januaiy I77I ; i-i the next month was appoint' .;d 
 Preceptor to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Yoik ; in 
 1 776 translated to the Archbishoprick of York, on the demisf of 
 Dr. Drunimond ; and was apjjointed Lord High Almoner to the 
 King, and Visitor of Queen's college, Oxford. The virtue s of 
 this venerable Piimate, who died at his house in South Aiv lley- 
 street, Nov. 3, 18U7> in liis B9th year, were of the most benev olciit 
 and amiable kind. With great learning, he was mod"st ; tb ou"-h 
 rai.^,ed to the higliest station, he was meek and humble. His 
 religion was a rebgiou of tiie mind ; jjractised in all the con- 
 cerns of life, without austerity, and free from ostentati on; a. 
 Strict integrity and high sense of honour were conv picuou 3 in all
 
 3^8 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l?^!* 
 
 last coronation, spoken in Westminster school. As 
 at the time they were printed they were thought no 
 
 his dealings ; and his promises were unbroken. The mildness 
 of his temper rendered him indulgent to the faults of others, 
 and made him a condescending, engaging, and instructing 
 companion. Those who in early life had the happiness of being 
 his pupils, universally agree, that, as an instmctor, he had few 
 equals. It is difficult to say, whether he most excelled in his 
 manner of conveying knowledge, or in exciting youth to lauda- 
 ble pursuits ; in storing their minds with good principles, or in 
 era(hcating bad ; in extolling the happiness of virtue, or in ex- 
 posing the misery of vice. His knowledge in Greek and Roman 
 Literature was universal ; his taste pure, and his topogi'aphical 
 accuracy most uncommon. With these requisites, he never 
 failed to insure the attention of his scholars, and to enliven his 
 lectures by pleasing and interesting anecdotes. He was so per- 
 fectly master of the proper incentives for ditferent dispositions, 
 that the studious were ever ambitious of his praise, whilst the 
 idle feai'cd his rebuke. After lia\ ing successively presided over 
 those great seminaries, Westminster and Christ Church, his 
 character and learning recommended him as worthy to direct 
 the education of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales 
 and the Duke of York -, an event which, notwithstanding some 
 illiberal opposition, led to that rank which he so honourably 
 reached, and so creditably filled. It does not appear that the 
 Archbishop of York was ever engaged in works for the press, 
 though no one wo^ more consulted by others. In the great 
 Assembly of Peers he seldom spoke ; but, when once attacked, 
 in a very pointed manner, for party purposes, he defended him- 
 self with great spirit and eloquence. He was neither a florid 
 nor a frequent preacher. He particularly disdained those arts by 
 which popularity is often acquired from the pulpit ; but, in the 
 exercise of his clerical functions, his voice was clear, distinct, 
 and melodious. His language was remarkable for its simplicity 
 and elegance ; his sentences were concise and perspicuous ; and 
 ihis manner fn public, as in private, was animatetl, dignified, 
 and persuiisive. In all the relations of life, this truly great man 
 was peculiarly happy. As a husband, he was beloved j as a fa- 
 ther revered; as a master, served with affection; as a patron 
 aiiil benefactor, his bounties were felt and gratefully acknow- 
 ledtred- His establishment was princely without parade, and 
 his hospitality noble. By his assisting hand, the churches of 
 York, Ripun, and Southwell, weie repaired, ornamented, and 
 beautified. Throughout an extensive Diocese, his Clergy looked 
 up to him with respect and deference; and all listened to him 
 with lo\e and admiration. He was blessed with six sons (the 
 eldest of \\ horn is Dean of York) and seven daughters. Eleven 
 of his children siuvived him. One daughter died in the prime of 
 youth ; and a beloved and gallant son, after having obtained the 
 rank of Ueutenant-colouel in the army, fell gloriously in the ser- 
 
 vicc 
 /
 
 1^71-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. *^6g 
 
 discredit to it, so I trust they will now be again 
 received with fresh u|)pro])ati(ni from the publick. 
 As it is long since they were printed, you may 
 possibly not have a co})y of them. I thought it my 
 duty, therefore, to send you one. If you want 
 more, you may command them from, Sir, vour 
 most obedient humble servant, W. Bowyer." 
 
 ^' Memoirs of the Life of Rr.ger de Weseham, 
 ?)ean of Linc(,ln, and Bi -iio]) of Coventry and 
 Litclitield, Favourite of R;;')(:'rt (^rosscteste. Bishop 
 of Lincoln ; being intended as a Prelude to the Life 
 of the last-mentioned excellent Prelate ; wherein 
 the Krrt^rs of former Antiquaries are carefully con- 
 sidered. })y Samuel Pegge, Prebendary of Litch- 
 tield," 4to. 
 
 vice of his Kin2,- and Country. His Gmce Imd the ba])pincs3 of 
 f^ccini^ some of iiis clilldren {greatly, and others well aiiitdj with 
 The additional sati:^faction, in ]\is declining' years, of viewing the 
 foundation of a large ))Osterity, aiiaually increasing through a 
 lengthening chain of grand-children. To eniunerate all tl;e 
 great ([iialities of tliis veiurablc nv.m is not an easy task. 
 'IhOiC who have heard his sentiments, and listened to his pre- 
 cept.-,, will feel that nothing in this liasty <li 'i;;>alion is extui;- 
 gei'ated ; they will recognisse, with pleasure, some of those ti'aits 
 which their own ]-ecollection cannot fail to coniinn. Arch- 
 ])i>ho]} Maikhamgase loOO/. at ( hri.-tmas 180G to each of his 
 gmnci-childntn, amounting to tiie ]U!ni!)er of f()rty->e\('n ; and 
 i.-, sujipo-^ed to ha\e hcciueaiiu' 1 p!-(;;)(i'tv to the amount of 
 100:000/. There is a jiortr.iit of him in tlic hall of (:!n'i>t Church, 
 Ijv Sir.Toslma Re\nolds, tlui^ -i[u;i:um- hiigth, standing, in his 
 ciii-copai I'ohes ; a;',d anoUier ii) tiu; Common jl(>om, a-* master 
 of \\'e,-,trni:i.ster x-'iool. 
 
 From an atlectiouaie '' 'I'dacu of Respect to the "Memory of 
 Ab|). Maikham," hy my fric:; 1 Dr. lord of Milton Mowhrav, I 
 tiaoscribi- il-.c eoncluding linc- : 
 
 " H.iii, \V(;i->ev\ hoiKjui'd dnmc ! to tliee renuii 
 'i'lie liolden dav>> thou (i>l iuil ui-^iv in, 
 Of Fell and Aldrieh I )ie\i r-ixiuL^- ual;);^ ! 
 .'-'.nee Al;irivli;uu came, a;id 1> ;; t!iv >oji-<, ni'.rh ln.ps'd 
 in .-,h;i]ie.!e-s indolence, .-uid wild mii-i'jh.', 
 Jiegain their pristine cLr'n. nor iil go by 
 The i)alm t(j Scien< avd th .tiiii m i\'v. 
 Him now with j;;ini>, olj-riju;. I.imi-ul 
 Him oft lu gratt'fii! i-uin-it- r'iO!:! 
 And be hi- f:ma' a^ l.i-tiiig :.- tii\ o'.mi 
 
 Vi>L.ll. B .-'. "P:o
 
 370 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [^l^l. 
 
 " Proposals for printing Mr. Morant's History of 
 Essex," folio. 
 
 " Truth in Rhyme," a poem, by David Mal- 
 let *, Esq. 4to. 
 
 * The following account of Mr. IMallet is nearly the same as 
 it stoo.. in the former edition, in which it was cliiefly collected 
 from Dr. Johnson's Life of him. " He was by original one of 
 the Macgregoi-s, a clan that became about sixty years ajro, 
 imder the conduct of Jvobin Roy, so formidable and so infan)Ou.s 
 for violence and robbery, that the name was annulled by a 
 legal abolition ; and when they were all to denominate them- 
 selves anew, the father, 1 suppose, of this Author, called him- 
 self ilfaZ/oc//. David Malloch was, by the penuiy of his parents^ 
 compelled to be Janitor of the high school at Edinburgh ; a 
 mean office, of which he did not afterwards delight to hear. But 
 he surmounted the disadvantages of his birth and fortune; for 
 when the Duke of Mont cose applied to the College of Edinburgh 
 for a tutor to educate his sons, Malloch was recommended ; and 
 with his pupils made afterwards the tour of Euro}>e : nor is he 
 known to ha^e dishonoured his credentials. Having cleai-ed his 
 tongue from his native pronunciation so as to be no longer dis- 
 tinguished as a Scot, he seemed inclined to disencumber himself 
 from all adhercnces to his original, and took upon him to change 
 his name from Scotcn Mallocli f to English Mallet, without any 
 imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can dis- 
 cover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native 
 country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was 
 the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend." On which 
 Mr. Steevens remarks, that "he was the only Scotchman he evei- 
 knew unregretted. by his coimtrymen." The news of his deaili wai 
 followed \)V no ericomiunis on liis v\ ritings or his virtues. April 6', 
 1734, he obtained tiie degree of iM. A. at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 
 " In 17-10, when the Prince of Wales had a separate court, he made 
 Mallet his under-secretary ; and when it was found that Pojie had 
 clandestinely printed an unauthorised edition of the 'FatiiotKing,' 
 Bolingbrokc employed M;d'ct (17-lD) as the executioner of his 
 vengeance. Mallet wanted either virtue, or spirit, to refuse the 
 office; and was rewarded, not long after, with the legacy of 
 Lord Bolingbroke's Works, which were published a\ ith success 
 very inadequate lo ovu' Editor's expectation. In consequence of 
 a thousand pounds left by the Dutchess of Marlborough, he 
 undertook to write the Life of the Duke her husband. From the 
 late Duke he had likewise a pension to promote liia industry. 
 He talked much of the progress he had made in tiiis work ; but 
 left not, when he died, the smallest vestige of any historical la- 
 bour behind him. In tlie political disputes wlvieh commenced 
 at the beginning of the present reign, Mr. Mallet took part 
 with his countryman Lord J3ute ; to serve whom, he wrote hi* 
 tragedy of ' Elvira,' and was rewarded with the ofHce of Keeper 
 
 f Prefixed to the sccoml Edition (in ontavo) of Thomson's " Winter** 
 is a copy of verses by hiin, signed Duiid MulLocI . 
 
 of
 
 17^1 ] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ^jl 
 
 "^ Concio ad Clerum in Synodo Provinciali Can- 
 tuariensis Provinciae^ habita ad D. Pauli Ecclesiam, 
 
 oF the book of e'ltries for ships in the Port of London, to which 
 lie was, appointed in the year IJGS. He enjoyed also a <:on^ider- 
 al)le pen.-ion, M'Jiieh 'nad been bestowed on him for his sdcuef-s in 
 tinning- tl'.e public ven?i,eance upon ''>>iig"j by n;eans of a letter 
 of accusation under the character of ' A Plain Man.' Towards 
 the latter end of his life, he went with his ife to France; but 
 after a whiJe, finding his health declining-, he returned alone to 
 England, and duxl in April 1765. He was tv.'ice manied, and 
 by his first wife had severdl children. One of his daughters has 
 distinguished herself as a dramatic uriter. His second wife was 
 the ilaugliter of a nobleman's steward, v "i o had a considerable 
 fortuii;', widen she took care vo retain r lier own hands. Mr, 
 Mallet's stature wa-^ dinii,utive, but I (- \v;is regularly formed. 
 His a))j)earance, till Ise gr vv eoi'pnlent, vvas agreeable, and he 
 suffered it to want no r j.rmniendatiori that dress eou'd give it. 
 His conversal'on was el v'aJi" an- easy. The rest of I'lis chanc- 
 ter may, withoL;*; injury -') his n mory, sink into silc^iee. As a 
 writer," adds Dr. . '"an -on, p-vi-'.-.s ali'^vw- too cont nptuour !y, 
 " he eannofbe piace.i va -t^^v h-gii ci.- -. '''htre is no .>i>e.cif^^ of 
 co-ujosition in which he - as e^'i n.-" :i?s dra ms liad tleir 
 day, a short dav, and are for. rotten, .'lis litc of Hacoa i- kno^^n, 
 as i, is appended to Bacon's vo^jme? . bs.* > no ionn' r ue.-.tioned." 
 Tiie titles of his P'ays ar' f>nr'nevat;'d i*. " " " ':'' ;.^p''a Da- 
 matica," ^ol. H. n. 2:)t>, c.i ''. ' rist curi- 
 
 ous .'.erornt we iiavp of J. I.' . .-, , ; <T . -'i; .i .1 several 
 letter r,rii!ted in the Euroj.ean ;Vl i . .^>..> ;hr ih" ye-.c- ''0-i and 
 1/94, vol. XXIII. 3:58. 112. XXIV. 22. 87- 17-^ 2:)r.;Ml. XXV. 
 C. 9[). 
 
 One specimen of his Episto'arv Corr -pojul 'ice bludl i^'re be 
 given. It is ad<lressed to S.;;n-.i ;1 !}'ri'.otv .-ti. I'l '.v:' known 
 niact'.r of the cereijiiiuif^ at LaLh, ' l:o '^ii-. ilu'n ui Duilin. 
 
 " SiK, ('nr'{P-str/'pt. Jtanori^r-'' ''(are, Dc:.. i.S, i7C0. 
 
 " Lord Corke tol-i nou, in a a- !f it; r. tiiat I was ill: it is 
 true, I liad bcoi forso-iic tin;." e r,i;i);C': 'o :nv ciiwrnber bv a fit 
 of t!!(> gout, b,;t am now mueh b<- "er. i hjcve SL-en ' our Trans- 
 laiion of .)uv;nil, and lik',' it: m, ;a:^ b.'-en sjjoken .^ ;I! .' by 
 m<uw pt'fjple of ciste, to wVari ^. . i kc ha~ ^iiex'. n u; 'rat I 
 fei;- you will iin ! it ii:ud to co.r.er; rop: tation into rr(>fit. 
 P. vis;- ij good .sauce to a dk'.vr; and ''. iien a l';)"i iia-> liir.'d 
 heaniiy, he can rcfl; et uii!i j)ir';>.sui'e on his i i-iui;' f 'lue. 1 am 
 told y.f.i ha\i' i'liis s;i!isf ic'ioa cftcn ;i' Lord Siia.'uu.! > t:r)lc'. I 
 has'" Mcn a icilcr from hitn, in \\i:i(;h he speuL-^ of y(ju in a 
 maimer tiiat dov-, you gn-a* luipouv, a:'u .vivc- in; 'Vo! olei'sure. 
 I have had tlu'fc k'ttt'is lVo:n vru, wiii'h (icuKiid ;n\ ihaid<s, 
 a^ they weie fricndlv [nd rnloi 'andng. Mv n(M '-ei.dingvou any 
 an.^wcr pniccfded from no diilicnt'v I f-iMH'! ii! '.riihig. I de- 
 ferred doijig it, till 1 cnkl be aljk.' to wi.it nu Aii'. Slone. T have 
 reason to think he v, 'U mention you to his brother, tho l.nrd 
 
 B E '2 Pi iinute
 
 ^12 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [lySl. 
 
 (lie ()" Noveinbi'is mdcclxt. ii Gulieliiio Freind ^, 
 S. T. P. EcclesiiU Cliristi Metroiiolitkne Cautiiari- 
 eiisi Deeauo ; jussii llevereiidissinii et C'oiiiniissari- 
 oriiiii," 4to. 
 
 " A Vindication^}^ of the New Calendar Tables, 
 
 TVimato of Irclruivl : he has taste, learniiiu', and ^nodncj-s. If 
 3011 can secure \i\ii j)at!iina;.;e and Lord Sliannon's, ir may raise, 
 you a1)ove a stale of dependence and attendance, tiie l;]essing-s of 
 wi-iicii you ha\e lon^' experienced. Now you have a fair o})|!or- 
 tunity to chide the farther infiueiice or e\il fortune; the road is 
 open, life view clear : a li\ing in tlic cliurch will hand.^ojnelv 
 terminate the prospect, ft is in the power of t!ic Primate and 
 Lord Shannon to make you easy th.is way; much more sO as 
 tlicy are Lords Justices, aud yom- :i"-(^:-.s lo (hem unim})cded. 
 The church-]i\ini^s in Ireland are ^cj} comfort aide. In llomavi 
 Catliolie countries, it is usual for the unfoi'tunate to take refuge 
 iu the Claarh. This practice is not coalined solely to foreign 
 countries: there have been insla)H:es of gentlemen, who have 
 liere taken the air on Hounslow-heath, exchanging the pistol 
 for the gown. Thus have they eluded the vigiianee of ll\e cen- 
 tries, found a snug sanctuary h; tiie Chiu'ch, and adorr.ed the 
 Island of Saints. Why should not a fa,ir honest character succeed 
 in your case, ;is well as daring villainy in those I have mentioned? 
 It is easier to rise in the Church tiian in any other department : 
 some talents and abilities ai'e recpiired to fill any other station 
 but to be a Judge or a Bishop 
 
 " Lawns and furr'd gowns hide all." 
 I remember an old French dancing-master (an ant lent family- 
 piece), who had long depended u|>on the late Duke of Dorset for 
 a provision. His Grace was ajipointed lord-lieutenant of Ire- 
 land : Monsieur was ordered to follow in his train. \'ariou-> 
 methods of settling liim were prijpo^ed : all were clogged with 
 ihsu{;erable objections, and unsurmour.table difliculties. At last 
 the ( huich was thought of; anil, thougli he knew nothing of 
 Greek, v. ;is a . * mger to Latin, couUl not read English, and 
 cpoke ver\ b;ul [.u;jn{ii, h(' was thrust into ordeis by some obse- 
 quious pandae to ikis Grace's will, and, 1 am j;s-uretl, wns in- 
 ducted into a veiy proniabiit ii\ing. I am, with gr'al trutli and 
 affe'Ction, dear Sir, Your mo-^t f'aitlii'u! servant, i). Mai. j. ex." 
 ' Of wiuaa, see \(d. V. ]>. lot, 
 
 f By Peter Daval, escp of tiie Middle Tem[;!e, a barrister at 
 law, afterwards master in Ciiar.cery, and at the tijne of his death, 
 January 8, 17b"3, acconijitant general of that court. He, at an 
 earlv period of life^ translated the Memoirs of Cardinal De lletz, 
 which were printed in ]<2ino, I'/'^.J, with a <iedieatjon to !\lr. 
 (xtngreve, who encouraged the pulilicatioii. He was I'ellow^ of 
 the ilo}al Soci; t\ , and an ai)Ie Math;Tiiatician. hi the (ii-put(; 
 concerning KHijitieal Aiciies, at th.e time when Blackfriars 
 Bridge was built, liis oj)inion on the subject ^vas applied for by 
 the Coiryantiee Sec his ausNver, Lo/td(,h Mc^. Mardi I'ijO. 
 
 iuid
 
 1761.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 373 
 
 and Rules annexed to the Act for regulating; the 
 Commencement of the \ ear, &c." 4to. 
 
 "^ Day, an Epistle to John W^ilkes, Esq." by Dr. 
 Armstrong, 4to. 
 
 The first Edition of Mr. Dodsley's very excellent 
 Collectioi; of " Fugitive Pieces;" by the Uev. Joseph 
 Spence *, prebendary of Durham, the kind and 
 
 * This onvanient of polite literature 'was fellow of Ne^v Colleg:e^ 
 Oxford, where he took the dearec or M. A. Xo\. 2, 17 37'; and 
 ill that year became rirst know n to tlic leaDied world, by " An 
 Essay on Po})e's Odyssey; in v.hieh .('Uie particular Bran ties and 
 Blemishes of ih.at \\'ork ai'e consi(u']-cd, in two Parts," l'2mo. 
 " On the Eng-iisli Odys.-ey," says Dr. Johnson, " a criticism was 
 ])iiblished by S])ence, a man whose learning was not \ery great, 
 and whose miud was not ^ery powerful. His criticism, however, 
 w;i3 conmioiily just ; v> hat he thought he thought rightly ; and 
 hiM rcnrarks were reconuneniled by his coolne.-,s and candour, hi 
 him Pope had the lust exj)erience of a critick without male\()- 
 lence, \\ ho thought it as much his duty to display beauties, as 
 r'xpose faults ; who censiu'cd with respect, and praise<l with 
 alacrity. With tliis crilici^m Po])e was so little otiended, th.at 
 he sought the acquaintance of the writer, who Tned with him 
 from that time with great familiarity, attended him in his last 
 hours, and compiled memorials of his conversation. The 
 reg-ai'd <if Po[)e reconmieuded him to the great and powerful ; 
 aiid he obtained very \alu:ible preferments in the Church." I)i'. 
 Warton, in liir, " J-ls-ny on Po})e," \ol. II. p.,j')l, styles S])ence's 
 judicious Es:jay on tiie Ody^^c}- " a \vork of the truest ta-^te;" 
 and aild-, tliat " I'ojjc was s'> far iV(m t;)king it ann-.s, that it 
 was til!' oiigin of a la-tin'?; fiicnd^iiip belwixt them. 1 ha\(; 
 -ecu," 5-a\.-i i)r. WarUn, " a c(;p\ of thi'i work, with nnr^'inal 
 oi)-( rva.ti'n;~, uritloi i;: i'ope'-^ own hand, and genei-alK aeknow - 
 ledgiii^' the jn^tne^^ ; f Snence's (jb-^crvavions, and in a few Id- 
 s', mec- plcuhng, humorously enough, that s(;me favourite line^ 
 might !;i' -jjarcd." .Mr. SjH'uee was (leeted Profesitior of 'Poetrv, 
 Jiiiy 1 1 , ] ; i.'-i, -uccc. .iing i\i^ ile\ . Tliomiis W arton, 15. D. iatlu'r 
 of Di. Jo-('j)ii \\:ali)n a;'.d .Mr. Th!)nia> \\';i!ton, av.thor of " The 
 ili-Iory :if Kngli-li I'o.tiy," and puctiy prof-^or: eiicJi of whieli 
 t'.u'cc pioir-'Oi'S were twice el. clcd to lli<.;ii' ollice, ;ur,I iu-ld it foi' 
 t''ii '.ear,-, a jMTioti a-, lung a: ill'.' statute- v>;H allow. Mr. Snc'nc(\ 
 in i'.U), vsroie an a'-count ('f ."ii'iilu'ii s^ucl;, x-.Jiicli \va- iir-.! 
 publiilied as a pauij.'ldei, ;:!'.(! -aid to h" wiittrn bv " Josrjiit 
 ><ii(ii((, iMj. I'(je1r\ l'r(-l"i'' o!'." J-'i'om tiii-^ circtmi-tance it lia- 
 b.' !i -appcj.-cd liiat In. w,'-, not tlifU in oidci'-; ',:<.] l!ii- i> ;i fal.^r 
 f')ii(lii-ion, a- ii(j \\;i^ ordaiiiCn in \'t'l\ : a;.;i l'I'i thi^ p;viniihic-l 
 in ihr hand- of iii> frifUil Mr. I>o^\lll fai'ler\s:.i(i- ili-h,)]) of l/jii- 
 diMi. \\\](), \\ith that (i!;il:'ii'.(.;' coi;:!' -em-iiu: litv '\\li:i'li hi- Lord, 
 ship u;i^ eniiiK-nlK di 1 iiixUi-h>'(i, hon^'iircd i\v wii'.i nan h u,-r 
 fid iid'oi i^iiiion (in llif ..:ilii";;l o!' i.lli- iiDt.i, to i)i- ]).;\>'.Wnvi[ a^ 
 
 -n;i.i)
 
 574 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l/Sl. 
 
 confidential friend of liie publisher ; Lord Whit- 
 worth (who had been employed on a niost im- 
 
 soon as he left England, with a Grub-street title, which he had 
 drawn Uj merely for iisguihe, not choosing to ha\c it thought 
 that he pubheo.ed it lu.nself. It was afterwards much altered, 
 aurl prefixed to Duck'h Foenis; and may be seen in dent. i\iag. 
 for 1736, vol. VI. p. 317. He travelled with Cliarlcs Earl of 
 iVlKlJle.sex, who was afterwards the second Duke of Dorset, as 
 well Rs with lierin, , who was then Eail of Lincob.i, andaf.crv^ards 
 Duke of iSewcast'e, into Italy i where his attention to his n( ble 
 Pupils did him Cne highest honour. [The mortiticatioa which 
 Dr. Guddnrd, afterwards Master of Clare Had, his Grace's Cam- 
 bridge tutor, felt by this appointment^ probably occasioned the 
 extraordinary Ded.ication to the Duke,, prefixed to his " Sermons" 
 l/Sl, 8vo.] In 1736, at Mr. Pope's desire, Mr. Spence repub- 
 lished " Go]'.iOi.iue, ' . with a pj-ciace, containing an account of 
 the autht \liti Earl of Dorset; and in a malignant E|(ibtle from 
 Curll to Ivii . i-c^j3, 1737, ^pence is introduced as an early patron 
 of the late ingenious Mr. Dodsley : 
 
 '' "lis kind indeed a Liverii iMtisei to aid. 
 
 Who >cnbbles Farces 10 ;iv.g-.nenl his trade : 
 
 Whci You and Spruce and Gio^^er dti'.e the nail, 
 
 Tlie ! evils in it if the plot .-;'culd fa; ." 
 Mr. S])ence never took a D. j or's degree: but quitted hi? fel- 
 lowship in 1743, on being yresenfcd by the society of Xeu Coiir^'e 
 to the ivf.oiy t ' Great jionvood in Buokinghaivsh.'re. As he 
 ne'.er rcb-tled u, ca bia living, but in a pl-'asani hiu.-e and g irdens 
 lent to !'.].'. ]v i>]a noble j>upU at Byficei. in Surrey (the n>ctory 
 of whici! _ : I be huA obtained f6r id- t'rieau Steph'^ii Duck), 
 he though: it his di^ v '.o ii;ake rin arctual vi.'^it to Horwood, 
 gave away ii'uny siu > of money to Uie .-Hstressed poor, and 
 placed out Lifctny of thir children as apprentices. In June 1742, 
 he succec.-ed Dr. li(jlmcs as Regius Professor of jModern His- 
 tory at Oxford; and in 17-i7 P'ublishcd " Polynietis, of an En- 
 quiry concerning the Agree ment between the AVoi'ks of the i!o-- 
 man Poets and the Remains of the antient Arti.-ls, being an 
 Aitempt to i!u:slra;e them mutually from e;'ch other." Of this 
 v/ork of ackn(/vvledged taste ;ind learning, Mr. (iray has beeji 
 thought to speak too conten;ptuously in liis i^ctters. Hi,- eitief 
 objection is, that the author has illu^a rated his subject from the 
 Konian, and not from the Gret^k Poets; that is, tiiat he has 
 not performed what he nevej- undertook, nay, wliut lie exjiressly 
 did not undervake. A third edition aj)peared in folio in 1774-5 
 and an Abridgment of it has b.'tni frecp.iently printed in octavo, 
 " In regard to Spcnce's Polymetis, I can only sia, that it was 
 thougiit the name of the Autlujr nouid have .supported it. jhit 
 ;t has ^unk by its tnvj; weight ; and, I will venture to add, will 
 
 + Mr. Roljcrt Dodslfy, who liad iicen sc-rvaut to Mi.ss Lowtlur, puli- 
 liihed l;y suu.icription .'. fhin ociavo voiuoie of Pceip.s wii'.ttn by hini^clfj 
 intitult d, " Tht Muie ia Livery," 
 
 ncvci.
 
 1761-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 3/5 
 
 portant embassy to Russia, which his Lordship 
 there describes), Edmund Burke, esq. oa whose 
 
 never rise again. That and Jortin's Erasmus were two books 
 that (I know not how) will be lost to posterity, though the writers 
 themselves had much merit." MS Letter from the Rev. E. Clarke. 
 I have seen a pamphlet (withS;jcnce's name to it in MS. as the 
 author) called " Plain Matter of Fact, or, a short Review of the 
 Reigns of our Popish Piinces since the Reformation ; in order 
 to shew what we are to expect if another shouh' happen to reign 
 over us. Part I. 1748," l^mo. He was in?tallcd prebendaiy of 
 the seventh stall at Durham, May 24, 1754; and published in that 
 year " An Account of ihc Life, Character, and Poems, of Mi-. 
 JBlacklock, Student of Philosophy at Edinburgh," 8vo ; which 
 was afterwards prefixed to his Poems (see Gent. Mag. 1754, 
 vol. XXIV. p. 500). The prose pieces which he printed in " The 
 Museimi" he collected and published, with some others, in a 
 pamphlet called "Moralities, by Sir Harry Beaumont, 1753." 
 Under that name he published " Crito, or a Dialogue on Beauty," 
 and " A particidar Account of the Emperor of China's Gardens 
 near Pekin, in a Lettei- from F. Atiiret, a iTench Missionary 
 now employed by tliat Emperor to paint the Apartments in those 
 Gardens, to his Friend at Paris;" botli in Svo, 1752; and both 
 re-piinted in Dodsley's " Fugiti\e Pieces." He wrote "An 
 Epi.->tle' from a Swiss Cfhcer to his Friend at P.o!ne," fijst 
 prinied in " The Musetmi ;" and since in the thii-d volume of 
 DfMlsIey's Collection. Tiie several copies jjublished under his 
 name in the Oxford Verges are preserved in the " Select Collec- 
 tion, 1/81," In 1757 'Ml". Spence commimicated to the Royal 
 Society an Account of some Antiquities discovered at Hcicula- 
 neum. {Phil. Trans. \ol. XLVIII. p.4S(>.) In 175S he published 
 "A Parallel, in 'he Manner of i^lurarch, between a most cele- 
 brated Man of Florence (?d;i^i!ai)C'(jchi), and one scarce ever 
 heard of in Enghusd (Ro^,ert Hill, the Hebrew lay lor)." 12mo. 
 In the saii:e \ear Mr. Sjifirjc uerom))uiiied his friend Dodsley 
 on a long t(}ur ; and, on their road, paid a . isit to the Leasowes ; 
 where they were thus noticcfl by Mi'. Shtn tone, in a letter to 
 Mr Graves. " Jiilij '2S. i\lr. Dodsley and >li. Sj)cnce have been 
 here, and staid a week with me. 'l"he former was in certain hones 
 of sf'i'in^ >ou in to'vsi; bi;t I do not find tluit he either saw or 
 heard from \ou, whi( h adda fo >nv anxiety. I Irive seen few 
 whom 1 liked bo much, upon ho Hi tie acquaintance, as Mr. 
 Spence; extremely .olite, friendly, cheerful, and niasler of an 
 inK,.ite fund of hul;;eet.-, for tigieeable conveiv.ition. Hud my 
 alfair.-) permiued me. tiiey had e. rtainlv drawn me with them into 
 Scoilaii'i ; whither iiiev aie gon<', for about a month, up(n a 
 ionrney oi" euriositv ' \gain, " Sor. 15. Did 1 Ibigrt to make 
 \our ex.e;:-.s io l>o(l-ley or no.' lie was lu ic f.is i reineuilx-r) 
 .soon al'ier, \M;h Mr. ^])ence, in their \\:i\ to S{)tland Mr. 
 S}K.nee, th.' \(ry man ijoii wmdd like, and who would like 7/0;/, 
 of all luunkiud. He wuk ii'V Elegico iu'.o Scotland., and !-eiit 
 
 them
 
 376* LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iT^'l 
 
 literary talents it would he superfluous here to en- 
 large, and whose inasrerl\^ tract in the Collection 
 
 thorn back on his return, witli :i sheet or two of eritiei^nis, and 
 an hanibome letter. How mucli :un I interesteil in the pre.-er^ 
 vation of his friemlsliip i anil yet, sueh is niy destbn/ (for I cAn 
 gi\c it no other name), I have nesei" wrote to hiu) (iurc. Tiiis 
 imparimlitij of my neglect, yon must aecej)t ijotirsi-lf-ds smnr. 
 apology; but to proceed ; Mr. Spov-C choac hiniiself an oak 1^'rc 
 for a seat, which I have in.-^crjbcd to him : 
 
 " EXIMIO. XOSTKO. CRITOM. 
 
 CVI. blC.\KI.f VEM.KT. 
 
 iMVSAKVM. OMNIVM. KT. GH.M'I.MIVM. CUOUVa. 
 
 UICAT. AMICITIA." 
 
 Mr. Sponce's jcurney to Scotland is well described in an affec- 
 tionate e))i,st!e to Mr. Slienstone, in a collection of -evei'al letters 
 published by Mr. Hull, in IT/^, vol. 1. ]).'23S. In IJC'-i he com- 
 municated toDr.'SVarton several eN.c-?!!ent remark.'^ on Virg'il, which 
 he luul made when he was ai)ro;'d, and some few of Mr. Pope's. 
 in Gent. !\iag-. 177'^, vol.XLII. p. 170", is an eiii;i'a\ ing of an an- 
 tient mai-bic at C'landon in Surrey, with an explanation by tlie late 
 Mr. Spence. West Fineh;ile Priory (the scene of the holy Go- 
 dric's miracles and au?teritics, who, from an itinerant ir.orchant, 
 turned hermit, and wore out tlu'ce suits of iron clothes) was 
 now become Mr. Spence'.'; retreat, being part of his pvebendal 
 estate. In 17()1 he .was web )ourtra\e(l by Mr. James liidley, in 
 his admirable *' Tales of the Genii," under the name of ' Phesoi 
 Ecneps (his name read backwards) Dervise of the (iru\es;" and 
 a panegyrical letter fi'om him to that ingeni<Mis moralist, under 
 the same signature, is iri-erii d in " Lettei's of Eminent Pei'sons,"' 
 %ol. III. p. 139. In i7'>4 he ])a;d ih.e last kind oflicc to the re- 
 mains of his friend Mr. i)od>ley, who died on a vi,-it to him at 
 Durham. He closed his iittrary labours with "Remarks and 
 Dissertations on Virgil ; willi some other chtssical ()bser\ations ; 
 bv the late Mr. Holdsworth ; published, with se\eral Notes and 
 ad;hti()P.al llemarks, by Mr. S;)encc," 4to. 'J'iiis volume, of 
 >.vhlch ti;e greater part was ))rinted off in 1707, ^va.-^ ))ubli-hed 
 in Febru;irv 17()H ; and on the '2()th of Augu-t following, 
 Mr. Siicnee \^cis imfortunatelv drowned, in a canal in his garden 
 at lJ\!leet. Beuig, v\hen the Jiccident hapj)ened, quite ah)ne, 
 it couUl onlv be conjcctmed in what manner it ha]>])ened j 
 but it was generally supposed to have b^en Qcea'ioned bx a fit, 
 wl'.ilc he W'as strmtUng near the brink of the w;iter. He was 
 found flat upon his face, at t!ie elgf, where the. water was too 
 .-hallow to cover liis head, or any part of hi-, body. The lat*^ 
 D'.ike <if Wwcastle ])osse.-sed -ome .MS \()lumes (A' anecdotes of 
 ( junurit wri'.L-rs, collected bv Mr. Spence, who had in his iife- 
 tiiiie comm..nicate(i ti^ Dr. VA'arton ;is many of them as related to 
 Pope. " I am indebted,'' sajs Dr. AVarton, " to this Itariicd and 
 
 - Subiiiicllige sr.DrM isrAM (hanc', 
 
 amiable
 
 17()1.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ' 577 
 
 of "Fugitive Pieces" is called "A ViiKlication of 
 Natural Society, written in the Character of a late 
 noble Author [LorclBolIngbroke] : and first printed 
 in 1756';" the Rev. John Clubbe *j William Hay, 
 
 amiable man, on whose friciulshi]) I set the grenle^t value, for 
 most of the anecdotes relating to Pope mentiont d in this work, 
 which he gave me, when I wa? m;ikin^ him a ^ i>it at B\1leet, 
 in the year 1754."' From these MS Collections, by permission 
 of the noble Owner, Dr. Johnson made several extracts in his 
 *' Lives of the Engli-h Poets." " ^pence's x\necdoios," which 
 are fiTTiuently qu(jtL-.l and referred to in J()hns(ni"& ' I^ive-; of tlu^ 
 Poets," are in a !i!anuseript collection. m:ide by the Rev. Mr. Joseph 
 Sper.ce, containiisi;' a nuniijer of particidnrs conce' ning,' eminent 
 men. To each anecdote is inarked the njiine of the j)er.>on on 
 wh';*e an'horitv it is mentioned. This valualile Collection is the 
 )"0})ei-ty uf the Duke of Newcastle: who, iij^on the application 
 of .>ir Lncas Pepys, was jjleascd to permit it to be j)iH into the 
 hands of Dr. Johnson; who, I am smry to think, made bnt an 
 awkward return. "Great assiitanee," says he, " li;is h'x-n given 
 me by iNIr. Spence's Collection, of v>hici! 1 con-i;ler tho communi- 
 cution as a favour worthy of public acknow ledgnient ;" but he has 
 not owned to whom he was obliged; so that the acknow le(iii;mcm. 
 i^ un;'.|)propriated to his Grace."' liosvcU, Life of JdIiuso}!. 
 
 ' Mr. Spenccs character," says a friend who had seen the 
 ju'eceding observations, "is projierly delineated ; and his Polv- 
 metis is justly \ indicated from the petty criticism- of th.e fas- 
 tidious Cray. In Dr. Johnson's masterly PreCaee to Drvden, he 
 obserMs, that 'we do not ahvavs know our oivn nioti\e:-,' Shall 
 Ave tlien presume to attribute the frigid mrntion of the trulv 
 lennvd and insrenious .Mr. Sjjcuce, in li'.e Preface to Po];e, to a 
 jireiudice conceived against him on account of hi- pr( i'( rcnce (;f 
 bi;u;k-\u-c to rhyme in i)is K^-av on Mr. Pojjc's (/(!y.--.rv; a 
 vi>r'' , V. liich loi' sound critici-m and candid (li-([i!i.;iti(!n is alriio-t 
 V, ith(>ut a jiarallel r The judicious Dr. V/artoii'.- seniiincnts with 
 rc-p-;; lo it mav Ijc seen in his ailniirable l]-;-a on [\i|)r ; and 
 JJi.-lK)p l-()wt!i, whose learning and genius ure indir-puiiM'', e\- 
 prf.'se- Inni-eif in tlie foiinwing in;'nner, in a note on iii- Iwelftit 
 Piii'Udioji on Ilebi'cw Poeti'v : ' (bee ;',n!('ni vide acurate el 
 siicnti-r ixuiicata a viro doeti inio J')-ejil;() 'ipriK t- in ()p;re 
 ciuditojuxta atque eleganti cni lilulu- Poivnuti-." 
 
 ^' Till- K( v. John (dubbe, rccToi- of \\ !..i' lu'ld, and \icar of 
 D;tiiiihani. in Suiibii^, was .-mi ot'iiie Kiv. (i:';ri';e t Inbbr, "M.A, 
 of (.atii:u-ine I I.dl, Cainl)! i(!L;-e. likcwi-c r^'C-nr (A \\ Ir.u field. IK- 
 \\a- ;'(lin!lte<l of Kini:''," ( nllc^i', C".ni!-'rii!i';i'. t iiiMii;-,".) nu nnhickv 
 nii-tak<' of hii uneii' IJe -'.do of Ijr-wieh ; who <lid rot fnow liil 
 loo late tlial hi- degree 'onl.l noi i./jd to :'.nv promotion in that 
 ( oliegc. ( )f < oui'.'C iiv had no!hir;g mni-f 10 do tli'ii' ;ifi";' lal-.in';- 
 hi- ISaciu'Ior'- dcjnx-e, which he li'd in IJ'J.'). ( \t\ e!d'-r IuoiIk y, 
 (norgc, wa-, educated at hi-, fillxr'- eolli';;c.) -In l/."jl be 
 1) real led a '7-eiuion belbic the ln<'orj)or;ited Soci' t' foi- tlr
 
 378 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^1.f 
 
 esq. (of whom see the " Essays and Illustrations," 
 vol. VI. No. IX.), Gilbert Cooper, esq. (of whom see 
 
 Reliof of Qergyuicn's Widows and Orphans at Ips^\ich, which 
 was printeci at the time. In 1758 he pubHshod " The Hiritory 
 and Antiquitk's of Ihc- nntinit ^ ilia of Wheatiiiid, in the ('ounty 
 of Sutiblk 5" an admirable piece of irony, levelled at JModcru 
 Antiquaries, which was re-j)ublished by Dodsley, in 1/1) I, in the 
 second volume of " Fui;itive Pieces." In 176'3 he published 
 " Pliysio^noniy ; beinp,- a Sketch of a larger Work upon the same 
 Plan, wherein the diti'erent Tempers, Passions, and Manners of 
 Men, will be partieidarly considered." In 1/65, "A Letter of Free 
 Advice to a young Clergyman ;" a very judicious and sensible letter, 
 which ought to be pei'used by every Clergyman, whatever be his rank 
 or his years, (ee Monthly Review, \ol. XXXII. p.S'X>). These 
 tracts, with some others, were collected together, and published 
 at Ipswich, 2 vols. I'Zmo. 1771. The author died Mai'ch 2, 
 1773, aged 70. His ea.sy tern; er and liveliness held to the last; 
 for, in the e\ening before his death, hi:^ physician and intimate 
 friend. Dr. Frost of Hauleigh, feeling his pulse with much gra- 
 vity, and observuiJ- that it beat nun'c even tban upon his last 
 visit; " My dear fneiui," s;-.id he, " if \ou do not ulready know, 
 or have not a teclue' al e-<pression for it, I will tell \'ou what it 
 beats it beats f/ie Dead March." Mr. Clubbe left eight surviv- 
 ing children; one of whom, \Mlliam. is now ^icar of Krandeston 
 in Suflblk ; and another, John, a })h)sician of eminence at Ips- 
 wich. The following elegant tribute has been paid to his me- 
 mory by a succeeding rectt)r, the lle\-. John Plam))in, A. iM. It 
 is on a small maiWe tablet, in a neat ruial temple in his gar- 
 den ; and the beauty of the inscri})tion is much heightened by 
 the bo>\ er's having been foj'med of the \cvy trees and shrubs his 
 preedcessor had planted : 
 
 "JoHANXi Clubbe, 
 
 sale et facetiis ante omnes 
 
 primo, 
 
 cui olini ha; pinus, 
 
 et ipsa luec arbu.^ta, 
 
 apprimfe fvivrunt in deliciis, 
 
 sedeiii banc dicat 
 
 J. P. 
 
 MDGCXCVn." 
 
 The following epitaph is also placed against the North wall of 
 
 the chancel of VVhatii<'id church, within the communion-rails : 
 
 " V ithin this chancel 
 
 are interred the bodies of 
 
 (lEOKGK Clubbe, clerk, 
 
 foraierly Rector of this Parisli ; 
 
 oi:' Catharine his wife; 
 
 and of theii' chiklren, Geoige, Maiy, 
 
 Ca'.harine, and John. 
 
 The lattei- was for maiiy years 
 
 the Rector of W hatlield, 
 
 where
 
 1761.] THE EIGHTEENTH Cr.NTUUY. 379 
 
 p. 2.94)5 Dr. Lancaster*: Dr. JohnHHl, Knight of the 
 Polar Star^ the celebrated Froteus m Liteiature and 
 
 where he ii\e(l ieiitctrd and hclovcd 
 
 by all ^ iij ..nevv him 
 
 He died 2d March 17/3, aged 70 years; 
 
 and is buried hciC;, 
 
 with JSasannaii his vvife, 
 
 IMary and Cc.ti;arino their children. 
 
 To the niouiory 
 
 of the bc;i <>!:" Parents 
 
 Li:'-.l tlicir FainiH.^s, 
 
 their E;^-tit survi\ing Cinldrcn 
 
 have inscribed tiiis stone, 
 
 1:70V' 
 
 The inscription in Vv'liatfield ( burch was drawn np by his son 
 Wi iiai . -, 'Ui ':, .iyreeabiy to his tHLher's ^vishes, ao ex^'i /rscU to 
 hill coutiuns c.d' a plidn memorial of his ance^t()rs, anci those 
 of lis own family buried there. Mr. Clubb has adJicd, inscribed 
 to ins memory by a:s " lui^hl surviving tliildrcn, ' lieca ise he 
 knew his lathe, would have id.ed it. Tii<re oi'Ci- Wi )e /we/t-e.- 
 of whicii nine are noticed in a note at ihe end of axa "Antiqui- 
 ties of W h.'atiield." 
 
 * .Mr. H-A\. i)i a note on '' Se'cf t Letters bctv.een tlie late 
 DLUeiH-h ;>. Som'^.'et, La iy La .oroug'h, tS.e." i;6'8, says, 
 "'ihe J'.i^say Oil j^eiieacy Mas liie producllori of Dj'. j>>athanael 
 Laneastei, many year- reetta- of Stanfoni : i\er-, near O/igar, 
 in iv-.-cK, uneli io ihe Eclitor of the--e i^etit-rs. lie was a man 
 of hi n ill-- natural par.s, great erudiUDU, reHued taste, and 
 nia ter of a ncrnus, and at the "-ame tini'- e'ic'giuit style, as is 
 vei", oi :'i(.u.- to every one who has i.ad the h;!| pir.e-s to .read the 
 E-:n !ie!c -: ifis: ;i ''f. !'i- ^\ritii^-^ ,e!e Ww.-i in mi i;>er tiian 
 th< :; r-'ii- ( "- ,'( I'.i"-' .^;'!. au' ' to ,,\oii!i-e to hi,^ fii.iu'-., and hii 
 p.i /liatitin- .' -^ kiiov-n llia:: theii' irit;i::-ie exceiiencc ;i :- i'.'nl. 
 \\: i>e l)e--/i -.iz, holiritnus as !;e v>:^ ; ayable to instiiiet imd 
 ])!,- 'li' world, i'e- ].:()'^',,'->^r";i ;- \vou!(' ii:;v;.' sur|;Hss;' i him j 
 bu; ill i'ii i'M'C)' ';!! he \\\'.<\ :: . o( i i-c, -v A \\hu''\c)- he com- 
 ])()--d :'.i ..:- l-.nu- i relii'ed :'. ,rc h.- ,' . iilia{)i)';iy ,'or tiie ',.;ib- 
 lif'..) !).'!(!(' .0 ;, I !; ,i'',C(i. \.!i.v'li wa- ri!i::':>n-'y (\ !'ad alc.Mst 
 saiii 1 )< i!|j.i.<\;~'y ) )/ ."oi'iii 'd. li-v-i 1. .vaivr o!" ( ik 'ir.vv; and, 
 ill :i[^ e;i. liv,- \ea! -, unucr il;' p;,1i'. .;_. j;;J. iVii : i-hip of the 
 l,!i' r.:n\ of r;v;'iM\'in('.> L V, ,!';'." i in ai ih'- wxr..- cMilcod s(\'nes 
 of (/:i.^li('d lif , N'.iie!'- ;ii-' ''\ ', j'iill, ;'.::d hfil,.:in. conx'r'^a- 
 tiori, !"avii'ic.': \\r\\ :!!,'\(;- a/', di- i i:!i' i;i-iic-;! u:'A t < .[<..[: and 
 (;\, 1 ,]' . wit'-.i;' ,. i(",\ iiicii'.iiS (>t 1:, dci ,;'_-:; (1: ir j '> \";'.u's of 
 a^ i.i;-e IucimUi s ...itld ^eair'-l'- -'.id lol'e iiii!;;iirc '. 'jl-.c 
 K--.i\ Oil Dclicrav (of '.vaicii we iv t's-v .'-;)' 'kiM'.;-), l';c only 
 matciTil WO]-;-, oi" ills wli'eh ih'" i'.diioi* l\r()w^ ,<j have Mir\:\cd 
 liim, \':>tii'- i" ii!!i'.; in I !i'/ \,;ti' 17-1.'-':. aMii lia^ l);-cn \ ci'x jjidi- 
 cioi: . I ,;,, . ;)jiou-l_v j ii-cj wd lv li;-' I;tie ! r. DncK: \ , in 
 
 hit iutiiiive Pjcecs." iS.otwitJi.'^Landini.: Mr. iiuli's fcUjiposiiion 
 
 that.
 
 380 LITERARY ANF/DOTKS OF [l7^>l< 
 
 Medicinr*; nud hy sevrm! oilier el(:'j>;;int writers; 
 2 vohmics, 8vo. 
 
 A very (ixcellent and s]->irite(I Translation of (\w 
 " Elegies of Tvrtnpns,'' 8vo. 
 
 Two new editions of Mr. AVebb's " hiqnir}' into 
 the Beauties of ]-*ainting," Svo. 
 
 " The En<;lish Verb, a (iranimatical Essay -f- in the 
 Didactive Form: b-y Mr. [James j White ;!:;" Svo. 
 
 "A Conference between a Mysti(.', a Hutchinso- 
 nian;, a Calvinist, a Metliodist, and a Member of tiie 
 
 that his uncle wrote nothina,- hut tlic " E^.say," a Sermon of hi,;, 
 under the title of " Public Virtue, or the Love of our Coinitry," 
 was in'intcd in 17-i6", 4to. He wa.^ al-<i ar.ihov of a long anony- 
 mous rliapsudical poem, called ''The Old .Serjxnt, or idetiiodisni 
 Triumphant," 4to, The Doctor's iui])ru(lcnce invohed him so 
 deeply in debt, that he was some time c:oiuined for it, imd left 
 liis parsonage hovi^^e in so ruinous a condition, that his successor 
 Dr. Beadon (now Bishop of Balli and Wells) wr.s forced entirely 
 to take it down. Ke died June 20, 17T5, leaving two daughters, 
 one of whom married to The lle^'.Thoma.^^.Velenhall, of Cluster, 
 cliaplain of a man of m ar, and vicar of V*'uItiiamstow, Essex, 
 from i;59 till hi.-- death, 177G. 
 
 ^- Of whom, see vol. XL p. 89 ; and \\]iose 'listory is too ^vell 
 known to need recital hei-e, wiiere he i.-: only monrumcd as author 
 of " Luc'ma sine Co)uiihifu." He was the son of Theopliilus iidl, 
 J(^ a clerg}nuin } was boi'n in the \ear IJ 10' ; and, after tiguriiig fl- 
 an author in almost eveiy department of litcral\u-e, had the hon',>iir 
 cf beinp; made a Knight of tiie Polar Star b\ tlie King of Swciien. 
 
 \ Tiris Essay, as was well remarked by the [Montldy Reviewer^, 
 is " a sti iking proof that a man may be lui excellent grammai'ian, 
 without attaining to excellence of :-ly!e." Mr. Wlnte had befjic 
 incurred the censiu'e of the same respect able Criiic.-, for " The 
 Clouds, a Comodv, written Ly .Ari-^topiumes, the wittiest man of 
 hi^ aav, again-t Sociates, who was tjic wisest and best; now 
 hr.-,t tr;x!i>'atcd into Jhigli:>ii, with tlie principal Scliolia, arid 
 Notes critical and explanatoiy , IJ^j'.K" l'2mo. " We are sony," 
 say the acute Remark '^r-;, " to -ee .10 much learning and laliour 
 ernp'oye;! tcj s;; .^o useless a j-nrpose, ;t^ the revival of thl- \\orth- 
 less Comedy. Many a piece with iifvy times its merit has been 
 hi.-^sed on th-: Englisli theatre, and peruaps not altogoUier unde- 
 servediv neither. We would ti-.ercfore huiiihly recouuncnd to 
 3lr. White (thl' Translator) to employ his tinie and his talents on 
 moi-e woniiv ^ubieets for the future."' See Jpjnthly Review, 
 vol. XX. }). 4(72 ; vol. XXV. p. 470". 
 
 + A sclujol-nraster in Cecil-street in th'> S.trand. He after- 
 ward.-5 renioved 10 Dublin, where he pu!:>ue(i tlie honourable and 
 useful ta^k of insliucting youth, for many yi.-ars, with con.-5ider- 
 alde reputation. 
 
 Church
 
 1761.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 38 1 
 
 Church of EngiaiuJ, and others; wherein the Tenets 
 of each are freely exaininecl and discussed," by Dr. 
 Dodd*^, Svo. 
 
 ^ This unforduratc Div?l^c, tUlost son of the Rev. William 
 Do'id, niruiv jt-ar:? vic;>,r of IJouine in Lincolnshire, was bon^ 
 i\I;iy 'iCi, 17'Z.9. lie \v;is sear, ;it the age of sixteen, to the uni- 
 ver.-ity of ('ain!iT:'j_i.',e, rind luhuitted, in the year 1745, a sizar of 
 ( lare'Hall. In 17-it)-50 he lijok the degree of 13. A. uith great 
 lionoiu-, lieing iqxjn tl\at occasion in the list of Wranglers- 
 I^'Hxing the iiiii*er.-;il\ , he marricdi imprndently in 1751 j was 
 ordained a d( aeon in tli-- sanii; year, prie-t in 1753, and soon 
 beciuiie a celebrated arid powular i)rr;ic}\er. His first preferment 
 v.a-' the leetiin.ship of \Vi -t Hani. In 1754 he was also chosen 
 leetniev of ^^t. 01a\e"s, Ilart-^treet ; and in 1757 took the degree 
 of .M. A. at (a. abridge. On the foundation of the Magdalea 
 *[(>>pital, in 1758, he v. a- a strenuous supp;>rler of that charity, 
 and soon after Ix: ..me e, pieacher at llie chafad of it. By the 
 patronage ni' J5i.-h()|) Sipiirc he in 17(^>2 obtained a prebend of 
 Brecon 3 and, i)y the ialere>t of some City friends, procured him- 
 self to be appointed oiie ov" t!;e ljj!g'~ chaplains; soon after 
 wliieii lie liad the efUicaiion of the jiiv^ent Earl of C'hesterlicld 
 oannitted to liis care, in \7(i(> iie took the degree of LL. D. 
 at Cainbridgt^. At this p-eriod, the estimation in \', Iiich he was 
 held Ijv tlie wTuld wr.s ^uihcient to gi\e him expectations of 
 prcfernii-n!, and li(ip<.> of rich - and honour ; and lliese he might 
 jirobabl'v l:ase aiquiini, h;id Ite i)03se?5.-ed a fninmon portion of 
 j)rud< nee am! tii^creiion. But, imjiatient of iiis ^ltuation. and 
 'ai;vr for pin I'cnnen!. he raihiy fVil upon means wiiich in the 
 ciu! were tii. (H'c:i-ioM ot iii- ra:!i. On the living of St. George, 
 lLinover-SMu;ire, bvct-'aiin;;' \a(:.in*, he wrote an anonymous 
 hrti!' to Lord Clianec !!or Ap>iev .- !:i:!y, oilerin ; .'^(KK) gr.ineas 
 if 1>\ !u r ;i--:-i:!Uti' he '.vns jironKr;:*! to It. Tiii^ being tniced 
 to liini, conij l.ihit \\a- iuum diateiy made to the KiiU', and Dr. 
 J)(jdd \\a- (Mi d-^dl ^^il]^ (ilM:i"iee irom liis oHi.-e of ch-ipiain. 
 Fl'om 'ihi- i((;;o.l ill ii. 'd iie_le(t. .1, if T)(jt dcspisetl ; ;ijul his 
 t'xtra\a^ance .-:i'i eo!i!'i.iii:::g, he breauie Jnvolvi'd in dith(,ulties, 
 wliich te'....:U(l iiiui \i> ujf^f a l^ond from hi- !alc puj!l tlie j'"arl 
 of ( i;', .-w ::..'l..'. lai). ':, '7;7, loi' VHml. w.hich lie artu.illv re- 
 e. i\ed : I)'.;', 1 eii.g d> leded, ^va^ iricd at tl'.e Old T-iJIca , foinid 
 gui!i\, aij'l rce'.i'.cd .-fnl;-:ire ()f d-alh ; aixi, in -piir oi' many 
 eireiiin-i;inee'- ((" \lv.iua' '.oa, and (->( ry iinpli; ..iinu i'or lU'rev, 
 was execuled., .Tun- -7. 1777- Bat I -hu!' )i(.t (t.wdon a -n!)- 
 ;(! \viru'ii nii'-l pain hii::i:es;;, . I);-, D.idd \\;i; :, \ohiniinou.s 
 wiiier, aiui p !--(-->, 1 eou'-i.i.r:;!/!'' a'. ilili!-, uldih;:!. ju('.;:i:-nt 
 mid mii'ii '.iin.ii. A- a ja'e.>:i,<i', Lowcwr, I cin t'-iii\-, foai 
 ha\ iag lie.jU' litlv luard hiai \' il h d liidi' . t(,:i.t 1 c w;;.-^ df-;T\(dlv 
 \c'rv p.opal a\ \n ;icciirate li-i of hi^ wi'iou- '.vri'. iii::-. i- pi(.jix<'d 
 to hi-^ " flit-aghi- m I'li-on," c.!. I7nl: a\. '.'rk, all ciVi ;uin-!anees 
 eoa^-ider-.d, ('f '.nuMinmon ivrii. 
 
 A pan.
 
 5^2 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^1. 
 
 A part of two editions of Mrs. Sheridan's* "Sid- 
 ney Bidduiph/' liJino. 
 
 " The History of James Lovegrove, Esq." by Mr. 
 James Ilidlty -|-. 
 
 Mr. Smith's:): "Will;' printed for the Trustees, 8vo. 
 
 * Mrs. Frances Sheridan, wife to Thomas Sheridan, M. A. was 
 born in Ireland about the year 17'24, but descended i'lom a good 
 E)iglish family whieh had removed thither. Her maiden name 
 was Ch;iiiiberlaine, and she was grand-daughter of Sir Oliver 
 Chanibeiiaine. The hi st literary perfojnian( e by which she dis- 
 tinguished her.-clf was a livtle pamphlet at tlie time of a violent 
 flispiite relative to the tjieatre, in which Mr. Sheridan had newly 
 embarked his fortune. So well-timed a work exciting the atten- 
 tion of Ylr. Sheridan, he by an accident discovered his fair 
 patroness, to whcuii he was soon afterwaixis married. She was a 
 person of tiie most amiable character in eveiy relation of life, 
 with the most engaging manners. After lingering some y;ars 
 in a very weak state of health, she died at Blois in France, in 
 the year 1767. Her ' Sidney Biddulph" may be rajiked with 
 the best ]jroduCtions of ih;-,t class in the English, or in any other 
 langL^.ige. S'u' also wroce a little romance in one volume, caDedj 
 " >vcai-,i).a'' in which there is a great deal of in^t'gination, 
 productive of >.' aJii.iraide moral. And she was the ;iUthoress 
 of t '. o 'omedies, "The O'scovery" rrd "The Dupe/' 
 
 -V- 't I ingenious, v riler was the elt;est son of I).;. Gloster Rid- 
 ley, a:.;jister of Popiur, and jinujcndary of Salisbury. He was 
 the author of The Tides of the Genii, 17G4," 2 vols, .'-o; 
 a hji".orGu ,;','-'' called " Tlse Schemer," fir.-A prin'ie.d in 
 " '"hv: i^on-'.on { hvonicie," and since c(.>liected ir.to a v{'iunie; 
 and some o^'her livcrarj perfnnnances. He died at an eaViy age. 
 
 t Thi^- -Vh- Smith is MtJgarly cailcci Pog Sm'Un, from an 
 idle stOi'N' of his haviiig ^u]; .t'. beggar, and being foUow'd Ijv a 
 dog Vtiiieh pi Lybably 0'igni;.tts from th.t: Liunbitii Pedlar, 
 wbi so j,i(tiU'e, follovvcd by a dog, is in the wiiidow of tiit 
 ciit.:'c!i. (S.fi ih'- ilistoiy of Lambeth, iii the Bibliotheca Topo- 
 gi ;)!)ica Bfitannica, \^> XXXIX. p];i,teHI ) He v.as an akkr- 
 m;-.n of l^cndo";. proLiiLl} a Silver-sniitli. It has been so tho .^ht, 
 as Uv- Vi\ c(\ in S'-i-. er-.'- ie>'t, London, arnoi^'g the working Silver- 
 smiths: but an insc;ij)tion in Great Bookeham church, Smrey, 
 calls him " citi/,;vi ai^d s.dter of London." (Dale's Haruieh, p.9i:). 
 This, liowever, b-y no njcans pi'oxes that he \v;i; a saiter by trade. 
 He died Jan. .'iO, 10'97-8, at his house in Silver-street, Wood- 
 sin et (which now belongs to 'he trust) ; and his funoai ' was 
 woisliipfully solemnized at \^ andsw onh, it b -ing his desire to be 
 tli'M-e buried, because it was the jTiace of his i:.itivity. " (Funcnii 
 Certificate in the Heralds' College). 
 
 Mr. Snnth vas buried in the chancel at Wandsworth ; and on 
 a brass p' '.te ndaid on hi.s graxe-i- one ia this in-erlption : 
 
 ' Depoaituiu ilenr. Smith, scnatoris Londiueiisis, 
 
 Mule
 
 17G1.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. J 8^ 
 
 Dr. Brown's " Sermon at Bath," Svo. 
 Johnson's " Epigranimatiun Delectus," li>mo. 
 " The Life of the Chevaher 1 aylor," 2 volumes, 
 Igmo. 
 
 . Mole s\!b lu'ic qutiQri^ quis condiUir, optime lector ? 
 
 Cujui ? et quaii;; ? qiumtus in oi'be fait ? 
 A uextris muri ? statumn tu cei'uere possis 
 
 Oranti siiiiikm, raarmore tie Parioj 
 Subter quaui -latuain cei'iiatuv taljnla scuipta 
 
 Auratis verbis qii;e tibi euncta notant." 
 
 This refers to a nionumciit wiiich has been erected to his memory 
 on the riixht-hand side o'l tlie coniumnion-table of the same 
 church, with his effiiiies, in an aM- rnian's gown, kneehng at a 
 desk in the attitude of devotion ; under which is a tablet thus 
 in-cribed: " Here lieth the bod;/ of Henry Smith, esq. some time 
 citizen an;l alderman of Lon.lon, who deparred this life the .id 
 day of January, a" Dom. ItH'} , being then neere the age of 79 
 yeaves ; who while he li\ ed ga'% e unto lliese several townes in 
 Surrey following one thou-'and pounds apeece to buy lan''s for 
 perpetuity for tlie reliefc and settiuij poore people' a-woj-ke in 
 the said townes ; viz. to tjie towne of Croydon, lae thousaml 
 pound.s; 'o the to'.vi^.o of King-^ton, one thiuisand pounds; to the 
 towne of Guildfo/l, one thousand pound.sj to the tovs-ne of /Mark- 
 ing, one tiionsimd ])o^-n(l- ; Xi: '/le t; '/ne of F .rnh lu, one thou- 
 <-and po.inris; And, hv ;.:^ Vi-t will and testa'. i''"!, did farther 
 give and (kvist;, t,) i.i.y lands tW,- -ijorpetuity fv)r tiie reliefe and 
 setting the y)iure a-vvorl-. >, uuu; tiie tovvue (jf iicigate, one 
 th'Hisand poun 'j ; to tlie. towne (;i" Riciinjond, on*- -.jpecialtyfi 
 or deljt of a tliMn;:,n-.l ' o-.-.nf'a ; .,'(}. uoto thi-^ tn^vp'^ o'" VV'and"s- 
 VN'orth, wheic'i) he \vi;s b')r.v'. t!;:- s;ini <'f live iuni-fr;"" ;>ou!ids, 
 for liie = i:a> u-:^ -i- i;'i':K':.' : \n:; ;Ud f-.v hcv v~'n: i:id I: :.aii 
 oii:- th )i'--':r; ];:,j.v!-' 'r. \;\v: \,\:\':- r;;r _. rj. .^litv, lo lei^/'aie 
 poi.ve c:t|;i;-. ,;i.i j-:i-,.';.rs ii-.nw ''<. I >AvL'i.-\i lyratinv: And, 
 Dot li':e >ti'i'. !;-." lii.i <]'''.'; ;i.id boun \, did :'l.^i> yive and 
 befjUi'iiih tl; WA'.-l j)'iTt el' ids r-inie, bciiiu' tv) a gr:'i'.t \.ii ;e, for 
 the port i,i,t-;!>g l.ii.'l.- i.>f ilii.i 'i.p.ce for <. . r, fi: t'.i- ixlir.'. of 
 the ]i');_);-, a.;.i ;'.' "ing i;i:!'i ::-:. /.,.:': :r (;i;(i!U' ^v(,^thv the i;ni- 
 tatii -1 '^fi.. ;..:' v,!u>'.i G.)d h;'- llv^/ed Nviilitiu' .t!;unuanc.,- of ilic 
 go'.d- o;' tl.'- lilv [', f;,!';\v Idiii i ' lert! :i." ' i r \v:^- o;/( c nvuried; 
 l);jt, hi ^ v.ii' ;). i !.: !' a \ :_,ii - Ij-ioi-e iiini witiioiit i-siu CFuiieral 
 C;M'- '.icatr, ill li.j i! !:^'d^' C'oiiege), lie ii:;'d; o\ r ids (-;;>t(% 
 r;.;d and p'M>0!ii'', in ;]:' \<'.j i')'!0, to t' I'.-tcr- , i'ur ciirirli '.!>le 
 jira'poS'i -. r.'-:; \ :)>;.' otii oi'!!: ;.(' r,.- Ii-in of .",<'-/. ;i -.car fv;r iii-5 
 own niai.^fuai:!-'. !> Iii- li'-c - !', ). ; i-ii";; dai;/ Xpril'/J}, IG'^T, 
 h' i)' ;ii!r;ah.'d IcL''.!.' i. :, M \;i. ;." p. ".-'ins. t ) llic aavinnl of 
 n. .il'lv i(!;j',/.; amour \\l;;i i. \\.i; ''<' >()/. io (lie t oi'iitc-s of Dor-ri, 
 a'id i-'; '. to L;i-'-. !)!:-,;!!. lO'i')/. i<i lii- n -jjliew Hcni'V .la^ k- 
 o)i: ]<H>')1. io 1;;-, poor '-li:.; ion- : l(l.< ^.'Z t > b;iv inipropriat-on-; 
 I'oJ' godlv j'.re'iciier-. ; I.'.;' to i ,> :'id a iellow-ifip in (.'andirici^e 
 i')V liis oAii kiiili'i.i; I'));)/. Io n;d' -Ml !)oo;- ea;)Uvcs t,:k>-;i by 
 'Jurkidi pin'.i' r,; .'".ou^. to tlK' ijuri-di of \V r.nd'-.worl.ii , iUiK)'. to 
 
 Rich-
 
 384 l.n ERARY AXECDOTriS OF [I76';'. 
 
 '' 'I'he Doctrine of (Jraoe ; oi\ the OiBoe and 
 Operations of the fle.ly Spirit viudioated iVoni 
 the Insults of Infidehty iind the Abuses of Fanati- 
 cism : Conehidin;:;- uit'i si>me Thong-fits (huni])iv 
 ofFered to the Consideration of the Emablisiied 
 Clkrgy) \vitii regard to llie right Method of dc;- 
 tendini;- lleiig'ion a^'ninst tlie Attacks of citlier Party, 
 By Wilhani Lonl Bisliop of (xloucester * :" 2 vols, 
 12mo. Such a work, from such a Writer, as mi<rlit 
 well luive been expected, sold rapidly ; and a se- 
 cond edition was soon ^^ anted ; but, Mr. Bowyer 
 not having been intrusted with the care of it -}'-, he 
 
 RiclimomI ; and 1000'. to Reigriti^ to buy lands tjf inlio-itancf; 
 for the use of tlic ])Oor, The residue of liis estales, ital and 
 pergonal, he bequcatiicd to his executors, to be alloUed tt) the 
 j)oor of various pai'islies, according" to their (Hscretion. In this 
 distribution the criimty of Surrey has beoi principally reg-arded. 
 'Die particulars of tiiis ciiarily were obliging-]}' connnunicated by 
 \Villi;un Bray, esq. of Great Russcl-strcetj the Treasurer. 
 
 * This was answered, in ''A I^-tter to ti'.e Right Re\erL)id the 
 LordRishop of Gloucester, occasioned by his Traft on IheOHice 
 and Operations of the Holy Spirit. Ry John VVe.sley, M. A. late 
 fellow of Lincoln college, Oxford." See an account of Mr. Wc>s- 
 iey, in vol. V. p. '2'21. 
 
 -j He drew up on tliis occasion tlse tlu'ee following Letters ; 
 which, ho\vever, he did not send ; but gave directions that they 
 sl'.ould be preserved. And at this d;.-;tance of time, when none 
 of the parties c:\n be affected by their contents, 1 do not think 
 invsclf at libo'iy to suppress tliem. "' The Divine I^^gation" (a 
 work of some consec[U(>ncc in tl\c typographical ai-.nids of Mr. 
 Rowver) ajjjjcars by se\eral of the ^'ery iearned Prelate'.^ Letter."* 
 to have received no snuiU advantage from Mr. Rowver's correc- 
 tions ; and this even in an edition which was of necessity givcu 
 to another press. 
 
 " To the Right Rev. the Lord RI=liop of Ghiucester. 
 " My Lokd, 17G;5. 
 
 '^' When 1 understood th;it you had -.qiijolntcd ]\Ir. to print 
 
 tlie Second Edition of yoiu' Rook on O'n/cc, I was temj)tcd to 
 *.Tv out wiiji yi;ur Lordship, '' In what liglit nuist you stand with 
 uoN*F,-T and caxdio men; if, when 1 had gone through the 
 troui)le of the lirst edition, the second is ord'?red anav to anotlier 
 Printer, even agai)i6L the i-ecoinmendatiini of your liookseller ?" 
 Rut, ;ls tlie honest -ind candid will liule trouble them.silvi'.-, v.ith 
 anv diHeroKx' b(>twi'ci! your I^ord-hip and nic, 1 will a])peal to 
 the judiic within vour own breast 
 
 ' Pulsa
 
 1762.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 385 
 
 thought it necessary to vindicate himself from reflec- 
 tions that might arise on this apparent change in his 
 
 " Pulsa dignoscere cautus 
 
 jQuid solidum crepet, et pictae tectoria linguae." 
 
 " Your Lordship will say, you removed your Book to another 
 Printer, because I had printed the first edition of it very incor- 
 rectly. I answer, my Lord, that you saw eveiy proof-sheet 
 yourself, and ought to share with me at least in the imputation, 
 of incorrectness. You said, inderd, /a first setting out, thai yoit 
 would not he mij Corrector ; but then, my Lord, you should Jiot 
 be yo'ar OAvn. 'When slieots are hurried away to an impatient 
 Author late at night by the post, tlic Printer is precluded from 
 rcviev.ing them with that accuracy he otherwise should bestow 
 upon them. In the canceled Leaves which your Lordship com- 
 plains of, there were no less than six faults in one page, viz, 
 f). 151 ; only one of which, upon the return of the sheet, was 
 corrected by your Lordship, the others being left for me to dis- 
 cover j and when I had done so, I naturally cried, Hoio does this 
 man seek an occasion of quarrel against me! Prophetic I was; 
 fur, instead of receiving thanks from you for my care, I am con- 
 demned for passing over two others, jointly witii your Lordship, 
 in the following terins : " Shew him wiiat an admirable correc- 
 tor he is, and in a re-printed page too. lla h? suffered opposite, 
 against all sense, to go for apposite; and iu th.e note chscjirnm, 
 against all gi'ammar, for oLscurioj-em." Under favour, my Lord, 
 not against sense or gi'aramar ; for I had reduced cbscurem to 
 both, bv making it obscuram, v. luch \'.as as far as a sudden con- 
 jecture, without the cop)', could go. " Theologiam invenit 
 ipsis Pythagoricis numeris et fleraclili noti^ obscuram." As for 
 opposite comparison, I will not (iev":,'nd it; but a reader, not 
 wholly inattentive, might be misled to reilect, that comi-arlsonsi 
 which are odious (and such, my Lord, you aud 1 could irvake) 
 vi'.uit needs be oppjsite too. I would further observe, my Lord, 
 thai; this error might be the more easily pardo.niid, because '^he very 
 same word has unluckily (or luckilij, slialllsay?) escaped your 
 Lordship in a work of your younger y'';u-s, if the \'.orld is right 
 in ascriinng it to you. In p. 1)5, I iind thispaosaic: " But 1 
 chose this instance of our author's knowledge of nature, not 
 so much for its greatness, as for its opi-ositent-ss to our sub- 
 ject." ('i'itical and Philoso|>hical Enquiry into tlic C;u;-es ot" 
 Prodig-ies and Mirack's. l^ond. 1727- Iu slnrt, nv Lor I, vou 
 have ])r(scribe;i a law to me, by whicli no otli.r Prin?.>r Aviil e\cr 
 be bound, viz. that I siiould sutler for evtiiv error of tlie jjrcsa 
 which you leave uncorrected. 1 am singl; d ou; from the tlock 
 for nuiddingthe stream behi.s', which your l.,o;dhlii]> drinka t)f at 
 the fountain-head. But, \i\\ jjord, vanity or pu'li.dity h'-id^ .7ie 
 to think some oth(T motive, liesidrs inorncliiess, has carried 
 
 you over to anotivcr Printer. For \vny, of all men, to iMr. , 
 
 who, in ihe last i)')ok he had prinle 1 for you, vi/. the Second 
 Part of the .nivine Legation;, A.D. 1759., >;o incensed yovu' Lord- 
 
 VoL. II, (' c sldp;
 
 38^ LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I762. 
 
 Patron's sentiments. On this subject, however, it 
 is not necessary to enlarge, as 1 can assert, on the 
 
 ship, that you declared he never should print for you another 
 sheet ? If solicitation, or the prevailing fashion of the times, 
 have changed your mind, I blame you not. Every one is to 
 follow his Pleasure, or Interest, as his inclination leads him. I 
 only beg that we may be dropped with decency, and that con- 
 tumely may not give an edge to our disgrace. As yoiu- Lordship 
 
 has been pleased to go from me to Mr. , from Mr. to 
 
 me, and now to Mr. again, I might hope another successful 
 
 wind would blow you back again. My Lord, if I cannot, like a 
 courtier, have the credit of resigning my place, I will be still 
 greater^ and hereby promise not to accept it again. And, to 
 keep up the charactei- of an old fallen minister, I will make bold 
 to lay before you what I have suffered, and what I have done^ in 
 yoiu' Lordship's service ; and then we v. ill draw to the table, and 
 balance the obligations, which yovir Lordship has greatly lessened 
 by upbiaiding me \yith them, at a very unbecoming juncture, as 
 v.ill hereafter appear. The liberty I take you will impute to 
 that period of lite to which I am anived, the Grand Climactejic ; 
 which, as it levels all honours, so it mitigates all disgraces. You 
 must not wonder if I take courage the nearer I approach my 
 home ; even that home which is a refuge against all complaints, 
 and whei'e the bramblcd turf over my grave shall preach as effec- 
 tually as the lettered marble over your Lordship's. With tliis con- 
 templation 1 take my leave for the present ; and am, my Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, W. B." 
 [The foregoing letter, it shoidd be observed, was not sent to 
 the Bishop; nor was either of the two following ones.] 
 
 " My Lord, \76:i. 
 
 "In laying before your Lordship what I have suffered in your 
 service, I must open one or two secrets, which have never yet 
 reached your ears, and which my heart has been too big to men- 
 tion till I was determined to reap no advantage fiom them. From 
 a foolish sensibility of your Lordship's harsh reproofs (a specimen 
 of which, out of many now lost, may be seen in my last Letter, 
 p. 385), I resolved, many years since, to leave your Lordship to 
 enjoy the Saw of controversy, while I crept from under the Harrow 
 of your displeasure. To that end I hastened one morning to my 
 Friend ancl Patron the late Speaker [Onslow], to acquaint him 
 with my resolution. He was out of town ; but, the Reproaches 
 from your lordship being frequently repeated, a Partnership 
 was thought of I do not impute the several consequences of 
 that Partnership to youj but must beg leave to mention one, 
 with which you have an immediate connexion. Dur'ng that 
 period, your Lordship informed me of your design of putting 
 into my hands the Second Part of The Divine Legation to be re- 
 printed. You wanted new Types for it ; and new Types were 
 bespoken. But differences arising between myself and Partner 
 (in which you shall suppose me wholly to blame), he said he 
 would pay nothing tow arda the expence of them, which led me 
 
 to
 
 17^2.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 387 
 
 authority of another Right Reverend Prelate, " that, 
 notwithstanding any httle altercations which had 
 
 to put a stop to their being sent in. This I informed your Lord- 
 ship of; and, in as complaisant terms as 1 couid, told you, that 
 though by these means 1 was hindered from prinlmg your Book^ 
 1 was ready to do for you what lay within my oicn pri\ate powei, 
 by correcting tlie sheets, if you thought proper, to \v hatever press 
 you should connnit them. Accordingly Mr. Millar stut a mes- 
 senger to inform me, that I should dern\r the copy to Mr. ; 
 
 and that Dr. f-Vurbiirton exjiected I should correct the Proofs. The 
 Copy was delivered ; anil the Proofs \\ere sent to nie in Kirby- 
 street, till one of them by mistake being sent to \V'hite Friars, 
 and falling into the hands of my Partnei', fetched from him the 
 following Letter : 
 
 "Sir, Mail 12, 1757'. 
 
 *' For Mr. Bowyer to carry work to another house in 
 order to make me suffer, even though he sultered, aj>pearcd 
 a little odd; but now, by the receipt of the inclc^sed {)roof, 
 which was not, I suppose, to fall into my handsj 1 can partly 
 guess at the meaning, which, in short, is this : You was so 
 kind as to undertake to correct it, that hereafter you may 
 latj up a customer for yourself, though much at nsy ex])encii 
 and, what is still more grating, at the same time refused 
 to read the Greek part of a woik, of which I sujjpose you 
 expect to receive half the profits. 1 need not tell Mr. 
 Bowyer, tliat it is contrary to the Rules of all Partnerships ; 
 but, 1 belie'.e, when it is told, it will make many people 
 stand amazed. J. 1mo:;sox."' 
 
 " By the express Terms of the Partner-iiip, it was agreed, ' tliat 
 W. I'owycr, in consideration of Ins age and ill healih, should in 
 general be exempted fi'om reading Proofs :' but, it seems, he was 
 not to be indulged to lead an) for iiis own picasuie, when it hap- 
 I)ened U) displciite his Paitner. In .scrying your Loiil-hip, I ex- 
 ceeded the bounds of Partnership; wliicli was r.rged before ray 
 Arbitrators, arul 1 w;;S -entenced by thou aceoidingly. \\ iiat 
 treatment 1 niet \\ith from your Lordshij) lor it, 1 ;jroeeed to thew. 
 In tJic course of the work, the Paitni'jbliip wa;; di^.-oKed ; wiieu 
 Mr. Millar told me I should piint the second vi^hnne under my 
 own eye, and desired I would infc;rni you of iii-. intentions ; and 
 
 that Mr. was very willine: to resign the copy, if itwcjuld n(,.t 
 
 be interpreted as a resignation of youi' friendship. Having re- 
 cei\ed no answer from yom- Loidship, though 1 understood Mr. 
 Aliliar hud; 1 began to tiiink I was dujted by the Bookseller or 
 Pi inter, till, some lime after, my Iv-iter of (?ci. 7, 1757 [printed 
 above, ]).'iljij, jjrcxhteed fiom vouj' Lon'sliip tlie reply which is 
 rubjoined to it. I have gi\en tlie whole of both, because they 
 will shew the natuit; (;f many of my well meant offices to your 
 f^or<i.-!."p. and youi' manner of receiving them. Your letter, my 
 Ia)\-<.[. witiiail it.^- conmlui^auce, laid oprn \% haul wanted, audwiiat 
 
 t (, ?. had
 
 388 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iT^S' 
 
 happened, Bishop Warburton always continued to 
 retain a sincere regard for Mr. Bowyer." 
 
 had beeij distantlr hinted to me. An old core, I find, remained 
 with your Lordsiiij) of that affront you took of my oll^ring to 
 deliver your Copy to what Printer you pleased, and at the same 
 time to revise it going through the Press. I will be bold to say, 
 that he that can spy an afiront in my procedure, must apply 
 words to a worse abuse than by quibbling tvith them. I infoiined 
 you, tliat, upon the account of some squabbles between my Part- 
 ner aiid me, he refused to pay his share of the Types whicli were 
 bespoken for the Divine Legation 3 that therefore I had forbidden 
 their being sent in ; and the consequence was, that I could not 
 print the w ork (for you insisted upon new Types) ; but that, if 1 
 could be of any service in correcting it, you might command me 
 I have already repeated to your Lordship the message I received 
 from Mr. Millar. And thus far I thought all was well ; and 
 that my Peace was signed, since my services were accepted. Far 
 otlier\<ise, I perceive. I was tied down to such terms as no 
 Printer ever was before ; for, though you supervised the Proofs, 
 and made many corrections in them, the drudgery of correcting 
 the Greek was left wholly to me ; you did not so much as read it : 
 or, if you happened to see a fault, refused to correct it. I will 
 
 add too, Mr. the Printer did not prepare the sheets at all 
 
 for me, which is always done in like cases ; so that I became his 
 coiTector as well as yours, a mere dupe to my own complaisance. 
 Of this I complained to Mr. Miliary and told him, I was ccuiing 
 to my old house in White Fryars, and would, with his and your 
 leave, print the Second Part under my own manageiuent. He 
 wrote to you ; but he found it was not agreeable to your Lord- 
 ship. All was mystery to me, till 3'our answer to my Letter dis- 
 pelled the darkness. Had you taken the work from Mr. , you 
 
 knotv, you say, in -whet light you Jinist have stood with honest and 
 candid Ttien. " Id popuius curat scilicet!' It is a public concern. 
 But if tlie honest and candid men exist only in your om n ima- 
 gination, it is become, I find, a m.atter of conscience, which I 
 would not have you ofl(?nd out of any partiality to me. Yet, I 
 cannot Ijut obsene, you contribute to your own deception, by 
 
 saying Mr. 's continuing to print this Volinne, and calling it 
 
 the remainder of a Volume: which is speaking a little figura- 
 tively. This Vijlume is divided into two Parts, each Part mak- 
 ing a Volume, The two Parts are, Avith augmentations, now 
 divided into three Volumes; and are just as much three 
 Volumes as the other two two Parts were before two Volumes. 
 Of two Volumes, the removing away one to another Printer is a 
 crust I have been forced to devour all my life. 
 
 The last accumulative charge is, ^fler I had done so much work 
 for you I I am sorry to say, the reproaching me with this obliga- 
 tion in some degree lessens it : 
 
 nam istcec commemoratio 
 Quati exprobraiiQ est immQmorU bmeficU 
 
 I use
 
 17^2.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 389 
 
 In the same year Mr. Bowyer was Editor of the 
 Thirteentii and Fourteenth octavo volumes of Swift's 
 
 I use (he words of the nianumised slave in Terence; and I should 
 be proud to ha^e had that applause from your Lordship, which 
 extorted from tlie master this testimony of his alave : 
 feci id esses libertus mihi, 
 Propterea quod serviebas liberalitek. 
 But what I cannot have froiii you, 1 shall fetch from my own 
 mind; and shall endeavour perhaps, irom the dictates of it, in a 
 subsequent Letter, to lay before your Lordship some merit 1 
 might pretend to claim, ha\ ing- already reminded you of soma 
 fctripe^ which I hare not de;er\ed. For the present, 1 am glad 
 to see von have profited by my (j'jservalion, and made the pas- 
 sages clearer, because you speak \vitli more precision ; for which 
 I extremely thank your L<n'dship. But you surprize me by say- 
 ing, When I talk of your attacking great men, you hope 1 don't 
 reckon Tmilor in that number. ^^'hen you are writing against the 
 Bishop of London, Avhy you sliould fincy Dr. Taylor's Ghost was 
 rising up against you I cannot devise. You h?.d demolished him, 
 when the Preface was printing, in May 'iT-^l- What occasion 
 have you to call him up again in OcU)!)er ? Biit as to the great- 
 ness both of him and the Bishop of London, I can no mf)re add 
 to it, that I can to my own stature. I am, c\c. &c. W. B." 
 
 *'N.B. The work M'as carrit;! tlsrough, nuich to Mr. ' 
 
 discredit, and somewhat to mine. He iiad nrglected, though 
 desired, to refej* back to the se-. eral pages that were cited in 
 it, and make tliem accord with this edition. I was not so 
 mucli as tlianked, nor wa i a book given me for my pains. 
 
 was to be lotai'y di-CL..v le.l ; iic was never more to 
 
 print anotb.f'r slicct for thj Au'hcr. Accordingly, when 
 the Book on (ircice v.as to ho jilut-. ;!, it was connnitted to 
 me. W'c went oil very well with ii, till tlie la>t sheet of 
 canceled Leaves; wiiicli being indopendi Vit .i.io on another, 
 the proof of one of tluim nas sent io his Loi'dship (for such 
 was his title then) withfJUt bi'iiig read, .'ind a new Edition 
 being soon wantid, 1 was ex.elu:ied, and it was put to Mr. 
 
 to print. Upon whicli, I had {.ncpaicd tlie preceding 
 
 address to his Lordsliip [whicli, however, was not seiit]." 
 
 " My Lonn, 1703. 
 
 " To recount to your Lord-hip the servie(s I liavt' done m-ii, 
 is a very disagreeable task; and 1 think I hear your Loi'dsliip sav, 
 you believe it. To acknowledge I'avours recei\r!, is nr.ir.li more 
 suitefi to a generous miml, liian to recoiuit {\itr.-A- wliicii it lias 
 conferred. Jhit vouv i^(j;fl-hip has obliged me to it. The lirst, 
 second, and thiid \olum<s of vo\n' l)i\ine bc.'.ation, from the 
 year 1737, wvre j)rinte(l und'-r my in^|'cctioIl oi;ly, wi'l^out vour 
 Jjord-hip rea'ling a -in'.'le [)roof. V.iwh' folkrwcd them as fust as 
 you could v\i:h ; and I do not know tha', you f. It anv ab'itement 
 of it from the inaeeuraey of th*. ''li.iU)-, tiujngb. vm Ikuc been 
 -ODje times attacked upon the iiojijojaietv of your rrau-.lalions. 
 
 I [:rr-
 
 390 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I762. 
 
 Works. For these volumes his own advertisement 
 will best account : 
 
 '*' The pleasure Dean Swift's Works have already 
 afforded will be a sufficient apology for communi- 
 rating to the Header, though somewhat out of sea- 
 son, these additional volumes; who will be less dis- 
 pleased that thc}' have been so long suppressed;, than 
 thankful that they are now at last published. We 
 have no occasion to apologise for the pieces them- 
 selves ; for as they have all the internal marks of 
 genuineness, so, by their further opening the Au- 
 
 I pretend not to be faiilllcss ; but tbe editions were printed as 
 correctly, I hope, as books usually arc; and I can add, that in 
 I'r.S, for some false paa:ing", I re-piinted two sheets at my own 
 cxpence ; an honesty to which Printers .seldom rise, and the 
 Compositors never. In the prosecution of this work, books 
 were sometimes to be coasulted for your Lord'^hip, as will ap- 
 pear by some of the few Letters I have remaining; and refe- 
 rences to pages were to be adjusted to the several Volumes ; 
 
 which Mr. neglected to do in the above-mentioned Volumes 
 
 which [ corrected, though he was from time to time admonished 
 to do so. I pass overall the strong expressions of Friend.'-hip 
 during the connexion between us, and come to an Edition of 
 Mr. Pope's Works in 8vo, A.D. 175L which yom- Lordship wdl 
 think I have not the confidence to mention, after the objurga- 
 tions 1 received for it. The original names of the games, in she 
 Memoirs of Mnrtinas Srrihlcnts, were so miserably spelt in a for- 
 mer edition, that they could not be imderstood. These, except 
 one, I conected. Advised you to omit some Latin verses, which 
 vou had before commended. Another citation 1 asked Jortin ; 
 which, he said, " he could not tell where it grew." Communi- 
 cated to yoii the AUminns of Mr. Pope. In the Di\ine Legation: 
 Daubuz, Baxter, to add to your triumphs ; For^ter, to add to 
 your friends. See his edition Phdonis Dialogi V. p. 293. 
 
 " May I be excused in mentioning six Volumes of Selden, Folio, 
 bound, presented to you r and, that I lent or g-A\e you my old 
 Master Bonwicke's MS Sermon on the text of Job xix. 2.5 ? 
 
 " Many other particvdars; might be added ; which if your 
 Lordship has ff)rgotten, I shall fojget too. W. B." 
 
 Miiv 30, 17o3, Bp.Warburton tells Mr. Hurd, "I am prepar- 
 ing the second volume of the Divine Legation, that is, the thiid 
 and fourth parts, for a new edition. I had not lead over the 
 preface against Taylor since the publication, and it pleased me 
 to lind I could make it no better : w hich is I'arely my caiie. I 
 ha^e ofr told you how amusing the work of correction is to me in 
 comparison of composition, where I stietch my weak faculties 
 too violently to give me pleasure."' 
 
 thor's
 
 17^2.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENFURY. $gl 
 
 thors private correspondence, they display the 
 goodness of his heart, no less than the never-ceasing 
 salUes of his wit. His answer to " The Rights of 
 the Christian Church" is a remarkable instance of 
 bot:. ; which, though unfinished, and but the slight 
 prolusions of his strength, shew how sincere^ how 
 able a t hauipion he was of Religion and the Church *. 
 So soon as these were printed in Dublin, in a new 
 edition of the Dean's works, it was a justice due 
 to them to select them thence, to complete the Lon- 
 don edition. Like the Author, thout{h th v owe 
 their birth to Ireland, they will ieel their maturity 
 in England -j-; and each mition will contend which 
 shall receive them with greater ardour. In the last 
 volume is added, an Index to all the Works ; 
 wherein are ranged the hon-mots scattered through- 
 out them under the artit le Swiiti,vna, by which 
 their brightness is collected, as it wcie, into d focus, 
 and they are placed in such open day, that tiiey are 
 secured, for the future, from the petty-larceny of 
 nieaner wits." 
 
 The First X Part of Mr. Morant's " History and 
 Antiquities of the County of Essex," folio. 
 
 Mr. Farnevvorth's^ "Translation of the Works of 
 Machiavel : illustrated with Notes, iVunotations, 
 
 ^ " Swift is gciioially supprL-^cd to liave done less service to 
 llicin tlian any writer of lii^ a!)i!itio.-." /'. F. 
 
 t 'i lie folloniiiiz; Epifi-rum, occa.-ione(l by this tiiouH.-ht, was 
 written bv Mr. I'ovsyei' and the (.ouipiler of these Aneedoies : 
 " winch ga\e the Drapier Birth two Reahns contend: 
 And each tk^serts her Fo<t, Patriot, Fi iend : 
 Her Mitre jealous Britain may deny; 
 'Ihat J^jss lerne's I^ar.nl sludl supply ; 
 Through J.ife's low ^'aIe, she, grateful, gave him Bread ; 
 Her vocal btones tliull viiidieare him dead. W. B. J. N." 
 I A second part came out in 176\': a thiid in l/O'o'. These 
 three parts are all containr'd in the seecjnd (though first-jmb- 
 lislied) volume. In 1708 the first volume (containing a new 
 edition of the History of Colchcstei) was published complete. 
 The wliole work is now become e.x.ceediiigly scarce. 
 
 Ellis Farneworth fi, of Jesu? college, Camhridge, B.A. 1731; 
 M.A. ITM; and rector of Rosthern in Cheshire, was son of Ellis 
 
 II An carher Ellis Fariieworth fproba' ly liis graiiitfather} Was of Mag ' 
 dclen college, Cainhridf^e, B, A. lOOl ; .^L'A. iGd'o. 
 
 Farae-
 
 392 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7f)2. 
 
 Dissertations, and several new Plans on the Art of 
 War," 2voU. 4to, (re-printed, in^4vols. 8vo, 1775.) 
 
 Farneworth (of t lie same College, B.A. IGDG. M.A. 1/09), rector 
 of Bonti^Lal in Derbyshire, and. I believe, was born there. He 
 was bred lirst al Chcbterheld school, under the celcbratod Mr. 
 \Vilii:.m Burrow, and afterwards w as lemoved to Eton, lie was 
 admitted of Jesus College, Cambridge; matrieidated Dec. 17, 
 1730; Wcis iresented by Dr. James Yorke, Dean of Lincoln, to 
 the rectory of Carsington, in Derbyshire, at the solicitation of 
 the late W'iHijm Fitzherbert, of Tissington, esq. and was injli- 
 tuted Oct. C, 17(J2; but did not oijoy Ins benefice long, as he 
 died March '25^ 1763. He was author, as it was believed, of that 
 luf'.icrons and pleasant account of Powell, the fire-eater, in Gent. 
 Mag. 17-"i5, vol. XXXV. p. 59, signed Philopyrpliagus Ashbur- 
 jiiensis j and v.as curate to the Rev. Johi^ Fitzlierbert, vicar of 
 Ashbom-ne, brother of William aljove mentioned. His pubhca- 
 tions from the press of his old friend Mr. Bowycr were, 1. "The 
 lAfe of Pope Si-.tus V." translated from the Itahan, 17->4," fvVu} 
 (see p. ^cViy). '2. " A short History of the Israelites," from the 
 French of Abbe Fleury, 1750', 8vo. (p. 2S4). [By the following 
 letter to IMr. Bowser, h.owever, dated Comptnn. near Ashbourne, 
 Dei'bvshire, 17<j3, it appears that Mr. Farneworth was ?2oi the 
 translator of this usefid little book : " Mr. Farneworth has left 
 liis poor si^^ter in ^voeful circumstances, a very worthy gentk- 
 vo^~oan, in the decline of life, and of an infirm constitution. 
 She will be so just to the creditors as to give up all his cHcet.s 
 to any one who will administer, and ckpend v,r)o\i Providence, 
 and the benevolence of lier friends and other cl'aritable peopk', 
 for her future subsistence. I was sorry Fleury's useful little 
 book was so unsuccessful; it was I that put it i)ito his hands 
 both the original and the translation, tliat had lain by mo 
 many years, in hopes that it vvould have raised him ilfieen or 
 twenty pounds, knowing that both he and his sisters, for tlien 
 lie had another living, were lov.' at that time. Your very humble 
 servant, Thomas Bkdfokd." The writer of tlie precedir.g Ictte-' 
 was second s(m of the famous Hilkiah Bedford, who was taken up 
 and im})ri.3oned as author of " The Hei cditary Kight of the down 
 of England a.^sf rleu," tho-vQ,h he was not the author; see vol. I. 
 p. ICS!] 3. ' l):aila's History of the ^Vars of France," translated 
 from the French, 1/57, - \cls. 4{o (see p. '293). 4. The Trans- 
 lation of ?rlachiavcl (noviced above). " AVhen ."\lr. Bedfor-i 
 once call'.d upon me^ as he often di'l for a night in g'tJing his 
 rounds, 1 asked hrca v/hat Farneworth (wh.o was a great Trans- 
 lator) was 'u];on ; ho said, ' Nothing at preent ; but the Dean of 
 Lichfield, i^i'- Addenbrooke, had stiongly recommended him to 
 trans]t4.ta Speljaian's Life of ^'Elfred iVom the Latin into Engli-h." 
 ' Is that liossiblc !' quoth I. ' Ii is lucky you have mentioned it, 
 for I can save Mr. Farneworth a great deal of trout jje and time, 
 by informing you, thelifc was (originally wiitten iji Engfish, and 
 was thence translated into Latin. So I fetched Idm both the 
 
 books ,
 
 17^2.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ^^J 
 
 Mr. Bowyer was particularly gratified by having 
 been emplo};ed to print the Translation of Machia- 
 vel, as may be seen by the manner in which he 
 mentions it to a Friend from whom he had much 
 stronger reasons to have expected a similar favour. 
 (It nright be indelicate to mention names.) 
 
 " Poor Farneworth, though obliged to hawk his 
 Machiavel round the town *, yet tacked me every- 
 where to the conditions of sale. Stackhouse^, 
 
 books, tlic English printed by Tom Ilearne, and the Latin by 
 Obadiah Walker, desiring him tO be sure to teli Farnevvorth, 
 Avith niy compliments, of tiiis.' " Dr. Pcgge, MS Letter to Mr. 
 Nichols. This circumstance is also noticed in tiie "Anonymiana," 
 IV. 60. 
 
 * Tliis Work, thus hawked about, now (1810) is hardly to be 
 met v.ith, and sells for from tiaee to four guineas a coj)y 
 Hahent sua fata libelli ! 
 
 t Thomas Stacldiouse, a learned and ])ious, but necessitous 
 Divine, was sometime minister of the English Church at Amster- 
 dam, and iifierwai'ds successively curate at Richmond, Ealing, and 
 Fin..hley ; in all which places (as will be seen presently) he was much 
 respected. The earhe.^t of his publications, or at least the jirst 
 Avhieh brought him into general notice, was, 1. a famous :reatise 
 called " The Miseries and gieat Hard-hips of tlie Isiferior Clergy in 
 and about London ; and a modest Plea for their Right:* and bet- 
 ter Usage ; in a Letter to a Rigiit Reverend Prelate, 172'2," 8vo. 
 ^ '2. " Memoh's of Bishop Atterburx-, from his Birth to his Banisli- 
 ment, 1723," 8vo, 3. "A Puneial SeruKni on the Death of 
 Dr. Brady, 172(),"' 8vo. 4. "A Cor.iph te BckIv of Di\inity," &c. 
 1 729, folio. 5. " Afair State of the Controversy between l\Ir. VV'ool- 
 ston and liis Auver.iaries ; containing the Substance of what he 
 as-^erts in hi^ Six Discourses against t:ie literrd Sense of our blessed 
 Saviour's Miracles; and v.liat Bj). Gib.-on, Bp. Chandler, Bp. 
 Smallbruoke, lip. Sherlock, Dr. Pcarce, Mr. ! lay, Mr. Lardner, 
 Mr. Chandicr, &c. liavc a.lvanci i! against him," IT^^-O, Svo. G. "A 
 Dtfence of tiie Christian Riligion, from ih.e se\ei'al Objections of 
 modern .'iiUiseriptuii^ts, wherein the !i!eial Sense of the Pro- 
 phecies contained in tlie Old Testiiment, and tlie iMiraeles re- 
 corded in tlie l'>cv. , is explained and vindicated; and the \eces- 
 sity (jf a Divine Revelation, from the manifest Insullieieney of 
 the Ligiit (;f Reason, or Natural Rei'gion, is asserted. \.B. The 
 fair State of the Controversy between !Mr. Woola^on and his Ad- 
 ver.-.u-ics, bv ihe s'une Auilior, being out (jf Piint, the above 
 J'efinee contains ;ul tlrat was in it." 1731, hvo. Of this volume 
 (i\ (l()>e oeia\o volume of f)0;) pa^es ; with a IVeface, in vvhieh 
 an account i.-? given of the hivt ral Antiscripturists referred to 
 in the VVoik ; from wn at ri-e and original they seem to have 
 sprung; what Uookis tUey liavc bucccssivcly published] whit 
 
 the
 
 594 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [lj62. 
 
 while under the pay of a bookseller, refused his lord 
 and master, T. Cox, to deliver his copy to any one 
 
 the design of these Books is, and what tlie character and abilities 
 of their respective Authors) a comjietent judge says, " Our 
 Author has stated the several arguments of the Antiscripturists 
 in a full light, and generally in their own terms ; has answered 
 them with great compass of learning, and clearness of argument ; 
 so that the Book is likely to prove not only a monument of the 
 poison which has been vomited from the press in this profane 
 ;;ge, but a repository likewise of what the ablest men among us 
 have at the same time done to defend our common Christianity 
 from the rude attacks of Infidelity." Bower, Historia LUerarta, 
 xol. III. J). 56.] 7- " Reflections on the Nature and Property of 
 Languages, 1731," 8vo. S " llie Book-binder, Book-printer, 
 and Book-seller confuted ; or, the Author's Vindication of him- 
 self from the Calumnies in a Paper industriously dispersed by 
 one Ediin. Together with some Observations on the History 
 of the Bible, as it is at present published by the said Edlin. By 
 the Rev. Mr. Stackhouse, Curate of Fmchley, 1732," 8vo, [la 
 this rare pamphlet (of which the only copy I have ever seen is iu 
 the Library of Mr. Bindley) Mr. Stackhouse veiy feelingly, but 
 spiritedly, exemplifies in himself the miseries of a poor Clergyman. 
 The brief matter of fact 1=;, that, in May 173'2, Mr. Wilford and 
 Mr Edlin, " when the success of some certain things published 
 weekly set every little Bookseller's wits to work," wished to en- 
 gage Mr. Stackhouse to write sometliing wliich might be pub- 
 lished weekly, but what it was they knew not." By Wilfoi'd he 
 had been before employed to write " A Preface to Sir William 
 Dawes's Works;" but " had taken umbrage at Wilford's palming 
 upon the World a. Set of Prayers, all taken from other Authors. 
 merely to lengthen out Sir ^Villiam's Duties of the Closet, and 
 make the third volume sweih" Edlin " he knew of old, as the 
 merest Marplot that ever took the publication of any Work in 
 hand." This precious pair appointed Stackhouse to meet them 
 at the Castle Tavern in Paternoster Row (Booksellers at that 
 time made all their bargains at a Tavern). Edlin was for reviv- 
 ing his " Roman History;" and, wilh heavy imprecation* on 
 Dr. Bundy, maintained, that, with a little brushing-uj), i. e. in- 
 fusing some life and spirit into Ozell's dull style, the thing would 
 .still do in a weekly manner." Wilford would by no means come 
 into that design. His talk ran chiefly on Devotional Tracts and 
 Family Directors. To compromise the matter, Mr. Stackhouse 
 proposed "A New History of the Bible;" there being nothing 
 of that kind considerable in the English language, and his own 
 studies for some years, whilst writing his " Body of Divinity," 
 having qualified him for such a work Proposals were accord- 
 mgly drawn uj) ; but, a disagreement happening between Wil- 
 ford and Edlin, \^\'ilford gave up the undertaking; and Mr. Stack- 
 house was left, much against his will, iu the power of Edlin ; 
 
 who
 
 1762.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 395 
 
 but the printer he befriended, though Cox urged 
 the necessity of coming out before the season was 
 
 who " had printed Proposals ; got credit for paper ; brushed up 
 his old battered letter ; picked up a poor Compositor or two ; 
 sent [to Finchley] a few curious books, and began to be very 
 clamorous for copy." Mr. Stackhou^e had engaged to supply 
 three sheets in a week, provided he were allowed to furnish 40 
 or 50 sheets before any part of it was published. He accordingly 
 set to work, and completed the Introduction. But EJlin was 
 impatient to begin; and "what mercy," says Stackhouse, "he 
 intended to ha\ e of his poor Author, appeared in the very first 
 sheet he sent me to correct, which was very near a whole page 
 above the standard stipulation ; insomuch that, )iad I submitted 
 to this encroachment, I had lost, on the impression of tlie whole 
 Book, between 40 and 50 pounds copy-money.' This imposi- 
 tion led to a quarrel ; which was compromised by Edlin's giving 
 ten copies of the Book, in consideration o!;" the supernumerary 
 lines, "to be pi'esented by Mr. Stackhouse to some IJishops who 
 had thought favourably of some of his other wTitings." After 
 the reconciliation, Edlin sent an instiximent to be signed, bind- 
 ing Stackliouse, his heirs, &c. in a penalty of 50Z. to tcrite well, 
 and finish the " History of the Bible" for him. But this Stack- 
 house resolutely declined. For compiling the Introduction, few 
 books of any consequence had been wanted ; but for the Histoiy 
 itself Mr. Stackhouse required the ablest Commentators upon the 
 w hole, and Reconcilers and Criticks upon different texts of Sci'ip- 
 ture ; but could obtain from his Employer none but Bp. Patrick j 
 Edlin suggesting, " that the chief of his Subscribers lived in 
 Southwark, Wapping, and Ratclitf Highway; that they had no 
 notion of Criticks and Commentators ; that the work would be 
 adapted to their capacity, and therefore the less learning in it 
 the better." When the Introduction was finished (of which two 
 Numbers were published without acquainting the .Author) the 
 breach beciime incurable. Xo copy wa^ ready of the "Histoiy;" 
 and Stackhou.<-e was informed, that, if he did not care to \viite 
 for Edlin, he had found out another tluit would. With some 
 difficulty, twelve guineas were obtained for the twelve sheets of 
 Introduction ; Edlin engaged ajiothei' Author; and Stackliouse, 
 who was happy to escape out of the trammels of a Tyrant, en- 
 gaged t(i pursue liis " History ' under the more auspicious patro- 
 nage of Mr. Batley and Mr. Cox, booksellers of reputation ; and 
 the. work was accordingly completed in two folio volume s ; which 
 afterwards successively passed through numerous and large edi- 
 tions. The main purport of Mr. Stackhou-e's address to .Mr. EdUn 
 is, to shew on whose side the infraction of the Agreement lay. 
 " In my Advertisement," he says, " of Nov. 29, M.'il, I charged 
 yo>i with a ])alpable fraud and imposition upon the Publick, in 
 alfi.xing my name to what I nevei- wrote. I charged youi' author 
 (he he who he will) with an incapacity to execute the work he 
 
 had
 
 39<5 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [lj62. 
 
 passed. These heroes knew how to set a value, not 
 only on themselves, but on their friendships too. 
 \ou have twice shewn me what yours is wortli to, 
 
 Yours, W. B." 
 
 hod undertaken. The little specimen he had given us I called 
 an tludfye t^odge, because hat should have been the Jiarrative 
 part, what the notes, and what the pj'oper matter for disserta- 
 tions, I found confusedly thrown together, without any method 
 or order. And, that your Subscribe! s mi^ht hold their hands, 
 and ; o longer part with their moiiey for sue h vile trash, I assured- 
 them, that 1 had already made some (nogress in my History of the 
 Bible, would pub.lsii it in a conveoient space of lime, and en- 
 deavour to linibli it in such a uiaimer, us to deserve a general 
 encouragement.'' "There^is os^e charge again.-t me, I must 
 own, that I cannot so easily get clear of j and that is, my being 
 a Curate, very poor, and (;is you woald intimate) mucfi in debt. 
 
 Farcins ista viris tamen ohjiciui'ui memento. 
 For, of all the Booksellers in London, this is a Charge against 
 me which becomes your mouth the least, Ar.\ of )(jur wealthy 
 Neighbours in the Strand, such an one especially as by long 
 deaUng in Monopoly has worked himself up to the degree of a 
 plumb "^j might boast of his riches with some decency, and be per- 
 mittef' to break jests upon a Country Curate with a better pretext; 
 but f(;r you, who not long ago was one of us, have so lately 
 emerged from the Gulj uf Despond, and, for aught you know, 
 may In spei'aiiy plunged in again, to stand on the brink, laugh- 
 ing and making yourself merty to see how we poor caitifis are 
 forced to paddie and swim for life, is a baibarous pastime, and 
 a sure token of a depraved mind, ignorajit and regardless of the 
 issues of Providence. And therefore con^-ider, my good friend, the 
 uncertai.nty of all Imman afiiurs 3 and be not high-minded, but fear. 
 
 Lest Fortune slievv jou, in the nick 
 
 Of all your glories, a dog-trick. 
 1 am a Curate indeed, as sure as you are )io Bookseller ; but then 
 I iuive a firm pers\ias:on (vvliatever yxmr sentiments may be) that 
 God rules and governs the \Vo' Id ; that he a])j)oints fc\ery man 
 his condition in life 3 and ^vil! raise me to an higher station in 
 the Church, when he shall think ])roper, or I deserve it. In the 
 mean tinic I hold it ujy duty to shine, as well as I c;vn, iu the 
 little spJiera \ move in, and in ir.katsoever state I am therewith to be 
 contented. ' We are all but Actors' (says the wise Epicletus) 'of 
 a certt'in part that is given iis by the Master of the Drama, and 
 not of our own ciioosing. He tiierefore that acts his j)art well 
 (be he but a slave or a beggar) deserves as much the Master's 
 commendation a^ he that acts the Prince.' How I have ac- 
 quitted myself on the stage of life, it might be prudence and 
 mo-'test\ for me to say nothing, had not your insults upon my 
 poverty, and contempt of my low station and office, compelled 
 
 * An allusion to Jacob Tonsop; see vol. I, p. 2D3. 
 
 me
 
 1^62.} THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 307 
 
 " Odes Descriptive and Allegorical, by the Rev, 
 Richard Shepherd," 4to. 
 
 me to this foolishness of boasting. For, though I am far froni 
 justifying myself before men, in things for which I am conscioua 
 I stand guilty in the sight of God, yet in the light wherein I am 
 nov/ exposed to tlie censure of mankind, i. e. as a Writer, and as 
 a Curate, I think I can abide the test ; and may adventure to say, 
 that in the former capacity 1 have laboured more abundantly 
 (and perhaps imdcr more disadvantages) than the rest of my 
 contemporaries. I have published more books, upon more dif- 
 ferent subjects, than any. Nor muit I foi-get to thank the Pub" 
 lick for the faveiu'able reception they have given them. And 
 that in the hitler I have always conducted myself in such a man- 
 ner, as to gain the good-will and esteem of the people among 
 whom I have lived, in so nmcli that I have never yet officiated 
 in any place, whether in Amsterdam, Richmond, or Ealing, 
 where I had not an handsome contribution made me, in aug- 
 mentation of my annual stipend. And, upon this occasion, I 
 .should be ungrateful, not to commemorate the kindness and 
 munificence of the gentlemen and other inhabitants of the 
 parish of Finchley, who, not long ago, perceiving some difficul- 
 ties wherein I was involved, did each of them come in with their 
 assistins' hand, so readily, so voluntarily , as even to prevent me 
 tlie trouble of a blush." The new Proposals issued by Mr. Stack- 
 house were these : " My design in the composition of tins Worjt 
 is, to divide the whole into general periods and distinctions of time ; 
 each of these periods to subdivide into sections ; in each section to 
 give my Reader, not only a plain narrative of the matters contained 
 in the Old and New Testament, but to take notice of all contro- 
 verted questions, as they occur ; a))d illustrate, by proper Dis- 
 sertations, Buch passages in Scripture as seem to give umbrage 
 to Infidelity: imder the page, in notes, to explain difficult texts, 
 rectify mis- translations, and reconcile seeming contradictions : 
 at due distances, to she.v the connexion between Sacred and 
 Prophane History ; at the end, to annex exact Chronological 
 Tables ; and all along to intersperse such Cuts and Maps as 
 shall be conducive to the advantage and decoration of the Work : 
 assuring the publick, that whatever skill in writing, or applica- 
 tion to study, 1 ain capable of, and wiiale\ er helps and assistance 
 from the Learned (whether antient or modern) I can ha\e recourse 
 to, shall be ein})]oved in a task, which I now frccily take upon 
 me J and wherein I could not but disagree with Air. Edlin, when 
 I perceived that his sole aim (under the cover of my name) was 
 to palm U})on his Subscribers any hasty comjiosition; and wherein, 
 I hope, I have neither ollended mankind, no:' injuied mine own 
 lionour, in refusing to be a confederate. To nr.ike my Subscri- 
 bers amends however for the interruption, which has almost 
 been unavoidable, the Conditions that 1 oiler arc these: I. That 
 the Book shall be printed in folio, in a very neat and correct man- 
 ner, and on the same character and paper with the Proposals, 
 
 whereof
 
 SgS LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [i'j62. 
 
 A very few more lines shall be given below, from 
 the Correspondence between Mr. Bowyer and the 
 
 whereof the first number shall be delivered the first Saturday in 
 February 1732-3. II. That four sheets (stitched in blue paper) 
 shall once every fortnight, on Saturday, be delivered at the 
 Subscribers' houses (or any other place which they shall think 
 fit to appoint) at the price of six-pence. III. That a number of 
 Books \vill be printed on royal paper, for such as are willing to 
 subscribe for tliem, at the rate of one shilling for each Number. 
 IV. That, as 1 tind it necessary to throw the Introduction into a 
 quit*- diffei'ent foini, more congruous to the whole Plan of the 
 Work 5 to prevent persons, who have been Subscribers on my 
 account from being anyway detrimented thereby, I have ordered 
 my Publisher to give each person, who brings in the Old Intro- 
 duction, and subscribes to my Book, the new Preface gratis. 
 The Publick are desired to observe, that four sheets of original 
 composition aie as much as can be afforded for six-pence, and 
 as much as can well be executed, with any care and exactness, 
 in the space of a fortnight. Subscriptions for me are taken in 
 by INIr. IkiUard, at Paul's coffee-house, in St. Paul's chmch-yard; 
 by T. Payne, bot;kseller, at the Crown in Paternoster-row ; and 
 byn)}self, or family, atMr.Gauden's, inKing's-street, Blooju.^bury. 
 9. At lengtli this capital work appeared, under the title of "A 
 new History of the Bible, from the Beginning of the World, 
 to the Establishment of Christianity, 173*3, &c. &c." 2 vols, 
 folio 3 and, at tlie time, was thus brieHy characterized: "In 
 the new History of the JMble, lately published, written by 
 ?vii'. Thomas Stackliouse, is given a plain and easy narrativcj 
 of the matters contained in the Holy Scriptures, from the begin- 
 ning of the A\'orld, to the full establishment of Christianity : In 
 the notes is digested the serise of the best Commentators, in ord.'r 
 to explain tlie several difiicult texts, rectify the Mis-translations, 
 and leconcile the seeming Contradictions, that any where 
 occur : In the objection^;, all the material exceptions which 
 are made to the fads leeorded in each period of histoiy, are 
 fairly stated and answered ; And in the Dissertations, \vluch 
 attend each chapter, the most remarkable passages are illus- 
 trated, and the Prophsne and Sacred Histojy all along con- 
 nected. The whole is auorued with j)roper Maps and Sculptures j 
 and all matters referred to in Scriptural, Chronological, and 
 AlphabcticalTables." Gent. Mag. 1740, vol. X. p. 2^1. 10. A 
 Sermon on the 30th of January, 173G, 8vo. 11. "A Sermon on 
 the Decalogue, 1743," 8vo. 12. '^\ New and Practical Expo- 
 sition of the Apostles' Creed, 1747," folio. 13. " Vana Doc- 
 trii'ife Emolunienta, 1752,"' 4to. In this Poem, the last thing 
 he published, he deplores his miserable condition, in all the keen 
 exjjressions of despair and bitter disappointment. Of the three 
 following articles, published early in his life, I know not the 
 dates. 14. " An Abridgement of Burnet's History of his own 
 Times/' 8vo. \b. The Art of Short-hand, 4to, VS. "A Sfstem 
 
 of
 
 1J62.^ THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 399 
 
 young Author whose supposed neglect of him had 
 roused his resentment *. 
 
 of Pi'actical Duties," 8vo. And the two which follow were 
 either posthumous, or rather re-publications (or were they bv a 
 different person of the same f name ?J ly. " Grajcse Grammatices 
 Rudimenta Ordiiie novo ac facillimo digesta : or a new Greek 
 Grammar, wherein the Declensions of Nouns, and Conjugations 
 of Verb?, arc disposed in a new, easy, and distinct Method. By 
 T/iomas Stack house, A.M. 176*^," 8vo. IS. "A general View of 
 antient History, Chronology, and Geography, &c. ; designed to 
 con^ ey to the Mind a clear Idea of the Order and Succession of 
 E\ents, and to lay a proper Foundation for reading antient His- 
 toiy with pkasiu-e and impro\emcnt ; and is particularly calcu- 
 lated for tlie Instruction of Youth. By Thomas Stackhouse, 
 A.M. 1770," 4to. Our laborious Author received a small re- 
 ward for his industry in 1733 when he was presented to the 
 vicarage of Benham Valence, alifis Beenham, Berks ; where he 
 died, and was buried in the parish clnirch, ab appears by a neat 
 tablet, which thus preserves his memory : 
 
 [At to[), on an open book, is, 
 
 " THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY BIBLE."] 
 
 " Juxta reconditum est quod mortale fuit 
 
 Thomte Stackhouse, A.M.J 
 
 hujus ecclesiie per annos xix vicarii; 
 
 qui pro C^hristiana lide 
 
 strenuus admodum propugnator 
 
 non sine gloria militavit. 
 
 Oui plus acire volunt, Scripta sua 
 
 consulant. 
 
 Ex hac \ ita, gralA. alterius vice 
 
 corpore suo solufus, cniigravit 
 
 Octobris Idibus, A. S. iidcclii. aita'us suaj lxxix." 
 
 Mr. Stacklunise deserved well of Literature and had a hard 
 fate as to worldly matters, as a \erv small vicarage \vas his only 
 church-preferment. A ])ortiait of him ^vas engraved in 1743, 
 by Vertue, from a ])ainting by J. Woolaston. 
 
 * 1. " I lra\e made my agircmeat, and signed and sealed with 
 
 Mr. for 100 guineas, tise half of whicli I have alieady 
 
 received. I very strongly reconmicnded you as Printer, but could 
 not succeed; but I t,hall try him again oir th;it head, a? i had much 
 
 f The Rev. Tlioma? Stackhouse, minister of St. Mary Rlairdalen at 
 Brid^iortli in irhiojjshire, coniniunicateil to the Rov.tI Six iety some ex- 
 tracts from aTopographiealAccoinit of Hridf^north. I'hiJ.Tians. vol.XLIV. 
 
 p. 127. 
 
 As Stackhouse does not occur A. M. either at Ca!ni>riJj;e or Oxford it 
 mav be conjectured that his rfc^'j-ee was from JAinibitk probably conferred 
 by the Archbishop of ihe time as a reward for his ht\ ices in Sacred Lite- 
 rature, and to <;ive him a httle icltit with hi , I'nl)hsher ami hi-; yeneral 
 Readcis. He docs not even siii;n H. A. to bis Pamphlet a.^ainbt Ediiii. 
 
 rather
 
 400 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l 7^2. 
 
 " The Cab at Newmarket^ a Tale *," by James 
 Boswellj Esq. 4to. ; and the earhest of his acknow- 
 
 ratl^er be concerned with you than any other. Maij 1, 1/62." 
 ^. " It is a mere joke for you to say yovi have not interest to 
 reeommend a Printer of your own work. You should have made 
 it, as 1 told you in your other work, a })revious condition of the 
 contiact. You might have urged, that, for a solitary guinea, you 
 had unhappily sold to me all your futui'e productions ; and that, 
 though it was reward not adequate to them, j'et the least you 
 could do was to insist on my printing them. Give yourself no 
 farther trouble about ine: I shall still keep up my importance in 
 my own mind, in spite of the Bookseller and his Author. May 4." 
 3. " I sometimes meet with returns from you, that I neither 
 deserve, nor expect. V.'hen an author prints for himself, doubt- 
 less he can choose what printer he pleases ; when he sells (he 
 co]>y, the printer is at the option of the bookseller ; and here he 
 can do no more than recommend Ills friend ; which is as much as 
 you, or any other reasonable man, can desire. Wlien you called 
 
 on Mr. you doubted wliether I had done tliis, whether 1 
 
 had recommended 5 on to him 5 but he assin-ed you, as was really 
 the case, that 1 hail, and that too in tlve strongest manner I was 
 able. I told him., that he cottld not oblige me moi-c than l)y 
 complying with tliat request. I had done so in the case of Mr. 
 before ; but all the thanks I received from 50U ^vere no- 
 thing but suspicions, upbraidings, and reproach. These are the 
 I'eturns that I meet with, after ha^ ing gi\cn the hand-iomest 
 testimony to your merit that lay in my po.vcr. 1 never had any 
 thing, designed for tlic press, which was not oifered first to 
 yourself. May 0." 
 
 * Under this title Mr. .Bos\Yell very humorous!}' characterized 
 himself, and of v,hich these four lines nvdv serve as a specimen : 
 
 " Lord Eglintoune, who loves, you know, 
 
 A little da^h of whim, or so. 
 
 By chance a curious Citb had got. 
 
 On Scotins moinitains nev.dy cauglit." 
 To this Nobleman Mr. Bcswell was indebted "for an introducr 
 tion to tile circle of the great, the gay, and the ingenious ;" as 
 he expressed himself,avery few weeks before his death, to tiieA\'riter 
 of the present article. Of the meiit of th(^ Poem not much is to he. 
 said ; but the Preface to it contains rniieh of that sprightly self- 
 confidence for whicli Mr. Boswell's writings were jxeuliarly distin- 
 guished. James Bosvvcl', esq. eldestson of Alexander Boswell, Lord 
 Auehinleek,^one of thejudges in the supreme courts of session and 
 justiciary in Scotland. Ke was born at Edinburgh, Oct. '29, 1*10 ; 
 and received his first rudiments of education in that city. He 
 afterwards studied Civil Law in tiie uni\'ersities of Edinlnirgh and 
 Glasgow. During his residence in these cities, he acquired, by 
 the society of the English gentlemen who \\ ere stiidents in the 
 English colleges, that remarkable predilection f(n- their manners, 
 which neither the force of education, nor the dulcedo of his natale 
 
 solum.
 
 17^2.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 401 
 
 ledged publication; which, hke that of his great 
 exemplar Johnson, was ushered into the world 
 
 solum, could ever eradicate. But his most intimate acquaint- 
 ance at this period was the Rev. Mr. Temple, a worthy, learned, 
 and pious Divine, whose well-written character of Gray was in- 
 serted in Johnson's Life of that Poet. Mr. Boswell imbibed early 
 the ambition of distinguishing himself by his literary talents, 
 and had the good fortvme to obtain the patronage of the late 
 Lord Somei-ville. This Nobleman treated him with the most 
 flattering kindness ; and Mr. Boswell ever remembered with gra- 
 titufle the friendship he so long enjoyed with this worthy peer. 
 Having always entertained an exalted idea of the felicity of Lon- 
 don, in the year 1760 he visited that capital ; in the manners 
 and amusements of which he found so much that was congenial 
 t his own taste and feelings, that it became ever after his fa- 
 vom-ite residence, whitlier he always returned from his estate in 
 Scotland, and from his various rambles in different parts of 
 Eiu'ope, with increasing eagex'ness and delight ; and we find 
 him, nearly twenty years afterwards, condemning Scotland as 
 too narrow a spliere, and wishing to make his cliief residence 
 in London, which he calls the gi'eat scene of ambition, instruc- 
 tion, and, comjjaratively, making his heaven upon earth. He 
 was, doubtless, conlirmed in this attachment to the Metropolis 
 by the str;)ng predilection entertained towards it by his friend 
 Dr. Johnson, whose sentiments on this subject Mr. Boswell de- 
 tails in various parts of his life of that great man ; and which 
 are corroborated by every one, in pursuit of literary and intel- 
 lectual attainments, who has enjoyed but a taste of the rich feast 
 whicli that city spreads before liim. The politeness, affability, 
 and insinuating urbanity of mannoi's, which distinguished Mr. 
 Bosvvci!, introduced him into the coi.npany of many eminent and 
 lefirntd men, wliose acquaintance and friendship he cultivated 
 with the greatest assiduity. In truth, the esteem and aj)j;)roba- 
 tion of learned nien seems to Lave been one chief object of his 
 literary ambition ; and we find lum so successfid in pursuing his 
 end, that he enumerated some of the greatest men in Scotland 
 amonji' his fiiends even before he left it tor the first time. Not- 
 withstanding Mr. Boswell by his education \\*.is intended fin- the 
 bar, yet he was himself earnestly bent at this period tipon ob- 
 taining a commission in the Guards, and solicited Lord Auchiu- 
 leek's acquiescence ; But returned, however, by his desire, into 
 Scotland, where he received a regular (;our>e of instruction in tl;e 
 Law, and passed his trials as a Civilian at Edinburgh. Still, how- 
 ever, ambitious of displaying himself as one of " the manly hearts 
 who guard the fair," he re-visited London a second time in 176^2; 
 and, various occurrenccM delaying the purchase of a commission^ 
 he was at length persuaded by Loid Aucl\inleck to relinquish 
 his pursuit, and become an advocatf> at tlie Scotch bar. lu 
 compliance, therefore, with his father's wishes, he consented to 
 go to UtiecUt the eiwuing winter, to hear the lectures of an ex- 
 VoL. IL Dn celient
 
 403 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I762. 
 
 Tinder the auspices of that admirable patron and 
 encour<iger of Literature^ Mr. Dodsley, 
 
 cellent Civilian in that University j after which he had permission 
 to make his grand tour of Europe. In 1762 Mr. Bos\\ ell published 
 the little Poem which occasions this note ; and the next year may 
 be considered the most important epocha in his life, as he had 
 the singular felicity to be introduced to Dr. Johnson. This event, 
 so aunpicious for Mr. Bosvvell, and so fortunate for the Literary 
 World, happened on May 16, 1763. Having afterwards continued 
 one winter at Utrecht, during which time he visited several parts 
 of the Netherlands, he commenced hit> projected travels. Pass- 
 ing from Utrecht into Germany, he pursued his route through 
 Switzerland to Geneva ; whence he crossed the Alps into Italy : 
 having visited on his journey Voltaire at Ferney, and Rousseau 
 in the wilds of Neufchutel. Mr. BosvveU continued some time in 
 Italy, where he met and associated with Lord Mountstuart, to 
 whom he afterwards dedicated his Theses Jnridicce. Having 
 visited the most remarkable cities in Italy, Mr. Boswell sailed 
 to Corsica, tiavelled over eveiy part of that island, and ob- 
 tained the friendship of the illustrious Pasquale de Paoli, in 
 whose palace he resided during his stay at Corsica. He after- 
 wards went to Paris, whence he returned to Scotland in 1766, 
 and soon after became an ad\ocate at the Scotch bar. The cele- 
 brated Douglas cause was at that time a subject of general dis- 
 cussion. Mr. Boswell published the " Essence of the Douglas 
 Cause i" a pamphlet which contributed to procure Mr. Douglas 
 the popularity which he at that time possessed. In 1768, Mr. 
 Boswell obliged the world by his " Account of Corsica, with 
 Memoirs of General Paoli." Of this printed performance Dr. 
 Johnson thus expresses himself: *' Your Joiu'nal is curious and 
 delight fid. I know not whether I could name any narrative by 
 which curiosity is better excited or better gratified." This book 
 was received with extraordinary ap})robation, and has been trans- 
 lated into the German, Dutch, Italian, and French languages. 
 In the following winter, the theatre-royal at Edinburgh, hitherto 
 restrained by paity-spirit, was opened. On this occasion Mr. 
 Boswell was solicited by David Ross, esq. to write a prologue. 
 The eflect of this prologue upon the autlicnce \\as highly flat- 
 tering to the author, and beneficial to the manager, as it secured 
 to the latter, by the annihilation of the o})position which had 
 been till that time too successfully exerted against him, the un- 
 interrupted possession of his patent, which he enjoyed till hia 
 death, which happened in September, 1790. Mr. Boswell at- 
 tended his funeral as chief mourner, and paid the last honours 
 to a man with whom he had spent many a pleasant hoiu'. In 
 1769, was celebrated at Stratford-on-Avon the Jubilee in hon- 
 our of Shakspeare, Mr. Bo.swell, an enthusiastic admirer of 
 the writings of our immortal Bard, and ever ready to partake of 
 *' the feast of reason and the flow of soul," repaired thither, and 
 appeared at the iQas<}uera(l6 as an ainied Corjlcao chief] a cha- 
 racter
 
 I7^t.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEEKTri CENTURY. 40J 
 
 A new edition of Mr. Cheseldeh's " Anatomy of 
 the Human Body," 8vo. 
 
 racter he was eminently qualified to support. This year Mr. 
 Boswell was married to Miss Margaret Montgomery, a lady who, 
 to the advantages of a polite education, united admirable good 
 sense and a brilliant understanding. She tvas daughtei- of David 
 Montgomery, esq. related to the illustrious family of Eglintoune, 
 and representative of the anticnt peerage of Lyle. The death of 
 this amiable woman is recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine for 
 June 1790; and Mr. Boswell honoui-ed her memory with aa 
 affectionate tribute. She left him two sons and three daughters j 
 who, to use Mr. Boswell's own words, " if they inherit her good 
 qualities, will have no reason to complain of their lot. Dot 
 mai^nn parentHm virtus. In 17^^. lord Auchinleck died. In 
 17B3, Mr. Boswell published his celebrated " Letter to the People 
 of Scotland ;" which is thus praised by Johnson in a letter to the 
 author: " I am very much of your opinion **** j your paper 
 contains very considerable knowledge of History and the Consti- 
 tution, veiy properly produced and applied." Mr. Pitt, to whom 
 Mr. Boswell conmmnicated the pamphlet, honoured it with his 
 approbation. This first letter was followed by a second, in which 
 Mr. Boswell displayed his usual energ\- and political abilities. Iii 
 178.'S, Mr. BosweJl published "A Journal of a Tour to the He- 
 brides" with Dr. Johnson ; which met a similar success to his 
 entertaining account of Corsica. This year Mr. Boswell removed 
 to Ijondon, and was soon after called to the English bar. But 
 Mr. Boswell's professional business was interrupted by preparing 
 his most celebrated work, " The Life of Sanmel Johnson, LL.D." 
 Thia was published in 1790, and was received by the world with 
 most extraordinary avidity. It is a faithful histoiy of Johnson's 
 life, and exhibits a. most interesting picture of the character of 
 that illustrious moralist, delineated with a masterly hand. The 
 prepai-ation of a second edition of this work was almost the last 
 literary performance of Mr. Boswell ; though he was at the same 
 time preparing a general answer to a letter from Dr. Samuel Parr, 
 In Gent. Mag. vol. LXV. p. 179; in which he proposed also brieflj 
 to notice the attacks of his more puny antagonists. He had also 
 a design, which was in some forwardness, of publishing a quarto 
 volume, to be embellished with line plates, on the subject of the 
 controversy occasioned by the Beggar's Opera ; and it is to be 
 regretted that the publick were not gratilied with a perusal of 
 what sb good a judge of human nature w ould say on so curious 
 a subject. With this particular view he had paid frequent visits 
 to the then truly humane "Governor of Newgate," as he ordi- 
 narily styled Mr. Kirby. His death, unevpected by Lis friends, 
 was a subject of universal regret ; ami liis remains were carried 
 to Auchinleck ; and the following inscription is engraved on his 
 coflin-plate : "James Boswell, esq. died 19 May, 1795, aged 
 65 years j" over which, in a shield, arc the initials J. B. bctwceii 
 two strips of iaurel ; aud bis crest, Oa a wratb Argent aud 
 
 itD H Sable,
 
 404 LITERARY ANEG-DOTES OF [l7(?2. 
 
 " Innocence, a Poetical Essay, by Mr. Abraham 
 Portal*," 8vo. 
 
 " Jerusalem delivered, an Heroic Poem ; trans- 
 lated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John 
 Hoole -j- ;" 2 vols. 8vo. 
 
 Sable, a hawk witli a hood on all proper. Motto, over the 
 crest, VRAYE FOY. The arms borne by Mr. Boswell (in vk- 
 tue of a grant in Scotland, 1780) were. Quarterly, 1 and 4, 
 Argent, on a fess Sable three cinquefoils of the field, a canton 
 Azure charged with a galley, sails furled, with a tressure Or. 
 2 and 3, quarterly, 1 and 4, Aigcnt, a lion rampant Azure ; 2 
 and 3, Or, a saltiie and chief Gules j over all, a cross engrailed 
 Sable. Crest as above. 
 
 * Son of a Clergyman preferred in Essex. He was some time 
 a goldsmith and jeweller on Ludgate Hill, and afterwards kej>t a 
 stationary and musick waiehouse in the Strand. His other pub- 
 lications were, 1. " Olinda and Sophronia, a Tragedy, 1758." 
 2. " War, an Ode, 17e2." 3. "The Indifferent Lover, a Comedy. 
 1768." 4. " The J^ady of Bagdad, a Comic Opera, 1778 ;" the 
 Songs only printed. In 1782 he collected his " Poetical Works" 
 in one octavo a olume. He finished his career as a Box-kee[)er at 
 Di\iry-lane theatre ; but my friend Mr. Jones (the able Coiitinu- 
 ator of the "Biographia Dramatica") has not been able to learn 
 in what year. 
 
 \ The fondness of this benevolent Poet for literature shewed 
 itself when he was a boy, so as to make him a favourite with his 
 schoolniiister, while Ins harmless and gentle disposition caused 
 him to be beloved by his schoolfellows. He quitted school well 
 versed in the Latin and French languages, witli a small portion 
 of the Greek. He was perfectly master of arithmetick, a most 
 excellent penman, and possessed a good talent in drawing ; but 
 his knowledge of Italian was entirely his own acquiring after he 
 quitted school. His father, Mr. Samuel Hoole, who then carried 
 on a branch of the watch-making business (which, by the use of 
 fome newly- invented engines, of his own construction, he had 
 rendered very piofitable) , wished to have brought him up in his 
 own trade, and actually began to teach him the use of his tools ; 
 but to this way of life Nature had opposed an insuperable bai", 
 for John Hoole was so very short-sighted that he could not prac- 
 tise the trade without great inconTcnience, nor, in some respects, 
 without danger, from the fragments of brass and steel to which 
 his eyes, by their near approach to his work, were exposed. He 
 was not, however, wanting in mechanical talents, for he not 
 only completed some pieces of work with his own hands, but, 
 in many respects, v.as assisting to his father in the machinery 
 which he constructed for Mr. Rich, the then proprietor of 
 Covent-garden theatre. Being prevented from exercising any 
 mechanical calling, he was placed in the service of the East- 
 India Company, in theiy Acconiptants' office, under Mr, Hort, 
 
 the
 
 17^2.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 405 
 
 An "Italian Grammar," by Mr. Lates, of Ox- 
 ford, 8vo. 
 
 the chief accornptant 5 of whose abilities, integrity, and kind 
 treatment of the yoimg men under his care, he always spoke 
 with respect. While in this office, INIr. Hoole formed an inti- 
 mate connexion with several clerks in the Company's service of 
 his own age, particularly Mr. Peter Corbett, Mr. John Winter, 
 Mr. Ranceford Tookcy, and Mr. John Tristram 5 young men of 
 good sense, but all singular or eccentric characters 5 and with 
 them he apent many of his leisure hours. They used frequently 
 to dine and sup together 3 but were never guilty of any such 
 nocturnal re\'els as frequently disgi'ace the characters of young 
 gentlemen. Their 30\ithful parlies were always entertaining, 
 and often whimsically diverting. Mr. Hoole's princijial amuse- 
 ment, however, was at the theatre, where he had free access 
 behind the scenes, in virtue of his father's being machinist ; but 
 thence arose an inconvenience which his father had not foreseen j 
 namely, that the son had begun to conceive a great jclish for a 
 theatrical life, so as to form serious thoughts of appearing on the 
 stage : but his father having declared his entire disapprobation 
 of sucii a measure, he would not indulge his propen^iiy any far- 
 ther than by privately anmsing himself and his friends with tlie 
 rehearsal of different plays. Mr. Hoole used to tell a story of a 
 whimsical distress he was brought into by his short-siglitedness, 
 while performing the part of the Ghost in " Hamlet," at the 
 Little Theatre in Lincoln's-inn-fields (now Spode's China ware- 
 house) 5 for, having almost finished his sjK'cch to young Hamlet, 
 and coming near to the period when tlie Ghost descends, he was 
 not able to discei'n the place where the tiap-door would open, 
 and, fearing either to misS the spot, and to be left standing on 
 the stage, or of meeting with some accident, by tlie trap-door 
 opening where he did not expect it, he protiacted his speech as 
 nmch as he could " But soft metliinks I scent the morning 
 air brief let me be," &c. at the same time feeling about the 
 stage with his foot for the trap-door, while his friend, who acted 
 as jn'ompter, in as great distress as himself, cried, in a ^vhisper, 
 " Here Jack, here Jack, a little more tliis way." He, however, 
 luckilv hit tlie right place, and di^scendcd with proper ghostly 
 dignity. Together with his attachment to poetiy, Mr. John 
 Hoole was not indilrerent to the Loves and Graces ; his heart 
 was early susceptible of the tendei' pa-^ion. In 175/ lie married 
 Miss Susannali Smith, of Bishop Sfortford, who was frequently 
 called the handsome (Quaker ; and, in mairiage with her, he 
 formed a conncKion with two vry wortliy faiiiiUes, the Smiths 
 of Bishop Stortford, and the Etheredges of Bunlingfordj and 
 thi(jiigh them he became acquainted with Mr. John Scott, of 
 Aniwell, by profession a Quaker, but a good poet, and author 
 of many pleasing and well-known productions. He also re- 
 ceived every testimony of regard from the Quakers in general; 
 for^ though that tiocieiy are averse to marriages with those of a 
 
 dif-
 
 40^ JWTERARr ANECDOTM Of [l7^. 
 
 " Remarks on the Beauties of Poetry and Painting, 
 by Daniel Webb, esq.'' 8vo. 
 
 different persuasion, yet no sect whatever could have refused 
 tkeir cordial h'iendship to a man of Mr. John Hoole's disposition. 
 During the early part of Mr. Hoole's marriage his appointments 
 at the India-house were but slender. This, however, he sup- 
 plied by his industry ; and, at his leisure hours, laboured inde- 
 fetigably in making out the invoices for the Company's outward- 
 bound ships, arid moreover employed himself in translating 
 French publications relative to the transactions of that nation in 
 India during the war of 1756, commonly called the Seven Years 
 War. Upon Mr. Hoole's removal from the Accomptants-office 
 to that of the Auditor of India Accompts, he not only enjoyed a 
 more lucrative post than in his former station, but also the con- 
 stant company of Mr, Oldmixon, the chief of that office, who, 
 lik himself, was a reader of the Italian language, and an ad- 
 mirer of poetry in general. It was probably at the instance of 
 this gentleman that Mr. Hoole determined on writing his tra- 
 gedy of " Cyrusj" and, that he might complete it without inter- 
 ruption, he, in the autumn of 1767, having obtained leave of 
 absence from the India-house, suddenly disappeared from among 
 his friends and acquaintance in London, till they began to be 
 seriously alarmed about him, particularly his mothei', who then 
 lived in Moorfields with her youngest son and daughter. She 
 was, however, at length relieved from her anxiety, by a letter 
 from Mr, John Hoole to his brother, inviting him to his retreat, 
 which proved to be a small house at the Thames side, at Wands- 
 worth, in the neighbourhood of Mr. Oldmixon j and, upon Mr. 
 Samuel Hoole's repairing thither, he found his brother in good 
 health, who meriily acquainted him with the cause of his ab- 
 sconding. This rui-al retirement was so much to Mr. John 
 Hoole's taste, that he continued in the house for several years, 
 and took great pleasure in passing to and fro by water, having, 
 at the same time, chambers in Clement's-inn. In Septcmb*!", 
 1770, Mr. Hoole liad the misfortune to break the patella or 
 knee-pan of his leg by a fall, in the dusk of the evening, doun 
 a flight of .tej)s, which were then at the end of George's-com't, 
 Clerkenwell, but which, soon afterwards, as if it had been to 
 save others from a like accident, were taken away, and the place 
 made a gradual slope. This fracture, which is deemed by the 
 faculty very difficult to treat, and veiy tedious in the cure, con- 
 fined hiui to his bed in Clement's-inn for several months, dur- 
 ing which time he was constantly and carefully attended by that 
 eminent surgeon Mr. Richard Grindall, who had a great friend- 
 ship for hiai ; and his long confinement was alleviated by fre- 
 quent visits from his nmnerous friends and acquaintance. As 
 soon a.-^ he was so far recovered as to be able to quit his chamber, 
 he removed to his mother's house in Moorfields, where a bed 
 was {)rovided for him on the ground-floor, to save the necessity 
 of going up and down stairs, and two chairmen came regidarlj" 
 every day, with what is called a boot-chair, having an extended 
 
 cavity
 
 17^2.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 407 
 
 Mr. Kurd's celebrated " Letters on Chivalry and 
 Romance *," two editions, 8vo. 
 
 cavity at the bottom, to permit the leg being placed in a straigrht 
 posture : and thus he was conveyed to attend his duty at the 
 India-house. This fracture of the patella generally pnKluces a 
 stifthcss in the joint, which ever afterwards prevents the patient 
 from walking without difficulty ; and this was a cause of gi'eat 
 anxiety on the part of Mr. Hoole, He did indeed, for some 
 time, experience that inconvenience, though not to so great a 
 degree as he expected. But, a few years afterward, he had the 
 misfortune (if it is to be so called) of breaking his knee-pan a second 
 time ; and, after this second fracture was heidad, he found the 
 joint become more flexible ; and, consequently, he could walk 
 with more ease. The same accident befell him a third time, and 
 with the like success ; for, the joint of his knee now allowed full 
 motion to the leg, by which means he walked, all the remainder 
 of his life, with great ease and vigour, and with little or no ap- 
 pearance of limping in his gait. He died Aug. 2, 1803, in his 
 76th year, Mr. Hoole first displayed his poetical talents in an 
 elegy on the death of Mr.s. VVoflington, the celebrated actress. 
 He translated the works of Tasso, Ariosto, and Metastasio, if 
 not with congenial fervour of inuigination, yet with correctness, 
 elegance, and taste. His Tasso's "Jerusalem delivered" has gone 
 through several editions. In 17 G7 he published "The Works of 
 Metastasio, translated from the Italian," 2 vols. 12mo. In 1773, 
 the first volume of a Translation of Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso}" 
 and, ten years after, he published it coun)lete, in 5 vols. 8vo ; 
 in 1791, the " Orlando" of Ariosto, reduced to 24 books, tlie 
 narrative connected, and the stories dispotd, in a regular seiies, 
 2 vols. 8vo ; and, 17i>2, a Translation of Tasso's " Rinaldo," in 
 1 vol. 8vo. He was the author of three dramatic pieces, the 
 tragedies of "Cyiiis," " Timanthes," and "Cleonice, Princess 
 of Bythinia." 'Fhe first two pieces were derived fronj Metas- 
 tasio. Thev wore performed with tolerable buccess, particularly 
 the tragedy of " Cyius," the fable of which is very interesting, 
 and which \vas animated by noble sentiments, well expressed. 
 This play had the advantage of beiug supported by the talents of 
 Powell, in the zenith of hi* fame; by those of Smith, when he 
 was a great favourite with the publick; and by those of Mrs. 
 Yate.>, when she Avas in the maturity of beauty and theatrical 
 repute. The tragedy of "Cleonice " was by no means so success- 
 ful. Indeed, it fella victim to the severity of Criticism, which 
 has capricioubly suffered many worse performances to enjoy a 
 better fate. Mr. Hoole conducted himself very liberally on tlii;* 
 occasion, by retiuning a considerable jxirt of the money which iie 
 had received for the co[)y-right, allcdging, that, as the j)iece was 
 not successful on the stage, it could not be very proHtable to the 
 bookseller, and ought not to be a loss. 
 
 * " While tiie generality of writers arc catitiously creeping in 
 the track of their predecessors, Avithout during to think for 
 
 thcin-
 
 408 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I763, 
 
 '^ A Second* Letter to the Rev. Dr. Kennicott -|-, 
 In which his Defence of his Second Dissertation 
 
 themselves, and to venture fer from the beaten paths, the inge- 
 nious Author of these letters, trusting to his own pov\ ers, opens 
 a new vein of criticism, and entertains his readers, in a most 
 agreeable manner, with a variety of remarks on a veiy curious 
 subject." Monthly Review, vol. XXVU. p. 81. 
 
 * A former Pamphlet had been published in 1762 imder the 
 following title : " A Letter to the Rev, Dr. Kennicott, in which 
 his Defence of the Samaritan Pentateuch is examined, and his 
 second Dissertation on the State of the printed Hebrew Text ef 
 the Old Testament, is shewn to be in many instances injudicious 
 and inaccurate. With a Postscript, occasioned by his advertis- 
 ing, before this Letter was printed, that he had an Answer to it 
 in the Press. By T. Rutherforth, D. D. F. R. S. the King's Pro- 
 fessor of Divinity in Cambridge, and C'haplain to her Royal 
 Highness the Princeis Dowager of Wales." 8vo. 
 
 t Benjamin Kennicott, of Exeter college, Oxford, 1750 5 
 B. D. 1761 ; D. D. I76I 5 well known in the literary world fop 
 his elaborate edition of the Hebrew Bible, and other publica- 
 tions. He was born at Totness,' in Devonshire, in 17I8. His 
 early display of talents reconmiended him to some gentlemen, 
 who sent him to Oxford, and thei'e supported him. At Oxford 
 he soon became eminent, and, on account of two Dissertations, 
 one on the Tree of Life, the other on the Oblations of Cain and 
 Abel, had the degree of A. B. conferred uj)on him gratis a year 
 before the statutable time. He soon after distinguished himself 
 by the publication of seveial occasional sermons, which were 
 well received. In the year 1753, lie laid the foundation of his 
 great work, and spent a long time in searching out and examin- 
 ing Hebrew manus.crii)ts. He appealed to the Jews themsel^es 
 on the subject of the Hebrew ioy^i, and gave a compendious his- 
 toiy of it from the close of the Hebrew canon to the invention of 
 printing, with an account of 103 Hebrew MSS. In 1760, he 
 published hi.'- Projjosals for collating all the Hebrew MSS. pi'ior 
 to the invention of printing, tliat could be found in Great Bri- 
 tain 5 and, at the same time, for |)rocuring as many culkitious 
 of foreign MSS. as his time and money Avould jjerniit. During 
 the progress of th.e \\ork he ^^as rewarded with a canonrv of 
 Christ Church, His first volume was published in 1776, and 
 the whole was completed in 1780. ^Wlicn we contemplate his 
 diligence and learning, it mut he confessed, that Hebrew liter- 
 ature and sacred criticism are indebted to him moie than to 
 any scholar of hi? age. He ^vas a good and conscientious man, 
 and, in decline of life, resigned a \aluable li^ ing in Cornwall, 
 on account of his not having a prospect of e^er again being able 
 to visit his i?arish. Though many good nu n may ju.->tly think, in 
 this case, that his professional lrtb(n:rs caiTicd on elsewhere might 
 properly have entitled him to letain this preferment, and may apply 
 tliis reasoning in other cases, yet a conduct so signally disinte- 
 rested
 
 17^2.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 4^ 
 
 is examined. By T. Rutlierforth *, D.D. F.R.S. 
 
 the King's Professor of Divinity in Cambridge, and 
 Chaplain to her Royal Highness the Princess Dow^ 
 ager.of Wales." 8vo. 
 
 '* Lady Jane Grey, a Poem, by George Keate, Esq^, 
 4to. 
 
 ' Colonije Anglicanae Illustratae : or, the Acquest 
 of Dominion, and the Plantation of Colonies made 
 by the English in America ; with the Rights of the 
 Colonists examined, stated, and illustrated. Part L 
 Containing, I. The Plan of the whole Work, inclu- 
 ding the Proposition, asserting the Rights of the 
 Colonists, intended to be established. II. A brief 
 History of the Wars, Revolutions, and Events, 
 which gave rise to all the marine Discoveries, and 
 foreign Acquisitions made by the modern Euro- 
 rested deserves certainly to br adaiired and celebrated. He died 
 at Oxford, Aug. IS, 1/83, kavinc; a wife, but no children. At 
 the time of his death he was einijloyed in printing Remarks oa 
 ptissages in the Old Testament. This was afterwards published 
 from his papei's. Dr. Kenuicott was also keeper of the RadclifFe 
 library ; and corresponded with some of the most eminent cha- 
 racters in Europe. Dr. Kennicott was a friendly, laborious, 
 worthy man, who, by an uncommon perse\cnmce, rendered him- 
 self of the utmost service to religion and biblical learning. At 
 home ho correspondcjl with Dr. Lowth, bishop of London, Dr. 
 Heberden, Dr. VVheelc^r, Dr. Adams, &c. He was ill used by 
 the Review \\'?iters in fiennany, Avho manifestly write for the 
 pay of theii- literary .shops ; and by Dr. Bnins, who had assisted 
 him in his collation, and afteiwards ungenerously wrote agauist 
 him. St-e Gent. Mag. vol. LI II. pp. '62^K 744. 
 
 * Of whom see an accotmt, p. 196. " The Doctor has 
 taken a great deal of leained pains v\ order to shew, that 
 Dr. Kennicott's second Dissertation is, in ujr.ny iiistances, inju- 
 dicious and inaccurate ; but wiiat he has advanced in support c.f 
 this charge is, in j!;ene)"al, extremely frivolous. A few inarcura- 
 cii-5, it mu.-it be acknowludged, he has pointed out (and what 
 work can he named, that is miireiy free from them?) j but they 
 aie of so trilling a nature, that we think them not worth men- 
 tionhig. There is (ne point, however, which he has proved in 
 a very clear and sati.--factory manner, and tl\at i.-, hi. own want 
 of judgment and acciracy, and not only so, but his want of 
 c iUdour, and of thiit liberal turn of mind, which ought to be 
 diligently cultivated by all those who apply themselves to liberal 
 studies, and without which learning or.ly exposes him who is 
 posiicssed of it to contexupt and ridicule." 
 
 ilonihlij Havicv, vol. XXl'I. p. 395. 
 
 peans.
 
 410 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [1762. 
 
 jjeans. III. A Survey of the Knowledge and Opi- 
 nions Tvhich the Europeans had of the Earth in 
 Times preceding these Discoveries ; with other 
 Matters relating to this Subject. IV. The Parti- 
 culars of the Progress made by the Portuguese, 
 from their beginning these Discoveries to the Death 
 of King John II. and an Account of the Grants 
 made to the King of Portugal of the Countries that 
 were or might be discovered, by the Bulls of several 
 Popes, with one of them set forth at large." 4to. 
 
 17^3. 
 
 This year Mr. Bovvyer published an excellent 
 edition of the Greek Testament *, in 2 volumes, 
 12mo, under the title of " Novum Testamentum 
 Graecum, ad fidem Grsecorum soliim Codicum MSS, 
 nunc primum expressum, adstipulante Joanne Ja- 
 cobo Wetstenio, juxta Sectiones Jo. Alberti Ben- 
 gelii divisum ; et nova Interpunctione saepius il- 
 lustratum. Accessere in altero volumine Emen- 
 dationes Conjecturales Virorum doctorum unde- 
 cunque collectae -j-." 
 
 * An earlier impression of the Greek Testament has been 
 noticed in p. 15/, with the emendations of Mr, Clarke j of 
 V iiich, however, Mr. Clarke's son obsenes, " Mr. Bowyer had 
 printed a Greek Testament for the Company of Stationers in 
 1743, in the title-page of which he put accuratissim^ impretsurn ; 
 but the fact was not quite true." Mr. Edward Clarke, MS. 
 Of the editi(ni of i;6'3 Dr. Harwood said, in 1775, "This is 
 a valuable Gre- k I'siamcnt, and now scarce. A copy of it sold 
 at Di"- AskeA\ - ?; e for 10s. 6d. Mr. Bowyer is an excellent 
 Greek scholar, and it is to be feared will be the last learned 
 printer in Erglsaid." View of the various Editions of Greek and 
 Roman Classics, vUh Remarks, p. 121, At Mr. Beauclerk's sale 
 a ropy of it wiis sold for m'Mc ihan double the original price, 
 whicii was only 6s. I may aUu, that neither of these copies was 
 rendered of additional value bv the modern luxury of splenchd 
 bindings, which often swells the price of books which have in 
 the printing bur little rn-jrit. 
 
 f When this Edition was nearly finished at the press, Mr, 
 Bowyer wrole to his old friend and second tutor Dr. Nevvcome, 
 to consul: hiui on a point of some delicacy, which the following 
 note of the Rev. George Ashby will explain : " The letter which 
 Mr, JJowyer wrote to Dr. Newcome was dated Sept, 29, 1763. 
 
 It
 
 17<53'] THE l;iGHTENTH CENTURV, 411 
 
 This edition was sold with great rapidity, 
 though announced to the publick in a light. 
 
 It ^vas to ask him, wliPthor he might omit the Doxology, and 
 1 John V. 7> in an intended edition. The Master sent for me, 
 G. A. and shewed me the lettei\ Heing old, and in a deelining 
 way, and seemingly disti'essed with the application, and com- 
 plaining of the having to answer it as a hardship ; I offered to 
 answer it for him ; which he gladly accepted." 
 
 The following is a copy of Mr. Bow) er's queries. 
 
 " On a supposition that I should re-print an edition on 1 new 
 letter in 13mo, for the use of schools, which are the best Patrons, 
 Do you advise. 1. That I should leave out the words now inelo.sed 
 In crotchets, as not supported by MSS. and give a list of them at 
 the pnd ; or retain them as they ai*e ? Will not the School- 
 masters be frightened to lose the Doxology ; and half the Clergy 
 to part with the testimony of the \Mtnes>sefc ? 2. I could wish 
 to print it without distinction of versos, only niunbering them 
 in the outer margin. But will boys relish that so well ? I do 
 not ask which is absolutely best, but which is relatively so 
 S. In Quarto, all these variations would naturally be placed at the 
 bottomj and then, I think, you will be content to have the other 
 notes at the end, which is an ease to the Editor, though not t3 
 the Reader. Two or three quarto editions on font : one it 
 Oxford, far advanced, on new types of Baskerville by the vvay, not 
 good ones. Dr. Pany thinks to set about another. Mr. Jacic- 
 son's executors liope to sell his materials for 100/." [They have 
 since given them to Jesus college, Cambridge. Dr. Bentley's are 
 in Trinity college, by gift of late Dr. Bentley. T. F.} 
 
 The several queries of Mr. Bowyer were thus answered : 
 
 " 1. Leave them out ; for neither will School-masters be more 
 frightened, &c. nor half the Clergy, &c. at the passages 
 being ([uietly svmk, than at its being constantly pointed out 
 fo tixera that they are utterly unsupported by MSS. whilst 
 so many hooks, &c. look like Caesar's or Dciphobns's carcase. 
 [" Out of 118 .MSS. that have this cha])ter, and which have 
 been diligently collated, only two have the questionable ver.se j 
 and one of them, the Codex Ravii, has, by an accurate and faith, 
 ful collation, lately been found to be a trunscript of the Com- 
 phitensiam, and an edition of Stephens; and the only remaiiiing 
 one, which indeed has occasioned all the trouble, viz. that in Dub' a 
 University, will, when examined in the .-^ame exact manner, pro- 
 bably share the s^ame fate ; or at least the cauye will be left to st;ind 
 on one leg, instead of 1 18 or more. It must seem surprizing that 
 this has never been done, in order to give the coup de grace to the 
 whole basiness. One should imagine that in that University or 
 City there must be some scholar able and willing to collate the 
 whole, or at least as much ;is would detect the origin of the MS, 
 as has been completely done by the other, for 10 or 20/, or more 
 if you please. This I suggested four or five year* ago to a No- 
 bleman of high rank and fortmic [the Duke of Grafton], w'h 
 
 some
 
 412 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iJ^S. 
 
 perhaps, not the most captivating to a purchaser ; 
 to the advertisements in the pubHc papers Mr. 
 Bovvyer having subjoined a somewhat singular 
 remark ; " This edition * boasts neither elegance of 
 
 some other circumstances which appeared material to me, and 
 I thought were in unison with his sentiments ; but whether the 
 letter ever reached him, though he Hves not far off, is more than 
 I know. Howe\'ei', I never received any answer, and so had 
 no thoughts of repeating my application." T. F!] 2. Surely 
 boys will better vmderstand what they are about, if the Testament 
 be printed like all their other books, and not minced into such 
 artificial divisions. Do not begin a verse with a great letter, 
 unless the beginning of a sentence, &c. requires it ; but mark the 
 beginning by a small line under the word, as Stephens doth the 
 proper names. To ease the margin, number the verses only 2, 
 4, 6, 8, &c. the subscribed line wUl readily point out the inter- 
 mediate odd verses. Finish off at the end of Gospels, so as to 
 make a first volume, and the notes a third." " The answer was 
 sent to Mr, Bowyerj and 1 heard no more of it. Nineteen years 
 afterwards [1782], when the proof-sheets of 'Conjectures on 
 New Testament' weie sent me down to Barrow, J mentioned the 
 circumstance to Mr. Nichols ; but he knew nothing of any such 
 letter]:. He sent me down the first sheet of a Continuation of 
 the Life of IV. B. [i. e. as I suppose his own ] j but I had trouble 
 enough by making large additions to the first, as may be seen by 
 the proof-sheets, which I keep i| ; so sent it back vmmeddled with, 
 Mr. Tyrwhitt made him leave out what I said about Hearne 
 and f?aker, two old good friends, almost quarrelling about secu- 
 ring the abominably good story of the Miller and Scholars, though 
 it appears in Baker's oun hand in his copy of Benedictus, in 
 St. Jolm's-college library. So Davies, in Life of Garrick, as 
 Nichols tells me, is very angry that I should presume to question 
 Gari'ick's generosity." 
 
 * " I am really glad that your N. T. is likely to turn out so 
 much better than you expected, &c. (see vol. IV. p. 288). "I 
 shall not be surprized or sorry to hear that you diliered with 
 the person you mention ^1 , rather than be instrumental in 
 exposing him. On the contrary, I shall think you have acted 
 very h.niourably in so doing. The plea, of another person's 
 undertaking it, if you do not, is nothing to you. You mejitiou 
 a Dedication, but do not say of ichat ; I hope, not of the Muse 
 which v.ould be ridiculous in one of his degree and station, 
 at any age 3 but at SO is inloierably absurd. J t would be veiy 
 
 + I V. .-iS too young, wlien it was written, to be coiiiulted on so impor- 
 tant a suh)'.-':'t. J. iV. 
 
 This was ratlier too hasty a conclusion; unless the present JVork be 
 considered as a Life of its ( onipiler. J. A. 
 
 11 As th; Reader may see by the many curious notes signed T. F. or 
 Z)r. Taijlor'i FrivmL J. N. 
 
 r Dr. Cobdeii; of whom see before, p. 207. 
 
 for^
 
 176^3.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUE.V. 41^ 
 
 type nor paper, but trusts to other merits." The 
 conjectural emendations * are a very valuable addi- 
 tion to the Greek Testament '|~, and were extremely 
 well received by the Learned J. ^ 
 
 " The Alps/ a Poem, by Mr. Keate," 4to. 
 
 " Elvira, a Tragedy, by Mr. Mallet," Svo. 
 
 fortunate for him, if, when you lefuse to be concerned in it> 
 you would plainly and honestly tell him the reason. I know 
 iie would like it. Probably he does not think of that circum- 
 stance Non decet. I have kriO\\n him desist from iin])roper 
 things for a single hint. Hea\eu preserve us from hobby-horses 
 at eighty!" Letter from Mr. Marhland, Jj^iril 11, 1763. 
 
 * A new edition of the " Conjectures" was printed in Svo, 
 1772 J a third, in 4to, ITS'^; and a fourth, from the interleaved 
 copy of Dr. Owen, v,hich he bequ(>athed to the Honoiu'able and 
 Right Reverend Dr. -Shule Barrington, Lord Bishop of Durham, 
 ifc, by the favom" of that learned Prolate, now actually in the press. 
 I " We may allow illiterate witling's and half-learned poets to 
 call persons engaged in granmiatical studies by the opprobrious 
 title of word-calciiers and point-setters ; but we cannot but be 
 concerned to hear any one, who really is, or pretends to be, a 
 man of learning, join with them in the cry. To convince all 
 stich despisers how much depends even upon tiie minutiae of 
 grammar, 1 would offer this remark, that the conjunction xxt 
 has upwards of ten meanings, not only in the Bible (on account 
 of its answering to that extensive Hebrew particle Vau), but 
 also in the best profane authors ; and that it has been above 
 twenty times wrongly translated in the New Testament, so as to 
 destroy^ if not the sense of those piissages, at least their force 
 and elegance, which is not likely to be restored to them by per- 
 sons who know no other meaning of xat but one. I would have 
 them too observe, that the leaving out the definitive article fthej 
 where it is expressed in tlie Greek, and in.serting it where it is 
 not exjn-essed, has perverted the meaning of sou)e important 
 passages of Holy Writ. 1 would also reconnnend it to them to 
 look into a Greek Testament lately published by Mr. Bowyer, a 
 printer, whose eiudition not only sets him on a par with the 
 best scholars among the early printers, but would do credit to 
 persons of high rank even in the learned professions. They may 
 there see how nmch has been done by pimctuation, parentliescs, 
 proper section, and oilier eoncemptible articles, towards illus- 
 trating a book, which, as of all books it most deserves our read- 
 ing, claims our greatest care that it be tiulv pointed and justly 
 translated." Tico Grammatical Essnys, S;c. IJG'.). 
 
 X In return for a copy of this work ])resented to Mr. Tyr- 
 whitt, an admirable judge of (iret'k Literature, Mr. Bowyer 
 received the following letter : 
 
 "Sir, Cottcn Garden, March \G, 176;5. 
 
 *' I return you my best thanks for yoiu' obliging letter m\{\ 
 present. I have not as yet been ablt; to look far into your book, 
 
 but
 
 414 LITERARY AN'ECCOTES OF [l7^5' 
 
 "A Report from the Committee appointed on the 
 SJth of January 1763, to enquire into the State of 
 Private Madhouses, with the Proceedings of the 
 House of Commons thereupon; pubhshcd by their 
 Order*," folio. 
 
 " Tracts on the Liberty, Spiritual and Temporal, 
 of Protestants in England -f-," by Anthony Ellys, D. D, 
 late Lord Bishop of St. David's, Part 1. 4to. 
 
 but I dare say it will do honour to tlie learning: ^r^'l acciiracr of 
 the Editoi*. I do not suppose you meant to rcqiijje a very par- 
 ticular answer from nie at this time to the representation which 
 accompanied your letter. I shall say however thus much, that I 
 should hardly think myself at liberty to make any alteration in 
 the course of business in the office, unless upon a real necessity. 
 If such a necessity shoidd obiig'e me to look out for another 
 Pi-inter, I should be ready to shew a proper ai tention to the cha- 
 riicter which you a eiy desenedly bear in vour profession ; as my 
 first wish would really be to find one who would execute tlie 
 business as well, or, if possible, better than those at prcbcnt em- 
 ployed. I am, Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient humble servant, Tho. Tyew^itt." 
 
 This alludes to the " Joiunals of the House of Commons,"" 
 then in a sort of abeyance by the death of iMr. Ric^hardson (see 
 p. 353), That business passed afterwards into a very proper 
 channel ; from which it has since devolved into the hands of 
 perhapi the only Printer living wiio unites in one person the 
 ability of superintending- such extensive duties, and strength of 
 mind and body suthcient to undergo the fatigue of constant per- 
 sonal attendance. 
 
 * At this peiiod all the Public Reports made to the House of 
 Commons were piinted by their Order ; and enough of thenr 
 were sold to defray all the expences of the copies distributed gra- 
 tuitously to the members. Tiiis was tht:n also the ca^e of " The 
 Votes;" which left a handsome siuj)lus to the Speaker for the 
 time being j till the sale was destroyed bv the daily publication of 
 the Parliamentary Debates in the Newspapers. 
 
 f " We have been informed by persons who, from their situa- 
 tions and connections, were likely to have an opportunity of 
 knowing, that these I'racts are the papers which the Right Re- 
 verend AuthoT frequently declared his intention of publishing, 
 under s(jme such title as, ' A Defence t)f the Reformation.' It 
 bad for maiiy years been undei stood, that Dr. Ellys wiis engaged 
 in tliis work; and that his great intention was, to illustrate, 
 confirm, and vindicate the Principles of Religious Liberty, and 
 the Reformation from Popery, founded upon them : a design 
 which could not b\it recommend him to the notice of the excel- 
 lent persons at that time in the Administration ; whose glorious 
 character it was, that they were the steady friends of public 
 
 liberty.
 
 1763.3 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 415 
 
 A new Edition of Ecton's " Thesaurus Rerum 
 Ecclesiasticarum," 4to; [since re-published by Jcihn 
 Bacon, esq. under the title of " Liber Regi?, 1 7 : G/'J 
 
 The first volume of Dr. Ferdinando Warner's * 
 " History of Ireland/' 4to. 
 
 Liberty, both civil and religious ; and, upon all occasions, 
 the Patrons of those learned men who appeared in the defence 
 of this important interest. It was the reputation of being em- 
 ployed in tills work, and with sucii views, tliat was undoubtedly 
 the means of advancing our Author to the station he filled in 
 the Church : and why he never comjdeted his design in his lite- 
 time ; why lie never received any farther marks of favour from 
 the great Personages who first countf'nanced him ; and why the 
 work, as now published, is so mateiially different from what it 
 was once expected to be, we are only left to conjecture." 
 
 Montldy Review, vol. XXIX. p. 117. 
 
 A second part was published in i76-">; under which yeai* au 
 account will be given of the veiy learned Author. 
 
 * Ferdinando Warner, LL. D. vicar of Ronde, co. Wilts, 1730; 
 rector of St. Michael, Oueenhitlie, London, and of Barnes in 
 Surrey; a celebrated preacher, and author of, 1. "A Sermon 
 preached before the Lord Mayor January 30, 1748." 2. " A 
 Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor on September 2, 1749." 
 3. "A System of Divinity and Morality, containing a Series of 
 Discourses on the principal and most important Points of Natu- 
 ral and Revealed Religion ; compiled from the Works of the 
 most emirient Di\ines of the Church of England, 17^30," 5 vols. 
 12mo. This was reprinted in 4 vols. 8vo, 175G. 4. "A Scheme 
 for a Fund for the better Maintenance of the AVidows and Chil- 
 dren of th(! Clergy, 1753," 8vo. .^. " An Illustration of the 
 Book of Connnon Prayer and Administiation of Sacraments, 
 and other Rites and Ceiemonies of the Church of England, &c. 
 1754," folio. In this year he took the degree of LL.I). 6'. " Bo- 
 lingbroke, or a Dialogue on the Origin and Authority of Reve- 
 lation, 1755," 8vo. 7. "A free and necessary Enquiry whether 
 the Church of England in her Liturgy, and many of her learned 
 Divines in tluir Wjitings, have not by some unwary Expressionf 
 relating to Transubstantiation and the real Presence, given %o 
 great an Advantage to Paj)ists and Deists, as may prove fatal to 
 true Religion, unless soute Remedy be speedily ajjplied ; with 
 Remarks on the Power of Priestly Aljsolution, I7rj5," 8vo. 
 S. In 1756 he pnblisiied the {iist volume of his " EccU^iastical 
 History, to the Eighteenth Century," folio; the second volume 
 in 17'>7. 9. "Memoirs of tin; Lite of Sir Thomas More, Lord 
 High Chancellor of England in the Reign of Henry VI 11. 17."iS," 
 Svo. This is dedicated to bir Robert Henley, afterwaids L(^rd 
 Chancellor N'oithington, who is complimented for the fa\onrs he 
 had conferred on him on his receiving the Seals; probably for 
 the rectory of iiaiuus^ which was given liim in 1758, and uith 
 
 which
 
 4lG ' MTKRARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^^' 
 
 The " Siipplices Mulieres" of Euri})i(les, m ith the 
 Notes of Mr. Markland, 4to. (See vol. IV. p. 2S7.) 
 
 which he held Oucenhithe and Tiiuity tlie Less. 10. " Remarks 
 on the History of Fingal ai)d other Poeiiis ol'Ossian, translated 
 by Mr. jMaepherson, in a Letter to the Riiiht Hon. the Lord 
 
 L [Lyttelton], 1*62," 9<\o. 11. "The ^History of Ireland, 
 
 vol. L 1763," 4to. He published no more of this, beinf^ discou- 
 raged by a disappointirient in hopes he had indulged of obtain- 
 ing some Parliamentary Jissistance. VI. "A Letter to the Fel- 
 lows of Sion College, and to all the Clergy within the Bills of 
 Mortality, and in the (Jounty of Middlesex, humbly proposing 
 theii' forming tl)emseives into a Society for the Maintenance of 
 the Widows and Orphans of such ('lergymen. To which is 
 added, a v-ketch of some Rules and Orders suitable to that i)ur- 
 pose, 17G5." 8vo. 13. "The History of the Rebellion and Civil 
 War in Ireland, 1767," 4to. In oi'der tt) collect materials for his 
 History of Ireland, he went over to tliat kingdom, about 1761. 
 YZ. "A full and plain Account of the Gout, from whence will be 
 clearly seen the folly or baseness of all })retenders to the Cure of 
 it, in which every thing material by the best Writers on that 
 Subject is taken notice of, and accompanied with some new 
 and important Instructions for its Relief, which the ,'^utlior's 
 Experience in the Gout above thirty Years hatti induced him to 
 impart, 1768," Svo. He died, in his 65th year, Oct. 3, 1768. 
 
 His son, Dr. John "Warner, was of Trinity college, Cambridge ; 
 B.A. 1758; ivl.A. 1761: I). D. 1773; and for many years he 
 possessed an unusual degree of popularity, as a pleasing, manly, 
 and eloquent preacher, at a chapel, his private propci'ty, in Long- 
 Acre ; (which he sold to the late Dr. King, ^vuo had before been 
 chaplain to the British Factory at St. Peterslrarg) . He was presented, 
 in 1771 J to the united rectories of Hocklill'e and Chalgrave, iy^ 
 Bedfordshiie ; and was afterwards presented, by his kind friend 
 Sh" Richard Colt Koare, hart, to the valuable rcetoiv of Stour- 
 ton, Wilts. Dr. Warner was an excellent scholar ; a man of tiie 
 strictest integrity; warm and e\en enthtisiastic in his friend- 
 ships. From liis ardent zeal for Mr. Howard (in conjunction 
 with Dr. Lettsom and Mr. Nichols), orig-inated th.e project of 
 erecting a statue to that great philanthropist in his life-time (the 
 letter signed Anglus in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol.L\'I. p. 360, 
 was Dr, Wainer's) ; and the actual completion of the beautiful 
 monument in St. Paul's. At the outset of the French revolu- 
 tion, enamoured with the illusive idea': of universal freedom, he 
 passfcd a considerable time in the new Republick; till, disgusted 
 with the hideous scenes to which he had too long been witness, 
 he returned to enjoy with redoubled luxury true liberty at home; 
 but still continued tincturea with a little of the leaven he had 
 imbibed on the Continent. A slight specimen of this may be 
 seen in two sportive sallies of his pen, in the Gentleman's Maga- 
 zine, vol. LXIl. p. 3 8. But his attachment to Literature was 
 unbounded. Moderate to an extreme at the table, and equally 
 
 abster.
 
 17^3-3 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 41 7 
 
 Mr. Folkes'g " Tables * of English Silver and 
 Gold Coins," printed at the expence of the Society 
 of Antiquaries ; 2 vols. 4to. 
 
 abstemious atthe bottle ; a book and a pipe, and cheerful con- 
 versation (in wliich he eminently excelled), were his supreme 
 delight ; and his " Metronariston" (see Gentleman's Magazine, 
 vol. LXVII. p. 232), and " Memoirs of Mekerchus" (lb, p. 2/3), 
 afford the most striking proof of his originality of tlionght and 
 depth of learning. He died, after a few days illness, in St. John's* 
 square, Clerkenwell, Jan. 22, 1800, aged 64. 
 
 * Duiing the progress of this work, some of those unavoidable 
 delays took place, wliich ax'e too frequently experienced by all 
 who are conversant with the press, and wliich, in the present 
 case, produced tiae following formal complaint : 
 
 " Sir, Tiie Society have been informed that th great delay, 
 so long complained of, to the publication of Mr. Folkes's Tables, 
 and the Appendix, is every where mentioiud by Dr. Gifford to be 
 owing solely to your neglect of carrying on that work with the 
 spirit and expedition you ought, and which the Society have a 
 right to expect. He asserts, it is said, that you have been duly 
 furnished with copy, but that several iceeks together have passed 
 without his biing able to get a proof-sheet from you. The 
 Society therefore expect you will lay before them a true state of 
 the matter, that they may take measures accordingly to remove 
 tht delay, wherever it lies, for the future. Please to make your 
 Keport in writing, for the greater certainty and satisfaction of 
 the Society, and of the Council before whom it will Uiore parti- 
 cularly be brought to be considered of. I am. Sir, 
 
 Yoiu' humble servant. Will. Norkis, Secretary. 
 Saturday, 27 March, 1/63. 
 From the House of the Society of Antiquaries." 
 
 Mr. Bowyer, naturally irritable, was \crj much hurt by the 
 accii^ution oi neglect ; from which he thus vindicated himself: 
 
 " Rev. Sih, I am obliged to vou fur giving me an opportu- 
 nity (;f vindicating myself to a Society among whom I thought I 
 Jiad many Friends, but must have many Enemies, from the report 
 wiiich it seems is every where spread of me. The best vindica- 
 tion of my conduct in printiiig i\Ir. Fulkes's i>ook of Coins is 
 the Journal I here send you of liie progioss of it, wlrch I have 
 happily krpt from the time \()u fold me of the uncisincss of the 
 Society at tlie delay of th.it work, being apprehensive I might 
 be caHcd on to answer such a charge as is now biought against 
 me. Tlie Journal is particular enougli, ixoept only tliat my 
 scivant ha.-! omitted to set down wlien sonic of the sheets of Dr. 
 (jiifoids Appendix were returned rnulv fur the press. How- 
 ever, from an estimate of tho-e wliose date s aie e\j)re>-S''d, scaice 
 any were returned within a week, some abo\e a fortnight after 
 th'jy were sent. And each dieet of tlie Ajipendix has been twice 
 sent, some thrice. On tiie other Ii'mkI, J)r. (Hford asserts, it i$ 
 said, ' that sevtral icvcks together have puiicd without /*w beint; 
 Vol. 11. able
 
 41 8 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iT^S- 
 
 ** A Dissertation upon the Tascia *, or Legend, 
 on the British Coins of Cunobehn and others, by 
 John Pettingal -f-, D. D. Head at the Society of 
 Antiquaries, and ordered to be printed," 4to. 
 
 " Epistolte Sex ad Amicum, de Divinitate Christi ; 
 Auctore D.Waterhouse;}:, A.M. Rectore de Langley 
 nupero, in Com. Cant." 4to. 
 
 able to get a sheet from you.' I assert, Not once two weeks 
 together, out of the three-quarters of a year, or 39 weeks, to 
 which my journal extends. Five must be deducted, wliile I 
 staid for Dr. Gifford's Appendix. Remain 34 weeks, in which 
 time, you will see, 14 sheets have been sent him. Allowing him 
 to correct these 14 sheets one week only to each (though for 
 some he has taken a fortnight, for some three weeks), I cannot 
 have deferred sending a jnoof, one with the other, so much as 
 a week. I should fartlier observe, tliat, by the tediousness in 
 returning the proofs, a man cannot be kept uniformly on the 
 work ; and he will naturally, when they are returned, make 
 an end of the sheet he is upon of the intervuning work, before he 
 resumes the i7iterri(pte(i one. In printing that part of the book 
 in which Mr. Folkes was concerned, to expedite it the more, I 
 sometimes, you will see, sent two sheets at a time, or one sheet 
 under another, before the former was put to press. But this 
 part of Dr. Giftord's takes up so many small-capitals, that I 
 have not enough of them to set up two sheets at once. And 
 you, who correct for the King's Printer, will be so kind as to 
 iriform the Society, that there are more small-capitals in a single 
 sheet of this work than in the whole English Bible. Without 
 being reminded of the duty I owe the Society, I am engaged by 
 interest (which I mention but as an inferior motive in compari- 
 son of the other) to expedite a work for which I know I shall be 
 paid when finished, and for which 1 have bought paper about a 
 twehemonth since. I am sorry that, to exculpate myself, 1 
 should throw any imputation on Mr. Gilford. I am obliged, 
 however, in justice to him, to send him a copy of your letter 
 and mine ; and v.e must each stand or fall by oiu" respective 
 defence, I am, Sir, Your humble servant, W. Bowyek. 
 
 " P. S. I find, by my books, that tlie lir.vt 14 sheets were printed 
 in 14 weeks. 1 submit it, whether the subsequent have been 
 delayed by tlie Editor or the Printer ?" 
 
 * Tlie reward ofiered for discovering stealers of cattle in the 
 Highlands is called Tascal monev. See " Letters from the 
 North," vohll. p.243. 
 
 -j- Of whom, see before, p. 333. 
 
 + Thoy were edited by the Rev. Benjamin Watcrhouse, vicar 
 of HoUingbourne, near Maidstone, in Kent. 
 
 " Tele-
 
 1763.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 4lJ 
 
 " Telemachus, a Masque, by the Rev. George 
 Graham *, M. A. Fellow of King's College, Cam- 
 bridge," 4to. 
 
 Dr. Gally's " Seconid Dissertation -|~, against pro- 
 nouncing the Greek Language according to Accents, 
 in answer to Mr. Foster s Essay on the different 
 Nature of Accent and Quantity," 8vo. 
 
 " Israelis Lyon \, junior. Fasciculus Plantarum 
 circa Cantabrigiam nascentium, quae post Raium 
 observatae fuere ;" 8vo. 
 
 "An Introduction to English Grammar, by Dr. 
 Lowth ," (afterwards Bishop of London) ; which 
 he very frequently reprinted, 8vo and 12mo. 
 
 * Tliis gentleman, the younger son of a clergyman, was edu- 
 cated at Eton school, and was thence elected, in 1746", to 
 King's college, Cambridge. He afterwards became one of the 
 assistants at the school already named, and died in February 
 1767- He was author of a tragedy, which was refused by Mr. 
 Garrick, and has not hitiierto appeared in print. His elder bro- 
 ther, David, was also a fellow of King's, and a barrister at law. 
 
 f Which may be added to the list of his pulilications 
 in p. 274. Dr. Gaily was made King's chaplain in Oclober 
 1735. 
 
 + To the article of Mr. Lyons (in p. 328) add, ''The Scliolar's 
 Instructor, or Hebrew Grannnar, by Israel Lyf)ns, Teacher of 
 the Hebrew Tongue in the University of Cambridge, The se- 
 cond Edition, with many Additions and Emendations whicli the 
 Author has found necessary in his long Course of teaching He- 
 brew. Canibridge, 1757," Svo, was the jjioduction of his fa- 
 ther 3 as was a ueatise printed at the Cambridge press, under 
 the title of " Ob.iervations and Enquiries relating to various 
 Parts of Scri])ture History, I76H5" puidished by subscription, at 
 2,$. 6'd. " 1 am now [Riblishing a su'.all bo(jk of live sheets, and 
 am obliged to quote a shekel of Sinion with Samaritan charac- 
 ters, which is in Dr. Morton's Tables of i\l[)habets, which tables 
 I do not doubt but you ha\e tliem. 1 shall take it as a great 
 favour of yoxi if you could send me the letters of that inscription, 
 either in /io/Yow; letters, if you have such, bat if you have'thcm 
 not, then you will be ])leased to send me the letters of the in- 
 scription in the conunon San)aritan cliaraeters." 
 
 Letter to Mr. LUnnjcr, July 4, 17CS. 
 
 This illustrious Pielate was boi n at \\ inchc-tcr, in the 
 Close, DtcemberS, I710. Hi>-; father, the Rev. \\'illiam Lowth 
 wtis a j)rebendaiy of Wiuf he-ter, and made a distinguished iigure 
 in the re])ublic of letters. Hi; ])ublj.shed "^ Couuiientaiies on the 
 Pi'ophcls;" but his mo-t u-i( ful and popuhu work WiiS, " Duec- 
 tions for prohtably reading the Holy Scriptures." This tract 
 
 JE E 2 hi)3
 
 420 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^3. 
 
 "A View of the Internal Policy of Great Britain,** 
 l2mo. 
 
 has passed through many editions, a:hd is still in high estimation. 
 Robert Lowth, like the Hebrew Prophet, when his father winged 
 his flight to Heaven, caught his mantle, and a double portion of his 
 spirit rested upon him. IMi'. Lowth ^vas educated at Winchester 
 college, and completed his theological studies at New college, Ox- 
 ford, of which he became fellow in 178 . The native brilliancy 
 of his genius soon displayed itself; and though he applied himself 
 with vigour and unremitted assiduity to his classical pursuits, 
 yet he frequently unbent his mind, and let his imagination rove 
 through the floweiy regions of Poetry. Of these some elegant 
 specimens, indulgently communicated by hin)self, may be seen 
 in the Fifth Volume of "A Select Collection of Miscellany Poems, 
 17'8o ;" which his Lordship also enriched by some biographical 
 anecdotes of iiis friends Dr. llidley and Mr. Spence. But more 
 sublime and nobler objects arrested his attention, by unfolding 
 the treasures of sacred knowledge, by directing tlie attention 
 of mankind to the sacred ])r!gc of inspiration, and exhibiting to 
 them all the varied charms of biblical literature. In 1737, he 
 took the degree of M. A. Mr. Lowth's great literary- talents and 
 his elegant manners ffiiined him the friendship of the Duke of 
 Devonshire, who appointed him tutor to his son, the Marquis of 
 Hartington (the late Duke). With this young nobleman he made 
 the tour of Europe ; and it would be superfluous to add, that hi.s 
 services were such as ever after entitled him to the friendship of 
 the noble iiouse of Cavendish. In 1741, having been elected 
 Professor of Hebrew Poct)y in the liniversity of Oxford, he there 
 delivered those admirable leetm'cs " Do SacrfiPoesi Hebreeorum," 
 or the Sacred Poetr}- of the Hebrews, which has placed him in 
 the highest scale of eminence as a critic. In 1732, he mai'ried 
 Miss Mary Jackson, daughter of Lav/rence Jackson, esq. of 
 Christ-Church, Hantt;. In 1736, he was admitted to his first pre- 
 ferment, the lis iiig of Oveiton, in Hampshire. Dr. Lowth had 
 also gained the esteem of Bp. Iloadly, who became his zealous 
 'patron, and appointed liim to tlie arclideaconiy of Winchester, 
 in the year 1750, In 1754, the University of Oxford gave him 
 his diploma as doctor of divinity. Tl)e Marquis of Hartington 
 being appointed in 1755 viceroy of Ireland, Dr. Lcv.th accom- 
 panied him as his domestic chaplain ; and, the bishoprick of 
 Limerick becoming vacant. Dr. Lowth vvsis appointed to that 
 see. In 1758, he pubhshed his " Live of Wiiliani of Wykeham,'* 
 the Foimder of the Colleges in which he had received his educa- 
 tion. In May 17GG, he was prom.oted to the bishoprick of St, 
 David's > and, in July following, to the see of Oxford; and, in 
 1777j vas translated to that of London. In 1773, he pubhshed 
 his "Translation of Isaiah.' Tiiis elegant and beautiful version 
 of the evangelical prophet, on which learned men in every part 
 of Europe have been mianimous in their eulogiums, is alone 
 ufficient to transmit his name to the latest posterity. Dr, Lowth 
 
 was
 
 17^3-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 421 
 
 " The Kistoiy of Lady Julia Mandeville. By the 
 Translator of Lady Catesby's Letters/' [Mrs. Frances 
 Brooke] ; 2 vols. 12mo. 
 
 wa^ for some tiir.e a prebendary of Durham, and was succeeded 
 in liis stall there by Dr. Warburton ; and it has been said^ that 
 the hrst disgust taken by these gentlemen to each other was oc- 
 ca'^ioned by a disagreement between tl^eir ladies respecting some 
 articles of furniture, on quitting theprebendal house. [His un- 
 plediant controversy with that distinguished Prelate will be else- 
 Vi heie no' iced.] When Archbishop Corn wallis died, the King made 
 an offer of the archiepiscojial see to Di*. Lowth ; but tliis dignity 
 he -'eclined. He was now advanced in life, and v.as tormented by 
 a cruel and {KiinPul disorder, and had recently -xpeiiencpd some 
 severe strokes of domestic calamity. Mary, his eldest daughter, 
 of whom lie was passionately fond, died in 1768, aged 13. On 
 her I'Kiusoleum, the afflicted father placed the following exaui- 
 sitdy-beautiful and pathetic ejntaph on her tomb : 
 
 " Cura, vale, ingenio prajstans, pietate, pudore, 
 Et pluscpaam natae nomine cara, vale ! 
 Cara Maria, vale ! at ^ eniet felicius jevum, 
 
 Quando iterum tecum, sim modo dignus, ero. 
 Cara, redi, laita tum diearn voce, paternoa 
 Eja age in amj)lexus, cara Maria, redi." 
 Which was thus ti anslatcd by Mr. Duncombe : 
 
 " Dearer than daughter, parallel'd by few. 
 In genius, goodness; modesty adieu ! 
 Adi-ju ! Maria till thut day moi'e blest. 
 When, if deserving, I with thee shall rest. 
 Come, then thy sire will cry, with joyful strain, 
 O ! come to my pateinal arras again." 
 His second c'aughter, Frances, died as she was pre-iding at 
 the tea-table, July 17S3 ; she was going to place a cup of coffee 
 on the salver. " 'IVkc this," said siie, " to tiie Uisuoj) of Pris- 
 tol ;" immediately lier cup and her hand foil together upon the 
 salver, and sho instJiutly expired. Amid these scenes of di-^tress 
 the venri-uble liisliop e::hibited *he lovely porti'ait of a Chritian 
 pidlcsopher. Anin..'. c-d by the hopes whieii the religion of Jesus 
 alone int['ires, he viewed, wi'h pious resigntitlon, the King of 
 Terrors snatching his dear and amiable cldldrtn from his fond 
 embrace ! Aiul, when the grim monarch levelled his dart at 
 him, he met tiie stroke with foriitud.e, and lefr thi world in 
 full and c-rtaiu hope of abetter. His dc:'.*h, and tiiat of lug 
 wife and four of his children, are thus recorded on an elegant 
 monument in Fuiluun ehureii-yaid : 
 
 " RoBF.KT LowTH, Lord Bi-<hop of London, 
 
 <lied Xovember the .'id, 17S7, 
 
 in the 77th year oi' his age. 
 
 Maky Low'jii, his wifi', 
 
 daughter and heirc-is of Fawrenee Jacksoa 
 
 of Cluisl-t hurch, HaiUSj escp 
 
 died
 
 42S LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iJ^S* 
 
 Dr. Brown's " Cure of Saul, a sacred Ode ;" and 
 his " Dissertation on the Rise, Union, and Power, 
 the Progressions, Separations, and Corruptions, of 
 Poetry and Music," 4to. 
 
 "Astronomical Tables and Precepts, for calcu- 
 Ij^ting the true Times of New and Full Moons, 
 ahd shewing the Method of projecting Eclipses, 
 from the Creation of the World to A.D. 7800. To 
 which is prefixed a short Theory of the Solar and 
 Lunar Motions. By James Ferguson *." 8vo. 
 
 died March 14, 1803, 
 in the 84th year of her age. 
 
 Thomas-Henry Lowth, 
 
 fellow of New college, Oxford, 
 
 and rector of Thoiley, Herts, 
 
 died June the 7th, 1778, 
 
 in the "^oth year of his age. 
 
 Frances LowTH died July '21, 1783, 
 
 in the 26th year of her age. 
 
 Margaret Lowth died iMarch 10, 1769, 
 
 in the 6th year of her age. 
 Charlotte Lowth died May 29, 1768, 
 in the 3d year of her age." 
 Of Bp. Lowth's literary life, see Gent, ftlag. vol. LXL p. 981, 
 vol. LXIV. p. 20.5, vol. LXV. p. 486. 
 
 * James Ferguson was born in the year I7IO, a few miles 
 from the village of Keith, in Baniflfshire, in the North of Scot- 
 land. At the earliest ag-e his extraordinary genius began to 
 exert itself. He first learned to read by overhearing his father 
 teach his elder brother : and he had made this acquisition before 
 any one suspected it. Between seven and eight yeais old he 
 drew his idea of mechanic powers from an accident, which 
 obliged his father to use a lever in supporting the rooi' of his 
 little cottage. As soon as his age w(juld permit, he went to 
 service, in which he met with hardships, which rendered his 
 constitution feeble through life. He kept sheep for four years ; 
 and next served ^vith a fanner, whose name was James Glashan, 
 whom he commemorates for his kindness and indulgence. Be- 
 fore he went into this service he leaint the practice of marking 
 the position of the stars with a thread and beadj wliich he there 
 was enabled to continue by the goodness of this honest man, 
 who, observing these marks of his ingenuity, procuied him the 
 countenance and assistance of his superiors. Mr. John Gilchrist, 
 minister of Keith, encouraged and assisted his growing genius ; 
 and when his service was ended (for he would not lea\ e it sooner, 
 tliough a substitute was oftered) Thomas Grant, esq. received 
 him for instruction into his family, where his butler, Alexander 
 Cantley (of whose extensive abilities and knowledge an extraor- 
 dinary
 
 17^3-] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 423 
 
 I had occasionally the pleasure of attending the 
 lectures of this excellent Astronomer in company 
 
 dinary account is given by our Philosopher) became his tutor. 
 Of him he learned decimal arithmetick, algebra, and the elements 
 of geometry ; and from the description of the sphere, aided with 
 a map of the earth, made a terrestrial globe ; though he had 
 never seen one before. He then went into two very hard ser- 
 vices, one of them to a miller ; and had nearly perished by ill 
 health and want of assistance, had it not been for the medicines 
 and care of his valuable friend (^antley. When he was still too 
 weak for labour, he made a wooden clock, and afterwards a 
 watch, fi-om the casual sight of one. His ingenuity introduced 
 him to Sir James Danbar, when he learnt to draw ; and began 
 to take portraits, an employment by which he supported himself 
 and family for several yeai's, both in Scotland and England, 
 whilst he was pursuing more serious studies. The Rev. Dr. 
 Keith of Edinburgh encouraged his efforts, and recommended 
 him to the patronage of Lady Jane Douglas, of whose beauty 
 and merit he speaks in tlr^ most affecting language of native 
 siutjilicity, which v.as always his language. He now began to 
 be the oeconomist of a little slock, which the good-will of his 
 friends enabled liim to acquire. He next made some attemi)t3 
 in the medical line; Ijut honestly laid tliem aside soon, not 
 venturing far in an employment to which experimental know- 
 ledge is no less required than genius, an 1 wliere the conse- 
 quences of ernn' are so fatal. In his twenty-uiutii year he mar- 
 ried. And when he was thirty, wifh very scantv data, and 
 hardly any means fiom books or instruments to assist liiai, he 
 invented that excellent machine for shewing the new moons and 
 eclipses, called his Aatronoinical llotula, which acquhed him 
 the friendship of that admirable philosopher and good man, 
 I\Ir. M'Laurin. By sight of an Orrery, though its machinery 
 was concealed, he r.iatle a ToUmian for the motions of the Earth 
 and Moon ; and gave his fii'st Lecture on its use bv the desire of 
 his "great and gji)d fiiend," as he ju-.tly rails liim. In 1/43 he 
 made anothir Oirery, soon after jnirchased by Sir Dudley Rider, 
 o eminent for his professional and general abilitlf^s. After this 
 he came up to London, where he first })ublishe!l some curious 
 astronomical tables and calculations, and afterwards gave pulilic 
 lecttu'cs in experimental philosophy, wh.ivh he repeated (by sub- 
 scription) in most of he princij)al towns in England, with the 
 highc;st marks of general appiobalion. By a letter of recom- 
 meiuiaiion from Sir. Baron Ed.liu of h^dinburgh, he was made 
 acquainted with the Hon. Steplicn Poynt/, ilie friend of Lord 
 Lytte'.ion and of \ irtue, whom he ni'Mitioiis with the wannest 
 gratitude and merited Mueration. A deiiruation of the complex 
 line of th" Moon's motion rectjuiau luK'd him to the notice of 
 the Rt)yai Society, and particulailv (,1' ,Mr. liUicot, who had 
 befon; made a ."-imilnr scheme, and ingenuously acknowle.li;ed 
 Mr. Ferguson's eqiud title to the iaveulion. lie was ckcied a 
 
 fellow
 
 494 LITERARY ANECDOTEa OP [iJ^S. 
 
 tVith Mr. Bowyer ; who not unfrequently consulted 
 him on that subject. 
 
 fellow of the Royal Society without paying for admission, an 
 honoui' scarcely ever conferred upon a native. About 1752 he 
 made his Astronomical Instrument for sliewing the rising and 
 setting of the Sun, Moon, and Stars ; having pubh;shcd his Dis- ' 
 sertation on the Phsenomena of the Harvest Moon al)out five 
 years before (in 1747) and read his first Course of Lectures 
 about the year 1748. He had from various respcctabiv characters 
 encouragement, which his modesty thought more am])le than it 
 appeared to those who could best judge of his merit ; and had a 
 pension of bOl. a year from his present Majesty at his accession, 
 who had heard lectures from him, and frequently sent for and 
 conversed with him on curious topics j and had also given him 
 several presents. Mr. FergTison possessed the clearest judgment, 
 and the most unwearied application to study ; was benevolent, 
 meek and innocent in his manners as a child ; humble, courte- 
 ous, and communicative. Plulosophy seemed to produce in him 
 only diffidence and urbanity, a love for mankind and for his 
 Maker. His whole life was an example of I'esignation and chris- 
 tian piety. In the year 1773, tiie 63d of his age, he published 
 " Select Mechanical Exercises," with an account of his life. 
 His " Introduction to Electricity" had appeared in 1770, his 
 " Introduction to Astronomy" in 177'2. His great work, " As- 
 tronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Principles," had gone 
 through four editions in the year 1770. His "Lectures on se- 
 lect Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydrauhcs, Pneu- 
 matics, and Optics," had deservedly attained to a fifth edition in 
 the year 1776. His last published work was a " Tieati^e on. 
 Perspccti\c," in the year 177^- After a long and useful lifcj 
 unhappy in his family connexions, and in a feeble and precarious 
 state of health, \\ orn out with study, age, and infirmities, he 
 died on the 16th of No\ ember 1776, having strviggled with a 
 constitution naturally infirm longer than could have been rea- 
 sonably expected. His only daughter was lest, in a very singular 
 manner, at about tlie age of eighteen. She was remarkable for 
 the elegance of lier person, the agreeablcness and vivacity of her 
 conversation, and in piulosopliical genius and knowledge worthy 
 of such a father. His son, Mr. Murdoch Ferguson, was a sur- 
 geon, and attempted to settle at Bury, staid but a little while, 
 went to sea, v/as cast away, and lost 1ms all a little before his 
 father's death, but found himjclf in no bad plight after that event. 
 He had another son, v,ho studied at Marischal college, Aberdeen, 
 from 177^ to 1777 5 and afterwards, it is believed, applied to 
 phvsick. Some manuscj-ipt tables, diagrams, and a philosophical 
 corresporider.ee of tiiis self-taught Philosopher, are in the hands of 
 the ingenious- C?pelLoft,esq. j which were given by him toMrs.Loft 
 (then INliss Euiblln) before marriage: tb.an whom be had no pupil 
 whose genius and disposition he more esteemed. I copy the sub- 
 stance of tiiis note from his own narrative ; froni Ids character as 
 
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 17^3.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 425 
 
 A letter from Mr. Bowyer to Mr. Ferguson on the 
 Paschal Full Moons is inserted beloAv *. 
 
 delineated by Dr. Houlston of Liverpool ; and from *' Eudosia, 
 or a Poem on the Universe," by IMr. Loft, who, having paid au 
 elegant compliment to the iaimortal Newton, proceeds, 
 " Nor shall thy g:uid:ince not conduct our feet, 
 O honour d Shepherd of onr later days ! 
 Whom fiom the flocks, while thy iintutor'd soul. 
 Mature i?i childhood, trac'd the starry course. 
 Astronomy, enamour'd, gently led 
 Throue;ii a-I the splens'id Lib)Tinths of Heaven j 
 And taught thee her stu'iendous laws ; and cloth'd 
 In all the light of fair simplicity, 
 Thy apt exprcs,-ion.'* 
 There is a good mezzotinto portrait of Mr. Ferguson, inscribed, 
 " James Ferguson, F. R. S. J(jhn Townshend pinxit. Published 
 Dec. 7,1776. Printed for Robert Steward, Engraver and Mo- 
 deller of Portraits in Wax." His valual)le library of mathema- 
 tical books, manuscripts, and instruments, was sold by auction, 
 by Leigh and Sothehy, Nov. 15 ^3, 1802. 
 
 * " Sir, It was a great entertainment to me to hear you 
 direct your astronomical lecture to the contirmation of history, 
 but especially of so important a part of it, as to fix the exact 
 year of the Po^sion of Jesus (,'hrist. This is a point in which 
 every Christian is interested. All will thank you for the result 
 of your enquiries, though tliev may not have patience to accom- 
 pany you in your progress througli tliem. It may look like ill- 
 nature in me, to endeavour to abate of the ^.atisfaction you took 
 in Iiri'!ing, from vour computation, t'nat in the whole course of 
 tvvt my years, viz.. from A. 1). '/.\ to A. D. 40, there was but one 
 Passover Full Moon 'iiat foil on a Friday ; and tiiat one was in 
 the ;53d year of our Saviour's age, not including the year of his 
 birth (^.-e'.! .Mr. Ferguson's Brief Descri[)tion of ti\e Sjlar System, 
 p. l.')). It mavse'jin unlov/ard in me to lessen this C(jnfirnMtioa 
 of the Sacred History, or abate of your pleasure in discovering' 
 it ; but as some learned writei's 'nave been lately involve 1 in dif- 
 ficulties on thi^ hLad, vvhieli you j)rob.ibly are not aware or, I 
 wiJl lay the-'u before \ou, that you may have a fresh satisfaction 
 in removing thein. I wiil 1' :. I you into the labyrintl), and trust 
 to your a^i.rononiic'd hkill to conduct me out of it. Jo-^ej-.h 
 Scahger, agrc;ii urister in ciii)nolog)', as well as every branch 
 of critical h ;;r;;in:r, niade tho -ame e.)!nj);iiation whiih you have 
 don;:, biii wi'''-. ?. (iitereu.: resirl -. for he found two years in seven 
 produc'd -A [^ ^'-o\(')' 'l:iv ori a l^'jidav, and was in .-,o;>ie d!>abt. 
 TXw aceunite .'dr. !*Ja>:ri, who i.- lately dv-.ul, io;)k up this (exami- 
 nation rr.iin, ruid, bi'.iug a ]o|j;cd Scaliger's cdeiiaticn, foand 
 rca^' !- li;' i hoivc'i' , to i;^a-; the Pa-siou of J( sis L'lirist on 
 
 tile :;i.-t OS t'lo.^- ' e i;- ir. ..iuchtbe Passover fell on a l-'riday, 
 A. 1). 'J7- ::e.cu ye'r , m-jre early tiian that which you and oar 
 prc-ent l/ivirr^f ad'ipt^ of A. D, S6. [' It is very rcmarkai)le, 
 
 and
 
 42^ LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I763. 
 
 In September I763 Mr. Bowyer paid a visit to his 
 friend j\lr. Clarke at Buxted, where change of hquor 
 
 and mucli in favour of this system, that Magnan, \vho probably 
 never heard a syllable of it, concludes from medals alone, that 
 the vulgar rera is sca en years too late. I think he says seven or 
 eight ; but that dej)ends on a small matter, even whether you 
 place the birth in December or January j which, though it makes 
 in reality but a few days dilTerence, yet in dating is a whole 
 year.' T. F.} Another great Chronologer between these two 
 made tables likewise for the same purpose, the celebrated Mr. 
 Dodwell, in his book De Cijclis, which serve but the more to 
 embarrass the subject, his calculations differing from the other 
 two. Mr. Mann should, in justice to his subject, have detected 
 Mr. Dodwell's eirors, if they are such ; but, tiusting wholly to 
 Scallger's computations, he did not hesitate about Dodwell's, 
 because about a year before his death, when I hinted to him the 
 ditference, he said he would examine it ; and I lost, by not 
 waiting on him, as he desired I would, the residt of his exami- 
 nation. Yours, &c. W. B." Mr. Bowyer, after this, collected 
 the several computations of tlie Paschal Full Moons, by Roger 
 Bacon, Joseph Scaliger, Sir Isaac Newton, Mr. Mann, Mr. Fer- 
 guson, and F. Lamy, which are all printed in his " Conjectures 
 on the New Testament, 17S4," 4to. p. 149. 
 
 To the learned Father Boscovich Mi'. Bowyer thus addressed his 
 thoughts on the same subject: " Vir doctissinie, Astronomus nos- 
 tras, cui nomen Ferguson, ut detiniat annum ipsissimum quo 
 Christus passus est, computavit quibus annis plenikmivun paschale 
 in feria sexta hebdomadis inciderit per viginti annonun limites, 
 intra quos omnes consentiunt eum crucifixiun esse. Deprehen- 
 dit verb tale plenilunium accidisse sohmnnodo, A.D. .33. Per. Jul. 
 4746. Facilfe assensum praeberem viro in arte su^ prsestantis- 
 simo, nisi alii viri doctissimi aliud juberent ; prsesertim Nico- 
 laus Mann ex Scaligeri et sua computatione probare velit pleni- 
 lunium fuisse Judere etj;im feria sext^, A. D. 26. Per. Jul. 4739. 
 Martii 22. At si Dodwelli tabvdas I'ect^ intelligo, ne semel qui- 
 dein per decern annos, ab A. D. 26, ad A. D. 3.5, in sexta feria 
 paschale novilunium cecidit ; imb nee in tabulis llogeri Bacon, 
 quamvis in eum finem tabulas composuerit. ' Multi,' inquit, 
 ' in astronomic pcriti laboravcrant hie, ut has opposiliones solis 
 et lunse invenirent, et non potucrunt invenire annum Passionis 
 a XXX ad xxxv, ubi in Martio c?set oppositio in ilie Veneris, 
 nee dies ante ojipositU^isem nee proximus post, ita ut (piod cum 
 passione concoi'derct. Nee ego potui ixvenike adhuc' Per 
 cyclos quosdam credo, Baconem, Scaligenun, et Dodwellum 
 computas-te, Ferguson forsan yar insliimieutum Horarium. 
 Sed undo sit, logo, ut onmes istos computistas ideo inter se 
 distare, ut ex tabula istil ex illis omnibus confecta videre licet." 
 This table is printed in the " Conjcctuics," &.c. as already men- 
 tioned abo\e. Father Boscovich was the learned Jesuit, whose 
 elegant Latin poem iias been mentioned in p. 333 ; the printing 
 
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 17^3-1 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 427 
 
 occasioned a slight disorder, of which both Mr. Clarke 
 and Mr. Markland take notice in their letters *. 
 
 of which was undertaken^ at the solicitation of Di; jMorton, 
 by Mr. Dodsley. But Dr. Morton, ap])rehencling perliaps that 
 Mr. DodsTey might run too great a risk in printiiig it on his 
 own single account, applied to Mr. Hollis to prevail with Mr. 
 Millar to take a part with Mr. Dodsley in the publication. 
 To this Mr. Millar agreed ; and thus tiiis poem, " which," 
 says Mr. Hollis, " hc^.vever important in itself to all lovers of 
 astronomy, or honourable on many accounts for the British 
 nation, was in danger otherwise of being suppressed by dis- 
 gust, or of being printed abroad," was given to the publick by 
 the means of an Engllsii press. Since tliis transaction. Father 
 Boscovich's abilities iiave Ijeen better known to the world, which 
 has done justice to his nieiit on several occa-.ions. See " Mcmoii-s 
 of Mr. Hollis," p. 98. Father Bo^covich was afterwards Profes- 
 sor of Astronomy at Milan. 
 
 * " I am soi'iy that you have not been so well .since you left 
 Sussex. Believe me, it v, i- not tiie air, but tlie beer, that dis- 
 agreed with you'. We could do very vvell vvith you in the coun- 
 try, air and exercise would certainly be a.i advantage to you, if 
 we could furni-h vou with pro|;ci' liquoi'. 1 doubt the incon- 
 veniences of ijusiness may contribute something, and occasion 
 part of tlie attrition that so sensibly atleets your inside. But 
 the.se are maladies vou will never get rid of. Aider non Jit, 
 Av'ite, liber." Mr. Chirke to Mr. Bowijer, dated Nui:.2, IJGii. 
 *' What befell you at Buxted is a common case, owing to a great 
 relaxation of the fashionable nervous sy.-tem. The late Duke of 
 Marlborough (Cuurchill) liad it to a gieat degree, iusojnuch 
 that the hero ofun crK-d like a child. 
 
 [' From Marlb(jrough's eyes the tears of dotage flow.' 
 
 Dr. Johnsons luidtij of IIuhuul UlsJies. 
 ' See him oppressed. 
 Bathed in unmeaning, unrepenting tears.' Pote.] 
 
 I suppo.'se this was the ease of Heraclitus too ; who, it is said, 
 always wept when he went out oi' lioors. They give it a philo- 
 sophical turn, and say, that ^le wejit at the follies of mankind. 
 But tlien I do not see wl'.v he .-.iioi.'d not have wept within doors 
 as well as wiiliuut. JM\;>nal's remark on it is droll enough, 
 " Mirnndinn est, unde ille nctills srrr'con'it humor." I often wish, 
 however, tliat we had a colleciion of I'u! fragments of this .cry- 
 ing Piiilosopiier ; for from what f have seen of his, he -eems to 
 have been a .-itrange, ser-ib'e, out-of-lhe-way man, and very 
 much superior to hi.5 fjrethi'en the ani!''nt Piiilo-o|)!ier.s. The 
 weather, I fancy, vv'ill soon break, ;is 1 Ju Igc from the barome- 
 tei': ."O that I do no', much ".;jeet to .^le ;,ou, und will (o!ni)ouud 
 willi \o',i if y(;u will sen.l \v\ tlie two cm udutions on tlie Sap- 
 plices iind that on ('iemiii- .\!c\;ui('i iou-;. Vou need oidy (o 
 meiition wbat Mr. Toup read-, wiiiiO'U t;iving yourself liie 
 trouble (;r sending the M a- on-^ or iirooTs. He has a co lieeture 
 on Iphii;euia in Aulide, wlilcli i.^ conlirmed by two vejv y:; )d 
 
 ' Mss.
 
 488 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^3. 
 
 In a letter to Mr. Pegge, March 10, I763, Mr. 
 Bowyer says, " I have desired Bathurst to send you 
 *The Causes of Declension of the Roman Empire;* 
 to which (in I739) I wrote a Prefoce, which may 
 serve for any book, and was at first only designed 
 to lengthen this. But I had no concern in the 
 translation, and no property in the book. How- 
 ever, if you see any mistakes in the Preface, I shall 
 be glad to be informed of them for truth's sake. 
 Nay, you shall see, I will provoke you to it." (He 
 then proceeds to animadvert on a MS note of Mr. 
 Pegge's.) 
 
 17^4. 
 
 In this year Mr. Bowyer printed, 
 
 *' Lectures on Natural and Revealed Relicrion, read 
 in the Chapel of St: John's College, Cambridge, by 
 James Tunstall, D. D. sometime Chaplain to Dr. 
 Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Vicar of 
 Rochdale in Lancashire, 4to. Published by Sub- 
 scription, for the Benefit of the Author's Family." 
 
 *' Some Specimens of the Poetry of the antient 
 Welsh Bards, translated into English; with explana- 
 tory Notes on the historical Passages, and a short 
 Account of the Men and Places mentioned by the 
 Bards ; in order to give the Curious some Idea of 
 the Taste and Sentiments of our Ancestors, and their 
 Manner of Writing, by the Rev. Mr. Evan Evans, 
 Curate of Llanvair 1 alyhaern in Denbighshire," 4to. 
 
 Mr. Costard * on the Fail of the Stone in j3^gos- 
 potamos, 4to. 
 
 MSS. and Is iTiOst ccrtaln.Iy wrong; and yet, were I to ])ublish 
 that pliiy, I v.ould publish it as he has conjectured, though I 
 know it to be false; but it has the authority of I\1SS. and it is 
 Greek, ^'.hich (he vulgar reading is not. He finds fi\ult with 
 Mr. Pierson, who I believe is right, and who knew what he was 
 about; and yet Mr/i oup's conjecture, which was obvious enough, 
 and 1 do not doubt was seen by Mr. Pierson, could not be true, 
 had it been confh'u.ed by twenty MSS. But Mr. Tou]) lias not 
 gone far enough in the old Tragedians to know that ; Mr. Pier- 
 son had. J. Marklakd." 
 
 * George Costard, whose Oriental and Astronomical Learning 
 is too well Unown to need au encomium^ wai born about 17 10; 
 
 and
 
 17^4.] THE EIGHTEENTH CSNTURY. 49 
 
 " The Ruins of Netley Abbey," a Poem, by 
 Mr. Keate, 4to. 
 
 and in or before 1726 was entered of Wadham college, Oxford j 
 where he took the degree of M. A. June 28, 1733, and became a 
 fellow of that Society, and tutor there. In several of his books 
 Mr. Costard has written his name and college, of this date ; and 
 in some of them, " ex dono M. Freke nepoti suo Geo. Costard, 
 Wadh. Coll. 1726," The fellows of Wadham hold their fellowships 
 for a limited number of years. His first ecclesiastical preferment 
 was the cunicy of Islip in Oxfordshire. He published, 1 . " Critical 
 Observations on some Psalms, 1733," 8vo. [Query, if not under 
 the following title, " A Sj)ecimen of a new Translation of the 
 Book of Psalms ; with Critical Obsei-vations upon several obscure 
 Passages in it. By a Gent, of Wadham College, Oxf. Lond. 
 1733." 4to, pp.32.] 2. "A Critical Dissertation concerning the 
 Words Aamty and At/xoo, occasioned by Two late Enquiries 
 into the Meaning of Dtemoniacks in the New Testament. In a 
 Letter to a Friend. By a Gentleman of Wadham College, Ox- 
 ford. Lond. 1738." 8vo. 3. " A Letter to Martin Folkcs, esq. 
 President of the Royal Society, concerning the Rise and Pro- 
 gress of Astronomy among the Antients," 1746, 8vo. His name 
 is signed at the conclusion of this learned and ingenious Letter, 
 though not inserted in the title-page. 4. " Some Observations 
 tending to illustrate the Book of Job, and in particular the 
 Words, / know that my Redeemer liveth, &c. Job xix. 25, 1747," 
 8vo. " The composition under coj^isideration," says Mr. Costard, 
 " is an e.xalted and regular piece of Eastern poetry, and of the 
 dramatic kind. The persons s;;caking are, Eiiphaz, Eildad, and 
 Zophar; who regularly take" their turns va the debate, wiiich is 
 upon a questitm no less important than how ' to vindicate the 
 ways of God to men.' What methods are pursued by them, in 
 order to do ths, does not at present foil under my desip;n to ob- 
 serve. 'Tis ap])arent, however, that their several answers to 
 Job's pleas may be looked (m as three di::>tir.ct acts. The.^e re- 
 plications and rejoinders continue to tlie 32d ciiapter, v/here 
 Elihu begins the share he takes in the conference. This lirlngs 
 U3 to the 38th chapter, which concludes the fourth act, when 
 the Deity ai)pears, and closeth the schuc in the fifth. I will not 
 say, that this is the first Traj^edy tliat v.-c know of as extan.t in 
 the world, or that any Easton productions of this nature laid 
 the foundation of the Greek Suii?:e. It may not be improj)er to 
 ob.serve, however, that two rules laid down by a very great 
 Master of the Art of I'oelry are exactly nniiitaincd. It is not, 
 aa was said, 
 
 " quinto produclior acta; 
 nor is God introduced, 'till it Ijccomes 
 
 " dignub vindice nodus. 
 The narration at the beginning and end may be looked on as 
 the Prologue and Epilogue; and the unrt a:-signed Jou's wife 
 seems intended for a sliort and rcli(u.d satire on thuse tliat, 
 
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 430 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [I764. 
 
 *'^ An Account of the First Settlement of the 
 Ces^\(re.'f, a People of South America," [by Mr. 
 
 James Burgh], 8vo. 
 
 without proper accomplishments or abilities, impertinently in- 
 terpose their judgments in subjects of the highest importance, 
 and which it is impossible they should luiderstand f . But, if this 
 is a proper representation of the case, will it not be a farther 
 proof of the lateness of the composition ? Poetry, no doubt, 
 such as il was, must ha\e been of very antient original. But 
 then it seems to have been confined for a long time to songs, 
 short hymns, panegyricks, and the like ; rather taught and 
 treasured up in the memory, like those of the Druids, than 
 coiuniiited to writing. Regular poems must have been owing 
 to leisure, education, and the establishment of schools and aca- 
 demies. There men pf letters, and lovers of retirement, might 
 without interruption give scope to their fancy, and cultivate 
 its suggestions into an orderly well-digested system. 'Twas 
 then, and not before, that abstiuse metaphysical subjects began 
 to employ men's thoughts, and which were by every one treated 
 according to his different inclination and abilities." 
 
 Annexed to these Observations is " The Third Chapter of 
 Habukkuk, paraphrastically translated into English Verse," by 
 Mr. Costard, some years before, for his own amusement. 5. "A 
 Farther Account of the Rise and Progress of .\stronomy amongst 
 the Antients j, in I'hree Letters to Martin Folkes, Esq. Pi'esi- 
 dent of the Royal Society. By the Author of the First, 1748," 
 8vo. The immediate subjects of these Letters were, the Chal- 
 daean Astronomy, the Constellations in the Book of Job, and 
 the Mythological Astronomy of the Antients. 6. *' Two Disser- 
 tations : L containing an Enquiry into the Meaning of the 
 W^ord Kes it ah, mentioned in Job, chap.xbi.ver.il. In which 
 is endeavoured to be proved, that though it most probably there 
 stands for the Name of a Coin, yet that there is no reason for 
 sup})osing it stamped with any Figure at all, and therefore 
 not with that of a Lamb in particular, II. On the Signification 
 of the Word Hermes ; in which is explained the Origin of the 
 Custom, among the Greeks, of erecting Stones called Henna; ; 
 together with some other Particulars, relating to the Mytliology 
 of that People, l/yO," 8vo. These Dissertations were inscribed 
 to his friend Professor Hunt. In the conclusion of them, Mr. 
 Costard observes, " The study of the Oriental languages seems 
 to be gt'ining ground in Europe everyday; and, provided the 
 Greek and Liitin are equally cultivated, we may arrive in a few 
 years at a greater knowledge of the antient world than may be 
 
 f- " The next person in, the drama is Job's wife. She acts a short part 
 indeed, but a very spirited one. Curse Cod, savs she, and die. Tender 
 and pious ! Ho might see by tliis specimen of his wife what he was to 
 expect from his friends. The Devil, we are told, tempted Job, but he 
 seems to have taken possession of his wife," &c. Bishop TVarbiirto7i . 
 
 X On this most curious subject, see Messrs. 'jentil, Bailly, &c. T. F.
 
 1764.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 43 1 
 
 " An Essay on Painting, written in Italian, by 
 Count Algarotti, F. R S. F. S. A." 12mo. 
 
 expected, or can be imagined. But, without this foundation, I 
 may venture to pronounce, from the little experience I have 
 had, that all will be darkness and perplexity. It is beginning 
 at the wrong end, which can never be attended with success in 
 any thing. It may not, perhaps, be improper to add, before I 
 have done, that for such researches a.s these I have here been 
 speaking of, few places, if any, in Europe, are so well 
 adapted as the University of Oxford." [Tliese Dissertations 
 
 were attacked by in " Marginal Observations 
 
 thereon, 1750," 8vo.] 7. " Dissertationes II. Critico-Sacrae ; 
 quarum prima explicatur Ezek. xiii. 18 ; altera verb 2 Reg. x. 
 22. 1753," bvo, [The latter of these was re-jiublished under the 
 title of " A Dissertation on 2 Kings x. 22, translated from the 
 
 Latin of Rabbi C d, with a Dedication, Preface, and 
 
 Postscript, Critical and Explanatory, by the Translator, 8vo, 
 1752." In the Preface and Dedication, Mr. Costard is attempted 
 to be placed in a ver\ ludicrous hght.] 8. His " Letter to Dr, 
 Shaw, on the Chinese Chronology a)Ki Astronomy", is printed in 
 Phil. Trans. No. 483, p. 477. 9. "A Letter on'a Fiery Meteor, 
 seen July 14, 1745," ib. No. 477:. p. 522 (observed by 'aim near 
 Stanlake Broad, in returning from his living). 10. "Letter to 
 Dr. Bevis, concerning the Year of the Eclipse foretold by Thale';,'? 
 Phil. Trans, vol. XLVIII. p. 17. H. '' Letter on an Eclipse men- 
 tioned by Xenophon." Ib. p. 155. 12. "A Letter on the Ages of 
 Homer and Hesiod." Ib. p. 441. At the end of article 7. was 
 announced what appeared in 17C5, in 4to, under the title of 
 (13.) "The Use of Astronomy in History and Chronologv, e.t- 
 emplified in an Enquiry into the Fall of the Stone into ^'Lgospo- 
 tamos, said to be foretold by Anaxiigoras. In whicli is at- 
 tempted to be shewn, that Anaxagora-i did not foretell the Fall 
 of that Stone, but the solar Eclipse in the first Year of the Pelo- 
 ponnesian War ; that what he saw was a Comet at the Fime of 
 the B.ittle of Salamis y and that this buttle was probably fouglft 
 the year before Christ 478 ; or two Years later than is commonly 
 fixed by Chronologers." 14. " Tlie History of Astronomv, with 
 its Application to Geography, History, and Chronology, occasi- 
 onally exemplified by the Glcjbes, 1767," 4to. 15. "Astronomi- 
 cal and Pliilological Conjectures on a Passage in Homei-, 17<38," 
 4to. 16. " A Letter to Nathaniel Brassey Halhed J, esfj. con- 
 taining some Remarks on his Preface to the Code of (Jcntoo 
 Laws lately published, 1778," Svoj [a letter evidently dictated, 
 not by the " spirit of criticism," but by the love of truth, and for 
 
 * "To this gentlc-mrm tlie ptiblick is ipdelited for "A Gr.immar of the 
 Bengal Laiiguas^e, ])riiitcd at Hoof^ly in liciig'al, 177^," 'Jvo; which is a 
 remarkable curiosity in typo^rapliy; tlic JJenfjal types used in it having' 
 been inf oni])arably well cut by Mr. Wilkiiis, at that time in the East 
 India Comjiany's civil service at that settlement, and now the Librarian 
 and Keeper of the Consjjany's Museum at the East-India House in 
 LrfiadeiihaU-stfeet. 
 
 which
 
 432 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7<54. 
 
 Two editions of " Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign 
 Travel*;: [by Mr. Hurd,"] 8vo. 
 
 "A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Thomas Leland-^, Fel- 
 low of Trinity College, Dublin. In which his late 
 
 which Mr. Costard deserved the thanks of every friend to Reve- 
 lation.] An Essay, by Mr. Costard, on the " Sphaera Barharica" 
 is in the Britisln Museum. In June, 1764, he obtained the 
 \icai-age of Twickenham in Middlesex, by the favour of Lord 
 Chancellor Northington : Bishop Terrick, wlio held it in com' 
 mendain with the see of Peterborough, having vacated it by his 
 translation to that of London. He died Jan. 10, 1782. His li- 
 brary, Oriental MSS. and philosophical instruments, were sold 
 by auction by Mr. Paterson March 19 21. 
 
 * " Sinte Sunday last, I have been able to think of nothing 
 with satisfaction. I shall now return, with some composure, to 
 my books, and the finishing my two Dialogues on lYavelling, 
 oi", as they almost pretend to be called, on Education. I have 
 taken the gieatei- pleasure in composing them, from the fancy 
 that they may one day be of some xise to my friend Ralph. And 
 to this end I confess I have the ambition to have these papers 
 pass through the hands of Mrs. Warburton } and, if I may pre- 
 sume so far, to make a convert of her to my ])arty : for at f)re- 
 sent I should not think it sti'ange if she inclined to think favour- 
 ably of so prevailing a practice." 
 
 Mr. Hurd to Bp. Warburton, Feb. 10, 1763, 
 
 f "A letter to Dr. Lelttnd, of Dul>lin, in defence (jf me, which 
 has just fallen into my hands, is so sulmirable, that I think I 
 certainly know the hand, and that it could be nobody's but ) ours. 
 I do not judge of the author by his style, though I think that 
 detects him, but because nobody else could write so ; or if they 
 could, that nobody else was so well disposed to do me justice 
 and honour. This then nmst be one of your tricks to serve your 
 friend, clandestinely and by stealth ; but you see I have detected 
 you. But I will say no more till you confess and plead guilty." 
 Bp. Warburton to Mr. Hurd, Oct. 15, 1764. "You are a pleasant 
 fellow; but don't fancy you have escaped nie. You will think it 
 odd, but I will assure you, that on the first reading of the 
 Pamphlet I was as demonetrativtly certain of the Author, as if I 
 had stood behind him, and seen his trenchaiit quill move despe- 
 rately along contrary to all the rales of good penmanship. I 
 knew the hand that defended elovon-tongucs, had no cloven- 
 foot, though he supposed he walked invisibly." Ibid. Oct. IS, 
 1764. " I will not tell you how much you have obliged me in 
 this correction of Lcland. You never wrote any thing in your 
 life in which your critical acumen and elegant manner more 
 shone. About a fortnight or thiee weeks ago, our fi-iend 
 Colonel Harvey called on us for a few days in his way to Ireland, 
 whither he is going to take possession of a regiment of horse, 
 which the King has given him instead of his dragoons. I put 
 the Famjfhlet into his hands, only telling him that I was not in 
 
 the
 
 1 764.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 433 
 
 Dissertation on the Principles of human Eloquence 
 is criticized; and the Bishop of Gloucester's Idea of 
 the Nature and Character of an inspired Language, 
 as dehvered in his Lordship's Doctrine of Grace, is 
 vindicated from all the Objections of the learned 
 Author of the Dissertation." [By Mr. Hurd], 8vo. 
 
 " Mr. Shenstone's * Essays on Men, Manners, 
 and Things," being the first volume of his Works, 
 8vo. 
 
 " Observations on the Four Gospels ; tending 
 chiefly, to ascertain the Times of their Publication ; 
 and to illustrate the Form and Manner of their 
 Composition. By the Rev. Dr. Henry Owen-j-, Rec- 
 tor of St. Olave in Hart-street, and F. R. S." 8vo. 
 
 the secret of its writing; but that, whoever was the author, he 
 would see it was one of the finest pens in England. I desired 
 him to get it re-printed in Dul)lin, which he said he would do 
 with the gi'eatest satisfaction and pleasure. This I think but a 
 proper return for Leland's favour in London." Ibid. Nov. 8, 1764. 
 
 * Of Mr. Shenstone, besides tlie Life by Dr. Johnson, a good 
 account has been given, from authentic information, in Dr. 
 Nash's "History of Worcestershire," vol. L pp. 531 534. 
 
 f The Rev. Ilenry Owen, M.D. F. R. S. was the son of a gent 
 tlenian of good estate, whose house was situated at the foot 
 of Mount Caddar-eddris, near Dolgelley, in Merionethshire, 
 where his sou Heniy was born in I7I6'. He was brought \ip at 
 Rutiiin -school, in Denbighshire ; and was entered of Jesus college, 
 Oxfoid, at the age of 19; where he proceeded M. A. 1743; 
 He was ordained deacon and priest in 1746', at the usual age; 
 but took the degree of bachelor in Physic ; which he practised 
 for about three years, whilst he held a curacy in Gloucester- 
 shire; but neither his feelings nor liis health would suffer him 
 to continue the profession. After ofhciating some time as curate 
 to ]\]r. Thoresby at Stoke Newingion, he became chaplain t(j 
 Sir .Matthew Featherstonhaugh, bv v\honi he was presented, in 
 175'2, to the vicarage of Terling in Essex. In 1753 he com- 
 pleted his degree of doctor in Piiysic ; but gave himself wholly 
 up to the study of Divinity ; anr! they wiio have searched the 
 deepest into the tioith of Revela'ion will be the best .judges 
 of the e.x.tent of his knowlclge. He resigned Terling iu 
 IJCtO, upon obtaining the rectory of St Olave, Hart-street j 
 to which he was presented by Thomas Dinrley, esq. and others, 
 trustees of f^ir Andrew llickard. So.tn afier which period he 
 bicime chaplain to the Hon. and l-.ev. j)r. Shiite Uarrinsc'ou 
 (then I'ishop of Landaff, and nr;w Bishop of Durham) iVoui 
 W'luJin he recirived, in 1775, tlio \i'.'ara;.'e of Fdmonton, ti'ien 
 in liis gift as one of the CiUions-r<'side;t..ary of St. P-iul's. Sept. 3, 
 
 \'oL. H. V X- 17 -JO,
 
 454 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l/^^^. 
 
 " Th''" Song of Solomon, newly translated from 
 
 the on;i!iKil i lebrew.. with a Conimeiiiary and 
 Aunoiationfj" [by Dr/Iliomas Percy], small 8vo, 
 
 1760, he married PJary ibe nongh'er of Dr. Butts (first bishop 
 of Nonvich, ami atier^-- ards of Eiy) ; who ;mrvivc(i him. l)r Owen 
 died Oct. 14, 179>^. i" the bOlh year of his age ; leaving one son, 
 Henry- ButtsOwen, to whom hehadresigneuthelivingof St.OIave's 
 in April 1794, and five daughters. 
 
 His principal publications were, " Harmonia Tiigononiotrica; 
 or, a. ^hort Treatise on Trigononietiy, 17-iS," 8%o; "Observations 
 on Scripture Miracles, 1/55," Svoj and " Observations on the 
 Four Gospels, 1764," 8vo j " Direction'? to young Students hi 
 Divinity, 1*60, ' 8vo; "An Enquiry into the Septuagint Version, 
 1769," 8vo; " The Intent and Proj)riety of the Scripture Miracles 
 considered and explained, in a Stories of .Sermons preached in the 
 Parish Church of St. iNIary-le-Bow, IJGi), 1770, 1771, 177'2, at 
 the Boyle's Lectures, 'iJ vols. 1773," 8vo; an accurate edition 
 of (irabe's Collation of the celebrated Cottonian MS. of Genesis 
 (since buint) with the^'atican, 1778, 8vo. [Magnus Crusius had, 
 among other collations, a copy of the Collation of the Cotton 
 MS. with the Alexandrian by Grabe, for which Dr. Owen applied, 
 by Sir John Pringle, to Miehaelis ; who answered, that Magnus 
 Crusius's on, minister of Barue, near Diepholt, had them, and 
 others, which he wished to sell, but asked no prit(\ Miehaelis 
 wanted the Doctor to otter 3 but retained tin; letter about him, 
 probably becav.~e Keimicot, having worked his two collations 
 of the same Hebrew !\1S. dift'ering from each other, he had tak(-a 
 otlence at the Eriglish. He applied to Sir .lohn J'ringle for 
 Home on the Croup, a disoi'uer much in Germany, of which his 
 daughter had died, through the acknowledged ignorance of her 
 physician Schrader ; but Home's book and the subject were 
 known to tiiem Iw the Engii:-hMaiiazines. K. G.'] "Ci'iticaSacra ; 
 or, a short Introduction to Hebrew^ Criticism, 1774," 8vo ; a 
 .Supplement to it, in answer to sonie Remarks on it by Mr. Raphael 
 Bmiih, a Ifarutxi Jew ; " E^say on Scriptiu'e Miracles, 177^;" 
 ' A brief .Account, historical and critical, of the Septuagint 
 Version of the Old Testament ; to w iiich is added, A Dissertation 
 on the comjjarative lixcellcnev of the Hebrew and Samaritan 
 F<_'ntateuch, 1787/ Svo. In 1785 he publi.-hed the octavo ((li- 
 tion of Xeno])hon's "Memorabilia," left laifiiiisiied by Dr. Edw ird 
 ICdwanls, of .le^us college, Oxford, who h;ul only lived to print 
 the text and version. His ia-t ])ublication, "The AhMios of Quo- 
 tation u^ed by the Evangelical V\ riters explained and vindicated, 
 1789," 4to, was honoured with a list of .^ub.scrilxrs .so numerous 
 and so respectable, as to shenv fully the sense entertained of Dr. 
 Owen's nierit by the most eminent literary ehaiaelers of the age. 
 .'V simitar mark of respect was posthumously paid to his memor\, 
 bv a still more ample subscjuption to a volume of his v'^ermoiii 
 for the beui'lit of his dau^'hter-s ; which produced a ilwu.<a7ul 
 v^'Uiids for one octavo volume. Lesser pieces bv Dr. Owen arc. 
 
 "ACui
 
 1764.] 
 
 THE ElGKTEENTFI CEN'TURV. 431 
 
 " De Dysenteria Commentarius ; Authore Marco 
 Akenside *, Coll. Med. Londin. Socio, R S. S. et 
 Matrnae Britannise Keo-inae Medico." 8vo. 
 
 " A Collation of the Account of tlie Dedication of the Temple" 
 (in the "Origin of Printing, 177^>/' P- 113); " Remarks on the 
 Time employed on Ctesar's two Exj)ediiions into Britain" (Arch- 
 seologia, vol. II. p. 159). He published the second edition of 
 Rowland's "Mona Antiqua/' l/GG, corrected in language and 
 matter, with the addition of notes by the late ingenious I^wis 
 Morris. Most of these works were printed by Mr. Bowyer, 
 or his successor. Mr. Bowyer's connexion with Dr. Owen is pro- 
 perly acknowledged in the learned Printers Will, by the legacy 
 of 100/. and such of his Hebrew books and critical Books on 
 the Aew Testament, as he pleased to take. As an instance 
 of grateful return, the Editor of the "Conjectures on the 
 New Testament, 1784, ' assures us, " that he should not have 
 presumed to venture on a task of so much importance as 
 well as difficulty, if he had not been encouragei! throughout 
 by the unremitted labour and friendship of Dr. Owen, whose 
 regard for the memorj' of Mr. Bowyer, and distinguished zeal 
 for the interests of Sacred Literature, prompted him not only 
 to enrich the volume with a considerable number of new notes, 
 but also kindly and attentively to superintend the correction of 
 the whole. [Of this valuable Work a copy which remained in 
 the Doctor's library, pre[)arcd for a new edition, has been pre- 
 sented by Bp. Barringl(m to Mr. Nichols, who is now engaged in 
 printing a new edition of the ''Conjectures;" and who, in 1783, 
 insciibcd to Dr. Owen an excellent quarto edition of IMr. Bowyer's 
 Greek Testament " ips'uis auxilio conci)uiKtam."'\ Dr. Owen had, 
 through his long and useful life, no other preferment than the 
 \ icanige of Edmonton, and the living of St. Olave's ; but he had 
 a truly great and pious frame of mind. In biblical eiudition he 
 W!is at h;a.-t equal, j)erhaps superior^ to mos"t of his contempor- 
 arit's; and his worth, talents, and piety, will transmit his name 
 to the latest posterity. 
 
 * To the Life of Dr. Akenside which has appeared in the first 
 volume of the ' Biograjhia," and the additions preli\ed to the 
 -econd, I shall add, fiom Dr. Johnson, that the Discourse on 
 the Dv-<entery *' was considered a'? a very conspicuous specimen 
 of Latinitv, which entitled liiin to the same heiij;lit of ])lace 
 among tlie Scholars, as he possessed l)efore among tlie VA'its.' 
 The following circumstances, which are extracted fi(jm Brandij 
 " Ob^^er^atioas on Po|)ular Aiuiqniiies, 1777,' B\(), p. ll;3, are 
 omitled by Dr. Kippis. ' l)r. Akenside wa-^ boin at \ewca'-tle- 
 upon-Ty)ie, and received the first prin<iplcs of his education at 
 the very respectable grammar-sehool there ; hi.-^ father a repmablo 
 butcher of tlie town. A halt in his gait, occasioned when a 
 boy, by the fdling of a cleavei' from his father's stall, mu'-t have 
 been a perjietudl remembrancer of his iunnble origin. 1 men- 
 tion this, because, from the biographical account of Unaprefi.xed 
 
 V V 'i to
 
 43 S LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^4 
 
 Mr. Moses Browne's * Sunday Thoughts, second 
 edition, 12 mo. 
 
 " The Case between Gerizim and Ebal fairly 
 stated. By Richard Parryf-, D. D. rector of Wich- 
 ampton, and Preacher at Market Harborough," 8vo. 
 
 ia the posthumous edition of his works (an outline with which 
 he raubt have fm'nished his friends), one is inclined to believe 
 that he was ashamed of his birth. We regret, on perusing it, 
 the omission of those pleasing and interesting little anecdotes 
 usually given of the first indications of genius. His townsmen 
 have many other reasons that lead to the confirmation of this 
 suspicion. Taking this for granted, it was a great and unpar- 
 donable foible iti one of so exalted an understanding. False 
 shame was perhaps never more strongly exemplified. The 
 learned world" (I continue to use I\Ir. Brand's words) " will 
 Ibi'give me for attempting in this note to defeat his very nan'ow 
 purpose (for I can call it by no softer name), the wishing to 
 eonceal from posterity a circumstance that would by no means 
 have lessened his fame with them. I flatter myself it is compa- 
 tible with the respect we owe to the dead, and even to the me- 
 mory of him, who on other accounts deserved so highly of his 
 countiy." 
 
 * Author of "Poems on several ocoas-ions, with Piscatory Ec- 
 logues, 1739," 8vo. Moses Browne in 1/50 published his first 
 Edition (being the sixth of the Author) of Isaac Walton's Angler, 
 in 12mo, with cuts 3 and in 1759-00, his second Edition of the 
 saiue book, which he majks in his title-page the seventh of the 
 Author^ with several additional plates. It was this Edition, 
 which was published about tlie same time with Sir John Hawkins":* 
 fiYst, that occasioned the dispute between him and Browne. 
 This is worth noticing, as Browne'.^ first Edition has been but 
 Tittle attended to, though both Editions bear a comparatively 
 high price when they do occur. See Sir John Hav.kins's account 
 &i him, in vol. V. p. 51. 
 
 f Riclia>ci Pairy, born in Bury-street, St. James's, in 1722,- 
 was admitted a scholar at Wcstmiiister in 1736 ; whence, in 
 1740, i;e was elected a student of Christ Chui-ch, Oxford ; v. here 
 he took the degree of SLA. March 31, 1747; B. D. May 25. 
 1754 ; and 1). J). Jvdy 8, 17'57. lie took his Doctor's degree at 
 Cambridge. He was ap])ointcd cliaplain to L(>rd Vere, June 7,> 
 I7 5()j preacher at Market Harborough, it) Leicestershire, in 
 17.";4; and in 175() was presented, by Ricliard Fleming, esq. to 
 the rectory of Wichampton, ia Dorsetshire. He married, De- 
 cember 31, 1757, Mary-Aiine, eldest daughter of Admh'al Gas- 
 t:oigiie, by whom he had nine children, of whom fi\e sons and 
 two daiigliters suivived liim. (VA'illiam Gasco'gne, esq. brother 
 to Mvs.Pariy, v.as })atron of Wichampton in I7SO.) He was for 
 several years in the commission of the peace for the county of 
 Leicester > and wu.s much esteemed both as an able and active 
 
 inagi-
 
 17^4.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 437 
 
 ' Sermons on various Subjects. By John Brown, 
 D. D. Vicar of Newcastle," 8vo. 
 
 The second edition of Hudibras, by Dr. Z. Grey. 
 
 magistrate, and as a learned Divine. Ke died at Market Har- 
 
 borough, Aprils, 1780, aged 58 j and was buried at St. RIary in 
 
 j\i'den (the motlier churcli to Harborough), with this epitaph: 
 
 " Here are inteiTcd the remains of 
 
 the Reverend Richard Parry, D. D. 
 
 rector of Wichanipton m Dorsetshire, 
 
 and (for hventij-six years) minister of this parish. 
 
 He died April 9, 1780, in the 58th year of his age. 
 In c(lo qides." 
 His publications were, 1 . " The Christian Sabbath as old as the 
 trealion. 17.53," 4to. 'i. " The Scripture Account of the Lord's 
 Supper. The Substance of Three Sermon? preached at Market 
 Harboiough, 1755," 8vo. 3. " The Fig Tree dried uj); or the 
 Story of that remarkable Transaction, as it is related by Mark, 
 considered in a new Light, explained and vindicated. In a Let- 
 ter to 1758," 4to. 4. " A Defence of the Lord 
 
 I3ishop of London's [Sherlock] Interpretation of the fiimous 
 Text in the Book of Job, ' 1 know that my Redeemer liveth,* 
 and against the Exceptions of the Bishop of Gloucester [War- 
 burton], and the Examiner of the Bislxjp of London's Prin- 
 ciples ; with occasional Remarks on the Argument of the Divine 
 Legation, so far as this Point is concerned with it, 17G0," 8vo. 
 5. " Dissertation on Daniel's Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks, 
 172," 8vo. " This Dissertation," the Author tells us, "was 
 published with a view (;f its being serviceable to the Jew, the 
 Deist, and Christian. The foiiner acknowledg-es tlie authority 
 of the Scriptures which foretell the Messiah ; the latter confesses 
 also the accomplishment of tho->e Scriptures in the person of 
 Jesus ; the other believes neither. To^ each of these Daniel's 
 prediction of the Weeks, if rationidly explained, and impartially 
 attended to, may perhaps be of use. The Jew may fiom thence 
 be con\inced that Jesus, notwithstajiding his suffnings, was the 
 Messiah ; the Christian will be coulirmed in this fiuth ; and the 
 Deist, if open to conviction, may be led to acknowledge that 
 the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." 6. " Rcmurks 
 on Dr. Kennicott's Letters, tkc. 176'3,' 8vo. 7. "An A|)peal to 
 Reason, concerning a Proiecutioii in the Archdeacon's. ( ourt at 
 I.,eieester, 170'4," 8vo. This little Pamphlet related to a di.sjmte 
 between two of his parishioners, in 17^0, concerning a |(ew in 
 Harborough chapel. 8. " The Case l)etween Gerizim and Ebal, 
 &c. 1704," 8vo. y. ".An Harmony of tiic Four Gosjicls, so far as 
 relates to the History of our .Savioui's Resurrection, vvilii ;i Com- 
 mentary and Notes, 17(>5," 4to. 10. " The (ienealogy of Jesus 
 Christ, in iMatthew and Luke, explained; and tlie Jevvi.^i, ob- 
 jections removed, 1771," 8\o. 11. "An Attempt to demon- 
 strate the iMessiahship of Jesui from the i'ropheiic Ili>tuj-y ;uid 
 Chronology of Messiah's Kuigdom iu Duuiei^ 177''/' 8vo. 
 
 r2. "Oc
 
 438 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^4 
 
 " The antient Right of the Enghsh Nation to the 
 Auierican Fisliery, and its various Diminutions ; 
 examined and stated. With a Map of the Lands, 
 Islands, Gulphs, Seas, and Fishing-Banks, com- 
 prising the whole. Humhly inscribed to the sin- 
 cere Friends of the British Naval Empire." 4to, 
 
 ' Filial Piety*, a Poem ;" by John Carr, Master 
 of the Free-School at Hertford. 
 
 " A Ciiarge delivered to the Clergy of the Arch- 
 deanry of Berks at the late Visitation in May 17.64. 
 By VV.I)odweHf,D.D. Archdeacon of Berks." 8vo. 
 
 12. " Occasional Strictures upon a Thins: cfUled Memoirs of thq 
 late contestetl Election, 1776"," 4to. [lliis was a pamphlet by 
 Dr. Heathcote^ of Sileby, under the title of " Memoirs of the 
 late contested election for the County of Leicester ; or, a new 
 Triumphal Arch erected in Honour of \ ictory obtained fiom that 
 Conquest by the true old Interest, By a Freeholder of J^eicester, 
 1775," Svoj and was printed apparently to amuse and divert a 
 few friends, and without ai y determined })urpose of biing pub- 
 lished 3 but, gettir.g abroad and coming to be universally known 
 of by a pam{)hlet published against it by the late Rev. Mr. Gieen- 
 away ; Dr. Heathcote judged it expedient to send it forth at 
 large. He prefixed, hoAvever, an advertisement, by way of 
 apology for so doing ; and speaks of it therein as little more 
 than a jeu dt'Sprlt. It is remarkable that Dr. Heathcote takes 
 no notice of this Pamphlet in the " Memoiis of his own Life" pre- 
 fixed to the last edition of his " Irenareh," in 17H1. Mr. Grcen- 
 away's pamphlet was called " Remarks on the Memoirs of the 
 late contested Election for the County of Leicester: in a Letter 
 to a Friend. To which are addetl, 1. A Song, called tue F;am- 
 land Voters; 2. The Letters relating to t]\e Imposture \ canted at 
 Nether Broughton; 3. VVlio is Leicestrensis ? a Dialogue, 1775." 
 8vo.] 
 
 * A mock-heroic, not altogether destitute of humour. Dull- 
 ness is the Parent to whom I\lr. Carr ad(h'e.-ses himself. 
 
 \ Son of the very leained and reverend Henry Dodvvell, M.A. 
 (sometime Camden Piofessor of History at Oxfoi'd, vvhence he, 
 was, in 1691, ejected for Nonconformity). He was born at 
 Shottesbrook, Berks, June 17, 1709; and edueaied at Trinity 
 college, Oxford ; where he took the degree of M. A. June S, 
 17:3';^. He was an orthodox Divine, and a celebrated Pi-ea- 
 cher ; and several of his Sei-mons, both single and collected, 
 are in j)rint. Of these, I shall entleav(jur to preser\e the titles. 
 1. He published, " Two Sermons preached before the Uni- 
 versitv of Oxford, on the Eternity of future Punislmients, against 
 Mr. Whiston"s\o5i(ms;" 2Thess. i 79; 1743. 2. " The De- 
 sireablei^ess of the Christiaji Faith," preached at Reading, at 
 the Triennial Visitation of Dr. Thomas blicrlock, then Bishop of 
 
 Salisn
 
 17^4-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 439 
 
 When Mr. Ton son had undertaken to publish 
 ^' Tiie Tatler," " Spectator/' &c. with notes by 
 
 Salisbury, 1 Pet. i. 8 ; 1744. 3. " The Nature, Procedure, Ex- 
 tent, Value, and EtFects, of a rational Faith con>^id{.red," in 
 two Sermons before the University; [which seem evidently le- 
 veled against Christianity not fuunded on Argument +] ;" 1 Pet. 
 iii. 15; 1745. 4. " The Practical Influence of the Doctrine of 
 the Holy Trinity," 2 Cor. xiii. 14. a Sermon before the Univer- 
 sity, June 9, 1745. 5. "The Nature, Extent, and Support, of 
 Human Laws," an Assize Sermon, March 8, 1749-50; Rom. xiii. 
 3. 6'. "lite Importance of the Christian Faith illustrated, ui the 
 Explanation (jf St. Pauls VMeh of beinj^ accused by his Brethren, ' 
 before the University, Jan. '26, 1752; Rom. ix. 3. 7. "The 
 Nature, Mischiefs, and Remedy, of Saper-litlou, illustrated," 
 in two Sermons before the Univeisily, Feb. 17, 1754; Psalm xxxi. 
 7- H. " Tiie equal and impartial Disciiarge of Justice, v. ith re- 
 spect both to the Guilty and Innocent, recommended ;" pieached 
 at St. Mary's, Oxfoid, at the Assizes, before the Judges, Jidy 16", 
 1755; Prov. xvii. 15. 9. "The sinful Christian eon\icted by 
 his own IVayers," preached at West Ham, Luke xix. 22. 1755. 
 9. "The Doctrine of the Divine Visitation by Earthquakes, illus- 
 trated, confirnied, ami applied, in two Sermons, on the Fast-day, 
 and on the preceding Sunday ; Laiah xxix. (>. 175^J." 10. Be- 
 fore tiie Sons of the "cicrgy, Jcr. xlix. 10; 17W). II. At the 
 Consecration of Dr. Jotm Thomas, Bij^hop of Salisbiuy ; Tit. 
 i. 7 9; 1757. 12. "The false \Vitnc:-s i-e])rovc'd, an Assi/.e 
 Sermon, at St. .'\Iarys, Oxford, March 3, 1758; Exod. xiii. 1." 
 13. At the Annual Meeting of the Charity Schools, Psalm xxxiv. 
 1 1 ; 1758. 14. " The Doc'.rine of a i)arlicul:ir Providence stated, 
 confirmed, defended, and apphetl ;" in two Sermons before the 
 Univcr.-iity, April2(), i/fit); Psalrnxwiii. 13 15. 15. In Lambeth 
 Cliapel, at tiic Coiiscv ration of Dr. Ciiailes .Moss, Lord Bishoj) of 
 St. Diuid'v, April .50, 17'"''". UI. At Salisbury, before the (iovcr- 
 nor? oftJK'Cicneial lii''.;in'irv, at their second .Anniversary, Sept. i;', 
 17''8; Prov.\i\. 17. ije pidtUshcd al^o a volume of " Practical 
 Discouists on Moi;'.! Miljjict-: in 17 IH; a si'cond in 17-L*; and a 
 
 * By sonir- ^tr.mi^e (ivtrii;ht, thu t !';;'( (;':>.iii:(l " (.'hiisli.iiiitv not touiulcd 
 ill Arsruiin lit" was att rituili il to An hcU ;uon Ddduill, in ('.:)U..^i,i!^. vrl. L\ . 
 \>. lOOo. }5itt tlic error \\;is jrojiiMly (orricu 1; in \i)l. i.,\ 1. ]>]<. '.v2, '.V), \:',.\. 
 The tiMideiic} of tli.'.l Ijonk !.i Iul: to iii.;in' ifc, rh'i.t Cliri^ii.iiiity ii iouiKiid 
 on i;o ar'^innciit.s of ti--iiii cii' r'-:i--ini, In n\\ t';nrii ; whicli lii-' aiulior n- 
 (!c';i\ ours to ir.,ik(' ridi'iilon^, anrl (1( lia-".; to a U( ak ci'ediiliry ; tliis would 
 he siifTifiiMit to ]>ro.'' tl.at I>r. J)oi'.ucii ;i)Kid nut he (lie .author of sni h 
 a work. liut tin- laal aii'.lior \\:i, liiiivv l^'odwtdl, i-(|. In'otiuT to tht; 
 .Vrciiili'arcn wlio nad laa u of Mai;,!,! ak i'. 'olii-;;!', ()\lur(\ : \\hicli prohaijiy 
 occa-iionrd tin- mi-: ai^c. 'I'lu: Ai.' .'o; (, " (jli-crvatioiis on a i'anijihli t 
 ininulcd ('111 i-;tianit V n<il liaiai. i 'la Ar:xnnii'nt, by a ('iiriftiaii I'ria - 
 tiiinkci'," wa^ i)i "jii:;i<)ii tliat it v\ ,^ "acnniniihd irony Irom I'r^iniiii:"- 
 to nd;" ami the Monthly I'ltvii-iMis i-ay (hat it was " a maskt il halirA, 
 .'^o arfliilly i.aisi'd and con^t ructid, lliat iwauy wore dcccivcil I \ il ; uiia- 
 [.cinini^ itwa.-. iliti Mi'i:d as a dcl.ii'-r ol' that cause to \\lii<!i t 'i'- .\:;t!ior 
 d'.'siijm,! to gi\L a mortal Mow." Mrnilihj J{i:i itw. ml. \\\U. j . 14.'). 
 
 v;ltir.:e
 
 440 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^4. 
 
 Dr. Percy (now Bishop of Droinore) IVIr. Bowyer 
 addressed the following letter to the learned Editor, 
 
 volume of " Discourses preached before the Unixrrsity," 1*54. 
 r)r. Dodwell's first preferment in the Clmrch was the rectory of 
 Shottesbrook, his native parish, with the vicarat^eof White VVaUham 
 annexed, iq wliich he was presented in 1744, by Arthur Vansiltart, 
 esq. ; and in the same year he preached an excellent Sermon at 
 Heading, at the Visitation of Bp. Sherlock, wiio was so delia,htecl 
 with the Discourse (hat he soon after presented him to a probeml 
 in the cathedral of Salisbury. In 1740 he obtained a dispensa- 
 tion to hold, with his former livings, the \icarage of Bucklebmy 
 and chapel of Merston annexed, which for tliat turn weie in the 
 gift of Penyston Powney and William Le Mai-chant, escjrs. And 
 in that year, in a pamphlet under the title of "A Free Answer to 
 Dr. Middieton's Free Inquiry," he distinguished himself in the 
 famous controvei'sy on the "Miraculous Powei's," together with 
 Dr. Church of I3attersea ; so that the University of Cixford f:om- 
 })Hmented both thesegentlemen with the degree of D.D. bydij)loma, 
 Dr. INiidJieton intended a full answer to all his antcig-onists on 
 that subject; but, finding his health unequal to the task, singled- 
 out these two as the most considerable, and prepared a particular 
 answer to them, which he did not live to finish; but it was pub- 
 lished in 17^1, the year after his decease. He used to boa^t that 
 lie had taught them to use ins own weapons against himself. 
 
 Dr. Dodwell afterwards published, "A full and final Reply to 
 BIr. Toll's II Defence of Dr. Middieton's Free Inquiiy. With an 
 Appendix, in Answer to ev cry Particular in Dr. Middieton's Vin- 
 dication; and a Preface, on the Credibility of Mii'acles, ()cc:\sioned 
 by the two previous Questions, 1751," 8vo. Both this and the 
 former pamphlet weie written witli gi'eat teriiper as well as learn- 
 ing. In 1757 he was appointed a eanon-residoitiary of Salisbury ; 
 and in 17G3 was promoted by I3p.Thon)as to the archdeaconiy of 
 
 Dr. Thomas Church \\as vicar of Battersea, lecturer of St. Anne's, Soho, 
 and prebendary of St. Paul's. His first tract was, " A Mmlication of the 
 ]\Iiraciilovts Powers winch subsisted in the three Centuries ot the Chris- 
 tian Church, in Answer to Dr. iMiddletou's Free bujuiry. By which it is 
 shewn, that we have no sufHcient Reason to believe, from the Doctor's 
 ReasoiiiniiS and Objections, that no such Powers were continued to the 
 Church after th.e Days r.f the Apostles. ^\'ith a Preface, containing 
 some Observ.aticns on iJr. Mer.d's ,-\ccount of the Demoniacs, in his 
 ISIedica Sacra."' The second w ,13, " An Appeal to the Serious and Unpre- 
 judiced; or, a secoTid VitKiication of the Miraculous Power'--, &c. in Answer 
 to tiie late Posthumous XV'ork of Dr. Middleton. II(.' ]niblished also seven 
 s'mjle .Sermons, Irclreen 174*^, and 17.")6. He was of Brazen-nose college, 
 Oxford,' .M. A. 1731 ; D. D. by dijdoma :74y; and died Dec. 23, 17o6'. 
 
 (I Frederick To!', :M'. A. rector of Dojmersiicld, H:i[n))phin^ ; author of, 
 1. " A Defence of Dr. Miadleton's Free Inquiry, at^ainst Mr. Dodwell's Free 
 Answer, 17 ID," yvo. '2. "Some Remarks in \iui'ication of Miraculous 
 Powers, &c. with an Observation or two upon Dr. Stebbing's (Christianity 
 justified, so far as relates to this Subject. In a Letter to a Friend, 
 ]7.")0." 3. "A Sermon preached at the Visitation at liasingstoke, before 
 the Rev. Robert Lowth, M.A. Archdeacon of Winchester, May 14, 1751. 
 \V}th an Appendix, partly occii'sioncd by Mr. Church's Aj;peu!, &c." 
 ' ' Berks,
 
 1764.] 
 
 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 441 
 
 "sir, June 14, 1764. 
 
 " In a sn^all punch * book (the title of which I 
 know not) were printed many years since critical 
 remarks on several letters in the Tatlers and Spec- 
 tators, which I think you should get for your new 
 edition, that you may either confute the objections, 
 or protit by them. For instance : Supper and 
 friends expects me at It was wise, says the Re- 
 marker, to make the verb aoree with the more 
 vjorthi/ nominative ; for such the supper is beyond 
 the J'riends. Now, it is but reading expect, which 
 the author probablv wrote, and the reflexion ceases. 
 This book, I am informed, is now in the possession 
 of Air. Wray-|~ of the Exchequer. If you collect 
 
 Berks. In 17(>7 lie published, "The Sick Man' -s Companion ; or, 
 the Clergyman's Assistant in visiting the Sick ; with a preliminaiy 
 Dissertation on Prayer, l7(J7j " ^"^o ; and was the author (I know- 
 not in what yeai) of " A Dissertation on Jephtha's Vow." He 
 died Oct. '23, ITJ^o, in his 75th year. His private c'on\ ersations, 
 and the manners of his domestic life, were al\va:ys found to cor- 
 respond with those piir.ciples, which, as a champion of oar truly 
 orthodox Chmch, he had ever maintained in the pulpit, and 
 frequently published in his works. 
 
 * Tliis punch book was Mr. AVagstaffe's Annotations, of which 
 much use was made in the edilitni of the Tatler, in 6 vols. 178(>. 
 
 f Daniel V\ ray, esq. imiversallv respected as a scdiolar and a 
 gentleman, wiis educated at the Charter House, and at Queen's 
 college, Cambiidge. His father was Sir Daniel Wray. knt. for- 
 nicrly a soaj)-b()ilcr in I-^mdon, and one of the sheriffs of that 
 city in 17. . ; but, retiring from business, ho ifsided in Charter 
 House-square; and his nieniory is still reflected on with a de- 
 gi'ee of pleasure by some ('luUnisdaia pcrpnuclsX) who can revive 
 the long-buried ideas of \a hat pas^^ed at that school about the year 
 1710 c)r 17; when Sir Daniel was always ready, if any body was 
 wanted, to beg a hulf-holiday on Tuesday afternoons. 
 
 In his early days Mr. Wray matle the tour of France and Italv, 
 ^vith two respectable fiicnds, the son of Lord Ciianccllor King, 
 and the Earl of Morton ; and there is a large cop|)er medallion 
 of him, in a Roman mantle, a striking rcj)resentatiou in profile, 
 with his own hair in the antique form, inscribed, 
 Danikl Wkay AvcLVa. yT^T. XXIV. Excrguc, 1/'-^', (^.Pozzo V. 
 
 Rev. NIL ACTVM KKi'VTANS SI ttVID S VrKKKSSl.T AGI.NDVM. 
 
 He was elected V. A. S. 1 710- 1 , and was one of t lie vice-jn'osidenls. 
 He was als(j a Fellow of tlu.' lloval Society; an<l a Tmstee of tlie 
 
 Since this note was first written, in 17B4, the pcrpanci arc probnlily 
 fill uunibtrcd with their I'urLliuhcrs. 
 
 l^ritish
 
 442 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [17^4. 
 
 nothing out of it, you ought to mention its merit or 
 demerit. 
 
 British Museum at its first establishmont ; and at all these learned 
 institutions, as long as his health permitted, he gave constant at- 
 tendance He was an excellent critic in the Enghsh language ; an 
 accomplished judge of polite litei-ature, of virtii, and the fine art?. 
 The qualities also of his heart were a.-, distinguished as those of 
 his mind. The rules of religion, ofvirfue, and morality, regu- 
 lated his conduct from ihe beginning to the end of his days ; 
 and he may be said to have been through lite a happy and respec- 
 table member of society. His friend Mr. Hardinge, however, in 
 a poetical dialogue at Cambridge, bet^vecn a Stranger and a 
 Beadle, occasioned by the statue of Academic Glory being placed 
 in the Senate-house, has thus ironically characterized him : 
 
 " but wlien malignant If ratj. 
 
 Eager in hope, impatient of delay, 
 A dapper, pert, loquacious, busy elf. 
 More acti\e for the publick than himself. 
 Ran too and fro, with anxious looks, antl prated. 
 And mov'd that hence she nright be soon translated, Sir." 
 He was many years deputy-teller of tlie Exchef[uer under Philip 
 the second Earl of Hardwicke ; but resigned about two years 
 before his death, his great punctuality and exaetnc.-s in any 
 business he undertook making tiic constant attendance at the 
 office troublesome to him. He was one of the Writei's in the 
 " Athenian Letters," published by t lie Earl of Hardwicke; and an 
 inscription by him on a Tower at Wimpole is printed in the Geii- 
 tleman's Magazine for 177^. p- 150. In the hr.-t volume of the 
 Archa:'oloiiia, p. 1'28, are ])rinted " Notes on the Walls of antieni 
 Rome," communicated by him 17'>f>; and *' i!xtracts from dif- 
 ferent JjCttcrs from Rome, giving an Account of the Discovei-y 
 of a most beautifid Statue of Venus dug up there 170*1." He 
 married, late in life, the (laughter of Darell, esq. of Rich- 
 mond, sister to Robeit Darell, e.-q. sub-governor of l lie South- 
 Sea-house ; but continued a member of (}uecn"s College till 
 his death, which happened Dec. 19, 17^4, in his 8*2(1 year. 
 Amongst other legacic s, he ga\c the rcA'crsion of 5('0/. a year to 
 the Rev. Mr. Jeffreys after the death of Mrs. Wray ; whicli 
 happened at Richmond, Surrey, in ]\Iay 1803, a't. 78. Her 
 Taste for the line aits was no loss extensive than her husband's, 
 })articularly in painting; her landscapes, e\en at a very advanced 
 peri(;(l of hei- life, will bear the test of criticism, and are truly 
 worthy the athniration of ib.e eonnoisseiu' in that sj)ecies of 
 painting. AmoniT't her numejous l)eijuests, the town of Rich- 
 mond, for its alms-houses, is iiuleijted to her nmnificence for 
 1500/. Mr. Wray left his library at her disjxtsal ; and she, know- 
 ing his attachment to the C barter- house, where he had received 
 his education, and of which at the time of his death he was sU])- 
 posed to have been the eldest scholar, made the (iovernois an 
 offer of it ; which was thankfully accepted ; and a room was 
 
 fitted
 
 17^4.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 443 
 
 " 2. You may observe what elegant compositions 
 have been occasionally formed out of the Spectators 
 since they were first published ; being- not only a 
 pattern of good writing, but affording even mate- 
 rials for it. Mr. Richardson's Pamela is no other 
 than the story in vol. V. No. 375. And perhaps it 
 appears witli as much advantage in its original 
 brevity, as in its diffused length of a volume. Mr. 
 Pope's Letter of" E!oisa to Abelard is fairly taken 
 from the original ; but the story was first pointed 
 out, and beautifully told, in Spectator, vol. II. 
 p. 164, under the characters of Constantia and The- 
 odf'sius. Many more, I suppose, may be found, 
 which owe their birth to the Spectators. 
 
 " 3. In vol. IV. No. 253, Mr. Addison, while he 
 is commending Mr. Pope, says, ' This beautiful 
 distich upon Ajax puts nie.in mind of a description 
 in Homer's Odyssey, which none of the Critics have 
 taken notice of' 1 have happened to find the same 
 in Dionysius trrs^i (rwb=s ovoy-ajcov, who treats very 
 largely upon these verses. Pope's. Letter to Addison, 
 Oct. 10, 1714. 
 
 "4. In the (ientleman's Magazine, about six or 
 seven }^tars since *, I remember, a letter was printed 
 from some very low critics, pretending to find false 
 Kna;lish in one of Mr. Addison's Dedicatious of a 
 volunvj of the Spectators. This was ridiculed justly 
 
 tiiud lu) fo!' it.5 )'t'Ccption, t.iken from a convenient apartment 
 oria,iiiallv used for tlu nieelinas of tlit> Govtinors 3 mu', though 
 very ]Hi'^', tlirce sides are. very nearly filled bv this \erv ^'ood 
 coliie'.iori of luuny antient et.uions of various learned v'Cr.s, 
 enl'iMtud by many of <tur \al lable autliors. 'Vhcy are pi . <l 
 under he cave of the ma-tii |)iaeher, head srhooln.i:.,.. r, 
 an'! a librarian, vslio>e -;.hi)\ 1- ii;/ a \(>ai'. 'J'he 01 iiiii'.a! C ,t a- 
 loiXiie was v-ri'ten by T. V\ ii.;.;, v\iio i'aithfuUv serxe-l Mr. W ray 
 3S '.e;:rs a- a -er\ant, and \\:)> rf\'. uded l)\ him wlii f ci'. .'"s 
 pii.ee .n l:i- Mije-ty'.-, fvece-pl of tlv {IncIh qncr. \:. r\i ij, rit 
 pwitiait of Air. Wray (;t. Kit-cat c^j-cd Ir. Pi,'v:Ii in l7''>-'> i.o:n 
 a pi- arc by Mr. D.'ix i-j l!;ul;,^ (n.i- tiir cli i. <'y, It s cx- 
 ti'iuily well paintt'd, and ii'inc-eiU - a m i'd : \n\ |i(ne\olenv ,-,el 
 of features. l}(:,(jw is ' e lar. e n c iilllun (.(so ' d jn j). M !. 
 * It was almost twice Uiul tiiue. ::iee (jcut. 3ia^'. 1751, 
 
 vol, XXI. pp. -11;:. ob'z. 
 
 in
 
 444 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^4. 
 
 in a letter published the next month, which I have 
 reason to think was written by the present Bishop of 
 Gloucester. This is of no Jiioment in itsdf, but 
 may supply matter for a preface; and you know 
 names, or hints at names, add a value to trifles. 
 
 " These small circumstances I have collected 
 together this morning-. If they are of no service to 
 the plan of your intended edition, you will excuse 
 the olhcious regard paid to you. Sir, by 
 
 Your most humble servant, W. Bowyer. 
 
 " In the Book above mentioned a gentleman goes 
 to bed with reading Virgil ; and bids his servant 
 attend to the candle when he drops. Very prudent, 
 says the Kemarker, and circumstantial ; the candle, 
 which had fire and flame, might do mischief; but a 
 man that could sleep over Virgil, could do none." 
 
 In December 17^)4, Mr. Bowyer presented a 
 copy of Mr. Folkes's " Table of Gold and Silver 
 Coins" to the Cathedral Library at Chichester *, 
 with the fallowing inscription : 
 
 HAS. NVMMORVM. ANGLICORVM. TABVLAS. 
 
 VETERIS, AMICITIAE. MONVMENTVM. 
 
 CVM. VIRO. REVERENDO. GVILIELMO. CLARKE. 
 
 CANONICO. CICESTRENSI. 
 
 AVRO. ARGENTO. AERE. 
 
 PVRIORIS. PRETIOSIORIS. STA13ILI0RIS. 
 
 IN. BIBLIOTHECA. 
 EIVSDEM. ECCLESIAE. CATHEDRALIS. 
 
 REPONi. VOLVIT. 
 GVILIELMVS. BOW YER. TYPOGRAPHVS. 
 
 * Ke had before made some occasional presents to their li- 
 brary ; one of \vhich iius been mentioned in p. 275. Another 
 is thus iicknowlediz;td by Mr. Clarke (wlio ap})ears to have had 
 the augmentinj^ of it very much at heart) : "I thank you for 
 remembering the Spital. Every addition is something to our 
 little library. We take in all, like- a real hospital, the poor, 
 the maimed, and the blind. But I cannot think of concealing 
 vour name under such a cover. Who can reach 8 or 9 feet high, 
 to shew the favour he has received ? J>ret me have a folio of 
 some sort or other, that I may put my hand upon it as I walk 
 by, and say, ' Here's Mr. Bowyer 1' Vv hat would you have from 
 public libiarl<=r if people do not read;, that is no more the 
 
 fault
 
 17^5-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURy. 445 
 
 17^5. 
 
 In this year, at the request of the munificent 
 Mr. Hollis *, Mr. Bowyer wrote the short Latin 
 
 fault of the librarj', than their not praying: in publick is of the 
 church. But is there no pleasure in siu'veying such structures, 
 though we do not use them ?" ii/r. Clarke to Mr. Boivijer, 
 March 14, IJoO. On the receipt of Mr. Folkes's book, Mr. 
 Clarke says, " How nuich am I obliged to you fur a most elegant 
 and agiceable present to our Churcli Library, which I received 
 on Tuesday morning ! It g-ave me the more pleasure, as it was 
 opening the new year so auspiciously, with a book that Avill be 
 as much looked into as any in the Library, and upon a subject 
 that docs not seem to admit of many more improvcn)ents. I 
 am likewise conmrissioncd by the Dean and the rest of our body, 
 to make their very gniteful acknowledgments for tlie fiivoui- you 
 hare done them. You may be sure that I had not the least 
 scruple about terms or ceremonies in ordering the loose leaf to be 
 prefixed. It was making me a compliment tliat I ought to be 
 pleased with, and therefore, from a princi})le of self-love, willing 
 to perpetuate ; though at presenf it })nts me under some disad- 
 vantages : I cann(jt shew the book with so nnieh freedom as I 
 should otherwise do. You have certainly disposed of it in these 
 two volumes to the most advantage you could. The coins and 
 the explanations are much the better for being sejjaratc, and 
 may be turned to with more ease. The word shilling was used 
 verv soon after the Concpiest for the twentieth part of a pmmd 
 sterling; the English, fond of their own language, applied it to 
 the Norman soliflus or solt, and called their oicn shiUi'ig the uroitt, 
 which was, airreeably to the Roman custom, tlie trciiiissis of the 
 shilling." Ihid. Jan. 3, 17(J5. In a siilis^-quent letter he says, 
 " Your volatile s])irits often put me in mind of H.ulibias's f.word, 
 which worked its way through the sca!)bani ir wus -o manful. 
 Your zeal for your friend i>Iarkland is no*: .i! ;'.n in tiie strain 
 oi'thc Supplircs You treat Duivcrsities luA }lr.vl:- of ii<)nsf's with 
 an air of a visitor, as if tiiev iiad no t'lsif, j:o ri\.rarti fur learn- 
 ing, because thev don't do the new edi.iun (;f th>- S!'p;)ii':rs the 
 honour of a fimeral in their I>i()raries. To pre\.;nl }<i;;r indig- 
 nation from tuniuiy,- mon^ imniediatel / to tliis quarter, 1 ;!;:-.ire 
 to do the (.'iiid: of an undertido.-r, and be:i,' um uould sijnt' duwii 
 a copy of the Sujiplices, himiKomely b(ju.i !, to be d.'c.-niJy in- 
 terred in our Library. Hu slrdl have all the ii.inu;.is of liu; place, 
 tlie same that Sages, Saints, and Critic!. s, h-.w. !i;^l bcfjre kept 
 sacred from anv int('rru])ti(;n i)V the unburicrl di-ad, wlio never 
 molest the manes of these :-'m,J aui).o!s, liiuv take sinctu:u'y 
 among us." And in another letter, Kov.'d'), l'<i7 , IVir. Clarke 
 savs, " \Vo ha\e just put a ticket into the l^utwry for om l^ihrarv; 
 iav we fiiul tl:at i.othing but the. wheel of Fuilune will gi\e it a 
 tolerabli' apyjc-arane."." 
 
 * " Some tiiiK- in the spri.'i!:: of the y<'ar 170""j Mr. Holli'i 
 'jceuis to have pruj/jsud lo .Mr. .Millar tii-j n'-^jrintirg i>r.\V,dli'-'s 
 
 Latin
 
 44^ LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^5 
 
 preface to '' Joannis IFullls'd Grammatica Lin- 
 gticv AngUcance ;' and a larger English Preface, 
 
 Latin Grammar of the English tongue ; concerning which Mr*. 
 Millar was desii-ous of having the opinion of the Rev. Dr *>^*** 
 [Lowth], who, at the bookseller's request, was consulted by Mr. 
 JJowyer on the subject. The Doctor retuined for answer, ' that, 
 in liis opinion, the re-printing of this Grammar would be for the 
 benefit of Natives, as well as of Foreigners.' The design of re- 
 printing Dr. VValliss Latin Grammar of the English tongue un- 
 doubtedly oiiginated with Mr. Mollis , without any other view 
 than to promote the knowledge of the English language among 
 Foreigners, who could not otherwise be made acquainted with 
 the value and excellence of many of our English \Vriters, of 
 whose woiks the sf)irit and sentinients were often eiToneously, 
 anil always imperfectly, represented in translations. With this 
 patriotic view, to the honour of his country, he proposed the 
 re-printing of this Gramnsar to Mr. Millar, whose business it was 
 to consider what might be expected from the sale of it ; and 
 relying upon the judgment of the reverend Divine al)0\e men- 
 tioned, he requested Mr. Bowyer, who had a literary connexion 
 with the Doctor, to procxu'e it for his farther information. The 
 answer to Mr. Bowyer s application encouraged Mr. Millar to 
 undertake the new edition ; and the same answer having sug- 
 gested to Mr. Hollis the ach antage it would be to the book, to 
 have the a})probati()n of so learnetl and eminent a man more 
 distinctly and publicly expressed, he endeavoiu'cd, by the inter- 
 cession of Ml". [Jowycr, to prevail with the Doctor to honour the 
 r(!-publication of Wailis's Cirummar with a preface of his own 
 writing. Why this favom* was refused, no ])articular reason 
 appears. The Doetoi- was certainly ;it liis liberty, and no man 
 had a right to know l\is motives fur declining a little labour iti his 
 own walk, from wliicli he might have derived some little hon- 
 our, if not to his eminent talents, yet certainly to his beiievo- 
 lence in promoting a work wliere party and controversy were 
 out of the question. But, to sav the tnUh, Mr. Hollis was not, 
 in those davs, lit con^pany for Ortlitnlox Divines. It w:is well 
 known that he was concerned in this new edition of Wallis's 
 Cirannviar ; and no ie.-s that lie was at that time jjrocuring :i 
 new edition of Locke's Lcttei's concerning Toleiation, on which 
 -uiiiect it appealed afterwards lliat the ruling theologv was not 
 in j)erfect accord v, itii the doctrine of these Utters. But, leav- 
 ing speculation, let us return to fact. Mr. Bowyer was j)revailed 
 with to write the .short elegant Preface which now st:;ui(ls before 
 ihis last edition of Dr. Wallis's (grammar, wherein his learned 
 :uid iv^ci'end friend hatlthis advantage, that a sort of justice was 
 done to liis merit, which he could not deceiUly have done for 
 him-L'lf, had he obliged .Mr. Hollis with a preface of his own. 
 .Ian. 7, 1T''5, V/allis's (irainmar being j)rinted olf, and ready for 
 publit:iiion, Mr. Hollis made .Mr. Bowyer a ]resent [of twenty 
 pound>] for w liting the Preface." See ' Memoi)s of Mr. H(;llis," 
 pp '.j:iui 'J34. ~64. To this ediliou uf VVallis's Grtimmar a gO(j(l 
 
 por-
 
 176*5.] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUftY. 447 
 
 intended for that work *. He -sent six copies of 
 tliis book to the Rev. Edward Clarke, then in Mi- 
 
 j)Ortrait of the learned Author was prefixed, by the munificence 
 of Mr. Hollis ; which, iiearlv thirty years aftei-, I was very desir- 
 ous of ap]^lying to a purpose entirely cona;eni;il with his philan- 
 thropic views. An immediate descendant of Dr. Wallis, who 
 was far fioiii beiuii, in affluencf.-, wished to present to the World 
 some unpublishecl Sermons of thai 1-arned Divine, but could not 
 attbrd to run any riscjuc in the publication. This I \uidertook at 
 my own charge ; the descendant uf Dr. Wallis to be at no los.s, 
 but to have the whole profit. It occunVd to us both, that the 
 Purtrait (which remained v.ith the Representative of Mr, Hollis, 
 to whom t)u';e wa.s not the most distant chance of its ever be- 
 coming of the least use) might be advantageou.s, and a vei-y 
 proper embellishment to the Si-rmons; and accordigly Mi'. "V^'allis 
 applied, in a respectful manner, to be indulged with the use of 
 it. ^The Owner had undoubtedly a full right to refuse 3 but, I 
 confess, both Mr. Waliis and myself were somewhat disappointed 
 at his receiving the following answer: 
 
 " Sir, Autrust 1, I79I, 
 
 " Though an uttei- sti-anger to you, yet, out of regard to the 
 memory of the late Dr. M'allis, you should cer(airdy connnand 
 the plate ; but, wiien you recollect that a co])per-pIate will cast 
 off but a certain number, and that number is reqinred for the 
 work it was engraved tor, you will excuse me tiiat I cannot 
 render that work imperfect ; but, if a few copies for yourself will 
 be any satisfaction to you, in case there are any struck off, i will 
 bend some. 1 am, Sir, Your most humble servant," i^'c. 
 
 I make no conunent. Dr. Wallis's Sermons, ho\ve\er, did 
 not a{)pear without a new engraving of his Portrait. 
 * The i^atin Preface is here trauticribed : 
 
 " Iviuijrua; Anglican;e (ii'ammaticam, a viro eximio .Touaxnk 
 Wai.lisio, S.T. D. (jeo)iietria' Piores.-5ore Savitiano in celeberrima 
 Acadeuiia Oxoniensi, alc|ue Regalis Societatis Londini sodale, 
 Latine conseriptam, jiost iteratas editiones vi-uni est, in I'Xter- 
 orum giatiam, denuo recudere, juxta exemplar inter ejus Opera, 
 Oxon. .Mi)c\cix. inJ'olio, jirioribu.-i longe auctius, Sul))uiigitiu'. 
 litpote ([u;e cuiuTractatu de Locpieja (iiauu)iatica' piieiixo fiabi i 
 connortium qu(!ddam et necessittulinem, " Kpi-tola; .\uctoris ad 
 Thomam Meverlev, De mutis ^vu'di-^que inforuuindis." llujii- 
 (irannnatica! sub^^idi(J, adhibito Dietionario .\nglico-l.;>.tino el 
 Latino-Anglico accui'ati>>inu nostratis Robei'ti Ain-jWoith, (jiii- 
 vis I.atine j)erilus ad Lingii;e Anglicana' notiliam jurveniiU. 
 fjuod si pjeuiorem. ejiLs indijlem ))ernosce]'t' cupiat, consulat 
 libellum, cui titulus "A Short Introduction to lh)glili drammar, 
 with Ciitie.d Notes," a \iro ornatis^imo Roberto Lowth, ( aJKj- 
 nieo Dunehneusi, nuper editum, (pu ^tinUorum suorum con;- 
 plexu les fere dissociabili;s conjunxil, a'Hii-tjUi? veteri.^ p(jes<'(,. 
 orientalis fontes rechidere, patrii '~''r\ii'>jii^ rudinieiUa excpiiri-rc; 
 dignatus est. In usum singu];uum g;*-,uiu!ti (irannnatica l-iti;^u;i' 
 Anglicanu; melius forsan coacinaala foret sermonc !.ui4uc ^':( uti 
 
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 448 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iJ^D' 
 
 norca; who distributed them (as directed) to the 
 Spanish Literati *. 
 
 In the same year he Iiad many consultations with 
 Mr. HoUisjOn a projected edition of Marvel Ts Works; 
 and from that time to 176*7 very frequently turned 
 his thoughts on that subject; consulted Dr. Birch 
 concerning various jjarts of Marvell's writings ; and 
 communicated to Mr. Mollis the result of his vari- 
 ous enquiries -|~' 
 
 proprioj Italis una, Geiraanis altera, tertio Gallis, &c. SI vero 
 hanc prae manibus intueauiur exteris omnibus parter aplam, 
 opus esse censebitur non solum utile, sed summo juuicio elabo- 
 ratum. Vale Lomlini, Jan. 1, 17G5." 
 
 The intended English Frelvice began thus : 
 
 "As there are many rich treasures of Icajning and ingenuity 
 contained in our English Writers, Foreigners often regret the want 
 of being maalers of thoiu. And some of our Natives, from a zeal 
 for the {lonour of the Nation, have ^vished that its lauauage \s as 
 more disseminated, and not bounded with the extent of its con- 
 quests: that so the spirit of liberty, as well as knowledge, which 
 breathes through every page of a Ji: iron, might be communicated 
 in its original channel to the proper f)l)iects of such a blessing, 
 even to all mankind. As a manuduction, therefore, to this 
 langjrage, it has been thought proper to re-piiblibh the iiicompara- 
 blc Dr. Wallis's Grammar of the English tongue, written in j^atin, 
 that i)y the help of it, joined with the accurate Mr. Ainsworth's 
 English-Latin and Latin English Dictionary, any one who xm- 
 derstands Latin may attain to a kn.owledge of the English, and 
 need no longer have recourse to the treacherous aids of French 
 translations, ' rnalifidis I'ersionuin Galiicarum aiixiliis.' llie edi- 
 tion which we now offer to the publick is printed from the folio 
 edition of that author s works, of the xear 1699, corrected by 
 liis last hand, and much augmented bevcjnd the former editions; 
 which yet have left some gleanings for our farther care."' After 
 meritioaing a fev/ of these (.e his " Miscellaneous Tracts, 4to, 
 p. 471), Mr. ]5owyer thus concludes, '' 1 have made the^e slight 
 excursion:^ as a di\er.-:ion to the reader, before he enters on the 
 drier study (;f Grammar, and to convince liim that the iirst ele- 
 ments of it will soon lead him into enquiries of greater iniporiance." 
 
 * An hundred copies were purchased by Mr. ll(;ilis for this 
 piu'pose ; wliicii were sent to Spain, Portugal, Italy, &.c. 
 
 Ml. :ilarkland, in an.-\ver to a lettej- frona Mr. Bijwyer about 
 this Gramin.T.", .sa;S, " I wonder you should think of printing a 
 Latin book on that subject, which at })reseat would not be read 
 (I had almost said coul-l not) even in Engli.-h 3 but I suppose it 
 is not your own choice. 1 would ;is soon vrite Lectiares on 
 Ta:,te as any thing on the Dlgamiv.a.'" 
 
 I On this subject I shall transcribe from the Biographer of 
 Mr. Hoilis ; " The '2^d of April [I7ti7] Mr. Holiis and .Mr. Baron 
 
 njet
 
 176*5] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 449 
 
 . . 
 
 The principal books printed by Mr. Bovvyer in 
 the year 17&5 were, 
 
 met by appointment, and had mucli discourse concerning tbe 
 part Mr. Baron should take in a new edition of Andrew Mtirveli'a 
 '.vorks. If there is no mistake in the date, Mr. Hoihs had thought 
 of this re-;)ublication near two years before, as appears by the 
 following memorandum found amoniz; lu3 papers : ' Si-ptemler 3, 
 17<>5. Busied in the morning looking over Andrew Marvell'a 
 works, and papers relating tiiereto, prepai-atory to a conversa- 
 tion with 3Ir. Uowytr, concerning,- tlie new edition of tiiem. 
 4. With Mr. Bowyer, with whom I had a fall conversation re- 
 lating to the new edition of Andrew SJarveli's Works, to the 
 printing of v.hich he seen.ed reluctant, from the difficulties that 
 will attend it ; animated him ail I could to that end 5 and we 
 are to talk farther concerning it.'- It does not however appear, 
 from any thing we have seen, that they had farther talk on the 
 subject till the spring of 1767, when Mr. Hollis proposed to 
 engage Mr. Baron as an assistant. The result was, that the 
 new edition was to be in one volume quarto, to be printed by 
 Millar and Cadell ; Mr. Baron to correct the press for the prose, 
 and Mr. Bowyer for the poetical and Latin parts. Mr. Hollis 
 and Mr. Baron met on the 29th of April, and had a long con- 
 versation on the subject ; when it a{)peared in' the end, that 
 Baron, not thinking hunself e(jual to the task, for want of anec- 
 dotes, did not seem inclined to undertake it. Hence it appears, 
 that Mr. Hollis expected something more from Baron than just 
 to correct the press, Barqn was a great collector of the works, 
 and historical accounts, of the defentiers of liberty, civil and 
 religious. Marvell, in that depaitment, was a hero^ but it is 
 j)robable Mr. Baron had not succeeded in searching for materials 
 relating to the history of this cousmnmate Patriot, or such as 
 were necessary to illustrate soiiiC passages in his works, which 
 wanted cxjdanation ; and here, in all probability, the project 
 droj)ped. With respect to Mr. Bowyer, a loose paper has been 
 communicated to us, importing, that * lie refused to be con- 
 cerned in the re-publication of Marvell's Works, upon any ac- 
 count.' AV'hat were IVlr. Bowyer's reasons for this refusal does 
 not appear. We may \enture to say, that paity considerations 
 had n<j share in his reluctance ; hjr this worthy and learned 
 Printer made no scruple to ])rint other works f, ])ubli3hed aljout 
 this time, which were, in their contents, ru) less obnoxious to 
 the Ruling Powers than the revival of Marvell's ])iineiples and 
 strictures would have been, 'i'lie want of two sucli able co- 
 operators a Baron and Bow-ir-r put :\n end to -M'-. Hoili-Zs pro- 
 jeet of republi.-,luiig Marvell's Works. The} li".vi- been, how- 
 ever, .since republished, in 1770", i:i three volumes quarto, by 
 Cajjtain Edward Ihoiupbon, who aeknowIe<lges his oijligution* 
 to Mr. Hi'llis's eollectionb (Vee Memoirs of Mr. J'ollis, jjj). 3(il, 
 'JG'2) 3 " and, in order tu magnify Marvell, has defamed his own 
 
 f e.i(. "The Cuiiftsgional," Dr Harr'u'i " Ili'.tOBi' of Chailci 11." &(. 
 ^ or. 11. (i u tiiii-
 
 450 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [17^5. 
 
 "An Ecclesiastical History, Antient and Modern, 
 from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the 
 
 rontemporanes as plagiaries. Perhaps a more ridiculous and 
 ill-founded charge was never made than that which Captain 
 Tiiompson has ventured to exhibit against Addison, Watts, and 
 Da\id Mallet, in. the Preface to this Work, That the sauie MS. 
 should fall into the hands of these three gentlemen, and that 
 each of tliern should be tempted to steal different pwrts of it, 
 would be too gross an improbability to merit any belief, even if 
 tlie characters of the accused did not exempt them from svich a 
 suspicion. Of the two former several defences have been 
 already produced to the publick ; but the latter has yet been 
 without an advocate. It may be therefore candid to observe, 
 that tlie imputation on his reputation may be clearly wiped 
 away to the satisfaction of every impartial person. The ballad 
 wliich Mr. Mallet is charged with purloining, was originally 
 j)rintcd about the year 17 24, and was inserted in the " Tlie 
 Plain Dealer," July 24, 1724. Whoever will compfue that copy 
 with the present which is given to Marvell, will find variations 
 in almost eveiy stanza, which would surely not have been made, 
 as they are in general for the worse, had the Ballad originally 
 stood as it is now read in Mallet's Works. In the same paper, 
 August 28, 1724, is a Letter from Mr. Mallet, wherein he gives 
 the history of the Lady who was the subject of the BaUad ; 
 whence it appears that the circumstances of the transaction 
 were founded on facts. The alterations were e\idently made 
 by him afterwards 3 and there is little room to doubt but that 
 the MS. was written after the publication of the improved copy." 
 It was from an apprehension the 'Works of Marvell woukl not 
 sell sufficiently to defray the expcnce, and not from any dislike to 
 the Author, that Mr. Bowyer declined the undertaking. Thot he 
 was in no re.-jiect prejudiced against the writer, appears fiom 
 lii.s having contributed his advice and personal assistance in col- 
 lecting the ,~c ai ce tracts. And the following memoranda are now 
 first printed from Mr.Bowyer's MS. " In the Adiniosion Book of 
 Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, is tliis entry: '\3 Ajnil, 
 1639. Andreas Marvell ;,iiratus et admissus.' [Wiitten in Mur- 
 vell's own hand] In the old Conc!u'*ion Book, p. ]6"9, is as 
 follows: ' Sept. 24, iGil. It is agreed by the Master and Seniors 
 tiiat Mr. Carter, Dominus Wakefieid,, D-' Marvel, D^ Waterhouse, 
 iSc D** Maye, in regaxi that soine of them ai'c reported to be 
 married, and the otheis look not after their Days nor Acts, shall 
 receive no more benefit of the College, antl shall bo out of their 
 places, unless they sliew just cause to tiie College for the con- 
 trary in three raoiuhs.' Bv d(i//s above, are meant the certain 
 number alloued by statute in the ye.j- to absentees; and the 
 word (irts lac.ui.^ the exercises enjoined alio Ijy the statutes to be 
 performed, lliis from the Rev. Mr. Michael Loit, Greek Pro- 
 fessor of Canibrivlge, and fellow of lYinitv College, Nov. 25, 
 176o. '1 he writov of his Life in the General Dictionaiy says he 
 was admiUcd 1633, bv a tvpt)graiihical mistake^ I suj>ijose. W. B." 
 
 The
 
 17^5-] TtlE EiGilTEENTH CENTURY. 451 
 
 present Centuiy : In which the Rise, Progress, and 
 Variations of Church Power are considered in their 
 Connexion with the State of Learning and Philoso- 
 phy, and the Political History of Europe during 
 that Period. By the late learned John Lawrence 
 Mosheini, D.D. and Chancellor of the University of 
 Gottingen. Translated from the Original, and ac- 
 companied with Notes and Chronological Tab-es, 
 by Archibald Maclaine *, M.A. Minister of the 
 English Church at the Hague." 2 vols. 4to. 
 
 The following list of IMarvell's Works (intcntkd to have funned 
 a quarto volume of about O'OO pages) was drawn out by IVlr. 
 Bowyerj which shews that he wsis in earnest in the business, 
 
 A Poem against Lancelot de Maniban, entitled, "Ctiidam, qui 
 legendo Scripturam, descripsit fonnuni, sajjienlinm, sorfemque Au- 
 thoris, illuslrissimo Lanceloto Josapho Manibun grammdiomanti." 
 " The Rehearsal transprosed, 167^" "Tlullehearsaltransprosed, 
 2d Part, 1673." " Mr. Smirke, or the Divine in IMode ; being cer- 
 tain Annotations upon the Aniuiadversions on the Naked Truth, 
 together with a short historical Esssiy concerning General Council- . 
 Creeds, and Imjjositions in Matters of Religion, by Andreas Ri- 
 vetus, jun. Lonil. IG/^i." 4to. " An Accoiuit of the Giowth of 
 Popen, 1(J77- " Miscillaneoiis Poems," one vol. Lond. 1(58 1 ; 
 reprinted in two volumes l2mo, 172(>> under the title of " The 
 IVorks of Andrew Marvel!, Esq " "A sliort Historical Essay to- 
 wards General Councils, 16"7^>. " "A Letter to Oliver Croniwell, 
 MS. Jvdy 28, 105;}." " Letter to Mr. William Popple, July 17, 
 1676. See of Marvel in Athen. Oxon. vol. H. fol. 818." in Dr. 
 Birch's hands, "Two Parts of Rehearsal tianspro.-ed ;" " Defence 
 of IJishoj) ( Vofl'ft Naked Truth ;" " Account of the Progress of 
 Po})en," 4to j)am])hlet,' In Tluuloes Papeis, "A I-etter of 
 Andrew Marvell ; ' "A letter to William Po])ple, E,-q. at iiour- 
 dejiux," MS. The second part of "Tlie Rehear- al iran-uio.-icd," 
 as the title-page expresses, "was occa^iom d by two Lclters : 
 hrst printed by a nameless Author, intituled, A Reproof, ^\c. 
 the second left for me at a Friend's House, dated Xov. .!. 167 .'5, 
 subscribed ,1. G. and concluding with tiiese W(ncls : (/' tlnui 
 (Jiirest to j>ruit nnij lie or lllil (I'^cinst Dr. Ptirlt'cr, Lij the eternal 
 God I will cut th'i throat." I\larvcll"s answer is tlnir iufroduced: 
 
 RKPhO(jr, p. 67. " If you have any tiiiiig to oI)j('(t against it, 
 do your worst. You know the Press is ojjen. ' 
 
 Licensed the l.-t Dv the Autlior aiid l/icnser 
 
 of May, 167.S. of the KcclcsiiL-tical Polity. 
 
 Dr. Parker, who was the .Author botii of the " Re]>roof " and 
 of tlie " Ecclesiastical Polity," judged it j^iiideiit, it may be 
 conclufled, to lav down the (tudgels. 
 
 * 'i'his able Divine was a native of Scotland, .<-on of a uiini-Ur 
 in Iieland. lie published, IT'^^, a Sermon, jireaclied Dec.."), 
 1751, on the Death of the I'rincc of Orange, Lam. iii. 28, 2l>, 
 
 c c, 2 in
 
 452 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^5 
 
 *^An Harmony of the Four Gospels, so far as 
 relates to the History of our Saviour s Resurrection, 
 with a Commentary and Notes, by Dr. R. Parry." 
 
 In 1765 his masterly Translation of Mosheim's Ecclesiastical 
 History made its first appearance, in two vols. 4to, dedicated to 
 William Prince of Orange, It experienced a most favourable 
 reception, and was reprinted, 1758, in six vols. 8vo ; in which 
 form it has had several subsequent editions. The additions to 
 the quarto edition were also pubhshed separately the same 
 year; but, as is very often the case, not twenty copies were sold. 
 Few publications, on their first appearance, have been more 
 generally read than Mr. Soame Jenyns'i " View of the internal 
 Evidence of the Christian Religion.'" Mr. Maclaine addressed to 
 that gentleman a series of Letters, 1777, in 12mo, written to 
 serve the best purposes of Christianity, on a due consideration of 
 the distinguished eminence of Mr. Jenyns as a writer, of the sin- 
 gular mixture of piety, wit, error, wisdom, and paradox, exhi- 
 bited in his publication, and of his defence of Christianity on 
 principles which would lead men to enthusiasm or to scepticism, 
 according to their diiferent dispositions. His only other publi- 
 cations are two Fast Sermons, 1793 and 1797- He was gene- 
 rally supposed to be, for many years, a writer of some of the 
 foreign articles in the Monthly Review. He died Nov. 25, 
 1804 ; endeared to a numerous and respectable acquaintance. 
 In dc])]oring the loss of departed worth, sincerity may be per- 
 niitted briefly to state its claims to imitation and praise. S\if- 
 fice it then to say, that, in a probationary course of S"2 years, 
 Mr. Ivludaine's superior endowments of mind and heart, his 
 genius, learning, and industry, constantly directed by a love 
 of vir'iie and truth, by piety and charity, diffused a bene- 
 ficial influence over the whole of his professional and domestic 
 .sphere. As a scholar, a gentleman, and a divine, m^iformly dis- 
 playing a judicious taste, an amiable depoilment, and insti'uctive 
 exan^ple, he was admired and loved by all who courted and en- 
 joyed his society; especially t}io:-e of ^vhom he was a distinguished 
 archeivjK - the man of c.lucalion, the polished companion, the 
 benevolent friend, aiid pious Ciiristian. Clothed in the invin- 
 cible armour of the kitt'. r, he received with triumph the assaidts 
 of the last enemy of n^.aiikind 3 and it is no small consolation to 
 his BiOurning friends to know, tliat, great as had been the excel- 
 lence a:nl uliiity of his lii'e, they were surpassetl by the fortitude 
 whic-a he (lisi)laycd, and the happiness he enjoyed, in the hour of 
 pending death. It will be no reproach to this worthy man's 
 memory to add, that he was bi'otlier to the person who went by 
 the luune of " The Gentleman Higiuvayman," had been a grocer 
 in "\V eibeck-street, and was executed at Tyburn, Oct. 3, 17 5*^, 
 attended by Dr. Allen, a Presbyterian minister, wlio published 
 an account of his befiaviour. His brother early renounced him, 
 though he niade all the interest he could for him (see Gent. Mag. 
 vol. XX. pp. 392, 423, 42,'5, 473, 480), and wrote a letter to him 
 after condemnation (Ibid. p. 43G). 
 
 " Moral
 
 17^5-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 4^3 
 
 " Moral and Political Dialogues ; with Letters on 
 Chivalrv and Romance*. By^ the Hev. Mr. Hurd'|~. 
 The Third Edition." SmalfSvo. 
 
 " Du Port;|; de Signis Morborum Libri quatuor. 
 Quibus accedimt Notae Auctoris; aliorum eruditorum 
 Medicorum ; et sparsim Editoris Radulphi Schoni- 
 berg, M. D. Societ. Antiquar. Lend. Soc." 4to. 
 
 * " The former editions of these Dialogues were given, to the 
 publick witliout a name, and under tlie lictitious person of an 
 Editor: ' not for any purpose so silly as th.at of imposing on the 
 public ; but for reasons of another kind, which it is not difficult 
 to apprehend.' Pref. p. 1. The learned and ingenious Author 
 hath now thought it proper to affix his name to these pieces j 
 and to preface them with a Dissertation on the manner of writ- 
 ing Dialogue ; which is of itself a considerable tract, extending 
 to no less than sixty pages. In this pref?.tory discourse, he con- 
 siders the antients as the best models for the dialogue-form of 
 writing ; and what he hath said on the subject is well worth the 
 critical reader's attention." MonthJij lluriew, vol. XXXIII. p. 406. 
 
 f A little before this time, some elegant productions from the 
 Paris and Panna presses had awakened tlie attention of the Lon- 
 don Printers ; particularly of Mr. Dryden Leach ; who may be 
 styled the Father of Fine Printing in this Country. This im- 
 provement in the Art did not escape the watchful cje of the 
 respectable Critic whose Work is noticetl above ; as will appear 
 by the following brief notes, both written (though a little sati- 
 rical) with the most perfect good temper. 
 
 1, " Rev. Sir, July 20, 1765. 
 
 " I send ariothci- specimen, which perhaps may better suit your 
 taste, the lin;s being only set at a greater distance. On little 
 causes what ci'.iit tilings dej)end ! The smiiller letter must be 
 for the Epistlus in Latin, and Commentary; the larger for the 
 Dissertations. An iiexameter will not come into the width of 
 the page in the larger letter. The smaller letter I shall have 
 new, before you return from your journey, if the Founder keeps 
 his word. But I shr)vdd be glad to know how this pleases. IF. B.'^ 
 
 2. " There is some .sense in this .'specimen. I like it perfectly 
 well. Is this the pajicr you sent before ? If it be, 1 have now 
 no objection to It. It is a strange thing that I must instruct 
 you in your own art; but stranger still, that you .--hould not 
 have ob.served that the Miccess, that is, the saleoi'a boo'.v, depends 
 more upon your avt than upon mine' Once more, 1 like tb.is 
 paper verv well : it nui-l not be a bit worse, and so tell Mr. 
 Millar, k. //." 
 
 I FrancL^ Du Port w rote his " Signa Morborum" near '200 yea; s 
 ago. The four Book? which make up this \V'ork, contain only 
 714 hexameter verses; conrsccpiently many diseases must be 
 omitted, and the description.- of thoie^ which he has taken into 
 hi.s catalogue nmst neee'saiily be \eiy ci)ncise. Tjie first cdi- 
 Von of thLi Work wiit printed at Pari;*, bv Duvall, liJ4, 8vo. 
 
 71je
 
 454 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [l7^5- 
 
 The Latin Works of Lord Bacon, being the 
 fourth and fifth volume?, in 4to, of the best * Edi- 
 Hon of that illustrious Writer. 
 
 A Second Part of Bishop Ellys's -j- " Tracts on 
 Spiritual and Temporal Liberty," 4to. 
 
 * This edition was corrected throughout by tlie learned and 
 industrious Mr. Gamhold ; and the Latin volumes were also very 
 accurately revised by Mr. Bowycr. 
 
 f Dr. Anthony Kllys was born at Yaimouth in Norfolk, and 
 baptized June 8, 1690. He received his academical education 
 at Clare hall, Cambridge, of which society he became a fellow, 
 and took the degree of A.B. in 1712, and of A.M. in IJiO. 
 In 17I9-'-20, when his father (Anthony) who was a merchant, 
 was mayor of tiie town (as his grandfather had been in 1708), 
 tlie Corporation appointed him one of the ministers of the 
 chapel ; which appointment he resigned the following year. 
 [Accordirg to this account, from Gent. Mag. Dec. 1/96, tiie 
 Parish Kegistcr, , and the Books of the Corporation of Yar- 
 mouth, the inscription on his monument is inaccurate, as he 
 was " aged 70 years."] In 17'24, he became vicar of St. Olave 
 Jewiy, with the roctoiy of St. Martin, Ironmonger-iane, an- 
 nexed; and in the September of the same year was presented 
 by Lord Cliancellor Macclesiield, to whom he had been for 
 some time chaplain (and who was removed from his high 
 office earlv in the January following) to a prcbendal stall 
 at Gloucester. On the "^.oth of April 1728, when Fving George 
 the Second went to Canxbridge, he was favoured with the flegree 
 of Doctor of Divinity, l)eing one of those liamed in the Chancel- 
 lor's list on that occasion. In 1736 he published "A Plea for 
 the Sacramental Test, as a just Security to the Church estab- 
 lished,, and very conducive to the Welfare of the State," 4to. In 
 1749 he publ'shed a Sermon j.reached before the House of Com- 
 mons on the 3()th of January; anil in October 17.52 was pro- 
 moted to the See of St. David's, and consecrated Jan. 23, 1753. 
 Tifis prcfermerjt he owed to the recommendation of Archiiiftlnjp 
 Herrins:, and held it witii hi? prebend and city li\ing in com- 
 meiidam. He wixa id^o \icar of (ireat Marlow, Bucks. About 
 the same time he published anonymously a ])amphlet called 
 " Remarks on an E.^say concerning Miracles, published by David 
 Hume, Esq. amongst his Philo30})hical Essays," 4to, no date. 
 In 1754 he published a Sermon preached before the House of 
 Lords, Januarv30_; and in 17^9 another, jireaciiad before tlie 
 Society f tr the Propagation (^f the (iospcl in Foreign ParL^t. Hf 
 died at Glovicester, Jan. 16, 17G1 ; and was buried in the South 
 aile of liu; Cfttludi-al there, where a neat pyramidal monument 
 was erc;ted to iiis memory, with the following epitaph on 
 tablet of white marble .supported by a cherul;) : 
 "Near this pla^^e 
 hetli the bodv of 
 
 An-
 
 17^5-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 455 
 
 Tiie second edition of " A Letter * to the Right 
 Reverend Author of the Divine Legation of Moses 
 demonstrated ; in Answer to the Appendix to the 
 
 Anthony Ellvs, D.D. 
 
 Minister of the united pari.>hcs of 
 
 St. Olave Old Jewrv, and St. Alartin's 
 
 Ironmonii'er Lane, in the City of London, SS years ; 
 
 Vrebendary in this (liurch 37 years ; 
 
 Conseciatetl Bishop of St. David'.s '2S Feb. 1753 j 
 
 who dcpai'ted tai:.; lift.; 17 Jan. 17G1, 
 
 aged GS yeai's. 
 
 A ])ei-.son truly excellent, 
 
 learned, ,ju^t, benc^'olcnt, pious ; 
 
 to whobC rare virtues and abiUties 
 
 Aduiatiim cannot add, 
 
 Knvy caimot deservedly take from. 
 
 He nuirried Anne the eldest daughter 
 
 of Sii- Steph.en Antlerson, of Kyworth, 
 
 in the county of Bedford, bart. 
 
 whom he left, with only one daughter, 
 
 to lament the common loss 
 
 of one of the best of mankind." 
 
 Some verses on his death, by Dr. Dodd, were printed in tL 
 Christian^ Magazine, 17<^lj P- H9, and in Doclds Poems. 
 
 He left belli nd him, ready for the press, the above-mentioned 
 " Tracts on the Liberty Spiritual and Temporal of Protestants in 
 England, addressed to J.N. esq. at Aix-Ia-Chapeile ;" the first 
 ])art vvlicreof w;is printed in 1763, and the .second in 176"5. 
 The E(iit! ;.-> in this ])o.sthumous work say, " He was not only 
 emintnt for liis fine parts, exte>n~ive knowledge, and sound 
 judgment, i("v;'l.i truly valuable in themselves ; but they were 
 pc;t in hiin lo the highest advantage, by a heart so oveiflowing' 
 witli benevolence and candour, as never even to conceive terms 
 t)f acrimonv or I'cproaoh towards the opinions or per=oni of 
 those who ditlered fTom him. This Christian tenqjer of hia 
 is discoverable in all the parts or these tracts that are taken up 
 oti controvcr-v, for lie alwav-:. thought a person, though on the 
 riglit side of tin; question, witii principles of persecution, to be 
 a w<)i>.> man ihan he that was on the vvjong." 
 
 'J'lie f(jilo'.vi;ig cjiitaiih on the giiuidfathev of Bp. EUys is on si 
 lar:;',e lomb in Vaiinoutli church-yard: 
 
 '' ICxHsia-. .Sntiiomi Eli.ys, armigeri, 
 
 de-iidtriuni dvuii-r-um sui n'>piciente>, 
 
 hie humo mandavorunt snperstites 
 
 xice-^imo nono die Octobrls 
 
 amio >a!uli^ 170i>, a-t. ^u:e 7^>-' 
 
 * Of thi-. L(^t1( r, wIh) < aiit'iior wa-i the woithy and learned Dr. 
 
 Lowth (afterw.'ud^ ucci-.sivelv I}i-hopa)f Oxford and of London), 
 
 ther waus an i-xlreuRly rapid sale i'hc lirit edition had been 
 
 printed
 
 456 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [iT^^S- 
 
 fifth Volume of that Work ; with an Appendix, 
 containing a former Literary Correspondence. By 
 a late Professor in the University of Oxford," 8vo. 
 
 " Thoughts on Civil Liberty, Licentiousness, 
 and Faction," by Dr. John Brown, 8vo. 
 
 " The Wav to Things by Words, and to Word? 
 by Things," by Mr. John Cleland *, 8vo. 
 
 printed at Oxford. The second (of which there was a large im- 
 pression) appeared in Novemberl765 ; a third in February 17G6 ; 
 to which immediately succeeded a foiuth, with the addition of 
 " A I-iCtter to the Rev. Dr. Brown." In tlie course of this con- 
 troversy many squibs \iere thrown out on both sides, in the news- 
 papers 5 and among others were some by Mr. Bomer (see 
 vol. IV. p.334). In "The St. James's Chronicle," June ^5, 176'G, 
 were some queries which Mr. Markland supposed to have been 
 his ; but which I believe were by a different writer. Some letters 
 on the subject I know he wrote, particularly one (if not tu-q) 
 in answer tp H Modcrato, in the above-mentioned news-paper 
 of April and May 1766'. The principal Pamphlet in reply to 
 the Letter of Dr, Lowth was written in defence of the chai-acter 
 of Dr. Bentley, by a relation of his (IVlr. Cmnberland), and inti- 
 tuled, " A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of 
 Oxford, containing some Animadversions upon a Character given 
 of the late Dr. Bentley, 1767," 8vo. 
 
 * ^rhis publication was followed, in 1768, by " Specimen^ of 
 an EtimoTogical % Vocabulary, or Essay, by Means of the. Ana- 
 litic;^ Method, to retrieve the antient Celtic ;" with "A View of 
 a Literary Plan, for the Retrieval of the antient Celtic j in aid of 
 an Explanation of various Points of Antiquity in general, and 
 of the Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland in particular," 
 and Proposals for publishing by subscription, in two volumes 
 quarto, "The Celtic Retrieved, by the Analitic j Method, or 
 Reduction to Radicals j illustrated by a Glossary of various, and 
 especially British Antiquities," and in 1769 by '"^ Additional Ar- 
 ticltsi to the Specimen," ike. In these publications Mr. Cleland 
 has displayed a large fund of ingenuity and erudition, not im- 
 worthy the education he received at Westminster. In the Propo- 
 sals for continuing- his Celtic labours he says, "As to the recoures 
 to a subscription, I have no ajjoiogy to make for it, but one, which 
 is, that it is necessaiy, as being the only one. Ntst that I am 
 insensible of there being many and just objections to tiii.s 
 method, biit the candour of a liberal construction will hardly 
 rank among them its being liable to an abuse. This is no roorp 
 than what it has in eomn^on v/<th the best of things. Whoever 
 considers the va ,t oovnprehensiveness of this plan, and the aid.t 
 of all kinds whir 't: it miist, to have justice done to it, indispen- 
 sably and implicxth' raquii'c, %-;ili easily allow the utulertaking to 
 
 % <'^ The Wi iter's fi-.^tc has swallowed up his Gmek." T. K 
 
 b*
 
 IT^S-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ,457 
 
 " The Temple Student, a Poem," 4to, hy Mr. 
 Reate. 
 
 *' Crito ; or. Essays en various Subjects,^ by- 
 Mr. James Burgh, 12mo. 
 
 be not only impossible to a small private fortune; but, cvea 
 uhere there might be a large one, the work itself to imply so 
 muck of proposed utility to the publick, as not to be without 
 some right to solicit the assistance of the publick. It was the 
 failure of tliat assistance, that, probably lo?t to it one of pi esumably 
 the most useful and valuable works that any language or aaj 
 nation could have had to boast of, the second part of " The Bii- 
 atisli Avchajolog}," of one of our greatest and solidest Antiquariefv 
 Edward Llhuyd, who, or suppressed^ or dropped, or, at least, did 
 not effectually carry it on, from his disgust or discouragement, 
 at his having been forced to publish the first part at liis owj3. 
 heavy expence: a loss this to the British republic of letters hardly 
 r<'parable ! Need I mention the celebrated Dr. Hyde's boiling 
 his tea-kettle, with almost the whole inipression left oii his hands,, 
 of that profoundly lt>arned ti'eati~e of his, '' De Religione Vete- 
 rum Persai'um," admired by all literary Europe, and neglected 
 at home : so low was the taste for literature in this country, 
 already sunk ! For the re-publication of this work, we have 
 tiow, however, the obligation to the public spirit of Dr. ^Sharpe;, 
 that patron and piomoter of literature, of which himself is a* 
 <nce an ornament, a jutlge, and a support, witli the giieata* 
 merit for his not deserting it in its present state of disgrace. 
 With so cold, so unpromising a prospect bef(e me, a ad vciy 
 justly conscious of not only an Incomparably less title to favouz'- 
 able opinion, but of having much more to apologize for, tliaa 
 of any merit to plead, 1 have only, in extenuation of my pre- 
 sumption to .'iildi'ess the publiek under such dis.advantagcs, one 
 ?olenm and unalfectcd tnjth to offer : and this it is. Findiuf^ 
 this retrieval of (he Celtic (that language actually existing no- 
 where as a languaux?, ami every-where as the root of all or most 
 of the languages in Europe, dead or living, modern or antient, 
 and entering into the eumpositioii of almost every word that we 
 -now, at this instant, use in common conversation ; tinding, I 
 say, the reti'ieval of this elementary, or mother-tongue, at lea:<t 
 included inPrO|X)sals from wore than oweFoveigner, ! liiive thouglit 
 it sny duty to form a v. ish, that it might not be u)y fault, if the 
 liritLsh publick was not, as earlv as other eounliies, in i^jshc?- 
 aion of the benefit of such a retrieval, for the satistaclojy eluci- 
 dation of some of the most interesting Brilisli antiquities. But 
 how far I may find llie publick disjjosed to secou;'. ihr.t wish, or 
 to enable me to fulfil it, must remain eriti-t.iy -it llie tlL-x'ietioji ol 
 tltat publick. J. C," 
 
 John ('lebmd was the son iii Onniwl C.h-hi>x\, thvit' celebrated 
 fictitious memlxT of the S]X'Cfaii;r'>< (iub. vvlyom i^tcolc (i>'s<'ri!jfK 
 under the name of Will U(inevcomt>e .; ami was also on:' <>? the 
 fnciida ajid <xui'(^s;>ondei).ts of Pojk- A portrait of iiiai lM.:;sr 
 
 n;>
 
 458 LITERARY ANECDOTES OF [ijO^, 
 
 in consequence of overtures from a few respect- 
 able friends at Cambridge, Mr. Bowyer had some 
 inclination, towards the latter end of I765, to have 
 undertaken the management of the University Press, 
 by purchasing a lease of their exclusive privileges, 
 by which for several years they had cleared a consi- 
 derable sum. To accomplish this, he took a journey 
 
 up in the son's libraiy till his death, which indicates all the 
 manners and d'alord of the {'ashionable town-rake in the begin- 
 ning of the last century. The son, with the scatterings of his 
 father's foi-tune, and some share of his dissipations, after passing- 
 tlirough the forms of a good education in Westminster college, 
 where he was admitted in 1722, at the age of 13, and was con- 
 temporary with Lord Mansfield, went as Consul to Smvrna, 
 where, perhaps, he Brst imbibed those h^ose principles which, 
 in a subsequent publication, too infamous to be particularized, 
 tarnished his reputation as an author. On his return from 
 Smyina he went to the East Indies 3 but quarreling with some 
 of the members of the Presidency of Bombay, he made a precipi- 
 tate retreat from the East, with little or no benefit to liis for- 
 tunes. Being without profession or any settled means of sub- 
 sistence, he soon fell into difficulties ; a prison, and its miseries, 
 were the consequences. In this situation he was tempted, bv the 
 offer of twenty guineas from a bookseller, to write the work 
 above alluded to, and for which he was called before the Privy 
 Council ; anl the circumstances of his distress being known, 
 as well as hi? being a man of some parts, John Earl Granville, 
 the then president, nobly rescued him from the like temptation, 
 by getting him a pension of \QOl. a year, which he enjoyed to 
 his death, and which-hfid so much the desired etlect, that, ex- 
 ce})t " The Memoirs of a Coxcomb," which has some sniack oi 
 dissipated manners, and " The Man of Honour," written as au 
 amende honorable for his foiinor exceptionable book, Mr. Cle- 
 iand mostly dedicated his time to ])o]ilical and philological jiuij- 
 lications j and was the author of the long letters given in the 
 public prints, from time to time, signed A Bkiton, MonEsrus, 
 &c. &c. and published three dramatic triiles; 1. " Tiinbo-Chi(jui, 
 an Entertainment in three Acts, 1738 3" '2. " Titu-. Vesiiasiaii, 
 a Tragedy, ITGOj" 3. "The Ladies Subscription, an Entertain- 
 ment, 17 GO." He lived within the income of iiis pension for 
 many years, in a retired situation in Petty France, surrounded by 
 a good library, and the occasional vi-it;, (,f some lileraiy friends, 
 to '.v'nom he was a very agreeable ccjmpardon, in the enjoyment 
 of which he lived to an advanced age. In conver.iatlon he was 
 very pleasant and anecdotical, und'rstanding mo^t of the living 
 lau'^uages, and speaking tliem all very fluently. .V a writer, 
 he shewed himself best in novels, song-wiiting, and tlie lighter 
 species of authorship ; but, when he toviched politicks, he 
 touched it like a tor))edo, he was cold, bcnmnbing, and soporific. 
 He died in i'ettv France, Jan. 23, 1789- set. HO. 
 
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 17^5-1 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 4^9 
 
 to Cambridge ; and afterwards sent the Compiler of 
 these Anecdotes* to negotiate with the \ ice-Clian- 
 
 * Amongst Mr. Cough's ]:^pers I find the following letter of 
 my own to Mr. Bowyer, on this subject, which was theji to nie 
 of the highest importance, and which, I hope, will not be con- 
 sidered as wholly irrelevant to the Memoij-s of Mr. Bowyer. 
 
 " Good Sir, isundan afternoon. Sept. 15, 1765. 
 
 " i write to you now froin the house of .Mr. Labittte, with whoi-tt 
 I have dined, and who has most obligingly shewn me all in hia 
 power. Mr. Archdeacon is not at home. I have opened to Mr. 
 Labiitte my plan, who is of opinion soniething may be done. I 
 I'.ave talked also with a Compositor, who is sensible, and who 
 now works in the hoijse. Six hundred a year I believe may cany 
 it. They talk of ten having been offered. For se\en years last 
 past the University have cleared one-thonsand-tkrce-hnndrcd pounds 
 annually; besides fui-ming the Almanack {':ZOOL luore). This 
 might at least be doubled htj openins, the trade in new channels, 
 If any bookseller of reputation would enter into a scheme with 
 you, an immense fortune icoidd be certalnlij raised. I believe Mi:. 
 Labuttef himself would be of service as a small shareb. to- 
 morrow I wait on Dr. Powell with your Proposals, a little .cn- 
 larg-ed. However, I will not go too far without hearing from 
 you, Sir ; on. which accoimt I propose to stay till Tne^day even- 
 ing, that I may hear from you what farther particulars you have 
 heard, and at the same time shall enquire minutely into circum- 
 stances here. ^Vhoe^er has the lesvse, Mr. Archdeacon mus r be a 
 LEAniNT, person. This I must acknowledge, even against the 
 vanity I cumot help clierishing in myself, ^nd hcie. Sir, let me 
 take the opporumitv 01 returning you my heartiest thanksj as for 
 all former faNoars, so for the jiiesent indulgence in jiaiticular, 
 Ai 1 am sensi'.le whatever has the least resemblance to llatteij 
 is to you higliu Ji-^gui^ting, I shall ncit offend by c()ni])liment;5j 
 but siiall onlv a-Mirc 30U, that in whatever ^tate of iife i um 
 thrown, I shall be tiie better man for yoiu' good example; and 
 shall ever retain the liveiiest. sensation of gratitude for the more 
 tlian pHternal khidness-'s 1 ir.ive ever met with at your luuul-. 
 Oiice more, believe mi; to ijo, very inv-ariably. Sir, 
 
 Vour faithful and obliged humble servant, J. Xicuor.5. 
 
 P. S. I sleej) in a privnttt lu)u>ie. If you think ])iT>ps.'r to writi^ 
 please to diiect for nie at Mr. I>;ibutte's hou-e. I am en.i- 
 moured with the gardens and shady walks." 
 
 Mr. Bowyer, in an.-^wer, says, "According to Dr. Powell's dis- 
 course with me, I under^tO()d the University would not procoid 
 upon making tlu' mo^t /^.^.-iz/iiu/^ bargain, but on making "ucii 
 
 t Mr. R. Labutr" was n-.'^c-hor of the French lanjjuat^c in the Uiiivcpslt y 
 of ('aiubriilgc ; and [mbl'Hhii*, iri 176'4, *'.\ French Gr:nimt.-\r ; to uhi( h 
 prefixed ,111 .Viialy^is rthaiv*- Id tli.at Suhjcct." <)rif;i:iHlly hied to : li-- 
 profebsioii of a jjrint.ir, he hid been for some tini? in the eiii])l<i-, ni'ui 
 of Mr. Bowyer. lli.s (iraminnr liad a coiiiiderable de'^r-e i>{ m.-ni , :i t\l 
 hfi w.a? a worthy and reipi;v:tablc jnati.
 
 -4^0 LITERARY ANECDOTES or [l7^5' 
 
 cellor. The treaty was fruitless; but he did not 
 muck regret the disappointment *. 
 
 Mr. Clarke, Sept. 4, 1765, wrote thus upon thi 
 subject: " What to say about the University affair, I 
 do not well know it is certain that you have more 
 
 an one as should be consistent with safety and their own credit. 
 X think he said that 400/. per ci7iniim would satisfy, if they had 
 reasonable security. But be that as it may, and as a computa- 
 tion of the retuins shall answer. I suppose an absolute bargain 
 will hardly be struck till I see you ; though I think 1 could leave 
 myself to your direction. A Bookseller joining with me might, 
 as you observe, extend the trade very much. Even so, it is much 
 better to be proposed to him when we have made a bargain, than 
 before. But I almost dread the thought, from the exair pie of ** **, 
 who was advised to take *^<-***** partner. The consequence 
 was, they never settled accompts during the whole partnership ; 
 and at last they were so intricate, that, upon arbitration, each was 
 to be content with what he had received. Mr. Archdeacon %, a 
 you observe, must be a leading person, and there is some delicacy 
 necessaiy to be shewn to him. But ycv^ must be my r\ght hand, 
 or indeed both hands ; for I would Lope from this plan, if it 
 should take place, to have less trouble than 1 iiave r.'AV with 
 Autliors and Booksellers. Besides, niy pride will be <o see you 
 come forward, and in a way to make a figur-' ^ike th^ Sirahans 
 and the Woodfalls ; much greater than, good rfoli"!, 
 
 Your sincere friend and well-vvihlier, Vr. Bowyer. 
 
 " I have heard not a word more of Can^bridge aifairs since 
 you went. I have worked hard to-day, raid hope to give a good 
 account of myself. 1 have read your conclusion of the Novel, 
 which is admirable, but too good for the }^ac?. It is like a new 
 piece of cloth sewed into an old ["arment ." 
 
 * At the distance of 45 years I ha\c gi'eat satisfaction in recol- 
 lecting this pleasant jomuey. The world was then all fair be- 
 fore me ; and I was looking forvTard to my future settlement in 
 life. I had never before been abo\'e '20 miles froa^ London j and my 
 heart expanded when I mounted on the outside of the coach to 
 undertake so long a journey vis to Cambridge. Like other yovmg 
 Travellers, I wrote an account of niy tour; which I still carefully 
 preserve as Jirst impressions. The Colleges, the Libiaries, the 
 Public Walks, and the fertile Gardens, were a source of inex- 
 pressible delight ; and, though drenched with rain on my lofty 
 seat in returning, I enjoyed my few holidays to the last moment, 
 
 J Mr. John Archdeacon, a very excel!.;nt Printer; whum tlie Univoriity 
 aj'jpointi^d to succeed Mr. lientham; and who continued in that ollice se- 
 veral j'c^ir?. B'^ 1 -ed at Ilemingford Abbots, Sept. 10, 17yr>, ;et. 70. 
 
 i Yhz "" crk ber^: alluded to was " The Amours of Lais ;" which ending 
 iLruptJy :a the .-iUU.or's copy, & few pages wore added to it by J. A''. 
 
 business
 
 17^5-] THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 46I 
 
 business already than does you good ; and such a 
 fortune as will answer all the rational purposes of 
 life, that you need not wish for more. If you were 
 younger, and ambitious of raising a greater fortune, 
 I could tell what to say. But there are certainly 
 two objects in view in this proposal, which, if these 
 objections did not lie in the way, would to me be 
 great inducements. The thoughts of governing the 
 Boohsellera, either for gain or glory, would give me 
 a greater pleasure, than any other object in trade. 
 In that respect, I think just as you do. But Tanti 
 7i(m est; the laurel is scarce worth the labour. 
 Happiness and ease are greater acquisitions than 
 victory. Besides, the honour of putting the Uni- 
 versity in a way to get something besides credit, 
 would be a means of enrolling you among her 
 Benefactors ; and that not for a temporary, but a 
 perpetual Donation. But you had better relinquish 
 all these honours, unless you quit business, and think 
 of doing notliing else." 
 
 Mr. Markland, to whom he communicated what 
 had passed, tells him, "The subject of your journey 
 to Cambridge I am no judge at all of; but I under- 
 stand your practical inference at last, which says, 
 " that you are too old to live out a lease;" and I think 
 you conclude right it not being worth while to put 
 out to sea again, not even if you were sure of making 
 a prosperous voyage. I have ri^ceived another letter 
 from Mr. Gerison, who tells me that he intends to 
 lay out fifty pounds in books, and desires me to re- 
 commend to him fifty pounds worth of Theology 
 and Classics. 1 have thought of it, and find myself 
 in the condition of Simonides, when he was asked 
 about the Deity, desiring more time to coNsi<tr of 
 if. But I believe I sliall not answer it at all ; for it 
 seems to me as difficult as to make a pair of breeches 
 for a man you never saw.'' 
 
 ESSAYS
 
 ( 462 ) 
 
 ESSAYS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 I 
 
 No. L 
 
 JOHN BAGFORD*, 
 
 John Bagford was born in London, most pro- 
 t>ably some time in the year 1675 ; for in a volume 
 of liis " Collectanea f," Harl. MSS. 5979, on a 
 blank leaf, there is the following endorsement in 
 Bagford's O'Xn hand-writing, with a black-lead 
 pencil, '' John, son of John and Elizabeth Bagford, 
 was baptized Oct. 3 1, 1675, in the parish of St. 
 Anne, Black Friars." He v/as bred, it seems, to 
 the business of a shoe-maker ; for he acknowledges 
 that he practised, or had practised, " the gentle 
 
 * This article is principally given in the words of the Rer, 
 Br. John Calder ; who, in his Annotations on the Tatler, 
 sa\-s, " This writer, who, in the cour^^-e of this work, is much 
 i^ftener a transcriber tiian a commentator, has been indebted 
 ^:)r much of the information in these notes to the collections 
 of the ingenious and industri<^)us ]\lr. John Bagford, and his 
 Singular care in preserving fugitive and perishable papers. He 
 was certainlv no very conuuon njan, and there is but little kno^vn 
 f him in print. It is, therefore, but gratefvd in the Annota- 
 tor, and it inay be acceptable to some of his readers, to throw 
 together such scattereti memoriafs of this curious person as he 
 ha& been able to collect, from the difficult reading of Mr. I3ag- 
 ia:)rd's own papers, or from other sources." 
 
 t Most of the very many vohunes in the British IMuscum, 
 milder the general title of " Bagford's Collectanea,'* consist of 
 printed title-pages, advertisements, hand-bills, fugitive papers 
 fijf all kinds, vignettes, prints, &c. pasted into paper books, 
 sometimes with MS notes interspersed, but oftener Avithout any. 
 Eagford'-s ]\iSS. properly so called, are comparatively few, inter- 
 mixed with tlie numerous vohunes above mentioned, and pro- 
 Eoivscviou^ly arrpjiged, and deposited along with them, in th.e 
 department of MSS. Besides, there are very many MSS. in the 
 saint; rich vepor-ilory that have printed papers and tracts bound 
 rxv with theui, 
 
 craft;*
 
 JOHN BAGFORT). 4^3 
 
 craft," as he calls it, in a little curious and en- 
 tertaining tract on the fashions of shoes, Sec. and 
 the art of making tlieni, which may be seen in 
 the British Museum, Llari. ?>JSS. 5911- It ap- 
 pears that he married, or at least that he was a 
 father, pretty early in life ; for tliere is, in the 
 same Collection, a power of attorney from John 
 Bagford juniG:^' to John Bagford senior, empowering 
 him to claim and receive the wages of his son, as a 
 seaman, in case of his death, dated in 1713, when 
 the father could only have been of the age of 58 
 years. (See Harl. MSS'. 5.995.) He seems to have 
 been led very early, by the turn of his mind, to 
 enquire into the antiquities of his own country, and 
 the origin and progress of its literature. By such en- 
 quiries he acquired a great knowledge of old English 
 books, prints, and other literary curiosities, which 
 he carefully picked up at low prices, and re-sold 
 honestly on moderate profits. In this kind of curi- 
 ous but ungainly trafHck, he seems to have spent 
 much of his life; in the prosecution of it, he crossed 
 the seas more than once, with abundance of com- 
 missions from intelligent booksellers, and curious 
 pople of learning and opulence, who, no doubt, 
 contributed to his support ; and there are very 
 many of his bills among his papers in. the British 
 Museum, that vouch very strongly for his great 
 skill in purchasing, and his great reasonableness in 
 selling, various sorts of uncommon things. All 
 this while he appears to have been a book- broker, 
 rather than a book-seller, and a most proper and 
 honest jjerson to employ in the purchase of scarce 
 and curious publications, prints, &c, on moderate 
 terms. It is evident that he had been at very ex- 
 traordinary pains to inform himself in the histoiy 
 of ])rinting, and of all the arts innncdiately, or 
 inoie remotely, connected wirli it. He published, 
 in the Philosx^phical Transactions, in I70;, his 
 " Proposals for a History of Printing, Printers, 
 Illmninators, (Mialcogrnphy, Paper-making, &.c. 
 &.C. On subscription lO.s. ; and lO.v, more on ihe 
 delivery of a volume in folio, containing alr^out 200 
 
 sheets."
 
 4(>4 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 sheets." These Proposals were printed on a half- 
 sheet, with a specimen on another^ containing the 
 life of William Caxton, tirst printer in the Abbey 
 of Westminster, with a list of his books. There 
 are several copies of these Proposals in the British 
 Museum, Had. MSS. 5995. 
 
 Whoever will take the trouble of examining the 
 numerous volumes of Mr. Bagford's MSS. on this 
 subject, now in the British Museum, will be 
 thoroughly convinced that Vie was well qualified 
 for his undertaking, though he wrote a bad hand, 
 and spelt very ill. Destitute as he appears to have 
 been of the benefit of a liberal education, by his 
 great ingenuity 3ind industry he seems to have ac- 
 quired a degree of accurate knowledge, that, all things 
 considered, is really wonderful. At his death these 
 MSS. were purchased by Mr. Humphrey Wanley, 
 lord Oxford's librarian, for his Lordship's library, 
 and came in course witli the Harleian MSS. into 
 tlK2 British Museum. It has been said that there 
 are more of this curious man's collections for the 
 same |)urpose in the Public Library at Cambridge ; 
 and that they have never been opened since they 
 came there. Bat we have the authority of the late 
 worthy master of Emanuel College, to assert, that 
 this is not a fact. It would, indeed, have been a 
 reproach to so curious and inquisitive a man as 
 Dr. Farmer, to have had such pa[)ers in his custody, 
 without the curiosity to inspect them. 
 
 Mr. Bagford did not confine himself solely to the 
 theory of printing: it appears, likewise, that he 
 practised the art, by two cards, printed on the frozen 
 river Thames, Jan. 18, 1715-16', among the Harl. 
 MSS. 59.36'. In the first of these cards, he is styled 
 ^' J)r. John Bradford -'^, patron of printing, Jan. 2, 
 J'Jll'y-lG, Printed at his Majesty's printing- ofiice 
 in Black-Friars." Round this card are prints of 
 the heads of Gottenbur<>' and W. Caxton, wath other 
 devices, the royal arms, and the city of London 
 
 "^^ I copy Dr. Caulcr's words ; but this first ciuxl could scarcely 
 h.^.^e bc'.n iutcndcJ iur Bo'if'ord. 
 
 below.
 
 JOHN BAGFORD. 465 
 
 below, &c. (Harl. MSS. 5936.) The second card is 
 as follows: "The noble art and mystery of printing, 
 being invented and practised by John (aottenburg, 
 a soldier at Harlem in Holland, anno 1440, King 
 Hen. VI. anno 1 459, sent two private messengers, with 
 1500 marks, to procure one of the workmen. They 
 prevailed on one Frederick Corsellis to leave the 
 printing-office in disguise, who immediately came 
 over with them, and first instructed the English in 
 this famous art, at Oxford, the same year, 1459.'* 
 In the area of the card, in capital letters, *' Mr. 
 John Bagfbrd," and the four following lines : 
 
 " All you that walk upon the Tliames, 
 Step in this booth, and print your names. 
 And lay it by, that ages yet to come. 
 May see \a hat things upon the Thames were done. 
 Printed upon the frozen River Thames*, 
 Jan. 18, 1715-16/' 
 
 The very curious and well-written letter of this 
 ingenious man to Mr. Hearne, printed in the first 
 volume of the second edition of " Leland's Col- 
 lectanea," p. 58, ^ seqq. relative to London, and 
 the antiquities in its vicinity, does Mr. Bagford 
 very great honour. He seems to have been much 
 employed and respected by Lord Oxford, Dr. John 
 Moore, first bishop of Norwich, afterwards of Ely, 
 Sir Hans Sloane, Sir James Austins, Mr. Clavel, &c.; 
 and it is said, that for having enriched the famous 
 library of his patron Bishop Moore with many curi- 
 osities -j", his Lordship procured him an admission, 
 into the Charter-house, as a pensioner on that foun- 
 dation, in the cemetery of u iiich he was buried. He 
 died at Islington, May 15, 1716", aged 6*5. 
 
 In 17^8, a print of him vvas engraved, by Mr. 
 George Vertue, from a picture by Mr. Howard. 
 
 * Of Printing on the Th;inies, see vol. I. p. 113. 
 
 f Purchased at his death hy King; George the First, and given 
 by him to the University of Oamhridge. In Noble's Continua- 
 tion of Granger, vol. 11. p. 91, are two e.xctllent Epigrams, oc- 
 caiiioned by this donation. 
 
 Vol. il. Hh No. IL
 
 ( 466 ) 
 
 No. 11. 
 GEORGE BALLARD. 
 
 This Mr. Ballard was a most extraordinary per- 
 son : he was bred in low life, a stay-maker, or wo- 
 man's habit-maker, at Camjxilen * in Gloucester- 
 shire ; but, having a turn for letters, and in parti- 
 cular towards the Saxon learning, he became ac- 
 quainted, from a similarity of study, with Mrs. 
 Elstob, after she was settled at Evesham. 
 
 By the assistance of the Rev. Mr. Talbot, vicar 
 of Keinton in Warwickshire, and a recommen- 
 dation to Dr. Jenner, President of Magdalen College, 
 Oxon, he removed to that University. The Presi- 
 dent appointed him one of the eight clerks of his 
 college, which furnished him with chambers and 
 commons ; and thus being a Gremial, he was after- 
 ward elected, by the procurement of the President, 
 one of the beadles of the University. He was of a 
 weak and sickly constitution ; which determined 
 his parents to put him to the above trade of a habit- 
 maker, as an easy business not requiring much 
 bodily strength. The time he took up in learning 
 the Saxon language was stolen from sleep, after his 
 day's labour was over. 
 
 The communicator of this article celebrated with 
 him a festival, which he held for his friends, on hav- 
 ing completed a transcript of a Saxon Dictionary, 
 which he borrowed of Mr. Browne Willis, being 
 not able to purchase it, and which he had improved 
 with the addition of near a thousand words, coU 
 
 * Among the benefactors to the church and poor of Campden, 
 is Mr. John Ballard, physician of We&tern-sub-edge (as by the 
 inscription on his tomb 1678) ; who was elder brother to George 
 Ballaril's gi-andfather Thomas. Sanmel Ballard died July 8, 
 1710, act. 46; and EUzabeth, his wife, Jidy 10, 1744, aet. 73. 
 These^ j)E6bably, were his father and mother. 
 
 lected
 
 CEOIIGE BALLAkD. 46j 
 
 lected from his own reading. Lord Chedvvorth and 
 the gentlemen of his hunt, who were used to spend 
 annually in the hunting season about a month at 
 Campden, hearing of his fame, generously allowed 
 him an annuity of sixty pounds * for life, upon which 
 he retired to Oxford, for the benefit of the Bodleian 
 Library. 
 
 Mr. Mores (who mentions a curious MS. trans- 
 cribed by Mr. Ballard) calls him " a mantua- 
 maker-f-, a person studious in Englkh Antiquities, 
 laborious in his pursuits, a Saxonist, and after 
 quitting external ornaments of the sex, a contem- 
 plator (jf their internal qualifications." 
 
 I shall insert below an extract of an unpublished 
 letter from Mr. Ballard |" to Dr. Rawlinson, which 
 
 * ITiey offered him an annuity of lOOZ. ; but he modestly told 
 (hem that sixty pounds were fully sufHcient to satisfy both his 
 wants and his wishes. 
 
 t " I know not %\ hat additions Mr. George Ballard can make 
 to Mr. Srowe's Life. This I know, tliat, being a tarlor himself, 
 he Is a gieat admirer of that ])lain honest Antiquary." 
 
 Mr. Thomas Heame to Mr. Baker, Oxford, July 3, 1733. 
 X " Hoxoi.'UED Sir, 
 
 " na\ing been informed by my friend Mr. Rawlinson of Pop- 
 liilU of your noble design of continuing Mr. Wood's 'Athena),* 
 and tliat any notices which would be .serviceable towards such au 
 lui'ienakiiig would be kindly recei\ed : I drew up a sliort ac- 
 coimt of the life of my late learned and ingenious friend 
 Mr. (irave-^. 1 am truly K'n.-.ible how unfit I am to attempt any 
 thing of this kind, and especially of so worthy a person ; but the 
 gical \enenition 1 haxe for the meuaory of so dear a friend, and 
 imagining but few of his other more learned correspondents had 
 an oj)porUinity of ha\iug a more jieifLct knowledge of him, 1 
 have liiiM'efore vcnl .red to inform y(JU, that Richard (iraves ||, esq, 
 was born at ?.lickkton. in (iioucestershire, anno 16'7(>, and wa 
 tin- son of .Sanuscl draves, esq. wIkj was the son of Richard 
 (iravc>> (who was lord of the I'oyalty of the hundred of Kiftes- 
 gale, and of thr- manors of Mickletoii, Aslon, and Weston, in 
 (his eoimty ; for nrany vear-^ one of the benchers, and at length 
 reailer of Linjohi's lim), \\Iio wra-^ t!ie son of Richard (iraves, 
 
 ij Whosf portrvii, niirr.i' cd In- Virtue, is prcscrvtil in Dr. Nash's 
 " llisti^ry of W Orcc-ti-r-hirf," vdI. 1. ;>. ^".'i'. ; wIutc tlicrt.' is ;i pedifjree at 
 iarire *> tins fHiuily, so " euiiiient for iirudcciiifr many learni'il and vain- 
 nidi- uii-ii." or Ids sijii, Morgan (raNe.'., cmi. tberi- is a mezicotiuto ijy 
 Vali-iitiiir (.rcpTi. 
 
 Si'i- noo- j 111 th'' :; t ;.>;.;., 
 
 n " '' who
 
 46$ LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 has been obligingly communicated by the Rev. Mr. 
 Price, from the original in the Bodleiai; Library. 
 
 He drew up an account of Campden churcli in 
 1731 ; which was read by Dr. Morell, at tlie Society 
 of Antiquaries, Nov. 21, I771. 
 
 who was the son of John GraTes, of Beaniesley in Yorkshire, 
 gent, of the family of Graves of Hey ton in that county. He was 
 educated in f^ammar learaing, partly at Campden, and paitly at 
 Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, but chiefly at the former 
 place, under the tuition of Mr. Robert Morse, From thence he 
 W51S sent to Oxford, about the year 1693; was fixed in Pembroke 
 college ; how long he continued there, or what degrees he took, 
 as yet I am ignorant. But, being delighted with a private life, he 
 retired to his manor-house at Miikleton ; where he was an indefa- 
 tigable student in antiquities. He was a very obliging conunu- 
 nicative gentleman, and of s\ich a sweet deix)rtment, a.s gained 
 him the love and esteem of all those who liad the honour and 
 happiness of his conversation. To be short, he was a gentle- 
 man endowed with all those excellent qualification.^ which might 
 justly intitle him Great and Good; he was a conijjlele miister of 
 the (ireek, Latin, and Saxon tongues ; was admirably well read 
 *nd skilled in the Roman and British antiquities ; and was a 
 most curious Historian, Antiijuary, and Medalist. Beiides curi- 
 ous letters, pedigrees, &e. that are made public in tlie perform- 
 ances of several learned men ; he ha- drawn up (in middle-sized 
 octavo) an Historical Fedigice of hi'i own family, most elabo- 
 r^itely done ; and had likewise made vast collections towards the 
 history and antiquities of Kifiesgale Hundred, and the several 
 places where his estate lay, which he had collected wiih ^ery 
 great pains and expence from the Domesday Book, from MSS. 
 and recorils in tlie Tower, Cott(jiiian and B(KileJan libraries, and 
 many other ways ; which he designed by \vay of anna!s, in imi- 
 tation of Keimetl's Parochial Antiquities; and a little before his 
 death had designed to liuve nidhodised and coui{)iled it, in 3 
 Volumes, folio. He wa* master of many much-tritiemed MSS.. 
 the greater part of which \vere puichased after his death hj 
 James West, esq. a gentleman of \eyy extraordinary accomplish- 
 ments. His collection of medids (which were about 5(X), among 
 which were many very valui'-'Ll:' jjieces) consisted chiefly of Greek 
 and Roman coins, a great part t)f which I coUectetl for him, 
 from Worcester, Gloucester, Marlborough, Devizes, and several 
 other places ; all which coins were ))urchcLsed after his death by 
 Roger Gale, esq. an intimate acquaintance of Mr. Graves, ^vho 
 is a great master of those studies, and many other useful pmU 
 of learning. He died (to the great grief of all true lovei-s of 
 antiquity, ati well a= of ail those who knew him) upon Wed- 
 
 % PttrtraiU of both these gentlemen, by Vertuc, are preserved by Dr. Nash. 
 
 nesday
 
 GEORGE BALLARD. 46Q 
 
 Mr. Ballard was instrumental in procuring Mrs. 
 Elstob a visit, in 1/33, fi'om Mrs. Chapone*, a 
 clergyman's wife at Stanton in Gloucestershire, a 
 woman of letters, and an old acquaintance, for 
 whom he was used to make gowns and mantuas, 
 that being his trade or employment-^. 
 
 nesday about seven o'clock in the morning, being the 17tli day 
 of September, 17^9, in the 53d year of his age, and is buried in 
 a vault in the North aile of Mickleton churcli, near to wliich 
 is a very neat marble nionumeni fixed in the wall, with the fol- 
 lowing inscription, composed by James West, esq. 
 
 " Subttis reqiiiescit 
 IliCARDUs Graves armiger, hujusce manerii dominus ^ 
 
 vir si quis alius desideratissimus ; 
 
 qui cximias animi doles niirS. indolis suavita'e temperans, 
 
 tarn charus omnibus vixit, cjuam effusa erat erga 
 
 omnes benevolentia : 
 
 liberos tenerrimo aftectu, 
 
 ami cos incoucussLl tide, semper prosecutus. 
 
 Inter hrec otii literati studiis rfiiorc'jcens, 
 
 Ruris seceb.^um historiarum varietato eieganter defluxit. 
 
 Nee vero, iit doctis sa^pe contingit, 
 
 nujiibi nisi in patrifi sua percgrinus, 
 
 cum res Graecas Romanasque penit.<- perspectas haberet, 
 
 nostras fastidiosfe praitermisit. 
 
 His profectc unic^ deditus Invesligandis 
 
 aeerrimam operam navavit ; 
 
 dilucidandis Onaiom adhibuit diligentiam. 
 
 Antiquitates demvun loci vicinitate commendatai 
 
 propriis ilKistrare scriptis occepciat ; 
 
 inehoati operis gloriarn adtptus, 
 
 consunuiiiti fama mortis interventii privatum. 
 
 Uxorem duxit Ki.izabktham iiliam et coliKredem 
 
 , Thom^: Morgan armigeri, 
 
 ex qufl 
 
 quatuor filios dimsque tilias superstites reliquit. 
 
 Quarum una (proh dolor) subtas paterno lateri adhaeret 
 
 Obiit ille decimo seplimo Septcnibris, 
 
 anno Domini 17^0, at. 53. 
 
 Ne tantas patris virtutes ne^cirent posteri, 
 
 hoc monumeiitum posuit 
 
 MoacjAN Gkavf.s, arm. 
 
 filius natu maximus." 
 
 * Sec vol. IV. p. 131 ; w here this lady's name is wrongly called 
 
 Capon. 
 
 t Dr. Lighlfoot, on tlic authority of the late Duclicss Dowager 
 of Portland, See the Notes on thcTaller, cd. 17S6, vol. II. p. 3y2. 
 
 He
 
 470 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 He died rather young, in the latter end of June 
 
 1755, owing, it was thought, to too intense apph- 
 
 cation to his studies; and his tomb is thus inscribed: 
 
 " H. S. E. 
 
 Georgius Ballard, 
 
 Campoduni sui haud vulgare ornamentuni : 
 
 Qui diurmi artis ilhberahs exercitatione 
 
 ita vietum qu^eritabat, 
 ut animum interea disciphnis hberahbus 
 
 excultuin redderet. 
 In celebritatem et Hteraiorum amicitiam 
 
 Eruditionis fama ahquando evocatus, 
 
 et inter Academicos Oxoniae adsciiptus, 
 
 otio floruit 
 
 nee ignobih, 
 
 nee reipubhae hteraria? inutilis ; 
 
 quippe Fosniinaruni, 
 
 quotquot Britanniam scriptis illustrarunt, mtnioritun 
 
 Scriptor ipse posteris connnenduvit. 
 
 Sed, dum studiis intentus, 
 
 vitae umbratih nimiuni indulgeret, 
 
 renum calculo confectus obiit 
 
 anno I740." 
 
 He left large collections behind him ; but published 
 only the " Memoirs of British Ladles who have been 
 celebrated for their Writings or Skill in the Learned 
 Languages, Arts, or Sciences, 175:2," 4to; re-printed 
 in 8vo, 1775- The work was })rinted by subscrip- 
 tion, and the list of the public contributors towards 
 its support was such as did honour both to the 
 author and theniselves. 
 
 A very large- Collection of his ripist(!!ary Corre- 
 spondence is preserved in the Bodleian I.ibraiy. 
 
 No. IIL
 
 ( 471 > ^ 
 
 No. III. 
 
 THOMAS CARTE. (Vol. II. p. 192.) 
 
 Thomas Carte, son of the Rev. Samuel C^rte *, 
 (M. A. of Magdalen College, Oxford, prebendary of 
 Lichfield, vicar of St. Martin's, Leicester, and rector, 
 1^99j of Eastwell in that county) was born at 
 Clifton-upon-Dunsmoor, in Warwickshire, where 
 his father was at that time vicar ; and was baptized 
 there, hy immersion, April 23, iGSS. We have no 
 ac" iiit of the place where he received his grammar 
 
 * Who published two Sermons, in 1694 and 1705 ; " Tabula 
 Chro; .iogica Arcjiiepiscopatuum et Episcopatuum in Anglid et 
 WulliA, ortus, divisiones, translationes, &c. breviter exhibensj 
 una cum indict alphabetico nominum, quibus apud authores 
 insigniuntuFj concinnata per Sam. Carte, Vic. S. Martini, Leieestr. 
 et explicata per eumiem, ' folio, uithout date. Part of a letter 
 of Iiis to Mr. Humphrey VVanley, dated Aui^. 7, 1710, concerning 
 a tesi.elated pavement found about 1670, near All :?aints church 
 in Leicester, with a drawing of it by B. Garland, is in Phil. 
 Trans. No. 331, p 324. And his account of that town, in an- 
 swer to some queries of Browne Willis, esq. (from a MS. in the 
 Bodleian Library) is printed in the Bibliothcca Topographica 
 Britannica. His assistance to Dr. Willis is gratefully acknow- 
 ledged in the Preface to the second %oIurae of " Mitred Abbeys;" 
 and to him Dr. Stukeley inscribes his plan of Roman Leicester, 
 plate 92of hisItinerai-y,vol. I. He is said iuLet.--oi)ie's "Preacher's 
 Assistant" to have been vicar of St. Mary's, and in Phil. Trans, 
 is miscalled a icar of St. MargareCs. Of the last of these mis- 
 nomers he has himself taken notice in one of his MSS. which 
 was shewn to Mr. Cole by Dr. Farmer; and the other was a mis- 
 take. He was vicar of St. Martins ; and the time of his death, 
 with some trails of hi^ character, will appear from the follow- 
 ing inscription on a -.tone in the floor of the cliancel at the steps 
 of the altar of that church . 
 
 " Tlie remains of 
 
 Samukl Carte, M.A. many years 
 
 Vicar of this parish. He was a peison 
 
 of great learning, exem])laiy life 
 
 and conversation, strict piety, 
 
 sound judgment, orthodox princi])lcs, 
 
 and a zealous and able defender |- of the 
 
 f This will be illustrated by his condu<'t to Mr. Jackson; of houi see 
 the Articlt; (N'c. IV. > which follows this. It is somewhat e.\traordiiiarv 
 that the word " able" is an intriiueatiun ou the stone. 
 
 doctrine
 
 47^ I-ITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 learning ; but his academical education was in Uni- 
 versity college, Oxford, where he was admitted 
 1698. He took his bachelor's degree in 1702 ; 
 was afterwards incorporated at Cambridge, and 
 took his master's degree there in the year lyo^). 
 In 1712 he made the tour of Europe, as appears 
 by a letter from his fathei- to Henry Wanlcy : 
 
 " My son Thomas is going to travel with my 
 
 Lord into Holland, France, Italy, &c. &c. I 
 
 suppose he will be in London about ten days or a 
 fortnight hence, when he will wait upon you to 
 desire some instruction in relation to MSS. and 
 other books, and which I hope you will give him, 
 to render his travels more useful to him. S. Carte*." 
 
 Upon his entering jnto holy orders, he was ap- 
 pointed reader of the Abbey church at Bath ; and, 
 preaching there on the 30th of January 1714, he 
 took occasion in his sermon to vindicate Ring 
 Ciiarles the First with regard to the Irish Massacre, 
 which drew him into a controversy on that subject 
 with Mr. (afterwards the celebrated Dr.) Chandler. 
 He immediately published a pamphlet, in 4to, in- 
 tituled, " The Irish Massacre set in a clear Light, 
 wherein Mr. Baxters Account of it in the History 
 of his own Life, and the Abridgment thereof by 
 Dr. Calamy, are fully considered ; together with 
 two Letters from Mr. Chandler, reviving the afore- 
 said Account, to the Rev. Mr, Thomas Carte, at 
 Bath; with his two Replies to Mr. Chandler." This 
 is inserted in Lord Somers's Tracts. 
 
 doctrine of the Holy Trinilv. 
 
 He died Apri] 16'th, 1740,' 
 
 in the S/th year of his age, in full 
 
 assurance of a joyful rebiirrection. 
 
 Neai; this })lacc lie inteiTed 
 
 Ann I wife and P^lizabeth daughter 
 
 of the said Saiuuel Carte. 
 
 Here Heth the body of Sakah Carte, daughter 
 
 of the Rev. Samuel Carte, who died March 
 
 6th, 1773, in the 72d year of her age." 
 
 * Birch MSS. 4463. b. 10. 
 
 % She is supposed to have (lied younj. 
 
 On
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 47J 
 
 On the accession of the present Royal Family, he 
 refused to take the oaths to the Government, and 
 put on a lay habit ; and at one time assisted the 
 celebrated Jeremiah Collier, who preached to a Non- 
 juring congregation up two pair of stairs in a house 
 in Broad-street, London. Yet he would put on his 
 gown and cassock orf a Sunday, and perform divine 
 service in his own family. I know not what share he 
 took in the Rebellion of 1715 ; but am well assured 
 that at the close of it he was concealed at Coleshill, 
 from the search of the King's troops, in the house 
 of Mr. Badger, then curate of that town and of 
 Over Whitaker, chaplain to the Earl of Aylesford, 
 and afterwards rector of Bedworth in Warwickshire. 
 Mr, Carte officiated some time as curate of Coles- 
 hill; and is said to have acted as secretary* to Bishop 
 Atterbury before his troubles. 
 
 In 17^2 he was accused of high treason; and a 
 proclamation was issuetl, Aug. I3, offering a reward 
 of 1000/. for apprehending him. He fled, and re- 
 sided some time in France, under the borrowed 
 name of PhUlps ; and, being introduced to most 
 men of learning and family in that country, he 
 gained access to all Libraries, public and private, 
 and collected large materials for illustrating an in- 
 tended new edition of Thuanus; wlrich was in such 
 forwardness in 1724, that he consulted i\\c nmnifi- 
 cent Dr. Mead on the mode of publication ; who, 
 j>erceiving that the plan might be made more ex- 
 tensively useful, obtained Mr. Carte's materials, 
 prefio kaud exiguo, and engaged Mr. Buclvley in 
 the noble edition -[-, in seven volumes folio, already 
 described, in the present volume, p. 25. 
 
 * It appears by tle Re[)()r( of tlic ConnnU'vCt! of the Hoii^c of 
 Cominoiih that he kucccciled Kelly ; ami that a riotous election 
 at C ovcntiy had hejMi frrcatly animated hy ("arte. 
 
 t It may nalinally enough he a-kcd, wliy Mr, Carte himself 
 was not allowed to superintend this edition of Thuanus. He 
 j)i-obal)ly woidd have he(>n the principal editor, but that he wa 
 tlien abroad in exile. Tlie Latin aildress to Dr. Mead, prefixed 
 to the work, and dated from the Inner Temple, 7kal. Jan. 173.^, 
 wab sijrneil " Thouias Carlo," but probably received ionie cor- 
 rections
 
 474 LITERARY ANECDOTfi5. 
 
 Whilst this was carrying on, Queen Caroline, 
 the universal patroness of learned men, having re- 
 ceived some favourable impressions of Mr. Carte, 
 obtained leave for him to return home in security ; 
 which he did, some time between 1728 and 1730. 
 
 In 1735 he published the third vohime* of his 
 *' Life of the Duke of Ormonde," which he com- 
 
 rections from Professor Wiinl, who translated into elegant Latin 
 the three introductory Letters of Mr. Buckley; whose particular 
 acknowledgments are made to INlr. Carte, for having communi- 
 cated his numerous collections from MSS. and printefl copies ; 
 for correcting the orthography of proper names ; for his useful 
 explanatory notes ^ for revising the Life of Tlmauus, and com- 
 piling the indexes. But Mr. Buckley shall speak for himself: 
 ** Variantes lectiones ex MSS. cunctiscpae editionibus collectas, 
 et nominum propriorum interpretationes, Cartius in exemplari^ 
 quod prelo erat parandum, accurate descripsit. In quem tineui 
 clum totum^ opus evolvit, plurima quoque in utraque Genevensi 
 editione errata typog-ia})hica correxit, notis etiam brevioribus in 
 extremfi paginfv adscriptis multa explicuit, et qua^dam emendavit. 
 Ad hsec ingentem numerum propriorum nominvmi, qute k Pu- 
 teano praitermissa erant, ex auctoribus ipsis, uncle ntirrationcs 
 suas hauserat Thuanus, aliisque illius sevi scriptoribus, interpre- 
 tatus est. Qui in re de omnibus sanb emditis^ atque adeS de 
 Thuano ipso, optime meritus esse videtur Simile quo- 
 que studiuin et industriam in vi({l auctoiis recensciula idem vir 
 doctus posvxit; qvi et in sex llistoriae tomorum, vitieque in sep- 
 timo tomo, indicibus quos coniicerc su.>oepil, cum adhibiturum 
 pariter expectare licebit." Mr. Buckley's iirat letter is dated 
 " ipsis kalend. Jan. 17'28:" the second, " 7 id. Doc. 172S;" the 
 third, " ipsis kal. Oct. 1730." His Delication to King George IL 
 is dated "7 kal. Jan. 1/33." 
 
 * This volume, which contains a collection of letters written 
 by King Charles t!:e First and Second, the Duke of Ormond, 
 the Secretaries of State, the I\larquis of Clanrickai'de, &c. &c. 
 (intended to verify the History) was ])ublished iir>t, that the re- 
 ferences to the proper pages of it might be made in the other volumes. 
 In an unpid^lished IcHer to Dr. Z. Giey, date d IMiy 14, 1736, 
 lie saj's, " I was laid up four mtmths this winter by the gravel 
 and a lunibago, caught by coming to town in December, and 
 lying one night at Ak'.'rman Barber's, in a bed not lain in since 
 the May bei'Dre. 1 tliank Gtxl it is at last over ; but it has hin- 
 dered my other ttvo volumes from being printed before this 
 time. They will be fmisbed in ten days more, there being only 
 about six sheets moie to print, and will be delivered in the 
 beginning of June. However I send you now .six copies of the 
 Letters, and shall be obliged to you for disposing of them. I 
 -up})Ose you ha\e read that volume, and seen there the letters 
 jeluting TG the Earl of Glamorgan^ who certainly forged every 
 
 com-
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 475 
 
 pleted, by the publication of the two first volumes, 
 in 1/^6; a publication which was afterwards of 
 
 commission he pretended to from the King. I give you his 
 character in the History very justly, but yet too tenderly drawn, 
 because I am naturally unwilling to lyy a load, on any man's 
 memoiy, except 1 am absolutely forcetl to it. I intimate (so 
 strongly vhat nobody of common sense can mistake the thing) 
 that he forged letters and conunlsbions witliout number ; and I 
 could have produced the compiler of the Nuncio's memoirs in 
 evidence (who had all those coannissions before his eyes, and all 
 the papers signed by Glamorgan to tlie ^Nuncio), to prove the 
 commissions and letters he pretended to from King Charles ab- 
 solutely forged ; for he says he was perfectly actjuainted witti 
 Glamorgan's secretary, and knew iiis hand-writing as well as 
 his own ; and all those coinmib=ii>ns ana letters were wrote in 
 the hand of an Irish priest, wiio was Gkuuoigaii's secretary. I 
 considered that it is a delicate thhig to suy in ex})iess terms that 
 such a writing is forged ; forgery is a churge to a great Noble- 
 man as little to be used as the word lii^ to a Gentleman ; other 
 words are to be ti^ed to express the same nieauing in i)Oth cases. 
 I have done so in Glamorgan's c.t-e : and I can \eiy li'uly tell my 
 friends the Duke of Beaidbrt and Lcud Zsoe! Somerset, that I 
 have treated their ancestor tenderly ; though I really belie\ e no 
 man that reads my book will think that I i.ave done so, boaides 
 myself, who know what I have oniitlt^d to say. I have tloiie the 
 same in other cases; but if any will tiiink tit to dispute that 
 measure of iniquity which I assign to ai.y one m;in in my His- 
 tory (which I only do for the sake of doing justice to tlie King 
 or some other injured person) 1 aai leady lo make up his full 
 accompt, which my tenderness to him m x\c -me decline, till I 
 should be forced to it. I sliail wiite soiiielhing m(;ie to you 
 on this subject v.li(ni I write le.^s in a iuiiry tlian 1 do now." 
 In a subsequent letter, ..'.m. IH, l7;^;-7, he ;ulds, " I am 
 ashamed of beirig so long .-silent --ince luy ii'tiirn from Bath 
 in November la-t, and know not \shether )()u v.ill admit the 
 following relation for a just e\(u.-t : I w;is eaUed thenee to 
 take measures for ])reventim;' a jiiradeal iraj)ression of mv work 
 in Ireland, nndei'taken there b\ some I)ul).in bookscilers. No 
 friend I had in Lond(<n, nor any booisselier I wus acquainted 
 with, could suggest to me any method of iciief ; Init ar lu^t call- 
 ing to mind an order of the House (jf i^oid-, made in 1721, 
 upon Curll's })rinting tlie Duki; of ii.iekingliaiirs Lif(>, and 
 pirating his works, 1 consulted llie I'arliam; nt-oiiiee, and found 
 it full for my })ur|;obe, declaring that uliosoe\er should presume 
 to priiit any account of the Life, the Letlei:!, or other Works of 
 any deceased Peer, without the consent of his lieirs or executors, 
 should be punislied as giulty of a breieh of privilege t)f IJiat 
 House. I carncM.1 an attested cojiy of this order to Lord Arran 
 and his Lordslup .sent it to his agent in Duijlia, to serve u\)(n\ 
 the Bookseileia eoacc^jned in that design, and discharge them in 
 
 his
 
 476'. 4-nERARY ANFXDOTKS. 
 
 singular service to I>i-. Leiaiui, in the third volume 
 of his History of Ireland. 
 
 h\f> name finm prococding^ heroin. This, I hope, hii.'* stopped 
 their piinting" ; but. ios it is ;i remedy only in my case, uad aris- 
 ing: from the ])artieular nature of my work, there is still an ab- 
 solute necessity for a new act of parliament to se(!ure the pro- 
 perty of Authors ill their \^'orks ; and I shonld hope that %our 
 Ilniven-ity would petition this seobion for such an act, of which 
 Lord Cornbun', at the instance of Oxford, has a draught already 
 made, ^Jiich has been approved by the Speaker, and will cau^e 
 yfte u gooti deal of attendance in town this session. The hurry 
 of that affair was not quite over, v.hen, going out of town sooner 
 than 1 intended, one night in December, to Winchmore Hill, 
 Avhere all my books and papers ate. and getting up at six in 
 the morning (the servants being ail in bed), and coming down 
 in the dark into the parlour where I usually sit and keep the 
 papers I am using for the time, I found it on fiie, and about 
 three feet in breadth of the top of the v.ainscot burnt. This 
 was occasioned by a beam being put close under the hearth of a 
 chamber above. Had I not discovered it in time, the whole, 
 house would liave been burnt. As it was, all my papeis Nvxre 
 hurried away, and put into a terrible confusion ; and though I 
 have looked several times for your last letter, I could not find it 
 till this moment that I sit down to answer it. My book has been 
 entirely printed ever since July last, when I advertised that my 
 Subscribers might Jiave it at my Printer's. It will not be pub- 
 lished till next week after the meeting of the Purlianient ; but if 
 the subscribers you were so kind as to procure for me at Cam- 
 bridge wo\ild hai e their books sent down, and v\ill tell me how, 
 J will take care to send them. I fiincy, after it comes to be 
 genendly read, we shall hear no moie of accusations or reilec- 
 tions on the King, with regard to the Rebellion of Ireland. I 
 Iiave cleared all that affair so much to the satisfaction of the 
 most considerable men of all parties, that 1 have received from 
 both Whigs and Tories such comi)liment3 and expressions of 
 esteem, that I know not whether I deserve, but I am sure I did 
 not expect. All I shall say of it is, that no book was ever wrote 
 with more integrity ar?d impartiality; and if all the load and 
 odium of the Irish rebellion, encouragement of the rebels, and 
 faint prosecution of the war, is laid ujion the Parliament, I 
 ;oulfl not help it. and wrote what I foimd, what I can sup])ort 
 bv undeniable evidence, and Mhat I was in conscience obliged to 
 write. This Glamorgan's Secretary was an Irisli prie.'^t, bred up 
 xvith the digester of the IMemoirs. I shew in my History that 
 Glamorgan had left Oxford, had put to sea, and had like to have 
 been taken in the Irish Channel before April '>0 ; and though he 
 did escape into the North of England, y(>t nobody at Oxford knew 
 afterwards where he was, nor could any letters (especially such 
 145 that to the Pope) be sent to him. In fine^ I have not the 
 
 least
 
 THOMAS CARTE, 477 
 
 In this work he appears to have profited consi- 
 derably by the instructions he had received from 
 Dr. Swift * ; to whom, in a letter dated from 
 
 least doubt but that Glamor^n forged every pretended power 
 or commission he had ; and all of them so fully express his vanity, 
 and are so adapted to his present views (views which in most 
 cases could not arise till after he was in lieland), that they could 
 have no other author but himself. I must observe to you, thai 
 this letterV being directed to the Nuncio, is the only original of 
 the King's uniting among his papei's (for Glamorgan only gave 
 him copies translated of the othersf) j and whatever commissiou, 
 or other powers, instructions, or letters, Glamorgan pretended 
 to the Nuncio to have from the King, must be in a hand agree- 
 able to that which the Nuncio iiad as an original." In a third 
 letter, Feb. 2'2, 173lj-7, he says, " I will endeavour to do what 
 you recommended to me in a less volume than the woik 1 hav& 
 now published, that so it may come into the hands of all the 
 workl. It shall be done some way or other. But I must fir.^r. 
 make some searches, wliich I sliall have an opportunity of doing 
 in a short time. For though I am eiitirely satisfied the Lord 
 Herbeit assumed of himself the title of Earl of Glamorg;ui, ani 
 ne\er had any fiant for it, nor any privy seal, nor auy graiit 
 imder the signet, nmch less under tlie bread seal ; yet my ex- 
 actm-ss will not let me assert a thing positively, till I have 
 searched into every thing tluit can give any light into the huhject. 
 bir William Dug<lale, who had gone through almost all our 
 Recoi'ds, at least such as relate to our Nobility, takes no notice 
 in his Baronage of any such title. There i.-i among his MS paper* 
 in the Bodleian liijrary at Oxford a list of all the (iants, grants 
 under the signet for honovns and oMices, whilst the King was at 
 <)xford, witii the date of eacli^'a??/, wai-vant, and gram. Theix; 
 is no snch thing mentioned in tU:it cjitaloguv. But: F vropc^-e 
 likewise to search the Signet or Se.cret;iiie.s office Ikto, tiicPriw 
 Seal, aiul the PajJcr-oHice, to see iflhfre be any meution of suck 
 a grant or warrant t(j Lord Hcrlicri ; i'l/r, if there was none such, 
 nobody can dispute but that all his j)retended co^iiuiisions di- 
 rected to him as Kail of Cilamorgan were mer^ forgeries.' 
 
 [" if Hcrbi-rt never wa^ (ilamorgan. to be siu'e ...i counnissiou 
 i'oiiUl come to iiiui as such ; but 'tis wonderful that he should 
 ibrgc such a pi-.tent, because if any c(Hui)iissiin or letter came to 
 him from the King, it woidd in^-tantly dc-truy all the connnistions 
 he had before jretended to. Tha! bold forgeries, iutended lo 
 produce important con^equenct^s, were pracliocd at that time, i.s 
 certain: witne.-s the instrument thai broughi the ."^'otch inlu 
 i:ingiand al the beginning of the rebellion, i\r." T. ['.] 
 
 * " bii:, Ihiving at lasr, after a long ajijdicalion, and in the 
 midst of sharp rheumatic pain^, the eii'ects of a sedentary life, 
 
 f " li tiliituoigaii ui)[\ !ra>f 'ojiifs transl.tt' d (ifth" (.i'ut rciniiriis^ion', 
 it is no nr'.-at iNvnocv ^h;U thrv 'ij(i'il i"- .wiffii iii hm '^rrt'tai-vN 
 iiund- T. F. 
 
 Jiiii-hf d
 
 478 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Mr. Awnsbaw's in Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, 
 August II, I73C', he communicated his plan for 
 writing a History of England. 
 
 finished ray History of the Life of fJiefrxt Dnhe of Ormonde, and of 
 the Ajffairs of Inliind in hi,i Time, I here sent! you a copy of that 
 work, of which I hoir your acceptance. I have endeavoured to 
 follow the inf-triiclio)i.s you gave me, and ho])e I have done so in 
 some measure. If it have your approbation in any degree, it 
 will be so much to my satistaction. It hath been long subject 
 of complaint in England, that no history has yet been wrote of 
 it upon authentic and ])ro|;er m:vterials ; and even those who 
 have taken notice of the miiitaiy actions of our ancestors, have 
 vet left the civil Iiistory of the kingdom (the most instructive of 
 anv) untouched, for want of a pioper knowledge of the anti- 
 (piitics, usages, laws, and constitution, of this nation. Rapin de 
 'I'hoyras, the last writer, was a foreigner, utterly ignorant in 
 these lespects ; and, writing his histoiy abroad, had no means of 
 clearing up any difficulties that he met v.ith therein. He made, 
 indetnl, some use of Rymer's Foedera; but his ignorance of our 
 customs suffered him to fall into gross mistakes, for want of 
 understanding the phraseology of acts, which have reference to 
 our particular customs. Besides, Rymer's collection contains 
 only such treaties as were enrolled in the Tower, or in the rolls 
 of C'haticery : he knew nothing of such as were enrolled in the 
 Exchecpiei', and of the public treaties with foreign princes en- 
 rolled in this latter office. 1 have now a list of abo\e four 
 hvmdred bv me. Rymer never made use of that vast collection 
 of mateii:ds for an English history, which is preserved in the 
 lotton Library ; nor e\ er consulted any Journal or our Privy 
 Council ; whenev<'r he refers to any, still quoting Bishop Burnet 
 for liis author. He never read the Rolls of Parliament, nor anr 
 Journal of either House, where the chief affairs within the Na- 
 tion are transacted ; and did not so much as know there was 
 such a place as tlie Pajicr-office, where all the letters of the 
 .Ena:lish ambassadoi-s abroad, and all the dispatches of our se- 
 cretaries of state at liome, from the time of Edward the Fourth 
 lo the Revolution (^ince which the secretaries have generally 
 carried away their })apers) are kept in a good method, and with 
 ^reat regulaiity ; so th;;t he wanted likewise the best materials 
 ibr an account of our foreign alfaiis. These defects have made 
 sc\eral of our no'nility and gentry desire a new history to be 
 w rote, in which the above-mentioned, and other materials, as 
 authentic as they, may be made use of. They have ])roposed it 
 to me : and in} ob'it ciions regarding the vastness of the expence 
 as \v(;ll as labour, tliat, to satisfy myself, I must have all mate- 
 rials i)V me; not only copies out of our records, journals, &c. in 
 En!2;land, but even copies of negotiations of forei::::n ambassadors 
 at tills court fe.g. of tlie French; all the negotiations and letters 
 <>f which, for iw<j hundred years past, 1 knew where to have 
 
 copied) i
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 47^ 
 
 In 1738 he published, on a separate sheet, "A 
 general Account of tlie necessary Materials for an 
 History of England, the Society and Subscriptions 
 proposed for defraying the Expences thereof, and 
 the Method wherein Mr. Carte intends to proceed 
 in carrying on the same Work *." Of his progress 
 in this business he thus wrote to Dr, Grey, dated 
 from Mr. Ker's, at the Golden Head, in Great 
 Newport-street, Oct. 4, I738: "When I received 
 the favour of your letter of July 26, I intended to 
 have set out the week following for Madingley, 
 and to have had the pleasure of waiting on you at 
 Houghton Conquest in my way; but an unwelcome 
 summons from Warwickshire calling me thither to 
 appeal against being raised in the land-tax, broke 
 my design, and indeed my journey, because I con- 
 cluded Sir J. H. Cotton would be gone to Oxford 
 before I could get to his house, when my appeal 
 
 copiefl) ; they have proposed a subscription of a thousand a year, 
 for as many years as the work will require, to defray this ex- 
 pence. The subscription is begun, and will (I believe) be com- 
 pletetl this winter: and then that woik will employ all my time- 
 One advantag;e I already find from the very talk of this design ; 
 having been oiFered several collections and memoirs of particidar 
 persons, considei'iible in their time, which 1 did not know were 
 in being, and which v.ouid else no part of them ever see the 
 light ; and the manner of the History's being carried on will 
 probably make every body open their stoies. This is one reason, 
 among many otheis, which makes me very desirous of ha^ing 
 your judgment of the work I have now published, and that you 
 would {)(>int out to vne such faults as I would fain coirect in my 
 designed woik. It will l)e a very particular favour to a person 
 who is, with the greate-t cstt^-m and rcopect, Sir, your very 
 obliged and obedient servant, 'J'iio.MAS ('akxk." 
 
 Many of the assertions, however, in the precerling letter are 
 trroneous. Whoever will be at the pains of ((jiisuUing that 
 valuable treasvwe called Ilymer's Ffi'dc-ra, will find tliat nu!n- 
 . berless treaties and other matiriiis wvrv ('(illeclcd from the 
 records of the Exche(pu'r, .-ince leu.'Dvcd into tiic (haj iter- house, 
 and also from the Cotton Libiary. i\!.r.( V.rle :;Cem.- also to have 
 been imac(pKiinte'' with the condition of liie Stme Papcr<, ivhirii 
 were formeily kept in the *M (;ateu;'.y at \Vhiteiiall, but uhiik 
 are now deposited within the buildin of the ri'u>^urv. 
 
 '^ Reprinted in Gent. Mag. that y-.i, i).2'l7. .iG4. 
 
 was.
 
 480 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 was over. However 1 wrote to Mr. Bettenham that 
 I W'oiild take and dispose of ten copies of your 
 Answer to Neal's fourth volume, as 1 did of your 
 late Answer. I liave since sent for them ; but have 
 not had them, I suppose because they are not yet 
 pubhshed, or (as my bookbinder tells me from Mr. 
 Bettenham's servant when I sent for them) because 
 Mr. Bettenham does not print the book. I judge 
 this last is a mistake of my bookbinder; but if Mr. 
 Bettenham should not print it, I beg of you to 
 send me word who does. I believe Oxford will fill 
 by the end of this month; and then, 1 believe, about 
 fifteen of the Colleges will subscribe towards my 
 undertaking. As soon as that is done, I propose 
 to try what those of Cambridge will do, in which I 
 promise myself your good olfices. I have sent one 
 of my Proposals to your neighbour Mr. Ongley 
 (who, I sm told, is a very honest gentleman, of an 
 ample fcrtune, and generous spirit), and have wrote 
 to him on that subject. I do not know him perso- 
 nally ; but he will consider the reason of the thing 
 what is said in my letter, which possibl}', with your 
 reasoning with him thereon, may induce him to 
 subscribe. I have now 6'00/. a year either sub- 
 scribed or promised me by gentlemen at a distance, 
 who will siiin their names to the instrument when 
 they come to town ; so that I am in little doubt but 
 the v.ork will go on ; and nothing troubles me but 
 the delay in completing the subscription, that 1 
 may get a meeting of the contributors, and fall to 
 executing my scheme. 'Tis a large sum to be 
 raised by private persons ; public bodies will, I 
 hope, follow the example of the Chapter of Durham, 
 who subscribed their ^20 guineas a year, and make 
 up the rest." 
 
 Soon after the date of this letter, he was resi- 
 dent at Cambridge, collecting materials for such 
 purpose from the University and other libraries. 
 His head-quarters were at INIadingley, with the late 
 Sir John Hinde Cotton, hart, wliose great collection 
 
 of
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 48I 
 
 of old pamphlets and journals, published during the 
 great Rebellion (between 1640 and the Restoration) 
 he metliodized, and had bound in a great number of 
 volumes, now in the Library there. 
 
 March 8, 1744, a cause was determined in his 
 favour in Chancery, in which he was plaintiff, and 
 his brother and sister, Samuel * and Sarah, defen- 
 
 * Samuel Carte was admitted scholar of Trinity hall, Csun- 
 bridge, May 5, 1704, and proceeded LL. B. He was afterwards 
 a member of Symonds Inn, practised as a solicitor in Chancery 
 Jn 1708, was eniinent in his protossion, and a learned Antiquary. 
 Most of his MSS. and antiquarian papers (it is believed) were 
 sold by his widow all together to the late learned Antiquary 
 bir Thomas Cave, bart. Mr. Samuel Carte assisted Dr. Jack- 
 son, school-mabter of Coventiy, in his " Account of the Be- 
 nefactions and Charities belonging to tiiat City, particularly 
 that of Sir Thomas White, Lond. 1733, Svof. He also, though 
 his name does not appear, was the editor of the " Collectanea 
 Ecclesiastica, by Samuel Brewster, esq. 1752," 4tO; and added 
 many learned notes to that curious work. In the latter part of 
 life he had chambers in Symonds Inn, but resided opposite to 
 Dr. Stukeley, in the passage which leads from Queen's-aquare to 
 Southampton-row. He was alive in 1760, but died not long 
 after. I have some valuable letters of his in MS. on various 
 matters of Antiquity. His brother John was admitted of the 
 same Hall Jan. 9, 1707, where he took the degree of LL. B. He 
 was chaplain to William the fifth LordDigbyj and was presented 
 by his father (who possessed the advowson in right of his pre- 
 bend) to the vicarage of Tachbroke, in the county of Waiwick ; 
 aod afterwards, by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, to 
 that jf Hinckley, in Leicestershire, where he was inducted 
 Dec. ^0, 1720, and resided till his death, Sept. 17, 17^5. He 
 seldom failed to preach twice every Sunday in the church at 
 Hinckley, and once in Stoke church, of which he enjoyed the 
 rectory as annexed to the vicarage of Hinckley. Tlie last time 
 he preached was the Funeral Sermon of his Clerk James Merry, 
 after which he never more was able to attend the duties of the 
 church. The Sermon at his own funeral was preached by Dr. 
 Jackson above mentioned to a crowded congregation at Hinck- 
 ley, where Mr. Carte was b\iried, in the chancel, near the com- 
 munion table ; and where no other memorial remains to his 
 memory than an inscription on a gallery, that it was .erected in 
 1723, while he was vicar; though his surviving parishioners 
 still speak of his learning, his probity, his simplicity of manners, 
 and his unaffected piety, with a degree of veneration. He was 
 a most zealous asserter of the rites and ceremonies of the Church 
 
 f MS note by Dr. Richardipn, communicated by the Rev. William Cole. 
 Vot. II, 1 1 . of
 
 482 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 dants, occasioned by a doubt in bis fatlier's will. 
 By the report in this case (Atkyns III. I74.) it ap- 
 
 of England, which, he justly observed, were equally I'emote from 
 the extremes of Popery and Fsinaticisin ; and his o];iiuons were, 
 founded on the firm basis of Scripture, witli ^^hich he was so 
 intimately acquainted, as to be able to repeat Jhe greater j)art 
 of the Bible. A favourite book of his Avas " Bi.s^e's Beauty of 
 Holiness;" which, he said, was worth its weij.i:;ht in gold. 
 Piloses Enjanuel, a .Tew of uncommon letuning, well known in 
 that part of the crmntry as a travelling pedlai-, received always 
 much pleasure from the conversation of Mr. Carte; who, in 
 return, took amazing pains to convince hiin of the truths of 
 Cliristianity. Their friendly altercations were long and frequent, 
 and turned principally upon the lifty-fivst and fifty-third chap- 
 ters of Isaiah. His absence of mind is lecollected in many re- 
 markable particulars. Some yeais before his death he paid his 
 addresEes to Miss Dugdale, of BlylhHall, near Coleshill (a lineal 
 descendant of the illustrious Antiquaiy), and the wedding-day 
 was fixed ; but he actually forgot to go till the day after that 
 which was agreed on, when the lady with indignation refu.-ed 
 lier hand, and the match w as broken off. Por]ietually absorbed 
 in thouglit, he was careless in his dress, and totally destitute of 
 oeconomy. He even carried his carelessness in money matters to 
 such a degree, that when the inhabitants of Stoke have brought 
 to him the tithes, which he never took the trouble to ask for, 
 he has not uncommonly (if he chanced to be engaged ^vith a 
 book) requested them to come at a future time, though perhaps 
 the next hour he was obliged to boiTow a guinea for subsistence. 
 The vicarage-house adjoins to the church-yard ; yet he was 
 ffequently so engaged in study, that the sermon bell rang till 
 the congregation were weary of waiting, and the clei'k was under 
 the necessity of reminding liim of his duty. During the fifteen 
 years in which he was vicar of Hinckley, he neglected to make 
 any demand for tithes of the hamlet of The Hyde in that 
 parish ; which his administrator discovering after his death, 
 made a claim on the inhabitants of tli;it hamlet for tithes in 
 kind; and, to recover them, tiled a bill in Ciiancery ; which 
 came to a hearing inEa.ster term 1747- the Defendants insi.!,ted 
 that* the vicarage was ne\er endowed, and that a contributory 
 payment of seventeen shillings wtvich had formerly been made 
 w<is in lieu of all tithes ; and that tithes in kind were not paid 
 within memory of man. Mr. Thomas (arte, being obliged to prove 
 the endowmeni, as his brother vv as only vicar, and not rector, 
 procured from the Abbot of Lyra in Nonuandy, to which abbey 
 Hinckley had formerly been appendant as an alien priory, an at- 
 tested copy of a grant, in 1209, to the vicar of that i)arish. This 
 instiument, however, as Dr. Ducarel informed me, having 
 been unluckily signed by the Abbot, and not by the Registi-ar of 
 the Abbey, it was not admitted to be read in evidence) and as 
 
 the
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 48^ 
 
 bears that Mr. Samuel Carte the elder had made 
 i'liomas his eldest son executor and residuary le- 
 
 the impropriators (the Dean and Chapter of Westminster) did 
 not think proper to disclaim their right,, to the tithes, which 
 might have put an end to the question in favour of Mr. Carte, 
 an isViue was directed, " to try whetlier the vicar of Hinckley is 
 intilled to tithes in kind for the hamlet of Hide, in the parish of 
 Hinckley." (Atkyns's Report?, HI. 426.) This issue was after- 
 wards tried ; when the jury found th;'.t the vicar in his life-time 
 was not intitled to tithes in kind 5 and on July 17, 1749, the bill 
 ^vas dismissed with costs. The arrears of tlie modus, however, 
 were adjudged to .Mr. Carte. (Vezey's Reports, I. 3.) 
 
 The following veiy interestinix letter, addressed '' To the 
 Rev. Mr. John Carte, at ColesliilT in Warwickshire," is trans- 
 cribed from The original (amongst the MSS. of his brother 
 Thomas) in the Bodleian Library, U U U U, No 110. 
 
 " Sir, ' ' Sept. IS, I7I6, 
 
 " I now sit down to answer your last kind lettei- of the 16th 
 of July, which I had done .^noner but that I have been from 
 borne this vacation, and I know the nature of your unhappy 
 accident will necessarily coniine you a considerable time ; so 
 that I thought nothing was to be done in relation to the Monas- 
 ticon as yet. I hope by this time Mr. Dugdale has sent to Mr, 
 Bowyer for the plates of St. Paul's, s(j that he may be at liberty 
 to put his intended book to the press, which it will be now as 
 convenient a time as any to tlo ; tliat it may be published before 
 the new edition of GuilUm's Heraldry; which, you may find by 
 the advertisements, is ha.stening on apace. I should therefore 
 be glad to have Mr. Dugdale's tlioughts of the matter, and to 
 have the Uianuscript (when he has added what he thinks proper) 
 sent up to me, that the printer may cast it off, and see how 
 nmcli it makes, and what volume it will be best to print it in. 
 I have now one of the iiaronage by me ; and, considering what 
 large additions Sir William has made to it, I begin to think a 
 Proposal for re-printing it cannot be amiss, in case we can pro- 
 cure a g(Kxl hand to continue it to the present time, in Sir Wil- 
 liam's m<'thod. I have the same opinion of the Warwickshire, 
 if it can receive any additions from any worthy hand tliat re- 
 sides amongst you. It now grows scarce; and, as the plates are 
 all in being, it will very much moderate the expence. The 
 printing of this Tract you mention will enable me to Icel the 
 pulse of the publick in relation to the two last works, as well 
 as the MoniLsticon ; the plates of which, for the first and third 
 volumes, I look upon to be quili* lost. I have renewed my en- 
 quiry about the E.vecuturs of Mr. Xevvcomb, aud find he left his 
 son e.xecutor ; who died a great many years ago, and left his 
 wife exeeutn.x, and one son a minor; who is since dead, and 
 the wife old, and 7ion compos mentis. The printing-house, and 
 all the utextsUs, they sold to iMr. Joncvi, who formerly printed 
 
 1 1 2 the
 
 4^ LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 gatee; but in one clause (added in 1739), it was 
 provided, " that if he should be molested and prose- 
 cuted by the Government, by which he might incu^ 
 a forfeiture, or could not be his executor," then 
 Samuel and Sarah * were to be executors, and to 
 possess what was given to Thomas. 
 
 On the 9th of Slay 1744 Mr. Thomas Carte was 
 discharged out of custody -|-, into which he had been 
 taken (with Mr. Garth) on the suspension of the 
 Habeas Corpus act; and on tlie l8th of July that 
 year, the Court of Common Council of the City of 
 London agreed " to subscribe fifty pounds a year 
 for seven years to Mr. Carte, towards defraying 
 the charges of his writing the History of England." 
 
 *^ A Collection of the several Papers published by 
 Mr. Thomas Carte, in relation to his History of 
 England; containing, 1. His Proposals |. for re- 
 
 the Votes ; since whose death it came into the hands of one 
 Nutt } whom I have discoursed, but he caimot give the least 
 account of them 5 and I am afraid they have been destroyed long 
 since. I beg the favour of you, with my humble service, to 
 conmmnicate this to Mr, Dugdalej and when either of you have 
 leisure I should be glad of a line, to know your opinion of these 
 matters. Wishing you all health and ha])piness, I am, 
 
 Your most obliged humble servant to command, Tho. Wakd. 
 " Pray my humble service to my Lord Digby, if at Coleshill 
 Hall. I shall begin to send the News this post.' 
 
 * This lady left 48i!. a year to the parish of Great Wig-ston, 
 in Ivoicestershire, for prayers to be read there on Wednesdays 
 and Fridays, and a second time on Sundays, for ever. 
 
 f Whilst \mder examination, the Duke of Newcastle asked 
 him if he was not a Bishop. " No, my Lord Duke," replied 
 Mr. Carte ; " there are no bishops in England but what are made 
 by your Grace ; and I am sure T have no reason to expect that 
 honour." Dr. Ducarel, ex ore. In the Westminster Journal of 
 May 12, 1744, it was insinuated that Mr. Carte " was confined 
 for he knew not what, and discharged he knew not why." 
 
 \ " No country in Europe affords such a quantity and varietjp 
 of miiterials for its History, as England docs ; and yet none is 
 so destitute of a good one : a defect essy to be perceived, and 
 much to be lamented. Such of our writers, as have assumed the 
 venerable name of Historians* have generally, to provide them- 
 selves with materials, had recotirse to some old Chronicles, pre- 
 serving short and indigested memorials of public fects and trans- 
 actions in this kingdom j and have thence derived those accounts 
 
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 THOMAS CARTE. 485 
 
 nioving the Impediments of writing such a History; 
 2. His general Account of the Materials, &c. (as 
 
 of affairs 5 which, being dressed up in their own manner and 
 language, make the substance of their several histories, con- 
 taining Uttle more than the military exploits of our ancestors. 
 Materials of this kind were easily procured, being boirowed 
 from former Annalists without either labour or expence ; and, 
 when, by being put into a modern style, they became more 
 agreeable than they were in their uncouth originals, served well 
 enough to answer the views of those writers. The Civil His- 
 tory of tliis nation hath not been so much as attempted by any 
 man, except by Dr. Brady, foimerly keeper of the records in the 
 Tower. But, as his work is a, diy performance, and the recoids 
 which he hsis added to \erify it make near half of the volumes 
 whereof it is comj)Osed, few persons find an entertainment in 
 the reading of riis History. The work too, by his death, was left 
 imperfect ; so that an History of our Constitution, Laws, Usages, 
 Customs, and Mannei"s, with the various, sudden, or gradual 
 alterations which these haAC undei'gone in the couise of time, 
 and the effects thereof on the Nation, is still wanting ; though 
 infinitely more interesting and useful than any relations of bat- 
 tles, sieges, and military actions, which, excepting ^ difference 
 as to persons and places, and some variety of circumstances, are 
 much the same from the beginning to the end of the world. 
 To finish such a Civil Uistory as the importance of the subject 
 deserves, requires a vast expence as well as labour ; it cannot be 
 done without painful searches into Antiquity, and a large cor- 
 respondence with learned men who have made it their study, 
 nor without travelling through an infinite number of old records, 
 not easy to be read, nor always to be undeistood and ap{)lied to 
 their proper uses, without a constant attention and caieful ob- 
 servation. The Cotton Library containeth a prodigious number 
 t)f Memoirs for this pxu'pose ; and it is easy enough to be con- 
 sulted. But whether the great j)ains requisite to peruse, ex- 
 amine, and digest them, in order to form a judgment upon the 
 whole J or the want of a j)roper knowledge in matters of Anti- 
 quity, and consequently of a taste necessaiy to engage people to 
 examine into them ; or, in fine, the defect of ability to defray 
 the expence of living in London and maintaining a correspond- 
 ence with learned men, have deterred writers from seaiching 
 {LS they ought into that great treasure of En^^lish /Xntiquities ; it 
 is certain that no pi'oj)cr use hath yet been made of tlie valuable 
 pieces there reposed, for the dealing up of many material pas- 
 sages in our History. The like reas(jns have proi^ably hindered 
 them from making the like searches into our Records ; though a 
 small number of the instruments there preserved would in many 
 raes give a much belter light into some of the most remarkable 
 transactions in several leigns, than all the Histories of Kngland 
 hitherto published. Rapin, later in time than our other wri- 
 ters, enjoyed by that means one advantiige which all his prede- 
 cessors
 
 4^6 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 noticed in p. 479) ; and, 3. Advertisement in rela- 
 tion to Mr. Carte's History j" 8vo; was primed ii> 
 
 cessors wanted ; but withal he laboured under greater disadvan- 
 tages than an}' of vhcm with legard to a Civil History of this 
 Nation; as being a Foreigner, and utterly unacquainted with our 
 Constitutioji, Laws, and Customs, any farther than he could 
 learn in conversation, or pick up in coftee-hotises, the common 
 habitation of his countrymen in this city 5 so that his reasonings 
 or reflections upon the passages of former times are too often 
 founded upon the modern notions which he had thus imbibed. 
 Writing his Histoid abioad, he wanted an opportimity (if the 
 self-sufficiency, to which some natures ai'e subject, had not 
 fctifled in him the inclination) of consulting persons better versed 
 than himself in Antiquity, whose knowledge might ha^e supplied 
 his defects, and whose informations might have helped to form 
 or correct his judgment. The only advantage he had over others 
 was, that he wrote after Rymer's Fcederu was published : and this 
 circumstance, more than any other, contributed to recommend 
 his History. But as a great number of technical words, relative 
 to our particidar usages, are every where to be found in the in- 
 struments published in that Collection, he, thi'ough the want of 
 a sufficient knowledge of those usages, did not always under- 
 stand their true meaning. The part which he made most use 
 of in that work was, the j)ublic tieaties with foreign princes j 
 but of these Rymer himself hatli given us only an imperfect 
 collection; his work containing no treaties hui such as were en- 
 rolled in Chancery, and are preserved in the Tower of London, 
 or in tlie Office of the Rolls. Whilst I was in France, I was 
 curious in searching for every thing that concerned my yn"n 
 country 3 and have taken notes, or made abstracts, of near a 
 thousand instruments of treacles and transactioi^ between the 
 Crowns of England and France, which do not a])pear in Rymer, 
 and yei are preserved in the King of Fi'ance's Tresor ties Chai^rex, 
 and in the Rt'in^ters of tlie Cham'ore tics Comptes and of the 
 ParJeinerd oi Farh. There lie concealed at tliis time in our own 
 Archives some hundreds of the !ikf^])iiblic treaties with foreign 
 princes and states, which would atrbrd great light to our History. 
 I never observed in Rapiu any quoUition out of the .Journals 
 of our Pri\y Council, unless at second hand from Dr. Fhirnci's 
 History of the Refoi'inution ; though a conscientious Historian 
 would ne\ei' take up aiiv thing on tiust, where he mi^lit examine 
 the original, and a careful one would ne\er have omitted to 
 consult the Books of that Ctnmcil, wherein the most important 
 affiiirs, that pass as well within as without the Nation, are de- 
 baled and transacted. It doth not appear from his Work, that 
 he ever read, either the Rolls of Parliament, or the Journals of 
 either House; which yet must be deemed absolutely necessary 
 for an English Historian. It is certain that he never so much 
 as saw the Paper Office, or he could never have been guilty of 
 
 that
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 487 
 
 August. On the l8th of October, the Company 
 of Goldsmiths voted " twenty-five pounds a year, 
 
 that gross mistake, in affirming, that thei'e is not any one 
 letter, that pjissed between Oueen Manj of Scotland and Qneen 
 Elizabeth and her Mini'^ters, preserved in any of our Archives or 
 Repositories of pubHc Papers ; w hen, if he had ever looked into 
 the j)ress in that Office marked Scotland, an hundred labels 
 would have offered themselves to his sight, ])ut on different 
 bundles, and e\i)i'essing them to be letters from those very per- 
 sons to one another in different years from 1569 to 1587. In 
 this Office are preserved the Letters of all our Embassadoi"s in 
 Foreign Courts, and the Disinitches of the Lords of the Privy 
 Council, of the Clejks of the Council, and of our Seci'etaries of 
 State to those Embassadors, in a constant series, from tlie time of 
 Edward IV. down to the Re\ olution, in a regular order; besides 
 a great number of original Treaties and other papei's, which will 
 be found exceeding useful for an English Hl-tory. It \^ ill appear 
 strange to e\ery one, v\ ho considers how necessary these are for 
 the right understanding of our negotiations abroad, and our 
 transactions with foreign stales, that no Historian hath yet 
 made any use of the {)apers in tiiis Office. It is highly fitting, 
 that a writer of the Hi.>^loi y of any kingdom should be in a good 
 measure acquainted with the constitution, history, interests, 
 and situation of the countries adjoining, with which there is a 
 continual intercourse of fiieudly oi- hostile transactions. The 
 Records likewise of all Countries for the same reason furnish 
 abundance of Memoirs for the History of theii- Neighbours. This 
 I have found particularly in France, where the territories which 
 our Kings held of that Cro\vn obliged them to a perpetual Cor- 
 respondence ; as the oj)})ressioi>s which the provinces subject to 
 A";?:,' /ti suffered from ttieir (loxcrnors caused continual repre- 
 sentations and complaints of giievances to the Kings of France 
 or the Parlenicnt of Paris, and gave occasion to those (juarrels 
 that broke out so often into open wars. I liave likewise seen, iu 
 the Negotiations of tlie French Embassadors in England, much 
 better accounts f)f passage.^ in our Court, of the characters of the 
 great men about it, and of tiansactions in tiiis kingdom, than I 
 h^ive yet seen in any of our Histories. I have by nie sonie tran- 
 scripts of tlicse \egoliati(jns : 1 hfue read otliers ; and as the 
 French are careful to piestr%e iu their families all tlie acts of 
 their ancestors, it is ea.sy enough to jirocure them fuj at least 
 'Z()0 years piist. These materials for an 1 li-tory of England are 
 mentioned, not only as tlie mott neces.,ary and useful for that 
 purpose, but also as serving to point out tlie reason, why we 
 liave hitheito wanted a good om; ; which I would fain think to 
 be, not so nuuh a dread of the labour retpusitc for such a work, 
 as the greatness of the; expence in jjrocuring thes" materials j an 
 rxpence which no private person is able U> support. But what 
 u iingle man cannot do, may eu'^ily be done b) a Society, The 
 
 >voiUl
 
 488 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 for seven years, towards the charge of transcripts 
 of records, negotiations, &c." and in December the 
 
 world seems to be satisfied of the use of such Societies in other 
 cases. Tliere is one lately formed for the Enroura^ement of 
 X^eaming ; and as the very nature of the materials to be procured 
 jhews the necessity of another in tlie present ease, it is hoped 
 that a Society may be likewise formed to encourage the writing of 
 an History of Ejigloxid; which, notwithstandiii^- the great ex- 
 pence of the necessaiy materials, 8^c. will not perhaps coet more 
 annually, than an Opera Subscription hath done of late years ; 
 though this serves only for the transient amusement of some 
 winter evenings to particular persons, wherciis a good History 
 founded on such mateiials will be a lasting benefit to the pub- 
 lick. It may not be improper to observe farther, that no time 
 should be lost in setting about such a work, because many ma- 
 terials are daily decaying and per ishing ; and those in private 
 Jiands are subject to various accidents, besides that of fire, which 
 lately made such destmction in the Cotton Lihrarij ; and that, 
 when a Work of this nature is undertaken upon public encou- 
 ragement, every private person who hath any useful materials 
 for it will (as I have already experienced) be di3])osed to open 
 his treasures, and communicate them for the public good, and 
 for advancing the perfection of a Work that may do some hon- 
 our to his country. T. Carte." 
 
 The preceding Proposals were dated March 4, 1 736-7 j the 
 Advertisement, dated ^August 9, 1744, was thus expressed: 
 " Six years are passed, since I published Jl general Account 
 of the necessary Materials for a History of England, and of the 
 Method wherein I proposed to cany on that Work. The vast 
 expence of procuring those materials, too heavy for any private 
 person to support, rendered it necessary to attempt the raising 
 of a fund sufficient to defray it, by the contribution of public 
 bodies as well as of particular persons for that purpose. It was 
 proposed that the Contributors ' should fomi themselves into a 
 Society, and choose a Treasurer, for receiving their respective 
 contributions, and for issuing out money to defray the necessary 
 charges of ti-anscripvs, &c. in such form, manner, and propor- 
 tion, as shall be directed in a Ger.cr.divlceting of the vSociety, or 
 by a Committee of Coutributors cl osen out of the whole Body 
 for those purposes, as well as for oveieeing the progress of the 
 Work.' As it is highly fitting tlr>t c^ery Contribu'or should 
 have entire satisfaction g-i\en iifm in ali tin :-e re.-- 'cts, it was 
 provided in the instrumerit drawn up lo l,e s^fj '-^n by the Sub- 
 scribers, that Reports thereof shmdd be nia^ie lu tinje to time 
 by the Committee to the General As.-enib]yj and each Contribu- 
 tor, in case he found any ground of exception, should he at 
 liberty to withdraw his contribution whenever he pleased or 
 should think fit to notify the same. The Undertaker of that 
 History, for which the most important and chargeable materials 
 were to be thus provided, had engaged in it out of no motive 
 
 but
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 485^ 
 
 Companies of Grocers and Vintners subscribed 
 twenty-five pounds a year each for the same purpose. 
 
 but public spirit, and with no view but that of doirig^ sei'^-^ce to his 
 Countiy. He was ready to bring all the kuo\vledge he had ac- 
 quired in tlie different studies of his life, and all the observations 
 he had made in the course of tliirty years searching into the 
 Records, the Antiquities, and the Hi^^tory of this Nation; and to 
 employ all his time and labour for the future, towards carrying 
 on the said Work : but he resolved to touch none of the Contri- 
 butors* money; and the Regulations above meacioned shew 
 plainly^ that he had no % iew of any private advantage to himself, 
 The world in general was so well satisfied of the fairness of the 
 Proposals, and so fully convinced of the necessity of a genei^ 
 contribution for raising a fund answerable to the expences re- 
 quisite for procuring the matei'ials mentioned in the said General 
 Account, that a great many Noblemen and GentlemenV ac- 
 tuated by a public spirit rarely equalled in any countrj-, sub- 
 scribed their twenty and ten guineas a year, for the space of 
 ieven years, towards the charges of the said materials, and of the 
 amanuenses necessary for the greater dispatch of- the Woik. 
 But, as the sums subscribed by particular persons did not appear 
 sufficient for the needtid expences, it was thought proper to 
 take in the assistance of Corporate Bodies, and to ap[)ly jMirticu- 
 larly to the City of London, in which the most generous cncou- 
 ragers of all pubUc works have been ever found, and whose ex- 
 ample might probably have a proper influence upon others. 
 The State of the Case, and the Account of the necessary Materialji, 
 were accordingly communicated to the greatest part of tlie 
 Representative Body of that City ; and tliere seemed a general 
 disposition in all parties to encourage the undertaking, and to 
 subscribe a considerable yearly sum in the name of the City. 
 But the affair of the Mansion-house having at that time given 
 occasion to various disputes, and raised great animosities among 
 the Citizens, it was thought advisable by those ^vho wcixi most 
 ze-dous in promoting the subscription (which at any other time 
 would not, in their opinion, meet with the least oppositi(m) to 
 defer the motion to a more favourable opportunity. 'Till that 
 f)pportimity offered, I resolved to go on with the work at my 
 own expence ; ^vhich has been much greater than is pioj>cr for 
 me to mention, or can be eisily conceived by others : and Ixave 
 dedicated to it all the time I have since had to C()mn}and. I 
 went to Paris, where, tiirough the humanity anil fiiendshij) of 
 the learned Abbe SalL'er. kwpei- of the Royal l>ii)rary, I had an 
 opportunity of perusing all those materials for an EtiglisU History, 
 which are taken notice of in the General Account, p. ^3. lie 
 lent me all the manuscilpts of tliat Library, whieh I luul oeea- 
 fcion for; and, upon my simple note of receipt, sent thenj home 
 to my lodgings, by four or five, and souietiuies more, volumes 
 At a time: so desirous arc tbey uiioad to make tlitjr Librurief 
 
 use-
 
 4f}0 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Mr. Carte's Proposals for priiitins^ his " History 
 of England" were circulated in 1746'; and the tirst 
 
 useful to the world ; and such a facility do learned men meet 
 with in that Conntfy, in Iniving the nio^t curious manuscript?, 
 that can contribute to any public work they have undertaken, 
 communicated to thcni, witli all the saving of time and circum- 
 stances of com-enknce that they can de>ire. There I read over 
 several volumes of original Letters wrote !iy our Engihsh as w tU 
 as other Pi'inces of Europe to the Kings of France, the instruc- 
 tions given to French Embassadors sent into England and other 
 countries, Dispatclies of their Ministers of State, abundance of 
 other Memoirs relative to oiu* History, aiid several antient 
 Chronicles and Annals of English allairs, wliieh are to be .-:ecn in 
 that Libi'ary, the best furnislied with manuscripts of any in 
 Europe. Tliere I copied Robert M'ace's History of the Dukes of 
 Normandy and the Conquest of England, from a manuscrij)t of 
 the Author's age ; and a great many Tieaties between the Crowns 
 of France and Scotland, and even England, which are not printed 
 in Rymer. 'I'liere t perused all the Letters and Negotiations of the 
 French Embassadors in England mentioned in the Catalogue at 
 the end of my General Account, from the year lo96 to lo'6'O, 
 and those of Signor Valarezzc, and other Venetian Enibas.sadoi"s. 
 Ut the Court of England in the time of Kn.g James I. ; all which 
 are preserved in thatLibraiyj except some few, which I met 
 with in private hands, or copied from other libraries. Of tliis 
 last sort are the Negotiatior.s of M. lyEJfiat in l(j'24 and I(>'25, 
 of M. de Monstrenil from 1646 to 1G50, and oi A)itoi)ie de Kcu- 
 ville Sieur de Bordeavx from 1()5'2 to 1660, VNhich : vjopied fiv-.m 
 the Manuscript? in the Library of S. Germain des Prez. The 
 three brothers ,'^iJ/oi?ie, Francois, and Gilles de NoaiHes, ancestoi-s 
 of the present Mareschal of that name, were embassadors here, 
 during all the reign of Otieen iTiun/ and the (irst year and half of 
 Queen Elizabeth. Their letters and negotiations are only to be 
 foimd in the Cabinet of the Mareschal de Nnailles ; and are so 
 very valuable that Jiusscn, the bookseller on the Quay des Au- 
 gnstins at Paris, ofiered his Grace thirty thousand livres for a 
 copy thereof, in order to ])riut them. Ihe Mareschal refused 
 the ofler ; yet, by a wonderful generosity, allowed me to take a 
 copy of all tho?e Negoiiationr-, without any condition, but the 
 obliging one of sending bum a eopj of my History, when it was 
 published. The Letters and Negotiations of Bcrtrand de Salig- 
 vac Sieur de la Mnthe-Fenehn, wiio resided eight years at the 
 court of Queen ElizabelJi, and was embassador here trom the 
 beginning of A. D. 1569 to 1576, are only in the hands of the 
 present Marquess de Fenelon. They take up (i^e large volumes 
 closely wrote in folio, and contain an infinite ninnber of curious 
 passages ; ])articularly in relation to Queen M'try of Scotland, a 
 great many of whose letters are theie inserted. The INlaiquess 
 coining, in the Lent of 1740^ from his enibassy in Holland, to pass 
 
 three
 
 THOM.\S CARTE. 491^ 
 
 Volume was actually completed in December I747 ; 
 when unluckily the credit of the whole was over- 
 three or four weeks at Paris in settling; his pri\'ate aflPairs, I 
 applied to him for the use of those Vohimes, which he veiy 
 kindiv granted ; and I would firladly have copied them entirely : 
 but, he expecting every day to be ordered back to the Hague, I 
 was apprehensive that I should not have time enough for a 
 transcript, and was therefore forced to content myself ^vith mak- 
 ing extracts of all the material passages and princi])al circum- 
 stances therein, thougli I yet made them a.^ ample as the time 
 would allow. I was, for another reason, full as cogent, I mean 
 the want of ability to defray the charge of entire transcripts, 
 obliged to take up with the like extracts of the Negotiations of 
 several of the Embassadors mentioned in the aforesaid list ; that 
 is, of such as resided here in settled tiint^s 5 for ;\s to those who 
 resided at this Court in times of revolution, as Mess"s de NoaiUrs 
 at the time of the Reformation, and Mess'-^ de Sabran, de Mon- 
 slreuil, and de Bordeaux, who were here during the confusions and 
 usurpations that happened between UMl and 16G0, I have been 
 ever careful to take entire copies of their Negotiations. As for 
 the List seven or eight French embassadors in England after the 
 year 1(>6'0 mentioned in the aforesaid list, their Negotiations are 
 not in the King of France's 1 jbrai-y, nor even in the hands of 
 any of their descend mts; for 1 si)ared no p;lin^ in enquiring after 
 them among evny bi-anch of their families. P. Le Long indeed, 
 in his BUAiotheqne Hiatorkjue de la France, says oflho.se of M. de 
 Colbert in 16/2, and of M. de Colbert rVo:4,-f//'in 16"6"S ar^d 1669, 
 that tli'.-y were in tht; Library of the late iM de Colbert Croissif, 
 P.ihhop of Moutpeller : but M. de Torcij hunself, to whom that 
 Prelate had kil liis librar}', on condition of paying a sum of 
 money to an Ihjspival, and to whom 1 a])plitd for thetn, told me 
 it iras a mistake; ajul that tlteij had been dtlirered up to L,onis\lV. 
 (which I am jK-nsiiaded was the general practice in that Prince's 
 ireign), and were now only to be found in the Dcjiot ponr les 
 affaires etraninn-of;. 'J'his Depot an-^wcrs to our Pajicr Office in 
 England, and is under tlie diiection of the Minister for Foreign 
 Afl'airs, who appoints the Keeper of it. It is kept over the West 
 Gatehou.se ff the O/iZ Loiirre, in several ciianibei-< ; there being 
 a di.'^tinct unt allotted to the negotiations of each Couiiiiy. That 
 for Eiigliind Is full of treaties, negotiations, and letters of cm- 
 ba'-s-adors at lUv, court of London, from tlie time of Philip jiu- 
 gnstuH to the pre.^ent age. Tlies-e arc kept in great order, and 
 very well pr:?feervcd ; not tied up in bundles (as those in our 
 Paper Office are) but always ready foi- u^e, l^ound \\\) in volume s, 
 with very good tables to each volume, and a g-uMai table to the 
 whole, so well digested, that a Minister nr.iy, i)y looking into it; 
 and calling for the volumes to whieii it refeis, inform himself in 
 an hour's time of all that has ever been transacted or detei mined, 
 v.ith regard to any dJ;i)Ut.'.d tkiiiii, light,, po- ''i;!!;!], place, or 
 
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 452 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 thrown by a story wliicli he unnecessarily intro- 
 <luced to illustrate his history a thousand years 
 
 eremonial, in any treaty or nccrotJation for several ages past 
 between France and otlier Potentates; which must certainly be a 
 great advan'tage to their jNlinistcrs on many occasions. 1 .'pent 
 a morning with M. Le Dran, the late Keepei* of it, in looking 
 over this Depoi ; and he assuring me of his endeavtnns to pro- 
 cure me free access to it, I drew up and gave him a Memoire. for 
 that purpose: but be dving iiiuTJcdiately .ifler, and Ahbe dt f'iUe, 
 who succeeded him, being ordered away for Holland presently 
 jrfter he vk'as put into that post, 1 had no answer to my Memoiret 
 and made no fartiier application, as iuiiigining it too great a 
 confidence to be asked by a stianger. I have since had some 
 reason to think myself mistaken in this notion ; for, after a dili- 
 gent search during my last sUy at Paris for tiie negotiations of 
 M. de BariUon, embassador lure from A. I). 1677 to 1689, after 
 enquiring for them of the present M. de Bai-illon, counsellor of 
 the Parliament of Paris, grandson to the former, and of the 
 Marquesiics of Bligny and Malcissis (who married bis two sistevs)> 
 and finding they were in none of their libraries, I desired, at my 
 coining away, a friend to apply to another grandson of the Em- 
 bassador's, by his only daughter ; and it was signified to me on 
 that occasion, that if M. de BariUon' s Negotiations were not in 
 his own library, they were at least in the Depot for Foreign 
 Aftairs, and I should Irave them tiience, whenever I wanted 
 them, to transcribe as I should see proper ; it being a fitting- 
 civility to be rendered to a person who had done so great a ser- 
 vice to that country by publishing a Cattilogue of the Gascnn, 
 Norman, and French KcJls, in the Tower of Lo?<rfoj and thereby 
 acquainting the Gentiemen oi Frr:nce with many thousands of 
 Records relating to their families and estates in the provinces 
 formerly subject to the Crown of Flngland; which they had ever 
 before sought for in vain. A man that expects to be served in 
 any country, must always make himself useful to it ; and if they 
 will fiivour me with a course of Negotiations of so late a date, 
 the latest I had to desire, I may reasonably expect the like 
 favour with regard to any others in that Depot of a longer standing 
 and remoter antiquity. To ero through the treasures in it, 
 would be well worth another Journey to Paris, when I come to 
 that part of our History to w hich they relate. But though I did 
 not in my former journeys meet with those Negotiations in the 
 reign of King Charles 11. which I expected, I was amply re- 
 compensed by finding there another Body of Memoirs, the best 
 and njost authentic that are any where in being, of all transac- 
 tions from the beginning to the end of that Prince's reign ; 
 w hicli took me up four months, every week-day from morning 
 till night, without a moment's intermission, in transcribing, 
 and are very well worth all the pains I took, and fatigue that I 
 underwent on that occasion. These sean^hes after Memoires in 
 later agci^ did not hinder mc from examining into the transac- 
 tions
 
 THOIV^AS CARTE. 4()3 
 
 preceding, which in reality was not his own, but 
 which he was over-persuaded to insert, after the 
 
 tions of remoter times, and collecting' whatever could give light 
 to the British atfairs ia the first ages of our History. The Lives 
 of our Brilish and Saxon Saints, that appiiar in the Collections of 
 Bollandus, Sarins, MabiUon, Colgan, and others, have funiished 
 some^ materials for that pui-pose. i liave gone through the papers 
 and collections of the late Yiv. Edward Lhuijd, keeper of the Mu- 
 seum at Oxford, and have there found a great number of transcripts 
 of historical passages out of the Liber Landavensis, or Register of 
 the Church of Landaf, begun in S. Theliau's time, about A. D. 
 520, and continued down (as Bishop Godwin says) to A. D. 1110, 
 and othei" antient Registers, Leigcr Books, and Manuscripts, 
 and abundance of observations on the antient customs of the 
 Britains, besides copies of antient chart^i-s to Welsh Monasteries, 
 and of some Dissertations of the learned Mr. Robert Vaughan of 
 H*;ngicrt, for adjusting and rectifying some mistakes in the 
 clii-onology of the Old Annals of Males, and clearing up some 
 parts of tiie British History. 1 should have been glad to have 
 found out that Gentleniaii's Annais of IVales, which he had 
 prepared for the press, and sent to Archbishop Vsher for Iris 
 perusal 5 but it is not now in the Library of Hetigwrt; and not- 
 withstanding Bp. Nic&ison seems to have tliought it to be there, 
 when he published his English Historical Library, I am per- 
 suaded it has not been there these 50 years, since it is not men- 
 ti()ued in the Catah)gue (vf that Library, which Mr. Lhuyd took 
 so many years ago. The present Mr. Vaughan of Hengwrt, 
 g^reat-giandson to the former, who has favoured me with other 
 of his MSS. believes it to he in the Library of the late Sir fr. 
 U'illiams oi' I. hanvorda, where, Bp. Nicolson says, most of Mr. 
 Robert Vaughan s collections for the History of fVales woxe. 
 lodged. A ( atalogue is now taking of that Library of Lhan- 
 vorda, in order to favour me with the use of such materials as 
 are in it, fit to clear up the antient Histon- of Britain. It would 
 be very acceptable new.s to the learned world, and give me an in- 
 finite pleasure, if those Annals should be found therein so season- 
 able a juncture. However it be, as they arc not to be expected 
 any wliere else, and I can't propose to discover any farther ma- 
 terials for that antient part of our History, than either are now^ 
 or will, in a week or two, after the aforesaid Catalogue is taken, 
 be in my power, I resolve after Christmas next to begin the im- 
 pression of the First Volume of my History, and to finish it before 
 the end of the year. It will go down to the time when our 
 Records begin ; and as soon as I have published it entire, shall 
 afterwaixls, for the better spreading of it into the hands of all th^ 
 world, when every body may judge of it, distribute it, according 
 to the present mode, in such numbers as the generality of people 
 find it so much for their ease and convenience to purchase, that 
 they take thm ki without being able to form a judgment or 
 
 evea
 
 494 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 sheet in which it was printed was actually com- 
 mitted to the press. 
 
 even guess what they are to have for their money. Ey the time 
 when our Records begin, I mean the reign of Richard 1. when 
 the Acts and Grants of our Kini>:s under the Seal of their Chan- 
 chery or Exchequer began to bo. rcfiularly enrolled, and kept in 
 proper repositories. The Survey of tlie Lands of the Kingdom 
 in Doyncsddj/ Jyaak, and the Sheriffs Acconipts for one year of 
 Hennj I. and foi" all the roii-n (except the first year) of Henry II. 
 among the Rolls in the Pipe Oflice, are indeed more antient : 
 but these ai'e not properly acts of our Kings, nor were the acts 
 of otlier Kings in Europe usually enrolled and entered upon 
 record before that time ; for I am sure they have not in France, 
 nor could I ever hear that they have in any other European 
 coimtry, any series of Records more antient. Before that time, 
 the Chancellor kept by him copies of all Grants that passed the 
 Great Seal, and when he died (for in France the Chancellor 
 enjoys his post for liie) a warrant was issued for his executor or 
 heir to deliver those copies to his successor j but perhaps this was 
 not constantly done, at least there are very few of those warrants 
 preserved. 'Tis \ery probable that the like method was observed 
 in England, and perhaps generally throughout Ein-opc. An ac- 
 cident sefuns to have altered tins method universally. Philip 
 August (as IV. de Breton a contemporary writer tells us, at the end 
 of the fom th book of his thilUppiade) was surprized in an am- 
 bush at a jdace called Bellefoge, between Blois and Fretc.val, by 
 Richard I. of England, who there took, besides all that Prince's 
 equipage, the Great Seal of France, and the copies of all Grants 
 that had been passed imder it during his reign, which it was 
 usual in tliose days for Kings to take with them into the field- 
 M. Gucrin, tlie then Chancellor, took care by a Proclamation 
 to oblige all persons, to whom any of those Grants had been 
 made, to bring in their originals, that ricw copies thereof might 
 be taken : and the misfortune having made them more sensible 
 of the inconveniences of not kuowiug how to have recourse on 
 occasion to authentic cojjies of former grants, an office was 
 erected for the regular enrolment thereof, and a fixed place ap- 
 pointeil for their safer custody. This method seems to be intro- 
 duced at the sam: time in England, \\here from the time of 
 Richardl. all the Acts of our Kings in the course of their Go- 
 vernment, that have passe'] under any of their Seals, have been 
 con; tantly entered on record. 'Tis from these Records then, 
 that we are to derive the surest accounts of tl:e conduct of our 
 Princes, and the manner of their govci'nment ; 'tis by these we 
 see how the Prerogative was exercised in wise and good, or 
 abused and stretched in weak and bad reigns ; 'tis by going re- 
 gularly through these, that we shall be enabled to clear up the 
 rights and pri\ ileges of tiie Sidyeet, to disetn'cr what encroach- 
 ments liave been made from time to time upon them in any 
 
 instaiice>
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 495 
 
 This imprudence was fatal to his interest *. 
 The Corporation of London (in consequence of a 
 
 instance, and by what ste;'s, or under what pretences, this hath 
 heen done 5 and to trace up to the beginning the vai;ious changes 
 that have hap])ene(l in our Courts of Judicature, in our maxims 
 of Law% in our n^ethods or forms of Justice, and in received 
 usages and practices which served once for Barnci-s to our Li- 
 berticii. "11.-, from thence indeed that the chief and most impor- 
 tnnt matei'ials for the Second and Third Volumes of my History 
 ^vvhicli will contain a relation of our Englhh aftairs fi'om the 
 time of Richard I. to the Revolution) are to be taken. 'Tis the 
 extraoi'diriaiy ex pence of going through the immense quantity of 
 these records in tlie different arcliives of this kingdom, that in- 
 duced so many persons of quality and dihtinction to contribute 
 towards it in so generous a maimei', and to agree in the above- 
 mentioned Subscription. 'Tis this that has engaged the City of 
 Loxjjox, the most considerable body in the kingdom, and the 
 most interested in its conmion good, to subscribe fifty pounds 
 a year for seven years towai'us those charges ; which iias effec- 
 tuiilly lemoved all the ap[)rehcnjions ] e\er had hi rdlation to 
 the success of the undertaking. And as I have some reason to 
 think that their example will be soon followed by other Bodies, as 
 wtll as by several particulai' Gentlenu'n, I lK)})e the Subsciibers 
 will be pleased to hold a general meeting some time in the 
 month of Oclolur next, to put matrcrs into form ; to order what 
 f-hdW be needful for the tran.'-cribing of sucli Records and Papers 
 in our Aicliives, as shall ajjpear neccssai'y for theW^ork, in which 
 no time ougiit to be lost ; anil to appoint a select Committee, for 
 regulating the mea.-5Ui'e3 proper to be taken, and for overseeing 
 e\ery thing tliat i.-, to be done in the execution of so important a 
 design , T h o . Ca u x e . " 
 
 Apni25, 1 775, the following advertisement appeared : " Carte's 
 Collection of Papci>, All that part of them which was to serve 
 as matenals for the continuation of hi:^ History of Engiand, from 
 the dissolution of Ohver Cromwell's Parliament, in i6"54, down 
 to the Revolution in 1GS8, rciuuins -till unpubiislied, consisting 
 of "20 folius, 15 quartos, and some looie papers, to all which arc 
 copious inde.'vt'S. Tliey contain chiLily the Papers of Admiral 
 Montagu. fin.t Earl of Sandwich ; th(;se of the Earl of Hunting- 
 don and Philij) Lord W'h.Lrion, compnhending the Correspond- 
 ences between those Noblemen and tlia pi'incipal OOicers of 
 State during that pjiiod, with many other curious and interest- 
 ing Papers. Any I'er^^on willing to treat fur the ii--e of them, 
 rnay see an abridged Catalogue thcieof at Mr. Cliallouer's, lincn- 
 diaper, Tavistock-stiL-i^t, Covcnt (iarden," 
 
 * The substance of the obnoxious note shall here be given. 
 
 speaking of the unction of kings, and the gift of healing 
 
 the scrophulous lannuur called the Kind's Evil, exercised bv 
 
 some Euiopean Princes, anointed at their Coronations, and sue'- 
 
 teejinir
 
 49 <? LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 motion made by Sir William Galvert, one of his 
 earliest subscribers, and seconded by Sir John Bar- 
 
 ceeding lineally to their Cj owns by proxioiity of blood, he says 
 " But whatever is to be said in favovir of its being appropriated 
 to the eldest descendant of the first Inanch of the Royal line of 
 the kings of France, England, &c. I have myself seen a very re- 
 markable instance of such a cure, vvhich could not possibly be 
 ascribed to the Regal Uncaon. One Christopher Lo^el, bora at 
 Wells in Somcrsetsiure, but when he grew up residing in the 
 City of Bristol, where he got his living by labour, was extremely 
 afflicted for many years with that distemper, and such a flow of 
 the scrophulous humour, that, though it found a vent by five 
 running sores about his breast, neck, and arms, thei'e was such 
 a tumour on one side of his neck, as left no hollow between his 
 cheek and the upj)er part of his left shoidder, and fored him to 
 keep his head always awry. The young man wjfe reduced, by 
 the virulence of the humoiu", to the lowest state of weakness ; 
 appeared a niiseiable object in the* eyes of all the inhabitants of 
 that populous city ; and, having for many years tried all the re- 
 medics which the art of physick could administer, without re- 
 ceiving any benefit, resolved at last to go abroad to be touched. 
 He had an uncle in the place, who was an old seaman, and car- 
 ried him from Bristol, at the end of August A. D. ITltJ, along 
 with him to Cork in li'eland, where he put him on board a ship 
 that was bound to St. Martin's in the I^le of Ree. From thence 
 Christopher made his way iir=t to Paiis, and thence to the [)lace 
 where he was touched, in the beginning of November following, by 
 the eldest lineal descendant of a Race of Kings, who had indeed^ 
 for a long succession of ages, cured that distemper by the Royal 
 touch. But this descendant and next heir of their blood had not, 
 at least at that time, been crowned or anointed. The usual effect 
 however followed : from the moment that the man was touched 
 and invested with the narrow ruband, to which a small piece of 
 silver was pendant, according to the rites prescribed in the office 
 appointed l)y the Church for that soleninit}-, the humour dispersed 
 insensibly, his sores healed up, and lie recovered strength daily, 
 till he arrived in j)erfcct xioakh, in the beginning of January fol- 
 lowing, at Bristol, having spent onlv four montiis and some few 
 days in his voyage. There it was, and in the week preceding 
 St. Paul's fair, that I saw the man, in his recovered vigour of 
 body, without any remains of his complaint, but what were to 
 be seen in the red sears then left upon the five places where the 
 sharp humour had fotmd a vent, but which were otherwise entirely 
 healed, and as sound as any other part of his body. Dr. Lane, 
 an eminent physician in the place, whom I visited on my arrival, 
 told me of this cure, as the most vvonderfid thing tliat ever hap- 
 pened; and pressed me as well to see the man upon whom it v\as 
 pci-fonned, as to talk about his case witli Mr. Samuel Pye, a very 
 skilful surgeon, and I believe still living in that city, who had 
 tried in a aiu, for three yeai's together, to cure the man by phy- 
 sical
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 497 
 
 nard) unanimously resolved to withdraw their sub- 
 scription in April 1748 ; and the History in- 
 
 sical remedies. I had an opportunity of doing both ; and Mr. 
 Pye, after dining together, carrying me to the man, I examined 
 and informed myself fully of all particulars, relating ns well to 
 his illness as his cure ; and found upon the whole, that if it is 
 not to be deemed miraculous, it at least deserved the character, 
 given it by Dr. Lane, of being one of the most wonderful events 
 that has ever happened. There are abundances of instances of 
 the cure of the King's-evil, by the touch of our English Princes 
 in former times, mentioned by Tooker in liis book on that sub- 
 ject : and it is observable, that the author was himself an infidel 
 on that head, till convinced of his mistake by the late learned 
 Mr. Anstis, Garter King of Arms, who furnished him with those 
 proofs out of the English records, which attest the facts, and 
 are printed in that treatise. But I am apt to think, tliere never 
 was an instance, in which the distemper had prevailed to an 
 higher degree, or the surprizing cure of it vi^as known to such 
 infinite multitudes of people, as in the case of Christopher Lovel." 
 Tliree jjamplilets wore in a few days occasioned by this note : 
 
 1. "Remarks on Mr. Carte's General History of England;" 
 
 2. "A Letter to the Jacobite Journalist, concerning Mr. Carte's 
 History, ijy Duncan Mac Carte, a Highlander j" and, 3. *' Some 
 Specimens of Mr. Carte's History of England, with Remarks 
 tlioreon, by Donald Mac Carte." Mr. Carte, in " The General 
 Evening Post *," Feb. 23, 1747-8, says, " When I published 
 my History, I did not doubt but a shoal of little anonymous 
 \vritcrs would be nibbling at some particular passages in it; 
 and, in defect of something more material, would attack any 
 small incident, even in the notes, though not inserted in 
 the body of the work. It is the duty of an Historian to 
 give an acccnmt of every institution when it comes to take 
 place in a kingdom ; and I have discharged that duty so far 
 as I have gone (T would fain hope) to the satisfaction of the 
 Reader. This obliged me to make a short Discourse on the 
 Unction of Kings, and to take notice of the extravagant effects 
 ascribed to that unction. The sanative Virtue of touching for 
 the King's-evil l)eing one of tho.se effects, the relation of Chris- 
 topher lx)vel was inserted in a note, to shew it was erroneously 
 ascribed to the unction. It was put there with no other view 
 than to lefute that notion, and without any design of publishing 
 it; but the note (piThaj)s for want of a mark, directing it should 
 not be copied, as I used in some other cases) being transcribed, 
 together with the Discoui-sc, for the pro-s, I did not, wiien the 
 proul'-slicct was sent Hie, strike it out, observing nothing in it 
 that could i-ea.-;onably give oHl-nce, were it not for the comments 
 
 Slc Whijtoii's Memoirs, vol. I. p. 3(5.5; where arc likewise preserved 
 two U;ttirs fnjui '* The General Evening Post," Jan, 7 and Jan, 16, which 
 ija\e rise to ih'.- vindi<'atic>n 
 
 A OL IF K K of
 
 4^8 LITERARY ANECPOTES. 
 
 stantaneously fell into almost total, but certainly 
 into undeserved, neglect ; from which, however, it 
 appears to be now recovering very fast, by the great 
 
 of malevolent people ; for the person touching is not named., 
 and what is haid of him agrees to more than one person. I have 
 not in that Discourse delivered my own opinion on the sul)ject, 
 contenting myself with relating those mentioned by W. of 
 Malmesbury. Seveml curious and knowing persons have wjotc 
 upon it ; particularly J)r. Tooker, a Divine, and Mr. John Brnw nr. 
 Surgeon to King Charles II. the book of the formei' being ])ul)-- 
 lished, 1597, under the title of 'Charisma 3' that of the latter, 
 10"84, under the title of 'Charisma Basiiicon.' I have not seen 
 Tucker's or Tookers book these thirty years j so long is it siiu^e 
 the relation I quoted thence was copied. I have transcribed 
 others, very remarkable ([;articularly the cure of a German, 
 who had been thirteen monilis his patient, by the royal touch), 
 from Clowes, an experienced smgeon in Queen Elizabeth's time, 
 who published a treatise, 1602, of the artificial cure of that dis- 
 temper ; though he owns throughout it, that the Queen's touch 
 was the only infallible remedy. Btit, though I have not these 
 books by me^ nor a thousand others from which I have extracted 
 passages, I think I may fairly make use of my own transcripts. 
 The late learned Mr, Anstis, in the 26th page of a MS discourse 
 on Coronations, which he left at his death unfinished, hath these 
 words, ' The miracidt)us gift in curing this distem])er [the King's- 
 evil] by the Royal Touch of our Kings, as well as of the Fi'ench 
 Kings, is undeniable ;' and in p. 49, taking notice of his having 
 convinced a Siugeon of the antiqviity of our Kings touching by 
 several citations from our records, he adds, ' "jhat he [the Sur- 
 geon] published these citations, and tlierefore I refer you [i, e. 
 his son, the prest nt Garter, to whom the Discourse is addressed] 
 to that pamphlet.' I passed some days with him at Mortlake 
 about twenty-six years ago, when a pamy)hlet, wrote by a sur- 
 geon, about the King"s-evil, was advertised in the newspaper, 
 and had a good deal of discourse with him on the subject ; and, 
 by what was then said, I am persviaded that Mr. Becket's Enquiry 
 into the vVntiquity and Kflficacy of Touching for the King's-evil, 
 printed in octavo, 1722 (according to the booksellers' style, who 
 begin their year even before Christmas), was the pamphlet in 
 question : but I never saw it, and had entirely forgot the name 
 of the sui'geon; when, having Mr..Anstis's Discourse above men- 
 tioned before me, and consulting a learned gentleman (who had 
 studied and practised physick above forty years, and transcribed 
 my note for the press) about the name of the surgeon referred 
 to by Mr. Anstis, it was either by his opinion, or my own inad- 
 vertence, that I put down Tooker for the name of that surgeon. 
 1 have endeavoured to find out this pamphlet, but ia vain ; the 
 present Mi'. Anstis had neither that nor any other treatise on 
 the subject in his library. Whoever hath it, may observe by the 
 recordii cited in it (especially if the accounts of the Household in 
 
 Cth
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 499 
 
 advance of price both in the booksellers' catalogues 
 and at the public sales. 
 
 6th of Edward I. which there is scarce a man in England, be- 
 sides Mr. Anstis, hath ever looked into, be cited for the cure of 
 182 persons of the King's-evil by that Prince) whether the au- 
 thor be the surgeon to whose booic he refers. After all, whe- 
 ther the surgeon's name be Tooker, or Becket, or any other, is 
 a matter of very little consequence. Dean's Yard, Feb. 13, 1747-8." 
 
 See more on the subject in Carte's History, book IV, sect. 43. 
 
 " Verses from the Jacobite Journal, addressed to the immor- 
 tal Mr. Carte," appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1748, 
 p. 135. 
 
 Dr. Plot, in his Natural History of Oxfordshire, c. 10, 125, 
 Plate 16, N" 5, gives a drawing of the Touch-piece supposed to be 
 given by Edward the Confessor. The ribbon, he says, was white. 
 
 Mr. Barrington has preserved an anecdote, which he heard 
 from an old man who was witness in a cause with respect to 
 this supposed miraculous power of Healing, " He had, by 
 his evidence, fixed the time of a fact, by Queen Anne's having 
 been at Oxford, and touched him, whilst a child, for the evil : 
 when he had finished his evidence, 1 had an opportunity of 
 asking him whether he was really cared ? Upon which he 
 answered, with a significant smile, that he believed himself 
 to have never had a complaint that deseiTcd to be consi- 
 dered as the Evil ; but that his parents were poor, and had no 
 objection to the bit of gold." The learned and honourable 
 Writer very properly obsei*ves on this occasion, " that this 
 piece of gold, which was given to those who were touched, 
 accounts for the great resort upon this occasion, and the sup- 
 posed afterwards miraculous cures." Fabian Philips, in his 
 'IVeutise on Purveyance, p. 257, asserts, " that the angels issued 
 by the Kings of England on these occasions amounted to a 
 charge of three thousand pounds per annum ; and Queen P21iza- 
 beth was so tired of touching tliose who desired to be cured for 
 the P)vil, that in Gloucestershire, during one of her progresses, 
 she told those who were pressing on her, that ' God only could 
 relieve them from their complaints.' By a Proclamation, March 25, 
 161C, it appears that the Kings of England would not jier- 
 mit such patients to a[)proach them during the summer ; and, 
 by another proclamation, June 18, 1G2G, it is ordered, that no 
 one shall ajjply for this purpose, who does not bring a proper 
 certificate that he was never touched before j a regulation which 
 undoubtedly arose from some sufjposed patients, who had at- 
 teni])ted to receive the bit of gold moj'e than once. Sir Kenelm 
 Digl>y informed Mons. Monconys, that, if the person had lost the 
 piece of gold, the comphiiiit immediately returned. GemeUi 
 (the famous Traveller) gives an account of IGOO persons being 
 presetited for this purpose to I>ouis XIV, on Easter Sunday, 
 1666. Tlie words used were, Lc Roy te touche, Ditu te giierisse. 
 
 K K. 'J Every
 
 5eO LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 The first volume, printed in 1747, and sold by 
 J. Hodges, on London-bridge ; was inscribedy 
 
 Every Frenchman received 15 sous, and every Foreigner 30. 
 Observations on the Statutes, 1775> p. 107, 108. 
 
 Since the above was first printed, my old friend the Rev. Wil- 
 liam Bickerstaffe sent me a copy of the original Proclamation ; 
 which, to use his own words, " in print and enframed, is yet 
 preserved in St. Martin's church vestry in Leicester, of whi('h 
 the late Historian Carte's father was vicar ; which faculty in the 
 Stewart Family the said Carte in his History of England ha^ iuii' 
 asserted, suffered the loss of his annual subsidy from the Cham- 
 ber of London." 
 
 " At the Court at Whitehall, 9th of January 1683. 
 Present, the King's Most Excellent Majesty ; Lord Keeper, Lord 
 Privy Seal, DukeofOrmond, Duke of Beaufort, EailofOxford, Earl 
 of Huntingdon, Earl of Bridgewatcr, Earl of Petcrborow, Earl 
 of Chesterfield, Earl of Clarendon, Earl of Bathe, Earl of Craven, 
 Earl of Nottingham, Eai4 of Rochester, Lord Bishop of London, 
 Mr. Secretary Jenkins, Mr. Chancellor of the Duchy, Loi'd Chief 
 Justice Jeffiyes, Mr. (iodolphin. Whereas, by the grace and 
 blessing of God, the Kings and Queens of this Realm, by many 
 ages past, have had the ha})piness, by their sacred touch, and 
 invocation of the name of God, to cure those, who are afflicted 
 with the disease called the Kings-evil ; and his Majesty in no 
 less measure than any of his Royal Predecessors, having had good 
 success therein 3 and, in his most gracious and pious disposition, 
 being as ready and willing as any King or jQueen of this Realm 
 ever was, in any thing to relieve the distresses and necessities of 
 liis good subjects ; yet, in his princely wisdom, foreseeing that 
 in this (as in all other things) order is to be observed, and fit 
 times are necessary to be appointed for the performing of this* 
 great work of cliarity, his Msijesty was therefore this day pleased 
 to declare in Council his Roy;il will and pleasure to be, That (in 
 regard heretofore the usua4 times of presenting such persons for 
 this piupose have been prefixed by his Royal Predecessors) the 
 times of public healings shall from henceforth be from the Feast 
 of All-Saints, conunonly called Alhallow-tide, till a week before 
 Christmas ; and after Christmas until the first day of March, 
 and then to cease till the Passion-week, being times most con- 
 venient, both for the temperature of the season, and in respect 
 of contagion, which may happen in this near access to his 
 Majesty's sacred Person. And when his Majesty shall at any 
 time think fit to go any progress, he will be pleased to appoint 
 such other times for healing as shall be most convenient. And 
 his Majesty doth heieby accordingly order anfl command, that, 
 from the time of publishing this his Majesty's order, none pre- 
 sume to I'epair to his Majesty's Court to be healed of the said 
 disease, but only at or within the times for that purpose hereby 
 appointed as aforesaid : And his Majesty was farther pleased to 
 
 order.
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 501 
 
 ^* To the Duke of Beaufort, President, and to 
 the Society of Noblemen and Gentlemen [for the 
 
 order, that all such as shall hereafter come or repair to the 
 Court for this purpose, shall brina; with them certificates, under 
 the hands and seals of the parson, vicar, or minister, and of 
 both or one of the churchwardens of the resj)ective parishes 
 where they dwell, and from whence they come, testifying, ac- 
 cording to the tinith, that they have not, at any time before, 
 been touched by his Majesty, to the intent to be healed of their 
 disease. And all ministers and churchwardens are hereby re- 
 quii-ed to be very careful to examine into the tnith, before they 
 give such certificates, and also to keep a register of all certifi- 
 tates they shall from time to time give. And, to the end that 
 all his Majesty's loving subjects may the better take kno\vledge 
 of this his Majesty's command, his Majesty was pleased to direct, 
 that this Order be read publicly in all parish-churches, and then 
 be affixt to some conspicuous place there ; and for that end the 
 same be printed, and a convenient number of copies sent to the 
 Most Reverend Father in God the Lord Archbishop of Canter- 
 burj', and the Lord Archbishop of York, who are to take care 
 that the same be delivered to all parishes within their respective 
 provinces. Loyd. 
 
 " London, printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceased, and 
 by Henry Hills, Printers to the King's most excellent Majesty. " 
 
 In "The London Gazette," N" 1893, from Monday, Jan- 
 uary the 7th, to Thursday January the 10th, 1683-4, is the 
 following advertisement; viz. " j4denochoiradelogia ; or, an 
 Anatomick-Chyrurgical Treatise of Glandules and Strumaes, or 
 King's-evil-swellings. Together with the Royal Gift of Healing 
 or Cure thereof, by contact or imposition of Hands, performed 
 for above G40 years by our Kings of England, continued with 
 their admirable Effects and miraculous E\ents ; and concluded 
 ^v ith many wonderfiU Examples of Cures by their Sacred Touch ; 
 all which are succinctly described by John Browne, one of his 
 Majesty's Chynirgeons in ordinary, and Chynjrgeon of his Ma- 
 jc'-ty's Hospital ; published with His Majesty's Royal Approba- 
 tion : Together w ith tlie Testimony of many eminent Doctors 
 and Chyiairgeons. Sold by Samuel Lowndes, over against 
 Exfter-Change in the Strand." To this \olume is prefixed a 
 head of the Author, by R.White, not enumerated by Mr. Granger, 
 on which is written, " Johannes Browne, Regis Britannici, nee 
 non Xosocomii sui Chirurgus Ordinarius ;" with a picturesque 
 View of the Sovereign's performing the Ceremony ; and by this 
 publication it appears, that from May IG60 to A])ril 1(;82 no 
 less than 92,107 persons had l)een touched by the King. 
 
 The I'orm of '* Prayers at the Healing," an Ofiice which is 
 omitted in Dr. Nichols's ' Su})plemcnt to the Commentary on the 
 Book of Common Prayer, 1711," was originally printed singly, 
 and re-printed among the Additions to L'Estrange's "Alliance 
 of Divine Oflicc?," folio. Tlie whole Form is also preserved by 
 
 Pp.
 
 502 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Encouragement of an Essay towards a complete 
 English History;] the Chancellor, Masters, and 
 
 Bp. Kennett, in his " Register," p. 731 ; with a remark, that " he 
 thinks this was the only Office changed by King James II. and 
 performed by his own Priests j" and ''that it was restored by 
 Queen Anne, with very little correction." Mr. Thomas Fuller, 
 in his ''Appeal of injured Innocence," hath recorded, from 
 Dr. Heylin, the Form of the Service at the Healing of the 
 King's-evU by King Charles I. with no difference in the Form but 
 in the Collect ; for which see Bp. Kennett's Register, ubi supra. 
 
 Dr. Ducarel informed me, that being, in 1746, on a visit to 
 the Rev. Mr. Bush, tlien vicar of Wadhurst in Sussex, he was 
 shewn, in the Register-book of that parish, the following entiy : 
 
 " We, the minister and church- wardens of the parish of Wad- 
 hurst, in the county of Sussex, do hereby certify, that Mr. Ni- 
 cholas Barham of this parish, aged about 24 years, is afflicted 
 (as we are credibly informed) with the disease commonly called 
 the King's-evil ; and (to the best of our knowledge) hath not 
 heretofore been touched by his Majesty for the said disease. In 
 testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this 
 23d day of March, 1684. John Smith, Vicar. 
 
 Robert LoNGLY,~) ^, , , 
 
 rr V > Church-wardens. 
 
 Thoma,s Yonge, J 
 
 Registered /)er me, John Smith." 
 
 Dr. Ducarel did not find in the Register that any other 
 person had a certificate for the King's-evil except Nicholas 
 Barham. That branch of the family of the Barhams is lately 
 extinct, though many of the same name remain now in the 
 parish ; and their estate is gone to the family of the Eagrles. 
 
 The London Gazette, No 2180, from Thursday Oct. 7 to 
 Monday Oct. 11, 1686, contains this advertisement : 
 
 "White-hall, Oct. 8, His Majesty is graciously pleased to ap- 
 point to heal weekly for the Evil upon Fridays ; and hath com- 
 manded his Physicians and Chirurgeons to attend at the office 
 appointed for that purpose in the Meuse, upon Thursdays in the 
 afternoon, to give out tickets. Hereof all ministers of parishes 
 are required to take notice, and to be careful to register the 
 certificates they grant, in a book kept for that purpose." 
 
 Ridiculous as this mode of cure may appear, there was a re- 
 gular form of service in the Book of Common Prayer for the 
 occasion. It m:<y be seen in those printed in Queen Anne's 
 reign, and, I believe, in them only. I have looked over many 
 editions of former reigns without being able to find it. The 
 service is short ; but certainly implies a belief in the cure. 
 
 It appears by the Newspapers of the time that on the 30th of 
 March, 1714, two hundred persons were touched by Queen Anne : 
 Amongst these was the famous SamuelJohnson; who was sent by 
 thp advice of Sir John Floyer, then a physician at Lichfield ; and 
 wlio m.any years afterwards, being asked if he could remember 
 
 Queen
 
 THOMAS CARTE* 5O3 
 
 Scholars of the University of Oxford, with the So- 
 cieties of New, Magdalen, Brazen-nose, and Trinity 
 
 Queen Anne, said, " he h&d a confused, but somehow a sort of 
 solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood." 
 The following ingenious remarks on this subject were com- 
 municated to me, in 1781, by the learned and very ingenious 
 Dr.Aikin. " lliough the superstitious notions respecting the 
 cure of the King's-evil by the touch of our English kings are 
 probably at present entirely eradicated, it is still a curious and 
 not uninstructive object of enquiry, by what means they were 
 so long supported, and by what kind of evidence they have been 
 able to gain credit even in the dawning of a more enlightened 
 period. The testimony of Richard Wiseman, Serjeant-Surgeon 
 to King Charles I. has been alleged as one of the strongest and 
 most unexceptionable in favour of tlie Touch. He was a man of 
 tlie greatest eminence in his profession ; and his Woiks (collected 
 in a folio volume, intituled, " Several Chirurgical Treatises, by 
 Richard Wiseman, Serjeant-Chiixirgeon, 167(>") bear all the 
 marks of an honest and upright disposition in their author. On 
 the subject of the Royal Touch he delivers himself in tlie follow- 
 ing strong and unequivocal terms : ' I myself have been a fre- 
 quent eye-witness of many hundreds of cures peiformed by his 
 Majesty's touch alone, without any assistance of Chirurgery ; and 
 those many of them such as had tired out the endeavours of able 
 Cliirurgeons before they came rhither. It were endless to recite 
 what I myself have seen, and what I have received acknowledg- 
 ments of by letter, not only from the several parts of the Nation, 
 but also from Ireland, Scotland, Jersey, and Guernsey.' The 
 question which will naturally arise upon this passage is. Did 
 Wiseman really believe what he asserted, or was he knowingly 
 promoting an imposture ? Both suppositions have their diffi- 
 culties, yet both arc in some degree probable. His warm attach- 
 ment to the Royal Family and early prejudices might in some 
 measure make his faith preponderate against his judgment j and, 
 on the other hand, certain passages in his treatise necessarily 
 shew a consciousness of collusion and fraudulent pretensions. 
 It was his business, as Serjeant-surgeon, to select such afHicted 
 objects as were proper to be presented for the Royal Touch. In 
 the history of the disease, relating its various states and appear- 
 ances, he says, ' Those which we present to his Majesty are 
 chieHy such as have this kind of tumour about the muscnlus 
 tnnstu'uleus, or neck, with whatever other circumstances they are 
 accompanied ; nor are we difficult in admitting the thick-chapped 
 upper lips, and eyes affected with a I'lppitudo ; in other cases we 
 give our judgment more warily.' Here is a selection of the 
 slightest cases, and a manifest doubt expressed concerning the 
 success in more inveterate ones. A little below, obsei-ving that 
 the stnuvo' will often be supi)urate(l or resolved unexpectedly 
 from accidental ferments, he says, ' In case of the King's toucli, 
 the resolution doth often hap|)en where our endeavours ha\c sig- 
 nified nothing 3 yea, the wry i^ionviaia ; insomuch that I ;nn 
 
 cau-
 
 504 LITERARY ANECDOTES.' 
 
 Colleges; the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common 
 Council of the City of Londcm, and the worshipful 
 Companies of Grocers, Goldsmiths, and Vintners ; 
 by whose generous encouragement the work was 
 imdertaken. Printed for the Author, at his house in 
 Dean's Yard, Westminster." 
 
 On a petition from Mr. Carte to the Court of 
 Coi*imon Council, Oct. 11, 1750, fifty pounds were 
 paid him for the year which was nearly elapsed 
 when the subscription was withdrawn. And it is 
 to the honour of his fortitude, that he was not dis- 
 couraged from prosecuting the undertaking ; and 
 perhaps he might receive private aid and support, 
 though public assistance was withdrawn. 
 
 The second volume (containing an Account of all 
 Public Transactions from the Accession of Henry 
 the Third, in 1216, to the death of Henry the Se- 
 venth, in 1509) appeared in I750 ; and in the pre- 
 face to this volume, he vindicates the obnoxious 
 note in the first, and asserts his own accuracy *. 
 
 cautious of predicting concerning them (though they appear 
 never so bad), till 14 days be over,' From this we learn, that 
 the Touch was by no means infallible, and that the pretence of 
 its succeeding was not given up till a fortnight had passed with- 
 out-aay change fw. the better. Indeed it appears veiy plain that 
 the worst kind of cases were seldom or never offered the Touch ; 
 for in no disease does Wiseman produce more observations from 
 his practice of difficult and dangerous chirurgical treatment, 
 and in not one of these did he call in the assistance of the Royal 
 Hand. It was indeed proposed in a single instance, but under 
 such circumstances as furnish a stronger proof of imposture, 
 than any thing hitherto related. A young gentlewoman had an 
 obstinate scrophulous tumour in the right side of the neck, 
 under the maxilla. Wiseman applied a large caustic to it, 
 brought it to suppuration, treated it with escharotics, and 
 cured it. ' About a year after,' he says, ' I saw her again in 
 town, and felt a small gland of the bigness of a lupin, lying 
 lower on that side of the neck. I would have persuaded her to 
 admit of a resolvent emplaster, and to be touched ; but she did 
 not, as she said, believe it to be the King's-evil.' Here, after 
 allowing his patient to undergo a course of very severe surgery, 
 he is willing to ti-ust the relics of the disease to the Royal Touch, 
 assisted by a resolving plaster ; but the complaint was now too 
 trifling to cngcge her attention. Surely the gixatest opponent 
 of the touch will not place it in a more contemptible light !" 
 
 * He hiii\ as he himself says, p. 43, of his Vindication of the 
 full Answer to a Letter from a By-Stander, " read abundance of 
 
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 THOMAS CARTE. 505 
 
 The third volume, to which a Preface is also 
 prefixed*, was published in I75I ; and contains an 
 Account of all Public Transactions, from the Ac- 
 cession of Henry VIII. A. D. 1509, to the Marriage 
 of the Elector Palatine with the Princess Elizabeth, 
 Daughter of James I. in A.D. l6lS- 
 
 The fourth volume (containing an account of 
 all Public Transactii^is, from the Marriage of the 
 Elector Palatine with the Princess Elizabeth, A.D. 
 1613 to A. D. 1654, about five years before the 
 Restoration) was published^ after the Author's death, 
 in 1755, by W. Russel-j~, at Horace's Head, without 
 
 collections relating to the time of King Charles II. and had in 
 his power a series of the memoirs from tlie beginning to the end 
 of that reign ; in which all the intrigues and turns at Court, at 
 the latter end of the King's life, which Bishop Burnet, with 
 all his gofit for tales of secret liistory, and all his genius for con- 
 jectures, does not pretend to account for, are laid open in the 
 clearest and most convincing manner 5 by the person \vho was 
 most affected by them, and had best reason to know them." In 
 the second volume of this History there is a very clear account 
 of the constitution of our Parliament, and of the time when 
 Cities and Boroughs first came to be rcpresenteil ; shewing the 
 difference between the King's Council in parliament and the 
 Parliament itself} in which he has remo\ed the mistakes of 
 writers, who had confounded them. In the early part of the 
 English history Mr. Barrington prefers the authority of Carte to 
 any other Historian. As he was indefatigable in his researches, 
 having dedicated his whole life to them, so was he most exact 
 in his authorities, many of which were new ones. He was as- 
 sisted, in what relates to \\'ales, by the labours of Mr. Lewis 
 Morris, of Penryn in Caidigan.-hire (vol. I. p. 33). His political 
 prejudices cannot be supposed to have had any bias in what re- 
 lates to a transaction 5(K) years ago, and which has nothing to 
 do with the royal touch for the cure of the king's evil. But 
 perhaps the best account of this work is that given by Mons. 
 D'Eyverdun, in a note to his ci itique on Mr. W'al pole's " Historic 
 Doubts," in his " Menioires Littcraires de la (irande Brctagne 
 pour Ian 17Gb. Lond. 17G9," 8\o, p. 24. " M. C'arte a donne 
 une hlstoire generale de I'Anglctei-ie en 4 volumes en folio, dans 
 le dessein de I'opposer a celle do Rapin. II est mort avant d'avoir 
 achevd ce grand travail, qu'il a pou.-^e juscpi'au Protectorat de 
 Cromwell. Ce scavant ou\rage, d'ailleurs a-^sez mal eciit, est 
 rcm{)li de recherches fort utiles, et de prejuges qui ne le sont 
 gueres." 
 
 * Twenty-two copies of the three volumes were sent, in IT.'i'Z, 
 to Mons. De I^moignon, Grand Chancellor of France. 
 
 f Son of a Nonjuring (,'lrrgynian, who was educated at S(, 
 John's college, Cambridge, and kept a boarding-hou^e in West-
 
 50t) LITEiRARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Temple Bar. At the conclusion is the following 
 short apology: " The Author proposed to have car- 
 ried on this volume to the Restoration ; but Death 
 unhappily put a period to it sooner." For the 
 purpose of completing his History to the above- 
 mentioned period, he had taken great pains in 
 copying every thing valuable in England, Scotland, 
 Ireland, &c. 
 
 Mr. Carte died April 2, 1754, at Caldecot House, 
 near Abingdon, in Berkshire ; and was buried at 
 Yattenden, in that county *. 
 
 The following are the dates of his publications : 
 1. " The Irish Massacre set in a clear Light, 
 1714," a pamphlet, in 4to. 
 
 niinster fox' young scliolars whose parents were Nonjurors. In 
 1732 the father was editor of " Marci Hieronymi Vidcp, Cremo- 
 nensis, ^Z/^cs Episcopi, Poeuiata quae extant omnia; quibus muic 
 primum adjiciuntur ejusdcm Dialogi de Reipublicte dignitate ; 
 ex coUatione optimorum exemplarium emendata, additis indici- 
 bus accuratis," 2 vols. 12mo, inscribed (in a poetical dedication) 
 "Alexandre Pope armigero, Poctarum inter Anglos celeberrimo." 
 And in 1746 he was editor of " SS. Patrum Apostolicorum Opera 
 genuina, &c. Cura Richardi Russel^ A. iNI." 2 vols. Svo. The book- 
 seller fiiiled in business, became afterwards an itinerant in that 
 profession, and ^vas principally supported by the benevolent Charles 
 Jennens, esq. of Gopsal in Leicestershire, whom I have had occasion 
 to speak of in vol. III. as an Editor of Shakspearc. Another son 
 was James Russel, the author of " Letters from a young Painter 
 in Italy, 1748," 2 vols. Svo. This gentleman, who is supposed 
 to have made no great figure in his profession, resided at Rome, 
 and supported himself by acting as Cicerone to the English gen- 
 tlemen who visited that immense repositoiy of antient and 
 niodern virtd. He died, at the Baths of St, Casciano near Rade- 
 ofani in Tuscany, in August 176"3. 
 
 * Dr. Bellas, who knew Carte intimately, and buried him, told 
 me, in 1/84, that he had all the appearance of living to an 
 old age; but was taken off by a diabetes. He was buried in a 
 leaden coflSn, in a remarkably dry vault ; and the following 
 entry is inserted in the Register. " The Rev. Thomas Carte, 
 ixiilor of Thuanus's History of his own Times, and author of 
 a Life of the great Duke of Orniond, and a General History of 
 England; by which, and other jueces, he approved himself one 
 uf tlie be>L writers of his time, died at Caldecot, near Abingdon, 
 on Tuesdav Aj)ril 2, and was buried at Yattenden, in a vault on 
 llie \orlh .'-Ide of the chancel, the 11th, 1751, by me George 
 Pellas" 
 
 2. '' TiiU-
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 5O7 
 
 2. " Thuani Historia sui temporis, 1733/ 7 vol. 
 folio (in conjunction with Mr. Buckley). 
 
 3. "The History of the Life of James Duke of 
 Ormonde, from his Birth in 1610 to his Death in 
 1688 ; by T. C. A. M. 1735, 173^," 3 volumes foho, 
 dedicated to the Earl of Arran, who delivered to him 
 153 bundles of his grandfather's papers*. 
 
 4. ''A Preface to a Translation, by Mrs. Thomp- 
 son, of the History -j^ of the memorable and extra- 
 
 See before, p. 474. In 1 747 Dr. Birch published "An Enquiry 
 into the Share wliich KingChaiiesI. had in the Transactions of the 
 Earl of Glamoi'gan ;" asserting:, in opposition to Mr. Carte, that the 
 King was privy to the negotiations of that nobleman. Mr. Walpole 
 observes, that cc-\ en years elapsed without Mr. Carte's reply ; but 
 that, two months before he died, he was supposed to be the author 
 of an advertisement, promising an answer. In 1758 a work 
 appeared, which was written and designed for the press in 174S, 
 and was annovmced in the newspapers in 1754, intituled, "The 
 Case of the Royal Martyr considered with Candour ;" part of 
 which contains strictures upon Dr. Birch's work. In the pre- 
 face the author (John Boswell of Taunton, M. A.) mentions his 
 obligations to Mr. Carte, who favoured him with a great many 
 letters upon the subject ; and observes, " that Mr. Carte's great 
 learning and critical skill in our History will always have its due 
 weight with men of sense and unprejudiced minds ; and as to his 
 peculiar notions of government, they chiefly aftected himself. 
 He seldom," proceeds this gentleman, " troubled his friends with 
 any thing of that kind. During a correspendence with him for 
 many years, I can tndy say, that I could never have guessed at 
 his political principles by any one single hint or notice in all his 
 letters." Mr. Boswell concludes, " He was a credit to every one who 
 had the pleasure of his acquaintance ; and I esteem it my pecu- 
 liar happiness that I have this opportunity of paying a grateful 
 respect to the memory of a man who did honour to Literature 
 while he lived, and at his death left a monviment of his abilities 
 beliind him, which bids fair to outlive the malice of Scotisli cri- 
 ticism, the noisy, the virulent efforts of ignorance and prejudice, 
 if not the force of Time." 
 
 " Eiicu ! Britannia ! 
 
 Quando ullurn invenies parem ? 
 
 Multis illc quidem liebilis occidit ; 
 
 Nvdli fUibilior quam tibi, Britannia?" 
 f nie original of this \\ ork is (or rather was, for probably it 
 now no longer e\i.st.<) preserved in MS. in the Library of the 
 Ablx;y of St. G rmain des Prez at Paris, with a History by the 
 same writer (in French) of " the Administration of Cardimd 
 Wolsty," of which latter woik Dr. Ducarel had a fair transcript. 
 
 Author of "A Method of SiiiHy, or a useful Lilirary, 17.13," 8vo ; 
 and two pamphlels rrdlcd " K'.inaiks on the Tree and Candid Disquisi- 
 tions," 1750 aud 1751.
 
 508 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 ordinary Calamities of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of 
 England, &c. by the Chevalier Michael Baudier, 
 London, 1736," 8vo. 
 
 5. " Advice of a Mother to her Son and Daugh- 
 ter, translated from the French of the Marchioness 
 de Lambert, London ;" several editions. 
 
 6\ " Farther Reasons, addressed to the Parliament, 
 for rendering more effectual an Act of Queen Anne, 
 relating to the vesting in Authors the Right of 
 Copies, for the Encouragement of Learning, by 
 R. H." [about 1737; see p. 476.] 
 
 7. "A Collection of Original Letters and Papers 
 concerning the Affairs of England, from 1641 to 
 1660 ; 173,9," 2 volumes, 8vo. 
 
 8. " The History of the Revolutions of Por- 
 tugal, from the Foundation of that Kinodom 
 to the Year l^Gj ; u'lth Letters of Sir Robert 
 Southwell, during his Embassy there, to the Duke 
 of Ormond ; giving a particular Account of the de- 
 posing Don Alfonso, and placing Don Pedro on the 
 Throne*, 1740," 8vo. 
 
 ,9. " A full Answer to the Letter -^ from a 
 By-stander, 1 742," a pamphlet, 8vo. 
 
 10. "A full and clear Vindication of the full An- 
 swer to a Letter from a By-Stander, I743," a 
 pamphlet, 8vo. 
 
 * Though Mr. Carte forgot to mention this work in his 
 " Vindication of the full Answer to a letter from a By-stander;'* 
 where he gives a list of his writings ; I can venture to call it his 
 on good authoiity. The letters of Sir Robert vSouthwell were 
 amongst the papers he received from the Earl of Arran. At 
 Dr. Campbell's sale, Mr. Isaac Reed boiight a copy of Sir Robert 
 Southwell, with the language of the book corrected by that 
 gentleman, seemingly ^vith a view to a new edition. 
 
 f Corbyn Morris, esq. commissioner of the Customs, who 
 died Dee. '^4, 1779. wrote the '^ Letter to the By-Stander." 
 Among Dr. Birch's MSS, is an advertisement, dated Feb. 2, 
 174'2-.'i, assuring Mr. Carte, that he (Dr. Birch) had not the 
 least hand in this "Letter," nor ever saw one line of it before 
 it appeared in print. There is also a tract, intituled, "A Second 
 Jitter to Trot})laid, Esq. Author of tlie Jacobite Journal, con- 
 cerning Mr. Carte's General History of England 3 plainly .shew- 
 ing, that the Letter in the General P^vening Post, Feb. 23, 174S, 
 signed " Thomas Carte," could not have been wrote by Thomas 
 Carte the Englishuian." 
 
 11. " Ca-
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 50^ 
 
 11. " Catalogue des Rolles * Gascons, Normans, 
 et Francois, conserves dans les Archives de la Tour 
 de Londres ; tire d'apres celui du Garde desdites 
 Archives ; et contenant la precis et le sommaire de 
 tous les titres qui s'y trouvent concernant laGuienne, 
 la Normandie, et les autres Provinces de la France, 
 sugettes autrefois aux Rois d'Angleterre, &c. Paris, 
 1743,'' 2 vol. folio, with two most exact and correct 
 indexes of places and persons. This valuable col- 
 lection, being calculated for the use of the French-^, 
 is preceded by a preface in that language. 
 
 * " The titles only of these Rolls make two folio volumes. It 
 would certainly, however, be a work deserving the encoui'age- 
 ment of all learned men throughout Europe, to print these in- 
 struments at length, The same may be said with regai'd to the 
 records of the Bermingham Tower at Dublin, some of which go 
 as far back as the time of Edward I." Iktrrington's Observations 
 on the Statutes, p. 101), n, The iitilily indeed of such publica- 
 tions is so obvious, that it is really wonderful that neither of the 
 great Nations who are interested should have engaged in them. 
 Since this note was fir&t written, many antient and valuable Na- 
 tional Records havt; been presented tt) the pubhck by the wisdom 
 and niunitic^nce of the British Parliament. 
 
 t Dr. Ducarel informed me, that the authority of the Records 
 in the Tower, so far as relates to Normandy and other provinces 
 in France formerly belonging to the English, have always (and to 
 his knowledge for at least forty years) been admitted as evidence 
 iu the Courts of Judicature, where exemptions from the (juar- 
 tering of soldiers on their estates, or any other privileges 
 formerly granted, have been received as evidence ; the instru 
 nients being duly authenticated by the Keeper of the Records. 
 Mr. Barrington has also observed, tluit on an alarm occasioned 
 by an edict Issued by Cardinal Fleury at the latter end of his 
 administjation, the French ii\habitants of those Provinces, 
 which formerly belonged tc; the Crown of England, were fur 
 nished, in several instances, with evidence of their titles to fran- 
 chises from our Records. 
 
 I * Tliere is not a great City in Eiuope so ill provided with 
 Public Libraiies as London. In Paris there is not a day in the 
 week but, both morning and afternoon, some Public Library, 
 well furnished with books of all l\inds of Learning, is, by the 
 appointment of the Founder, open for the convenience of learned 
 men, who meet with no difliculty in iindingany books they want 
 to consult in the course of tht;ir studic;. In the same City they 
 Irive noble hotels for the residence of the Chancellor of the Kiug- 
 (lom, and the Firr>t Piesident oi the PaiJiament, besides tiie 
 town-house fur the Prevot des Mcrc/unids (who answeis to our 
 Lord Mayor), and Libruiies in these places, which is the room 
 
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 510 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 12. ^'A Proposal of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Carte, 
 M. A. for erecting a Library in the Mansion-house 
 
 of audience generally for particular friends and persons of dis- 
 tinction, though the rooms of state serve for giving audience to 
 the world hi general, and for dispatching the ordinary business 
 incident to those great Offices. But I think London, the most 
 opulent city upon earth, should not be inferior to others in any 
 respect, much less in a point of magnificence, which is not barely 
 pompous, but may be infinitely useful, by assembling together 
 in one place a vast collection of the materials of Learning, which 
 are not perhaps to be found at all in any other : or else, being 
 dispersed in many different, remote, or unknown places, cannot 
 be consulted by the Learned without a great deal of expence, 
 without loss of time (which always sits heavy on a man that 
 knows how to use it), and without inconceivable inconveniences 
 to their private affhirs. In other countries, where arbitrary 
 government prevails, or the truth of the Established Religion is 
 suspected even by those who think to secure it by force and 
 penalties, there are great restraints in the way of learning, and 
 an infinite number of books are prohibited. I have known 
 one of the wisest and most learned men in France [M. Freret], 
 and the best qualified, by his knowledge of tlie world, his deep 
 searches into antiquity, his profound reflections on all historical 
 events, his admirable judgment and unbiassed integrity, to write 
 the histoiy of that Monarchy, clapped up in the Bastile for 
 several months together, only because he had set about that 
 work, and it was thought would execute It with an inviolable 
 regard to truth, and without flattery to that ai-bitrary Power 
 which has now trampled on all the anticnt liberties of that Na- 
 tion ; nor could he regain his liberty without a promise to desist 
 from the enterprize. It is fit such a work should be undertaken 
 for England, whUst she yet retains her liberties : and a great City, 
 the chief bulwark of the liberties of our Country, cannot exert 
 her public spirit more pi'operly than in procuring and preserving 
 for ever a Libraiy of the choicest materials for that purpose, and 
 equally fit to clear up and vindicate the just rights and privileges 
 of a free people. There is now a magnificent structure almost 
 built for the habitation of frture Lord Mayors of this City -f; and 
 it is still easy to contrive at the top of it a gallery, or range of 
 rooms, for a Library. There is now likewise an opportunity of 
 buying a most valuable collection of books, viz, the Earl of Ox- 
 ford's Manuscripts. They contain a noble treasure of English 
 History and Antiquities ; and it will be an irreparable loss to 
 Learning, and perliaps no inconsiderable one to Liberty, if such 
 
 f In the mayoralty of Sir James Shaw, bart. (1806) a fine Collec- 
 tion of English Classics \vas placed in the Mansion-house, at the expence 
 of the Corporation of London ; which forms a good foundation for a fu- 
 ture public-spirited Magistrate to proceed with. The Libraries also of 
 the Royal and London Institutions are already of so considerable a mag- 
 nitude as to rellt'ct honour vn the Metropolis of the British Empire. 
 
 a col-
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 511 
 
 of the City of London ; communicated by Thomas 
 
 a collection of rare Manuscripts, singular in their kind, and 
 cliiefly regarding the history of this Nation, and the antient 
 lights and privileges of Englishmen, comes to be sold by auc- 
 tion, and dissipated into a thousand hands +. To prevent this 
 Joss, it were to be wished, that the twelve rich Companies (out 
 of which the Lord ]Mayor is usually chosen) would, out of their 
 large revenues, give each "-^OOO/. towards this purchase, and re- 
 pose it in the Mansion-house, where the most considerable mem- 
 bers of those Companies are in their turns to reside, and to the 
 furniture' of which they can contribute nothing nobler than such 
 a Library, the only thing wanting to complete its magnificence. 
 It consists of about 10,000 Manuscripts, which cost the late 
 Right Honourable Proprietor prodigious sums of money; but as 
 it is in tew people's ability to purchase, and the late Earl designed 
 it for public use, the Executors may be willing to abate consi- 
 derably of its value on those accounts, and I iumgine it may be. 
 bouglt. for 20,000/. ; so tlie remaining 4000Z. may sei-ve for a 
 fund, to purchase printed books in all languages, relating as 
 well to trade, arts, and science^-, as to the History and Antiquities 
 of this Nation, or indeed of otliers in om" neighbourhood, which 
 in many cases help to illustrate our own; as relations of vo5'age3 
 .sene often to give light to se\eral branches of Commerce. 'Tis 
 to these subjects that the Books to be purchased fi'om time to 
 time may be chiefly confined, and a fund of this kind in the City 
 may be most j)rf)perly applied : and if a Library was once founded, 
 every body would be naturally disposed to leave what is most; 
 c-uiious in that way to it, as a safe and perpetual repositorj;, 
 thereby to render it a complete magazine of every thing relating 
 to Trade, History, and Antiquity. I^'arning of this kind is of all 
 others the most discouraged by a coiTupt Administration; who 
 would fain engross all the materials thereof to themselves, and 
 (are to see it in no hands but those of their own creatures, who 
 would prostitute it to their purposes. But when all branches of 
 Learning whatever are neglected elsewhere, and discounteiianeed 
 where tiiey ought most to be Favoured, it vould be exceedingly 
 for the glory of the City to give it encouragement there ; and if 
 It sliould meet with no other, it may still flourish imder her 
 protection. \o Body of men have ever di-^tinguished themselves 
 more enunc'ntly in the cau-e of Liberty than the City has alwavs 
 done, the Nation looks upon lur a> f)ne of tlie chief bulwarks of 
 her liberties; and indeed the only Body (when Parliaments by 
 growing corrupt shall ceaie to be thi' guari'ian'^ thereof) capable, 
 by its weight, to assert the rights and privileges of our Countrv. 
 She will take a proper step to jirevent th^se from being subverted^ 
 if she takes care to preserve ><> in'jstiin;il)le a treasure of ihoim- 
 ments of .Antiquity, which, if reposed in the Library of tl.e 
 rvlausiou-liou-:e, will remain to ail future ages an irrcfraiiablr- 
 
 * These tnil)' valuable iiaUon il trcaain"; h.-^.vc, since thi'; sui^,f;est\ u 
 w*i thru.m oul bv .Mr Carte, bo-ii ti'-pusiti'd in tlie Bri'.i.h }-l\:ituw.
 
 512 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Coxeter*, Esq. November 9, 1743, to me Richard 
 Rawlinson." 
 
 evidence of those rights and liberties which our ancestors en- 
 joyed, and, conveying down inviolate to our times, have entailed 
 upon us the obligation of transmitting them safe to posterity." 
 
 * This gentleman (who was Secretary to the Society noticed 
 in p. 502) was born of an antient and respectable family at 
 Lechlade in Gloucestershire, Sept. 20, 1689. He was educated 
 in grammatical learning, first under the Rev. Mr. Collier, at 
 Coxwell in Berkshire ; and afterwards under the Rev. Mr. Col- 
 lins, at Magdalen school in Oxford. In his sixteenth year he 
 was entered a commoner of Trinity college, Oxford, July 7, 
 ITO.'j. (His tutor there was the Rev. Mr. Edward Cranke, one 
 of the fellows, afterwards preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and pre- 
 sented by the said College to the living of Great AValtham in 
 Essex.) From Oxford, where he wore a Civilian's gow n, he came 
 to London, with a view of engaging in the practice of the Civil 
 Law ; but, losing his friend and patron Sir John Cook, Knt. Dean 
 of the Arches and Vicar General, &c. he abandoned all thoughts 
 of that and every other profession. An anonymous Funeral 
 Poem to the memory of Sir John Cook, intituled, "AstreaLa- 
 crimans," the production probably of Coxeter, appeared in 
 1710. Continuing in London without any settled pursuit, he 
 became acquainted with booksellers and axUhors ; and amassed 
 materials for a Biography of our Poets, some of which appear 
 to have been communicated to Mr. Warton by Mr. Wise, Rad- 
 clivian librarian, and a contemporary with Mr. Coxeter at Tri- 
 nity college. He assisted Mr. Ames in his Histoiy of British 
 Typography ; had a curious collection of old plays ; and pointed 
 out to Theobald many of of the black-letter books with which 
 that Critick illustrated Shakspeare. He compiled one, if not 
 more, of the Indexes to Hudson's edition of Josephus, in 1720. 
 In 1739, he published a new edition of Dr. Bailly's (or rather 
 Dr. Richard Hall's) Life of Bishop Fisher, first printed in 16'55. 
 In the beginning of the year 1744, he circulated Proposals for 
 printing May's Plays, of which this is an exact copy. " Speedily 
 will be published, The Dramatic Wokks of Thomas May,, 
 Esquire, a contcmponuy with Ben Jonson, and, upon his de- 
 cease, a competitor for the Bavs. Witli Notes, and an Account 
 of his Life and Writings. By Thomas Coxeter, Esquire, some 
 time of Trinity College, Oxford. The Editor, intending to re- 
 vive the best of our Old Plays, faithfully collated with all the 
 editions that could be found in a search of above thirty years, 
 happened to comnumicatc his scheme to one who now invades 
 it. To vindicate which, he is resolved to publish this deserving 
 Author, though out of the order of his Design. And, as a late 
 spmious edition of Gordoeuc is sufficient to shew what mis- 
 takes and confusion may be expected from tlie Medley now ad- 
 vertising in ten volumes, a correct edition will be added of that 
 excellent Tragedy : with other Poetical \^'orks of the renowned 
 
 Sack-
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 5I3 
 
 A translation of his History of England into French 
 was intended by several hands ; the first book was 
 undertaken by M. 1' Abb^ Delacroix ; the second and 
 sixth by Pere Peter of Dublin ; the third by Pere de 
 Monchelon ; the fourth by M. GofFort ; the fifth by 
 M. D. Lavirotes. This Translation, I believe, was 
 never finished ; but Dr. Ducarel had the second and 
 sixth books, and the greater part of the third and 
 fifth, in the hand-writing of the Translators. 
 
 At Mr. Carte's death, all his papers came into 
 the hands of his widow * ; who afterwards married 
 Mr. Nicholas Jern^gan -jf, a gentleman intended for 
 orders in the Romish Church, though he declined 
 
 Sackville, his Life, and Glossaiy. These are offered as a speci- 
 men of the great care which is necessary, and will constantly be 
 used in the revival of such old writers as the Editor shall be en- 
 couraged to restore to the publick in their genuine purity." 
 Though this design did not take effect, we learn from it, that 
 he was the first who formed the very excellent scheme of pub- 
 lishing an ample selection of our obsolete Dramas, adopted by 
 Dodsley, and lately perfected with great improvement^. Sack- 
 ville's " Gorhoduc," here referred to, is the same edition that was 
 conducted by Mr. Spcnce in 1736, He died of a fever, on 
 Easter-day, April 19, 1747> in his 59th year; and was buried in 
 the chapel-yard of the Royal Hospital of Bridewell ; leaving an 
 orphan daughter ; who, for the merits of her father, was much 
 noticed, and occasionally assisted with money, by Dr. Johnson ; 
 and after the death of that benevolent Moi^alist, her latt(?r da)'3 
 were in some degree cheered by the notice taken of her by the 
 Committee of the Literary Fund. She died in November 1S07- 
 * This lady was a daughter of Colonel Brett, 
 t Whose father Heniy, a goldsmith and jeweller in Russel- 
 street, made the curious silver cistern which was disposed of by 
 I-ttery about the year 1740, and of which there is a fine en- 
 graving by Vertue. The price of a ticket was cither live or sLn; 
 shillings, aiul the purchaser had a silver medal into the bargain, 
 value about '6s. There Vvcre, I believe, 30,(X)0 tickets ; and the 
 medal induced numerous peo{)Ic to buy tliem. The ingenious 
 Ajtistwas fourth son of Sir Francis Jerningham {or Jcrnegan^ 
 which was the original name), a famil) long seated at Cossey 
 in Norfolk. He died Nov. b, 17(>1 ; and was buried in the 
 church-yard of St. Paul Cuvent (larden ; where tlie following 
 lines by iyr. Aaron Hill are insfribed on hi.-, tonilj : 
 
 " All, 'that uicnviplhli'diodi/ K'nd.s mankind. 
 From earth rci-eiving, he to earth rc^ign'd : 
 All., that e'er graced :i .oul, from llcaccn he drew. 
 And took ou'L, wit!; liiin, as an :\ni.;;ef due !" 
 
 V'oj , i[. \, I. taking
 
 514 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 taking them, after having received an education for 
 that purpose. She left them to her second husband 
 for his hfe, and after his death to the University of 
 Oxford ; where they are now lodged in the Bodleian 
 Library, having been delivered to the University, in 
 the life-time of Mr. Jernegan, for a valuable con- 
 sideration (I believe 50/.), in I778. 
 
 While they were in Mr. Jernegan's possession, the 
 late Earl of Hardwicke paid 200/. for the perusal of 
 them *. Mr. Macpherson also obtained the use of 
 them, by a present of 300/. made by his publisher 
 to the proprietor ; and out of*these and other papers 
 compiled his History and State Papers, 1775-|~. 
 
 Mr. Carte left in MS. " A Vindication of King 
 Charles the First, with regard to the Irish Mas- 
 sacre." He also possessed (what afterwards came 
 into the Library of Dr. Winchester) a copy of Dug- 
 dale's Baronage; in the first volume of which are 
 some corrections and alterations "j^ ; in the last, large 
 corrections and additions, whole articles written 
 afresh, and at the end an account of several new 
 peers ; in the hand-writing of Sir William Dugdale. 
 
 Soon after the accession of King George L walk- 
 ing in a heavy shower, he was plied with " A coach^ 
 
 * Mr. Jernegan asked Lord Hardwicke loOOZ. for the papers. 
 From these and from memory of what he read every day in the 
 Scots College at Paris, Sir JohnDah'ymple compiled his Memoirs, 
 The Jesuits intended to print the letters of James II. preserved in 
 their College. Those from that King to William III. from his 
 accession to within six weeks or a month of the Revolution, are 
 signed " Yours as you wish, as you desire, and as you deserve." 
 An English Nobleman (living in 180'2) saw the original letters 
 of William 1!I. to the Duke of Marlborough and others, which 
 do the King-great honour, and shew the duplicity of the otherside. 
 
 f " The Stuart papers ct)ntained in these volumes consist of 
 the Collection of Mr. Nairne, who was under-sccretary, from 
 the Revolution to the end of the year 1713^ to the ministers of 
 King James II. and to those of his son. The extractsfrom theLife 
 of King James It, consisting of more than thirty sheets of print, 
 were partly taken by the late Mr. Carte, and partly by the Editor 
 in a journey he made for that purpose to France, Mr. Nairne's 
 papers came into the possession of Mr. Carte some time before 
 his death." Macpherson. 
 
 J The gi-ound of this improved work may be seen in VVood'.<? 
 Fa-ti, vol. II. col. 16', last edition. 
 
 your
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 515 
 
 your Reverence r" " No, honest friend," answered 
 Carte, "this is not a reign for me to ride in a coach*." 
 
 It appears by the Report of the Committee of 
 the House of Commons, that Mr, Thomas Carte 
 succeeded Kelly as secretary to Bishop Atterbury ; 
 and that a riotous election at Coventry had been 
 greatly animated by Carte. 
 
 I have mentioned above, p. 472, that Mr. Carte 
 was originally of University college ; but have been 
 since told that he afterwards removed to Brazen 
 Nose. He was a man of strong constitution, 
 laborious and indefatifjable in his studies. Dr. 
 Mangey -|~, who was universally allowed to be a 
 man of great learning, said, " that he always 
 thought he could sit as long at his studies as 
 any man, till he came to live in the same house 
 with Mr. Carte, who, used to write or read from 
 early in the morning till night, only allowing him- 
 self time to take a dish or two of tefi, or something 
 of that kind; so that," adds the Doctor, " I could 
 not keep pace with him at all. When his studies 
 of the day were over, he would eat heartily ; , and 
 when he was in company, was very cheerful and 
 entertaining, without the least tincture of morose- 
 ness or reserve, but extremely negligent of propriety 
 or neatness in externals." 
 
 By a letter to Mr. Williams:]:, preserved below "^y 
 it appears that he was in Ireland in 173^.^, collect- 
 
 * This stor) is told, by Dean Swift, of Daniel Purcell, another 
 Nonjuror. 
 
 t The Doctor acknowledges himself obliged to Mr. Carte for 
 many c(nnniunications out of the King of France's library, for 
 his edition of Philo Judteus, and calls hini " Vir praeclarie in- 
 dustria;, eruditionis et ingenii." 
 
 + A Welsh clergynjan, who had the honour of being one of 
 the intimate fiiends and corre>pondent^ of Bishop Atterbuiy. 
 
 " Dear Sir, London, Nov.^il, 1732, 
 
 " I was in Ireland when vours arrived here by Mr. Walker; hf 
 1< ft it for me, and 1 saw him afterwards at Dublin, where I was 
 detained foui- months in dige.-.ting three liish-carr-loads of papers 
 that I found at the Castle (jf Kilkenny, and which contain all th 
 lirst Duke of Onnond's letters, and those of the great men his 
 Coirespondents, from IGfJO to KiS."), and a \ast <iuantity of jkij)! r 
 leluliiia: to thf administration of the go\(.'rnnient and tlu- alUiirs 
 of that kinudom within that tiiht!. 1 did not retvnn thtncc till
 
 5l6 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 ing Materials for his History of the Duke of Or- 
 mond. Lord Orrery, in a letter to Mr. Carte, soon 
 
 place wliere Mr. Walker had left my letter, I received yours -, 
 but not the medals, which were in the City ; at the merchant's 
 who liad taken them out of the Custom-house. As soon as I 
 receive tl^em, I will arrange them with the others, and insert 
 them in the Catalogaic of the cabinet. I have not seen our 
 friend Wat yet, but hope to do it soon, and that the purchaser he 
 had in his view may now be disposed to buy them. Your fonnei-, 
 which you sent by a piivate band, I wrote an answer to as soon 
 as I received it, and told you nakedly all my sentiments and 
 conduct on that occason. I hope you have received it, and- 
 then you will see by it how wrongfully I was charged Avith en- 
 couraging those reflections and reports on the person at whoso 
 request it was wrote. I always had a great regard for hini, and 
 never believed any of those surmises j and whenever they were 
 mentioned wiiere I was, I always declared my disbelief of them, 
 and was his advocate instead of being his accuser 3 and this the 
 most intimate of his friends can assure him of, when he shall be 
 able to see them. I hope you have had my letter, in which I 
 was more full and particular. 1 had heard of a certain gentle- 
 man's extraordinary step ; but, I own, I am so faithless with 
 regard to flying reports, having found so many false ones of late, 
 that 1 could not tell what to think of it, till youi-s assured me of 
 the truth of it. If it proved so, I naturally imagined it would 
 produce the consec^ucnce you mentioned. The accounts in yours 
 were very agreeable to me ; 1 wish I could send you any from 
 hence tiiat would be as satisfactory to you. IJut I can only tell 
 you that f am now iinishing the Index to my Thuanus, and that 
 the whole work will be printed off and delivered to subscribers 
 by the end of February or beginning of March next. I shall'' 
 then be master of myself and my time ; but, by what I say in the 
 beginning of this letter, you may guess how both will be em- 
 ployed. The work will be very pleasing to me, becatise my ma- 
 terials are so numerous and so authentic. They are printing on 
 copper-plates Mr. Anderson's Collection of the Seals of the 
 Kings of Scotland ; the price is great, being six guineas ; and 
 Mr. Forbes is going to publish a very curious Collection of pub- 
 lic papers and letters relating to Queen Mary and the Scotch 
 affairs, fi'om the first to the last of Queen Elizabeth, which he 
 has taken out of our Paper-office, the Cotton Library, and otlier 
 repositories. It will expose the ill faith or gross ignorance of 
 Rapin de Thoyras in what he says upon that subject in his His- 
 tory. This Collection will make three volumes in folio. We 
 have little else, besides Dr. Mangey's edition of Philo-Judaius, 
 going forward in the way of Literature. As to the affairs of the 
 kingdom, they seem preparing every where for a new election ; 
 and inteiest is making in all places. Disputes never ran so high 
 as they are likely to do when that time comes. At the election 
 of a Mayor of Chester in the last month 18,000^. was spent, and 
 Sir Thomas Grosvenor carried it by a great majority. People 
 (^for what reason I can't conceive) imagine that this parliament 
 
 will
 
 THOMAS CARTE. 5I7 
 
 after that History was published, tells him, "Your 
 History is in great esteem here. All sides seem to 
 like it. The Dean of St, Patrick's honours you with 
 his approbation. Any name after his could not 
 add to your satisfaction. But I may say, the 
 worthy and the wise are with you to a man, and 
 you have me into the bargain. Feb. 10, 1736." 
 
 will be dissolved after the next session ; I do not see what foun- 
 dation they have for it, because the ensuing will be but the 
 sixth session ; but we may be able to guess better when we see 
 the list of Sheriffs appointed for next year. There is a great talk 
 of a shilling in the pound being taken off the land, and of a 
 general excise being establiAed; and a paper war is carrying on 
 on this account. For my part, I am apt to think that a general 
 excise is not aimed at, at least for the present ; yet it is not im- 
 probable to suppose there may be a design to lay an inland duty 
 upon wine, as they did some years ago on coffee, tea, and cho- 
 colate. The duty on these never brought in above 100,000^ a 
 year till tliat regulation, and since it has 590,000/. a year. 
 If the inland duty on wine should produce a proportionable 
 increase of the revenue, it would raise an immense sum ; 
 and, except some harm should appear in the manner of levying 
 it, I see none in a duty which would prevent our being poisoned 
 with the detestable wine we meet with in the comiti-y here, and 
 put every body upon improving their own manufacture of malt- 
 liquor, of which you can hardly get any good at present, the use 
 of it being almost laid aside in gentlemen's houses. Our South- 
 Sea Company have left off their Greenland trade, and are going 
 j^to part with their right of sending a ship to the Spanish West 
 Indies, in consideration of some etjuivalent or other. Our trade 
 in general is certainly at a low ebb ; and some measures must 
 be taken to retrieve it, or we .-^hall lose all that of our Sugar 
 plantations, which has been tho only one (except the Portugal) 
 that we have got by of late years. 1 am sorry to tell you that 
 Mr. J(jhn Robinson of Gwersytt \\as buried the day I landed at 
 Holyhead, the 8th of this month; and his brother Mr. W.Robin- 
 son of Knebworth is since dead. W'e could not lose two more 
 worthy gentlemen, or more useful. I suppose you knew ilieni, 
 so I mention what gives me pain to relate. My best wishes wait 
 upon you and all friends \\ here you are ; and I am e.\ev, dear Sir, 
 
 Yours, &c. T. Caktk." 
 
 " Mr. Robinson had also property at Cheslmnt ; where, in 
 the windows of his house, are these anns : Az. 5 e^calops Or. 
 Crest a falcon Or. impaling O a caj) of maintcnaiice, Sable and 
 Argent, (Robinson). Crest a stag's head, Sable and Ermine, 
 horned Or. 2. O. three blackmoors heads Sable, banded about 
 A. Crest and hand Gules issuing from a cloud Azure, holding a 
 sword piercing a blackmoor's head us before. 3- Per chevron 
 Azure and Gules, ?> cups O. cre^ton a lu-hiut, a hand and arm 
 A. holding a cup O. Sujiporlcrs 2 leopards Sable. Motto; Sal 
 napit omnia. Sailers Company." Note hij Mr. Gou^Ji,
 
 51 8 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 No apology is necessary for introducing a little 
 squib which was intended by Mr. Bowyer for some 
 public newspaper, but was accidentally left unfi- 
 nished: "One ill-judged note in Mr. Carte's History 
 has occasioned the City of London to withdraw their 
 subscription. A note in which the writer indeed is 
 guilty of a misnomer, by citing one book for an- 
 other, and in which he had paid too superstitious a 
 regard for the eldest branch of the Stuart family, by 
 ascribing to it the virtue of curing the King's-evil. 
 I acquiesce in the wisdom and loyalty of this opu- 
 lent body. But, as every thing has two handles, I 
 could have been content to have taken hold of an- 
 other ; viz. to have learned from the narration how 
 King-craft and Priest-craft go hand in hand to de- 
 lude the credulity of the people. For the point 
 discussed in the History is, whether the King of 
 Eng:land had from the time of Edward the Confessor 
 the power of Healing inherent in him before his 
 unction, or whether it was conveyed to him by the 
 intervention of Ecclesiastical hands *. A point 
 which may be discussed in these days without any 
 ill consequences to the reader. But the City was 
 alarmed, and resolved to knock a history on the 
 head, though it was a child of their own production, ^ 
 and named, to their honour, the labour of an Eng- 
 lishman. And will not a Stander-by say the whole 
 procedure is entirely English ? With warmth it 
 was set on foot by Englishmen, and by EnglisJimen 
 with precipitation suppressed. I don't doubt but 
 this characteristic trait of Etiglish levity will be 
 drawn to the diversion of posterity by some French 
 hand ; or perhaps the picture will turn out a city 
 piece, a groupe of more awkward patrons than loyal 
 subjects." 
 
 * Queen Elizabeth's coronation was performed by Owen 
 Oglethorpe, bishop of Carlisle, according to antient custom, 
 and diiected by the Roman Pontifical. None but the Bishop of 
 Carlisle could be prevailed on to officiate at the ceremony." 
 
 Collier's Ecdes. Hist, vol II. p. 412. 
 
 No. IV.
 
 ( 519 ) 
 
 No. IV. 
 REV. JOHN JACKSON, 
 
 Eldest son of the Rev. John Jackson (first rector 
 of Sensey near Thirsk, and afterwards rector of 
 Rossington, and vicar of Doncaster, in Yorkshire), 
 was born at Sensey, in that county, April 4, 1686; 
 and educated at Doncaster school, under the famous 
 Dr. Bland (afterwards head master of Eton school, 
 dean of Durham, and from I732 to 1746 provost of 
 Eton college) ; who, observing his proficiency, often 
 left the instruction of the younger scholars to his 
 care. 
 
 Thus accomplished, he was entered of Jesus Col- 
 lege, Cambridge, towards the end of 1702; and 
 from his residence at Midsummer following prose- 
 cuted the academical studies with diligence, and 
 learned Hebrew under the celebrated Simon Ockley*. 
 
 * Tliis eminent Orientalist was born at Exeter, in I678 ; and 
 educated at Queen's college^ C'ambiidge, He took the degrees 
 in arts and that of B.I), and entered into holy orders j was 
 fjkilled in all theOriental languages, and well acquainted with most 
 of the modern ones, parliculaily French, Spanish, and Italian. 
 By marrying early in life he precluded himself from a fellowship. 
 In I7O0 he was presented, by Jesus College, to the vicarage of 
 Swavescy in Cambridgeshire; and in 1711 was chosen Arabic 
 Professor, and appointed chaplain to the Earl of Oxford, after 
 whose disgrace, in 1/ 1 1> having a numerou.'? family, and being 
 a bad feconomist, he became so much embarrassed in his cir- 
 cumstances as, in the summer of 1717, to be tlu'own into prison, 
 in Cambridge ctistle, for debt ; fiom which he was, however, 
 discharged before his death, which happened at Swavescy, Au- 
 gust 9, 1720. The fust volume of his [irincipal work, " The 
 History of the Saracens, " was printed in 170S, 8vo, and in- 
 arribed to Dr. Aldrich, dean of Chri.it Chinch. To the second 
 volume, which appeared in 1713, inscribed to James Earl of 
 Caernarvon, were annexed ' Sentences of Ali, Son-in-law of 
 Mahomet, and his fourth ':'ucce>snr, " inscril>ed to Thomas 
 
 Frcke,
 
 520 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 He afterwards took the degree of B. A. in 1706; 
 and, leaving the University in 1707, was appointed 
 
 Freke, esq. In the Introduction to that volume, dated " Cam- 
 bridge castle, Dec. 2, 1717." Mr. Ockley, after a handsome 
 encomium on the great application of M, Petit de la Croix, the 
 famous Oriental Interpreter to Lewis IV, observes, " My unhappy 
 condition hath always been widely different from any thing that 
 could admit of such an exactness. Fortune seems only to have 
 given me a taste of it out of spight, on purpose that I might 
 regret the loss of it. Though perhaps I may accuse her wrong- 
 fully for befriending me with an excuse for those blemishes, 
 that would have admitted of none had I been furnished with all 
 those assistances and advantages, the want of which I now be- 
 wail. If that was her meaning, she hath been very tender of 
 my reputation indeed, and resolved that my adversaries should 
 have very little reason to accuse me of the loss of time. The 
 first volume cost me two journies to Oxford, each of them of sis 
 weeks only (inclusive of the delays upon the road, and the diffi- 
 culty of finding the books without any other guide than the 
 Catalogue, not always infallible) . But my chief business lying 
 then in one author [Alwakidi] , it was so much the easier to make 
 a quick disjjatch ; because it is of no small moment in affairs of 
 this nature to be once well acquainted with the hand of the ma- 
 nuscript, and the style of the author. But in vay second under- 
 taking I found a quite different appearance of things in more 
 respects than one. Eithei* my domestic affairs were grown 
 much worse, or I less able to bear them, or, what is more pro- 
 bable, both. What made me easy as to my journey and charges 
 during my absence, was the liberality of the worshipful Thomas 
 Freke, of Hannington, Wilts, esq. to whom the world is indebted 
 for whatsoever is performed at present in this second volume ; I 
 mean with regard to the expences of it ; which still would not 
 have answered the end, if I had not been indulged all [jossible 
 conveniences of study, first by the favour of my much honoured 
 ftiend, the incomparable Dr. Halley, who, with the consent of 
 his learned colleague Dr. Keill, allowed me the keys of the Sa- 
 vilian study; and in the next place by the reverend and learned 
 Dr. Hudson, chief library-keeper of the Bodleian ; who, accord-* 
 ing to his wonted hunianily, permitted me to take out of the 
 library whatsoever books were for my purpose ; otherwise, 
 though I had five months time, much covild not have been done, 
 considering the vai'iety and difficulty of the manuscripts; besides 
 that I was forced to takc^ the advantage of the slumbers of my 
 cares, that never slept when I was awake ; and if they did not 
 incessantly interrupt my studies, were sure to succeed them with 
 no less constancy than rught doth the day. Though it would be 
 the height of ingratiti.r'e in me not to acknowledge that they 
 were daiily nlieviated by the fa-\ ours and courtesie.-i whicli I re- 
 cei\cd from persons of the greatest dignity and merit in that noble 
 
 Uni-
 
 JOHN JACKSON. 521 
 
 tutor to the children of Mr. Simpson, at Renshaw 
 in Derbyshire. In the mean time the rectory of 
 
 University ; too numerous to be all hare inserted, and all too 
 worthy (should I mention any one of them) to be omitted. 
 Some such apology as this will always be necessary for him that 
 undertakes a work of this nature upon his own bottom withovit 
 proper encouragen)ent. If any one should pertly ask me, ' Why 
 then do you trouble the world with things that you are not able 
 to bring to perfection?' Let them take this answer of one of our 
 famous Arabian authors ; ' What cannot be totally known, ought 
 not to be totally neglected^ for the knowledge of a part is better 
 than the ignorance of the whole.' The only way that I know to 
 remedy these misfortunes^ is that which I proposed before, the 
 encoui'agement of our youth. They will hardly come in upon 
 the prospect of finding leisure in a prison to transcribe those 
 papers for the press which they have collected with indefatigable 
 labour, and oftentimes at the expence of their rest, and all the 
 other conveniences of life, for the service of the publick. No j 
 though I were to assure them from ray own experience, that I 
 have enjoyed more true liberty, more happy leisure, and more soUd 
 ^eposc^i in six months here, than in thrice the same number of 
 years before. E\ 11 is tlie condition of that Historian who under- 
 takes to write the lives of others, before he knows how to live 
 himself. But, if there be no encouragement given, perhaps 
 those learned gentlemen whom the woj'ld hath so liberally ob- 
 liged gratis, will think themsehes bound in honour to make 
 some return ; unless their loathness to quit tl)at impregnable 
 fortress against envy (that always attends the merit of the virtu- 
 ous) into which they are so happily retreated, should restmin 
 them. Not that I speak this, as if I thcjught I had any just 
 reason to be angry with the world : T never stood in need oi' its 
 assistance in my life, but I found it always very liberal of its 
 advice ; for which I am so inuch tlic more l)ehoklen to it, by 
 how much tlie more 1 did always in my judgment gi\e the pos- 
 session of wisdom the preference to that of riches." A third 
 edition, to which the late Dr. Long, master of Pembroke Hall, 
 prefixed a Life of Mahomet, was, by the permis-ion of Mr. Lin- 
 tot, proprietor of tlie copy-riglu, ])rinted in 17ii7 at Cambridge, 
 in 2 vols. Svo, " for the sole benelit of Mrs. Anne Ockley," the 
 Author's daughter, and a Aery deserving woman, for wliom a hand- 
 eome subscription was bv this means made. His other {)ubliea- 
 tions were, 1. " Intioduclio ad l>ingua-> Orieatales, Ike. IJOG,'' 
 8vo. 2. ''The History of the pi-escnt Jews thi'oughout tho 
 World. Translated from the Italian of Leo Tdodcna, a Venetian 
 Ral)l>i, 1707," l'2ino. 3. "Thc' Iinproveincnt of Human Reascni, 
 exhibited in the Life of Hai VMu S'okdlian, written in Araijiek 
 above ^>()() years ago, by Abu .laafii' Kl)n 'i'ophail. in whicli is 
 demou'itrated, by what Melliods one may, by the mere Light of 
 Nsjturc; attain tliu Ivnowledge of Thiiigs natural and supcrnafn- 
 
 ral.
 
 522 LITEilARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Rossiiiffton having been reserved from the death of 
 his father for him, by the Corporation of Doncas- 
 ter*, he took Deacon's orders, in 1708; and in 1710 
 was ordained priest, and entered into the full pos- 
 session of that rectory. But the parsonage-house 
 being gone to decay, he boarded at Doncaster ; -and 
 in 1712 married Elizabeth, daughter of John Cow- 
 ley, esq. collector of excise there. On this mar- 
 riage, he entirely rebuilt the parsonage-house at 
 Rossington, and went to reside in it. 
 
 He commenced author in 1714, by publishing 
 three anonymous Letters in defence of Dr. Samuel 
 Clarke's " Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity." He 
 was not at that time personally acquainted with 
 Dr. Clarke ; but met with him soon after at Lynne 
 Regis in Norfolk. 
 
 Mr. Tonson, in 1 7 1 6, intending to publish a Bible, 
 with paraphrase and notes by several hands, applied 
 
 i-al, more particularly the Knowledge of God and the Affairs of 
 another Life. Illustrated with proper Figures. With an Ap- 
 pendix ; in which the Possibility of a Man's attaining the true 
 Knowledge of God, and Things necessary to Salvation without 
 Instruction, is briefly considered, I7II " 4. "A Seitnon on the 
 Divinity and Authority of the Chiistian Priesthood, preached at 
 Ormond Chapel [now St. Geoige's church], 17IO." 5, "A new 
 Translation of the Second Apocryphal Book of Esdras, from the 
 Arabic Version of it, as that which we have in our common Bibles 
 is from the Latin Vulgar," about 1 712. 6. "An Account of South- 
 West Bai'bary, containing what is most remarkable in the King- 
 doms of Fez and Morocco. Written by a Person \vho had been 
 a Slave there a considerable Time, and published from his au- 
 thentic Manuscript, 1713." 7- " The Necessity of Instructing 
 Children in the Scriptures. An Anniversary Sermon preached 
 on Whitsun Tuesday (May 26, 1713), at St. Ives, Huntingdon- 
 shire, founded by Dr. Robert AVilde (author of Iter BorealrJ, 
 who gave six Bibles yearly to the poor Children of that Parish, 
 1713." A Letter of his to Dr. William Wotton, dated June 25, 
 1714, in answer to some queries relating to ihe Confusion of 
 Tongues, &c. and the Construction of Eastern Languages, is 
 printed among the " Miscellaneous Tracts of Mr. Bowver, 17S5," 
 4to, p. 661. 
 
 * The Corporation might do ill or well on this occasion, in 
 reserving their li\ ing for a minor, as it should happen ; how- 
 ever, against his death, they sold the next turn for SOOZ. and 
 with the money paved the long street of their town, that forms 
 part of the great North road, T. F. 
 
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 JOHN JACKSON. 52$ 
 
 to him, by Dr. Clarke, to undertake the comment 
 upon the Prophets, proposing a handsome gratuity; 
 but he dechned the offer, and immediately engaged 
 in the cause of his friend Dr. Waterland *. In the 
 same year there passed several Letters between him 
 and Mr. Whiston, on the subject of infant baptism. 
 
 In 1718 he went to Cambridge, to take his de- 
 gree of M. A. ; but, finding such an opposition raised 
 against it as he was unable to remove, he desisted 
 from the pursuit. Presently after his return, he 
 received a consolatory letter from Dr. Clarke, who 
 also procured for him the confratership of Wigston's 
 Hospital -j- in Leicester ; to which he was presented 
 in 1719 by Lord Lechmere, in whose gift it then 
 was as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and 
 to whom Dr. Clarke had been the year before in- 
 debted for the mastership of that Hospital. On this 
 promotion Dr. Jackson left Rossi ngton, and removed 
 to Leicester; where, as confrater, he was also after- 
 noon preacher or lecturer of St. jMartin's church ; 
 for which purpose, he took out a regular licence. 
 May 30, 1719, from his diocesan, Dr. Gibson, 
 bishop of Lincoln. He continued, however, con- 
 stantly to visit his flock at Rossington for two or 
 three months every year during his life. 
 
 In 1721 and the following year several present- 
 ments were lodged against him in the Bishop's 
 
 * Nine Treati^^cs by Mr. Jackson on this controvei'sy, from 
 17I6 to 1738, are enumerated in the 8ui)i)lenientary Vohune 
 [vol. VI. part 2. J of the Bi()i^Ta))hia Britannica, 177<^>> p. 107. 
 
 f The confratership of Wigston's Hospital is held (for life) by 
 patent from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and was 
 particularly acceptable to Mr. Jackson, as it requires no subscrip- 
 tion to any Article of Religion. Chillingworth had it, who also 
 refused (for a time) to subscrilje. Neal (Ili.itory of the Puritans, 
 vol. III. chap. II. p. 101, Hvo) says, Chillingvvorth was persuaded 
 to subscribe for the two preffM'ineuts he l:)efoi'e mentioned, viz. 
 the chaneellor-.liip of Saruin and the mastership of Wigston's 
 Hospital. Botii these are held by patent, and recjuire no sub- 
 scription. But Chilling\vorth was not clianeellor of the diocese, 
 but of the church of S;irum, which stall undoubtedly recjuires 
 subscription, a> much iis any simple [irebeuJal stall in a ca- 
 thedral. 
 
 Court,
 
 524 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Court, as also in that of Dr. Trimnel, archdeacon 
 of Leicester, for preaching erroneous doctrines * ; 
 but ne so strenuously vindicated himself, as to de- 
 feat the prosecutions. Yet, after the case of the 
 Arian Subscription was published by Dr. Water- 
 land, he resolved, with Dr. Clarke, never to sub- 
 scribe the Articles any more ; by which resolution 
 he lost, about I724, the hopes of a prebend of 
 Salisbury, which Bishop Hoadly refused to give 
 him without such subscription -I-. The Bishop's 
 denial was the more remarkable, as he had so often 
 intimated his own dislike of all such subscriptions. 
 However, he had been presented before by Sir John 
 Fryer to the private prebend of Wherwel in Hamp- 
 shire, where no such qualification was requisite. 
 
 In 1723 Mr. Jackson published "The Duty of 
 Subjects towards their Governors ; a Sermon preached 
 before the Hon. Charles Churchill's Regiment of 
 Dragoons, at their Camp near Leicester, August 
 1723 ;" and in 1728, "The Duty of a Christian set 
 forth and explained in several Practical Discourses, 
 being an Exposition of the Lord's Prayer; to which 
 is added, a Discourse on the Sacrament of the Lord's 
 Supper, for the L^se of Families." 
 
 Mr. Jackson was editor of " Novatiani Presl)yteri 
 Opera, quae extant omnia, post Jacobi Pamelii 
 Brugensis recensionem, ad antiquior(\s editiones 
 castigata, et a multis mendis expurgata, 1728," 8vo. 
 
 On the death of Dr. Clarke, in May 1 729, he 
 succeeded, by the presentation of the Duke of Rut- 
 land, then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, to 
 the mastership of Wigston's Hospital; which office 
 he held till his death. He repaired and made several 
 
 * Complaint \\as made t<i Bp. Gibson that Mr. Jackson did 
 not read the Athanasian Cieed in the cha])el of the Hospital j to 
 w'Tiic'a Mr. .Tackson irplied, that the Chapel was not in the 
 Bishop's jurisdiction, and that the statutes of this house directed 
 the Apostles' Creed to be read, and no other. 
 
 t ^ee a letter of Mr, Jackson's on this occasion, Biog. Brit, 
 p. I Ob. 
 
 addi-
 
 JOHN JACKSON. 5*5 
 
 additions to the master's house ; repaired the Hos- 
 pital, and by degrees augmented the stipend of the 
 poor to 3s. a week. In 1730, he was denied the 
 use of the pulpit at St. Martin's * ; and published 
 that year "A Defence of Human Liberty, in answer 
 to the principal Arguments which have been alleged 
 against it, and particularly to Cato's Letters on that 
 Subject, &c. The Second Edition, to which is 
 added, A Vindication of Human Liberty, in answer 
 to a Dissertation on Liberty and Necessit}^, wTitten 
 by Anthony Collins, Esq." 8vo. And in that and 
 the following year, he published four tracts in 
 defence of Human Reason, occasioned by Bishop 
 Gibson's " Second Pastoral Letter." 
 
 In 1731, he attacked Tindal's "Christianity as 
 old as the Creation;" in 1733, he published an an- 
 swer to " Things divine and suj^ernatural, conceived 
 by Analogy with Things natural and human," a 
 work attributed to Bishop Browne of Corke; in 
 1734j "The Existence and Unity of God proved 
 
 * "In 1730, Mr. Jackson being theli master of the Hospital, 
 and intendini^ to officiate in the place and at the desire of Mr. 
 Hackct the confrater, Mr. Carte (then vicar), without sending 
 Mr. Jackson notice, set the sacristan at the bottom of the pulpit 
 stairs to refuse him admittance to the ])ulpit, alleging he would 
 preach himself; which Vie did, having iir^t of all thus publicly 
 affronted Mr. Jackson; who innnediatelv removed the Sermon 
 from Sunday to Friday, alleging he had a jxjw.i- to do so bv 
 the Earls deed. Some of the jjaii^hioni r-, on this filed a bill 
 (which ib always in tiie nature of a petition) against him in the 
 Diuhy Court. The Chancellor, October '^^3, 1731, decreed the 
 Sermon shoidd be on Sunday, according to tlie former usage; 
 but dismi!-^('d the other compLiints in the \n\\, which were in- 
 deed spiteful autl frivolous. Mr. Jackson lived to sec some of 
 those who bigned the petition, and were most violeiit against 
 him, so reductnl. as (o i)c glad of a pl:!i c nmung the poor of 
 "VVigitonV Mosj)ital ; which, with a true C^iu i'^tiun tempt r, lie 
 bestov.ed upon thtjin, without in-^ilalii'.r, <'r rc])roachi!ig them 
 for their forinei- bi'haviour. i'iiis account is taken from a copy 
 of the bill Col petition) hied again-t .Jack-on, .irUK-^un's answer, 
 and the Duke of llulkimls detcniii!i;Uioii. 'I'ln' originul avticlts 
 ure in the K\idenc"-n)om, with i'uiu:n'-i;ib!i; ii a-rs (for li\c;,t of 
 lands belouiiing to the -an-.e, tcDici-^. ftc. and in ihe utmost dirt 
 hik! 'iiiOi'd'T." 'rh'.o Xo*'. I, hj th-.- !l,v Jl' LicUdni. 
 
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 525 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 from his Nature and Attributes. To which is 
 added an Appendix, wherein is considered the 
 Ground and Obhgations of Morahty," which led 
 him into a controversy with Mr. W. Law, and 
 other writers*; in 1735, "A Dissertation on Matter 
 and Spirit, with some Remarks on a Book, intituled. 
 An Inquiry into the Nature of the Human SouV 
 [by Mr. Baxter] ; and in 1736 "A Narrative of the 
 Case of the Rev. Mr. Jackson's being refused the 
 Sacrament of the Lord's Supper at Bath ;" which 
 had been done in a very public manner by Dr. 
 Coney. 
 
 In 1742 he had an epistolary debate with his 
 friend Mr. William Whiston, concerning the order 
 and times of the high priests. 
 
 In 1744 he published, "An Address to the Deists, 
 being a Proof of Revealed Religion from IMiracles 
 and Prophecies, in answer to a Book, intituled 
 The Resurrection of Jesus considered hij a Moral 
 Philosopher^' Svo ; and soon after entered the list 
 against Mr. Warburton, in " The Belief of a Future 
 State proved to be a fundamental Article of the 
 Religion of the Hebrews, and held by the Philo- 
 sophers; the Heathen Theology explained, and the 
 Time of Job ; with Remarks on Mr. Lardner's fifth 
 Volume, &c. 1745 "^j" 8vo. 
 
 Mr. Jackson either published a second part of 
 his " Belief of a Future State," or added an Appendix 
 to his former part, " occasioned by some severe re- 
 flections on the author and his writings, contained 
 
 '^^i 
 
 * Of which the particulais may be seen, Biog. Brit. p. 109. 
 
 t Of this production Mr. Warburton not unpleasantly re- 
 marked, that all its objections, even to the very blunders, had 
 been long ago obviated or answered. " But 1 would recom- 
 mend," he says, " Mr. Jackson's Pamphlet to the reader's peru- 
 sal, as a specimen of that illustrious Band in which he has 
 thought fit to enlist ; and which indeed would have been imper- 
 fect without this Answerer General ; and, after having written 
 against the Inquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul, does me 
 too much honour to be overlooked." 
 
 in
 
 JOHN JACKSON. 5^7 
 
 in the second Part of Mr. Warburton's Remarks," 
 which appeared in 1 746. Mr. Warburton, in March 
 1747 replied, in a Preface to Mr. Tovvne's "Critical 
 Inquiry into the Opinions and Practice of the An- 
 tient Philosophers, &c." Mr. Jackson immediately 
 pursued the subject, in " A further Defence of the 
 antient Philosophers, against the Misrepresentations 
 of a Critical Enquiry, prefaced by Mr. Warburton, 
 1747;" and by "A Treatise on the Improvement 
 made in the Art of Criticism, collected out of the 
 Writings of a celebrated Hypercritic; by Philo- 
 criticus Cantabrigiensis, I748." Mr. Warburton 
 having made some remarks on this treatise, the 
 controversy closed*, by "A Defence of a late Pam- 
 phlet called, A Treatise on the Improvement made 
 in the Art of Criticism, being an Answer to some 
 Remarks made upon it, 1749." 
 
 Mr. Jackson's next work was, "^ Remarks on Dr. 
 Middleton's Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Power 
 supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church 
 after the Days of the Apostles." From this time he 
 does not appear to have published any thing till 
 1752, when his last and capital work, "Chronolo- 
 gical Antiquities-I-," &c. came out, in three volumes, 
 4to. He afterwards made many collections and 
 preparations for printing an edition of the New 
 Testament in Cireek, with Scholia in the same lan- 
 guage ; and would have inserted all the various read- 
 
 * '' TMng; after that prriod, Mr. Warburton and Mr. Jackson, 
 \vho had never seen each other, had a transient interview. 
 Jackson was accidentally in tlic hhop of his friend Mr. Whiston 
 the l>ookselkr^ when A\ arburton passed tliroui^h it in his way to 
 the sanctum sanctorum, ?.Ir. Whiston's back-parlour. Jackson, 
 observing but n<Jt knowing him, enquired his name of the shop- 
 man 5 and, heariua; it, observed, "1 tiiou>ht it was some such 
 conceited fellow." Warburton, in like nr.inner, having eyed his 
 antagonist, asked a .similar question; and, on hearing- the name, 
 repHed in almost the identical woids which had been used by 
 Mr. Jackson."' Dr. Oicen, MS. ev urc Juluanls H'histon. 
 
 t In a quarter of a sheet of ".Adilitions" to tiiis Work, is an 
 answer to a note printed at the end of a new edition o'^ the 
 tli-t volume of ''The Ul\ine Ligalion '
 
 528 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 ings, had not the infirmities of age, which he felt 
 some years before his death, prevented him from 
 finishing the design*. His bodily strength defin- 
 ing, and the faculties of his mind gradually decreas- 
 ing (of which he seemed but too sensible), he be- 
 came incapable of close application to study ^ ; but 
 retained his thirst after knowledge till his death ; 
 which happened at Leicester, on the Ascension-day, 
 May 12, 1763. By his wife, who died before him, 
 he had twelve children ; of whom one son and three 
 daughters were living in 17^4. 
 
 I have been furnished with the following hints on 
 Mr. Jackson's character by a friend, who was ac- 
 quainted with him from the year I75O: " He always 
 seemed to me rather a man of industry than genius, 
 at least such genius as is necessary to reconcile the 
 inconsistent accounts of antient writers, and make 
 out a clear system of antient chronology. He cer- 
 tainly took all that he has said about Hieroglyphics 
 and Mysteries from Warburton ; but so totally forgot 
 or overlooked it (as was his custom on other occa- 
 sions), that he verily thought it all his own ; nor did 
 he understand any of the Eastern languages, except 
 a little Hebrew. He was a strict follower and stre- 
 nuous defender of Dr. Clarke. He was much of- 
 fended at Dr. Coney (and would have been with any 
 one) for saying ' that he denied the Divinity of the 
 Son.' But then he would not on any account give 
 the Son the appellation of self-existent, necessarily- 
 existent, &c. or any of those metaphysical titles. 
 His being so early a defender of Dr. Clarke, and 
 
 * An account of the materials he had collected for this in- 
 tended edition, with notes containing alterations, coiTections, 
 and additions to his Chronology, are inserted in an Appendix to 
 " Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Rev. Mr. John 
 Jackson, &c. London, 1764 [by Dr. Sutton of Leicester]," 8vo. 
 whence this Memoir is principally extracted. There are also many 
 particulars relating to Mr. Jackson in AMiiston'sLife of Dr. Clarkee. 
 
 f He had published thirty-six separate books and pamphlets. 
 And in ". The Old Whig," No, 33 and No. 39 were his j)ro- 
 ductions. 
 
 his
 
 JOHN JACKSON. 52 
 
 his political zeal for the Hanover family, got him 
 his preferment ; and his earliest writings *, espe- 
 cially his " Plea for Human Reason/' appear to have 
 been his best." 
 
 To this account I shall not scruple to annex a 
 letter-J^, though compounded of insolent egotism 
 
 * Mr, Warburton, in a letter to Mr. Hurd, Juhj 8, 1752, says, 
 " You talk of Jackson's Chronologj', on which occasion you 
 quote a line of Mr. Pope, which he would have envied you the 
 application of; and would certainly have drawn a new character 
 of a diving Antiquarian, for the pleasure of applying this line to 
 him. As for Jackson, you would hardly think (after what had 
 passed between us) that all his account of the Mysteries should 
 be one entire theft from me, a ti-anscript of my account, with- 
 out one word of acknowledgment : for which I shall make him 
 aU due acknowledgments in a note. The wretcli has spent his 
 days in the republic of letters, just as your vagabonds do in the 
 streets of London, in one unwearied coui'se of begging, railings 
 and stealing." 
 
 t "Sir, 'July a, 1752. 
 
 " I received your letter, with your account; but find you have 
 out-reckoned me about a sheet and a half, besides 155. 6d. in odd 
 matters not fit to be allowed. I paid 1 1. 8s. for a coppei'-plate j 
 and you charge 5s. for printing it, when you had no letters to 
 set, and charge me also for the printed page ! Sure this is wrong. 
 Next, you charge me 5s. 6d. for cutting a few Greek characters 
 in wood, which I suppose is not usual to be done : and you under- 
 took to print all but what was on the copper-plate. You also 
 charge me 5s. for printing a little bit of a page, and charge me 
 for the whole page printing besides. This is very wrong i But 
 you was to charge these extraordinarics towards paying Mr. 
 Noon ; which 1 wonder you should do, considering I dealt so 
 honourably with you. I am not willing to pay this over-charge, 
 which I think is an imposition ; all especially but the w ooden 
 characters, and this may be so too. Tlic sheets of the volumes 
 printed are as follow : First volume, 531 pages o? 66 sheets and 
 ^ths; second volume, 505 pages, 66 sheets, !fth; third vohmie, 373 
 pages, 46 sheets, ^tlis; so in all 1/6 sheets -Jth. In this account 
 I have reckoned some half pages, or les, fur whole pages ; but 
 you have reckoned mere l)lank paper as if printed. I am going 
 into the country, and shall not leturn to Leicester till the week 
 after Michaelmas. But I wrile by tiiis post to Mr. Noon, to take 
 the 31. '.is. for his trouble, and to })ay you 3S/. 6s. on my account, 
 in full of all demands fur printing (errors exci^pted, if there be 
 any either on ycnir side or on mine). Your stijctncss in reckon- 
 ing the ])rinting will n)ake me moie careful how I agree again, 
 if f should have occasion. I had no meaning but to pav for so 
 many pages as should be actually printed; and W(UKier you 
 
 Vol. II. M m should
 
 530 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 and meanness, on a subject wherein inexperience in 
 typographical mechanism misled Mr. Jackson to 
 suppose himself unhandsomely treated. However 
 
 should reckon a sheet and more of mere blank paper, that has 
 not a letter upon it. I will send to Mr. Noon your account of 
 the paper used; so that, if there be any error, it may be amended. 
 Your very humble servant, J. Jackson." 
 
 On this impertinent letter, a friend of Mr. Jackson, who saw 
 it before it first appeared in print, remarks, " He was extremely 
 ignorant of every thing but books. No wonder he did not un- 
 derstand the art of printing, nor that he could not be convinced 
 of the reasonableness of what is the universal custom. AH print- 
 ing is estimated and contracted for by the sheet. But if there 
 must be a deduction for every piece of white paper in a page, 
 no accompt could ever be settled." Another friend, soon after 
 it was first published, says, " This letter is truly in character : 
 Mr. Bowjer and the Writer's Friend sujjpose Mr. Jaclcson to 
 have been inexperienced in printing : that supposition is good- 
 natured ; but, is it just ? I think not. The whole letter is com- 
 pounded of meanness and insolence, particukuly when it is 
 considered to whom it was written. Oh, self! self! when that 
 is uppermost, to what littleness does human-nature descend ! 
 Notwithstanding the impertinence of the letter, I am glad to 
 see it in print, for the sake of the excellent answer." 
 
 Mr. Bowyer's very proper answer was this : 
 
 " Had you. Sir, been an Autlior of a lower class, one of those 
 who are paid by the sheet, you would more easily have digested 
 it, that no deductions should be made for a blank page ; that 
 titles, dedications, and the like, though of a larger letter, should 
 be paid for at the same rate as the body of the book. And it is 
 the more reasonable the printer sliould be paid so, because he 
 pays the very same price to the workman. He (X)ntracts with 
 him at so much a sheet one with another j and if there are any 
 blanks, the advantage is divided between the author who gets 
 his living by his brains, and the journeyman who picks it up by 
 his lingers' ends. Nay, the proprietor or bookseller receives an 
 advantage likewise, the blank jiages go to the buyer for full 
 ones, and he!p to make up the number of sheets. But what a 
 world should we have, if every thing was biought to mathema- 
 tical nicety; if every subscriber was to cavil at a blank page, and 
 complain he had paper imposed on him instead of print ! The 
 copper-plate you mention was printed off at the rolling-press, 
 another branch of business ; and the money I charged is what 
 I paid for working it. Ask Mr. Whiston, who prints Boyle's 
 head in most of his title-pages, and is the son of a mathematician, 
 and himself a philomath. The few letters I paid for cutting in 
 wood are such as no printer has in town, viz. the Episemon Vau, 
 Koppa, and Sanpi, and two or three more. I furnished Latin, 
 Greek, and Hebrew 3 and I told you (though you have forgot it) 
 
 that
 
 JOHN JACKSON. 53 1 
 
 trifling the subject may appear, Mr. Bowyer's answer 
 will vindicate himself, and give some degree of in- 
 struction to those who are not conversant with the 
 operations of the press. 
 
 that I should be obliged to get a few letters cut in wood, which 
 would come to a very small matter extraordinary. I called upon 
 Mr. Noon with my bUl the day after you went out of town, and 
 left it with him soon after, in whose hands it lay till I told him 
 I would clear his deviand of three guineas. He then gave it me, 
 and said I might send it to you. But I find my honour is a 
 snare to me, and my compliance with his demand only makes 
 me suspected by you. Hard fate, whichsoever way I turn my- 
 self ! But I attribute it all to your inexperience in printing ; and 
 am. Sir, your most humble servant, VV. Bowyer." 
 
 To another Author, a most worthy Divine, for whom Mr. 
 Bowjer had a very high regard, but who thought himself ag- 
 grieved where in reality there was no cause of complaint, the 
 following letter was addressed : 
 " Rev. Sir, 
 
 " I am Sony you are not sensible of the openness of my deal- 
 ing, and that I have taken no advantage of my own proposal or 
 yours. Your question at first was, ' Whether quotations in 
 Greek, and some printing in blacS letter, would not add to the 
 expence ?' It would, you was told ; but how much it would 
 add to the expence could not be determined till I saw what 
 quantity of Greek there was. You tell me, March 6, 1742-3, 
 *As to the Greek of any sort that may occur, it must be charged 
 hereafter according to the quantity, or the extraordinary trouble 
 occasioned by it. 1 promise myself that otherwise the charge 
 will not exceed in London the proposal from our University press. 
 The first nine sheets,' you observe, ' have veiy little Gi'eek in 
 them.' I have charged the whole, as if they had little or none. 
 I have not stood for a word or two, though of accents and sub- 
 scripts I mended hundreds. I would farther observe, that I paid 
 as much to the compositor for the first nine sheets as I did for 
 the rest, and even for the dedication, though in so large a letter. 
 It is some small advantage allowed to him from the iuvention of 
 printing. Reduce every tiling to (he poor workman to the 
 hardest standard, what tyranny would be exercised ! The mower 
 agrees for so much an acre ; perhaps a shower comos^ and his 
 Ta~k is easier : AyaW he make a deduction for it r W. B." 
 
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 ( 532 ) 
 
 No. VI. 
 
 ZACHARY GREY, LL.D. 
 
 Dr. Zachary Grey was of a Yorkshire family, 
 originally from France *. He was admitted a pen- 
 sioner in Jesus college, Cambridge, April l8, 1704, 
 but afterwards removed to Trinity hall ; where he 
 was admitted scholar of the house, Jan. 6, 1706-7 ; 
 LL.B. 1709; LL.D 172O; and, though he was 
 never fellow of that College, he was elected one of 
 the trustees for Mr. AylofFe's benefaction to it ^. 
 
 * ''The Greys, or Grays," says Rapin, '' came from Gray, a 
 town in Fianche Comtc, and liad probably lands gi^ en them by 
 the Conqueror, or his immediate successors, among other Nor- 
 mans and Frenchnicn who made the possessions of the former 
 inhabitants tlieir prey." Several noble families of this name 
 appeared very early, and they have continued pretty pi'oliiic, 
 great numbers of them being dispcj'sed all over the kingdom 
 both in high and low life. See a letter to Dr. Grey on this, 
 subject from the late Charles Grey, esq. in the Bibliotheca Topo- 
 graphica Britannica, No. II. p. 171. Mr. Isaac Heed had a Col- 
 lection of records, pedigrees, &c. of the family (bought out of 
 the Northampton Catalogue, mentioned in p. 545), with some 
 curioTis particulars of tlie Greys Earls of Kent ; amongst others, 
 " Summons to Parliament of the Lord Greys of Codnover, Wil- 
 ton, Ruthyn, antl the other Loi'ds of that name, collected out 
 of Rymer's Volumes and Dugdale's Summons ;" and also, " My 
 lord's expences for his houshold in seven weeks ended 5 April 
 1593 ; distinguished under the respective articles of " Buttry 
 andPantr^'," "Seller," "Sp3cery," "Ewery," " Wood and Cole," 
 " Accator of Store," "Presents," and " Redy Money." See 
 this article in the " History of Leicestershire," vol. IV. p. 457. 
 
 fit was perhaps to this election that the following letter to 
 him alludes. 
 
 " Good Sir, llliitehall, Feb. 3, 1734-5. 
 
 " I wrote yesterday to Mr. Barnard and Mr. Lowe, a separate 
 letter to each, to let them know that I wished you success, and 
 should be obliged to them for their favour to you on this occa- 
 sion. Dr. Wilmot proposed to send the letters, and I suppose 
 some others, by a messenger on pui'pose. I do not recollect 
 that my acquaintance with any other of the fellows is such as 
 will justify my writing to them, lam, Sir, 
 
 Your faithful friend and brother, Edm. Lo^'DON." 
 
 Dr,
 
 ZACHARY GREY. 53^ 
 
 Dr. Grey was rector of Houghton Conquest in 
 Bedfordshire ; and vicar of St. Peter's and St. Giles's 
 parishes in Cambridge, where he usually passed the 
 winter, and the rest of his time at Ampthill, the 
 neighbouring market-town to his living*. 
 
 He had one brother (George -f-, born in 1680), 
 a chamber counsellor at Newcastle. 
 
 * Whilst resident in Bedfordshire he received the following 
 letter from liis Diocesan : 
 
 "Good Dr. Grey, Buckden, May 15, 173S, 
 
 " I am veiy much for making the letter of the Canons my 
 rule, in all my administrations : especially in the article of con- 
 fen-ing orders ; and, as the 33a of our Canons expressly forbids 
 the admission of any one to holy orders unless he hath a title, as 
 is therein described ; and as' the reason of this limitation was 
 not barely for securing the Church or the Bishop from the bur- 
 then of an indigent unprovided Clergy, but also and moreover 
 for guarding against tlie scandals that might be apprehended 
 from the extravagations of a supernumerary and unemployed 
 Clergy ; I have very rarely if ever admitted any upon the title of 
 an estate, as it is sometimes called. Indeed, I have of late, at 
 the solicitation of some of the Heads in the Universities, made a 
 favourable coustruction of one clause of this Canon, with respect 
 to Exhibitioners from Christ's Hospital, the Chartreuse, and 
 IVIerchant Taylors' school, &c. But I have done this under per- 
 suasion tliat these Exhibitions had the nature of Fellowships, as 
 they not only sustained their proprietors, but employed, and in 
 some sort confined them too : wliich, as experience informs us, is 
 more than can be said for that maintenance which arises from an 
 hereditary estate. So that, if I might, without offence, offer 
 you my aih ice, it should be, tlmt you would have your candidate 
 provided with some title, or employment, before he offers him- 
 self for orders. Nevertheless, as I know Dr. Grey to be as 
 heartily concerned for the honour and service of the Church as 
 any man, if, after what has been said, you sliall have reasons 
 for desiring this young gentleman to be ordained, before he can 
 be provided with a better or more beneficial title, I will (upon 
 your account, and as knowing that you will advise him usefully 
 to employ his time) take him in, ad tllidinn Episcopi. I am. 
 Good D]'. Grey, your affectionate friend and servant, 
 
 [Dr. Reynolds] R. Lincoln." 
 
 t 1 have a number of this ('entleman's MS letters to Dr. Grey, 
 by which it ajipear^ tliat tliey w( re l)oih very uidustrious in eol- 
 iecting meuKtiials of their family; wliieh, wi.h an ample pedi- 
 gree, were ill iiic hands of Mr. (ieor;.'e Grey, who often mentions 
 his " brulher and sislc;- Hiiidmar.^li " and " brothei- Warcop." 
 In several oi lii> letters he oh-o vc.-, that their father died at Uie 
 age of i]\\y, :irA lh;it he did not liiiiiself expect to exceed that 
 age. lit- !isM, !i iwv-v i\ to !,>; al leu^t G."*. la one letter he
 
 534 LITI^KARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 He was of a most amiable, sweet, and commu- 
 nicative disposition ; most friendly to his acquaint- 
 ance, and never better pleased than when perform- 
 ing acts of friendship and benevolence. 
 
 Dr. Grey was often at Wimpole in the time of 
 Edward Earl of Oxford ; from whom he received 
 many marks of friendship, particularly a present of 
 a noble silver cup and ewer. 
 
 By several original Letters in my possession *, 
 from the Duke of Bedford, the Earls of Berkshire, 
 
 says, " As to our family^ you have a particular account in Dug- 
 daJe's Baronage, vol. I. p. 710, viz. * Henry Lord Grey of Cod- 
 nover gave to Nicholas, his second son, the manor of Barton 
 in Yorkshire, about 2 Edward II.' The posterity of Nicholas 
 enjoyed it till the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and my great- 
 grandfather was a son of that family, and I believe was father to 
 him who sold the estate. Our arms are the original arms of 
 that ; for when I first went to London, I applied to one of the 
 Heralds of my acquaintance to get me a seal cut, and he told me 
 it was the ai'ms of the Codaover family ; and that family, as ap- 
 pears by Dugdale, is the original of all the Greys." The follow- 
 ing little circumstance, in another of his letters, dated July 30, 
 1731, may be worth preserving: "I had a letter lately fi'om 
 aunt Milton, who is very well, and lives at Namptwich. There 
 were three widow Miltons there, viz. the Poet's widow, my 
 aimt, and another. The Poet's widow died last summer." 
 In another letter he says, " My grandfather Cawdrey, after he 
 lost his fellowship, went to live with one Dr. Mason, who was 
 master of requests to King Charles the First ; but I cannot find 
 who this Doctor was." [Of this Dr. Mason see Bibl. Topogr. 
 Brit. NoXLIlI. p.416.] 
 
 * Among these are, Mr. Christopher Anstey ; Mr. Hemy Astry, 
 a London Divine, Treasurer of St. Paul's ; Mr. Montague Baconj 
 Mr. W.Baker; John Bedford, I\1.B.; Mr. William Bedford 3 Dr. 
 Birch; Dr.C. Byron; Mr. T. Carte; Dr. J. Chapman, archdeacon of 
 Sudbury; SirP.Charnockc, knt.; Mr. JohnCliurch; Mr. W.Cole, 
 of Milton ; Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bart. ; Dr. Henry Dawson ; 
 Mr. Ambrose Dickins ; Dr. Fiancis Dickins ; Mr. T. Doughty ; 
 Dr. Ducarel ; Sir Henry Every, bart. ; Rev. Sir Job n Eveiy, bart. ; 
 Bp. Gooch; Mr. Alexander Gordon; Dr. Humplirey Ciovver; Dr. 
 liic'nard Grey; Dr. Jolm Hiidrop ; Mr. John Jones ; Mr. Arthur 
 Kynnesman ; Lord Chief Justice Lee ; Dr. Egerton l^eigh ; Bp, 
 Osbalde^ton ; Admiral Osborne ; Mr, Jaseph Pote ; Mr. Thomas 
 Potter; Mr. W. Reading ; Dr. G. Reynolds, aichdeacon of Lin- 
 coln ; Dr. W. Rii'hardson ; iMr. Salmon ; Mr. J. Slater ; Mr. 
 Robert Smyth ; Dr. Sna})e ; Mr. Matthew Symsou ; Dr. Corne- 
 wale Tathwall ; Dr. James Ti install ; Dr. Richai'd \\ arren, arch- 
 deacon of Suffolk ; Dr. William AVarren, president of Trinity 
 J^iall; Dr. Watcrkmdj &c, &c. 
 
 Bristol,
 
 ZACHARY GREY. 535 
 
 Bristol, Gainsborough, Oxford, and Sandwich, Lord 
 Trevor, Lord St. John, Lord Royston, and others *, 
 
 * A few of these, on literary subjects, shall here be given, 
 " Dear Sir, Cambridge, Dec. 4, 1740. 
 
 " You have observed an Advertisement probably in the public 
 papers of the last week, promising the publication of The Life 
 of Cicero on the 2d of February ; this obliges me to remind all 
 iny friends, who have been so kind as to dispose of any receipts 
 forme, to send me the names of their Subscribers, to be inserted 
 in my List, which I am now preparing for the press. I received 
 some time ago, by your order, the names oi Mr. Lewis, Mr. Crofts, 
 and Mr. Clark. If you since happened to pick up any more, I 
 should be glad to have an account of them at any time before 
 January, distinguished by small and large paper ; if not, I sliall 
 insert the three above mentioned for the small paper, and will 
 take care to reserve one of the large for yourself, in return for 
 the many presents of the same kind, with which you have fa- 
 voured me. I am sorry, that either your affairs or your incli- 
 nation should engage you to desert Cambridge ; where we still 
 flatter ourselves with the hopes of your return, which would give 
 a sensible pleasure to all your friends, and in a particular man- 
 ner to, dear Sir, Your faithful and obedient servant, 
 
 C. MiDDLETON." 
 
 [This favour Dr. Middleton afterwards very amply repaid, by 
 obtaining many subscriptions for Dr. Grey's Hudibras.] 
 
 "Rev. Sir, Graystock, May 3\, 1743. 
 
 " I was favoured yesterday with your obliging letter, and am 
 veiy sorry that I cannot return a more satisfactory answer. 
 The account which I gave Mr. Lindsey I had from a brother of 
 Lord Soutliwell, who now lives at Cockermouth, He is positive 
 that such a MS. was left by the famous Lesley, and is in the 
 custody of a son of liis now li\ ing in Ireland ; but could not tell 
 how to direct to him. I shall see Mr. Southwell again shortly, 
 and if I can learn any more particulars, shall not fail to acquaint 
 you with them. In the mean time you will please to set me 
 down among yoiu* Subscril)ers for a copy of ' Hudibras.* You 
 may depend on my communicating the Proposals to the Book- 
 sellers of Carlisle and Penrith, the first opportunity. I heartily 
 wish all the success to yoiu' undertaking which it must deserve; 
 and beg the fa\our of you to let Mr. Rooke know that 1 should 
 be glad to hear, as hoon as he is able to determine, when he will 
 be with us. Mv coniplinients attend on your good Lady, resj)ects 
 to honest Mr. (ia), and all lVi;-iuls in St. John's, from, reverend 
 Sir, Your ino-^t obliged humble servant, K. Law\" 
 
 [.Archdeacon of Oarlisle, afterwards Bishop.} 
 
 " IIf.vkrend Sin, B'lshop-Thurp, Jane 19, 1/43. 
 
 " I was tlii- inoining agreeably ^nrpiized by the f ivour of an 
 bilging letter from you ,. and think my-clf highly indebted to 
 
 you
 
 53^ LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 it appears, that, being in the commission of the 
 peace, and a man of respectable character, he was 
 
 you for the kind promise you are pleased to make me in return 
 for so very small a present. It is a real satisfacuon to me to be 
 any ways instrumental in promoting so use&il and entertaining 
 a design ; and, if I was as nmch a Critic as I am a well-wisher 
 to the Work, 1 should perhaps be vain enough to let the world 
 know, I am acquainted with Dr. Grey. I am at present under 
 the hospitable roof of an Archbishop, of which i can send you 
 np regular account, for it was built at a time of day wVien men 
 paid more regard to convenience than to unifonaityj and there- 
 fore it would be in vain to attempt an exact description of it. 
 The rooms are very lai'ge, and furnished in character ; and that 
 apartment where I now sit to write is ornamented with the ad- 
 ventures of Samson, curiously wrought in old tapestry, the work 
 perhaps of some religious dame. In one of the bed-chambers, 
 on each side of the chimney, there are two cherubims, weeping 
 most bitterly 5 and the story says, that when the Car^'er was- 
 asked by somebody how it entered into his head to represent 
 them crying, his answer was, that he appealed to the Te Deum, 
 for the propriety of what he had done. Upon the whole, it is a 
 most agreeable house, and pleases me better than if it had been 
 designed by Lord Burlington, or any other genius of the age. 
 To-morrow we set out upon a second part of the Visitation, 
 which will continue about ten days. I am, reverend Sir, 
 
 Your much obliged, &c. Thomas Herring J. 
 
 ** P. S. My Lord desires me to insert his compliments." 
 
 "Reverend Sir, Kensington, April 13, 1744. 
 
 " My uncle Dr. Herring, in the hxxxvy and bustle of removing 
 some goods, has lost his subscription to ' Hudibras,' and desires 
 me to beg the favour of you to furnish him with another. I 
 should not much care to appear in a petition of this sort, but 
 that you know my uncle very well, and I dare say are thoroughly 
 persuaded that it is far from being his design to make an ill use 
 of your indulgence. When 1 desired you to change the name of 
 Pery into Wm. Herring, I believe I forgot to tell you my brother 
 is not a clergyman. 1 was almost ashamed to leave the Univer- 
 aty without waiting upon you ; but I came away much sooner 
 than I intended ; and indeed 1 could not help considering every 
 impertinent visit to you at this jvmcture as an injuiy to the pub- 
 lick. I met Dr. Middieton yesterday in Westminster Hall. I 
 hope he is come io town in order to publish his new Work. My 
 attachment to that branch of knowledge makes nie w ish to see 
 
 % Thomas Herring, of Bene't College, Cambridge, B. A. 1740; M. A. 
 1744; rector of Cheveningf in Kent, and Cullesdon in Surrey; treasurer 
 of Chichester; and one of the principal registrars of the Prerogative Court 
 of Canterbury. lie was nephew to Abp. Herring;, and one of his executors ; 
 married a daughter of Sir JohuToniano; and died at Kensington, April 28, 
 1774. 
 
 it
 
 ZACHARY GREY. 537 
 
 much courted for his interest in elections. He was 
 not, however, very active oa those occasions, pre- 
 ferring Hterary retirement, 
 
 it every- time it comes into my thoughts, and I have the highest 
 opinion of the author's learning and ingenuity. I wait for the 
 appearance of ' Hudibras' with the same impatience, and shall 
 not be so delicate as to deny that I expect as much entertain- 
 ment too from that quarter. I take the liberty to trouble you 
 so far as to make my compliments to Mr. Cole when you see 
 him; and to tell him, that if he h;is any further occasion for 
 ' Ariosto,' or wants at any time to look into my lai-ge edition of 
 Fontenelle, his friend Mr. Heaton will furnish Inm with the key 
 of my books, which are all very much at his ser\ice. The 
 Archbishop sets out with his family for Yorlvshire the 26th of 
 this month ; and 1 suppose we shall hardly return hither again 
 tUl the dark winter months come upon us. I am, reverend Sir, 
 Your obliged humble servant, Thomas Herring." 
 
 " Dear Sir, April 24, 1744. 
 
 " I have had an opportunity since my an ival in London of 
 collecting a few more subscriptions for you, whicii I desiie you 
 to add to your list. I hope to be at Cambridge again sometime 
 in the next week ; in the mean while, with our comphments to 
 Mrs. Grey, am. Your faitliful humble servant, C. Middleton." 
 
 ''Sir, July 19, 1748. 
 
 " I received the papei*s by Mr. Hurd, and take the freedom of 
 troubhng you with an acknowledgement of the obligations I 
 owe you on that account. The loss of your company at Mr. 
 Kurd's yesterday was as mucli lamented, as it was impossible for 
 you to gi\e it us. I think mvself very unfortunate in leaving 
 Cambridge just upon my being known to you ; and I sliall en- 
 deavour to convince you of it, by making as proper a return as 
 I can in the character of a Protector, when time and experience 
 shall enable me to it. This, Sir, you are at least entitled to 
 from the great civilities you have shewn, and of which no one 
 has a stronger sense than. Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient humble ser\ant, Edw. Littleton." 
 
 " Dear Sir, Te^l i:e[ey-Coppice , Jan. 21, 1/53. 
 
 ''After you had almost despaired of ever seeing Sir Walter 
 Raleigh again (for such I take ir for granted must have been 
 the case) 1 dare say your present sati'-faction almost eciuals that 
 you had on the iirst acduisition of it. The truth of the case is, 
 that liie opportunity of a safe hand to entiTiSt it in bus not till 
 now oiFc'red ; and which I am determined, on no account, not 
 to lose. I return you many thanks for the favour of it, and 
 sincerely wisii the present occa-i<j i of conveying it to you had 
 long since happened, lam, d' .r .lii-, 
 Your vcr\ much obliged humble servant, Eow. Littleton." 
 
 "Dear
 
 538 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 The number of his pubhcations was so great, 
 that Mr. Warburton insulted him for them. 
 
 Among them were, 
 
 1. "A Vindication of the Church of England, in 
 two Parts ; in Answer to Mr. Pearce's Vindication 
 of the Dissenters ; by a Presbyter of the Church of 
 England. 17 20," 8vo. 
 
 2. " Presbyterian Prejudice displayed, 1722," 8vo. 
 
 3. "A Pair of clean Shoes and Boots for a Dirty 
 Baronet ; or, an Answer to Sir Richard Cox ; 1722." 
 
 4. " The Knight of Dumbleton foiled at his own 
 Weapons, &c. In a Letter to Sir Richard Cocks, 
 Knt. By a Gentleman, and no Knight. I723." 
 
 5. "A Century of eminent Presbyterians; or, a 
 Collection of choice Sayings from the public Ser- 
 mons before the Two Houses, from Nov. 1()41, to 
 Jan. 31, 164S, the Day after the King was beheaded. 
 By a Lover of Episcopacy. 1723." 
 
 6. "ALetter of Thanks toMr.Benj.Bennet*, 1723." 
 
 7. *'A Caveat against Mr. Benjamin Bennet, a 
 mere Pretender to History and Criticism. By a 
 Lover of History. I724." Svo. 
 
 8. "A Defence of our Antient and Modern 
 Historians against the frivolous Cavils of a late 
 Pretender to Critical History, in which the false 
 (Quotations and unjust Inferences of the anonymous 
 
 ''DearSik, Tedgeley-Coppice, July 30, 1755. 
 
 " I have perused my papers very diligently twice over, but da 
 not find any siicli letter to your friend Dr. Baker from Arch- 
 bishop Wake as you speak of ; and dare say it was to some 
 other person that you gave it, and not to mc. Nor have I any 
 thing of any other person of which you could serve yourself in 
 your present undertaking. If 1 had, it would be at your ser\ ice. 
 Of late I have been so little among collectors, that I have made 
 but a small additi(m to my collection. I am obliged by the 
 hands you inclosed me. In a day or two I expect our friend 
 Mr. Hurd here; to whom I am siu'e it will be a pleasure to hear 
 of you and your family. I am, dear Sir, your very obliged 
 and obedient humble servant, Enw. Littleton." 
 
 * " Who published, "A Memorial of the Reformation, 1731 " 
 and a "Defence" of it, 17'23. 
 
 Authov
 
 ZA CHARY GREY. 539 
 
 Author are confuted and exposed in the Manner 
 they deserve. In two Parts. 1725," 8vo. 
 
 9. "An Appendix by way of Answer to the Cri- 
 tical Historian's Review*. I725." 
 
 10. "A Looking-glass for Fanaticks; or, the true 
 Picture of Fanaticism ; by a Gentleman of the Uni- 
 versity of Cambridge. lJ2'y" 
 
 11." The Ministry of the Dissenters proved to be 
 null and void from Scripture and Antiquity; 1725." 
 
 12. In 1732 he wrote a Preface to his Relation 
 Dean Moss's Sermons -^-j " by a Learned Hand." 
 
 13. "The Spirit of Infidelity detected, in answer 
 to Barbeyrac, with a Defence of Dr. Waterland. 
 1735," 8vo. 
 
 14. " English Presbyterian Eloquence. By an 
 Admirer of Monarchy and Episcopacy. 173^)." 8vo. 
 
 15. " Examination of Dr. Chandler's History of 
 Persecution. 1736," Svo. 
 
 16. "The true Picture of Quakerism, &c. 1736." 
 
 * Mr. Oldmixon published " A Review of Dr. Zachary Grey's 
 Defence of our Antient and Modern Historians. Wherein, in- 
 stead of dwelline; upon his frivok)us Cavils, false Quotations, 
 unjust Inferences, &c. it is proved (to his Glory be it spoken) 
 that there is not a Book in tiie English Tongue, which contains 
 so many Falshoods in so manij panes. 
 
 Non vitiosus Homo es, Zacarij, sed vitium. 
 By the Author of the Critical History of England Ecclesiastical 
 and Civil, &c. Printed tor James Roberts, near the Oxford 
 Arms in Warwick-lane." 
 
 f 1 am aware that this '' learned hand" has been always sup- 
 posed to be Dr. Snape (see vol. IV. p. 236) ; and it is ascribed to 
 him by the Rev. Mr. Masters, in his "History of Corpus Christi 
 College, Cambridge," p. 349. I now transfer it to Dr. Grey, on 
 the authority of tlie following letter from his biother : " I i-e- 
 ceived the favour of your kind letter, and also th(- Dean's valu- 
 able Sermons, for wliieh I return a great many thanlvs. When 
 I read them, I remembc r the extraordinary pleasure I had in 
 hearing mo^t of them delivered from the pul])it by tliat admirable 
 orator ; and must beg an account of the day and place each of 
 tliem was preached, liaving seveial memorandums or notes by 
 me, and the day when I heard th(mi at Gray's Inn. Y'unr Pre- 
 face I think a very good one, and think vou sh(juld liave put 
 yoiu' name t(j it." iMr. G. Grey to Dr.Greij, May 14, [H^'i.] 
 Dr. Snape was jiossibly the editor of the Sermons, but the Pre- 
 ftiee was probably by Dr. Grey. 
 
 17. "Ca-
 
 540 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 17. " Caveat against the Dissenters, I736," Svo. 
 
 18. "An impartial Examination of the Se- 
 cond * Volume of Mr. Daniel Neal's History of 
 the Puritans, 1736." 
 
 Dr. Grey's Examination of the third volume was 
 printed in 1737-}-; and that of the fourth, in 17 39 J. 
 
 * The Fii'st Volume of Neal had been examined by Dr. Madox 
 (afterwards Bishop; of whom see vol. V. p. 170). But, as it 
 appears by tlie following Letter from Bishop Gibson, Dr. Grey 
 had contributed materials for it : 
 
 " Some time since, I received the favour of your Obsenations 
 upon Mr. Neal's History, and lately, the Books relating to it, 
 which were sent by the waggon, and have put both into the 
 hands of the person who has undertaken to answer it; and who, 
 I think, will perform it well. It is a point, in which the hon- 
 our of our Estabhshed Church is nearly concerned, and I hcaiiily 
 thank you for the assistance you so readily give, towards the 
 removing that reproach which he has bi'ought upon it. I hear, 
 he is about a second part, and suppose he intends to publish it 
 ill the winter. I am. Sir, Your assured friend and bi't)tiier, 
 
 Sept. 9, 1736. Edm'. London'." 
 
 This Examination produced "A Review of the Facts objected 
 to in the first Volume of the History of the Puritans. By Daniel 
 Neal, M. A. 1733." 
 
 f On the publication of the Remarks on the Third Volume, 
 Dr. Grey received the following Letter : 
 
 ''Good Sir, Whitehall, March'24, 1736-7. 
 
 " I have lately received your Examination of I\Ir. Neal's Third 
 Volume of the History of tlie Puritans ; and as I- take it for 
 granted that it was by your direction that I received both this 
 and the Examination of the Second Volume, I desire you to 
 accept my hearty thanks for both ; partly for the kind presents 
 of the Books, but chiefly for the seasonable service you have 
 done to our Established Church, again.-! the open attacks that 
 are made upon it at this time. Mr. Neal is said to be a gi-eat 
 lover of Histoiy, and, as such, he will probably go on ; but, 
 surely, neither he nor his friends can hope to gain credit to their 
 cause, by a History of the State of Religion, and particularly of 
 the conduct df the Puritans, from 1642 to 1C60. I am. Sir, 
 Your as.-ured friend and brother, Edm'. London'." 
 X " Rev. Sir, Temple, Jprilo, 1739. 
 
 " I have recei\ ed the valuable pi'csent of your Examination of 
 the Fourth Volume of Mr. Neal's History of the Puritans ; for 
 which, and for former favours of the same kind, I return you 
 a great nrany thanks. It is haj)py that Mr. Neal's account 
 appeared Avhen there was one i-o well versed in the history, 
 and so u'ile to correct his ndstakcs and his prejudices. The ser- 
 vice you ha\e d<mG nuist be considered as a ^eiy important one 
 bv all tiie fiicnds to the constiti.tion ol" \\v' Chuich of England. 
 ' I am, re^crend Sir, Your obliged huufblc servant, 
 
 [Bp. Sherlock] I'no. Sarum."
 
 ZACHARY GREY. - 54I 
 
 19. "An Examination of the Fourteenth Chapter 
 of Sir Isaac Newton's Observations upon the Pro- 
 phecies of Daniel; in vvhich that Author's Notion 
 of the Rise and Causes of Saint-Worship in the 
 Christian Churches is carefully considered and dis- 
 proved, 173^," 8vo. 
 
 20. "An Attempt towards the Character of the 
 Royal Martyr King Charles I. ; from authentic 
 Vouchers, 1738." 
 
 21. " Schismatics delineated from authentic 
 Vouchers, in Reply to Neal, with Dowsing's Journal, 
 &c. 1739," 8vo. 
 
 22. "The Quakers and Methodists compared, &c. 
 heartily recommended to the Perusal of the Quakers 
 and Methodists, 174O." 
 
 23. "A Review of Mr. Daniel Neal's History of 
 the Puritans, with a Postscript, in which the Ex- 
 ceptions of that Author to the present Right Reverend 
 the Lord Bishop of Worcester's ' Vindication of the 
 Government, Doctrine, and Worship of the Clmrch 
 of England, established in the ]{eign of Elizabeth,* 
 are impartially considered. In a Letter to Mr. 
 David Jennings. By Zachary Greyj LL. D." who 
 charges Jennings with crying up Neal. This is an 
 8vo pamphlet of 82 pages, " Cambridge, 1744." 
 
 24. " Hudlbras, in I'hree Parts. V/ritten in 
 the Time of the late Civil Wars : Ccrrccted and 
 amended. With large Annotations, and a Preface 
 by Zachary Grey, LL. D. -jf Adorned with a new 
 
 * Mr. Gouirli luul a copy of Neal's History^ and also of Grey's 
 Examination of it, botli full of MS notes ; wliich, at Mr. Guuglv's 
 sale, were purchased by Mr. Alcxiwider ( iialmers. 
 
 A second edition of Neal was publi lied by Dr. Toulniin, in 
 1703. 
 
 t Encouraged by a most numcious List of Subscribers ; and 
 enriched by a ^reat numln-r of e\cellent notes of " the worthy 
 and ingenious Mr. Clui^toi-'her Jjyiou o'l Manchester;" with 
 Historical Notes by Dr. 'I'homas liretl, communicated by Dr. 
 William Wan-en, with Notes of lii^ own; by Hie curious and 
 critical Obsei vations of tlu reverend and learned Mr. W arburton, 
 eummunicuttd by the Kev, James Tunstall, Public Orator of the 
 
 l.iijvcr-itv
 
 542 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Sett of Cuts" [from the admirable Designs of Ho- 
 garth] . 
 
 25. "An Edition of Hudibras, 1744, 2 vols. 8vo, 
 
 26. "A serious Address to Lay Methodists ; by a 
 sincere Protestant, 1745," 8vo. 
 
 27. " Popery in its proper Colours, with a List 
 of Saints invocated in England before the Reforma- 
 tion, 17..," 8vo. 
 
 28. " Remarks upon a late Edition of Shakspeare, 
 with a long string of Emendations borrowed by the 
 celebrated Editor from the Oxford Edition without 
 Acknowledgment. To which is prefixed, a Defence 
 of the late Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart, addressed to 
 the Rev. Mr. Warburton, Preacher of Lincoln's-Inn," 
 8vo. No date (about 1/45). 
 
 29. "A Word or Two of Advice to William 
 Warburton, a Dealer in many Words. By a Friend. 
 With an Appendix, containing a Taste of William's 
 Spirit of Railing, 1746," 8vo. 
 
 30. "A free and familiar Letter to that great 
 Refiner of Pope and Shakspeare, the Rev. Mr. 
 William Warburton, Preacher at Lincoln's Inn. 
 With Remarks upon the Epistle of Friend W. E. 
 In which his unhandsome Treatment * of this cele- 
 brated Writer is exposed in the Manner it deserves. 
 By a Country Curate, 1750." 8vo. 
 
 31. " A Supplement to Hudibras, 1752," 8vo. 
 
 32. "Critical, Historical, and Explanatory Notes-f- 
 on Shakspeare, with Emendations of the Text and 
 Metre, 1755," 2 vols. Svo. 
 
 University of Cambridge ; Dr. Dickens, Professor of CivilXaw ; 
 Professor Ward ; Dr. Heberden ; William Cole, esq. ; and many 
 other reverend and learned Friends. 
 
 * See before, in this Vokmie, p. 169 3 and vol. V. p. 598. 
 
 -|- On this work Dr. Johnson has observed, that " Grey's dili- 
 gent perusal of the old English Writers has enabled hiui to make 
 some useful observations. What he undertook, he has well 
 enough performed ; but, as he neither attempts judicial nor 
 emendatory criticism, he employs rather his memory than his 
 
 sagacity.
 
 ZACHARY GREY. 543 
 
 33. " Chronological Account of Earthquakes," 
 1757. 8vo. 
 
 In 1756 he assisted Mr. Whalley in his edition of 
 Ben Jonson. In the Preface to that Work is the 
 following acknowledgment: ^' I am likewise obliged 
 to the learned Dr. Zachary Grey, who communi- 
 cated to me some classical imitations he had ob- 
 served in Jonson ; and who hath pointed out some 
 allusions to the times with that exact knowledge 
 which he hath shewn in clearing up the various 
 references of the like kind which abound in Hu- 
 dibras." 
 
 Dr. Grey corresponded regularly with Mr. Francis 
 Peck ; and furnished him with several articles for the 
 second volume of his " Desiderata Curiosa/' and 
 also that annexed to his Life of Cromwell. I have 
 several Letters addressed to Dr. Grey by Mr. Peck *, 
 from 1732 till his death. 
 
 sagacity. It were to be wi.'-licd tJiat all would endeavour to 
 imitate his modesty^ who have not been able to surpass his 
 knowledge." Preface to Shakspeare. 
 
 * A few extracts will, perhaps, not be disagreeable to the 
 reader : "I ought sooner to have thanked you for the civilities 
 and the promise of yoiu- eorresponder-ce, which you made nie at 
 Cambridge. 1 am settling materials for a thiid volume of 
 Desiderata (Jitnosa, because, when I print the second, I must 
 give the contents of the third at the end of it, according to the 
 method laid down in my first. I remember you said you had a 
 copy of the Exercise jierformcd at the entertainment in 15C4, 
 and Dr. fence's l/d'e, both from Mi', liaker's papeis ; and }()u 
 was so kind as to sav, with Mr. Baker's k-ave, 1 should be vel- 
 come to them. 1 Ijeg therefore you will present my most Jium- 
 ble service and best resj)ect5 to my .'-aid honoured friend and 
 benefactor, and ask his leave to send tlieni; which if you can 
 obtain, be pleased to direct for me to be left at Dr. Stukelcv's iri 
 Stamford." Mr. Peck to J)r. Grey, Nov. 4, IT'-i'i. See "The 
 Triiunphs of tlie Muses; or the grand llecc)iti(m .'-'.nd Entertain- 
 ment of Oueen Elizabeth at Cambridt^e, l."j'j^,'' (tj-un-criucd 
 ])rincipally bv Dr. (irey) in Peck's "Desiderata," \ol. 11. No. XV. 
 and also in tht; Gent. Mag. 177'?, pj).450. G'-lo, and I77.'i, p. 21, 
 and inserted ako in the Colleelion of the Elizabethan Fro!.',res,-pj. 
 " Thi-s ej)i-,tle waits upon you with the most grateful ackiitiw- 
 Jedgments i'nr the greut pain.-- von luue b'.'en at in trin-enMing
 
 544 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Some materials towards a Life of Mr. Thomas 
 Baker, the celebrated Cambridge Antiquary, were 
 
 tlie papers I requested of Dr. Williams. I beseech you to tell 
 the Doctor I am gi'eatly obliged to him for pemiitting those 
 transcripts to be made, as also for his many other civilities. 
 There is a little thing in Ben'et-college Library, which I should 
 be very thankful for a copy of. In Dr. Stanley's copy it is thus 
 set down: M. XIV. 98. Testimonium quod Henrici IV. Corpus 
 fuit in Thamesin projectum, et non tumulatum Cantuariaj." 
 This is printed in Desid. Cur. vol.11. 6, J. n. 2. Perhaps Mr, 
 Baker can give you some account of it. I shall always remem- 
 ber you when I meet with any old deeds or hands worth your 
 acceptance." Ibid. Dec. 3, 1734. " When I was at Cambridge, 
 you shewed nie an humorous description of a storm, by a Cler- 
 gyman then on shipboard. I wish you would bestow a copy of 
 that passage on me; adding the name of the ship, whither 
 bound, and the dates. The MS. I think was yoin* own." Ibid. 
 Dec. 9, 1734. Several other acknowledgments occur in subse- 
 quent letters ; and in the Preface to the second ^ olume Mr. Peck 
 say, " Neither may I forget thanks to the reverend Zachary 
 Grey, LL. D. rector of Houghton Conquest, who kindly lent me 
 his hand to copy several things, which I had not time to trans- 
 cribe when I was last sunmii >r at Cambridge." The Corresj)on- 
 dence goes on after the publication of the Desiderata. " I 
 thank you for your kind present of your two last pieces, which 
 I received from Mr. Bcttenham. I make no question but you 
 will have encouragement enough to print your Answer to Neal's^ 
 third volume speedily. I want nmch to know what your otJter 
 Squibs are (as you call them) which you have in the press. I 
 pray you to give my humble ser\ ice and thanks to Mr. Bernard, 
 and wish him to send the account of St. Peter's Gild, which 
 shall be very safely returned." Mr. Peck to Dr. Grey, May ult. 
 1736. " I heartily condole with you upon the loss of our mu- 
 tual fiiend, the late very reverend and learned ]\Ir. Thomas 
 Baker. His death (after that of Mr. Cowper) hath been a great 
 concei'n to me." Ibid, sans date. " Mr. Benson (I dedicate to) 
 [the Auditor] is the same gentleman you mention, and a gen- 
 tleman, I assure you, of exceeding good sense and learning and 
 candour. For my part, I do not see how Westminster Abbey is 
 profaned by a Cenotaph in honour of Milton, considered only as 
 a Poet. His politicks I have nothing to say to. You or I may 
 write of Milton and Cromwell, and still think as we please." Ibid. 
 Dec. 15, 1739. " I had the favour of yours 3 and the paper about 
 Richard Cromwell and Durham came in time, and is very a- 
 propos, and I heartily thank you for it. I am just going to the 
 Antiquarian Society. Ibid. London, Jan. 10, 1739. "I am 
 favoured with yours, and as soon as I can find the book you men- 
 tion, will send it directed to you at Cambridge, assuring you that 
 it is very much at youi' service. My father's books lie at present in 
 
 great
 
 ZACHARY GREY. 545 
 
 preparedl by Dr. Grey * ; after whose death I bought 
 
 them, in IjyS-f-, together with the following MSS. 
 
 ]*. "A large Collection of Original Letters :]: from 
 
 several eminent Persons to Dean Moss and Dr. Grey. 
 
 great disorder, and it will take some time to look them over j 
 but as you are now in great want of the book, upon receipt of a 
 line frcn you, I will make immediate search for it." 
 
 Mr. F. Peck (the Son) to Dr. Grey, July 17, 1745, 
 * Whose MS. was afterwards improved, and published in an 
 octavo volume, by the Rev. Robert Masters, of Corpus Christi 
 College, Cambridge 3 with a violent abuse of Mr. Gough, because 
 the outlines of it had appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine. 
 Whilst Mr. Masters's volume was in the press I was desirous of 
 communicating such information as I possessed j and I subjoin 
 his short acknowledgment, as a companion to what will be found 
 on this subject in vol. V. p. 116'. 
 
 " Sir, Londbeech, Nov. 18, 1783. 
 
 " I am much obliged to you for your late favour, as well as 
 for the inclosed letter, of which I had a copy, as I presume of 
 every thing else in Dr. Grey's ciistody relating to Mr. Baker. 
 Your intention however was very kind, as I shall always be ready 
 to acknowledge, who am, Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient servant, Robert INIastehs." 
 
 f They had been sold, by the representatives of Dr. Grey, to 
 iNIr. Burnham, bookseller, at Northampton. 
 
 :; See p. 534. Most of these are still in my possession. 
 Many, from Dr. Timothy Cutler of Boston and others, I had the 
 honour of presenting to y\ichbishop Cornwallis ; and they are 
 preservetl in the Lambeth Libraiy. Of these a specimen or two 
 tiiall be given : 
 
 1 . " I have read your ' Remarks on the Critical History' with 
 a great deal of pleasure. I hear the author of that book wai 
 Oldmixon, wherein I was confirmed by some points in yours. 
 This Oldmixon did heretofore pass some bitter reflexions on 
 Dr. Mather's History of New England, which Dr. Mather hath 
 sufficiently resented. And it is pleasant to observe, that Dr. 
 Mather, in a late book called Maneductio, &e. (which by my next 
 I may send to you) hath highly extolled this Critical History, 
 and hath lately had the jjleasure to know the author of it." 
 Dr. Culler to Dr. Grey, Oct. 22, l/SG. 2. ' A true son of 
 
 Bp. Burnet is appointed our Governor It li:vs jileased God 
 
 to make many breaches in my Chuirh. One remarkable one of 
 late is in the death of a young man of ij;reat sobriety, discretion, 
 and 7.eal for the Church, for whicli lie left tlie Di.ssenters after 
 the conviction of his rijur years. He was brought uj) at our 
 Colleger and carried ft'om it a strong relish of polite learning 
 and divinity, and lived and died with the respect of all who 
 knew him. In his will he aave my Church 130/. of which .30/. 
 is for t'uc poor of it ; and after the diichajge of jundry legacies, 
 
 VoJ., H. rs N and
 
 54^ LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 2. ''A Life of Dean Moss;" of which an epitome 
 will be found in vol. IV. pp. 223 23^. 
 
 and the death of his mother, the residue of the ostiitc, computed 
 at 800/. oi' 1000/. is to be equally divided between my Clmrch 
 and the College, the interest of the latter half for the education 
 of Episcopal sciiolars, and this man all the glory of tlie benefac- 
 tion ; and it is said the College will reject the gift, as they did 
 oiice an organ willed them for the service of Almighty Gofl." 
 Dr. Cutler to Dr. Grey, April 7, 17^8. 3. Noi\ H, 1734, Ur. Cut- 
 ler laments that " the post is just arrived, and brings us the sad 
 news of the uncertainty of the Society's countenancing any more 
 new' missions. \V hen this takes place it will give a sad damp to 
 the Church among us. We have five churches already built that 
 are empty 5 and sundry more societies that will ere long be ready 
 to receive ministers. And what shall we do without help, when 
 we ha^e no Bhhop, whale all preferments are denied us, and all 
 hardships are put upon us? Two places are under my care. One 
 is 33 miles oft', which I liave visited twice this summer, whoi 1 
 had an audience of 1(X) people in a Quaker meeting-iiouse, many 
 of the Friends being present. At the conclusion of sen ice, one 
 of them, ha\ ing desired and obtained liberty, made trid} a very 
 handsome speech, both for matter and phrase, in vindication of 
 their reception of us into their house. He said, the Cliuich had 
 always been kind to them ; as they [the Church] had been mcrei- 
 ful, he hoped they uoidd obtain mercy."' 4. In another letter, 
 dated lioston, Sept. 24, 1743, Dr. Cutler tells Dr. Grey, *' Writ- 
 ing for England has hindered my reading your ' History of the 
 Donatists,' ike. which you have obliged me with. I have dipt 
 into it with pleasure ; and it makes me fond of seeing the other 
 book you encourage me to hope foi*."' .5. Sfpt.'id, 1743, Dr. 
 Cutler writes, " ^\hitefic'ld has plagued us \\ith a witness, espe- 
 cially his friends ;md followers, who are like to be battered to 
 pieces by that battering ram they had provided against o\u' 
 Church here. It would be an endless attempt to deicribe that 
 scene of confusion and distvnbance occasioned by him ; the divi- 
 sions of families, neighbourhoods, and tow ns, tlie contrariety oi' 
 husbands and wIacs, the unthitifalnees of children and servants, 
 the quarrels among the teachers, the disorders of the night, the 
 intermission of labour and business, the neglect of husbandry, 
 and of gathering tlse i\ar\est. Our presses are for e-.er tetiiiinV 
 with books, and our women with ba-tardsj though Regeiicvatit>n 
 and Conversion is tlie wiiole cry. The teaclieis have many of 
 them left their pariicuiar ciues, and sti'oHod about the coun- 
 try. Some have been ordained by theui I'A-an^elizers as they 
 called them, andhud thi^'ir Ji woiir-bcarers and Exhorters ; and iu 
 many con\entick's and. places of rendezvous there has been 
 chequered work indeed, several prcaciiing and several exhorting 
 at the same time, the rest ci-jing or laughing, vclping, spi'awling, 
 fainting; and this revel maijitained in some places many days 
 and nights togetlier ^vithout intermissiou ; and then there were 
 the blessed oul-pourings of the Spirit. The New Lights have 
 with some overdone themselves by ranting and blasplninv, and
 
 ZACHARY GREY. 547 
 
 S. *^Some original Notes on Hudibras*." 
 4. '' Memoirs of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford," 
 which I still possess. 
 
 are quite demolished 3 others have extremely weakened their in- 
 terest ; and others arc terrified from goiijg the lengths they in- 
 cline to. On the other hand, the Old Lights (thus are they dis- 
 tingxiislied) have been many of them forced to town, and some 
 have lost their congregations ; for they will soon false up a new 
 conventicle in any new town where they are opposed ; and I 
 don't know but we have 50 in one place or other, and some of 
 them large and much frequented. When Mr. Whitefiekl first ar- 
 rived here, the wliole town was alai'med. He made his first visit 
 to Church on a Friday, and conversed first with many of our 
 Clergy together, and behed them, me especially, when he had 
 done. Being not invited into our pulpits, the Dissenters were 
 highly pleased, and engrossed him ; and immediately the bells 
 iTing, and all hands went to lecture ; and this show kept on all 
 the while he was here. The town was ever alarmed} the streets 
 filled with people, \^ith coaches and chaises, all for the benefit 
 of that holy man. Tlie conventicles were crowded; but he chose 
 rather our common, where, multitudes might see him in aU his 
 awful postures j besides that, in one crowded conventicle, before 
 he came in, six people v.ere killed in a fright. The fellow 
 treated the most veiicrable with an air of superiority. But he 
 for ever lashed and anatheii.atizcd tlie Cliurch of England; and 
 that was enough. After him came one Tennent, a minister im- 
 pudent and saucy; and told them all they were damned, damned, 
 damned ! This cliaimed theui ; and, in the dreadfulest winter 
 I ever saw, people wallow cd in the snow night and day for the 
 benefit of his beastly braying; and many ended their days under 
 tlujse fatigues. Both of them canicd more money out of these 
 parts th.an the poor could be tliankful for. Many others visited 
 us; but one Da\enport was a Ko//part'i^ the wilder the better, 
 the less reason the more spiiitual. But, Sir, I stop here, and 
 k'a\e you to find out a little more by what I now send you. The 
 book I have obtained for you as a present from Hiv ie\erend brQ- 
 ther Davenjiort in this town. The author, Dr. Chauncey, told me, 
 that he could have printed more fiagiant accounts, if his intelli- 
 gencers would ha\fj allowed hiui. This has tui'ued to the growth 
 of the Church in many places, and its reputation uni\er^allvj 
 and it sufiers no otherwise than as Reliirion doe<, and that is 
 sadly enough. I am horry to iiear tiiat the F.ev. Dr. Ashton is 
 vriy much ljroke!i with iiilinnity. Iiiclijdc in ymr ^-layers, 
 wo'-thy Sir, ikv." /;. Mi. Ittn ii"/cr Milk)', from Lraintree in. 
 New England, Oct. G. " Wm know hv .Mr. U 'hitclield's JoitrnaU 
 that lie hai been here. The Clfii;y of the Churcli of England 
 
 "* 'J'hcse were principaii- i)v ?,]r. .Vliiiitai.'.ni:- Bacon; and '.verti 
 given by me to Mr. Isaac I'.ec!! : v.iio proLnti.'i! th'-m, I belit'.ve, 
 to Dr. .\a.Nh, previous to lii- juihli^hiii/:: his very splendid edition 
 of lludibius in three quarto v( lunics I'J'Xi. 
 
 i X ' wer
 
 54$ LITERARY ANECD0TE3. 
 
 Dr. Grey was twice married. His first wife wa* 
 a Miss Tooley. By his second wife (who was re- 
 
 were unanimous in their resolution not to feuU'er him to ^o into 
 tlieir pulpits ; so tliat a Dis?;enting Preacher of considerable note, 
 in a paragraph of a letter that was printed, said, that "he came 
 to his oivn, and his oicn received hitii not; but we (the Dissenters) 
 received him as an angel of God." The effects of his and his 
 followers' preacliing in this countiy are extravagant beyond 
 description, and almost beyond belief. I think the party is on 
 the decline : but Whitefield is soon expected here ; and how he 
 may revive the dying work I cannot say. But I believe he will 
 not be received with the same respect as formerly by the Dissen- 
 ters themselves ; be having raised such contentions and caused 
 such divisions among them, as has much weakened them, and 
 inclined many of the more wise and thinking among them to 
 the Churchf ." In several of his other letters l)r. Cutler mention* 
 his obligations to Dr. Grey for having published Dean Moss's 
 Sermons. " I thank God for the great good you tlo both 
 as an author and an editor." " It is no wonder," he adds,, 
 " that the Dean's Sermons are re-printing. Their re])utation 
 must last as long as that of Learning, Elof[uence, or Reli- 
 ligion. Nor need any wonder that Daniel ?^ieal is in request 
 with the Dissenters in New England. The more venomous a 
 Book is, the more sweetly do the Dissenters suck at it. Neal 
 was never in New England ; but, having written an History of 
 it, was complimented with the degree of A. M. by Harvard 
 College." " I have very lately received your valuable j)resent of 
 the Answer to Sir Isaac Newton and Neal. 1 hvuiibly tb.auk you 
 for your great and many services to Religion and our excellent 
 Church," Mr. John Cutler (the son of the above Dr. Timo- 
 thy) was sent to England^ under the protection of Dr. (irey j 
 who, with Dr. Dickens, Dr.Ashton, &c. patronized him. Sept. "i, 
 lJ4'i, we find him asking Dr. Grey, if it should be in his way,. 
 to mention his name to Mr. Potter. " 1 have served," he sa\s, 
 "his Grace's Peculiar above five years, and hope 1 have not 
 behaved myself so as to forfeit all favour from him. Stited is 
 a living adjoining to Bocking, a peculiar in his Grace's gift 
 The incumbent (Alr.Wagener :]: ) is a man in yeais and infirm ; but 
 
 t [The Rev. George Stonhouse, viear of hlii^.gtnn, it ap- 
 pears by the Journtds both of VVhitefield and Wesley, was a 
 favourer of the original Methodists 3 to whom he used occasionally 
 to lend his pulpit 3 a circinmtance which so nrateri;dly aiiected 
 Mr. South, the then lecturer, that it was supposed to hasten his 
 death, which happened July IS, 1741. This circumstance is 
 here the rather mentioned, as it has been erroiieouslv stated, in 
 p. 122, that it was 3Ir. Stonhouse who was so afiected.] 
 
 I Peter Wagener, of Trinity College, Cambridge 3 B. A. 1701 3 
 Pfl.A. 1710. He was presented to Stisted in 1707; died in 17423 
 '*nd was succetded by bauiuei Jacksou^ M. A. 
 
 I SlSX
 
 ZACHARY GREY. 549 
 
 lated to Dean Moss, and whom he married in I720, 
 he had a son, who died in 1726*, and two daughters ; 
 one of whom was married to the Rev. Wilham 
 Cole of Ely * ; the other to the Rev. INlr. Lepipre, 
 rector of Aspley Guise in Bedfordshire. Dr. Grey 
 <lied Nov. 25, 17^^, at Ampthill, in the 79th year 
 of his age ; and was buried at Houghton Conquest. 
 Some few MS volumes, which were in Dr. Grey's 
 Collection, relating to miscellaneous articles, were, in 
 1782, in the possession of his son-in-law, Mr. Cole-|-, 
 
 1 am afraid it is too good a living for me to expect." And on 
 the 18th of May following he says, " I am much obliged to you 
 for your kind mention of my name to Mr. Potter. The prefer- 
 ment 1 mentioned was promised some time befwehand to a 
 family acquaintance of the Archbishop. However, I hope I shall 
 not he quite forgot." 
 
 * Fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 174.3; M. A. 
 1747, B.D. 1754; and rector of Alberghe near Harlestone and 
 Bungay in Xoifolk. Tliere were two contemporaries, both lite- 
 rary characters, of the name of William Cole, both Cambridge 
 men, and both Clcr'j^ynien. They each of them wrote a neat An- 
 tiquarian kind of hruid. I have seen books that have belonged to 
 each of thenr, aiul have been sometimes at a loss to know which 
 was which ; and, a.-, this difficulty will increase with time, but may 
 now be j.Tevented by a proper discrimination of them, will take 
 a fntiH'e opportunity of noticing them. The Library of Mr. Cole 
 ;of J''Jy was sold by auction, by Mj-. King, a few years ago; that of 
 Mr. Cole of Milton, in a regular Shop Catalogs;, by Mr. White, 
 in I'ti^i. 
 
 \ W \v) .>')ld them to Mi'. Rurnham of Northampton ; sec p. 545. 
 
 No. VL 
 
 C IIARI.ES COMITOX, I':SO. 
 
 of (ireii'loii in X<)rlliam])tonshire, is here mentioned 
 as one (A' the carlv memliers of the Society of Anti- 
 quaries, where lie was elected Nov, iS, 173^>^ and 
 succeeded Samuel (iale, esq. as tlieir treasurer in 
 1742. He wa^ ^<n\ of <ieneral Hatton (Jompton *% 
 jiephew to .Mr. WilHain Nicholas, and great nephew 
 tol)r. C.'(;mj)t()n, bishop ot" London; anddit>d Nov 21, 
 l~(')\, at his house in l*oland-street, 
 
 Thi- <.'(iiilt'iiian wa^ LieulfiKuit of the Tower in 1715, imder 
 li!^ ;cl:ili.i>rt (icoigc C(;iii])t(jn, fourth earl of Noi'thampton, who 
 liirii hfld the ollicc of Conslable. lie ])0-se-8cd a C')ii^,id,.jablc 
 '-:Uiu- ;>t C.'roiduii, and nas iuq>i'opriator of tkit rcctoiy. 
 
 No. VI L
 
 ( 550 ) 
 
 No. VII. 
 JOHN JORTIN, D. D. [and DR. JOHNSON.] 
 
 Of this eminent Divine and very excellent Scholar 
 the materials in my former edition came from sources 
 so authentic, having been principally supplied by 
 the kind friendship of Dr. Jortin's son, that I think 
 it right to preserve the article (as entirely as is con- 
 sistent with correctness) in its original form ; and the 
 rather, as it originally was sanctioned by the appro- 
 bation of Dr. Johnson*; and forms the basis of the 
 subsequent Memoirs by Dr.Heathcote and Dr.Disney. 
 
 * This is not the pi-oper place for introducing any regular 
 Memoir of Dr. Johnson ; nor, after the elaborate volumes of 
 Mr. Boswell, is such a ttisk necessary. My intimate acquaintance 
 with that bright Luminary of Literature did not commence till he 
 was advanced in years ; but it happens to have fallen to my lot 
 (and I confess that I am proud of it) to have been present at 
 many interesting conversations in the latest periods of the life of 
 this illustrious pattern of true piety. 
 
 In the progress of his " Lives of the Poets," I had the good 
 fortune to conciliate his esteem, by several little services j though, 
 at the same time, I was perpetually goading him to furnish the 
 press with copy. Many of his short notes during the progress 
 of that work are printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LV. 
 pp. 5 9 ; and in one of his Letters to Mrs. Thrale he says, " I 
 have finished the Life of Prior and now a fig for Mr. Nichols !" 
 Our fi'icndship, however, did not cease with the termination of 
 those volumes ; and I hope I shall be excused the vanity of re- 
 cording in these pages a few kind letters from Dr. Johnson ; 
 and some parts of his interesting conversation at a period when 
 his accurate Bioaraphcr was absent from London. 
 
 1. "Sir, ^ Oct. 10, 1782. 
 
 " While I am at Brightl.elmston, if you have any need of con- 
 sulting me, Mr. Strahan will do us the favour to transmit our 
 papers under Lis frank. 1 have looked often into your 'Anec- 
 dote^ ;' and you will hardly thank a lover of literary hi. ory for 
 telling you, that he has l-een info;mcd and gratiried. I wish 
 you would add your own di.=eoveries and intelligence to those of 
 Dr. Ravvlinson, and undertake the Supplement to Wood. Think 
 on it. I am. Sir, your inimble servant, Sam. Johnson." 
 
 Q. "DbmkSir, Oct. 2S,17S2. 
 
 " What wiH the Booksellers give me for the new Edition [of 
 the Lives of the Poets] ? I knew not what to ask, I would 
 
 have
 
 DR. JOHNSON. 551 
 
 hnve 21 sets bound in plain calf, and figured with the number 
 of the volumes. For the rest, they may please themselves. I 
 wish. Sir, you could obtain some fuller information of Jor- 
 iin, Murkland, and Thirlby. They were three Contemporaries 
 of great learning." It ^^'as in consequence of this request 
 that I drew up the accoimt of Thirlby, in the Gentleman's 
 Magazine for 1784, p. ^60 (see vol. IV. p. 264) j which having 
 been shewn to Dr. Johnson in the state of a proof-sheet, he 
 added to it neai-ly half of what is there printed. The Doctor's 
 MS. is now before me, and begins with " What I can tell of 
 Thiilby, I had from those who knew him ; I ne\er saw him in 
 my life." The commimication concludes with "This is what I 
 cuu remember." I will take this opportunity also of adding, that, 
 <Mi my shewing Dr. Johnson Ai-chdeacon Blackburne's " Remarks 
 on the Life of Milton," which were published, in 8vo, 1/80, 
 he wrote on the margin of p. 14, " In the business of Lauder, 
 ! was decei\ed ; partly by thinking the man too frantick to be 
 fraudulent." " Of this quotation from the [" Literary] Magazine" 
 [a popt'nal scale, supposed to have been Johnson's], I was not 
 tlie author. I t'nncy it was put in after I Irad quitted that work j 
 for I not only did not write it, but do not remember it." 
 
 .3. "Sir, Jan. 10, 178.'?. 
 
 " I am much obhgcd by your kind communication of your 
 account of Hinckley f. I knew Mr. Carte as one of the jneben- 
 <laries of Lichfield, and for some time Suri'ogate of the Chancel- 
 lor. Now 1 \^ill put you in a way of shewing me more kind- 
 no-,-. I have been confined by illness a long time ; and sickness 
 and solitutle make tedious evenings. Come sometimes, and see. 
 Sir, vour humble servant, Sam. Johnson." 
 
 4. " F(:b. 4, 1784, ]Mr, Johnson, having been for many [wccko] 
 confined, is ven cheerless 5 and wishes that Mr. NiclKjls wcidd 
 no'.v and tl.en bestow an hour upon him." 
 
 ."). ".SiK, Lichjield, Oct. 20, 1784. 
 
 " W'iien )pu were here, \"ou were jjleased, as I am told, to 
 iliink my absence an inconvenience. I should certainly have 
 becji very glml to give so skilful a J^ner of Antiq\iities any in- 
 foruiatioa aI)out uiv native placej, of which houcvcr I know not 
 much, and have ica^ou to believe that not much is known. 
 Tliough 1 iiave not gi\en you any amusement, 1 have received 
 
 anuisc- 
 
 I For the aeCijunt oi' Hinckley, Dr. Johnson luid contrilnited 
 .'cMTal hints towards the life of Anlhcjuy Ulackuall, U) v. hom, 
 when \ery yomig, he had been some tiuic an u.-lier at Market 
 IJo^v.orth-scliool. Blackwall rlied in April 1/*.U), before J(jhnsou 
 wji on<'-and-t\venty. 
 
 ^ On lii.- i-ftuiii to I^indon, he tzave me a laigc Maj) of Licli- 
 firld, v,i;h .'Oiue corrections o;i it in his own hand-w jiiiiig. This 
 1 hav<; carcfnliv pliKcd in mv copv of Shaw's StaHonKhirc. He 
 rd'tcrunn!.-. wrote t<( ],]< hlleid, Da. 'I, dc-iring that a plain ytone 
 niigli' be placed over the hodii'^ of hii fatluM', molini, :t;ni l)ro- 
 ht r, ulio were buii<-d in Sf. Micliaci's Chiir( h ; and liojicd " it 
 .'uluht be dune wiiile he \\a~ \(jI alive."
 
 552 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 amusement from you. At Ashbourne, where 1 had very httfe 
 company, I had the luck to borrow ' Mr. Bowyer's Life,' a book 
 so full of contemporary history, that a litei-ary man must find 
 some of his old friends. I thought that I could now and then 
 have told you some hints worth your notice j and perhaps we 
 may talk a Life over. I hope we shall be much together. You 
 must now be to me what you were before, and ^vhat dear 
 Mr. Allen was besides. He was taken unexpectedly away, but I 
 think he was a very good man. I have made little progress in 
 recovery. I am very weak, and veiy sleepless j but I live on, and 
 hope. lam, Sir, Your most humble servant, Sam. Johnson," 
 After these invitations, my visits to him were of course more 
 frequent; and his communications were moi-e confidential. 
 
 " He seriously entertained the thought of translating Thuanus : 
 and often talked to me on the subject. Once, in particulai", when 
 I was rather wishing that he would favour the world, and gra- 
 tify his Sovereign, by a Life of Spenser (which he said that he 
 would readily have done, had he been able to obtain any nem 
 materials for the purpose), he added, " I have been thinking 
 again. Sir, of Thuanus : it would not be the laborious task which 
 you have supposed it. I should have no trouble but tljat of dic- 
 tation, which would be performed as speedily as an amanuensis 
 could write. He was earnestly invited, by his warm friend the 
 late Mr. Alderman Cadell, to publish a volume of Devotional Ex- 
 ercises ; but this (though he listened to the proposal with much 
 complacency, and a large sunj of money was offo-ed for it by 
 Mr, Cadell), he declined, from motives of the sincerest mo- 
 desty. When talking of a reg\ilar edition of his own Works, 
 not long before his (k^ath, he said, '' that he had power [from 
 the booksellers], to print such an edition, if his health admitted 
 it ; but had no power to assign over any edition, unless he could 
 add notes, and so alter them as to make them new Works j 
 which his state of liealtli forbade him to think of." 
 
 I had occasionally the pleasure of introducing to him some of 
 my literary frientls, who were ambitious of this honour. Amongst 
 tl)e.e was the Rev. Samuel Badcock, well known for his eminent 
 talents ; who soon afterwards thus noticed tlie visit : " How much 
 I am obliged to you for the favour you did me in introducing 
 me to Dr. Johnson ! Tuntum vidi Virgilium. But to liave seen 
 him, and to ha\e received a testimony of respect from him, was 
 enough. 1 recollect all the conversation, and shall never forget 
 one of his expressions. Speaking of Dr. Piiestley (whose 
 writings I saw he estimated at a lt)w rate), he said, ' You have 
 proved him as dehcient in probity as he is in leai'ning.' I called 
 him nn ' Index- scholar ;' but he was not willing to allow him a 
 claim even to that merit. He said, that ' he b(jn()wcd from 
 those who had been borrowers themselves, and did not know 
 that the mistakes he adopted had been answered by others.' I 
 often think of our short, but precious, visit to this great man. I 
 .shall consider it as a kind of anctra in my life." The Rev. William 
 Tooke, F, R. S. (the companion of my boyish daysj and the steady 
 
 friend
 
 DR. JOHNSON. 553 
 
 friend through a pilgrimage of sixty years, whose fame is esta- 
 blished by many valuable publications) accompanied me one day to 
 Di-. Johnson's ; and highly delighted they were with each other's 
 convei-sation particularly after Mr.Tooke had mentioned that, 
 amidst the progress which Literature was making at St. Peters- 
 burgh, translations of " The Rambler," and of " Blackstone's 
 Commentaries," had been made into the Russian language, by 
 the especial command of the Empress. 1 was present al^o when 
 Mr, Henderson the Tragedian was first introduced to Dr. Johnson ; 
 who received him with the greatest cordiality ; and, having oc- 
 casion to mention a certain Drawfliic Writer, added, " I never 
 did the man an injury : but he would read his Tragedy to me!" 
 Speaking one day of a person for whom he had a real friendship, 
 but in whom \ anity was somewhat too predominant, he observed, 
 that '* Kelly wiis so fond of displaying on his side-board the plate 
 which he possessed, that he added to it his spurs. For my part," 
 said he, " I never was master of a ])air of spurs but once ; and 
 they are now at the bottom of the Ocean. By the carelessness 
 of Bosuell's senant, they were dropped from the end of the 
 boat, on our return from the Isle of Sky." 
 
 At the beginning of tlie Winter of l/Sa the project was started 
 of establishing an evening club for his comfort ; wiiich was ac- 
 cordingly begun early in the year l/Si, at iho Essci Head, iu 
 Essex-street, To this club, founded, accortling to his own words, 
 " in frequency and parsimony," he ga%c a i^et of Rules, as 
 Ben Jonson did his Leges Convivalea at the Dnil Tavern; and 
 prefixeil this motto : 
 
 "To-day deep thoughts with me resolve to drench 
 In mirth, which after no repenting draws." Milton, 
 The club consisted of a select number of his friends, who en- 
 tered very heartily into the sc-heme, foi- tiie j)Iea>ure of enjo)ing 
 his conversation, and of contributing tluii' (juota to the general 
 amusement. The names of tlie constant uienibers at the tinn; 
 of Dr. Johnson's death were thus placed in the book, "on the 
 rota of indispen'-able montlilv attendance:" Di. Johnson, ^J^r. 
 Horsley, *\h\ Brocklesin, >.lr. Joddrell, >A1]-. C'ook(>, -.Mr. 
 Ryland, *Mr. Paradise, *Dr. Burnev, /Mr. lloole, ^^Vlr. Su.tres, 
 Mr. Allen, Hon. Mr. Barrin:;t<m, Mr.' Barry, Mr \\ yatt, *Mr. 
 Nichols, .Mr. Poore, -Mr. \\ yndhani, ''Mr. Ciuiksliank, *Mr, 
 Seward, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Bowlt^, >'. Mr. Metcalfe, 
 Mr. BiASWeli. 'i'he three bust gentlemen had been introduced in 
 the room of Di-. Scott, who wiis named, but iu\'m- atunded ; of 
 Mr. Tyers, who abdicated th(>- clul), Feb. 1, \~ih\\ ami of .Mr 
 S'.rahan, who followed his example on the'i^jth of.iune. [ I'ho^t; 
 whose names are thiis * marked attended the D(;cujr s funeral. 
 The f)ther.'-, by .-sonie mistake, were not invited.] 
 
 The following tetter, which I recei\ed only sc\en davs befoir 
 hi' death, is one of the last that he ever wrote : 
 
 " I)(c. (}, 17.S-I. 'Jhc late learned Mr. Sv.inton of Oxfoid, 
 having one (l;iy leuiarked that one man, imiuiing, I siip|)o,-e, no 
 man but hiuirLif, could a.s'^ign all tiie pait^ ol" tl:e Autii nt Cni-
 
 554 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 versvl Histoiy to their proper authoi*s ; at the request of Sir Ro- 
 bert Chambers, or of myself, gave the account which 1 now 
 ti"ansmit to you in his own hand, being willing that of so great 
 a work the History should be known, and that each writer should 
 receive his due proportion of pi'aise from posterity. I recom- 
 mend to you to preserve this scrap of literary intelligence in 
 Mr. Swinton's own hand, or to deposit it in the Museum, that 
 the veiacity of this account may never be doubted. 1 am, Sir^ 
 Your most humble servant, Sam. Johxsox. 
 
 " Mr. Swintoii : The History of the Carthaginians, Numidians, 
 Mauritanians, (iajtulians, Garamantes, MelanoGeetulians, N igrita:-, 
 Cyj"enaica, Marmarica, the Regio Syrtica, Turks, Tartars, and 
 Moguls, Indians, Chinese; Dissertation on the Peopling of Ame- 
 rica, Dissertation on the Independency of the Arabs. The Cos- 
 mogony, and a small part of the History immediately following, 
 by Mr. Sale. To the Birth of Abraham, chiefly by Mr. Shelvock, 
 Histoiy of the Jews, Gavds, and Spaniards ; and Xenophon's 
 Retreat 5 by Mr. Psalmanazar. Histoiy of the Persians, and of 
 theConstantinopolitanEmpij-e, by Dr. Campbell. History of the 
 Romans, by Mr. Bower." The original of the above Letter, 
 agreeably to Dr. Johnson's desire, is deposited in the British 
 Museum. It was also printed, at the time it was sent, by the 
 Doctor's express desire, in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LIV, 
 p. S9'2. The date of it will shew that, amidst the pangs of ill- 
 ness, the love of truth, and an attachment to the interests of 
 Literature, were still predominant. His Letter, I may add, ap- 
 j)eared in [uiblic, not only by his permission, but by his express 
 desire. And it may be matter of some exultation to Mr. Urban, 
 whom Dr. Johnson always acknowledged to have l>een one of 
 his earliest jxUrons, that the Gentleman's Magazine shoidd haA e 
 been by him selected as the repositoiy of perhaps the last scrap 
 he ever dictated f(jr the press. 
 
 On the following day, he said to me, " I may possibly live, or 
 rather breathe, three days, or perhaps three \veeks ; but 1 find 
 m\self daily and gi-aduuliy worse." His farther conversation 
 on the subject of Mr. Cave and the Magazine, &c. is printed in 
 vol. V. p. I'i. Before I quitted him he asked, whetliei' any of 
 ti^e family of Faden the printer were living. Being told that the 
 (ieograjjher near Charing Cross was Faden's son, he said, after 
 a short pause, " I borrowed a guinea of his fither near thirty 
 years ago; be so good as to take tliis, and pay it for nie." 
 
 Whilst confined by his last illness, it was his regular practice to 
 have the Church-service ri^d to him, by some attentive and friendly 
 Divine; and he occasionaHy requested me to join the snrall de- 
 %otionai assembly. The Rev. John Hoole performed this kind 
 office in my jjresence for the last time, when, by his own desire, 
 no more tlian the Litany was read ; in which liis rcsjjonses \\crc 
 in the deep and sonorous \ oice which Mr. Bosu ell has occasionally 
 noticed, and with the most proiound devotion that can be ima- 
 gined. His liearing not beir.g quite perfect, lie more than once 
 iiiterrupted Mr. jioole, v.ith ^ Louder, my dear Sir^ louder, I 
 
 entreat
 
 JOHN JORTIN. 555 
 
 John Jortin was born in the parish of St. Giles 
 in the Fields, Middlesex, Oct. 23, 169S. His fa- 
 ther, Renatus*, was a native of Bretagne in France; 
 
 entreat you, or you pray in vain !' and when the service was 
 endexi, be, with great earnestness, turned round to the mother of 
 Mr. Hoole, who vwo present, saying, ' I thank you, Madam, vei-y 
 heartily, for your kindness in joining me in this solemn exer- 
 cise. Live well, I conjure you 5 and you will not feel the com- 
 punction at the last, which I now feel.' So truly humble were 
 the thoughts which this great and good man entertained of his 
 own approaches to religious perfection. He said at another 
 time, speaking of the little fear he had of undci-going a chii-ur- 
 gical operation, ' I would give one of these legs for a year more 
 of life, I mean comfortable life, not such as that which I now 
 suffer;' and lamented much his inability to read during his 
 hours of restlessness, ' I used formerly,' he added, ' when sleep- 
 less in bed, to read like a Turk.' 
 
 During the whole time of my intimacy with him, he rarclv 
 permitted me to depart without some sententious advice. At 
 the lute.-t of these anecting interviews, I v. as gi'atified by his 
 approbation of a Sonnet which I shewed him, addressed to Mr. 
 Urban (printed in \o\. LXV. p. ii) ; and his words at parting 
 were, " Take care of your eternal salvation. Remember to ob- 
 serve the Sabbath. I^'t it never be a day of business, nor whollv 
 a day of dissipation." He concluded his solemn farewell with, 
 " Let my words have their due weight. "I'liey are the words of 
 a dying -man." I never saw him more. In the last (ive or six 
 days of his life but few even of his most intimate friends were 
 admitted. Every hour, that could be absiracted from his bodilv 
 pains and infirmities, was S|)ent in pra\er, and the warmest eja- 
 culations ; and in that pious, praise-worthy, and exemplaiy man- 
 ner, he closed along life, begun, continued, and ciided in virtue. 
 
 He expii'ed, on the 13tii of December 1/81, without a pang. 
 in the 7'"ith year of his age, to the loss of his intimate associate-' 
 and the world, whose unremitting friend lie had ever been. 
 And 1 had the mournfid satisfaction of joining the train of 
 friends who paid the hii>t tribute of gratitude and esteem at hi-5 
 gTa^e in V\ e.-tminster Abbey. 
 
 '^' This gentleman was a student at Saimnu' ; and hi^ testimo- 
 nial from that academy, dated in 1682, is ^ii!i in the hands of 
 his family. He came over a young man to England, with his 
 father, uncle, two aunts, and two sifters, when th(- Protestants 
 fled from France, about 1G87. He was made one of tiie gentle- 
 men n? the j^rivy-chamber to King William HI. in KlDl ; be- 
 came afterwards Secretary to J^ord Orford, to SirCieorge Rooke, 
 and to Sir (,'loudcslev Sho\ el 3 and was cait awav with the latter, 
 Oct 22. 1707. 
 
 his
 
 55^ LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 his mother, Martha, was daughter of Daniel Rogers *, 
 of Haversham, in Bucks. He was brought up as a 
 day-scholar at the Charter-house school in London ; 
 and boarded with his mother; who^ having no other 
 child, lived for that purpose in the neighbourhood. 
 He learned French at home, and spoke it well. 
 Having completed his school education when he 
 was about 15, he remained at home about a year, 
 and perfected himself in writing and arithmetick. 
 Bv this means he always wrote a very fair hand ; 
 and was so far advanced in arithmetick, that soon, 
 after he went to the University he entered on ma- 
 thematicks, under Dr. Saunderson, the blind pro- 
 fessor. He was admitted a pensioner in Jesus col- 
 lege, Cambridge, May 16, 1715, being then about 
 1 7 -j- ; and his mother removed to Cambridge, to be 
 near him. Whilst he was an uiider-graduate there, 
 he translated for Mr. Pope some of Eustathius's 
 Notes on Homer. How he came to be employed 
 in that work, is related below ;]:, from a marjuscript 
 
 "" Descended from Mr. Riggers, ste^vard to one of the Earls of 
 Warwick, whose residence was at Lees, near Chelmsford, in 
 Essex, temp. Henry VIII. and produced many clergymen of note 
 in that county. 
 
 f His difliculty in finding* his baptism in the Parish IlcgisteF 
 was owing to his father's changing the spelling of his name, 
 from Jort'm to Jordahi, which his son after his death changed 
 back again. 
 
 % " When I ^vas a ?oph at Cambridge, Pope was about \\\% 
 translation of Homer's llias, and had published jjart of it. He 
 fJi!})lo}ed some perso)i (1 know not \\\\o he was) to make exr 
 tracts for him from Eustathius, which he inserted in his Notes. 
 At tliat time there w;is no Latin translation of that Conmientator. 
 Alexander PoUti (if I remember riglit) liegan that work some 
 years afterwards, but never proceeded far in it. Tlie jjerson 
 employed by Mr. Pope was not at leisure to go on with the 
 work ; and i\Ir. Pope {hy his bookseller I su]i])ose) sent to 
 .Jetleries, a bookseller at Canroridge, to find out a student who 
 would undei-take the task. Jcfferies applied to Dr. Thirlby, 
 who was my tutor, and who pitciicd upon me. I would have 
 tleclined the work, having (as I told my tutor) other studies to 
 pursue, to fit me for taking my degree. But he, qui quicqidd 
 Vi^lehat valdt volcbat, v, ould not hear of anv excuse ; so I com- 
 plieri. I cannot recollect what Rlr. Po{)e allowed for t^ach book 
 of Homer ; I have a notion that it was tliree or four guineas. I 
 
 took
 
 JOHN JORTIN, 557 
 
 written by himself, not lon^ before his death. On 
 the l6th of January 1718-lt), his grace was passed 
 
 took as much care as I could to perform the task to his satisfac- 
 tion ; but I was a'^hamed to desire my tutor to give himself the 
 trouble of overlooking my operations 7 and he, who always used 
 to think and sj)cak too favourably of ine^ said that I did not 
 want his help. He never peiiised one line of it before it was 
 printed, nor pcrha])s afterwards. When 1 had gone througU 
 some books (1 forget how many) Mr. Jelferies let us know that 
 Mr. Pojie had a friend to do tlie rest, and that we might give 
 over, VVlicn I sent my papers to Jefllries, to be conveyed to 
 Mr. Pope, I inserted, as I remember, some remarks on a pas- 
 siige, where iMr. Pope, in my opinion, had made a mistake ; but 
 as 1 was not dix'ectly employed by him, but by a bookseller, I 
 did not inform him who I wiis, or set my name to my papers. 
 When tliat part of Pope's Homer cauie out in which I had been 
 f;oncerned, I was eager, as it njay be supposed, to see how things 
 stood, and much pleased to find tliat he liad not only used almost 
 all my notes, but had hardly made any alteiation in the expi"es- 
 sions. I observed also, that in a subsequent edition, he cor- 
 rected the place to wiiich I had made objections. I was in 
 hojjes in those days (for 1 was young) that Mr. Pope would make 
 inquiry about his coadjutor, and take some civil notice of him ; 
 twit he did not, and 1 had no notion of obtruding myself upon 
 him; I never saw his face." Dr. Jortln, MS. [" So all Pope's 
 coadjutors complain of him ; proliably they iiad some reason for 
 thinking that he was tw) well paid, and tiiey too poorly. As 
 Jortin was confessedly a scholar. Pope's incuriosity or incivility 
 is rej)rehensible. I once saw an originul letter of Pope's, in 
 whicli he tliirly owned, that he did not understand Greek, which 
 was probably \ cry true. It was read at Dr. Rutherford's ; and 
 Dr. VVarton, who mentions it, was one of the company. The 
 }>er5on at lirst ( inj)loyed, pcrha})s, was Broome ; the second 
 iViend, Fenton. The iiistory of making; a hook is worth detailing, 
 and one man's running away with all the credit." See a very 
 curious letter by Mr. JlobcrtstJU, Gent. Mag. 179'^, j). GliK 
 Translating Eu.-tathiiiS and iion)er arc two diiVen-nt things. 
 See Gent. Mag. 179'Z, p. 6"08 ; 171)3, p. V/J\, ;V. J. So the iiiau 
 and Odyssey are di.':linct translations. T. '.] ' The history oi 
 tiie notes has never been traced. Hioiraie, in hi^ pjvfacc' (o h^^. 
 Pucms, declares himself the commentator in pmi upon the I Had 
 and it appears from Fenton's letter, preservnl in 1 !u; Museum, that 
 Jiroome was at lirst c^ignu^fd in consul! ini;- Fn-i '.ihius ; but that 
 ^fttr a tluic, \\tiatr\tr >va- lh( na-on, htMU-i.i'.J: aiiotliei" m;i! 
 uf Caml.irldge was then cni])I(A('d, wlio soou rrinv weary of the 
 work 3 and a tiiird was ncoinuicnde.l i,\ 'ihi!iiy, wiio is now 
 discovered to lka\e been Jortin, a num siiKr well kiujuii to the 
 k-arned world, who comidained tiuit P<q); , having acc('}j!(;(i aaJ 
 aj)|)roved his {jcifni-tnant c never if-tir.(.i! an\ curiosity !o '((. him. 
 'ihe tcvui; which Icjiluii ii-c- urL \(iA u.' icaii! i!i; . ' 1 tliiiik vX
 
 558 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 for the degree of B. A. He was soon after chosen 
 fellow of his College. His grace for M. A* was 
 passed Jan. 13, 1721-2; and he completed his de- 
 gree at the following commencement. At Michael- 
 mas 1722 he was appointed moderator, and taxer 
 the year following. In this year he published a 
 few Latin Poems, in a thin quarto, under the title 
 of " Lusus Poetici," with a Latin preface. 
 
 He was admitted to deacon's orders by Dr. Keri- 
 nett, bishop of Peterborough, Sept. 22, I723; or- 
 dained priest by Dr. Greene, bishop of Ely, June 24, 
 1 724 ; and was presented by his College to the vicarage 
 of Swavesey, near Cambridge, Jan. 20^ 1 726-7. About 
 the 15th of February following he married Anne the 
 daughter of Mr. Chibnall, of New portPagnell, Bucks. 
 
 In the Cambrido;e Collection of Verses on the 
 Death of King George the First, and the Accession 
 
 first sight that his performance is very commendable, and have 
 sent word for him to finish the sc\enteenth book, and to send it, 
 with his demands for his trouble. ] ha-\e here inclosed the spe- 
 cimen : if the rest come before the return, I will keep them till I 
 receive yoiu' order.' l^roome then oliercd his service a second 
 time, whicli \^as probably acce{)tcd, as they had afterwards a closer 
 cori'cspondence. Parncll contributed the Life of Homer, which 
 Pope found so harsh, that he took great ])ains in coi'rectiiig it j and 
 by his own diligence, -with such help as kindness or money could 
 procure him, in somewhat more than five years he comjjleted his 
 Aersion of the Iliad, with the notes. He began in 1712, his 
 25111 year, and concluded it in 17 IS, his 30th year." Dr. 
 Jonnson. The Rev. lirooke Bridges, sometime rector of Or- 
 lingbury in Northamptonshii'e, hafl an original letter of Pope 
 to his luiclc, the Rev. Ralph Bridges, tlien chuj.lain to Dr. 
 Conipton, bishop of London, and aiterwards incumbent of 
 S(juth ^Vcald in Essex ; in whicli Voyc plainlv acknowledges 
 liis " own want of a critical understanding in the original 
 beauties of Homer." But t];i> \',a3 in 1708, when Pope pre- 
 pared the first gpeciraen of his V ersion for Tonson's iMiscella- 
 nies. He was afteru'ards nr.ien obliged to this Mr. Bridges 
 (whose mother was Mr. Trun.htiU's sister) for large corrections 
 in his subsequent translation: \s Lie!) are still preserved in the 
 British Museum. [The letter to Mr. Bridges has been since 
 given to the publick in Dr. Johnson's Life of Poj)e.] 
 
 * A secojid etiilion of these Poems came out in 1724, in a 
 small octa\o. A third edition in 4 to was p,rinted by Mr. Bowyer 
 in 1748, with additional poen.s, but without a preface. The 
 Author did not ])at his name to the two last editions. They 
 v.cre not spld. He printed them to give away to his friends. 
 
 George
 
 JOHN JOKTIN, 559 
 
 of George the Second, Jortin (who was then a fellow 
 of Jesus College), has a copy of Latin Hexameters 
 on that occasion; and in the " Republick of Letters, 
 1729," vol. IV. p. 142, he has a poem "De Motu 
 'lerrae circa Solem." 
 
 Mr. Jortin resigned the vicarage of SwaveseyFeb.l, 
 1730-1 ; came to London; and was soon after ap- 
 pointed assistant to Mr. Capper, as reader and preacher 
 at a chapel belonging to the parish of St. Giles in the 
 Fields, then in New-street, near (ireat Russel-street, 
 Bloomsbury. This duty he continued in till about 
 the year 174f). He learned music after he came to 
 London, and was a good player of thorough-bass on 
 tiie harpsichord. Mr. Petit, a Frenchman, was his 
 master; an excellent player of Corelli's music on the 
 violin. In 1730 he published, in 12mo, " Four 
 Sermons * on the Truth of the Christian Religion." 
 
 In 1731 Mr. Jortin was Editor of " Miscellaneous 
 Observations upon Authors antient and modern," 
 2 vols. 8vo. 'I'here is no name to this work ; nor 
 is the whole of it his own, there being several ob- 
 servations in it tliat were communicated by his 
 friends '1^ Tiiere is a preface by Mr. Jortin to each 
 
 * The substance of this little" work wnis re-p\iVjli.shed in the 
 " :>i\ l)i.-couise.-5 on the Tmth of the Christian lleligion, IJAd." 
 
 t This work was first publislied in 24 .-ix-peiniy niunhers. 
 Among the ^iii;naturcs of the Dissertations, A. and It. denote, it* 
 I am not misinformed, 15i:-,ho]) IVaree ; C(rni(ihrigiens}:<, and u 
 letter (uitliout a nanieO called Aiiiinadcersioncs in Lucitnii Aamum, 
 Dr. 'I'aylor: /.. T. Mr. Theobald; J. iM. .^hL^son ; B. G. iJrampton 
 (lurdon ; B. C. G. \)v. Ilobin-on, the editor of Hcsiod fjQ. \\hat 
 paper is marked B. (.'. G. ? B. G. in }). 7^S, is Di'. Robinson's] ; 
 .S. B. -"Mr. Samuel Barker; a Dr. 'J'l>irl!)v ; /. U. ]Mr. Upton ; 
 T. R. Mr. Kud (edit(jr of Symeon !)H>/cl)nr:n^u, l~'.]'t) ; 1). ]^,Tr. 
 \\ assc ; n Wasse; C. i\ir. Capper ; a iiiuid, J.AValker. 'I'he 
 utlicr sitznatures have not be. n explained, h is much to be re- 
 jiretted that this critical \unk ua:i )i()t ecniiimed. It \v;is re- 
 puitiiiiu'd in " .Vliseeilantce (Jbservatloin s in Auctores veteres vx 
 r<'eentioies; ah ei'udi'is i3ritannis iumo i;.')l edi cwpta-, cum 
 .Notis et Auctcirio \ariorum \irorinn d(x lorum. Amst. 17o2 
 \"i.l\," \ vols, divided eaeii into three jiarrs, and jmblished 
 every iwo months. V\ iien Mr. .lortin du lined the Eriflish 
 puljlication, the fo;ciij:,n one was still coni.iiuied l>y the Kditor, 
 Jac. I'h.il. D'Orville, a-.-i-ted \i\ the lean. ed l>iirin;ui, under the 
 title of " .\liseellane;e Ub-ervationes ciiticie in auctores veteie.s
 
 5^0 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 volume, and the second is inscribed to the third 
 Duke of Rutland. 
 
 In 1734 he pubHshed, without his name, from Mr. 
 Bowyer's press, " Remarks on Spenser's Poems *," 
 8vo ; at the end of which are some Remarks on 
 Milton ; and in August, that year, his " Remarks 
 on L. Annaeus Seneca" appeared in " The Republick 
 of Letters." 
 
 In 1737 the Earl of Winchelsea gave him the 
 vicarage of Eastwell in Kent; but he soon after 
 quitted it, the air of that place not agreeing with 
 iiis health. 
 
 On the 20th of March, 174^-7, Dr. Pearce, then 
 rector of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, appointed him 
 afternoon preacher at one of the chapels of ease 
 belonging to that parish, in Oxendon-street, in the 
 room of the Rev. Mr. Johnson, then deceased, 
 where he continued preacher till i76'o. In 1746" 
 he published " Six Discourses on the Truth of the 
 Christian Religion -j-,'' of which a second edition 
 
 viris in Belgio et aliis rcgionibus, coutinuatie ;" and a number 
 of it appeared, at first once in three months, then once in four 
 montlis, till the tenth was completed, in 1739. Three more 
 wei'c at'terwardb occasionally published, in nine parts, 1/41 
 1745 ; and in the yciU' 17^1 an entire volume at once; with a 
 preface by D'Orville 3 who had resumed the work upon a some* 
 %vhat different plan, and proposed to continue it, but was pre- 
 vented by his death, which happened that very year. In the 
 fifth volume, p. 47 54, is a Dissertation, "])e Originibus Nea- 
 poiitanis," signed R . . noldsj which, as appears in vol. X. p. 444, 
 was by Mr. Reynolds, on whom a handsome elogium is bestowed 
 by I)'br\ille. In a copy of this work, which I possessed in 1782, 
 I\lr. Jortin's share of it (with that of most of the aforementioned 
 wiiters) are pointed out in Mi. b\ Mr. i3owyer. 
 
 * See what has been already said on this subject, p. .'53. 
 
 f Mr.Whiston, in the ^Memoirs of his own Life, vol. I. p. 9.0S, 
 says, "About the year 1736, and before jQueen Caroline died, 
 iMr. Jortin, a great ami learned fri(Mid of mine, and from whom 
 1 afterward received a remedy of ^ir Edward llulse's for a great 
 disorder I was then in, which, by God's- blessing, saved my life, 
 told me, that the late Duke of Somei'set, a great Athanasian> 
 once forbade his chaplain to read the Athanasian Creed (which I 
 imagined was .occasioned by a suggestion from the Queen ; to 
 ^vhom I had com})lained, that although she was Queen, that 
 Creed was not yet laid aside) : whereupon M)-. Jortin left off the 
 same Creed for some time. Mr. Joitin has also lately publLshed 
 J vcrv irood buuk tor the Chritilian Rcliirion."
 
 JOHN JORTIN. 561 
 
 came out in 1747j a third in 1752, and a fourth in 
 176*8. 
 
 In 1747 he preached occasionally at Lincoln's Inn 
 for Mr. Warburton, then preacher there, and continued 
 to be his assistant about three years. On Dr. Pearce's 
 promotion to the bishoprick of Bangor, the conse- 
 cration sermon was preached by Mr. Jortin, at 
 Kensington, Feb. 21, 1747 ; and published by the 
 order of Archbishop Herring. 
 
 In July or August 1 749 Lord Chancellor Hard- 
 wicke offered Dr. Jortin a living in the City ; but it 
 was so small, that he refused it ; for he would have 
 been a loser by accepting it, as he must have quitted 
 some preferment more profitable. The Earl of Bur- 
 lington, at the request of Archbishop Herring and 
 Bishop Sherlock, appointed him preacher of Boyle's 
 Lecture, Dec. f 6, 1 749 ; which he held for three 
 years, but did not publish any of the Sermons 
 preached on that occasion. 
 
 In May 17.51 Archbishop Herring gave him, un- 
 solicited, the rectory of St. Dunstan in the East, Lon- 
 don * ; and in August that year he paid a short visit 
 to liis friends at Cambridge; where he had not been 
 before from the time of his quitting the University. 
 
 I le published in 1 75 1 the first volume of his " Re- 
 marks on Ecclesiastical Historyj-," which is inscribed 
 
 ' Of tliis prefernient the foUowini^ anecdote is related : That 
 ill tlie .-.iiiiiiij;- of the year 1751 Mr. Jortin dined at a feast of the 
 Sons of the Clergy, where Archhi^hoi) Herring was jn'csent ; 
 and, on lieint:; told the Archbi.shoj) was desirous of renewing his 
 acquaintance with him, he jncpared for going to the upper end 
 of th(! i(joni, by looking at the lower end amongst a great num- 
 ber of hats that w ere laid on a tal)lo in a confused manner, for 
 hi-5 own ; his friends told him that the hat was by no means ne- 
 ccs.-an, he therefore waited on the Prelate without it. I'he 
 Archbi'-liop complimented him on his talents and writings, and 
 ended the conversation by giving him, in the presence of the 
 clcriTV, a presentation to the rectory of St. Dunstan, which he 
 had pinposely biought in his pocket. Mr. Jortin then rettu'ncd 
 to hi-i -cat, telling hi.s Friends, " I have lo^t my hat; but I have 
 got a living. " 
 
 i" .Mr. Warburton had, in 17.")(), ann<junecd to tlie publick 
 
 ' his learned I'riend's curiou^: J)i^scrtalions on Ecclesiatital Anti- 
 
 \ 1. II () u (plity ;
 
 5^2 UTERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 to the Earl of Burlington ; and the second volume, 
 in 1752, inscribed to Archbishop Herrin^^. He 
 also wrote in 1752 a few miscellaneous llemarks on 
 the Sermons of Archbishop Tillotson, which he 
 gave to his friend Dr. Birch, who printed them in 
 his Appendix to the Lifo of that Prelate, No, III. 
 p. 442. 
 
 In 1753 he wrote an ingenious and learned 
 letter to Mr. Avison, the author of an " Essay on 
 jVlusical Expression," concerning the Musick of the 
 Antients, and some passages in classic; writers relat- 
 ing to that subject. This letter is added, Mithout 
 his name, to a second edition of that E.>say, which 
 was printed in I753 ; but it is appropriated to him 
 in a third edition, I775. 
 
 In 1754 came out the third volume of " Kemarks 
 on Ecclesiastical History," with an inscription to 
 Archbishop Herring. 
 
 In a })reface to ^' Six Dissertations * on. diflerent 
 Subjects, 1755," is a compliment to the Primate, 
 
 qulty ; composed, like liis life, uot iu the spirit of c'ofror<?rs?/, 
 nor, what is still wtcrte, of party, b\ii ot' tratli iVMica/idour." hee 
 Julian, p. 31G. 
 
 * Which were immeiliiitely followed hv ^Ir. HurtlV colebralcd 
 "Essay on the Delicacy of Fiieiulbhip ; a Stvciith Dissertation, 
 addressed to the Author of the Sixtii;" which .Mr. \N arburtou thus 
 notices in one of his letters: "Just now Mr. Allen has shewn me :. 
 pamphlet, which, he says, was sent to him by the ];ost : t!U)Ui;h 
 1 had seen the title, without knowing: what to make of it, in the 
 newspapers. I ha\e read it, and you mav judge \villi wb'-tt sen- 
 timents. Though 1 have no data to judg-e fron> what (quarter it 
 corner, yet 1 am as sure of the author as if I had seen it wiitttn ; 
 for 1 know but of one man from whose heart or wlvosy ])en so 
 fine a piece of irony could come. Therefore, if I I* aristakon, 
 do not undeceive me; for the pleasure cf thinking: fnmi whence 
 it comes to me, is as great as the jiift. In the meaii time I say 
 to every body else (even to Mr. Allen, who however on the inst 
 reiirling told me that the keen softness, the politeness, and the 
 delieacy, he thought, could come but from (me band) what I 
 sav io yoti, that 1 have had no data to judge of the author ; that 
 I saw it first by accident after the publication > and that I an> 
 sure Mr. Jortin w ill tk) me the justice to think I had no hand iu 
 it, because I am sine he does not think I am abb; : in which he 
 is not out. 1 w ill be fmnk with \ ou : next to the pleasure of 
 seeing nnself so finely juaised, i- the. satisfiiction I take in see- 
 ing
 
 JOHN JORTIN*. 5^3 
 
 who conferred on him that year the degree of D.D. 
 The friendship the Archbishop had for him, and 
 the reasons why he accepted this degree from him, 
 will appear in the following extract from a MS. of 
 his own : 
 
 "Archbishop Herring and I were' of Jesus College 
 in Cambridge ; but he left it about the time when I 
 was admitted, and went to another. Afterwards, 
 
 ing Jortin mortified. I know to what degree it will do it. He 
 ileserves t<^ be moitified on tliis occasion: it will do liim good, 
 and this is the worst I wisli him. There w<is but one tiling that 
 I in good earnestness resented for its baseness, and grieved at for 
 its meanness. It is where, speaking of Lihanius (1 think in the 
 Sixth Dissertation, I am sure in one of the six), he evidently 
 insinuates that Julian was murdered by some Christians amongst 
 his own soldiers. You know I have a large note in my Juhan to 
 refute this calumny: and at the conclusion of it, ic is that I refer 
 the determination to Jortin in that complinienj, that the author 
 of the Seventh Dissertation makes so line an use of. And this is 
 the determination that this aniiable-minded man thinks fit to 
 make upon the occasion. Seriously, I think I have in this 
 elegant raillery more than full satisfaction for all that torrent of 
 ribaldry that has gone over me Cand yet here I am, as Justice 
 Shallow says in the Play), since liist 1 commenced author. I 
 liave told you my pleasure in seeing this piece j but I will not say 
 one word of my gratitude to the author ; and only one word of 
 my woniler, that so tinished a tiling was composed and printed 
 almost as soon as Jortin's heavy book could get into people's 
 hands." Mr. fi'arburton to Mr. Hurd, Dec. 21, 1755. 'MVho 
 they are of Jortins friends you have met with, I don't know; but 
 they nuist be dirtv fellows indeed who can think I have no rea- 
 son to complain of his mean, low, and ungrateful conduct towards 
 me; or that the Pamphlet, Avhich expresses so much resentment 
 of it, was of my writing. Jortin is himself as vain as he is dirty, 
 to imagine I am obliged to him for hokling his hand. And 
 perhaps, if the truth were kncjwn, it was to this insolence he 
 must ascriijc the Seventh Dissertation. Nobody has yet vviitteu 
 against me, but at their own expenee : and if he be a gainer, I 
 will forgive him. J'he profusion of compliment in the Disserta- 
 tion is so great, thai he mu-t be very malignant who can sup- 
 pose I gave it to myself; and, at the .same time, so warm, 
 thai he must be very dull, not to ?ee it came from a ge- 
 nerous and zealous friend. Whoever he be, I envy him, that 
 Ix' has got the start of n;e : and that it was not my good 
 fditinie to do that for l\im which he has done for me ; that is 
 to say, <^a-e a seasonaLli- riproof to little low envy under tin: 
 tv:-:}.- hi' friendship. .\nd I wish \()U would take an <i])pi)r- 
 
 o '3 1 unity
 
 5^4 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 when he was preacher at Lincoln's Inn, I knew him 
 better, and visited him. He was at that time, and 
 long before, very intimate with Mr. Say*, his friend 
 
 tunit}' to say nil tliisj from me, and in my name, to those 
 friends of Dr. Jortin." Ibid. Dec. 30. " You speak your senti- 
 ments of the Autht)r and Pamphlet on the Delicacy of Friendship : 
 allow me to tell you mine. You make it a kind of question, 
 whether he be my friend. This is natural. Your notion of the 
 eonnnerce amongst learned men, in letters, may make yoii a 
 little dazzled with such a friendship in the commerce of life. 
 The Author (if I know who was the author, for the Pamphlet 
 was published before I had so much as heard of its contents) is 
 a man of very superior talents, of genius, learning, and virtue, 
 indeed a princijial ornament of the age he lives in : so that wa* 
 I to wish a blessing to a man, I was most obliged to, I coulil 
 not wi^h him a greater than the friendship of such a person. 
 And 1 not only own myself highly lionoaved, and obliged to him 
 for this mark of his good-will towards me, but tliink the Dis- 
 course very serviceable to men of letters, if they would conde- 
 scend to make a proper use of it. He tries in the finest irony in 
 the world, to shame them out of that detestable turn of mind, 
 which either out of low envy, or out of mean and base a])pre- 
 hcnsions, ilare not do it, for fear of its being unacceptable to 
 their superiors. Tlie only thing blameable, and which, by the 
 way, is the only real ground of offl-nce, is his extravagant com- 
 mendation of me. And if the generosity, and immoderate 
 warmth of a friendly heart will not excuse liim (as it would be 
 a wondei" if so vniexperienced a thing should), I know myself so 
 well, as to be conscious that he has nothing better to urge." Dr. 
 Jf'arbnrton to Dr. Loicth, SeptlJ, 175G. 
 
 * " Fra)ieis Say, esq. librarian to Queen Caroline, and secre- 
 tary to live successive Bishops of Elly, with whom he lived be- 
 loved and honoured, gained great reputation early in life, and 
 preserved it imblemished to his death. He was religious with- 
 out shew, and learned without pedantry; an exact critic, U't 
 without ill-nature ; a judge both of himself and others, witliouL 
 ])artiality. He had complaisance without flattery, and hiuiianity 
 williout we;'tkness3 was condescending, but not abject; gvneioii-, 
 l.nit not profuse; wise without severity, communicati\e without 
 ^anit^, and chceiful without levity; benevolent as became a good 
 man, and chaaitable as became a good Christian. These good 
 qur.lities were accompanied with a singular modesty, tluit cast ;t 
 beauty and becomingness over them, and made his, as fVir its it 
 might be, a perfect character. He was just to all the world, 
 anil the world was ju-t to him ; for he had not an enemy in it. 
 He die<l Sept. 10, 1748." The above character, inserted in tlie 
 public pai-ers, is supposed to have been di-awn up by Archbishop 
 Herring, who was lii-st acquainted with Frank Say in BisJjop 
 l'iect\vood's family, 
 
 and
 
 JOHN JORTIN. 565 
 
 and mine, who lived in Ely house ; and Mr. Say, 
 to my knowledge, omitted no opportunity to re- 
 commend me to him. Afterwards, when he was 
 Archbishop of York, he expected that a good living 
 would lapse into his hands ; and he told Mr. Say 
 that he designed it for me. He was disapjx)inted in 
 his expectation ; so was not I ; for I had no incli- 
 nation to go and duell in the North of England. 
 Afterwards, when Mr. Say died, he asked me, of 
 his own accord, whether I should like to succeed 
 him in the Queen's library. I told him that no- 
 thing culd be more acceptable to me ; and he im- 
 mediately used all his interest to procure it for me ; 
 but he could not obtain it*. Afterwards the Arch- 
 bishop assured me of his assistance towards procur- 
 ing either the preachership or the mastership of 
 the Charter-house, where I had gone to school. 
 1 his project also failed; not by his fault. He like- 
 wise, in conjunction with Bishop Sherlock, procured 
 for me the preaching of Boyle's Lecture. He also 
 offered me a living in the country ; and (which 1 
 esteemed a singular favour) he gave me leave to 
 decline it, without taking it amiss in the least, and 
 said he would endeavour to serve me in a wa}^ that 
 should be more acceptable. He did so, and gave me 
 a living in the city. Afterwards he gave me a IJoctor's 
 degree. I thought it too late in life, as I told him, 
 to go and take it at Cambridge, imder a Professor, 
 who, in point of academical standing, might have 
 taken I lis first degree under me when I was Mode- 
 rator. I was willing to owe this favour -|~ to him; 
 which 1 could not have asked, or accepted, from 
 any other Archbishop. That some })ersons, besides 
 ]\Jr. Say, did recommend mc to him, I know, and 
 was obliged to them for it; but I must add, that 
 on this occasion they did cr7r5'Joov/ot rWc^uvziv, spur 
 
 * The onice was bestowed on Are!iibal<l Bower. 
 \ " He ;i\()icle(l subseriptioii. Tliis w;is sli;il)l)\ , as all p.ii^bl 
 iliiiik lie liutl subsCiibctl di^.hououvablc to both ^nutir-,' 7'. /'. 
 
 <i tVcC
 
 565 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 a free courser, and that he would have done what 
 he did without their interposition." 
 
 In 1758 Dr. Jortin pubUshed the first vohime of 
 his "Life of Erasmus *," in 4to; which was printed 
 
 * " Dr. Green, aftenvards Bishop of Lincoln, meditated such a 
 work while he was at St. John's college; but his election to the 
 mastership of Ben'et, and the satisfaction he felt on knowing 
 that it was undertaken by Dr. Jortin, put a stop to his design." 
 
 T. F. 
 
 The criticism of Mr, Warburton on the first appearance of 
 this Volume may be considered as a curiosity. 
 
 " Poor Erasnms, after all his imdcserved abuse, has just now 
 found two Historians to record tliose abuses ; Burigny in 
 French, and your old friend Jortin (I call him yours, for you 
 took him off my hands, when services could not mend him, to 
 try if just and delicate reproof could) ; I would have you read 
 these performances : I dare say, they will amuse you. Burigny's 
 is well written, which I have read; and so I dare say will Jortin's 
 be, which 1 haAC not read. Though, from the rancour of his 
 heart, I predict it will be full of oblique reflections, and, if you 
 judge from his motto, full of self-importance. But what is all 
 this to you and me, while we continue happy in one another r" 
 Mr. Warburton to Mr. Hurcl, Sept. 18, 175S. " Your last letter 
 sets tlie poor man's criticism in a very ridiculous light, but cer- 
 tainly not a false one. How dovibly ridiculous must it be, if it 
 be groundless ! which it certainly is ; and w hicli you partly liint 
 at. It stands on this grammatical principle, that if one I^itin 
 adjective cannot be used adverbially, no other, of what are called 
 the synonymous adjecti\es, can ; which is false in almost evei'v 
 language. I told you he was ashamed of himself. 1 made him 
 so by writing a letter to his bookseller, to be communicated to 
 him, to shew him a true picture of himself, by setting together 
 our different conduct to one another. I said, this required no 
 answer. However, I had one, which shewed how glad he was 
 to gel out of the scrape. When I come home, I will send thou 
 both to you, as I can then do, franked. However, I must not 
 at present omit one particular -in mine, to VMiiston, Speaking 
 of his paltry joke o( est genus Jiominum, &c. which, I say, "after 
 it had been so much worn by frequent application to many of 
 my betters, might as well have been omitted;" I add, " I will 
 requite his kindness o? pritueps Plato, but in a more secret wav, 
 by obber\ing to him only, that v. here at p. 114 he translates tile 
 words of Bemhus, apud inferos pcena, by the pains of hell, he 
 shovdd have said the pains of purgatory, as Indulgences were 
 from the paiiis of ])urgatory, ami not of hell ; and iis Bembus's 
 apud inferos contained both a liell and a purgatorv.' I did this 
 to intimate to him that his Transkilious were full of n^stakes, 
 
 and
 
 JOHN JORTIN. 567 
 
 by Mr. Edward Say, brother to his friend aheady 
 mentioned *, By the publication of these volumes 
 he compl(5ted a work which, from the subject of it, 
 " extended his reputation beyond the limits of his 
 native country, and established his literary charac- 
 ter in the remotest universities of Europe -j-." 
 
 A copy of the two volumes having been sent to 
 Dr. Sherlock, then bishop of London, Dr. Jortin 
 soon after received the following letter : 
 
 " REV. SIR, Fulham, Oct. 13, 17 GO. 
 
 " This letter should have v^aited on you long 
 since ; and it then would have appeared as a letter 
 of thanks for the great favour done me by the pre- 
 sent of the Life and Doctrines of Erasmus :J;; but it 
 
 antl that this was a gross one, for a man to undertake the Life 
 of Erasmus, while he was ignorant of the nature and ajjplica- 
 tion of tl)e Bulls of Indulg:ences. I own I was well entertained 
 ^vith his Life, and so I told Whiston : but the publick think 
 otherwise of it. The want of a plan and method in the compo- 
 .-ition has ^\\'cn a general disgust. They say, if you take away 
 liis trjuislalion of 1^ Clerc, and his numerous quotations, you 
 Iea^e him nothing but his notes. This eeems to be the general 
 voice. The consequence is, it does not sell. What has increased 
 the public ill-humour, Ls its being only one volume of a work, 
 v.iiieh, in the public advertisements, was denounced as com- 
 plete. But, too nmoh on so ridiculous a subject." Ibid. Oct. 2J, 
 17.^18. 
 
 * The second Volume (containing Remarks on the Works of 
 Eriiaums, and an ApiKMulix of Extracts from Erasmus and from 
 other Author.'.) wa^^ printed In Mr. Bowjer. 
 
 f Sec the quotation frtnu "Knov's Essays," in p. .j74. 
 
 I AfiiT citing an lionourable testimony of Erasmus to the 
 memory of Aichinshop Warham, I^r. Jortin jnoceeds, " It is 
 with a melancholy kind of j)leasure that I tianscribe these 
 passages, and shall in otlu r parts of tliis WWk insert other 
 testinumies to tlie hoiiour of the Ai chbishop ; whilst in the 
 character of this aujiiible Prelate, drawn by so masleily a hand, 
 I contemplate that of m\ late patron (Thomas Herring, arch- 
 bishoj) of C-,uit('rbur\), who, besides the good qualities in which 
 hf re^(>mbl('il Warluun, had piety without siqnjslition, and nuj- 
 'ler.iiion without mcauufs--, an oj)en and liberal way ur tliinkinij;', 
 and a constajit attaclinicnt to the cause of soi)ei' and r.Uionul 
 lil)erty both (i\il and religions. 'I'hus lie lived and died; and 
 f w men ever pa--ed liu'ough tills malevolent world, nioiv be- 
 lo\e<i, and less (I'll tM'd, llnin ]ir. He tolii m(M)nc(!, witli an 
 ol)]iging conde^.enooll, \bi'h I '.an ne\er forge! , iljat be wonh^
 
 5^8 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 had lain by me so long, that it has changed its form, 
 and now appears as an excuse. And, to prepare tlie 
 way for the better reception of this apology, I will 
 tell you what the truth of the matter is. When I 
 received the first part, and found that it was printed 
 for J. Whiston, 1 was in doubt whether it came 
 from the printer, or from the author ; the author 
 would expect nothing but thanks ; the bookseller 
 might probably expect to be paid. What farther 
 delay there was in this affair is to be attributed to 
 my ill health, and to Mr. Whiston's frequent avo- 
 cations in the country. But, Sir, that this fault 
 may go no farther, I desire you to accept my sin- 
 cere acknowledgments for the acceptable present of 
 the account of Erasmus, and for the distinction 
 shewed me upon this occasion. I am, Sir, your 
 affectionate brother, and very humble servant, 
 
 Thomas, London." 
 
 To this letter he returned the following answer : 
 
 " MY LORD, 
 
 '' You are very courteous and condescending, to 
 give yourself the trouble of sending me your written 
 thanks for a small acknowledgment of respect and 
 gratitude which I made to you. I could not possi- 
 bly forget your Lordship, who is one of those veiy 
 few amongst my Superiors to whom I have obliga- 
 tions. Besides, Erasmus waited upon you, to pay, in 
 some measure, the debt of an Author to an Author; 
 for I had received the four volumes of your Dis- 
 courses, which I have perused attentively, and twice 
 
 be to me what VVarham was to Erasmus ; and wliat he ])romi?e(l, 
 he performed : only less fortunate in the choice of his humble 
 friend, who could not be to him what Erasmus was to Warliam. 
 But if these pages should live, protected by the subject wliieh 
 they treat, ami the mateiials of which they are composed, they 
 may perhaps assist in doing justice to his memory. 
 His mihi dilectum nonx n, manesque verendos. 
 His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar amico 
 Mimere ! non totus, raptus licet, optinie Prsesul, 
 Eriperis : i-edit os placidum, moresquc benigni, 
 Et venit ante ocujos, et pectorc Yi^it iinago." 
 
 over.
 
 JOHN JORTIN. 5^9 
 
 over. More than this, concerning them, it becomes 
 not a person in my station to say to a person in yours ; 
 but it becometh me to return you my thanks for that 
 and for other favours ; and to acknowledge myself, 
 my Lord, 
 
 " Your Lordship's most obhged, &c," 
 
 On the 9th of February lj62, died Dr. Hayter, 
 then bishop of London, for whom Dr. Jortin had a 
 great esteem. His friend Dr. Osbaldeston, the 
 Bishop of Carhsle, succeeded in this see ; and on 
 the 10th of March aj^pointed him domestic chap- 
 lain ; and at the end of that month made him pre- 
 bendarv of Harleston, in the cathedral church of 
 London. This Bishop also, in October I762, gave 
 him the rectory of Kensington ; where he soon after 
 went to reside, and gave up his town-house in Hat- 
 ton Garden. 
 
 In 1 763 Dr. Jortin assisted Mr. Markland in cor- 
 recting the proof sheets of the " Supplices Mulieres,'* 
 of Euripides, in quarto. He had before done the 
 same for a little treatise by the same learned gentle- 
 man, entitled, " De Grcecorum quinta declinatione 
 imparisyllabica, et inde formata Latbiorum tertia, 
 Qua^sto grammatica," which had been first printed 
 in IjCl, and was now annexed to the "Supplices 
 Mulieres." Of our Author, it is said in an adver- 
 tisement prefixed; "Absente auctore, vicem ejus 
 ad prelum suscepit vir doctissimus Joannes Jortinus 
 S. T. P. cujus eruditae curie multuin debere banc 
 editionem profitetur Commentator." 
 
 Bishoj) Osbaldeston gave a repeated proof, about 
 a month before his death, of his determined })atro- 
 nage of our Authoi', by appointing him archdeacon 
 of London in April 176'4; and it has been generally 
 said that the Bishop had offered him the rectory of 
 St. James's, \^'estminster, upon the death of Dr. 
 Samuel Nicliolls, in November 176'3; but that he 
 chose to continue at Kensinirton*, that beina' a situa- 
 
 ' ilio Kiiid patron died May Id, 170"4. 
 
 tioi>
 
 570 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 tion he much Hked, and better adapted to his then 
 advanced age.' 
 
 In ljC)6 he sent Dr. Neve, in a lettei*, some few 
 remarks on PhiUpps's History of the Life of Car- 
 dinal Pole, which were added to Dr. Neve's ani- 
 madversions on that History, in an Appendix, No. I. 
 
 In 17^7 a second edition of his three volumes of 
 " Remarks on Ecclesiastical History" was published ; 
 but printed closer, so as to be brought into two 
 volumes, 8vo ; a circumstance which was not very 
 pleasing to the Author, 
 
 Dr. Jortin continued to live in the then vicarage- 
 house at Kensington, dividing his time between his 
 pastoral functions and his study, enjoying himself 
 with his usual serenity, till the 27th of August 1770, 
 when he was seized with a disorder in his breast and 
 lungs. He grew continually worse, notwithstand- 
 ing all medical assistance ; and without undergoing 
 much pain in the course of his illness, or his under- 
 standiiig being tiie least impaired, he died, on the 
 5th of September, in the 7 2d year of his age. 
 
 The last words of eminent men are frequently 
 thought worth recording. Dr. Jortin, in answer to 
 a female attendant who offered him som.e nourish- 
 ment, said, with great composure, "No; I have had 
 enough of every thing!" 
 
 A worthy Clergyman asked Dr. Jortin why he 
 did not i)ublish his Sermons. " They shall sleep," 
 he replied, '' till I sleep." More instances of his 
 laconic mode of speech might easily have been pro- 
 duced. 
 
 He left the followins: direction in writinii for his 
 
 funeral: ' Bury me in a private maimer by day -light 
 
 at Kenyington in the church, or rather in the new 
 
 c'i lurch -yard, and lay a fiat stone over the grave.. 
 
 Let the inscription be only this : 
 
 Joannes Jortin 
 
 rnortalis esse desiit 
 
 anno salutis [mdcclxx], 
 
 a^tatis Flxxii]." 
 
 He
 
 JOHN JORTIN. 571 
 
 He was accordingly buried, about nine o'clock in 
 the morning, in the new church-yard at Kensing- 
 ton, and the above inscription put on his grave- 
 stone. He left a widow (who died June 24, 1778, 
 and was buried in the same grave) ; and two chil- 
 dren, Rogers Jortin *, esq, and Martha, married to 
 the Rev. Samuel Darby -j-. 
 
 . Dr. Jortin completed in his life-time his " Re- 
 marks on Ecclesiastical History," ending with the 
 the year 1.5 17, the time when Luther began the 
 Heformation.|:. These "Remarks" were printed by 
 
 "^ This gentleman, vvho died July S, 1795, had very conside- 
 rable pj'actice in the Court of Exchequer; as one of the princip'rd 
 Clerks in Court. He had been twice married. By the first wife 
 (who was the eldest daughter and coheiress of "William Prowling, 
 esq.) he left two sons 3 and by the second (a daughter of Dr. 
 Maty) he had one son. 
 
 t relunv of Jesus college, Cambridge; B.A. 1743; M. A. 
 1719: afterwards rector of SMiattield, near Hadleigh, Suf^Uc 
 He (lied ia 1791. 
 
 :|: "A review of the life of the late Di". Jortin," says an elegant 
 writer, who is deservedly a favovu'itc with the publick, "cannot 
 but S'.iggcst the most pleasing reflections. As a Poet, a Divine, 
 a Philosopher, and a Man, he served the cause of Religion, Learn- 
 ing, and IMoi-ality. The]'c are, i\uleed, many Writers whose 
 re])utiit!()u is more diffused junong the vulgar and illiterate, but 
 few w ill Ix; foimd whose names stand higher than Dr. Jortin's in 
 the e.~tcem of the judicious. Hi.-. i>atin poetry is classically ele- 
 gant. His discourses and dissertations so^sible, ingenious, and 
 argumentative. His remarks on JCcclcsiastical History interest- 
 ing and in)i)artial. His S'-rmons replete with sound sense and 
 ri^ionul moralitv, expiessed in a .style simple, ])urc, and attic. 
 ^!i!i|)lieity of htyle is a giace, whicli, though it may not captivate 
 jit first sight, is sure in the end to give permanent satisfuctioij. 
 if does not excite admiration, but it raises esteem. It does not 
 waiin to raj)tu!e, but it soothes to complacency. Un.-jki'ful 
 write.'s seldom aim at this excellence. Tiiey imagine that what 
 i natural and comm(m, cannot be beautiful. Jivery thing ia 
 llicir compositions must be strained, every tiling atTpeeted : but 
 Dr. Jortin had studied the .Antic'ut.-,, and perhaps formed himself 
 on the model of Xcnojihon. He wrote on sutyects of morality; 
 and moraiitv is founded on reason, and reason is alway.i cooj 
 an;! disj,;i ionate. A florid declamation, emijeHi.-iied witli rho- 
 oriciil figures, and animated with pathetic description, niav in* 
 <leo(i aurisf.' tlu- fancy, and raise a transient emotion in the heart - 
 but rational di?cour.-jC alone can cou'>iuce the imder.-landin"- 
 
 r- * 
 
 auU
 
 572 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Mr. Bovvyer in 1773, as the fourth and fifth volumes, 
 in 8vo. He left also some manuscript Remarks on 
 
 ami reform the conduct. The first efforts of genius have com- 
 monly been in poetiy. Uni'estrained by the frigidity of argu- 
 ment, and the confinement of rules, the yourjg mind gladly in- 
 dulges the flights of imagination. Cicero, as well as many other 
 anticnt philosophers, orators, and historians, is known to have 
 sacrificed to the Muses | in his earlier productions. Dr. Jortin 
 adds to the number of those who confirm the observation. In 
 his Lusiis Poetici, one of the first of liis works, are united clas- 
 sical language, tender sentiment, and hai'monious verse. Among 
 the modern Latin poets, there are few who do not yield to Dr. 
 Jortin. His Sapphics on the story of Bacchus and Ariadne, 
 are easy, elegant, and poetical. The little Ode, in which the 
 calm life of the philosopher is compared to the gentle stream 
 gliding through a silent grove, is highly pleasing to the mind, 
 and is perfectly elegant in the com})Osition. The Lyrics are in- 
 deed all excellent. The Poem on the Immortality of the Soul 
 is ingenious, poetical, and an exact imitation of the style of 
 Lucretiiis. In short, the whole collection is such as would 
 scarcely have disgraced a Roman in the age of an Augustus, 
 Tiftie, if it does not cool the fire of imagination, certainly 
 fatrcngthcns the powers of the judgment. As our Author advanced 
 in life, he cultivated his reason rather than his fancy, and de- 
 .sisted from liis eflbrts in poetry, to exert his abilities in the dis- 
 quisitions of criticism. His observations on one of the Fathers 
 of Engli-^h I'oetry need but to l)e more generally known, in 
 order to l)e move generally approved. Classical prcxluctions ar^ 
 lathi r anmsing than infttructi\e. His works of this kind are all 
 juvenile, and naturally flowed from a classical education. These 
 lu)we\er were but pre})aratory to his higher designs, and soon 
 ga\e way to the more important enquiri(>s which were peculiar 
 to his profession. His Discourses on the Christian Religion, 
 one of the first fi'uits of his theological pursuits, aboimd with 
 that sound sense and solid ai'gument, which entitle their Author 
 to a rank veiy near the celebrated Grotius. His Dissertations 
 are equally remarkable for taste, learning, originality, and in- 
 i'enuity. His Life of lu'asmus has extended hi.-^ reputation ije- 
 vond the limits of his native countr\ , and established his literarv 
 character in the remotest Universities of Eu)-ope. Erasnms harl 
 long b(>en an object of uni\ersal admiration ; and it is matter of 
 surprize, that his Life had never been written witli accuracy and 
 judgment. This task was rcseiTcd for Dr. Jortin j and the a\idity 
 witli which the ^\ ork v.as received by the learned, is a proof of 
 the uieiit of the execution. It abounds with matter interesting 
 to the scholar ; but the style and method are such as will not 
 plcu;e CA cry rcadei". Thei c is a carelessness in it, and a want of 
 
 J "And poorly too." 7' /'. 
 
 dignity
 
 JOHN JORTIN. 573 
 
 Authors, interspersed with many critical and bio- 
 graphical Anecdotes ; some other Miscellaneous 
 
 dignity and delicacy. His Remarks on Ecclesiastical Histoiy 
 are full of manly sense, ingenious strictuies, and profound eioi- 
 dition. The Work is highly beneficial to mankind, as it repre- 
 sents 'that superstition \vhich disgraced human nature, in its 
 proper light, and gives a right sense of the advantages derived 
 from religious reformation. He every where expresses himself 
 with peculiar vehemence against the infatuation of bigotry and 
 faaaticism. Convinced that true happiness is founded oii a 
 right use of the reiisoning powers, 'iie makes it the scope of all 
 his religious works, to lead mankind fioia the errors of imagi- 
 nation, to attend to the dictates of dispassionate reason. Post- 
 humous publications, it has been remaiked, are usually inferior 
 in merit to those which wejc published in an author's life-time. 
 And indeed the opinion seems jjlaubible, as it may be presumed 
 tiiat an authors reason for not i>ublishiiig his works is a consci- 
 ousness of their inferiority. The Sermons of Dr. Jortin were, 
 howe\tr, designed I)y tlieir author as a legacy to mankind. To 
 enlarge on their value, woidd only be to echo back the })ublic 
 voice, (iood sense and ^()und mondity appear in them, not 
 indeed dressed out in the merctricioiiri ornaments of a florid 
 .style, but in all the nuudy force and simple graces of natural 
 fhxiuence. The same ca])rice, which laises to reimtation those 
 t)illingdiscour.-es which have nothiiig to recommend them but a 
 prettiness of fancy, will again consign them to oblivion: but the 
 Sermons of Dr. Jortin will continue to be read with pleasure and 
 edilieation, as long as human nature shall continue to be en- 
 dowed with the faculties of reason and discernment J. The 
 transition from an Authors writings to his life is fiequently 
 di.-a(hantageous to his cliaractei'. Dr. Joi'tin, howexer, when 
 no longer considered as an author, but as a man, is so far from 
 iH-iiig kssened in our opinion, that he excites still gretiter esteem 
 jind applausi'. A simplicity of mannei^, an inoii'ensive behaviour, 
 ;m universal benevolence, candour, modestv, antl good sense, 
 were his charaeleii~ticks. Though his genius, and love of let- 
 ters, led him to choose the ^till \ide of fte([ues>tered life, yet w;is 
 his merit consj)ieuous enough to iitlract the notice ot a eeitain 
 Hriniati', wiio did honour to Ej>is(()pacy. He was ])resente(l, by 
 Archbishop Herring, to a beneiice in London, woi'th '20'-) p(un<ls 
 .t-year, as a reward for ins exei'lions as ;-. -cholur :uhI a divine . 
 Some time after he bec.ui'.c ^ hajt'uiiii to a iale ijish.op of 
 f-ondou, who gave him the viiurage of Keii-!ni;ton, and a>- 
 
 pointcd 
 
 [ " It is surpri/.ing tliat alciuiu-d ;iiid elegant dis-^eitaior ['Mr. 
 Mainwaring] should not have net iced and a])i)lau,!( d the Sernioiw 
 iA' Dr. Jortin, as well as those of I{isii()]is Secivcr and Hunl, and 
 Dr. Powi^ll." r. i: 
 
 In t!-ans( riliing this .'('ntciiec fidiu Mr. Knox, a few \vin''i~ 
 li;ue l)een met -siuilv altered
 
 574 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Pieces; which were published, in 179I, under the 
 title ot" " Tracts, Theological Critical and Miscella- 
 neous*," 2 vols. 8vo. He left also correct copies of 
 such of his Sermons as might be published, of the 
 *' Doctrine of a future State as it may be collected 
 from the Old Testament," and of Four Charges 
 delivered by him as Archdeacon. 
 
 His son, soon after his death, at the solicitation 
 of many of the parishioners of St. Dunstan in the 
 
 pointed him archdeacon of his diocese. This was all the j)re- 
 feruicnt he had ; nor had he this till he was advanced in 
 life. He did not however repine ||. Thus he speaks of him- 
 self. ' Not to his enidition but to his constant love and pur- 
 suit of it he owes a situation and a station, better than he 
 expected, and as good as he ought to desire.' While jjcrsons of 
 inferior attainments were made bishops, a man wh(> had been 
 luicommonly eminent in the ser\ice of learning and religion, 
 was left to i)ine in the shade of obscurity, INIany who were 
 lliought to Ikuc little more than the shadow of piety and learn- 
 ing, have had tlie substantial reward of them, if secular advan- 
 tages could bestow it. Jortin \vas acknowledged to possess true 
 virtue and real knowledge, but was left to receive his rccompence 
 in the suggestions of a good conscience, and the applause of 
 posterity. Tiie writer of this eulogium, as it has been called, is 
 not conscious of exaggeration, fie owns, howc\ er, that he en-^ 
 tei-tained a fu^()luable prepossession concerning this liberal and 
 laI>orious selsolar at a very early age. When a school-boy he 
 liad the lionour to be several times in his company, and always 
 l()ok(^d up to him with a degree of veneration natiu'al to a young 
 mind slJDUgly attached to letters. He is haj)py to find that the 
 unprejudiced coincide with him in his maturer judgment." E:<says 
 Moral and Litarury, by t'icesiiiuis Knox, A. M. vol. I. 2d Ed. 
 p. 115 123. This article has been witiidrawn from the subse- 
 ije()Ue)it edition of these ingenious Es&ays. 
 
 ''' Dr. Jortin's character of " Solomon's Song" is worth pre- 
 jer\ing: ' ?lany connnentaries and discourses have been written 
 upon it, by the ai;tient Fathers, and by modern Divines, which 
 have not nuide it one jot clearer than it was before. Their alle- 
 gorical, mystical, and spiritual interpretations, are arbitrar\-, 
 unsupported, and the mere effusions of a fertile im;rgination. 
 It is a short and elegant Poem, in %vhicli the name of God is 
 not once mentioned, in whicli not one religious or nun'at duty 
 is recommended, and which is never cited by our Saviour, oy 
 by any \Vritcr of the Xew Testament." 
 
 !1 " II<j did; and, as most will [irobably think, unreasonably," T. F. 
 
 Fast
 
 JOHN JORTIN. 575 
 
 East and of Kensington, published four volumes of 
 liis Sermons, in 8vo, with the following Dedication: 
 
 " To the Parishioners of St. Dunstan in the East, 
 and of Kensington, these Sermons of his Father, 
 printed at their request, are inscribed, as a tes- 
 timony of respect, by Rogers Jortin. 
 Lincoln's Inn^ Jan. 1, 1771. ' 
 
 These being favourably received by the publick, a 
 second edition of them was published in 1772; with 
 three additional volumes of Sermons, the " Doctrine 
 of a Future State," and the Four Charges. 
 
 in 1787 the Sermons and Charges were collected 
 into a third edition^ in seven Volumes, 8vo, by 
 Mr. Rogers Jortin ; to which was prefixed a Life of 
 the Autiior, by Dr. Heathcote, enlarged from the 
 former edition of this Memoir, for the purpose of 
 insertion in the " Biographical Dictionary." 
 
 In 17.92 the publick were favoured with a valu- 
 able volume, under the title of " Memoirs of the 
 Lite and Writings of John Jortin, D. D. By John 
 Disney, D. D. F. S. A.;" in which, though tlie learned 
 Writer was not able to add much to the personal 
 information concernin"' this amiable and excellent 
 man, the Header will be gratified with many pleas- 
 ing and pertinent remarks on his various jjublica- 
 tlons *. 
 
 * " The Works of Bishop W'arbmlon and Dr. Jortin," say?< 
 Bp. Newton, ** will speak for tlieui belter than any pri\ ate com- 
 inendution. They were really two veiT e\traordinaiy men; and 
 though their eharaeters were much alike in some res[)eet,s, yet 
 they weie very diHerent iu oilier-;, 'llu^y were both men of a;ieat 
 ]C'.;ts and abilities, both men of uncommon learning!,- an;! erudi- 
 tion, both able critics, both copious writeis. Jiut tiic one 
 was the more universal, the other, per]ia])s, the Ijettcr (jieek 
 und Latin scholar; the one had the larH,'er comprehension of 
 things, the other (lie more CKact knowledge of words; the one 
 had his Jearriing more like cadi ready at hand, the other had 
 liis more like bills in his coinin()n-|jl:u:e-lx>ok ; the one was the 
 more lapid and Howing, the other ihe mcjre terse and conect 
 writer; the one was moi-e cajtable of ionaing the plan and system 
 of a large work, the other excelled more in little loose detached 
 piee( - : (he -,ermoti.-: of tlie one ;ire not the most valuable, tliosfc 
 
 of
 
 57<J LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 The beautifully written character of Dr. Jortin, 
 from the j^en of Dr. Parr, is so honourable to the 
 characters of both, that I am tempted to transtribe 
 it at large below *. 
 
 of the other are the most valuable, of all their writings. And 
 in themselves, the one was more open and communicative, more 
 inviting and engaging in Ids manner 3 the other was more close 
 and raseiTed, more shy and forbidding in his appearance ; the 
 one was warmer in his commendations, a more zealous friend, 
 and a more generous enemy ; the other was more sparing of hid 
 praise, cooler both in ft-iendship and enmity, and rather carping 
 and luulermining than freely judging or censuring. But their 
 little failings will die with them, their superior excellences will 
 live in the mouths and memories of men." 
 
 * "As to Jortin, whetiier I look back to his Verse, to his 
 Prose, to his critical, or to his theological Works, there are few 
 authors to whpm I am so much indebted for rational enteitain- 
 ment, or for solid instruction. Learned he was, without pe- 
 dantry. He was ingenious without the affectation of singuliu'ity. 
 He was a lover of truth, without hovering over the gloomy abyss 
 of sce})ticism, and a friend to free-en(juiry, without roving into 
 the (heary and pathless wilds of latitudinarianism. He had a 
 heart, which never disgraced the powers of his understanding. 
 A\'ith a lively imagination, an elegant taste, and a judgment 
 most masculine and most correct, he united the artless and 
 amiable negligence of a school-boy. Wit without ill-nature, 
 and sense witliout effort, he could, at will, scatter uj)on e\ery 
 subject ; and in eveiy book, tlie Writer presents us with a near 
 and distinct view of the real Man. 
 
 ut omnis 
 
 Votivn pateat tanquam drscripta tahella 
 
 Vita Senls Hok. Sat. 1. Lib *2. 
 
 " His style, though inartificial, is sometimes elevated : though 
 familiar, it is never mean; and tliough employed upon various 
 topics of Theology, Ethics, and Criticism, it is not arrayed in 
 any delusive lesemblance, eithci', of solenmity, fiom fanatical 
 cant, of j)rofoundness, from scholastic jaigon, of precision, 
 from the crabbed formalities of cloudy philologists, or of re- 
 iineuKnt, from the technical babble of frivolous connoisseurs. 
 At the shadowy and fleeting reputation which is sometimes 
 gained by the jxitty frolicks of literary vanity, or the mischie- 
 vous struggles of controversial rage, Jortin never grasped. 
 Truth, which some men are aml^itious of seizing by surprize in 
 the trackless and dark recess, lie was content to overtake in the 
 broad and beaten path : and in the ])ursuit of it, if he does not 
 excite our astonislunent by the rajjidity of his strides, he, at 
 least, secures our confidence by the firnmess of his step. To 
 the examination of ])ositions advanced by other men, he always 
 brought a niind^ which neither prepossession had seduced, nor 
 
 male-
 
 JOHN JORtlN. 577 
 
 A portrait of Dr. Jortin was engraved, for private 
 use, by John Hall, from a painting by E. Penny, 
 witli the same inscription as on his tomb. This 
 lias been since preiixed to the edition of his Works. 
 
 malevolence polluted. He imposed not his own conjectures as 
 infallible and iireiistible truths, nor endeavoured to give an air 
 of importance to triHes, by dogmatical vehemence. He could 
 support his more serious opinions, without the versatility of a 
 sophist, the lierceness of a disputant, or the impertinence of a 
 bufFtwn more than this he could relinquish or correct them 
 with the calm and steady dignity of a writer, who, while he 
 yielded something to the argunients of his antagonists, was 
 conscious of retaining enough to command their respect. He 
 had too much discernment to confound difference of opinion 
 with malignity or dullness, and too much candour to insult, 
 where he could not persuade. Though his sensibilities were 
 neither coai-se nor sluggish, he was yet exempt from those fickle 
 humours, those rankling jealousies, and that restless wayward- 
 ness, which men of the brightest talents are too prone to indulge. 
 He carried with him, into every station in wliich he was placed, 
 and every subject whicli he explored, a solid greatness of soul, 
 which could spare an inferior, though in llie offensive form of 
 an arhcrsarv, and endure an equil witli, or without, the sacred 
 name of friend. Tlie importiu.ee of connuendation, as well to 
 him \\ ho bestows, as to him who claims it, he estimated not only 
 with justice, but with delicacy j and therefore, he neither wan- 
 tonly lavished it, nor withheld it austerely. But invective he 
 neither provoked nor feared j and, a.s to the severities of con- 
 tempt, he resei'ved them for occasions ^vhere alone they could be 
 employed with pro{)rietv, and where, by himself, they always 
 were employed with eliect for the chastisement of arrogant 
 dunces, of censorious sciolists, of intolerant l)igots in eveiy sect, 
 and unprincipled impostors in cveiy piofesblon. Distinguished 
 in various forms of literary composition, engag-.-d in various 
 duties of his ecclesiastical profession, and blessed with a long 
 and honourable life, he nobly exemplified that rare and illustri- 
 ous virtue of (Charity, which Iceland, in his Reply to the l^ttcr- 
 writei", most eUxjuently describes." . . . . " The esteem, the affec- 
 tion, the reverence, which I feel for so jjiofound a icholur, and 
 so iionest a man, as Dr. Jortin, make me wliolly inditlerent to 
 the praise and censure <jf those, who vilify, without reading, his 
 Writings, or read them, wilhout tiniiing sotne incentive to 
 study, some proticieut.-y in knowledge, or tume iuipiovemeut in 
 virtue." 
 
 Vol. II. Vt No. VII.
 
 ( 578 ) 
 
 No. VII. 
 MARTIN FOLKES, ESQ. 
 
 This eminent Scholar, descended from a good 
 family, was the eldest son of Martin Folkes, esq. 
 counsellor at law, one of the benchers of Gray's Inn, 
 by Dorothy, second daughter and one of the three 
 coheirs of Sir William Hovell, knight, of Hilling- 
 ton Hall, near Lynn, in the county of Norfolk. 
 He was born in Queen-street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 
 in the parish of St. Giles, Westminster, Oct. S9, 
 1690 ; and, at the age of nine years, was intrusted 
 to the learned Mr. Cappel, son of the celebrated 
 Lewis Cappel, and successor to him in the profes- 
 sorship of the Hebrew language at Saumur in France, 
 till the suppression of that University in January 
 
 16.94-5. 
 
 He continued seven years under the tuition of 
 Mr. Cappel, by whom he is described in a letter 
 to Monsieur Le Clerc, dated at Hillington Hall, in 
 February 1706'-7, as a choice youth of a penetrating 
 genius, and master of the beauties of the best Ro- 
 man and Greek Writers. Soon after the date of 
 that letter, he was sent to the University of Cam- 
 bridge; and was placed in Clare hall, under the care 
 of Dr. Laughton, fellow of that college, and one of 
 the most able and diligent tutors of his time. 
 
 The progress which he made there, and after he 
 left the University, in all parts of learning, and 
 particularly mathematical and philosophical, distin- 
 guished him at so early an age, that, when he was 
 but 23 years old, he was esteemed worthy of a seat 
 in the Royal Society ; into which having been pro- 
 posed as a candidate^ on the 13th of December 17IS, 
 
 he
 
 MARTIN FOLKES. 579 
 
 lie was on the 29th of July following elected, and 
 on the eleventh of November admitted a fellow 
 of it. He had not been much above two years a 
 member, when, on account of his known abilities 
 and constant attendance at the meetings of the So- 
 ciety, he was, at the anniversary election, Nov. 30, 
 1716, chosen one of the Council. 
 
 His first communication to the Society was on 
 the 6'th of the following month, December, con- 
 cerning the Eclipse of a fixed star in Cxemini, by the 
 body of Jupiter. This was followed, in I717, by 
 an account of a remarkable Aurora Borealis, seen at 
 London on the 30th of March that year *. 
 
 Oct. (>, the same year, 1717, he had the degree 
 of M. A. conferred on him by the University of 
 Cambridge, when that learned Body had the hon- 
 our of a visit from King George the First. 
 
 He was chosen a second time of the Council of 
 the Royal Society, Dec. 14, I718 ; continued to be 
 re-chosen every year till 1727; and Jan. 17, 1 722-3, 
 had the farther distinction of being appointed by 
 their illustrious President, Sir Isaac Newton, one of 
 his Vice-presidents. 
 
 Nor were these honours unjustly bestowed ; for 
 Mr. Folkes was not only indefatigable himself in 
 observing the secret operations and astonishing 
 objects of Nature, but also studious to excite the 
 same vigilance in others. 
 
 He was elected into the Society of Antiquaries, 
 Feb. 17, 1719-20. 
 
 In 1723. soon after the death of that sagacious 
 observer of the minute creation, the great Anthony 
 Van Leeuwenhoek, who, after having been a valu- 
 able Correspondent to the Royal Society above fifty 
 years, bequeathed to them his cabinet of micro- 
 scopes, Mr. Folkes gave an account of that valuable 
 
 * Philosophical Transactions, vol. XXX. No, 352, p. 58G. 
 
 p p 2 legacy,
 
 580 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 legacy; who desiring that it might be made pubHc, 
 it was printed in their Transactions*. 
 
 At ttie first anniversary election of the Royal 
 Society after the death of Sir Isaac Newton, in I727, 
 Mr. Folkes was competitor with Sir Hans Sloane, 
 bart. for the office of President ; his interest beins^ 
 supported by a great number of members, though 
 the choice was determined in favour of Sir Hans. 
 
 Tlie XXXIV th Volume of the Philosophical 
 Transactions, for the year I J 26 and 1727 was ad- 
 dressed to Mr. Folkes, by Dr. .Turin, secretary of 
 the Royal Society, in a dedication, the motive of 
 which was, as that very learned Physician observed, 
 *' the same which induced tlie greatest man that ever 
 lived to single out Mr. Folkes to till the chair, and 
 to preside in the assemblies of that Society, when 
 the frequent returns of his indisposition would no 
 longer permit him to attend them with his usual 
 assiduity. This motive," added Dr. Jurin, " we all 
 know, was your uncommon love to, and singular 
 attainments in, those noble and manly sciences, to 
 which the glorv of Sir Isaac Newton, and the repu- 
 tation of the Royal Societ\^, is solely and entirely 
 owing." And he concludes his Dedication with the 
 highest compliment to Mr. Folkes, that, " It is suf- 
 ficient to sav of him, that he was Sir Isaa'c Newton's 
 Friend." 
 
 He v^'as chosen of the Council of the Society on 
 the 1st of December I729 ; and continued in it, till 
 he was advanced to the Presidentship, twelve years 
 after; having been appointed, on the 8th of February 
 1732-3? oiiti of the Vice-presidents bySirHansSloane. 
 
 He set out, with his whole family, on a tour into 
 Italy, the 25th of Mamh 1 7.33 ; and, passing through 
 Germany, reached Venice in September following ; 
 whence he proceeded to Rome, where he resided a 
 considerable time, as he did afterwards some Qionths 
 
 * No. 3S0. p. 446. 
 
 at
 
 MARTIN rOLKES. 5 Si 
 
 at Florence. He returned by sea from Leghorn to 
 England, where he arrived on the 1st of September 
 1735, after having spent two years and a half abroad 
 with the highest satisfaction to himself and the 
 greatest marks of esteem and respect from the prin- 
 cipal persons in all places which he visited. 
 
 The opportunities which he had of consulting 
 the best-furnished cabinets in Italy, enabled him 
 to compose there an excellent Dissertation on the 
 Weights and Values of antient Coins. This he read 
 to the Society of Antiquaries, London, at two of 
 their meetings, on the 15th and 22d of January, 
 1735-6; and received their unanimous thanks for it, 
 with a request that a copy of it might be registered 
 in their books: which he promised to give them *, 
 after he had revised it and made some additions. 
 
 His observations on the Trajan and Antonine 
 Pillars at Kome (which he visited with his Lady) 
 were read before the Society of Antiquaries, Feb. 5, 
 1735-^; ^nd printed in their Archaeologia, vol.1. 
 p. 117. And in the same Volume, p. 12a, are his 
 observations on the Brass Equestrian Statue at Rome, 
 occasioned by a small Brass Model of it found near 
 London ; which were read before the Society, April 7, 
 1736. 
 
 On the 14th of that month he communicated to 
 them 'A Table of English Gold Coins'}-, from the 
 1 8th of King Edward the Third, when Gold was first 
 
 * "This was never done," says Dr. Ward, in a MS copy of 
 these Memoirs, which al'lerwanis becauje tlie property of hi* 
 friend .John Loveday, esq. of Caversham. 
 
 f This Work he meditated so early as 1731- Mr. Hearne, 
 the celtbrated Antiquary, in a letter to the Earl of Oxford, 
 /tug. 2b, 1732, says, "As for Martin I'olke.s (an ingenious 
 gentknian) his design upon our English Coins (in wliicli 
 is not much erudition, iio\vev(ir the siibjcct be cin'ious) I 
 never heard of it bc^fore, I i-e!neml)er Sir Andrew Fountaine, 
 many years ago, told me nioic tiian once \\c liad sucii a work in 
 vievv, by way of continuation of his Saxon Coins; but v.hat pro- 
 gress he made I never lieard, though I presume considerable, 
 with respect to such a ColIccUoUj unless he parted with all or 
 most to Lord IVmbroke." 
 
 coined
 
 582 LITERARlr AN:ECD0TE3. 
 
 coined in England, to the present Time, with their 
 Weights and intrinsic Values;" which, at their 
 desire, on the 22d of that month, he consented to 
 pubhsh ; and it was accordingly printed the same 
 year, in 4to *. ^IVo years after he likewise read to 
 them a Dissertation upon an antient Latin inscrip- 
 tion at Nismes. 
 
 Nor was he less obliging to the Royal Society, 
 whom he favoured with Yiis " Remarks on the 
 Standard Measure preserved in the Capitol of Rome;" 
 which was read at their meeting of the 5th of Feb- 
 ruary 1735-^, and published in their Transactions-I-. 
 
 He exhibited to that Society, in the July follow- 
 ing, a model of an antient Sphere, in the Farnese 
 palace at Rome (supposed to be the most exact 
 representation of it in Antiquity;]:), which model 
 had been made in plaster of Paris, under his di- 
 rections, during his residence in that city; the 
 original, in stone, supported by an Atlas, being 
 conjectured by him, upon good grounds, to have 
 been made in the year of the Christian aera 112, 
 towards the end of the Emperor Trajan's reign ^. 
 
 This model of the Farnese Sphere was in the 
 same year exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries. 
 
 * This makes Table XXXVIII. of the fir>t volume of the 
 Society's " Vetusta Monumenta." Mr. Folkes himself reprinted 
 it, with additions, in 1745. See p. 584. 
 
 t Vol. XXXIX. No. 4 12, p. 262. 
 
 J The colure passes through those parts of the asterisms by 
 which it is said to have passed in the days of Hipparchus ; but 
 the intersection of the equator and ecliptic is not at the colure, 
 but at some distance, whence Bianchini, who intended a disser- 
 tation on it, refers it to the time of the Antonines. The figures 
 all turn th^nr backs, because the Antieuts supposed the constel- 
 lations looked on the Earth, and so they would appear to do, if 
 viewed from without the starry sphere ; and Ptolemy, describing 
 their ap].earance on a celestial globe, places them on the backs 
 of the figures, which was not rightly understood by some 
 moderns. 
 
 A di-aught of this was communicated by him to Dr.Bentley, 
 then preparing his long-promised edition of Manilius, in which 
 it was afterwards published, in 1739, in 4to. 
 
 His
 
 MARTIN FOLKES. 583 
 
 His next communication to the Royal Society- 
 was, on the 4th of November 173f), an Account of 
 some Mock Suns, or Parheha, seen by him on the 
 17th of September preceding *. 
 
 His ingenious friend. Dr. Robert Smith, then 
 Plumian Professor of Mathematicks in Cambridge^ 
 and aftei wards Master of Trinity College there, 
 being engaged in composing ** A Complete System 
 of Optics," Mr. Folkes furnished him with several 
 curious remarks on the fallacies of vision, on the 
 Sun's apparent distance, on the apparent figure of 
 the sky, on the apparent curvity of the sides of long 
 walks and ploughed lands, and on the changes of 
 curvity by the obser\'er's motions ; for which he 
 received the acknowledgements of the Professor in the 
 Preface to that Work, published in 1738, in 4to. 
 
 As he had not seen France in his travels to Italy, 
 he made a tour to Paris in May 1739, chiefly with 
 a view of seeing the Academies there, and convers- 
 ing with the learned men who do honour to that 
 city and the republick of letters, and by whom he 
 was received with all the testimonies of reciprocal 
 regard. 
 
 Sir Hans Sloane having, on account of his ad- 
 vanced age and growing infirmities, resigned the 
 Presidentship of the Royal Society, at the annual 
 election, in 174I, Mr. Folkes was unanimously 
 chosen to fill that honourable post ; which he did 
 with the highest reputation to the Society and him- 
 self. ' Soon after his election he presented the So- 
 ciety with 100/. The deatli of Dr. Edmund Halley, 
 in January 1 74 1-2, occasioning a vacancy in the 
 Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, the eyes of 
 that illustrious Body were immediately fixed upon 
 the new President of the Royal Society, whom they 
 chose to place in the room of that great Philosopher 
 and Astronomer. 
 
 Nov. 11, 1742, he communicated to the Royal 
 Society an account of the Proportions of thp E"g- 
 
 * Pliilosophical Transact ioni;, vol. XL, No. 445. p. 59. 
 
 lish
 
 584 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 lish and French Measures and Weights, from the 
 Standards of the same kept at that vSociety *. 
 
 An account of the disc^overy of that extraordinary 
 insect called the Fresh-water Polypus, by Mops. 
 Trembley, then residing at the Hague, was no sooner 
 brought to F^ngland, than Mr. Folkes began to make 
 experiments upon it; the result of which he com- 
 municated to the Uqyal Society, in a Paper read 
 before them tlie 24th of March 1 742-3 -f-. 
 
 His curiosity with relation to the geography of 
 his country having led him to a particular exami- 
 nation of some of the oldest maps of it, those of 
 Mr. Christopher Saxton, he gave in a paper concern- 
 ing them to the Koyal Society, on the 12th of May 
 1743 ; shewing that those Maps were the first which 
 were made from an actual survey ; and that from 
 them most part of the present maps, except Ogilby's 
 Koads, are taken : That it appears, from a privilege 
 granted for ten years to Mr. Saxton by Queen Eli- 
 zabeth, dated July 22, 1577, that his work was car- 
 ried on at the expence of Thomas Seckford, esq. mas-r 
 ter of the requests, afterwards knighted, and was then 
 in hand, but not completed ; that the date of the 
 earliestMap is 1574,and that of the general title 1579. 
 
 The next paper of his was read June 1^, 1743? 
 being an account of the Comparison, lately made 
 by some members of the Royal Society, of the 
 standard of a yard, and the several weights lately 
 made for their use; with tl:re original standards of 
 measure and weight in tlie Exchequer, and some 
 others ke})t for public use at Guildhall, Founders 
 Hall, the Tower, and other places :[:. 
 
 His work, intituled, "A Table of English Silver 
 Coins, from the Norman Conquest to the present 
 Time: with their Weights, intrinsic Values, and 
 some lieaiarks uj)on the several Pieces,*' published 
 at London, in May 1745, in 4to, is a valuable spe- 
 
 * Philosophical TransactionSj vol, XI^II, No. 465, p. 165, 
 t Ibid. No. ifJO, p. 422. 
 X Ibid. N0.47O; p. 541, 
 
 ciui^n
 
 MARTIN FOLKES. 585 
 
 clmen of the accuracy and judgment with which he 
 treated every subject that he thought proper to 
 discuss ; and as it greatly surpassed whatever had 
 been pubhshed of that kind before, so it has left 
 httle room for either addition or amendment. He 
 printed this Treatise, together with a second edition 
 of his " Table of English Gold Coins,'' at his own 
 expence, for the benefit of the Society of Anti- 
 quaries, and as presents to his numerous friends *. 
 
 * "^ In order further to illustrate his design, Mr. Folkes engraved 
 42 plates, containing near 480 coins, but not entirely filled up, 
 and in 1745 exhibited it to the Society of Antiquaries, They 
 then reiolved to complete it, and Mr. Folkes furnished the plaa 
 of plates, and letter-press for 50, offering his assistance, and to 
 make up his own plates, and give them to the Society, Uj)on 
 his death, they purchased his 44 plates and copy for 1'20/. the 
 mere cost of engraving ; and Mr. \\ illiam Folkes gave them 
 some of his brother's MS paj.r-rs. Thus was Mr. Folkcs's \alu- 
 fible design carried into execution by this learned Body, by re- 
 publishing, at theii" own expence, his 'J'ables and Plates, with 
 expl.-mations, in 4to, 170.'^.. IMany coins were added to his 
 Plates. Twenty additional Pi.ites were engraved, containing no 
 less than 70O coins, including many not known to Mr. Folkes, 
 together with six su[)plomental ones, consisting of coins omitted 
 in their proper place ; and as others have occurred since, the 
 Society have it in C()ntem})!alion still to augment them. The 
 coin of Eustace, pl.l. tig. ^l, engraved anew from the original in 
 Dr. Hunter's cabinit, in Avchceologia, vol.V.p. 481, is one proof of 
 many that miglit be adduced, of tlie inaccui-acy with which this 
 valuable design was conducted. As Mr. Folkes's book, pub- 
 lidicd in 1745 {excepting 01. 'y an Appendix, containing the 
 coins sti'uck in Scttkuid between the accession of James I. and 
 the Union, imder Oaeen .Vp.ne) related wholly to the Historv of 
 the English Mint, ti\e Society subjoined a particular descri])tioa . 
 of the several coiiis, their weights, legends, &c. by Dr. John Ward, 
 then Director, who drew up grc^at part of the lctter-])ress for 
 Mr. Folk's, and on his demise by Dr. Andrew GifFord. This 
 new edition of both his pieces wa.^ comj)!eted from Ids coirccled 
 copy of his own ediLi)n. To which co])y Piofessor Ward, Dr, 
 Ciillbrd, Dr. Ducartl, and Mr. Colebronk, had in ir5ij largely 
 contributed tlieir ob-'Tvution-;. Upon tli'.^ dcfcave oi" Professor 
 Wai'd, tlir, ooK'l'.U't of ih''' n;-.. (.(lition d;-, olvid on hi-; cuuiiutoj-. 
 Dr. (iitl'oi'il. Tiic I'latc:-. were iic'z,an to bo roiv.jilolcd !)y Junies 
 Green, wiio had before b'j; u u;)[)oiiiled engraver 10 the .Socic(\ [, 
 
 f " for 'AlKnii k'; r\tc\\U-.\ only flu- ^-hI (iT (liri^t ( luircli, (i.difi'rhiiiy ; 
 whii 14 Iriil iiccii iiiip't-ri-ci ly (!(>!) iiy Mr. \i(m.', just iii t):i' his iU-,uh; 
 ;iliil the old uuiMtU: I'i'f. ;\t W ;iiJ' 11 ; i 1 one jilUc. Mr. (jiti 11 dii'il in 
 
 I75B,
 
 585 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Several experiments having been made in Holland 
 upon the fragility of unnealed glass vessels, he not 
 only gave an account of them, but likewise exhibited 
 
 and on his resignation of that office, on account of ill health, 
 feouie of them weir given to Wood the engraver. At length, at 
 the desire of the Editor, the execution of the whole engi-aving 
 was committed to Fi ancis Perry (of whom see Brit. Top. vol. I. 
 p. 16'4) who finished his Work in 1758, and received for it 391. 
 11*. The explanations subjoined, and the improved copy of 
 Mr. Folkes's Work, were not put to press till 1761, in which 
 year the fiist 15 siietts were printed in 14 weeks, as was exactly 
 stated by Mr. Bowyer, in his letter to the Council, in Rlarch 
 1762, in answer to a charge of unnecessary delay brought against 
 hiui. But unexpected inteiTuptions arising on the part of the 
 Coi"id actor, the next 14 sheets took up 39 weeks to print, and 
 the new edition was not published till 1763 (see p. 417). The 
 A.lveitiscment, in two pages, was drawn up by Dr. Taylor, 
 then Director. The Supplement, in 40 pages, with a Postscript 
 of four more, and six Plates, were by Dr. Gilford. During a 
 long interval between the commencement and completion of 
 this great Work, the publick was surpiized, and the Society 
 jnpre so, by the appearance of 27 Plates of Englisr; Silver Coins, 
 eng.aved by IVancis Peny above mentioned, published by Mr. 
 Thotna- Saelling, evidently copied from the Spciety's Plates, 
 thoui.li not continued beyond the reign of King George the 
 Secnd " R. G. I retain the foregoing note as written originally 
 by Mr. Gough, that I may correct it by the following remarks of 
 Mr. Tutet : " 1 1 is too haish to say in general terms ' evidently copied 
 from tue Society's plates,' as himself has given the names of several 
 .gentlemen who lent him rare and valuable Coins for the express 
 purpose of being engraven in his Work, besides several in his 
 own possession which he has specified, and many others which 
 ai'e well known to have been put into his hands, but the pos- 
 sessors names were not mentioned, on accoimt of the Coins not 
 being of any great rarity. There is also a proof of Snelling hav- 
 ing published several Coins totally unknown to the Editor of the 
 Society's Plates, the latter having frequently referred to the 
 ' View of the English Silver Coin.' Wlmt Snelling was to blame 
 for is in having availed himself somewhat vmhandsomely of the 
 Society's unpublished PJate.s ; whence, however, he copiecl only 
 a very small number of Coins, the originals of which were not 
 then to be got at, and those few are wrong engraven by both 
 Editors ; therefore Jiat justitia !" 
 
 1758, and was succeeded, as ensjravcr to the Society, l)y Mr. James Basire, 
 tvho-p hurin will do credit to every individual or body of men who employ 
 it." A'"/c by Mr. Gough in 17 B2. Mr. James Basire died in 1802; but 
 his talents are amply inherited by another James Basire, his son. J. iV. 
 
 gave
 
 MARTIN FOLKES. 587 
 
 Bome of them to the Royal Societ}^ on the 31st of 
 October 1745*- 
 
 His Remarks on some Bones incrusted with Stone, 
 which he had seen at Rome, in the Villa Ludovisia, 
 furnished him with the subject of another Paper, 
 read before the Society on Dec. 12^. 
 
 The University of Oxford, being desirous of hav- 
 ing a gentleman of his eminence in the learned 
 world a member of their body, as he was of the 
 University of Cambridge, conferred on him, m 
 July 174^, the degree of Doctor of Laws; upon 
 receiving which, he returned them a compliment in 
 a Latin Speech, admired for its propriety and ele- 
 gance. He was afterwards admitted to the same 
 degree at Cambridge, when his Grace the Duke of 
 Newcastle, their Chancellor, made a visit to it. 
 
 A passage in Pliny's Natural History, I. ii. . 74, 
 as published by Father Hardouin at Paris, in his 
 folio edition of 1723, and a remark by the Editor 
 upon it, gave occasion to some observations of Mr* 
 Folkes, which were communicated to the Royal 
 Society, Jan. 22, 1746-7^. The design was, to 
 shew how the text of Pliny had been altered by 
 the Editor from all the former printed editions; 
 and that it was upon mere conjecture, and against 
 the truth of the fact contained in the passage in 
 question : for this alteration implies, that the equi- 
 noctial shadow of the Gnonion being made shorter 
 at Ancona than at Rome, the latitude of Ancona 
 must consequently be made less than that of Rome; 
 whereas it is known to be considtrablv crerter, 
 Ancona standing on tlie Adriatic about two degrees 
 to the North of that capital. Mr. Folkes thevcfore 
 justifies the common reading of this passage ofPlinv, 
 and gives a clear explanation of the sense of it. 
 
 * His account of both am puhllslicd in the Philosophical 
 Transact Ions, vol.XLIII. \o.477, p. 506. 
 f Ibid. p. 557. 
 i Ibid. vol. XLV. ^o. 482, p. 3f;5, 
 
 The
 
 !;88 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 The last Pajier communicated by him to the 
 Royal Society, which was on the 8th of March 
 1749-50, contains an account of the second shock 
 of an earthquake felt that morning at London, and 
 in the parts adjacent *. 
 
 Algernon Duke of Somerset, who had been many- 
 Years President of the Society of Antiquaries of 
 London, dying Feb. 9, 1749-50, Mr. Folkes, who 
 was one of the \'ice-presidents, was immediately 
 chosen to succeed his Grace in that post, in which 
 he was continued by the Charter of Incorporation 
 of that Society, Nov. 2, I75I. But he was soon 
 disabled from presiding in person either in that or 
 the Royal Society, being seized, on the 26th of 
 September the same year, with a palsy, which 
 deprived him of the use of his left side, in this 
 unhappy situation, which occasioned him, on the 
 30th of November 1753, to resign the Presidentship 
 of the lioyal Society (though he continued Presi- 
 dent of the Society of Antiquaries till his death), 
 he languished nearly three years, till a second 
 stroke of his disorder, which attacked his right side, 
 on the 25th of June 1754, put an end to his life, 
 on the 28th of that month, at four in the morning. 
 He was buried, near his father and mother, in the 
 chancel of Hillington church, under a black marblff 
 slab, with no inscription but his name and the date, 
 pursuant to the express direction of his last Will, 
 dated in September 175I, by wdiich (his only son, 
 Martin-j-, having been dead many years)he bequeathed 
 to his v.ife Lucretia ;|: (who had unhappily been for 
 
 * Philosopliical Transactions, vol. XLVI. No. 497, P- 613. 
 
 { I(c v.cs ;ulini(tf:il of (M.ire Mall; accompanied his father and 
 nujliier to Kome, where he (lisrovered a most extraoriiiiiary taste 
 for nicdallic knov.lec!p"; and went aftcnvai'ds to finish his sludie. 
 af ;in acafleniy at (i'.ea in J-iOi'uiandy, where lie was tlirovvn 
 from his lior.-e, and killed on ihe spot. 
 
 + Tills lady appeared, under the name of Mrs. Bradshaw, at 
 <he Theatre in ihr. Hayniariict, in 1707; and at Drury Lane, 
 from 1710 to 1712, sown after which ))eriod she was married 
 t(j ?ur. Folkes, The ,'\athor of " The Hiiitory of the English 
 
 Stag;e,
 
 MARTIN FOLKES. 58^ 
 
 some time confined at Chelsea) four hundred pounds 
 a year for life, in lieu of dower ; to each of liis daugh- 
 ters twelve thousand pounds ; to Dorothy Rishton, 
 the eldest of them (who had a son and two daugh- 
 ters), his own portrait by Gibson, and one of herself 
 in crayons by Knapton; to Lucretia *, the youngest, 
 his plate, pictures, busts, medals, coins antient and 
 modern, and his valuable librar)^. This lady was 
 also appointed executrix, and Mr. Folkes's brother, 
 Mr. William Folkes-I-, executor, of the Will made 
 just before his fatal indisposition, by which he gave 
 likewise an hundred pounds to be laid out in rings 
 for his friends. 
 
 His regard for the Royal Society appeared from 
 the benefaction noticed in p. 583 ; and a legacy of 
 200/. left to it in his last Will, made just before hig 
 indiF]>osition, He o;ave them also an excellent por- 
 trait of the Lord Chancellor Bacon ; and his large 
 cornelian ring, with the arms of the Society en- 
 graved on it, for the use of his successors in the 
 Presidentship, 
 
 It has been thought somewhat singular, that this 
 gentleman, who at the time of his death was Presi- 
 
 Stace, 1741/' who calls her " one of the greatest and most 
 promising genii of her time," says she w;is t.ikan off the stage 
 iiv Air. Fulkes " for her exemphuy and prudent conduct j" and 
 that " it was a rule witli lier, iu her jirofession, to make herself 
 miatresb of her part, and leave the figure and action to Nature."- 
 From the characters in which I find her name, she must ha\ e l)een 
 a handsome woman at least, had a good lit^nire, and probably 
 only second-i-atf theatrical talents. Sylvia, in " The Double 
 Gallant;" Corinna, in |' 11 le Confederacy ;" Arabella Zeal, in 
 " The Fair (Juaker :" Dorinda, in " The Stratagem ;" Arabella, 
 in " The London Cuckolds 3" Angelica, in " The Constant 
 Couple ;" lie. &c. To " The Generous Musband" she spoke an 
 epilogue (about 171*2j in b(jys deaths. 
 
 * .Married, in May I7i>6, to Richard Betenson, esq. (after- 
 wards Sir Richard). She died June G, 17;"J8, aged 3(5. See her 
 monument, iu Wrolhain churcli;, in Thorpe's " Rcgislrum Rof- 
 fense," p. S'A'^l. 
 
 t Tliis gentleman, who was a comisellor at law, and agent to 
 the Duke of Monta,'nu; in Laiitasliire, married to his second 
 wift; a daugliter of Sir William Browne, knt. whose estate de- 
 scended to his son. Sir .Martin Browne Folkes, bart. 
 
 dent
 
 590 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 dent of the Society of Antiquaries, should not have 
 left them the smallest token of his regard. 
 
 Mr. Folkes was a man of great modesty, affability, 
 and integrity ; a friend to merit, and an ornament 
 to Literature. 
 
 He was one of the zealous patrons of Mr. George 
 Edwards, the celebrated Ornithologist ; whose cha- 
 racter of him is given in another part of this Work *; 
 and among the Literati patronized by Mr. Folkes, 
 was Mr. Norden, tiie celebrated Danish traveller, 
 whose first account to the publick of his Travels 
 was a Letter addressed to the Royal Society, giving 
 a description of the ruins and colossal statues at 
 Thebes in Egypt, with drawings, I742, 4to; after- 
 wards incorporated into his second volume in folio. ! 
 
 There is a portrait of him, " Martinus Folkes, 
 Arm. Societatis Regiae Socius. J. Richardson plnx, 
 1718. J. Smith /ec. 1719." Mezzotinto. 
 
 A second portrait was painted in 1736, by Van- 
 derbank, and the following year scraped in mezzo- 
 tinto by Faber. And a third was painted by Ho- 
 garth in 1741, which is preserved at the Royal 
 Society, and from which Faber also scraped a 
 mezzotinto plate in I742. It is also copied by 
 Cook, in the " Biographical Anecdotes of William 
 Hogarth," 4to, 1810, vol. H. p. 15(?. 
 
 A fourth was painted by Hudson, from which 
 there is a mezzotinto print by M'Ardell, with the 
 title of " President of the Royal Society." 
 
 Mr. Dibdin, in the second edition of his " Biblio- 
 mania," has given (in a small, but very neat, wood- 
 cut) a portrait of him, copied from the "Portraits des 
 Hommes Illustres de Denmark, ] 74(3," 7 parts, 4to. 
 
 James Anthony Dassier struck a medal of him 
 in 1740, and two years after another was struck at 
 Rome; inscribed, "mvrtinvs folkes. Rev. sva 
 SIDERA NORVNT ; a j)yramid with a sphinx, &c 
 Exergue, romae, 1 742, a. l." 
 
 * See vol. IV. p. 321.
 
 MARTIN FOLKES. 5^1 
 
 ^Ir. Folkes's Library was large and well-chosen ; 
 and his cabinet enriched with a Collection of English 
 Coins, superior to most, whether public or private 
 ones. The Manuscripts of his composition, which 
 were not a few, and upon points of great curiosity 
 and importance, not having received from him that 
 perfection which he was capable of giving them, 
 were expressly directed by him to be suppressed, 
 an injunction which the publick has great reason to 
 regret. His knowledge was very extensive, his 
 judgment exact and accurate, and the precision of 
 his ideas appeared from the perspicuity and con- 
 ciseness of his expression in his discourses and 
 writings, on abstruse and difficult topics, and espe- 
 cially in his Speeches at the anniversar}'' elections 
 of the Royal Society on the delivery of the prize- 
 medals, in which he always traced out the rise and 
 progress of the several inventions for which they 
 were assigned as a reward. He had turned his 
 thoughts to the study of Antiquity and the Polite 
 Arts with a philosophical spirit, which he had con- 
 tracted by the cultivation of the mathematical sci- 
 ences from his earliest youth. Too many of those, 
 who have engaged in the former branch of Literature 
 have been too little exercised in Logic, and contented 
 themselves with heaping up passages from a multi- 
 tude of authors, without being able to connect 
 them, or to draw the proper conclusions from tiiem. 
 But his greater sagacity, and habit of reasoning, 
 separated or united such j)assages agreeably to their 
 re8|)ective force, laid upon each its just weight, and 
 deduced their true consequences with the utmost 
 exactness. These talents appeared eminently upon 
 the subjects of Coins, Weights and Measures, which 
 bad been extremely perplexed by otlier writers for 
 want of a moderate share of arilhmetick ; in the 
 prosecution of which he })roduced many arguments 
 and proofs, whicli were the results of liis own exjx;- 
 riments and observations on comni<,)n things, not 
 sufficiently attended to, or seen witii less distin- 
 guishing
 
 59t. LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 guishing and penetrating eyes, by others. INIathe- 
 maticks and Antiquities were by him, as Philosophy 
 was by Socrates, rendered familiar and intelligible 
 to an ordinary understanding. His notions of them 
 were represented in the most obvious lights, and the 
 knowledge of them by that means rendered easy 
 and entertaining. He had a striking resemblance to 
 Peireskius, the ornament of the last age, and parti- 
 cularly in some parts of his character represented by 
 the elegant Writer of that great man's hfe. The 
 generosity of his temper was no less remarkable 
 than the civility and vivacity of his conversation. 
 His love of a studious and contem))Iative life, amidst 
 a circle of friends of the same disposition, disinclined 
 him in a very high degree to the business and hurry 
 of a public one; and his only ambition was to dis- 
 tinguish himself by his zeal and activity for the 
 promotion of sciences and literature. 
 
 The sale of his Library, in I756, lasted forty- 
 one days; his prints and drawings, eight; mathe- 
 matical instruments, gems, pictures, busts, urns, &c. 
 two ; coins and medals, five. The amount of the 
 sale, consisting of 5 126' articles, was 3090/. ^s. 
 
 Mr. Folkes had, amongst other curiosities, two 
 editions of Pliny's Natural History, printed at 
 Venice, one by Spire, 1469; which is supposed to 
 liave escaped the observation of F. Harduin * ; and 
 the other by Jenson, 1472. Dr. Askew bought 
 them, the former for eleven guineas, and the latter 
 for seven guineas and a half. On the Doctors de- 
 cease they were again sold : the Edition of I4&.9 
 (now in the British Museum) for 43/. and the other 
 for 23/. 
 
 One small Treatise, in MS. by Mr. FolRes, " on 
 the Principles of Persjiective" (comprised in ten 
 pages), was purchased by Mr. Gough, at Mr. Leigh's, 
 Feb. 26, 1782. 
 
 * See some remarkable particulais of it in '' The Origin of 
 Priming, ' pp.40, 1G3. 
 
 Dr.
 
 MARTIN FOLKES. 593 
 
 Dr. Harwood, in the first preface to his "View 
 of the various Editions of Classics," says, that it is 
 agreeable to investigate the history of a scarce book, 
 and the different values it acquires in passmg through 
 different hands. He gives an instance in the first 
 edition of the Greek Psalter, printed in I481, which 
 Stood in a bookseller's catalogue marked at 55. no- 
 body asking for it, the price was reduced, and it was 
 sold for 46". to a gentleman, who afterwards parted 
 with it to the late Dr. Askew for 5 guineas, at whose 
 sale this individual Psalter sold for 16 guineas. 
 
 To this observation of Dr. Harwood may be added, 
 that Dr. Mead had the following Books, which at 
 his sale were purchased by Dr. Askew, and re-sold 
 on the decease of the latter, at the following prices: 
 
 " Cicero's Offices," printed by Fust, in 14G5, 
 13/. 13*. sold again for 30/. 
 
 Olivet's edition of the Works of Cicero, Paris, 
 1740, large paper, 14/- 14*. sold again for $6t. 1 5^. 
 
 " Sallust. \ enet. apud Vind. Spiram,"' 1470, 
 SL ijs. ; sold again for 14/. 3*. 6d. 
 
 Dr. Mead had also both the Venice editions of 
 " Pliny's Natural History ;" that of 1469 was 
 bought, at 1 1 guineas, for the King of France ; the 
 edition of I472, with fine illuminations, the copy 
 particularly noticed by Maittaire, was sold for 18 
 guineas, to Mr. Wilcox, a bookseller in the Strand. 
 
 Mr. ('ranger, in his Biotrraphical History of 
 England, vol. IV. p. 325, observes, from Ames's 
 Typographical Antiquities, that a copy of the 
 " Spaccio della Bestia trionfante," by Giordano 
 Bruno (see Spectator, Xo. 3S!()), was sold in 1711, 
 at the auction of the lil)rary of Charles Bernard, esq. 
 for 28/. afid purchased by ^Walter Clavcl, esq. The 
 same copy successivelv came into the several Col- 
 lections of Mr. Jolm Nickolls, Mr. .lolm Ames, Sic 
 Peter 'I'liompson, and M. C. Tutet, esq. at the sale 
 of \vlios(! Library, in February I7S6', it was bouglit 
 by the: late Sanniel Tysscn, esq. for seven ouineiis. - 
 Another copy of the same Worl;, ivliieh in 1 7 1 > 
 had formed part of the Library of .Mr. I*. LeNeve, was 
 sold at Dr. Mead's sale, 17."4. for four or five cuineas. 
 
 \'ui.. H. Ou No. \ \U
 
 ( 594 ) 
 
 No. VIII. 
 KEV. MICHAEL LORT, D. D. 
 
 This excellent Scholar, descended from an an- 
 tient family in Pembrokeshire (from whom, it is 
 believed, he had a claim by descent to a Baronet's 
 title, which he never took up), was the son of Major 
 Lort, of the Welsh Fnsileers, who was killed at the 
 battle of Fontenoy, May 11, 1745; where one of his 
 sons, a lieutenant in the same regiment, commanded 
 by Lieut.-Gen. Huske, their colonel, was dangerously 
 wounded, that regiment having suffered very much. 
 
 IMichael Lort was admitted of Trinity College, 
 Cambridge, 1743; from whence he removed into 
 the family of Dr. Richard Mead, to whom he was 
 Librarian till his death. He proceeded B.A. IJ^G; 
 was elected fellow of his College, 1 749 ; M. A. 1 7 50 ; 
 Greek Professor 1759, on the resignation of Dr. 
 Francklin; and in 1761 took the degree of B. D, ; 
 and was appointed chaplain to Dr. Terrick, then 
 Bishop of Peterborough. 
 
 He was elected F. S. A, in 1755 ; and was many 
 years a Vice-president, till he resigned in 1788. He 
 was also many years a Fellow of the lioyal Society. 
 
 In January 177I, he was collated, by Abp. Corn- 
 wallis, to the rectory of St. Matthew^ Friday-street; 
 which vacated his Professorship; and in August 1779 
 he was appointed Chaplain to the Archbishop, in 
 the room of Dr. Backliouse, who resigned; and ia 
 the same year, Oct. -27, commenced D. D. 
 
 In April I780, tlie Archbishop gave- him his 
 Option of a Prebend in St. Paul's, on Dr. Richard 
 Browne's decease, worth 300/. a year ; and he con- 
 tinued at Lambeth till 1783, when, May I9, he 
 married Susannah Norfolk, one of the two daughters 
 of Alderman Norfolk of Cambrida:e. 
 
 On the death of Dr. Ducarel, in I785, he was 
 appointed, by Archbishop Moore^ Librarian to the 
 
 Archi-
 
 MICHAEL LORT. 595 
 
 Archiepiscopal Library of Lambeth. He was also 
 for some years Librarian to the Duke of Devonshire. 
 
 In April I789 he was presented, by Bishop Por- 
 teus, to the sinecure rectory of Fulham in Middle- 
 sex ; and in the same year was instituted to the 
 rectory of Mile-end near Colchester. 
 
 The earliest publication by him, that I have seen, 
 is, A Poem, in 1748, in the Academic Congratu- 
 lations on the Peace of Aix la Chapelle *. 
 
 He published two Sermons : 1 . Before the Uni- 
 v-sity, on the King's Accession, lj6o, Psalm 
 cxxxiii. 1 ; 2. " A Sermon preached in Lambeth 
 Chapel, at the Consecration of the Right Rev. Father 
 in God John HinchclifFe, D. D. Lord Bishop of 
 Peterborough, on Sunday Dec. 17, 1765;" printed 
 at Cambridge, 1770. He also preached, in 177^, 
 a public Sermon for the County Hospital. 
 
 " A Projecte conteyninge the State, Order, and 
 Manner of Government of the University of Cam- 
 bridge : as now is to be scene in the three and fortieth 
 Yeare of the Raigne of our most gracious and sove- 
 raigne Lady Queen Elizabeth. Camb. I769." 4to, 
 was printed by Mr. Lort, from a MS. on one sheet 
 of vellum, probably presented to Sir Robert Cecil 
 in 1600, when he was made Chancellor, being found 
 among his Papers by Mr. Astle. 
 
 "A Letter by Mr. I^ort, appeared in the London 
 Advertiser, Sept. 5, I77I, in Defence of the King, 
 against the Scurrility and Indecency which now so 
 openly appear in the Public Paj^ers ;" and in the 
 St. .James's Chronicle, Dec. 9,1777, is an excellent 
 and humorous paper by him, on Parson Home's 
 petition to be pilloried -f-." 
 
 In 1771 he favoured Mr. Granger with some very 
 useful communications on the subject of his Biogra- 
 phical History^. 
 
 * Sec it in Nifhols's Collection of Pocnjs, vol. VIII. p. 188. 
 t From the MSS. of the Rev. William Cole of Milton, 
 t " (irani^er's Letters, by Malcolm, 1805, " pp. W2. 195. 
 
 a a 2 The
 
 596 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 The ground-work of the Memoir which I have 
 given of Mr. George North of Codicote *, was fur- 
 nished, in I78G, at my particular request, by Dr. 
 Lort, who was one of Mr. North's executors, and 
 had attended him to his grave. 
 
 In September 17 84, whilst I was compiling the 
 ''' History of the Parish of Lambeth," Dr. Lort 
 very carefully revised for me the Description of 
 the Riots in 1780, as far as they related to Lambeth 
 Palace -f-. 
 
 His latest publication was, "A short Commentary 
 on the Lord's Prayer :{:; in which an Attention to the 
 principal Circumstances of our Lord's Temptation is 
 attempted to be shewn, 1790." 
 
 In the "Archseologia," vol. IV. p. 213 3 10, he 
 communicated, from Mr. Herbert of Cheshunt, a 
 MS. fairly written, as if for press, by the celebrated 
 
 * See vol. IV. p. 467. 
 
 -f In the History of Lambeth Parish, ITGC. ;>p. T^f. 1^6. In 
 answer to a Ix^tter which i had sent him with the proof-sheet 
 containing those particulars, he says, " Dv. Lo; t thinks the 
 account of the Disturba7ices at Lambeth should not be printed 
 till it has been seen by the Archbishop, and perhaps also by 
 Mrs. Cornwallis. Indeed he has mentioned the matter to tht^. 
 Archbishop, v,ho desires me to say, that lie expects to have a 
 sight of it. If his Grace shall approve of any account being 
 published, I will then submit to Dr. Ducarel such alterations as 
 I think may be proper." SariUe-ron', Sept.lo, 1784. Some 
 corrections were consequently made, and adopted. I had some 
 time before had an 0])portunity of recovering for him a Book 
 which he had given up as lost ; which he thus acknowie<is:es : 
 
 " Lambeth Palace, June 'i'i. I rctuJTi you many thanks for 
 ' Hogarth,' and more particidarly for my own coj-'y of ' Warton's 
 Essay on Poj)e;' which I had lent to Dr. Johnson, at his own re- 
 quest, together with a volume of the ' Essay on Man,' with IMS 
 notes on it. Since his publication of the ' Life of P'jpe,' I sent a 
 note to him, to desire he would return this Volume, \\hich belongs 
 to a set of Pope's Works ; but he has taken no notice of my 
 application. If tliis Volume should also fall in your way be so 
 good as to secure it for. Your faiiliful sci'vant, M. Lort." 
 
 X Mr, Boswell, in a note on tlu- '' Life of Johnson" (vol. IV. 
 p. 30G), sjjeaking of " the evil one," says, "This is well illustrated 
 in a short but excellent Commentaiy by my kite worthy friend the 
 Rev. Dr. Lort, of whom it may truly be said, Multis ilk bonis 
 fiebllis Qccidit." 
 
 Dr.
 
 MICHAEL LORT. 597 
 
 Dr. Woodward, " Of the Wisdom of the Antient 
 Egyptians; a Discourse concerning their Arts, their 
 Sciences, and their Learning, their Laws, their 
 Government, and their Rehgion, with occasional 
 Reflexions upon the State of Learning among the 
 Jews and other Nations." In vol. V. p. 98, he 
 communicated Mr. West's account of Antiquities 
 found at Lancaster, 1776; p. 106, a series of CeUs, 
 with observations; and in vol.VIIL p. 290, an ac- 
 count of an antient Inscription in North America *. 
 
 To the labours of Mr. Urban (though not a very 
 frequent) he was occasionally a contributor -f-. 
 
 Some curious particulars relative to the Author of 
 the EIhiov Baa-iTiixTi having been collected in the 
 former Edition of these Anecdotes ; Dr. Lort pre- 
 sented me with an Essay of his own, expressing 
 at the same time a wish that it should be printed, 
 under the title of " An Enquiry concerning the Au- 
 thor, or rather who was not the Author, of " The 
 Whole Duty of Man J ;" an Enquiry into which 
 he was led by what had been before said on the 
 subject in. Dr. Nash's History of Worcestershire^. 
 
 * In the " ReliquiiE Galeanse" (Bibl. Top. Brit. No. II. part 11.) 
 p. 53, it appears that a bronze bust, found in rebuikling tlie great 
 bridge at Canibridiic, whicli Dr. Stukeley fancied to represent 
 Oriuni, the wife of Csirausius, was in 1783 in the hands of Dr.Loit. 
 
 t In vol. XLVil. pj). 361, 424, i3 a Dissertation by him, signed 
 Theron, on Rowley's Poems ; in vol.XLVIII. p. 219, " On the 
 Cust(m of IJinving to tiio East at Prayer 3" vol. L. p. 513, a Letter 
 feigned Ilistoricus, on the MS Collections of William of Worces- 
 ter ; vol. i.l. p. 5fJ6, a Ixtter signed Theron, on A bp. Parker'* 
 Verion in Meirc of the P-sulms. 
 
 X *' Tiu; Whole Duty of .Vlan" 'was translated into Latin, 
 French, and Welcli. 'ihere is also a French Translation, printed 
 at yua\illy, and dedicated to flie Duchesa of Yoik, 16GI). It is 
 anonyniou.s; but tlie Tnui.'^lator appears to have been a woman, 
 and a nativ', of France. She compliments the Duches on having 
 ' uneConnoi-,;mc<'acli( \cc ilc la dJicalesscde Notre I^nguc:'and, 
 gpeakiiiii' of 111 IX If, she .s,iy<, ' Car comme je ne sui-, ni de la 
 texe ni dc I'ljiunciir ;i i'( lire pour h' puljlic' 
 
 <? ^^tI. I. p.;ir/i, wlun' Dr iSa-h has given a line portrait of 
 Lady Pakinutoii. S.,( also Cicnt. .Vht-:;. \ul.XXIV. p.ijG. 
 
 "Tlictii'-i lidiiion, (iillticd, 'J he t'rartiic of (Jtrutlan (iraca:. 
 nr t/ii u In.if J l,ii.,' ,.i M'/H, Sc. \\;i> in'iiitc.d lor 'i". Ci:;rlliv,aili', 
 lUii'J ilKi ' jicr.v..! J \(iy 1 rc'ty lVor-ti-;)icc(', }>v ll,U.a\
 
 598 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Dr. Lort was well known to the Literati of this and 
 other countries, as a man of learning, and a collec- 
 
 and there is also a letter of Dr. Henry Hammond's to the Printer, 
 dated March 7, lt)57; from which it appears that Dr. Hammond 
 had never seen the MS. before, and that the Author of it was 
 unknown to him ; and that some considerable time passed after 
 Dr. Hammond had given his high commendation of the MS. 
 before it was pubUshed. The Bookseller had desired Dr. Ham- 
 mond to write a Preface to it, which the Doctor thought needless. 
 " In 1660, appeared ' The Gentleman's Calling, printed for 
 T. Garthwaite, to which is prefixed a Letter of Dr. Humphrey 
 Henchman, to the Publisher, dated Oct. 27, 1659.* In which 
 he speaks of the success of the excellent Ti-eatise of ' The Whole 
 Duty of Man;' and, though there is no positive assertion in this 
 I^etter that ' T\\e Gentleman's Calling' was written by the same 
 Author, yet, without some good reason to the contrary, one would 
 be naturally led to conclude, from the whole turn of the Letter, 
 that this was understood to be the case by Dr. Henchman. To 
 this Book there is a long Preface, prefixed by the Author, pro- 
 bably in consequence of the application he found the Publisher 
 had made to Dr. Hammond for one to * The W'^hole Duty of Man." 
 " In 1667 came out ' The Causes of the Decay of Christian 
 Pietij, written by the Author of The If'hole Duty of Man.' 
 
 " The MS. of this ^^'ork was conveyed to Gaithwaite, the 
 Publisher, by H. E. : who, in a letter prefixed, dated January 
 1667> says, that, having in his hands a practical Treatise concerning 
 the Causes of the Decay of CItristian Piety, ivritten by the excellent 
 Author of * The Hhole Duty of Man,' he had obtained permission 
 to make it)public; and that it was the Author s kindness he should 
 have the offer of this Tract to make him some amends for his loss 
 in the Late great foe [.Query, who H. E. was ? M. L.] 
 
 " The Author himself prefixed a Preface, in which he says, 
 that this Treatise had been written some years before. He men- 
 tions the consequences of the Plague and Fire to the City of 
 London, as one who lived on the spot. He quotes the Syriac 
 and Septuagint Versions of the Old Testament; also the original 
 Hebrew. "I^t it be observed that all these three foregoing pieces 
 conclude with prayers and private devotions. The earliest im- 
 pression I have seen of The Ladies Calling' appears to have been 
 printed at Oxford, 1673 ; and tiiis is said to be by the Author of 
 * Tlie Whole Duty of Man,' and 'The Second Impression.' 
 
 " The Editor of this, who is said to ha\e been Dr. John Fell, 
 then the manager of the Oxford press, has prefixed an address 
 to the Reader, from which it appears that he wag then totally 
 unacquainted with the Author; whose Letter, accompanying 
 the MS. he gives the Header, and makes an apology for delaying 
 to publish the MS. sooner : which was, that he found it needful 
 to transcribe tlie wliole. before it could be safely conmiunicated 
 to the prc'-s. The word safely here has an odd a];poarance j and 
 had not the Editor positively declared that he knew not the. 
 
 Author,
 
 MICHAEL LORT. SfjQ 
 
 tor of curious and valuable books. He was very 
 generally and deservedly esteemed by an extensive 
 
 Author, one should have imagined that he was acquainted with 
 the hand-writing, and sus[)ected tliat others also might know it 
 when sent to the press. But in a subsequent jjaragi-ajih this 
 word is explained to mean, gi\ ing the true sense and words of 
 the Author, to whom no recourse could be had for making out 
 pafscges that might puzzle the transciiber ; and hence it is na- 
 tural to conclude, that the Author himself employed no amanu- 
 ensis, and that the Publisher of the former 'J'racts was force 1 to 
 get the IMS. transcribed fair for the press. The Author opens 
 this Treatise with referring to that whicli he had published 
 many years since, to persuade the gentrj' rf this nation to that 
 virtue, which would be both their pleasure and their reward, 
 meaning, no doubt, ' The Gentleman's Calling.' 
 
 "In 1674 was published * The Government of the Tongue, by 
 the Author of The Whole Duty of Man, at the Theatre in Oxford, 
 1674. There ib nothmg prefixed to this but the Author's l^reface ; 
 nor to any of the subsequent Tracts, printed also at the Theatre 
 at Oxford. Probably by this time he became known to Dr. Fell. 
 In 1G7.> (for this is the date of the Imprimatur) came out ' The 
 Art of I ontentment, by the Author of The U'hole Duty of Man, 
 at the Theatre in Oxford, 1G77.' This is the date of my edition. 
 *' In 167b 'The Lively Oracles given to us, Sic. by the Author of 
 The lihole Duty of Man, &;c. at the Theatre in Oxford, 1678/ 
 Tiie Author in his Preface refers to the Treatise ' of the Govern' 
 vwnt (f the Tongue, published by me heretofore,' S;c. ; and in the 
 Treatise itself, sect. vii. he mentions his having travelled in Popish 
 coimtries during the late troubles, and purticularly that he had 
 been in France 18 years before, wluu Pope Alexander the 
 Seventh issued a Ihdl to ctnideum the French Trauslatoi- of tlie 
 Iloniim Missal wliieh had been just then published, by directions 
 of .-evei-al of the Bishops. 
 
 " These arc all the pieces publislied in the name of the Author 
 of The Whole Duty of !\Ian,' though several others were pub- 
 lished un<U"r artful titles, to lead unwary readers into a notion 
 of tiicir beino; In' the same autlior. Some of these are emune- 
 raied in the rretace to the Fuiio Edition of 'The (ienuine ^\ orks 
 printed at Oxford 1684;' to wliieh there is a luindsome frontis- 
 pi<-fe, representing Mo^es, veiled, delivering the Law to the 
 People, alluding no doubt to the Author of these several Tiea- 
 tiscs having 'o carefully kept liiniself concealed. Yet, from the 
 text of Scriptiue underneath, viz. 'Till Moses had done sjnuilcitig, 
 he put a vi'd an his face,' it should seem t'uat tiifie was no in- 
 t- niion of keepinu; the Author's name any loii;;er a. secret; and 
 yet probably it still remains so, though the iCditor of this Folio 
 F.dition. well known to be Up. Fell, was ilu-u aetjuninted with it j 
 for lie gives a chaiaeler of liiui, and sa\s he was tlun dead. 
 
 " H;t\i!iij iKiw (x'auiincd all the dilliicnt Treatises of tlii'* 
 Author, let u rectii'llulate what parlicu'iii.s have been j^;atherr<l 
 
 iVom
 
 600 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 circle of acquaintance. An artless simplicity formed 
 the basis of his character ; of which many talents 
 
 from them concerning him : 1st, The Author of The Whole 
 Duty of Man' was the Author also of all the six subsequent 
 Pieces, which were collected together in one Volume in folio, 
 and printed at the Oxford press, in 1684*, 2d, The Author w^us 
 then dead. 3dl}', He was known to the Editor, Bp, Feljl. 
 4thly, He is spoken of by Bp. Fell in the masculine gender. 
 5thly, He had travelled abroad during the troubles. (Jthly, He 
 was no stranger to the learned languages, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, 
 &c. 7thly, He was not known to Dr. Hammond. Bp. Fell, 
 probably at the Author's desire, kept his name a secret. It is 
 certain that the inquisitive Antony Wood did not guess at it : 
 he says, some have attributed 'The Whole Duty of Man' to Mr. 
 Abraham Woodhead, others to Mr. Obadiah VValker ; both of 
 whom became Papists ; but most apparent it is, that that Book 
 was written by a true and sincere fi'iend of the Church of Eng- 
 land, and one who held that to be the Catholic Church f. 
 Besides these two persons, Bp. Fell, Dr. Allestree, Bp. Chappel, 
 Mr. Fulman, have been severally assigned as the Author. 
 
 " But no one ever suspected a Female, till a manuscript of ' The 
 Whole Duty of Man' w as found in Lady Pakington's study, after 
 her death, said to be in her own hand-v.-riting ; and hence occa- 
 sion was taken to give her the reputation of being the Author j 
 but whoever considers the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh, 
 particulars, mentioned in the foregoing pages to have been 
 collected from the several publicatious, concerning the real 
 Author, will find that they exclude Lady Pakington from being 
 that j)erson. Dr. Hammond | li\ed with her, at the time of the 
 publication of ' The Whole Duty of Man,' on the most intimate 
 footing, and therefoi-e could not possibly ha\e lieen a stranger 
 to this Composition being hers. This circumstance alone is 
 sufficient to settle the dispute at once, had not Bp. Fell, who 
 appears to have known the Author before his death, .^poke of 
 him in the masculine gender . Besides, all the six b\ibsequent 
 Tracts are said in the respective title-pages to have been written 
 by the Authw- of ' The Whole Duty oi' Man,' or are severally 
 referred to by the Autlior as such ; but it is not pretended by 
 Lady Pakington's Advocates, that she was the Author of any of 
 the six subsequei.t Tracts, none of which were found in MS. in 
 her study. How then, it will be asked, can the MS. of ' The 
 Whole Duty of Man' being foimd in lier own hand-writing be 
 accounted for ? 1 answer, that it appears, from Dr. Hammond's 
 
 * Qutry, Wlicther tlu; intrmal <'vidfnce doth not contradict this posi- 
 tion.-' and whctlitr the Aut'.ior of 'Tlie Wliol(.' J July of Man' he not a kind 
 of gfcntrical Nr.me [)refixed to good liooks of t'.:at ai^e and sort, in order 
 to promote the sale ? f Athenae Oxonienses, vol. II. pp. G1T,93C. 
 
 J See this argiiiiieiit well uri;:ed i/v a Writer in the Gentleman's Maga- 
 zine for 1754, p. 'Id; for Ilaniiiiond <lied at Westwood, IfiGO. 
 
 See the Preface to the folio Edition, 16B4. 
 
 Letter
 
 MICHAEL LORT. gOl 
 
 and many virtues finished the superstructure. His 
 knowledge was various and extensive, and his 
 
 Letter to the Printer, dated 1G57, that above a tVvelvemonth 
 .elapsed before it was piiblished, for the first Edition is dated 1G59. 
 It is therefore probable that Dr. Hammond communicated this 
 raluable IMS. to his great friend and patroness Ladv Pakin;ton> 
 and that she was so pleased with it as to take the pains to trans- 
 cribe it. This MS. appearing after her death, and no author then 
 known, it was natural enough for her Ladyship's zealous friends 
 to give her the reputation of it; and this will account for Dr. 
 Hickcs' assertion f in the Dedication of his Saxon Grammar to 
 her Grandson, Sir John Pakington. Hickes, I believe, was not 
 perfectly knou'n to Lady Pakington. He came to Worcester after 
 her death ; where he probably saw this MS. ; and, knowiiig also 
 her character for learning and piety, it was no o^ei-sl rained 
 compliment paid to her memory, in a Dedication to her Grandson, 
 to say that she deserved to be called, and to be esteemed, the 
 Authoress of ' The Whole Duty of Man.' Yet, if she was, she 
 must have been likewise the Authoress of all the otlier Works 
 published under this name : a claim which the most zealous 
 parti^^an for her being the first has never yet put in for hej-. 
 
 "Testimonies in favour of Lady Pakington being the Author. 
 
 " Mr. John Hewyt has given the following accotmt; 
 
 "Oct. 31, 1698. Mr. Thomas Caulton, vicar of Worksop in 
 Nottinghamshire, in the presence of Mr. William Thornton and 
 his Lady, Madam Frances Heathcote, Mrs. Mary Ash, Mrs. Mary 
 Caulton, and John HevVyt, rector of ILarthiU, declared as follows; 
 Nov. 5, IfJSO, at Shireoak, Madam Ayre of Ram])ton, after 
 diimer, took me up into her chamber, and told me that Di'. 
 Morsey of Bevvly was deail, and liiat in that montii she had bu- 
 I'ied her husbanrl and several relivvions. Then she went into her 
 clo-et, and fetched out a MS. which she said was tlie original of 
 ' TJie Wliole Duty of Man,' tied togetiiei-,, and stitched, in 8vo, 
 like .'-(rnion notes. She untied it, s:iyiug it was Dr. Fell's cur- 
 rectiou.-, and that the Author was the L:idy Fukington, her 
 mother, in whose hand it was written. To j)i-ove this, Mr. 
 (aullon further added, that she said she had shewn it to I)r, 
 Cavel, nra^ter of C'Inist's CHJiege, Caniln'idge , Dr. Stanifijrd, 
 prebciulaiy of York ; and INlr. liank?, tlic n/iiiLbtcn- of the great 
 
 f " In .^viii vero tufv, illustri siiufi Tlioni.T, noniiiii C"()\enti-y m.i^iii 
 si;;iHi cnitodis filiA, virtutuiu oiiiiiium <.\\va'. in uclioiii' viln'. ( 'hristi;in;e 
 consistuiit splt'ndor ni;ixi\iuis (;rat, emu siiiiiiiii) ii-.ij-cnio ct imrc, .nptt), 
 <!istiri'(> oriKiti''<nie dicendi facuillate coinijositiis ; (ll.i!)U^ adcL) e\C(lluit, 
 pra'Sfrtiiii ill a'liu.-ibili I't tcmix-nito diccii'li ^(.'ikt;', ut l.ihri di; OHicio 
 lloiiiiiiis, .\n:;lict; ah Annnyiiio editi, ot ob mivificain opcris in im) "tenure 
 ptilVctioncni per toiinn orbcni (!hristi.innni noti-^inii, .^iictrix et 
 did et hal)c;-i nn-rcT'tnr. Sa<ra . liti ra^ r'Tunupm (i^vi-annn scit'ntiain, 
 ouini.-iciue q'ur a pliilo-opl;;^ sivc projibanis si\(^ Chn^tiani'? dc oH'icio 
 jrravia it utilia tr.i:liti '-viur. a'Ciir'- .n' s<' sctn- diccKaut viri docdssinii 
 JIainni.niduN, .Mo;;.vu;, ! rl'u';, it liKnaasin-."' H:-'.(r,was 'irst ni.-ida 
 i'r; Li' ' !a"v oi' "I'-'i';-'" - r -i N')-". an.i -.'jun atu.r l.>i;:.i). 
 
 Chuicl^
 
 Cos LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 communication of it liberal and unassuming; and, 
 though lie had written bait httle himself, he had 
 
 Church in Hull. She added withal, that ' The Decay of Chris- 
 tian Piety' was her Mother's also ; but disowned any of the rest 
 to be her Mother's. This is a tnic copy of what 1 wrote from 
 Mr. Caulton's mouth tvvo days before bis decease. 
 
 Witness my hand, Nov. 15, T79B, John Hewyt." 
 
 [" I forget whence I copied the above, but how are the parti- 
 culars it contains to be reconciled with what Dr. Fell say.s in the 
 Picface to the Folio Edition ? tiius, ' They were all written by 
 the excellent Author at several times ; and the Author did pub- 
 lish tlicm apart in the same order as they were made.' M. L.] 
 
 " It may be worth while to transcribe a little more from this 
 Pl-eface : ' The Whole Duty of Man had its first and most correct 
 dition in Life and Practice, and the Tongue was governed, and 
 Contentment gained, before they were described j nor v as there 
 any thing in this whole \'^olume wrote by guess or ad\cntHre, 
 but from long experience, and evidence of fact.* ' To those 
 wJio expect an accoimt of the person and condition of the 
 Author,' he says, * it is an ill-mannered thing to \)vy into what 
 is studiously conceale:!. From tliis concealment all men must 
 see and allow, that neither faction nor interest, nor pride nor 
 covetousness, nor other temporal advantage, was sought for by 
 the time and pains employed in these Discourses. I^t the Reader 
 be wise and humble, temperate and chaste, patient, charitable, 
 and devout, live a whole age of great austerities, and maintain 
 an undistu'bcd serenity in the midst of thorn ; and then ho vii'iU 
 himself become a lively picture of our Author.' 
 
 " Atterbury, who v\'as well acquainted with the history of the 
 Oxford Press, antl the Works that had issued from it, yet knew 
 not this Author. In his Sermon on 1 Tim. vi. 1, he has this para- 
 graph, speaking of the best Christians being least known, ' And 
 of this there is one, though a very late, yet so remurkable an 
 instance, that, for the honour of our holy failh, I think it may 
 deseme to be particularlv mentioned. The instance I mean of 
 the Authojr of " The Wh;)le Duty of Man," who took not more 
 care to do good to the workl than he did to conceal the doer of 
 it, being contented to apprc. e himself to him, and to him only, 
 who seeth in secret, resolverl that the praise of men, whether in 
 life or after liis death, should be no part of his reward.' 
 
 *' }n p. 7-i of ' Oldficld's Divine Discourses" it is said, that Mr. 
 FuLMAX, a native of Penslunst in Kent, and amanuensis to 
 Dr. Hammond, was the Author of ' Tiie \^"holt Duty of Man.' 
 
 '^Answer. Fulman was born in \6'M, as appears from 
 A.'^^'ood, 11. 823. 'The Whole Duty of IMan' was put in Dr. 
 HanuTiond's hands 16.57, and certainly written some years before. 
 
 " Very {>vobab!y Fulman was employed by Dr. Hammond to 
 transcribe the MS ; so that his and Lady Pukington's titk seem 
 to rest on the -anie foundation. 
 
 *' In Dr. Pri<',eaux's Life, printed 174S, p. 7, it is said Dr. Prl- 
 
 deaux ah\a}3 looked o;i Bp. Fell us the Author of the Book 
 
 - calbd
 
 MICHAEL LORT. 6O3 
 
 been of groat assistance to some of the most ap^ 
 proved writers of his time^ by his communication, 
 
 caUed * The Decay of Christian Piety/ which came out in the 
 name of the Author of 'The Whole Duty of Man;' and his 
 reasons for it were, that in the summer 16"7<> he visited Sir 
 Wiulam iNIorrice, at Warrington in Devonshire, who had mar- 
 ried his father's sister, who told him he thought Dr. Fell ivas the 
 Author of that Book 3 for that whilst he attended at Court as 
 Secretary of State, a little after the Restoration, he heard the 
 Bishop preach a Sermon in the King's Chapel, with which he 
 was so much pleased that he desired to lia\ e a copy of it ; which 
 was accordingly given him -, and that some years after, on the 
 publication of the Book called ' The Decay of Christian Piety,** 
 he found the Sermon in the very same words in that Book ; and 
 thence concluded, that the person who preached the one was 
 the Author of the other. 
 
 " Dr. Prideaux was afterwards confirmed in this opinion ; for, 
 as he attended the Pre^s in the Theatre at Oxford, whilst another 
 of the Books ascribed to the same Author was printing there 
 he often found whole lines, and sometimes two or three together, 
 blotted out, and ititerlineations in their stead, which he knew 
 to be of Bi.shop Fell's hand-writing; and this was a liberty which 
 it vvas) unlikely any but the Author should have taken. So that 
 his opinion on ihe whole was, that the Book called 'The Whole 
 Duiy of jNIan' was written by an Author still unknown ; but 
 that all the other Books assigned to the same Author were 
 written by Bp. Fell and Dr. Allestree; and that, whereas the first 
 of tliem, either by design or mistake of the Bookseller, came 
 foiih under the name of the Author of ' Tlie Whole Duty of Man/ 
 thev suifered all the otheis to come out imdtr the same disguise, 
 the better to conceal what they intenfled should be a secret. 
 And, as to what Jip. Fell says in a Preface to a Folio Edition at 
 Oxford, in wbicli all tliese Books are compriscid togethei', where 
 he mentions the Author as lately dead, it was genei-ally under- 
 stood to be meant of Dr. AUestree, wlio was then lately deceased. 
 ["lliis is indeed a very singular account from Dr. Prideaux by 
 an anonymous Author. In the preface to 'The Decay of Chris- 
 tian Piety' thn Editor H. E. exprcs-ly says, that it was written 
 by the exi client Author of ' Tlie Whole Duty of Man.' And 
 Bp. Fell, in the Preface to the Folio Edition, gives it as a com- 
 plete Edition of all that Writei's Works, and exj)icssly sepa- 
 rates and di-^tinguishes othf rs that wi re not so. Of Dr. Alles- 
 tiee's writing tiicre is a folio volume of Scnnons, which may be 
 compared with these Treatincs. M. L.] 
 
 " lip CiJAPPEL, of Cork ill lieland. The Author of this most 
 excellent Book ' Tiie Whole Duty of Man' wiis Bp. Ciiappel , 
 who, (iving in 1*^18, at Dtvby, was I)uried at Hilstrop in Not- 
 tinghamshire. Tiic iMS. (if it was tmnsniitteil by Dr. Sterne, 
 afterw;a-cN Arclibi~lir;p of 'tdrk, to I)]-. VvW, I) 'an ol" ( h:isl 
 thurchj to pubh:-h : ulio, having read it bcfurohaud to lii.> 
 
 pupils.
 
 604 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 advice, and his correction. His hospitality to 
 his friends was constant and unostentatious ; and 
 he received them at his house and at his table with 
 that cordiahty which most plainly evinced the 
 pleasure their company afforded him. In conver- 
 sation he was no less desirous of receiving than of 
 giving information. To all that had the happiness 
 of being related to him, he was kind and liberal. 
 The whole tenour of his life was strictly conformable 
 to the precepts of that holy Religion in which he 
 most firmly believed, and as strenuously defended ; 
 and though, in the practice of his own life, his piety 
 was strict and exen)plary, yet he was ever ready to 
 make a proper allowance for the failings of others. 
 
 He died Nov. 5, IJPO, in Savile-row, in conse- 
 quence of an accident iu the preceding August *. 
 
 pupils, occasioned several to say, that the said Dr. Sterne was 
 the Author; as others did also, by reason of a copy of Bp, 
 Chappel's MS. being found in the Lady Pakington's closet 
 after her death, that ihe wrote it," 
 
 [See the Biographia Britannica. M. L.] 
 
 " Abr\ham Woodhead. Many stick not to say (which is a 
 wonder to me) that he was the Author of ' The Whole Duty of 
 Man,' and of all that go under the name of this Author." 
 
 Wood's Athena; Oxonienses, vol. II. p. 617- 
 
 " Francis Peck, in a pamphlet he published, called ' Twenty- 
 nine Letters of R. H. Hammond, 1739,' .says, 'Some thought 
 ''The Whole Duty of Man" had been written by Dr. William 
 Chappel, Bishop of Cork; then by the famous Obadiah Walker. 
 Ikit Dr. Clavering, now Bisliop of Peterborough, assures me 
 thai it was written by one Basket, a clergyman of Somerset- 
 shire. [1 think it probable that the Author of 'The Whole 
 Duty of Man' published nothing with his name to it. M. L.] 
 
 * In going from Colchester (at which ])lace he was on a visit 
 to Mr. F. Smythies, who married Mrs. lairt's sister), in a one- 
 horse chaise, accompanied by Mr. Smythies, the horse going 
 down the North Hili in that town (which is very steep, and 
 paAcd) slipped down ; ;ind tiip Doctor was thrown cut of the 
 <hai;-e, ii]ifin the pa\emcnt. Being advanced in jears, and very 
 heavy, he w at ((msideiably huit in his loins; but reco\ered suf- 
 Ikienlly in a few days, so as to ntmn to London. There were, 
 however, some indications of his kifhicNs being injured. He had 
 been subjecl to violent attacks of asthma for some time previous 
 to this accident : and about two months ?.fter his return to 
 London, he was seized witii a paralytic afiection, which soon 
 ('estroyed him, 
 
 He
 
 IVltCHAEL LORr. 60j 
 
 He was buried at his church in Friday-street. 
 Mss. Lort survived him but a short time, and was 
 buried near him *. 
 
 Among a variety of curious articles which Dr. 
 Lort had amassed from his first entering on a Col- 
 legiate hfe, and which his extensive acquaintance 
 with men of letters enabled him to pursue to the 
 last, those Books on our Natural History and Anti- 
 quities, enriched with the MS notes of his friend, 
 that well-known Antiquary, the Rev. George North, 
 rector of Codicote in Hertfordshire, were not the 
 least interesting. The Doctor's notes in his Books 
 were chiefly references to authors who had treated 
 the same subjects, or keys to particular publications. 
 
 His Library was not remarkable for external 
 splendour; but it contained a great number of books 
 rarely to be met with elsewhere -j^ ; particularly of 
 rare Tracts on the subjects of British Antiquities, 
 and of curious Books and Pamphlets of every descrip- 
 tion, many of them enriched by his marginal obser- 
 vations ^ ; and it was always open to his friends. 
 
 * Their monumental tablet is thus inscribed : 
 
 " Near this place are deposited the remains of Michael Lort, 
 D. D. F. R. S. A. S. for twelve years Professor of the Greek lan- 
 guage in the Univei'sity of Cambridi^e, and for nineteen years 
 rector of this parish. To the purest simi)licJty of character he 
 united gi'eat talents and great virtues ; his le-arning was as ex- 
 tensive as his communication of it was lilK-rnl and unassuming; 
 the whole tenor of his life was a practical commentaiy on the 
 precepts of that holy Religion iu whicli he devoutly fjelieved. 
 He died Nov. 5, 1790, agcvl (;5. 
 
 "His widow, Susannah l.ort, who survived him only fifteen 
 months, and whose remains are depo-iited in the sanve vault, 
 ordered this monuuicut to be ])laced as a faithful record of her 
 affection and sorrow. She died Feb. 5, l/y^^, a;jed 50." 
 
 t The auclion, by Messrs. Lei;];h and Sot l)eby, b?;-an .April 5, 
 17i>l. and coniinued 15 days. It was r; suir-cd on .May 4 cnsu- 
 iiig, and lasted ten days. By llvi .S.ile Catalogue it appcar.s to 
 have consisted of C6G.3 loU ; a:iu the produce was l'26'jl. His 
 prints sold for 401/. li. 6d. 
 
 X See some specimens in Dibdlu'j "^^ Biblionjania^ ISil/' {']. 
 54S S51. 
 
 \.>, lA
 
 ( 606 ) 
 
 No. IX. 
 KATHANAEL HOOKE. 
 
 The great abilities of this eminent Historian, and 
 the high rank he jus ly holds in the Republick of 
 Letters, demand a much more particular account 
 of him than 1 am able to supply ; and which I 
 should be glad to see enlarged. 
 
 The earliest particulars of his life that I have met 
 with are furnished by himself, in a modest, but manly 
 address to the Earl of Oxford, Oct. 17, 1722: 
 
 " My Lord, The first time I had the honour to 
 wait upon your Lordship since your coming to Lon- 
 don, your Lordship had the goodness to ask me what 
 way of life I was then engaged in ; a certain 7nau- 
 vaise lionte hindered me at that time from giving 
 a direct answer. The truth is, my Lord, I cannot 
 be said at present to be in any form of life, but rather 
 to live extempore. The late epidemical distemper 
 seized me * : I endeavoured to be rich, imagined for 
 a while that I was, and am in some measure happy 
 to find myself at this instant but just worth nothing. 
 If your Lordship, or any of your numerous friends, 
 have need of a servant, with the bare qualifications 
 of being able to read and write, and to be honest, I 
 shall gladly undertake any employments your Lord- 
 ship shall not think me unworthy of. 1 have been 
 taught, my Lord, that neither a man's natural pride, 
 nor his self-love, is an equal judge of what is fit for 
 him ; and I shall endeavour to remember, that it is 
 not the short part we act, but the manner of our 
 performance, which gains or loses us the applause 
 of him who is finally to decide of all human actions. 
 INly Lord, I am just now employed in translating, 
 
 * The South Sea infatuation. 
 
 from
 
 NATHANAEL HOOKE. 60J 
 
 from the French, a History of the Life of the late 
 Archbishop of Cambray; and I was thinking to beg 
 the honour of your Lordship's name to protect a 
 work which will have so much need of it. The 
 original is not yet published. Tis written by the 
 Author of the ' Discourse upon Epic Poetry/ in the 
 new edition of Telemaque. As there are some pas- 
 sages in the Book of a particular nature, I dare not 
 sohcit your Lordship to grant me the favour I have 
 mentioned, till you first have perused it. The whole 
 is short, and pretty fairly transcribed. If your 
 Lordship could find a spare hour to look it over, I 
 would wait upon your Lordship with it, as it may 
 possibly be no unpleasing entertainment. I should 
 humbly ask your Lordship's pardon for so long an 
 address in a season of so much business. But when 
 should I be^able to find a time in which your Lord- 
 ship's goodness is not employed? I am, with perfect 
 respect and duty, my I^rd, 
 
 Your Lordship's most obliged, most faith fid, and 
 most obedient humble servant, Naphanael Hooke." 
 
 The Translation was afterwards printed, in l2mo, 
 1 723 ; and from that period till his death Mr. Hooke 
 enjoyed the confidence and patronage of men not 
 less distinguished by virtue than by titles. 
 
 Ii^ 1739 li^ published a Translation of Ramsay's 
 Travels of Cyrus, in 4to. Dr. King *, ilie cele- 
 
 * Dr. William King, son of the Rev. Percsrine Kiiiir, wa.s born 
 .'vt Stepney in Middk'sox., in 16S5; and, after a schuol ediica- 
 ti(jn at Salisbvir\', wiis entered of haiiol College, Oxftjid, Jul', y, 
 1701. Proceeding on the Law line, he took his Doct(jr".s dctrree 
 in 1715 ; was Secretary to the Duke of (hmond imd the Eati of 
 Arran, when Chancellors of the University; and was made priu- 
 cipal of St. Maiy Hali in I7IB. When he was candidate fov the 
 Iniversity, in 172^, he resigned hl.s oifice of Secretary ; hut his 
 other preferment he enjoyed (and it was all he did enjoy) to the 
 lime of his death. Dr. Clarke, who opj)0'ted him, carried his 
 election; and, after this di.-appointmeiit, in the year 17'';, hft 
 went over to Ireland; where he wrote "'I'he Toa'^t," a cekhr;!.';*! 
 political satire, which was jn intcd and given to his fii( n;!s. T!i; 
 first edition of " The Toa.st" was a small pamphlet in Viiv.o, en- 
 larged in 17''^ to a handsome (piarto, wilh ar; cli gant fronti-- 
 picce. It now tells for aa extravagant price; and ha^ bc-n re 
 
 wiu'eJ.
 
 GOS LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 brated Principal of St. Mary Hall in Oxford, In- 
 formed Dr. Warton, that Hooke's Translation of 
 
 printed, but without (one of its principal beauties) the notes 
 and observations, in Ahnon's " New Foundling Hospital of Wit." 
 It was re-pubHshed, with the other Works of the Doctor, in 
 4to, likewise in 1754, with a Latin Address to the Parliaments 
 of France, who were at that time making a vigorous resistance 
 to the encroachments of the Crown. Of this Book, which is 
 very well printed, and adorned with emblematical head and tail- 
 pieces, a small number only was taken ofl', for private distribu- 
 tion, and it is very rarely to be met with. On the dedica- 
 tion of the RadcliiTe Library, 1749, he spoke a Latin Oration in 
 theTheatre, which was received with the highest acclamations, and 
 for which Mr. Warton pajs him an elegant compliment in " The 
 Triumph of Isis." In 1*5.5, when the memorable coldest hap- 
 pened in Oxfordshire, his attachment to the Old Interest drew on 
 him the resentment of the New. He was libelled in newspapers 
 and pamphlets, and charged with the following particulars : viz. 
 That he was an Iiishnian j that he had received subscriptions 
 for books never published to the amount of fifteen hundred pounds, 
 of w hich sum he had defiauded his subsciibers ; that he had offered 
 himself to sale both in England and Ireland, and was not found 
 worth the purchase; that he was the writer of ''The London 
 J^vening Post ;" the author of a book in f)ueen Anne's reign, 
 intituled, "Political Considerations, 1710," in wliicii there was 
 false English; and of a book just then printed, called, "The 
 Dreamer, 1754." At this time he published his " Apology," in 
 (piarto, and very clearly vindicated himself ftoin the several 
 )natters clurged on him, exce})t only the last article, of his 
 l)e;r,g author of " The Dieamer ;" and warmly retaliated on his 
 adversaries. Mr. Cole had often seen him at St. Mary's church, 
 Cambridge, when he used to be on a visit to Mr. Mackenzie, who 
 married Mr. Chambers the town-clerk's daughter. He v\as a tall, 
 lean, well-looking man ; and was the author of, 1. " Miltoni Epis- 
 tola ad Pollionem" (Lord Polwarth) ; '2. " Sermo Pcdestris;" 
 .3."8eauinum,EcIoga;" 4."Templun}Libertatis,inThreeBooks;" 
 o, " Tres OratiunculEB;" C. "Epistola Objurgatoria;" 7- "Auto- 
 nietti Ducis Corscorum Epistola ad Corscos de rege eligendo;" 
 S. " EuiOgium Jacci Ktonen^is;"' 9. " Aviti Epistola ad Perillam, 
 virginem Scotam," &c, 10. " Oratiuneuia habita ia doiiio Con- 
 'ocationis Oxon. cum Epistola dedicatoria, 1757;" and '' Epi- 
 tapiiium Richardi Nash." He was also the Editor of the five last 
 volumes of Dr. Souths Seruioub. He was known a!ul t'steemcd 
 by the firar men of his time for wit and learning; ami mu.--t be 
 allowed to have been a ])olite sc'holarj an excellent oratcjj', and an 
 elegant and ea'sy writer both in Latin and Englisij. Mr.(.;ole was / 
 infoinicd that he Res buried in Eaiing church, as lord of tiic 
 manor, or lehi-ee of the great tithes. Tiiere is no inoinnnent or 
 :j)itaph i'vr him ; but the Doctor himself, not lori*^ bci^ore hi* 
 
 dc-lh.
 
 NATHANAEL HOOKE. SO^ 
 
 the " Travels of Cyrus" was made at Dr. Cheyne's 
 house at Bath, and that he himself had often been 
 
 death, which happened Dec. 30, 1763, drew up the following 
 .very ciurious one, in order to be engraved on a silver case, iu 
 which he directed his heart should be preserved, in some convey 
 aient pait of St. Mary hall : 
 
 Epitaphium Gulielmi King, 
 
 a seipso scriptum pridie nonas Junii, 
 
 die natali Georgiilll. MDCCLXU. 
 
 " Fui 
 
 GuiLiELMUS King, LL. D. 
 
 ab anno mdccxix. ad annum mdcc 
 
 hujus Aulae Praefectiis. ^ 
 
 LitelHs humanioribus "k puero deditus, 
 
 eas usque ad supremum vitge diem colui, 
 
 Neque vitiis carui, neque virtutibus 5 
 
 imprudens et impi'ovidus, coniis et benevolus j 
 
 saepfe aequo iracundior, 
 
 haud un(iuam ut essem implacabilis. 
 
 A luxuriS. par iter ac avariti^ 
 
 , (quam non tarn vitium 
 
 quam mentis insanitatem esse duxi) 
 
 proi"siis abhorrens. 
 
 Cives, hospites, peregrinos 
 
 omninb libcralitcr accepi, 
 
 ipse et cibi parens, et vini parcissimus. 
 
 Cum magnis vixi, cum plebeiis, cum omnibus, 
 
 Ut homines noscerem, ut meipsum imprimis : 
 
 neque, eheu, novi ! 
 
 Permultos habui amicos, 
 
 at veros, stabiles, gratos, 
 
 (quae fortasse est gentis culpa) 
 
 perpaucissimos. 
 
 Plures habui inimicos j 
 
 sed invidos, sed improbos, sed inhumanos j 
 
 quorum nullis tamen injuiiis 
 
 perinde commotus fui 
 
 qukm dehquiis meis. 
 
 Summam, quam adeptus sum, senectutem, 
 
 neque optavi, neque accusavi ; 
 
 vitae incommoda neque immoderate ferens, 
 
 neque coinmodis nimium contentus. 
 
 Mortem neque (()ntem)toi neqvie metui. 
 
 Dcus optime, 
 qui hunc orbem et humanas res curas, 
 miserere aninnc nostr;e !" 
 There is a striking likeness of Dr. Kiui^, in the Oratoj's Ra-t- 
 truiA, in Worlidge's View of the lnstallalim of Lord Westmore- 
 land as Chancellor of Oxford, in 17(>1 ; li'^ ^ise two jjortraits of 
 him, in mezzotinto, by Faber and M'AnleU, 
 
 Vol. II. Ur Ilooke';?
 
 ^10 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Hooke's amanuensis on the occasion, who dictated 
 his Translation to him with uncommon facility and 
 rapidity. 
 
 In 1733 he revised a Translation of "The Histoiy 
 of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, by 
 Thomas Townshend, Esq." printed in 2 volumes, 
 8vo*; and in the same year he published, in 4to, 
 the first volume ^ of " The Roman History, from 
 the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Common- 
 wealth ; illustrated with Maps and other Plates." 
 This volume is dedicated to Mr. Pope :{:, and intro- 
 duced by " Remarks on the History of the Seven 
 Roman Kings, occasioned by Sir Isaac Nfewton's 
 
 * First printed in 1724, folio, 
 
 t A third edition of this volume was printed in 1757- 
 + "Sir, The displaying your name at the head of these- 
 sheets is, 1 confess, like hanging out a splendid sign to catch 
 the Traveller's eye, and entice him to make trial of tlie enter- 
 tainment the place affords. But, when I can write under my sign, 
 that Mr. Pope has been here, and was content, who w ill question 
 the goodness of the house ? You see Sir, and I had no desire to 
 hide it, my interested view in this Epistle. Perhaps I should 
 find it difficult, on such an occasion as the present, to addres* 
 you in any terms which might not be construed into self-love, 
 more or less refined. Will not this be the case, if I say, a'; with 
 truth I can, that I was glad to seize the only 0})portunity I may 
 ever have of so publicly testifying my just esteem for a worthy 
 Friend, to whom I have been long and much obliged? Yet allow 
 me to add, that I imagine I do give a proof of that esteem, 
 when I inscribe to you this attempt towards a History of Rowan 
 Virtue and Patriotism. No consideration, I hope, could engage 
 me to it, if I were not jiersuaded that you really are^ what your 
 writings declare you to be, a Friend to Virtue, to your Country, 
 and to the Liberties of Mankind. I am, with sincerity and af- 
 fection. Sir, your most faithfid humble servant, N. Hookr." 
 
 The friendship between these eminent men extended io the 
 close of our English Homer's life. " Pope," says Dr. Johnson, 
 " expressed undoubting confidence of a future state. Being 
 asked by his friend Mr. Hooke, a Papist, whether he would not 
 die like his father and mother, and whether a IViest should not 
 be called ; he answered, / do not tlnnk it essential, but it will he 
 very right ; and I thank yuu for putting- me in mind of it." Mr. 
 Hooke, on this occasion, told Dr. Warburton, " that the priest, 
 whom he had provided to do the last office to the dying man, 
 came out from him, penetrated to the last degree with the state 
 of mind in which lie found his penitent ; resigned and rapt up 
 in the love of God and man." 
 
 Objer;*
 
 NATHANAEL HOOKE. ^1 1 
 
 Objections to the supposed 244 Years Duration* of 
 the Royal State of Rome." 
 
 Mr. Hooke's nervous pen was next employed in. 
 digesting " An Account of the Conduct of the 
 Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, from her first 
 coming to Court to the Year 17 10. In a Letter 
 from herself 10 Lord , 1/43," 8vo. His re- 
 ward, on this occasion, was considerable 'J', and 
 the reputation he .acquired by the performance 
 much greater. The circumstances of the trans- 
 action are thus related by Dr. Maty:};: " The Relict 
 of the great Duke of Marlborough being desirous of 
 submitting to posterity her political conduct, as 
 well as her Lord's, applied to the Earl of Chester- 
 field for a proper person to receive her information, 
 and put the memoirs of her life into a proper dress. 
 Mr. Hooke was recommended by him for that pur- 
 pose. He accordingly waited upon the Duchess, 
 while she was still in bed, oppressed by the infir- 
 mities of age. But, knowing who he was, she 
 immediately got herself lifted up, and continued 
 speaking during six hours. She delivered to him, 
 without any notes, her account in the most lively 
 as well as the most connected manner. As she was 
 not tired herself, she would have continued longer 
 the business of this first sitting, had she not per- 
 ceived that Mr. Hooke was quite exhausted, and 
 wanted refreshment as well as rest. So eager was 
 
 * *' Though Sir Isaac objected to the Seven Kings of Rome 
 lasting 244 yeai"s, yet the reigns of the Seven last Kings of Spain, 
 from 1516 to 175S, lasted nearly as long: (viz. Charles I. 39; 
 Philip II. 4.3; Philip III. 23; Philip IV. 44 j Charles II. 3,5; 
 Phihp V. 4.'> ; Ferdinand VI. 13; 242 years." T.F. 
 
 " The Duchess of Marlborough rewarded Hooke with 5000/. 
 for his trouble in writing her "Account;" but quan-eled with 
 him afterwards, because, as she affirmed, he attenijited to con- 
 vert iier to P()])ery. Hooke was a Mystic, and a ^uietist, and a 
 warui dih(ij)le of Fenelon. If was he who brought a Catholic 
 Pincnt to take Pope's confession on his death-bed. The Priest 
 had scaiccly departcfl, when Holingbroke, coming o\er from 
 IJatteisea, Hew into a great lit of passion and indignation oa 
 the occasion." Es.say on Poi)e, vol. II. p. 201, 202. 
 
 X See hi.s " Memoirs of Lord Chesterfuld," Uo, vol. I. p. 1 Uj 
 u u 2 she
 
 6l2 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 she for the completion of the work, that she insisted 
 upon Mr. Hooke's not leaving lier house till he had 
 finished it. This was done in a short time; and 
 her Grace was so well pleased with the performance, 
 that she complimented the Author with a present of 
 five thousand pounds^ a sum which far exceeded his 
 expectations. A& soon as he was free, and permitted 
 to quit the liouse of his benefactress, he hastened to 
 the Earl, to thank him for liis favour, and commu- 
 nicated to him his good fortune. The perturbation 
 of mintl he was under, occasioned by the strong 
 sense of his obligation, plainly appeared in his stam- 
 mering out his acknowledgements ; and he, who 
 had succeeded so well as the interpreter of lier 
 Grace*s sentiments, could scarcely utter his own* 
 
 * As RufFliead's aceoijint of this transaction is sojHexvhst dif- 
 ferent, it may be pleasant to compare it with Dr. Maty'sr "Thii?- 
 gentleman [Plooke] seems to kave possessed no small sliare of 
 Mr. Pope's esteem and friendship. His solicitude to do hia 
 service is strongly exemplified in the f()llt)wing- anecdote : The- 
 first Duchess of :\lariborough was desirous of having- an account 
 of her public conduct given to the world. Mv. Hnoke, a Romart 
 Cathclic in the iMystic way, and compiler of the Roman History^ 
 was, by Mr. Poj^e and others, recommended to her (jrace^ as a. 
 proj)er person to draw up this account, under her inspection ; 
 and, by the assistance of the papers she ccjnmiunicated to him, 
 he performed this Work so much tt) her Grace's satisfaction, 
 that she talked of rewarding him largelv, but would do nothing 
 till Mr. Pope came to her, whose company she then sought ali 
 opporttuiitics to jaocure, and was uneasy to be without it. He 
 was at that tuue with some friends, whom he was unwillhig to 
 part witli, a hund}ed miles distant. But, at Mr. llcHjke"s earnest 
 solicitation, when Mr. Vope found his presence so. es--ontiall 
 concerned in his Friend's interest and future sxipport, he broke- 
 through all his engagements, and, in the de])th of winter, and 
 ill wa}s, Hew to lus assistance. On his coming, the l^uehes* 
 secured to Mr. Hooke live thousand pounds ; and by that mean* 
 attached him to her .^er\ice. J3ut soon after she took occasioa* 
 as was usual with her, to quarrel with him. 
 He)' every turn by violence pursued, 
 \()r more a storm her hate, than gratittide. 
 Thus Mr. Hooke represented the matter. The reason she gave 
 of her sudden dishk(! of him, was his attempt to pervert her to- 
 Popery. This is n<jt without probability : for he, hnding her 
 Grace {as appears froui the Account of her Ctmduct) without 
 any Religion, might think it tui act of no comraoa charity ta 
 
 give
 
 NATHANAEL HOOKE, l^ 
 
 The second volume * of his " Roman History" 
 appeared in 1/45; when Mr. Hooke embraced the 
 fair occasion of complimenting his worthy friend 
 Hugh Earl of Marchmont -}*, 
 
 give her his own." Speaking of Mr. Hooke, who had then 
 lately been promoted, Mr. Pope says, " he begins to feel tlie 
 effects of a Court life, the dependence on the great, who never 
 do good, btit with a view to make slaves," And, in a letter to 
 Mr. Allen, he tells him, " I can ne^er enough thank j'ou, my 
 dear and true fiiend, foi* e^'ery instance of your kindness. At 
 present, ! am loaded with them, but none touch me more sen- 
 sibly, than your attempts for Mr. Hooke; for I am really happier 
 in seeing a worthy man eased of the burthen which Fortune 
 genei-ally lays fsuch men imder, as have no talents to serve the 
 bad and the amljitiousj than in any pleasures of my own, which 
 are but idle at best." In his last will, he gave five poimds to 
 Mr. Hooke, to be laid out in a ring, or any other memorial. 
 
 " When the Ducliess of Marlborough died, she left 500/. a year 
 to Mr. Hooke and David Mallet to write the Histoiy of the late 
 Duke ; but it was never performed that I ever heard of." 
 
 MS Note by Mr. John Whiston. 
 
 * A second Edition of this Volume was printed in 1756. 
 
 f " My Lord ; Permit me to lay hold of this fair occasion, 
 publickly to congi'atulate yo;ir fa)rd:5hip, upon that true glory, 
 the consenting praise of the honest and the wise, which you have 
 so cjuly acquired. When men have performed any cirfoA" ac- 
 tions, or such as sit easy- upon their memories, it is a reasonable 
 ])leasure (says a Philosophical Writer who speaks contemptu- 
 oiisly enough of renown after death) to have the testimony of 
 the world added to that of their own consciences, that they have 
 done well. My Lord, you have not only this pleasure, but 
 another, no less reasonable, and more evtjuisite, attending a 
 character like youis the being able to do nuich good to othei's. 
 To those whom yi>u distinguish by particvdar marks of your 
 good opinion vou give rejHitation; and { have happily experi- 
 enced, tliat reputation so derived is not mine air and fruitless. 
 Tluougli that warmth and good-will whieii your ].,ord^hip, on 
 all (Kca-.i()!i^, expri-^ses for me, 1 have j)roiile(l, gri'utly pi'olited, 
 by ijonr ghry. You, my Lord, can l)e no straiii;'er to this truth; 
 yet, I trust, vou will f irgive iiic if, to di-aw still more advantage 
 tiDm your fame, I here lake the liberty to tell y(iur LoriKhip, i.>i 
 print, for the intVwmation of othei's, what you knew before: a^ a 
 Player, wIkmi alone on the Staire, speaks aloud to himself, that 
 lie inav be heard bv those who iill the 'rheatt<\ I would, bv this 
 Dedication of uiv Book to your Lorii^Mij), publiih, as far as bv 
 sucii mean-> I can, that you, my Lord, are luy Patron and uiy 
 Friend; and that I am, with the greatest respect, esteem, ami 
 j^raiitude, my I^ord, Yotn* Lor(l->liip'^ 
 
 .VJo-l faithful, uihI mo-t huiuldc -ervant, X, IIoom.."
 
 614 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 To the second volume Mr. Hooke added " The 
 CapitoUne Marbles*, or Consular Calendars, an an- 
 
 The Editor of these " Literary Anecdotes" confesses, that he 
 has a view to himself in transcribing the preceding Dedication. 
 He wishes, at the distance of nearly seventy years, to add his feeble 
 testinwny to the "fair fan^" of the Earl of Marchmont ; whose 
 " patiwnage and friendship" he is proud to have experienced. 
 This worthy Peer died, at Hemel Hem})stead, Jan. 10, 1794, in 
 his 87th year^ when the title becanie extinct. He was the last 
 of those who distinguished themselves in the House of Commons 
 during the administiation of Sir Robert Walpole. He was 
 chosen a member of that House in the same year with the late 
 Lord Chatham and the first Loixi Lytteiton, and soon became a 
 conspicuous speaker. VVlien Mr. Pulteney seceded, on tlie oc- 
 casion of the Convention, in 1739, the Eail of Marchmont,. 
 then Loi'd Pohvarth, led tlie Opposition ; but, veiy soon after 
 that, his succession to the Scottish earldom put an end, tor a time, 
 to his Parliamentary career. How formidable an opponent 
 Sir Robert Walpole thought him, may be judged of by his say- 
 ing, " There were few things he more ardently wished, than to 
 see that young man at the head of his femily." He lived long 
 in habits of the strictest intimacy and friendship with Lord Cob- 
 ham, Sir William Wyndham, Lord Bolingbroke, the Duchess of 
 Maiiborough, Mr. Pope, and other eminent persons of that 
 time. The first placed his bust in the Temple of Worthies at 
 Stowe, and to the two last he was executor. For his trouble, 
 the Poet left him a large-paper edition of Thuanus, and a por- 
 trait of Ix)rd Bolingbroke, painted by Richardson. He was 
 made First Lord of Police in Mr. Pelham's administiation ; and 
 promoted to be Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland in 1764 ; 
 which he held till his death. He was chosen one of the Sixteen 
 Peers in the year 1750, and from that time till 17 84, when he 
 ceased to be one of the nuniber, was a constant attendant on 
 the House, taking an active part in all business of importance. 
 In learning of all sorts, and extensive reading, he was exceeded 
 by few, in pailiamentarj- information perhaps by none; his only 
 boast hmvever was, " that he never gave a vote, or spoke from 
 an interested motive, during all the years he sat in the two 
 Houses." His library, containing one of the most valuable pri- 
 vate collections of books, manuscripts, prints, and geograjihy, 
 in thi;5 country, is now in the possession of the Right Honourable 
 George Rose, his executor ; and amongst the MSS are those 
 which had been beiqueathed to Lord Marchmont by Mr. Pope, 
 many of whicli are very cuiious and highly interesting. The 
 Countess of Majchnjont died in 1794 (see Gent. Mag. volLXlV, 
 p. 444). 
 
 * Since i ery beautifully engraved by Piranesi, in his " Lapides 
 Capitfiiini, sive Fasti Consulares Triiiniphalcscj^ue Romanoium 
 ab urbe comlitii usi^uc ad Tiber jum Ca^saieiu." 
 
 tient
 
 NATHANAEL HOOKE. 6lS 
 
 tient Monument accidentally discovered at Rome in 
 the Year 1545, during the Pontificate of Paul HI.'* 
 In 1758, Mr. Hooke pubHshed "Observations 
 on, I. The Answer of M. I'Abbe de Vertot to the 
 late Earl Stanhope's Enquiry, concerning the Se- 
 nate of Antient Rome*; dated December IJig. 
 II. A Dissertation upon the Constitution of the 
 Roman Senate, by a Gentleman ; published in 
 1743. III. A Treatise on the Roman Senate, by 
 Dr. Conyers Middleton ; published in 1 747. IV. An 
 Essay on the Roman Senate, by Dr. Thomas Chap- 
 man ; published in 175O;" which he with great 
 propriety inscribed to Mr. Speaker Onslow -{% 
 
 * Soon after the appearance of the former edition of these 
 ''Anecdotes" I published, "An Apology for some of Mr. Hooke's 
 Obsen'ations concerning the Roman Senate ; with an [excellent] 
 index to the Observations, by Mr. Bowyer, 1782," 4to. 
 
 f Mr. Hooke requests the Reader, "That he will not, from 
 the seemingly quarrelsome humour of the Observator, conclude 
 him insensible to the superior abilities of those learned men, 
 whose works he cnticises ; or so wrong-headed, as to think that 
 a writer's happening sometimes to reason weakly and inconclu- 
 sively, is any proof of his not being an able reasoner, or a person 
 of true and extensive learning." The Observation,, he adds, he 
 wishes not to be considered as " a critique or censure on those 
 pieces wlach he mentioned in the title-page, but on all the 
 Accounts -of the Regal State of Rome, and the first Settlement 
 of the Reman Commonwealth, which has been given by other 
 modern v.riters, who have taken Dionysius of Halicarnassns for 
 their chief and most trusty guide." He concludes the Preface 
 Avith the following anecdote: " A very great man (in all senses) 
 *aid to the Auth<jr, after doing him the hojiour to read his 
 Renmrks on the History of the Seven Roman Kings, and his 
 Dissert-ati(m on the Credibility of the Histoiy of tiie first 500 
 Years of R<;me, ' 1 believf^ you are right ; but I don't care wheliier 
 you are or no. Why dim't you give us the fliird volume r' lo 
 prevent the like rebuke from any Reader of tlie following Obser- 
 vations, 1 take this occasion to signify, that, tiiough the said 
 third \()lume was never promised, and is not finished, and 
 though the Autlior has little hope of ever finisliing it in such a 
 manner as to satisfy either the Publick or himself, \'l il is his 
 ))irposc to do his beat to })lease tliose |)ers()ns who desire a third 
 volume; of which no incon.-^ideral^le part (already \viitten and 
 ievised) will probably be sent to the press before the end of the 
 appioaching sunuuer. It is possible that some persons of ;i 
 ti'a'^ing di-^iKJsition may ask, Why the Aullior did not liiiish the 
 third volume, in-tcad of losing time in iiUjirox in^- his (ir.-t 
 * jlnaie, and uritinu" critical observarions * To thl^ if any con- 
 
 -idci'at'
 
 ^1(5 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 This volume was followed by ''A Short Review* 
 of Mr. Hooke's Observations, ike, concerning the 
 
 siderate and pacific friend of the Author were to answer, he 
 would probably say. That, granting the time and labour, 
 spent in improving the first volume, and in writing critical 
 observations, to have been sufficient for the work of a third 
 volume, the Author may nevertheless be excused, if he judged. 
 That, to those Readei's who read with a desire to see what is true 
 or probable, the improvemeiits and observations aforesaid would 
 be uiore acceptable than a third volume witliout these ; becaxise, 
 in his opinion, they may, in some measure, conduce to clear up 
 several obscurities in the History, not only of the earlier but of 
 the later ages of Rome. In the second edition of the first 
 volume, the history of the 4^ years from the Secession to the 
 Decemvii-are (in which interval 8p. Ciissius made the first pro- 
 posal of an Agrarian law ; and the Tribune Volero prevailed to 
 have Comitia Tribiita introduced) was, in great part, a new 
 composition, which placed things in a very ditierent light from 
 that in which they had before been presented. (The character 
 and conduct of Cassius are vindicated.) And, in the third edi- 
 tion of that volume, some considei-able changes and additions 
 (improvements, it is hoped) were made in the History of the 
 Komans, fi'om A. L'. ).57. when they took Veii, to the year 370, 
 when Marcus Manlius (who preserved the Capitol, after the 
 Gauls had burnt the City of Rome) was assassinated. An exa- 
 m'mation is made into the true cause of that implacable hatred 
 which the Senate and Camillus bore to Manlius ; and into the 
 manner of his death." 
 
 * "Mr. HoUis, whenever his attention to public liberty was 
 required, was a faithful centinel, never ofi^ duty. On Mr Hooke's 
 Roman History he has this ]\ote : ' See a curious Tract, written 
 by Mr. Spehiian, intituled, J Short Renew of Mr. Hookas Obser- 
 vations, &c. in which the biasses of that yet respectable gentleman, 
 Mr. Hooke, a Romanist, are set forth. In the year above men- 
 tioned, Mr. Hooke publislied Obser\ ations on the Accounts given 
 fay Vertot, Middleton, and ( hapman, oii the Roman Senate ;' in 
 which he titated Dionysius as a mere writer of romance, &c. 
 and the above-mtntioned .Authors, particularly Dr. Middleton, 
 with a di<resi?ct for w hicli the subject ga\e no occasion, and 
 which the Monthly Reviewers asoibe to the Doctor's offensive 
 Letter from Rome.' Mr. Speinian had then published, or was 
 about to piibiish, his excellent Tran-Iation of this same Diohv- 
 sius's History ; and on that, and other accounts, thought it 
 necessary to obviate tlie ]n-eju('ices whicli might be instilled into 
 some [)art of the publiclv by ll ese Observations in the short 
 Review above meniioned. In this little piece he fails n<jt to 
 vindicate his Hi.-t.'))ian, thoug-h briefly, yet, as comjK tent judges 
 have (leternjired, vt ry eilcctvaily. i\'r li(!oke's pa: sion for ihe 
 dc;p(;tic fhrm of government appeared hy -Xa ar.ecdii'.e con.iuu- 
 R!<a'.e(l to u.- i)v a gentiemaa v.Iio wiis an cNe and ear witness of 
 the (raii.safticn. In the year I'fW, Mr, liouke, in company 
 
 \sitX.
 
 NATHANAEL HOOKE. 6I7 
 
 Roman Senate, and the Character of Dionysius of 
 Hahcarnassus, 1758," 8vo; an anonymous pamphlet, 
 but written by Edward Spelman, esq. 
 
 The third volume of Mr. Hooke's " Roman His- 
 tory," to the end of the Gallic war, was jn-inted, 
 under his inspection, before his last illness ; but did 
 not appear till after his death, which happened in 
 1764- The fourth volume was published in 177I. 
 
 Mr. Hooke left two sons ; one of whom, Tho- 
 mas, is a Divine of the Church of England * ; the 
 other, a Doctor of the Sorbonne, and Professor of 
 Astronomy in that illustrious Seminary -l^. 
 
 with some gentlemen of respectable characters, took out of his 
 pocket a pamphlet, written by Mr. Warbmton (aftcrwai'ds 
 Bp. of Gloucester) just then published ; from which he reads a 
 passage to the following effect: Mheti God, in his justice, weighs 
 tJtefate of Nations, he considers all arbitrary gocernmcnts as paper 
 and packthread in the scale! ' What,' said Mr. Hooke, ' does Mr, 
 VVarburion imagine, that God Almighty considei-s the gieat 
 Monarchies of France and Spain only as ])aper and packthread r' 
 No one in company made any reply, and the conversation 
 <lropped. But, we may sujjpobc, they took the foirness of the 
 citation for granted. The passage alluded to is in a pamphlet 
 Intituled, ' Apologetical Dedication to the Re%erentl Dr. Iknry 
 Stebbing, &c. 174G.' " Memoirs uf Mr. HoUia, p. 497. 
 
 * For the following letter to the late George Allan, E^q. of 
 Darlington, I am indebted to Mr. Allan's worthv son : 
 
 "Sir, Dirkhij, Dec. 14, ITH.'J. 
 
 " I thank you, and am much obliged to you for the letter to 
 the Earl of Oxford [see j). G0(>], and tiie trouble you have been at 
 in transcribing it. How Bowyer got it out of the Earl's hands, 
 I cannot conceive; nor how he could think himself at liberlv to 
 print it +. What i learn from it is, that Mr. Hooke, wlien a 
 young man, had some considerable Josses in the South-Sea; and 
 would have been glad of an eniploviuent under the Eail of ()\l"())il, 
 or some of the EaiTs fiiend^ in the Ministry. Maty'.s story of the 
 Dueliess of Marlborough is pleasant, and 1 beiieve it to be true; 
 but as for VVarburUin's idle tale or" Mr. Hooke's cndeavounng to 
 pervert her (irace to Poperv, it is to(j alisurd to l)e believed by 
 iiny bodv, or thai that was the cause of her fiuarrelling with 
 liiui. i have bren told, that she wanted him to set about an- 
 other work foi- her. from which lie excused hims(.'if u|)on account 
 of his Roman Hi.stoiv. I am, ive. '1'. HooKf.." 
 
 f See -1 verv i'>lu;ing and satisfac(oi*y Leltcr fiom this gen- 
 tk-inan in vol V ;>. .if).'). 
 
 J It \\:\^ j/ij!,i/<i jiiiis ; ;mi()!i!fvt the Karl cf Ovruril's nunu rous and 
 v^Jn.dAi- r olieclii.'i) ol .MSS, j'lt'-L-rvijd in tlie Krilisli .\u;-,( ;i;i.
 
 ( 618 ) 
 
 No. XI. 
 
 Dr. RICHARD FARMER. 
 
 This learned Critick and distinguished Scholar 
 (who is justly celebrated in the " Encyclopaedia 
 Britannica *'* as " a man of pleasing, though 
 singular manners'*) was the descendant of a fa- 
 mily long seated at RatclifFe Culey-J-, a hamlet 
 within the parish of Shepey, in the county of Lei- 
 cester. His grandfather (who died in 1727, aet. 63) 
 is described on his tomb, in St. Mary's church at 
 Leicester as " John Farmer, of Nuneaton, gent." 
 His father, who was largely engaged in Leicester 
 in the profession of a maltster, married in 1 732-3 
 Hannah Knibb. by whom he had five sons and four 
 daughters. He died in 17/8, at the age of 80. His 
 widow survived him more than twenty years, dying 
 Dec. 14, 1808, at the advanced age of nearly 9J. 
 'llieir hrst-born son, John, died an infant. 
 
 * " One of us, who had the pleasure of being a little known 
 to him, has been so much delighted with the natural ease and 
 pleasanti-y of his conversation, that we made all the enquiries 
 which we judged requisite to enable us to draw up such a 
 biographical sketch of this agi'eeable man as might be acceptable 
 to our Readers, and not unworthy of his character ; but these 
 enquiries were made in \ain. Those to whom we applied knew 
 little more of the incidents of his life than what we had previ- 
 ously found in a Miscellany, of which the writers seem to consider 
 it as a principle of duty to vilify the character of every person, 
 who, like Dr. Farmer, is the friend of order, anl the enemy of 
 sudden or rapid innovations. To that Miscellany, therefore, we 
 must be beholden for many facts, but we shall certainly copy none 
 of itii malevolence." Encyclopaedia Britannica. 
 
 t See an ample Pedigree of Dr. Farmer's ancestors under 
 Rntcliffe Culey, in the Hi>,torv of Leicestershire, vol. IV. p 950. 
 Dr. Farmer gives arms on his seal. Argent, a chexron Sable, 
 between three Roman lamps, burning proper. Motto, Non txtin- 
 <:uentnT. Dr. l';umer shewed Mr. Cole his arms and pedigree in 
 (iuilliui." MS. (. ole, LIV. pp. 3'2, 33. 
 
 Uichard,
 
 DR. RICHARD FARMER. ClJ) 
 
 Richard, the second son, was born, Aug. 2S, 
 l/,*^;";, in the antient* Borough of Leicester; and 
 received the early part of his education, under the 
 Rev. Gen*ard Andrewes-i- (father of the present truly 
 respectable Dean of Canterbury,) in the Free Gram- 
 mar-school of his native Town; a seminary in which 
 many eminent persons were his contemporaries. 
 
 About the year 1753, he left the school, with the 
 character of being estimable for temper and talents ; 
 and was entered a pensioner at Emanuel College, 
 Cambridge, when Dr. Richardson :|: was master, and 
 ]l^Ir. Bickham and Mr. Hubbard |j tutors. 
 
 * In Domesday this antient Borough is styled Civitas Leicestria. 
 
 f See a Pedigree of the Family of Andrewes in the History of 
 Leicestershire, vol. III. p. 456. 
 
 X " Dr. Richardson was -a good-humoured man, wannly at- 
 tached to Tory piiwciples, and no less strict in the minutiae of 
 College discipline. It was matter of trivmiph in him to have been 
 present, when a boy, at the trial of Sachev erell ; and so rigid a 
 disciplinaiian was he, as to punish the wearing of a neckcloth 
 (which at that time was deemed unacademical) instead of a 
 stock, with the same strictness as a deviation from moral i-ecti- 
 tude." Dr. Richardson, at the time when the question proposed 
 by Dr. Jebb (see p. 6"30; was in agitation, was old and feeble ; but he 
 chose to be cairied to the Senate-house; and when his shrill voice, 
 on giving his vote, could scarcely be heard, he cried out to one 
 oi the Mastei-s, enquiring whose voice it was, ' It was I, Master 
 it was I ; I came to save the University.' " /Innual Necrology. 
 
 " Dr. Farmer's classical tutor was no ways distinguislied for 
 ability. He, however, had the interest of the upj)cr part of 
 the Society ; and obtained the tutoiship in preference to a man 
 of respectable talents the late Bishop Hurd, author of a politi- 
 cal work of considerable merit, [' Dialogues on the English Con- 
 stitution'], which proves him at the earlier pai-t of life to have 
 been a Whig, and apparently one zealous and well-informed. 
 It may therefore be inferred that Bickham was a Tory." Ibid. 
 
 II " The mathematical tutor was Mr. Hubbard, a Tory also in 
 principle ; yet, in a course of years, his mind a.ssumed a more 
 liberal cast. He was allowetl to be a judicious tutor; though, in 
 matters of discipline and (economy, regular to a degree of su- 
 perstition ; he was also (hia voice and apix'arance being favour- 
 able to tliat chanicter) a popular' preacher. i he government of 
 Emanuel College had thus passed into the hands of persons \ cry 
 ditlerent in {K>litical principles from those wiio formerly ])ie.Ti(lcd 
 in it : for Emanuel College had once been (^o fluctuatin"- arc 
 human institution."-) a kind of nur&ej-y for Piuitans." Ibid. 
 
 Mr.
 
 620 LITERARY ANECDOTES, 
 
 Mr. Farmer, when an under-graduate, applied him- 
 self chiefly to classical learning and the belles lettres; 
 was known to be a man of reading, distinguished 
 rather for sprightly parts than profound speculations ; 
 and much esteemed in the circle of his friends. 
 
 He took his degree of B.A. in 1757 ; ranked as a 
 Senior Optime ; and was of the same year with Dr. 
 "Waring and Dr. Jebb. The degree, though not of 
 the first class, procured him notice in College; and he 
 successfully contested the silver cup given at Emanuel 
 to the best graduate of that year with Mr. VVanley 
 SavvbridL;,e, brother to the Alderman. This cup is 
 preserved with great care in Dr. Farmers family. 
 
 His Cambridge Verses were, a Poem on laying 
 the first Stone of the Public Library, 1/55 ; ai^d 
 a Sonnet on the late King's death, X 76*0. 
 
 In 1760 he proceeded M. A, ; and succeeded as 
 classical tutor* to Mr. Bickham, who went off to the 
 valuable rectory of Loughborough in Leicestershire, 
 in the gift of Emanuel College. In discharge of 
 the part of his office more immediately classical, 
 Mr. Farmer was entitled to considerable respect. 
 He was a good scholar: but Theology and Mathe- 
 matics were not his favourite studies. He did not 
 give lectures in Euclid many years ; but in Grotius 
 and the Greek Testament he continued to lecture 
 till he resigned the tuition. By his pupils, as 
 formerly by his fellow students, he was generally 
 esteemed ; though an occasional want of punctuality 
 sometimes exposed him to censure from their parents. 
 
 For many years, while tutor, he served the curacy 
 of Swavesey, a village about eight miles from Cam- 
 britlge, not far from the road to Huntingdon, which 
 had been formerly served by tlie celebrated Dr. Jor- 
 tin. In this situation he gained the respect of his 
 
 * " The first boolvs th;'.t ho h-rbircd in were, Euclid's VAi'- 
 nirnti, Avisioplianp-, Tully's Otlice-5, the Ap.iphitiyon oi" Plau- 
 tiis, and Ihnd^ Hor.uc. In htt(M' pei-iorls, he lectured in Ouin- 
 tilian, Grftius do. \\r\x::\e J{cIia;ionis Christiana", and the Greek 
 
 con-
 
 DR. ilCHARD f ARMER. 621 
 
 congregation, rather by his affability and social man- 
 ners, than by the solemnity of his carriage, or the- 
 rigour of his doctrines*. At this time also he 
 formed an intimacy with Sir Thomas Hatton, bart. 
 a good-humoured country gentleman of Long- 
 Stanton in Cambridgeshire. 
 
 . He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Anti- 
 quaries, May 19, lj6S' 
 
 In 1765 he was junior proctor of the University 
 of Cam bridge. 
 
 ,Onthe lf)th of May 176^, he published, from the 
 University press " Proposalsfor printing, by Subscrip- 
 tion, The History and Antiquities of the Town of Lei- 
 cester; originally collected by fJ^illiam'f Staveley, 
 Ksq. Barrister at Law, and formerly of Peter-house in 
 that University. Now first offered to the Publick 
 from the Authors Manuscript; with very large Ad- 
 ditions and Improvements ; and an Appendix of 
 Papers relative to the Subject. By Richard Farmer, 
 M. A. I'Vllow of Emanuel College in Cambridge, 
 and of the Society of Antiquaries, London :|:." 
 
 * " Swavesoy was at that time frequented by Methodists 5 oc- 
 casioned by the Rev. Mr. Venn, then rector of Yelling in Hun- 
 tinirdonshirCj formerly fellow of .Icsus College, and by llie Rev. 
 Mr. Bcrridge, then vicar of Everton, ikilfordshire, formerly fel- 
 low of Clare Hall. B<;tvvecn these gentlemen and Farmer there 
 existed no great cordiality ; for Farnu r was no frieiul to their 
 doctrines, which appearc d to hini in~itional and gloomy. He 
 classed thein with Presbyterians ; and botl> Presltylcrians and 
 Methodists he considered as Puritans and Roundheads. I'aimer 
 was a greater adept in cracking a joke, than in unhinging a 
 Calvinict's crt-ed, or in quieting a gloomy conscience, liv, how- 
 ever, pfi-ses-ed a spirit of benevoi'iicc } and knew how to perforni 
 a generous aciion to a distrc^sf-d family. I'liere arc men who can 
 re^id over a ^l.^on's grave " l!e was a kind man," wiih greater 
 batisfaction thrui " He wa^ a grc.it Preacher." Aiinu'il Necrology. 
 
 t A mi,-tak< foi' Thomits Staxcley wlio is calliu liUiumi in 
 the Jiii/jrunalur wliich Mr. Favujer ol)taiued for it iu 17>''7. 
 
 I " ( (uiditions : I. llic Ivhtoi' pi'o;Hi-,(s, Th:it the Work be 
 elegjuitly |>rint('d in Qnarto at the Cambridge Ptess; Mid illus- 
 trated \\iil Coppii--pl;its, of the antiei't and i'rc^>f nt roun, Ro- 
 man PaveiiKMits, Coins, Seals, &c. 2. TiuU llie Cipy be s<'nt to 
 the I'ress ;is soon as the \umber of the Jmprcssion may be Itiicra- 
 blv ascertained; and that each Sub.-.rlber pay .")-. ^vUcn he give-i 
 hi^i Name, and ^. G(^ ou the Deli\ f '] !v'.k .;;. A few
 
 62f tlTERAR^ ANtCI50Ta* 
 
 That he set about this Work with the full ihtei>- 
 tion of pursuing it with dihgence, is evident from 
 the tenor of many of the Letters which he addressed 
 at that period to his Antiquarian Friends *. But, in 
 
 Copies will be printed on large Paper, at 15s. each. Subscrip-^ 
 tions will be received by the Editor} and Messre. Thurlbourn and 
 Woodyer, Cambridge; Mr.Dodsley, Pall Mall; Mr Millar, in the 
 Strand; Mr. Beecroft, in Paternoster-row, London ; Mr. Fletcher 
 and Mr, Piince, in Oxford > and by Mr. Gregory, and Mr. Farmer, 
 in Leicester," 
 
 * Several of these may be seen in an Advertisement prefixed 
 to the Third Volume of the History of Leicestershire, p. vi viii. 
 In answer to one of them. Sir Thomas Cave says, " I am glad 
 80 much giist comes to your mill, where, I am confident, it will 
 be made to produce the finest flour," In a Letter to Mr. Thomas 
 W'arton, Dec. 29, 1766, he says, " I am very glad that Joshua 
 [Barnes] is safe arrived at Oxford, His notes, I suspect, will not 
 figure greatly ; but you will smile at hi& identification of Hom&r 
 and Solomon. Pope (if I remember right) has a hint at this cu- 
 rious performance, though others have doubted its existence,'* 
 And, after some useful hints on Theocritus, he adds, " Professor 
 Taylor's Lectures on Theocritus are in the bands of a Rev. Mr. 
 Driffield, of Chelsworth, near Hadleigh, Suffolk. Some years 
 ago he talked of printing them; but tliat seems to be blown over. 
 I cannot find any body at present that has any acquaintance 
 with him. Suppose you throw away a letter at him yourself. 
 Don't imagine that I shall be impertinent enough to say any 
 thing more about Editors and Conmientators, which you are cer- 
 tainly sufficiently acquainted with. Pray remember to translate 
 'EXi^, in the first Idyllium, by a less ambiguous word than Capre- 
 olus, by which unfortunate one Master Creech is detected of trans- 
 lating from the Latin. With respect to the History of English 
 Poetry, 1 flatter myself 1 can be of much more service : let me 
 know your plan, &c. and command me as you please. When ! 
 have a little more time to spare, I will make you out a pretty 
 large Spenserian packet. You talk of being idle in the summer 
 I wish 1 had been so too- my business has been solely swearing^ 
 at Engravers. Poor Shaksjjeare lies upon the table. 
 
 (Raptim.) Yours mo.st aflectionately, R. Farmer. 
 
 '' P. S. niis.sci"awl has lain by the.se two days, to wait for a 
 note to Mr. Huddesford ; but i am now determined, with Mas- 
 ter Dogbciry, ' if I \\as as tedious as a King, to bestow it all on 
 your W Or.shij).' You may i-euiember thai we talked of a tiari- 
 <cript of natues fiom the Latin of Leicester MSS. ; but I think 
 we may be contented with tlie Preamble about the Clauses, or 
 somewhat to that purpose ; for these sort of things have grown 
 upon me viartdlousUj . But I must trouble one of you to look at 
 Dugdale in the Ashmolean, (i:^{n. 11 F '2. p. 3^7. When I looked 
 at his account of our Abbey, I thought it proved in the Monasti- 
 
 coa ;
 
 DR. RICHARD FARMER. 62$ 5 
 
 a very few months, he began to perceive that the 
 task he had undertaken was much more laborious than 
 lie had at first imagined ; and in his " Essay on the 
 Learning of Shakspeare, 17^6," addressed to his 
 worthy Friend and Schoolfellow Joseph Cradock, 
 Esq. of Gumley (a Work by which, as Dr. Warton 
 very justly and emphatically expresses it, " an end 
 is put for ever to the dispute concerning the Learning 
 of Shakspeare, by the masterly and convincing and 
 unanswerable Essay * of Dr. Farmer on this subject") 
 he laments that " he had been persuaded info that 
 employment. Though I have as much," he says, 
 " of the Natale Solum about me as any man what- 
 soever, yet, I own, the Primrose Path is still more 
 pleasing than the Fosse or the PVatUng-street : 
 ' Age cannot wither it, nor custom stale 
 
 Its infinite variety.' 
 
 And when I am fairly rid of the dust of Topogra- 
 phical Antiquity, which hath continued much 
 longer about me than I expected, you may very 
 probably be troubled again with the ever-fruitful 
 subject of Shakspeare and his Commentators." 
 
 To an Advertisement of his " Essay," which 
 appeared Jan. 22, 1767, is added, " Mr. Farmer 
 takes this opportunity of informing the Sub- 
 scribers to the History and Antiquities of the 
 Town of Leicester, that many of the Plates are al- 
 ready finished ; and that the whole Work is prose- 
 cuted with all the Expedition consistent with the 
 Nature of the undertaking. But the important 
 
 con ; but, if my memoranda be right, it is not. This therefore 
 (or wlvat part of it you or either of you think proper) I could wish 
 to have copied by my former amanuensis. 1 remember it is very 
 Ligible. Can I as}i likewise, at spmebody's leisure, for a peep at 
 the said Dugdale MSS, Angl. "292. No, 6'\d\ ?" He had then 
 his " History of T^ciccster" \cry mxich at hpart. 
 
 * A second edition of this valuable performiince was called for 
 in 17^7, in which are only a few corrections of style, but 
 no additional information. A third was printed in 17iS9, without 
 any additions except a note at the end, accomiting for his finally 
 abandoning his intended publication of the Antiquities of Lei- 
 cester. The Essay is alo given at large in Mr. Steevens's edi- 
 tion of Sliakspeare, j)rinted in fifteen volumes, 1793 3 and in 
 Mr. Reed's edition, twenty-one volumes, 1803. 
 
 Vol. IL R r >S Com-
 
 625 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Communications he has been favoured with, which 
 greatly enlarge his Book, must necessarily defer its 
 Publication somewhat longer than he expected: 
 Subscriptions will be received till Lady-day next, 
 at Half a Guinea the small, and 15^. the large 
 Paper." And in a letter to a venerable Antiquary, 
 on the 16th of April following, he says, " I am 
 much obliged by your attention to my attempt on 
 Antiquities ; which is a sacrifice of time to my na- 
 tive Town, with little or no view to profit or repu- 
 tation." Certainly not to profit ; for the price of the 
 quarto volume was to have been only half a guinea ! 
 
 In 1767, he took the degree of B. D. ; and in IjGg, 
 July 8, was appointed by Dr. Terrick, then Bishop 
 of London, one of the Preachers at the Chapel Royal 
 at Whitehall ; an engagement that required him to 
 be in London a certain number of months in the 
 year, a situation favourable to one now becoming a 
 collector of books. His place of residence was usu- 
 ally the house of Dr. Anthony Askew *, the very emi- 
 nent physician, in Queen-square, Bloomsbury ; who 
 died in 17 74. 
 
 Feb. 13, 1770, Mr, Farmer appears the profound 
 Antiquary, in thus addressing Mr. Thomas Warton ; 
 " Dear Sir, I should have been particularly happy 
 to have seen you at Askew's, as perhaps he has 
 more matters worth your notice, than he himself in 
 the multitude of his business might have time to 
 exhibit ; but I am sure he would at least be will- 
 ing, for I know not a more communicative man in 
 the world, I wish I could give you a satisfactory 
 account of Leland. They have no registers of ad- 
 missions or degrees at Christ's before the last cen- 
 tury ; nor are there any matriculations remaining of 
 Leland's time. All I find is, from an old Proctor's 
 book, that D^ Leland paid for the degree of B. A. 
 in 1522. So far I could have written some time 
 ago; but I waited from day to day for the Antiquary 
 of the College (one Mr. Wall), who is just now ar- 
 rived at Cambridge, I hoped he might have in- 
 
 * Of wliom see vol. III. p. 494, 
 
 _ formed
 
 pR. RICHARD FARMER. 6^7 
 
 formed me somewhat about the fellowship. Fuller, 
 I think, is the first who calls Ynxn fellow ; but here 
 again 1 was disappointed; his list of follows begins 
 only in the 22d of Henry VII 1. la truth, I tind 
 no reason to believe he v/as so. When he speaks of 
 himself and the College, he would scarcely have 
 omitted it : however, if any thing worth notice 
 should occur, you shall certainly have it. You can- 
 not oblige me more than by giving me an opportu- 
 nity of hoping at least to answer your questions. 
 Have you no job in the Histori/ of Poetry for your 
 very obHged and affectionate servant, H. Farmer } 
 
 P. S. Fuller calls Leiand fellow of Christ's (as he 
 pretends) on his own authority (Hist, of Camb. 
 p. 9 i), and quotes his Ufa Seheril (Sigeberti) ; but, 
 if you turn to it in ' Leiand de Scriptoribus,' or in 
 Tanner, you will see he only says he had been a 
 member of the college. Bale makes a distinct life 
 of Sigebert; but Wall is certainly right, where he 
 tells us there is no otlier than this. (Calanio rapi- 
 diss y 
 
 On the subject of the '' History of Leicester," 
 he thus addressed Mr. H. Baldwin, Nov. 12, 1/7^' 
 
 " Sir; A Correspondent of yours, in the Chronicle 
 of Saturday, informs you that he is a Subscriber to 
 some Book, which he has long w ished to receive ; 
 and complains, with seeming justice, of the delay of 
 publication. He must, however, be candid enough 
 to own, that there may be causes which do not ori- 
 ginate in the Author, and those unforese^en ones ; 
 such, at least, he will soon find, in the Preface to 
 the H'uitorif of Leicester, has been the case with that 
 M'^ork. I'iie matter is too long for a Ne\vspaj)er 
 disquisition ; but it will appear, that Mr. Farmer 
 has heen the person most deceived in his reasonable 
 expectations; and that not his Time only, but his 
 Money, lias been sacrificed to tiie Honour of his 
 Town, and the interest of his Subscribers. When 
 t\\<: delay jjroved inevitubk,', it was repeatedly adver- 
 tized in the Country Journals, that the Siib>;crip-. 
 
 s s ;<? lion-
 
 628 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 tion-money would be returned V)y the Booksellers 
 to idl those who should please to accept it; and tlie 
 same notice was given to Mr. Beecroft, in London, 
 frn:n whom almost all the Town Receipts were 
 taken. This is again oftered ; and Mr. Farmer 
 flatters himself that no room is left for complaint *. 
 
 " Some time ago Mr. Farmer, on the authority of 
 some persons whom he supposed to be better ac- 
 quainted than himself with the business of Plates 
 and Printing, was induced to tell his friends in the 
 country, tliat the Work would be finished in the^ 
 course of the Winter. He is very sorry to find him- 
 self unavoidably deceived, and must necessarily beg 
 a little further indulgence; he hopes only to the 
 Summer; certainly not beyond it." 
 
 The further prosecution of his " History of Lei- 
 cester," a task which he had in many respects found 
 unpleasant, he soon after thought it prudent to 
 abandon; a circumstance thus noticed by himself: 
 
 * At the distance of more than twenty yetii-s. Dr. Farmer was 
 publicly called upon, in a manner whicli the tbllouing letter 
 (written wholly unknown to him, and whilst he was labouring: 
 unde) a se\ ere indisposition) will fully explain : 
 
 * Mr. Urbax, In a periodical publication of December 
 la-st, it is asked, whether Dr. Farmer received subscriptions for 
 the Antiquities of Leicester, and whether the book has been pub- 
 lisheti. Without eniering into the motives for such a question, I 
 will answer, that Dr. Farmer did receive such subscriptions, and 
 that th.e book i.s not yet published. But let me add, that the 
 very respectable Dignitary here called in question, more than 
 tuenty yea)s ago, atherHzed in the St. James's C'hnjnicle tliat he 
 ha;i declined tiie undertaking, and tliat the sulwcriprion-nioner 
 was ready to Ix- returnrd. ^Should anv one doubt this ass.?rti(>n, I 
 am ready to give the best proof of it, by repeating tije sanie 
 oSf-X in the Doc'or'-s name. You njay, therefon', Sir, iissure your 
 Ri::jdem, tiiat, if by chj^ur;ce there should be i.\i\\ any one or more 
 fiubscripfionii out>Jiandiiig, tlie money ivill, on demAud, be re- 
 turned by J.'Nichols. Ju/f/ 3, 1797/' 
 
 i d\A iiot cxjftx-r that many TvouJd apply for tlie return of 
 snch inmil .^iims n^^/ireshiUin^jrn and ^ecfyi t-nllihi'ys mid sit pence. I 
 p;i;d, bov.cver, fbf><i smnh to Jite Suhnriher-s ; and two of them 
 Ci-ijiif fixmi the Exe.*utors of my rich Friend Mr. James Doili.k-y ! 
 - My generosity, however, (thougl^ twoof die niceipta were fos: 
 itixge jin{..'er} cofet loe ojdy thirty ?;iiiiiini^s !
 
 JDR. RICHARD FARMER. 62^ 
 
 ** This Work was just begun at the press, when 
 the Writer was called to the superintendance of a 
 larjjje College, and was obliged to decline the under- 
 taking. The Plates, however, and some of the Ma- 
 terials, have been long ago put into the hands of a 
 Gentleman who is every way qualified to make a 
 proper use of tiiem *." 
 
 'J'he handsome present was thus acknowledged: 
 
 " The Collections of Thomas Staveley, esq. and 
 the Kev. Samuel Carte, with several original MSS. 
 and some engraved Plates, were the gift of a learned 
 ]3ignitary of the Church, from whom the Publick 
 long expected a History of his native Town of Lei- 
 cester ; and the handsome manner in which this 
 has been publicly noticed, is an inducement for 
 wishing to deserve the compliment which Dr. 
 Farmer has bestowed -f-." 
 
 In 1775, on the death of Dr. Richardson, he was 
 chosen Master of Emanuel College; Mr. Hubbard, 
 the senior Fellow, declining' it on account of aqe and 
 infirmities;};. He now took the degree of D. D. ; 
 and was very soon succeeded in the tutorship by 
 Dr. Wiiham Rennet, an elegant and profound scho- 
 lar, wlio was afterwards most deservedly lionoured 
 with a mitre, and is now Bishop of Cloyne. 
 
 In 1775-6' Dr. Farmer served, in his tiu'u. the office 
 of Vice chancellor of the University ; and in that 
 elevated oilice acquired a considerable degree of 
 reputation, and was afterwards frequentl}' the Pro- 
 vkecu m-('liar'n(s . 
 
 *' The disturbances in America having by this time 
 become serious, I he University of Cambridge, witli 
 nnmbtrlcss other loyal Bodies, voted an Address to 
 
 * Essay on (ho Lt'^rnim? of Sliakoipeare, ed. 1789, p. 95. 
 
 f Pi-(tace to the Misloiy of l^cicc^tershue j and Gent. -Mjig. 
 vol. LXV. p. 1H5. 
 
 + " On tiie deallk of Dr. Richaidson, the Coiico-e assenihl<-ti 
 March '21, 177"', \vhen thov unanimously electeo Mr. Henry 
 Hubbard if) -ucceed liini, nho \va so lon^; an ornament in tltat 
 respectaljle Society ; but ^vho, havint;-, itii his wonted nwx'p- 
 raticni and disititere-^tedness, ikclincd thai honour, gjive his. fuU 
 uffnure to his fiiend Mr. Fuiiner." Jicc. fV. Cole, ^JS, 
 
 the
 
 63ft lITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 the King, approving of the measures adopted by Go- 
 vern menttoreducethetkctiousColonisls to theirduty ; 
 the Address, however, was not carried unanimous iy. 
 It was, of course, opposed by the Rev. John Jebb, so 
 well known for his free opmions in pohtics and re- 
 ligion, and by some others ; of whom one man, a 
 member of the Ccqmt, carried his opposition so far, 
 as actually to refuse the key of the place which con- 
 tained the seal necessary on such occasions. In this 
 emergency, Dr. Farmer, who was then Vice- 
 chancellor, is said to have forced open the door 
 with a sledge-hammer; an exploit which his de- 
 mocratical biographers aitect to ridicule, by calling 
 it his courtly zeal, and the occasion of all his .subse- 
 quent preferments *. If it be indeed true that he 
 broke the door in pieces with his own hands, his 
 conduct must be acknowledged to have been not 
 very decorous; hut, if the otfice which he filled be 
 taken into consideration, we apprehend it would be 
 as difficult to prove that conduct essentiallv wrong, 
 as to vindicate the obstinate arrogance of him who 
 occasioned it. 'llie seal was the property of the 
 University, of Vv'hich this outrageous supporter of 
 the Bill of Rights was hut an individual member. 
 The University had resolved that it should he em- 
 ployed for a certain purpose, which it was the duty 
 of the Vice-chanceiior to carry into etlect ; and, 
 since the seal was refvssed to him, he had no alter- 
 native but to get })ossession of it by force. We 
 hope, however, that lie ernployed a servant to break 
 
 * The Author of Dr. Farmer's Life in xb.o " Annual Necrology, 
 evidently impres.-rcd with grrat personal esteem for his quondam 
 Tutor, but differing tola cu'lo from him in political opinions, 
 observes, " that i\\Q two parties of Vv hig and Tory, at Cambridge, 
 had for some time carried their contentions rather high 5 till, on 
 the 17th of March i76"9, an Address was presented to the King 
 by the Tories, containing notliing short of a reprobation of the 
 principles and conduct of the j)opu]ar party. A few years alter 
 hap[)ened tiie American war. An A(idrcss was again' presented 
 by the Tories, jusdfxing the cruel raea.sures then pursued, and 
 4hc men who adopted ttieui." Annual Necrology. 
 
 the
 
 DR. RICHARD FARMER. 6Sl 
 
 the door ; and, indeed, as Vice-chancellor, he must 
 have had so many servants at his command, that it 
 is not conceivable he would wield the sledge-hammer 
 himself*." 
 
 On the death of Dr. Barnadiston, Master of Be- 
 ne't College, he was (June 27, 1778,) unanimously 
 elected Proto-Bibliothecariu^^ or Principal Libra- 
 rian, of the University-^; to which (as well as to the 
 Headship of his College) he was well entitled from 
 his literary character. 
 
 In a very few days after he was admitted to the 
 office, he thus addressed his friend Mr. Gough : 
 *' Dear Sir, Emanuel, July 21, 1778. 
 
 " You have repeatedly called me a very idle and 
 ungrateful fellow ; but I think you will pardon me 
 when you hear my situation. When I received 
 your Letter, I was confined by the rheumatism i 
 and, as soon as possible, carried into the country to 
 get rid of it. The death of your Master ;|: brought 
 me back, when I was very little able to canvass for 
 his place ; and had, besides, a Sermon to make for 
 our Infirmary business ; at which instant, I had an 
 account of the death of my Father ^ : the conse- 
 quences of which have totally engaged me till last 
 night. When I returned, I found myself obliged 
 to go into Suffolk this morning; whence I mean to 
 return about the middle of the week ; and if I live, 
 and any thing appears worth transcription, you shall 
 hear by the end of it from 
 
 Vours very aftectionately, R. Farmer. 
 
 " I nnist go to the Libraries, as I have little or 
 nothing of my own." 
 
 Dr. Fanner, when a young man, wrote some 
 very excellent " Directions for studying the English 
 History;'* which, with his permission, were printed 
 
 * Encvclop.'edia Biitannica, 
 
 t Cole MSS. 
 
 I Mr. Gough had been educated, at Bcne't College, under Dr. 
 
 Barnadiston. 
 
 See befoic, p. 618. 
 
 in
 
 63* LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 in the European Magazine for 179I ; and are also 
 copied in Mr. Seward's " Biographiana." 
 
 In April ] 7 80 Dr.Farmer was collated byBp. Hurd, 
 then Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, to the Pre- 
 bend of Aldrewas, and the Chancellorship annexed, 
 founded in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, vacant 
 by tlie death of Dr. Greene, Dean of Salisbury. 
 
 About this period, he lent Mr. Cole " The Ne- 
 gotiations of Cardinal Thomas Woolsey," in MS. 
 w'hich Mr. Cole transcribed (vol. LIX. of his MSS.) 
 It was a MS. of about 400 leaves, apparently written 
 about the reign of Charles tlie First. Mr. Gray (to 
 whom the MS. was lent about 1770) returned it 
 with this note, written on a blank leaf of the 
 book itself: " Mr. Gray returns Mr. Farmer's 
 Books, with many thanks. The MS Letters would 
 be of some value, if tlie Transcriber bad better un- 
 derstood what he was about ; but there are so many 
 words mistaken, so many omitted, that the sense 
 can often only be made out by conjecture. Does 
 not recollect, that they have been printed in any of 
 the Collections; but thinks, he has seen several of 
 them (the originals) in the Harleian Library. Lord 
 Herbert plainly had seen them, and (as far they go) 
 has made them the foundation of his History. They 
 serve to shew, as be says, that the Cardinal, in his 
 Dispatches, was more copious than eloquent. The 
 Instructions to Tunstall and Wingtield, after the 
 Battle of Pavia, and the King's Directions after he 
 had signed the Peace with France, are most re- 
 markable^. F ('}}}}). Hall, 12 Jpril." It was about 
 1770, that Mr. Farmer and Mr. Gray became ac- 
 quainted. " Before, they had been shy of each 
 other ; and, thoiigli Dr. Farmer was then esteemed 
 one of the most ingenious of men in the University, 
 yet Mr. (jiay's singular niceness in the choice of his 
 acciuaintance, made him appear fastidious to a great 
 degree to all who were not acquainted with his 
 manner. Indeed, there did not seem to be any 
 
 * This article was purcliased at Dr. Farmer's sale by Mr. Bind- 
 hy, in whose possession it now remains, 
 
 pro-
 
 DR. RICHARD FARMER. ^33 
 
 probability of any great intimacy, from the style 
 and manner of each of them ; the one a cheerful, 
 companionable, hearty, open, downright man, of no 
 great regard to dress, or common forms of beha- 
 viour; the other of a most fastidious and recluse 
 distance of carriage, rather averse to all sociability, 
 but of the graver turn, nice and elegant in his per- 
 son, dress, and behaviour, even to a degree of tini- 
 calness and effeminacy 1 so that nothing but their 
 extensive learninG: and abilities could ever have coa- 
 lesced two such different men ; and both of great 
 value in their own line and walk. Tliey were ever 
 after great friends ; and Dr. Farmer and all his ac- 
 quaintance had soon after too much reason to lament 
 his loss, and the shortness of their acquaintance *." 
 
 " Some time after this, he was made Pre- 
 bendary of Canterbury ; we believe, through the re- 
 commendation of Lord North, then Premier t and 
 it was at Canterbury that the Writer of this sketch 
 had the happiness of being introduced to him, and 
 witnessing his hospitality -I-."' 
 
 He was appointed Prebendary, on the death of Dr. 
 William Tatton, in February 1782; and was installed 
 in March. When he returned thanks :|: at Court 
 for this last preferment, the King very politely asked 
 him, *' Whether the University was flourishing, and 
 what Noblemen were resident ; and told him, that 
 he could wish every one of that rank had as good 
 principles instilled into them as the Earl of West- 
 moreland." Dr. i'armer had l)eforetold Mr. Cole, 
 that Charles Fox, the vehement haranguer in Par- 
 liament agL.^nst the Court, had publicly reflected on 
 hnn. as hrecdiu'.; up t!ie J'>.arl, his pupil, in Eniarmel 
 and Tory princijjles : the mention, therefore, of this 
 Earl to i)r. l''armer v^as ;<s i)olite us aj)>-op().s. The 
 O'leen, who came to liini, in her l)n)ken Engli:^h, 
 accosted him thus ' Doctour! in what part of the 
 
 * Cole, ?.1SS. vol. LIX. p)>. 57, 5S. f Enc3'(lo));c(li;iBnt:innica. 
 
 I ' Feb. 1~, \7^'2, he r.'iinc to Iv);k1.)m, to ki.ss hand^ for 
 the prrhoiid of C'lmtLibuiy, vaciiut bv tlie death of J)r. 'I'at- 
 ton." ir. Cole, Ji^v. 
 
 Kini:
 
 634 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Kinfi'dom do you reside?' ' Always at Cambridge, 
 Wadam.' r' Oh, College? replied her Majesty, and 
 gave hiin joy of his preferment *. 
 
 "After enjoying his Prebend for several years, he 
 resigned it on being preferred by the late Mr. 
 Pitt, then IVemier, to a Residentiaryship of St. 
 I'aul's -j- ; and we have reason to believe that he de- 
 clined a Bishoprick |', which was oliered to him as a 
 reward for the constitutional principles which he was 
 
 * Cole's MSS. 
 
 f In an hour or two after he had received the officii informa- 
 tion of this appointment, I met Ixim near Amen Corner j and he 
 pleasantly observed to me, " I could now, if I thought proper, 
 cheat the Minister ; for I have in my pocket an appointment 
 to the Residentiaryship of St. Paul's, without having resigned 
 the Prebend of Canterbury." J. N. 
 
 + " Dr. Farmer had not 3 ct arrived at the zenith of his pros- 
 ]>evity 5 and, indeed, declined being raised to that dignity, to 
 which the Minister was inclined to advance him. The offer of a 
 Bisho])nck was twice made him by Mr. Pitt. The promise, at 
 least inriuencc, made personally, as well as by letter, may be, 
 as it always is, considered as the sure forerunner of advancement. 
 But the truth is, the solemnity and formality of the Episcopal 
 character v\ ould have sat but awkwardly on Farmer. He chose to 
 move without restraint 3 find to enjoy liimself without responsi- 
 bility. To use his own language to a friend, ' One that enjoyed 
 the Theatre, and the jQueen's Head in the evening, would have 
 Blade but an indifferent Bishop.' A piece of pi'eferment, how- 
 e^er, was soon conferred on him by Mi'. Pitt, no less agreeable 
 to his taste, in point of situation, than valuable in point of in- 
 come, a Residentiaryship of St. Paul's. This was given him in 
 exchange for the Prebend of Canterb-ary. It was agreeable to 
 his taste, as requiring three months residence in the capital, and 
 only three, in the year ; enabling him to enjoy in succession his 
 literary cuib> in London, and his literary letreat at Cambiidge. 
 It was valuable, for its clear income is twelve or fourteen hun- 
 dred a year, besides perquisites, which, though not easily ascer- 
 tained, are coiisiderable. The ingenious, good-himioured Doc- 
 tor now expressed himself in terms of pei'fect satisfaction. He 
 looked for nothing higher. Ke enjoyed a plentiful income hixn- 
 self, and, jjossessing with it a considerable share of patronage, 
 hat! the means (an important consideration to a kind-hearted 
 man) cf rendering es-ential services to his friends. Indej)en- 
 dently, therefoi-e, of the political principles originally imbibed 
 by Dr. Faruicr, it was natural enough for him to express, and, 
 in his conduct through life, to exhibit, a warm attachment to 
 Mr. Piit, and to s\ipport with great cordiality the measures of 
 hi.s adUiinisUatiojj." Annual Nccrol-o^y. 
 
 at
 
 DR. RICHARD FARMER. ' 635 
 
 at pains to propagate, not only in his college, but, 
 as far as his influence went, through the whole 
 University *. 
 
 On the vacancy of the small vicarage of St. Ni- 
 cholas at Leicester, then worth only 4jl. a year, 
 the Rev. William Bickerstafie, an old schoolfellow 
 with Dr. Farmer, applied for it by petition to Lord 
 Chancellor l'hurlow-~i~; and, at the same time, in the 
 
 * EncyclopsedJa Britannica. 
 
 f " To the Right Honourable Edward Lord Thurlow, Lord 
 High Chancellor of Great Brirain. 
 " My Lord, Leicester, Jugust 10, 178(>, 
 
 "By the advice of Mr. Macnamara, a Representative of Leicester, 
 I am instructed to appeal to your Lordship's humanity, to grant 
 me a gracious iiearing, by a private addiess. At fifty-eight years 
 of age, permit a poor Curate, i=isirj)ported by priv:ite property, 
 to detain your attention a few moments. From 1750 I liave 
 been Usher at the Free Grammar school here, with an appoint- 
 ment of 19/. 16's. a yeai- ; seven years Curate of St. Mary's, my na 
 tive palish, in this Borough 5 then six years Curate at St. Martin's 
 wirh All Saints, lately bestowed by your Lordship on Mr. Gregory 
 of this place ; and now an opportunity occui's to your Lordsh'p, to 
 give nie an occasion to pray for my l?enefactor, and those that are 
 dear to him. during my life. 'Tis this ; a dispensation is ex- 
 pected eveiy day, by the Head ^Master of the School where I serve, 
 the Rev. Mr. Pigott, Vicar of tJreat Wig-ston in this county, to 
 coimect a fresh acquisition in Lincolnshire with it ; and he urges 
 your Loid.^hip's Petitioner to try for the living of St. Nicholas 
 here, which he must relinquish. It is simply 3.5/. a year ; but, as 
 this Corporation grants an annual aid to each living in Leicester, 
 of 10/. a year, St. Nicholas, joined to my School, might render 
 me comfortable for life, and jjrevent tlie uncertainty of a Ciuacy, 
 and the hard necessity, at any time of l^^e, of being harrassed, 
 in all weathers, by a distant cure. My Lortl, if this fieedom is 
 di.sgusting, impute it to the sympathising heart of the generous 
 Macnamara, who prompted nie t(; it in thes*: wofds, speaking of 
 your Lordship : ' Indeed, 1 feci too forcibiy my obligations to 
 press further, or trespass more at present ttpon his Loidship ; but, 
 as you aie a native of Lekestei', and a freeman, I conieive it my 
 dutv to hint to you, that an application immediately fiom yonr- 
 fccli", stating your situation exactly, as you have done to me, 
 may have the flc>ired ell'(\ t, as his Lordships great aiiiliticj can 
 only be equalled by hi.s hnmanily and benevoience.' May the all- 
 jiiighf y, all-pvesont, and all-merciad God din-ct your Lordship, on 
 tiiis and all occa.sions, lo do His pltiisure; and protect vou frf)m 
 all ilangers, which may threaten mjuI, budy, or estate; i.-, the 
 heart V prayer of 
 
 " \oai- Loidship's humbh.' suj)pliuut, Mm. Bu K-EKtixvi 1 1-." 
 
 h;'|)i;
 
 6,5^ LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 ho|>e of forwarding his snit, wrote also to Dr. Far- 
 mer the letter which is copied below *. 
 
 " It has been said, that the delights of the 
 pipe and the bottle, in Emanuel parlour, out- 
 weighed, in his estimation, the dazzling splen- 
 
 * '* I think, if Dr. Farmer would undertake my cause, through 
 means usually at hand with men of eminence, I might, by Di- 
 vine I'rovidence, find the Lord Chancellor dispcised to serve me. 
 This living- is so immediately tenable with my school, and coni- 
 patible with an additional curacy, such as Ayleston^ which I 
 have, that I cannot forbear troubUnji your Reverence to take up 
 arms in my cause, and declare, ' Old neighbour, old playfellow, 
 inveniam vinm, autfnciam.' My school is but 19/. 16s. a year. 
 I ha\e no other certain tenure at present. I sei'vcd Mr. Sim- 
 monds seven }ears at St. Mary's, and Mr. Haines six at St. Mar- 
 tin's Avith All Saints. These have vanished with their Vicars j and 
 if I had not Ajleston, I might be haii-assetl with a distant cure, 
 to the discomfort of my life, and the prejudice of my health, at 
 n time when more ease and kisiire seem necessary. I presume 
 Mr. Secretajy Pitt, the Representative of Cambridge Univerbity, 
 and even tiie Chancellor of the same, wiCn a crowd of other 
 great personages, have eyes, ears, and hearts, at the service of 
 its late Vice-thancellor, and yet Master of Emanuel." l^o an- 
 other frienfl Mr. Bickerstaffe writes, " At TiS years of age, hav- 
 ing more inclination to a church-living than a wife, I applied to 
 my old neighhfjur and playfellow. Dr. Farmer, to procure me 
 St. Nicholas parish hcrej and my application was so well-timed, 
 as to get the hnsiness into the hands of i\Ir, Pitt, their Univer- 
 sity-represenTative, by the kind service of the Vice-chancellor, 
 who at the same time attended (o ronunit to him the University- 
 address to the King. Dr. Farmer informed me, that tliis Chan- 
 cellor V as his particular friend ; and that, if St. Nicholas's was pre- 
 engaged, I was )Hit in the way of chtirch-preferment. The liv- 
 ing is yet undisposed of 5 the Lord Chancellor is, or lately was, 
 at Buxton ; and I remain uninformed of any thing further: 
 there is no 100m to expect a smile of fa> our till the gout is more 
 civil ! It seems like a Cbancery-siiit. The present Chancellor is 
 said to be a leisurely gentleman in these matters. He keeps liv- 
 iiigs in suspense. This may be dt signed to acctmmlate an aid, 
 to pay for the seals and the indoctior Swift says, ' Lord Trea- 
 surer, for once be quick !' Should you tell the Chancellor, ' it 
 would suit him, and that / say it,' it nught cost me ti)e loss of 
 his slow favoui-s. At 77?;/ age, I coidd tell him, with strict pro- 
 priety, Bh dat. fjui cito." 
 
 Letter.^ to the same purport were addressed to Mr. Macnamara 
 and Mr. ILmgerford. To the letter he says, " Mr. Keck and 
 yourself solicited loid Denbigh in my beltalf for St. Mar\''s5 and \ 
 hope 1 have not forfeited your fa.>oiu: since." ; 
 
 dour
 
 DR. RICHAUD FARMER. 637 
 
 dour of the raitre : but he had other ami 
 better reasons for preferring a private to a pubhc' 
 station. In early life, at least 'before he was ad- 
 vanced in years, lie had felt the power of love *, and 
 had suffered such a disapjx)intmeut as sunk deep in 
 his mind, and for a time threatened his understand- 
 ing. From that period, though he retained his fa- 
 culties entire, he acquired some peculiarities of 
 manner ; of which he was so far conscious, as to be 
 sensible that they would hardly become the charac- 
 ter of a Bishop: being likewise strongly attached to 
 dramatic entertainments (which, if we mistake not, 
 the English Bisliops never witness), and delighting 
 in clubs, where he could have rational conversation 
 witiiout state or ceremony of any kind >-he very 
 wisely preferred his Kesidentiaryship to the highciit 
 dignity in the Church -jf-y 
 
 '"' His voice was strong and his manner of speakinij 
 rapid and quick. S >, that one day a lady hearing 
 him preach at St. Mary's and end his Sermon ab- 
 ruptly, turned to an officer of dragoons who was with 
 her, and said that Dr. Farmer knew how to stop 
 short in a full gallop as well as any of the men in his 
 company '^ /' 
 
 * This attachment, formed wiiilst curate of Swavesey, w?iea 
 his situation in. life was inadequate to the union, continued 6r 
 many years unimpaired: and, when iiis fame and ftutune ren- 
 dered his situation in life at least adcijuate to the rank of th 
 object of )iis aSW.'tions, he began to think .seriously of Matrimony ; 
 but, on mature; i-eftexion, found that his Ivabits of life wtive tiie 
 too deeply roored to be changed into tba-e of domestic aiTange- 
 inents with any pn>})able ciiance of peiffHit happiness to eitlmr 
 jjarty. Mr Cole, however, says, " Dr. Cohnan told me. May J, 
 1782, that he had it from sufhcient authority, that sir Thomas 
 Hatton had refused hh eldest daughter to Dr. Faj-Kier, but on 
 viliat foujidaUon he knew not. The lady is 9.7 or 2H, anrl Dr. 
 Fanner about 47 or 'IS. It ivill probably be a^itat mortifica- 
 tion to both, as to every one it sceinc<i that tlifcir rex^d for eaeb 
 other WHS, reciprocal. Dr. Farmer's j>ref(i nient is rqual to isOUil, 
 pecantnutBt-, and I guesi the Jady'a foi-tiuje, tiicre beijij^ six. dauirh- 
 ters and t.vo sons, not it rj' gnjal." 
 
 f tntyclopoedia Biitannica.
 
 653 UTERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 The latter years of Dr. Farmer's life were pretty 
 cqiiiilly divided between Emanuel College and the 
 Ue;ii(ientiary house in Amen-Corner. 
 
 ** His residence in London was favourable, as 
 already hinted, to his love of literary society ; and 
 fbr many years he was a member of diflerent clubs, 
 composed of men of letters, by whom he was much 
 esteemed. 
 
 "Of this class was the Eumclean club, at Blenheim 
 tavern, Bond-street, ofwiiich Dr. Ai.h * was Presi- 
 dent; andofvvliicli Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Bos- 
 well, Mr. Windham, M. P. Mr. Pvnight, M. P. 
 Sir Cieorge Shuckburgh, the Honourable Frederick 
 Nortli, Doctor Lawrence, M. P. Sir (jeorge Baker, 
 IVIr. Sharpe, Mr. Seward, Doctor Burney, occ. &c. 
 were members. 
 
 " He was also a member of theUnincreasableClub, 
 Ouceu's head, Holborn, of wiiich Mr. Isaac Reed 
 was the President ; ?lr. Rofnney the Painter, Mr. 
 Long, Mr. Hay ley, Mr. Braitiiwaite, Mr. Sharpe, 
 Dr. Bv'rdmore of the Charter-house, Mr. Nevvbery, 
 Mr. George Nicol, &c. &c. were members -I-." 
 
 Dr. Farmer was elected a member of the Lite- 
 
 * John Ash, M. D. F. R. S. and A. SS. fellow of the Royal 
 College of Physicians, formerly physician lo the General Hospi- 
 tal at Birmingham, in which town he was eminent in his j^rac- 
 tiee, and where he had eonsiderabie jiroperty. lie was of Trinity 
 College, Oxford; M. A. 174G; B. M. 1750; M. D. 1754. Too 
 close application to his ]5rofession having affected his intellects, 
 he recovered th(un by intense application lo mathematical studies. 
 He was the author of " iLxperinients and Obsei'vations to investi- 
 gate, by Chemical Anahsis, the Medicinal Pi'operlies of the 
 Mineral Waters of Spa and Aix-la-Chapelle, in (iermany, and 
 of the Waters, &c. near St. Amand, in French Flanders', l/SS," 
 Svo; also, " Oratio Harveii, 1790," 4to. He died in Bromp- 
 ton-row, Knightsbridge, June 18, 1798, ait. 75 ; and was buried 
 on the 2Gth. A whole-length portrait of him, sitting, was 
 engraved in 1791, by Bartolozzi, after sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 {- Annuiil Necrology; wheie the Club in Essex -.stieet, founded 
 by Di\ Johnson and his friends, is also mentioned. But of 
 tir.it Club Dr. Farmer was not a member, though in the later 
 period of it he once or twicti was a visi'.or. bee Geut. Mag. vol. 
 LV. }p. i, 99. 
 
 rary
 
 PR. RICHARD FARMER. 63$ 
 
 tary Club (founded by Dr. Johnson and sir Joshua 
 ReVnolds) Feb. s, 1795. 
 
 He died, after a long and painful illness, at the 
 Lodge of Emanuel College, September S, 1/97 ; 
 and was buried in the Chapel. 
 
 The following epitaph in the Cloisters of the 
 Colleg-e, written by Dr. Parr, accurately exhibits 
 his more amiable and respectable qualities ; and re- 
 flects honour on the candour of the learned writer; 
 between whom and Dr. Fanner there subsisted great 
 <jlifFerence of opinion on political subjects, 
 
 " ^: ^ " 
 
 Ricardus farmer, S. T. P. 
 
 Miigister hujus Collegii, 
 
 vir facetus et dulcis festivique sermonis, 
 
 (jnec^ et Latin^ doctus, 
 in explicancia veterum Anglorum Poesi 
 
 subtilis atque elegans, 
 
 Academia^ C-mtabriiiieusis stabihendce 
 
 et aaipHHcandai studiosus, 
 
 Reikis et Patriaj amantissimus, 
 
 vixit ann. lxii. mens. in. dies xiiii ; 
 
 decessit sexto id. Septemb. 
 
 anno Doiriini 
 
 M DCC LXXXX VII; 
 
 et conditus est juxta aram vicini sacelli 
 in sepnlcro quod sibi vivas nuncupaverat." 
 
 His will*, dated about 17 i)'^-, was written on a 
 
 * In a fow !ays after the Doctor's (leatli, the foUowini^ /tv/ 
 (V esprit, (not imjjrobahly hy his friend Mr. (ienrgc Steeveni) ajj- 
 pearcd in one of the <lfiily papers: " I'liis eminent C'rltick and 
 enlightened Scholar has left few of ecpial eclebrity behind lilin 
 at Canibridice : he l>as turned his mind more to ti)'.' J5ellcs Ix!ttre:< 
 than men flo in general who are eckieattd in the trammels of 
 that Monkish Kstablisliment. Tiie Doctor composed some of 
 his pl(;a'^antest VVork> in an arbour on tite vert;e of a pond where 
 he resided, where a pipe was hh* princij)al comj.'anion ; and, 
 when lie relaxed from lii.s labour.-;, ie amu8<.'d himself with a 
 variety of water-fowls, which covered Ids jioiid ; and which, 
 Kvith others not of an aquadc natujc, were mucii admired by alj 
 
 those
 
 640 LITERARY ANECDOTE?. 
 
 blank leaf torn out of an old book, and was nearly 
 as under: " I give to my brother, Joseph Farmer, 
 all my j)ropertv, not doubting of his using it for the 
 benefit of our Family *-" 
 
 "Though a good classical scholar, Dr. Farmer 
 lias been celebrated only for that kind of litera- 
 ture which is connected with the English Drama; 
 and, having a strong predilection for old English 
 writers, he ranked high among the Commentators 
 
 those who visited his hospitiible mansion. These birds, a Cam- 
 bridge friend informs me, he has disposed of in the following 
 manner : 
 
 My Geese I e^ivc and bequeath to the Heads of the University. 
 
 My Ducks and Drakes to Sir Henry Vane Tempest, 
 
 My Peacock to the Duchess of Gt)rdon. 
 
 ]My Guinea Fcnvl to Colonel Cawthorne. 
 
 ]My Pigeons to Lady Buckinghamshire, &c. &c. 
 
 ]Mv Doves to the Princesses. 
 
 My Screech-owl to Mrs. Mattocks. 
 
 Sly Hunnning-bird to jMr. Courtney. 
 
 My Bantams to Tommy Onslow. 
 
 My Chicken to M. A. Taylor. 
 
 My King-fisher to the French Directors. 
 
 Rly Cock Sparrow to the Duke oi' (^ueeusburj', 
 
 i\Iy Old Grey Rarot to Mrs. Cowley. 
 
 My Pullets to Lord William Gordon. 
 
 My'''uckoo to Mr. Esten. 
 
 My Cormorant to (he Duke of Marlboroug'h, 
 
 My Goldfinches- -to Sir \\'illiam Pulteney, 
 
 My Vulture to j^ord I-x^nsdale. 
 
 My Plagle to Mr. Pitt. 
 
 IVIy Jack-daws to the Bond-street Beaux. 
 
 My Magjiie to Mr. George Cohnan. 
 
 And my Rooks to the Club at Brookes'.s, 
 Grade, Sept. 21. Onk of the Cock and Hew Club." 
 
 * Dr. Parmer left two survi\ing brothers, Tiiomas and Jo- 
 seph, IxJth of whom are living in gieat respectability at Leicester, 
 Tluniiiis is the tixthvr of the Rev. 'lliomas Farmer, M. A. ^vho 
 vas p)esentcd by his uncle to the vicarage of St. Luke, Mid- 
 tlle.>,e\, 17 1)6' ; and of U'vo daughters, both manied, and Uving at 
 Leictster. Joseph, who was lately Colonel of the Leicester Vo- 
 lunteers, rcm;dns unmarried. Three of the Doctor's sisters are 
 also living; 1. Hannah, unmarried; 2. Sarah, married, first, 
 Allen Brown, gent, secondly, to Richard Jervis ; but has no 
 children ; 3. Mary, wife of the Hon. and Re\_, Richard Bvron^ 
 of Christ Church, Oxford, M.A. 5 rector iA' Houghton in the- 
 county of Durham ; w ho has two sons, and several grandchildren. 
 
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 DR. RICHARD FARMER. 64I 
 
 upon Shakespeare. His ^Essay upon the Learning 
 of Shakespeare' was, in fact, the first foundation 
 of his fame, which an unconquerable indolence 
 prevented him from carrying to that height to 
 which the exercise of his hterary talertts could not 
 have failed to raise it: so great, indeed, was his love 
 of ease, that, after having announced for subscrip- 
 tions a History of Leicestershire, and actually begun 
 to print it, rather than submit to the fatigue of car- 
 rying it through tiie press, he returned the subscrip- 
 tions. Indolence and the love of ease were, in- 
 deed, the Doctor s chief characteri sticks ; and to 
 them, with the disappointment already mentioned, 
 may be attributed a want of attention to his exter- 
 nal appearance, and to the usual forms of beha- 
 viour belonging to his station. In the company 
 of strangers, the eccentricity of his appearance 
 and of his manners made him sometimes be taken 
 for a person half crazed. The Writer of this 
 sketch saw him one morning at Canterbury, 
 dressed in stockinirs of unbleached thread, brown 
 breeclies, and a wig not worth a shilling; and when 
 a Brother Prebendary uf his, remarkable for elegance 
 of manners and propriety of dress, put him in mind 
 that they were to attend on the Archbishop, Dr. 
 Farmer replied, that it had totally escajjsd him ; but 
 he went home, and dressed himself like L Clergyman. 
 That he sat late reading, and occasional! v drinking 
 brandy and water, cannot be denied ; and it is lite- 
 rally true, tliat he could not easily be pi'cvailed upon 
 to settle his accomjits. His ncconipts with some of 
 his pupils, vvheii i utor of liis College, were never 
 settled to the day of !iis (hnUh ; and the young gen- 
 tlemen not unfrequently took advantage of this un- 
 cojir^uerable indolence to borrow of him consider- 
 able sums, wc^ll kii'juiiig ih.it then^ was litile chance 
 of a demand being ev( r ninf'.'j nvow tiieir jjarents. 
 One gentleman, in p;irii(:;;l;;r. to:;', a iViciid (;l" onrs, 
 who was liiniselfa jX'nsio.iei' oi' I'mauuel, that, wh'jn 
 lie left that Coiietiv, !je wa^; iM-ar 50/. imiebt to Dr. 
 Vol. U. ' i J F.I-
 
 ^4? ilTERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Farmer; '^ a debt," said he, " which I would have 
 scrupulously paid, but, after repeated solicitations, I 
 could get no bill from him." Having been a warm 
 partizan of (lovernment during the American war, 
 it will readily be believed that Dr. Farmer was the 
 determined enemy of Levellers and Anarchists. He 
 was such a Whig as those who placed King Wil- 
 liam on the throne ; and of course deemed a violent 
 Tory by our present Republicans, of whom, to say 
 the truth, he could hardly speak with temper. By 
 his enemies he is admitted to have been a n)an of 
 generosity. As he obtained money easily, so he 
 parted with it easily. Whilst he was always ready 
 to relieve distress, his bounty was frequently be^ 
 stowed on the patronage of learned men, and learned 
 publications : he was, accordingly, a favourite with 
 all good men who knew him. In his own College 
 he was adored. In the University he had, for 
 many years, more influence than any other ukXu 
 vidual ; and, with all his eccentricities, his death 
 was a loss to that learned Body, which, in the opi- 
 nion of some of its members, will not soon bo 
 made up*." 
 
 My friend Isaac Reed (than whom no man was 
 better acquainted with the honest, undisguised sen- 
 timents of the benevolent Master of Emanuel) has 
 thus delineated his character. 
 
 " Dr. Farmer was the architect of his own fortune, 
 and, without the aid of friends or powerful connec- 
 tions, elevated himself to an honourable and lucra- 
 tive situation, in the enjoyment of which he bounded 
 his ambition at a time when he misrht have obtained 
 higher preferment. From his entrance into the Uni- 
 versity, he seemed to have fixed on Cambridge as the 
 place destined for his future residence ; and uni- 
 formly rejected every offer, the acceptance of which 
 would occasion his entire removal from that j)lace. 
 His attention to the interests of the Town and Uni- 
 
 * Encyclopoctlia Eritannica; 
 
 versity
 
 DR. RICHARD FAS AIE:5. '^43 
 
 Versity never was suspended;* and by his exertions 
 every improvement and convenience introduced for 
 the last thirty years were either originally proposed, 
 or ultimately forwarded and carried into execution. 
 The plan for paving, watching, and lighting the 
 Town, after many ineifectual attempts, was accom- 
 plished in his secoiid vice-chancellorship, greatly to 
 the satisfaction of all parties ; whose petty objections 
 and jealousies, and discordant and jarring interests, 
 he exerted himself with ^access to obviate, to mode- 
 rate, and to reconcile. As a Magistrate, he was 
 active and diligent ; and, on more than one occa- 
 sion of riots, displayed great firmness of inind in 
 dangerous conjunctures. As the Master of his Col- 
 lege, he was easy and accessible, cultivating the 
 friendship of the Fellovvs and inferior members by 
 every mark of kindness and attention ; and this 
 conduct was rewarded in the manner he most 
 wished, by the harmony which prevailed in th^ 
 society, and by an entire exemption from those 
 feuds and animosities which too often tore to pieces 
 
 and discrraced other Collfc":es. 
 . . . '-' . 
 
 "In his office of Uesidentiary of St. Paul's, if h^ 
 
 was not the first mover, he was certainly the most 
 strermous advocate for promoting the art of Sculp- 
 ture, by the introduction of Statuary into the Me- 
 tropolitan Cathedral * : and many of tlie rLa;u}ations 
 
 * " The introduction of monuments into the Catlicdral-churoh 
 of St. Paul, AvliiLt it forms a grand epoch to the Professors of 
 the Imitative Art, will convey to posteiitj- a striking exam})le of 
 the hberality of the Dean and Chapter. V> hen the modesty of Mr. 
 Howard cliecked the intentions of the friends of Phiiaiitlnopy 
 from erectinc; a statue to liis honour in ITtiG, the subscription's 
 Mhiclx had Ijeen rair,ed fur that purj)Ose wore retmned to those 
 who thoug-lu proper to demand them ; out of snch as were not 
 recalled, the .sum of'ZOOZ. was devoted to Prison Charities; and 
 the remainder was diiected to he appii.'! to strike a medal in 
 Imjuoiu' of Mr. Ho'.vard, and foi' other purp--; s. P-rlnre the pla(i 
 for (lie medal could be iinallv Hdjusted, llie (k;)Ui <)f Mr. ilcA-.aid 
 lef; ihe r>ubseriber^ at full lib;i-ty to jev^rt to thtir (n-;";inal idea 
 of ])erpetual ing bus uncommon merit !)V means nr" a -lanu'; and 
 ;vcordJngly, as it was intended to be erected without-doori. the 
 
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 644 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 on the subject were suggested by him, and adopted 
 in consequence oF his recommendation *. 
 
 publick were invited to communicate their sentiments on the 
 subject. Many stations were in consequence pointed out j and, 
 from one gentleman in particular [Mr. Pledger], a very hand- 
 some offer was made, of providing a situation for the statue, and 
 erecting a noble crescent of houses, to be called after the name 
 of Howard. These ideas, however, were set aside, upon its 
 being suggested by one of the Committee [the Rev. John Pridden, 
 M. A. F. S. A.], that, ii' permissitm could be obtained for the 
 erection of a monument to the memoiy of Mr. Howard in St. 
 Paul's cathedral, such a situatitm would be suitable to the great- 
 ness of his character, and the dignity and gratitude of the 
 British Empire. A respectable delegation liaving attended the 
 Dean and Chapter with this request ; they were pleased to grant 
 permission for placing a monument to Mr. Howard in their Ca- 
 thedral-church j a favour the more valuable, as it was the first 
 instance in which such permission liad been granted; and consi- 
 derably enhanced to eveiy admirer of taste and liberality by the 
 handsome conditions attached to it, " that no fee should be 
 required for its admission ; and that no monument should be 
 erected without the design being first approved of by a Committee 
 of the Royal Academicians;" \\hom the Dean and Chapter have 
 requested to take upon themselves the trouble of being arbiters 
 of the public taste, in order to prevent any monument being 
 introduced that might not correspond with, or contribute to, the 
 ornament of the building. The subscribers, highly gratified with 
 such a distinguished indulgence, immediately agreed with Mr. 
 Bacon to execute the monument." Hints designed to promote 
 Beneficence, Temjierance, and Medical Science ; by John- 
 Coakley Lctt-om, M. D. and LL. D. vol. H. p. 213. 
 
 * Dr. Farmer, as a member of the Chapter, very zealously lent 
 his powerful aid on this occasion; but, having been myself, in 
 conjunction with my friends Dr. Warner and Dr. Lettsom, an 
 active agent in obtaining admission fur Mr. Howard's monument, 
 I can speak with certainty also of the readiness with which the 
 Right Reverend the Dean and the rest of the Dignitiu'ies of the 
 Cathedr;d (Dr. Jcffieys, Dr. Farmer, and Dr. Jackson) acceded 
 to the proposal. J. N. 
 
 " Had the times been more propitious to matters of elegance, 
 ]\Ir. Burke, at the suggestion of his friend sir Josluiu Reynolds, 
 intended to have applied to Parliament for a cci-taiu sunmal sum, 
 to gild the capitals of the columns and other salient parts of the 
 cathedral of St. Pauls. The (ienius of Taste in vain perambu- 
 lates the sacred fai^.e, to find in it the statue of her favourite 
 son sir Joshua Reynolds, wliich perhaps, like those of J3rutus or 
 of Cassius, in the funeral procession of one of their familv, prcc- 
 ful'^et quia non ccriiifnr. Dr. Farmer saw but too plainly the 
 desolate state of the lubric 3 iuid that, for want of proper decora- 
 
 tioySr-
 
 DR. RICHARD FARMER. ^45 
 
 '* His literary character rests on one small Work . 
 * The Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare *,'* 
 composed in the early period of his life, and 
 which completely settled a much litigated and 
 controverted question, contrary to the opinions of 
 many eminent writers, in a manner that carried 
 conviction to the mind of every one who had 
 either carelessly or carefully reflected on the sub- 
 ject. It may, in truth, be pointed out as a master- 
 })iece, whether considered with a view to the spright- 
 liness and vivacity with which it is written, the clear- 
 ness of the arrangement, the force and variety of 
 the evideiice, or the compression of scattered ma- 
 terials into a narrow compass ; materials which in- 
 ferior Writers would have expanded into a large vo- 
 lume. He had no taste for the prevailing pursuit ia 
 the University, the Mathematicks, nor ever paid 
 any regard to it, after he had obtained his first twQ 
 degrees ; but he cultivated the Belles Lettres with 
 great assiduity, though with little appearance of 
 regular study. His knowledge of books in all lan- 
 guages, and in every science, was very comprehen- 
 
 tions, it appeared to be the most beautiful stone' quarry in Eu- 
 rope. He prevailed upon the Chapter of that Cathedral to admit 
 iDonuments into it, under proper I'estrictions, and, by the wise 
 and Hberal regulations they made, to render it, as Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds exultingly said, " The British Temple of Fame." Mr. 
 Hovvarfl's monument was the first that was proposed for it; 
 which gave rise to the judicious observations on sepulchral deco- 
 ration.^, which (through the medium of the Gentleman's Maga- 
 zine, vol. LXI. p. 395.) were atldressed by the first Marquis of 
 I.;uisdowne to the Committee appointed to conduct Ihe business of 
 that inMnumeiit." Seward's Biographiana, p. 592. 
 
 * '' Dr. rarmer's Essay is, in respect to the materials, argu- 
 ments, an I conclusions, what the late Bishop of Salisbury's 
 [Dou^';la-,j was upon Miracles, original, powerful, and incon- 
 trovertible. Never \\&?> there an octavo volume, like Farmer's 
 upon Sh;lVe^peare, which contained so many and such various 
 points, ;'.!;.' v>hich displayed such research, ingenuity, and acute- 
 ness, put fonh with so little pomp, j)arade, or pedantry. Its 
 popuiarily v.as rcniarkuble ; for it delighted both the superficial, 
 tind deeply versed, readej- in black-ldttr lore." Sec Mr. Dibdin" 
 " JiibliOir.aniaj IbU," p. 0G5. 
 
 sive.
 
 046 IITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 sive. Ffe was fond of reading ; and continued the 
 habit until the lat^t sta^e of his existence. His good' 
 humour, hberahty,, pleasantry, and hospitahty, might 
 aftbrd subjects for unmixed panegyric, to which 
 eyerv one who knew him would readily assent. 
 These will live in the memory of his surviving 
 friends ; who, whenever his name occurs, cannot 
 but si^h at the reflection tl.at those qualities, which 
 have so often soothed anfl gladdened life, were suf- 
 fered to exist no -longer in the possessor than until 
 he had attained the age of sixty-two years. 
 
 "The illiberal practice of the present times may 
 expect a drawback of the foibles of a man of genius 
 and virtue. That Dr. Farmer hath' sonie, it would 
 be ridiculous to deny, and useless to conceal. '1 hey 
 were, however, such as superseded no duty, encou- 
 rao-ed no vice, and might ])ass in review, before the 
 most rigid IVloralist, v.ithout calling for more than a 
 very sli^^ht censure : in reality, they were lost in the 
 recollection of his many amiable qualities. Some 
 of them, however, are delicately glanced at in the 
 following masterly character, drawn by tlie Reve- 
 rend Dr. Parr *, -.md published a short time before 
 Dr. Farmer's death ; 
 
 * " How shall I talk o? thee^ and of thy n-ondcrful col- 
 lection, O rave Richard Farmer? of thy scholarship, acute- 
 ness, pleasantly, singulantiet^, varied learning, and colloquial 
 powers! Thy name will live Ion<i; an!.ong scholars in general; 
 and in the bosoms of virtuous and learned Bibliomaniacs thy 
 memory shall ever be enshrined 1 'i'liC v.alls of Emanuel Cult 
 lei;e now ceiise to convey the sounds of thy festive wit tiiy 
 volumes aie no lon;^-er seen, like Jvicimrd Smith's ' bundles of 
 sticht books,' :tre\vn u]'<)n the iicor ; and tliou iiait eeased in the 
 cause of thy beloved ^fliakespeave, to ileivc into tlie fruitful ore 
 of hlack-lcttcr literature. Peace to thy honest spirit ; for thou 
 wort wise witlioiit \anity, learned witiiout })edantry, and joyous 
 without vidgarity." "' l^r. I'arr's \vc!l-;ij)p};cd Ciceronian phrase,' 
 adds Mr. Dibdin, " in h-uding tlie ingenuous and joy-inspiring 
 language of Faraier, gives us some notion of the colloquipJl 
 powers of this acute Bibliomaniac, uhosc bocks were generally 
 scattered oii the llcjor. Farmer had his forageis ; his jackalK; ; 
 and his avaut-courieis: for it v.as well known how dearly he loved 
 vcry thing that was iniciLsting and raic in the literature of 
 
 foruicT
 
 DR. RICHARD FARMER. ^4? 
 
 * Of any undue partiality towards the Master of 
 Emanuel College I shall not be suspected, by thps^ 
 perifons who know how little his sentiments accord 
 with my own upon some ecclesiastical and many 
 political matters. I'^rom rooted principle and antient 
 habit, he is a Tory 1 am a Whig ; and we have 
 both of us too much confidence in each other, and 
 too much respect for ourselves, to dissemble what 
 we tiiink upon any grounds, or to any extent: let 
 me, then, do him the justice, which, amidst all our 
 diiferences in opinion, 1 am sure that he will ever 
 he ready to do to me. His knowledge is various, 
 extensive, and recondite. With much seeming 
 tiegligence, and ])erhap3 in later years some real 
 relaxation, he understands more, and re?nember3 
 more, about common and uncommon subjects of 
 Literature, than many of those wlio would be 
 thouglit to read all the day, and meditate half the 
 night. Ill quickness of apprehension, and acute- 
 ness of discrimination, I have not often seen his 
 e.iual. Through many a convivial hour have I been 
 charmed by his vivacity ; and upon his genius I 
 have reflected in many a serious moment with plea- 
 sure, with admiration ; but not without regret, that 
 he has never concentrated and exerted all the great 
 ])ovvers of his mind, in some great Work, upon some 
 great subject. Of liis liberality in patronizing learned 
 men, I could point out numerous instances. VVithout 
 the smallest propensities to avarice, he possesses a 
 large income ; and, without the riiean submissions 
 of (lependance, he is risen to high station. His 
 ambition, if he has any, is without insolence ; his 
 muniHcence is without ostentation ; his wit is with- 
 out acrimony ; and ins learning vvitliout pedantry*,'* 
 
 former ages. As lie walked the streets of Ix>ndon caieless in 
 his (Irci.s and whclhcr his wig was full-bottomed or nairow- 
 bottoiru (1 he would talk and mutter strange speeches to him- 
 self; thiukiiig all the time, 1 ween, of some curious discovery 
 he had recently made in the aforesaid precioui black-letter 
 tomes." Dibdin's Bibliourania, p. 505, 
 * Seward's Biogripluaua, vol. II. p. 579. 
 
 Two
 
 64B LITER AR.Y ANECDOTES, 
 
 Two letters of Dr. Jolinson to Dr. Farmer are 
 preserved in Boswell's Life; the one, in 177O, re- 
 questing (for Mr. Steevens and himself) such infor- 
 mation concerning Sliakspeare as Dr. Farmer was 
 " more able to j^ive than any other man ;" the other, 
 in 178O, sohciting information concerning " Am- 
 brose Philips, Broome, and Gray, vvlio were all of 
 Cambridge ; and of whose lives he was to give such 
 accounts as he could gather/' 
 
 In the European Magazine, vol. XXV. 1794, 
 p. 410, is an excellent Letter from Dr. Farmer to 
 Isaac Reed, esq. Jan. 28, 1794, occasioned by a 
 question which Mr. Keed had proposed to him on 
 the subject of Dennis the Critic having been ex-^ 
 pelled from the University of Cambridge; a fact as- 
 serted in the " Biogni})hia Dramatica," but denied 
 by Dr. Kippis in the * Bicgrophia Britannica/' un- 
 der the article Dennis *. 
 
 Mr. Hawkins, in an advertisement prefixed to 
 his edition of '^"Ignoramus, 1787," very handsomely 
 observes, that " it would have been an injury to his 
 reputation to conceal that the Editor was indebted 
 to the Rev. Dr. Farmer for the knowledge of many 
 facts which no one but himself could have furnished." 
 
 His Library, which was particularly rich in 
 scarce Tracts and old English Literature, was sold, 
 nnder the title of " liihliinhcca Fanneriaua; a Cata- 
 logue of the curious, valuable, and extensive Library, 
 in Print and Manuscript, of tb.o late Kev. Hichard 
 Farmer,!). I). CanonResidenliary of Std'aufs, Master 
 of Emanuel College, andFelk^vv of the Fioval and An- 
 tiquary Societies, decerned : comprehending nuiny 
 rare Editions of the (:Jreek and Roman Classicks, 
 
 * After some pleasant argiiments and rcmarl-.s. Dr. Farmer 
 concludes, " Yet \vc have not provt-d ihat Denni.-i was expelled 
 from Cuius, his origiinl College ; but this matter is soon settled ; 
 though the tradition more fully expi esses *he cause of it. On 
 turning to their Gexta Eook, under the head ' Sir Dennis 
 sent away," appears this entry : 
 
 " March 4, 1G80. At a nipetingof the master and fellows, sir 
 Dennis I'lulcted 31. -. his scholar.-hip taken away, and he sent out of 
 Cullegc, fur assaulting and uor.nding sir Gienhiim with a sword." 
 
 and
 
 DR. RICHARD FARMER. 649 
 
 and of the most eminent Philologers ; a fine Col- 
 lection of English History, Antiquities, and Topo- 
 graphy ; including all the old Chronicles; the most 
 rare and copious Assemblage of old English Poetry 
 that, perhaps, was ever exhibited atone View*; to- 
 gether with a great V ariety of old Plays, and early, 
 printed Books, English and Foreign, in the Black 
 Letter, many of which are extremely scarce," &c. &c. 
 The sale to commence Monday, May 7, 17,98, and 
 continue 35 days, by Mr. King, King street, Co- 
 vent-garden. 
 
 The Catalogue extends to 37^ Paiges, and the 
 articles of books amount to 8 If) 5. 
 
 'I'he Library is supposed to have cost him less than 
 500/. It sold for 221QL indepenrlent of his Pictures. 
 
 Dr. Farmer once proposed himself to have liad 
 a (^ataiogue taken of his Library, to which he 
 intended to have prefixed the following Advertise- 
 ment : " This Collection of Books is by no m.eans to 
 be considered as an essay to\^ arris a perfect Library : 
 the circumstances and tlie situation of the Collector 
 made such an attem})t both unnecessary and im})rac- 
 ticable. Here are few ]))ibiications of great price 
 vvhich were already to be found in the excellent 
 Library of Emanuel College; but, it is believed, 
 that not n}any private collections contain a greater 
 number of really curious and scarce books; and, 
 jerhap?, no one is so rich in the antient philological 
 
 g 
 
 nglish literature, W. Farmer.' 
 
 * " The Collection is justly said, to contain the most rare and 
 cu)ious assemblage of Old Kn^lisk Poetry that, perh:ij)s, \v;ts 
 ever exhibited at one view 5 to<^ethei- with a great variety of Old 
 PUnjs, and early printed works, Englisii and Foreign, in the 
 black letter: Dr. Farmer's copies were, in general, in sonv 
 condition : the posaessor caring little foi" large margins and 
 splendid bindings. His own name, generally accompanied with 
 a bibliographic. d reniaik, and both written in a sprawling cha- 
 racter, usually preceded the titlc-j)age. The science (dare I vcn- 
 tm'eupon so magnificent a woid ?) of fribliog"ia[)hy was, even in 
 Farmer's letter time, but jejune, and of limited extent ; and 
 this will account for some of tlie couunon-pluce bibliographical 
 pemorantla of th9- owner of the-" vohancs." 
 
 Dibdin's Bibliomania, nbi supra. 
 No. Xli.
 
 ( ^oO ) 
 
 No. XII. 
 
 GEORGE STEEVENS; ESQ. 
 
 THIS eminent Scholar and profoundly learnctl 
 Commentator was the only sou of George Stee^ 
 ven?, esq. of Stepney, many years an East-India 
 Captain, and afterwards a Director of the East India 
 Company, who died in I768. He was born at 
 Stepney,' May 10, 173(>*, and admitted of King* 
 College, Cambri<lge, about"l751 or 1752. Bnt he is 
 best known as editor of Sliakspeare s Plays, Twenty 
 of which he publislied 1766, in four volumes, 8vo-j~. 
 
 * " George, son of George Stccvons, of Poplar, mariner, and 
 fliuy his wile, baptized .May 19, 1T^>, nine days old." 
 
 f The following character of Mr. Steevens appeared in the 
 (icutlcman's ^Magazine for 18(X>, vol. LXX, p. 17<S. 
 
 '' if, as Dr. Johnson has observed, the chief glory of every 
 people arises from its authors; from those who have extendv-ci 
 Iht! boundaries of learning, and advanced the interests of scienoa; 
 ir may be considered as an act of public duty, as weii as of private 
 friendship to attend, with the regret of the patriot as well as tlie 
 fonsibility (if the friend, the closing scene pf those men, wliose 
 superior genius has injproved, extended, or adorned, the litera- 
 ture, of their country. IVIr. George Steevens may be said to ha\e 
 po'^essed a pre-euiincnt claim to this character ; and, though he 
 js known rather as a eomtnentator than as an original Avriter, 
 yet, when we consider the works Avhich he illvistrated, the learn- 
 ing, sagacity, tasre, and general knowledge, which he brought 
 to the ta-^k, and the success which crowned his labours, it would 
 not only be an act of injustice, but a most glaring proof of ob- 
 tinacy and ignorance, to refuse him a jilace among the first li- 
 linivy characters of the ago in whicli we live. The early editors 
 of Siir.ksjjcaie looked to little more than verbal accuracy; and 
 fvcn Warburton consigned the sagacity of his mighty mind to 
 the restoring certain readings, and explaining dubious passages. 
 Johnson, who possessed more of the knowledge necessary to an 
 iditor of Shakspeare than those who had preceded him in that 
 character, was found warning.; and his first edition of Shaks- 
 pf are's f'l; vs, which had bc-n ex})ected with nmch impatience, 
 i)ruught di.sappoinlment along with it. In a subsequent edition, 
 lie ai::ccj)tcd the a>si;:t:mce of 'Mr. Steevens 5 and consented th.at 
 the name of that centleman >hould be in editorial conjunction 
 with his 'own. Mr. Steevens possessed that knowledge wi\icU 
 qualified liiin in a superior degree fen- the ilh.istration of our di- 
 vine Po(t, a.\d wiriiout which the utmo-.t critical acumen would 
 yroic auoifiv.., ile had,, iu short, studied the age of Shaks- 
 peare,
 
 GEOROE STEEVENS, ESS. $1 
 
 A year before the appearance of tiiis edition, Dr. 
 Johnson had published an edition, with notes, ia 
 
 pfea're, and had employed his pei-severing industry in becominij 
 acquainted with themitings, manners, and laws, of that period, 
 as well as the pro\ inciai peculiarities, whether of hinguiige or 
 custom, which ])rev ailed in different parts of the kingdom, but 
 iflore particularly in those where Shakspeare passed the early 
 years of his life. This store of knowledge he was continually in- 
 creasing by the acquisition of the rai'e and obsolete publications 
 of a fvjrraer age, w hich he spared no expence to obtain ; while 
 his critical sagacity and acute observation were employed inces- 
 santly in calling forth the hidden meanings of our great drama- 
 tic Bard from their covert, and, consequently, enlarging the 
 display of his beauties. This advantage is evident from his last 
 edition of Shakspeare, which contains so large a portion of new, 
 interesting, and accumulated illustration. 
 
 " It is to his own indefatigable intliistry, and the exertions of 
 hii printer, ttiat we are indebted for the most perfect editi(jn of 
 our innnortal Bard that ever came fj"om the English press, la 
 the prepaiution of it for the printer, he gave an instance of edi- 
 torial activity and perseveratics -.vliicli is witiiout example. To 
 this work lie devoted solely and exclusively of all other attentions 
 a period of 18 mouths; and, during iliat time, he left his house 
 every mornina; at one oV-loek wixh the i[a!npstead ])atroic, and, 
 proceeding withoaf any co!iii(krati(>n of the weatiier or the sea-, 
 fcon, called up the couipositor and woke all his deviis : 
 
 " Him late from Hamp.'.Tortd journe;, iug to his booli; 
 
 Aurora oft for Cephalus mistook , 
 
 ^Vliat time he brubh'd the (lews with hasty pace,. 
 
 To meet the printer's dsvlet face to face." 
 
 " At the chambers of Mr. Reed, ^vho;e he wa*? allowed to ad^ 
 mit himself, with a sheet of the .bhaksj)care letter-'prcss ready for 
 coiTection, and found a room i)reparcd to receive him : there 
 was every book which he might wish to consult ; and on Mr. 
 Reed's pillow lie could ap])ly, on any doubt or sadden suggestion, 
 to a knowledge of English liter;!', luu perhaps equal to his owi>. 
 The nocturnal toil greatly accelerated the printing of the work : 
 as, while the printers slPjjt, the editor was awake : and thus, in 
 less than 90 months, he completed his last sjjlendid edition f)f 
 !Shak8j)eare, in 1.5 large 8vo volumes ; an almost inere(iii)le la- 
 bo(n-, which proved the astonishing enerfzy and persevering 
 powers of his mind. That he contented !>.iniseif with being a 
 fomuientator, arose probably from the ; jibits of his life, and bis 
 devotion to the name with which bis own will descend to the 
 latest posterity. It is probable that many of hh jeux-tref^prit 
 might be collected ; but I am not acquainted with any sinalf ])i o- 
 du'tion of his pen but a ])oem of a few .stanzas in Dod.-.k'v's An- 
 nual Register, under the title of " I'he Fiaiuic Lo\cr ;" wliich is 
 tuperior to any siindar juoduction in the English laiiguaii-e. Mr. 
 
 ^teveni
 
 g!;2 LITEIIARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 cirlit volimies, Svo. A coalition between these two 
 editors having been negotiated, another edition, 
 
 Stecvens was a classical scholar of the first order. He was equally 
 acquainted with the Bclk-s Lcitrcs of Europe. He had studied 
 History, anticnt and nKxlcrn, but particularly that of his own 
 cuuutrv. H(f.v far his knowledf^e of the sciences extelidetl, I 
 cannot tell, whether it w'.vs merely elementary or profound ; but 
 wlicn any application was made to them in conversation, he al- 
 ways spoke of, and drew his cora})arisons from, them with the 
 easy fiamiliarity of intimate acquaintance. He possessed a strong 
 oiiginal genius and an abundant wit 5 his imagination was of 
 every colour, and his sentiments were enlivened with the most 
 brilfiant expressions. \\'ith these qualities, I need not add that 
 his colloquial powers surpassed ihose of other men. In argu- 
 ment he wiis unconnnonly eloquent ; and his eloquence was equally 
 7o>Tical and animated. His descriptions were so true to nature, 
 his iiffiires were so linely sketched, of such cui'ious selection, and 
 .so hajjpily groujjed, that I hai e sometimes considei'ed him as a 
 speaking Hogarlh. He wo\dd ti'equently, in his sportive and al- 
 most bovish humours, condescend to a degree of riijaldiy but little 
 above O'Keeffe: with him, however, it lorft all its coarseness, and 
 assumed the air of cla'-sic al vivacity. He v.as indeed too apt to 
 catch the ridiculous, both in cliaracter and things, and to indulge 
 rather an indiscreet ar.inration Avhcro\er he found it. It must 
 be acknowledged, thr.t he scattered Lis wit and his humour, his 
 gibes and hi^. jeers, too freely around !iim: and they were not 
 lost for want of gatlieiing. Tliis di-position made iiim many 
 enemies, and attaclicd an o]>ini<m of malig)!ity to his character 
 which it did not in reality possess. But theie are many who 
 would rather receive a serifyijs injury than be the object of 
 a joke, or at least of such jokes as were uttered by Steevens, 
 >\}ueh were remembered by all who heard them, and repeated by 
 i\\\ who remembered them. A cliaracteristic bon mot is a kind of 
 oral carioatiire, copies of vhich are multiplied by every tongue 
 Avhicb utters it; and it is much less injurious or mortifying to be 
 the object of a satirical woi'k, which is seldom read but once, 
 and is often thought of no moie, than to be hitched into a sar- 
 castic couplet, or condc]i.-.ed into a stingirig epithet, which will 
 be equally treasured up by good-humour or ill-nature, for the 
 tiiliVi't nt purposes of niirtli or resentment. Mr. Stee\ens loved 
 whiit is called fun ; a di.'^position which has, I fear, a tendency to 
 mischief It is a hobbv horse, which, while it curvets and prances 
 ujereiy to frighten a timorous rider, will sometimes unintention- 
 ally throw him in (he diit. .Stnuc open charges of a malignant 
 disjiOhilion have been made against him ; and, in the Preface to 
 the w(nks of a distinguished literary character, he is accused, 
 while in the habits of intimate fiiendVhi]) and dailv intercourse 
 with that gentleman, of writing calunn.iating ])aragraphs in the 
 juurpaiUTj; ug'.unst him. liut thc-e paiagiapli- Mr. Steevens did 
 
 liC-t
 
 GEORGE STEEVENS, ESft. 6^^$ 
 
 known by the name of " Jolinson and Steevens's 
 Edition," made its appearance in 10 vols. Svo, 1773. 
 
 not write ; and the late Mr. Seward assured me, that Mr. Bick- 
 nell, the author of a poem, called "The Dying Xegro," acknow- 
 ledged to him, that he was the author of them. It is impossible 
 to pass by, even in such a cursory account of Mr. Steevens as this, 
 the very severe note, in the " Pursuits of Litei-ature," which vva? 
 written to be applied to him. I am a sanguine admirer of that 
 work; at the same time 1 have ever regretted, that the partialities 
 and resentments of its author should have occasionally led him 
 into a wantomiess of praise and of cen.sure. I think the censure 
 of Mr. Stee\'ens, as well as the praise of Mr. Samuel Lysons (and 
 I am not singular in myopinion\ are equally ridiculous, and 
 without foimdation. Mr. Steevens possessed a very handsome 
 fortune, which he managed with discretion, and was enabled by 
 it to gratify his wishes, which he did without aviy regard to ex- 
 pence, in forming his distinguished collections of Cia5.sical Learn- 
 ing, Literary Antiquity, and the Arts connected with it. Hi.s ge- 
 nenx-jity al.so was equal to his fortime ; and, though he was not 
 seen to give eleemosynary sixpences to sturdy beggars or sweepers 
 of the crossings, few persons distributed Bank-notes with more 
 liberality; and some of his acts of pecuniary kindness might be 
 nimed, and probabiy among many otliers that are not known, 
 wluch could only jtioceed fi'om a mind adorned ith the noblest 
 sentiments of humanity, lie possessed all the grace of exterior 
 accomplishnient, acquired in a period when civility and ])olitenes9 
 were the characttristicks of a gentleman ; a mortifying contrast 
 to the manners of our present young men of fashion, which 
 would have disi^jaced the servant .s' halls of their grandfathers. 
 Mr. Stex-vens received the first part of his education at Kingston 
 upon Tham."s ; he went thence to Eum, and was afterwards a 
 fellow-commoner of King's college, C-uubridg'e. lie a'so ac- 
 cepted a commission in the I>scx. miMtia (;..i its first establish- 
 ment. The latter jeavs of his 'ile he chierly ])a.ssed at Ilamp- 
 stead in uu\isit-.ble reth'cmfnt, and seld(;m mixed with societv 
 but in bookselier's shoos, or the Sisakspeai'c Galleiy, or the 
 morning convcrzaz'ovc of sir Josepl-, Banks. I ha\e Jieard of hi- 
 caprices, of the fickleness of hi- fri^ndsl-ips. and tlie sudder 
 transition of his reg;u"('.s. These, howi \(j'. ! cannot censure ; 
 for ( know not hi^ motives : r.or siifll ? ;iti'vii}5t to ;malyse his 
 Seasibililics. But, wh'itevcr n;:).y have !jei-n his failings, I do 
 not fear contradict '(jii vvIk'm I assert, that deorge Steevens, was 
 a man of extraordinary talents, erur'iitiun, rmd atviiininents ; and 
 that he was an honour to < lie literature 1)1' ii'o comiiry. When 
 Death, by one stroke, and in tiie ir.OTneiii, nii'kt- .-'.'ch a di'-pcr- 
 eion of knowledge and iritcUriti ',\hen su( 1. ;. man is carried to 
 his grave the mind c:;n feel but one eni'.tiiuii : v.l- consider the 
 vanity ttf every thing beneath tiie sua -m,- jvjrif ive wIkU shado'^s 
 we are and what ^hadowi vu- p\ir;ue." iviONjf.xsii." 
 
 A pa--
 
 ^54 tITERARV ANECtJOTES. 
 
 It was reprinted by these gentlemen, in the satne 
 wumber of volumes^ five years after ; and again, in 
 17S5, under the care of Isaac Reed, esq. of Staple- 
 inn, who, at the request of his friends Mr. Steevens 
 and Dr. Farmer, undertook the office of editor. 
 
 A fourth edition of this work, with great additions 
 and improvements, was pubhshed by Mr. Steevens 
 in fifteen volumes, 8vo, 179.S, which at the time 
 was certainly the most complete edition extant of 
 Shakspeare's Plays. This work, which, through 
 the indefatigable exertions of the editor, was ear- 
 ned through the press in the space of eighteen 
 montlis, is enriched v.ith much novelty of remark, 
 and contains the accumulated result of his acute and 
 critical observations, made during a long course of 
 
 A passage in the above letter produced the lollowina; remark in 
 a subsequent number : *' After conceding that I have tlie highest 
 opinion of tlie merits of Mr. S. in his Une, I ani, I conceive, at li- 
 berty to observe, that tlie authoi- of the Pursuits of Literature is 
 not sin'^vlar in his commendation of Mr. L. ; that the Monthly 
 Review, a pullication of 'uprcviie Uterar}' excellence, where party 
 (that Head \^ hich will sliperscde the necessity of merit, be of im- 
 mense injury to science, and ultimately destroy the character of 
 tlie v.ork conducted upon its principles), it nor beins^ a qnestioa 
 of politicks or religion, assuredly did not interfere, has avowed 
 as nmch as the author (jf the " Pursuits of Literature" in the cri- 
 ticism of tlie " Roman Antiquities of Woodchestcr}" that the ge- 
 juus of iMr. Lysons iias ever been loudly celcbiated by all the 
 (iloucester.-hire people of instructed minds; and tliat, from the 
 unequivocal tests of genius, impi'ession, and efil'ct, it is uni- 
 versally acknowledged that that Cjualiiy, blended with skill, taste, 
 felicity, and elegance, cLaractt! ize the productions of IVIr. Di- 
 rector of the Society of Antiquaries. Add to this, that a more, 
 elaborate piece of topography, perhaps, never existed than the 
 * Lnvirons of London :" and that the plan of it, which I con- 
 ceive to be cxqii'iiiiip, having such a remarkable completeness, 
 and leaving nothir.g deficient, is supposed to be a dictate of the 
 just and tine arctia^ologica! taste of .Mr. S. L. 1 appeal to any 
 Antiquary, whether the " I? oman Antiquities of Woodchester,'* 
 and tiie " Environs of J^ondon," ai'e not among the lirst produc- 
 tiniis of the present day, notwithstanding what the author of the 
 ' Piu'suits of Literatitre" ha= thought proper to observe with re- 
 gard to the latter, in that narrow-minded scale upon which the 
 w hole book is conducted. I admire tine Latinity and cla-sical 
 knowledge as much as he docs ; but surely there are other tilings 
 worth attoUiou too." 
 
 But
 
 GEORGE STEEVESS, ESa. ^55 
 
 reading, chiefly devoted to the illustration of hif^ 
 favourite Bard. The diligent editor has taken a!i 
 possible, pains to render his work full, clear, and 
 convenient; and whoever considers the prolego- 
 mena and notes, joined to the elegance of" the typo- 
 graphical execution, will be of opinion that our im- 
 mortal Bard was edited in a manner worthy his fame *. 
 But this talent at explaining and illustrating 
 
 * A subsequent edition of this valuable Work was edited bf 
 Mr. Pieed in 1803 ; on the subject of which I shall enlarge in the 
 pleasant and judicious! words of Mr. Dibdin: " The Compiler of 
 the Gendenian's Ma^rizine, vol. LXX. p. ITS, has given us some 
 amusing particulars of Steevens's literaiy life ; of his coining frora 
 Hampstead to London, at the chill break of day, w?ien the o\er- 
 hanging clouds were yet charged with the inky purple of right, 
 in order, like a true book chevalier, to embrace the first dank 
 impression or proof sheet of his own famous octavo edition of 
 Shakspcnre ; and of Mr. Bulmer's sumptuous impression of the 
 text of the same. AH this is well enougli, and savours of the 
 proper spirit of Cibliomaniacism ; and tlie edition of our im- 
 mortal IJard in 15 well-printed octavo volumes (1*93) is a 
 splendid and durable monument of the researches of George 
 Stee\ ens. There were froin 20 to "5 cop-ies of the octavo edition 
 printed u])on large paper ; and Lord .Spencer possesses, bv be- 
 quest, Mr. Steevens'.s own coj.'v of the same, illu.strated v.ith a 
 great number of rare and precious prints ; to which, ho\ve-er, 
 his Lordship, with liis usual zeal and taste, has made additions 
 more valuable even than the gift in its original form. I'he Svo 
 <?Jition of 1793 is coveted witli an eagci;tc-,s of ^vhich it is not 
 very easy to account for the cause ; since the subsequent one of 
 1S()3, in 21 octavo volumes, is more r.sef;;l on irnnv accounts : 
 and contains Stecvens's eorifetions and ruldirions in cverv plav, 
 as well as 177, is''- particular, in that of ."Maclttii. But I ain well 
 aware of the stubbornness aad pc infancy with which t/ie previous 
 edition is conteii'Jed for in point of superiority, both round a 
 private and public tabic ; znd leaving iJse cchectcr to revel iu 
 the luxury of an uncut, half-boimd, morrcco copy of tiu' same, 
 I push onward to a dtscripiion of tiie Eil,iloi;icva S^roruisiana. 
 Yet a parting word respecting this edition of Lbi>3: I Ic.arn from 
 unquestionable authority, that Sleevens sti})\dated with the jmb- 
 lishers that they should pay ivlr. ileed 3t;0'. fur cflitov-^hip, and 
 lOOl. to i^Ir. VV. Harris, lihi'ai'irm of the R(jy;J Iii-iitu!i(;n, fjr 
 <'nrrecting the press ; nor 1';'- the editor in liis })refacn ])aitod 
 from the truth, iu acl;n!)wl'v'Ig'!ig Mr. ifarri.- Uj bg an ub';; luul 
 vigilant assistant. jMr. II, retained, l\)Y romij ti;ii',\ Siceven-,'s 
 rorrectcd copy of hi ; own edition of 1 7 03 ; hut iif afterwards di.s- 
 po:;ed of it, by public auction, for '28/. He has :d^o a! ihi-iuv- 
 S'-iii iziuuM-iit. Mr. Joiiah Ij')\(i-..li'i ciiiy of Mi . lVlio:>. V, pictuie cf 
 
 'jiiX
 
 ^5^ LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 tlie difficulties and beauties of Shaks{->eare was 
 distn-accd by the worst of foils, a severity of satire *=, 
 which too strongly marked a malevolence of heart, 
 from which his best friends cannot vindicate the 
 editor. The severity of his satire has, in some in- 
 stances, recoiled on himself; and perhaps the re- 
 tort courteous was never better played off against 
 him than by our friend, honest and generous Tom 
 ])avies'(~, in his vigorous character of Master Ste- 
 phen \. It would be happy for him could as much 
 be said for him as for that unfortunate and worthy 
 man on a similar occasion. But " Peace be to his 
 soul, if God's good pleasure be !" 
 
 ]Mr. Steevens was a good classical scholar, and 
 was remarkable for the brilliancy of his wit, and 
 for his satirical talents. The latter he occasional!)' 
 indulged in some excellent jeux (Tespiit, which 
 made their appearance in various periodical publi- 
 cations. 
 
 "The Frantic Lover, mentioned in p. 65 1, ap- 
 peared in Ahiion's '" New Foundling Hospital for 
 Wit, 1771," vol. IV. p. 189. And see tlie St. 
 Janjes's Chronicle, Jan. 1 1 , 1774, for a Song written 
 by him in the character of a Stationer; and two or 
 three other poems, one called " The Insensible Lo- 
 ver," just before or after, in the same Chronicle, 
 
 our imn)oit;il bavd ; witli tlie following inscription, painted on 
 the back of the panne], by Mr. Steevens : 
 ' May 179r 
 Copied by Josiah Boydell, at my 
 rctpicst, from the remains of the 
 only genuine jiortrait of Willvam 
 8iiak.--peare. George Steevens.' 
 The engraved portrait of Shakspeare, prefixed to this edition 
 t>f 1803, is by no mean.^ a futhfid resemblance of Mv. Boydell's 
 admirably exeeutcd copy in oil. The expences of the edition 
 amounted to 5H44/.; but no copies nowremain with the publishers. 
 '' Of this Sir John Hawkins felt the keenest force. 
 i See in vol. VI. under the article Davies, p. 433; and oce 
 al-o the article Jcnitens, in vol. 111. p. 120. 
 
 I Mr. Muiphy ab^o has. strongly pourti-ayed him inh^ Addrcst 
 to the Muievoii. 
 
 which.
 
 GEORGE STEIEVENS3 ilsa. (^57 
 
 which were all written as coming from a very worthy 
 man who carried on that trade under the Exchange. 
 
 See also Gent. Mag. vol. LI I. page 2 J 6, for a 
 portrait, invented by him, ofChedder, a poet older 
 than Rowley ; and, for his sketch of Dean Milles's 
 wig, see the same volume, p. 288. 
 
 He died January 22, 1800, at his house at 
 Hampstead, where he had lived several years in 
 the most recluse and unsocial retirement ; and was 
 buried in the chapel at Poplar, where, in the North 
 aile, there is a monument to his memory by Flax^ 
 man, of which an engraving, in an elegant outline, 
 is given by the Rev. Daniel Lysons in the Supple- 
 mentary Volume of his " Environs of London." 
 
 Underneath is the following inscription ; the verses 
 in which are from the pen of Mr. Hayley t 
 
 " In the middle aile of this chapel 
 
 lie the remains of George Steevens, esq. 
 
 who, after having cheerfully employed 
 
 a considerable portion of his life and fortune 
 
 in the illustration of Shakspeare, 
 
 expired at Hampstead the 22(1 day of January 1800, 
 
 in his 64th. year. 
 
 " Peace to these reliques, once the bright attire 
 Of spirits sparkling with no common tire; 
 How oft has pleasure in the social hour 
 Smil'd at his wit's exhilarating power; 
 And truth attested with delight intense 
 The serious charms of his colloquial sense ; 
 His talents, varying as the diamond's ray. 
 Could strike the grave, or fascinate the gay. 
 His critic labours of unwearied force 
 Collected light from every distant source ; 
 Want with such true beneficence he cheer'd, 
 All that his bounty gave, his zeal endear d ; 
 Learning as vast as mental power could seize. 
 In sport displaying, and with graceful ease ; 
 Lightly the stage of checquer'd life he trod. 
 Careless of chance, confiding in his God." W. H. 
 
 Vol. U. U u A capi-
 
 65^ LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 A capital portrait of Mr. Steevens was accidentally 
 discovered, a few years since, which he had looked all 
 London through to find, but to no purpose. It was 
 the irxtention of the Original to serve this inimit- 
 able likeness as he had before done a miniature 
 of himself by Myers, and a whole-length, in the 
 character of Barbarossa, which Mr. Steevens played 
 on a private theatre with great eclat. Fortunately 
 the third and last picture of this extraordinary man 
 escaped the ravage of th6 self-destroyer. It was 
 painted by Zoffanii before he went to India, and 
 sold, with many others, to a Mr. Clark, in Princes- 
 street, having been left in the Painter's hands, who 
 got rid of all his portraits when he set out on his 
 j^astern expedition. From this picture an excellent 
 print was engraved for sale, at the expence of Mr. 
 Sylvester Harding, in whose family the plate now 
 remains. 
 
 Mr. Steevens was rich in books and prints. He 
 bought largely at Mr. Baker's auction of sir Clement 
 Dormer's library, I764, collected by General Dor- 
 mer, where he got the French translation of Xeno- 
 phon's Works by Pyramus de Candale, Cologn, 
 1613, bound in Morocco and gilt leaves, worth 40/. 
 and upwards, for 12/. I2s. 
 
 He had the Second Folio of Shakspeare, with 
 notes, and alterations of the scenes, by King Charles 
 the First ; together with that Monarcli's name and 
 motto, Diim spiro spero, in his own hand-writing. 
 This curious volume Mr. Steevens bought at Dr. 
 Askew's sale of books ; and at Jiis own sale it was 
 ]jurchased for the Royal Library, where it now re- 
 mains. 
 
 Mr. Steevens had also illustrated a copy of his 
 own edition of Shakspeare, 1793, with 1 5 00 por- 
 traits of all the persons and places mentioned in the 
 notes and text, of which he could make drawings, 
 or procure engravings. 
 
 * Of his perseverance and solicitude whilst this edition was in 
 the press, seep. G51. 
 
 His
 
 GEORGE STEEVENS, ESft. (J59 
 
 His set of Hogarth's Prints may be considered as 
 the coinpletest that ever was collected * ; and his 
 commentary on the productions of that inimitable 
 Painter, which accompanies Mr. Nichols's "Bio- 
 graphical Anecdotes," would alone have stamped a 
 lasting fame on his critical acumen ^. 
 
 His illustrated copy of Shakspeare he bequeathed 
 to Earl Spencer ; his Hogarth (perfect, with the 
 exception of one or two pieces) to that eminent 
 statesman the late Mr. Windham, of Fellbrig in 
 Norfolk; and his corrected copy of Shakspeare to 
 Mr. Reed, with a bequest of 200 guineas. 
 
 To his niece, Miss Steevens, who was the residuary 
 legatee, he left the bulk of his fortune, including 
 his well-stored Library J. 
 
 * A set possessed by the present Marquis of Bute may, per- 
 hajis, come nearly in competition with it. 
 
 . t Sec the Preface to the <3"arto Edition of Hogarth's Works, 
 published by the Editor of these " Anecdotes," 1810. 
 
 ^ "The Library," says Mr. Dibdin, of this extraordinary 
 Critic and Collector was sold by auction in the year ISOO ; and, 
 being formed ratlier after the model of Mason's , than of Far- 
 mer's, it was rich to an e:;cess in choice and rare pieces. 
 Nor is it an uninteresting occupation to observe, in looking 
 among the prices, the enormous ^ums which were given for some 
 volumes, tliat cost Steevens not a twentieth part of their pro- 
 duce: Init which, comparatively with their present worth, 
 ^vould brinii," considerably higlier prices! What arduous conten- 
 tion, ' Renurdine. .shifts,' and bold bidding ; what triumph on the 
 one [)art, and vexation on th.e otiier, were exhibited at the book 
 sale ! while the Auctioneer, like Jove looking calmly down upon, 
 the storm which he himself liad raised, kept his even temper j 
 and ' ever and anon' dealt out a gracious smile amidst all the tur- 
 bulence that surrounded Idm ! Memorable ajra ! the veteran col- 
 lector grows young again in tliinking upon the valour he then 
 exliibited, and the juvenile collector talks ' braggartly' of other 
 times which he calls the golden days of the Bibhomania, when 
 he reflects upon ins lusty eilorts in securing an Exemplar StevenS' 
 iannm!" 
 
 After filling nearly twelve pages with the prices of the rarer 
 ar tides, Mr. Dibdin proceedi;, ' It remains to say a few words of 
 the cek'brated Collector of this \ery cv.rious library. The wit, 
 t:i>tc, and classical acquirenjents of George Steevens, are eveiy 
 u litre recorded and acknowledged. As an editor of his beloved 
 Shakspeare, he stands unrivalled ; for he comijined, with much 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^ George Mason, c-:q. of .\ldenharr, Hert;, a Director f the Sun Fire 
 Offitf. > 
 
 V V 2 recondite
 
 gfiO LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 There were only two or three other small lega- 
 cies in money. 
 
 recondite learning and indefatigable research, a polish of style, 
 and vigour of expression, whicii are rarely found united in the 
 jame person. His definitions are sometimes both happy and 
 singular; and his illustrations of antient customs and manners 
 such, as might have been expected from a head so completely 
 furnished, and a hand so thoroughly practised. 1 will not say 
 that George Steevens has evinced the learning of Selden upon 
 Drayton, or of Bentley upon Phalaris; nor did his erudition, 
 in truth, rise to the lofty and commanding pitch of these his 
 predecessors : nor does there seem much sense or wit in hunting 
 after evei-y pencil-scrap which this renowned bibliomaniac com- 
 mitted to paper as some sadly-bitten book collectors give evi- 
 dence of. If I have not greatly misunderstood the characteristics 
 of Steevens's writings, they are these: wit, elegance, gaiety, and 
 satire, combined with almost perfect erudition in Enghsh dra- 
 matic antiquities. Let us give a specimen of his classical ele- 
 gance in dignifying a subject which will be relished chiefly by 
 Grangeritcs. Having learnt that a copy of Skelton's verses on 
 Elinour Rummin, the famous Ale-wife of England, with her 
 portrait in the title-page, was in the library of the Cathedral of 
 Lincoln (perhaps foimerly Captain Coxe's copy) ; he prevailed on 
 the late Dean, Sir Richard Kaye, to bring the book to London -, 
 but as it was not sutFered to go from the Dean s possession, Mr. 
 Steevens was permitted to make a fac-simile drawing of the title, 
 at the Dean's house in Harley-street, This drawing he gave to 
 Richardson the printseller, who engraved and published it among 
 the copies of scarce portraits to illustrate Gj'anger. The acquisi- 
 tion of this rarity produced from him the following Jeu d' Esprit ; 
 the merit of which can only be truly appi_ciated by tliose who 
 had the pleasure of knowing the eminent Portrait Collectors 
 therein mentioned, and whose names are printed in capital letters. 
 Eleanora Rediviva. 
 To seek this Nymph among the glorious dead, 
 Tir'd with his search on earth, is Gulston fled : 
 Still for these charms enamour'd Musgrave sighs : 
 To clasp these beauties ardent Bindley dies: 
 For these (while yet unstaged to public view ;) 
 Impatient Brand o'er half the kingdom flew; 
 These, wliile their bright ideas round him play, 
 From Classic Weston force the Roman lay: 
 (.)lltoo, my Storer, Heaven has heard thee swear: 
 Not Gallia's murdered Queen was half so fair : 
 " A new Euro{)a !" cries the exulting Bull, 
 " My Granjxor now, I thank the gods, is full :" 
 Even Cr.Af iikrode's self, whom passions rarely move. 
 At this si^ft shrine has deign'd to wliisper love. 
 Haste x\\cr\, ye swains, who Ru.mming's form adore. 
 Possess your Eloauour, and sigli no more." 
 " It must be .ulmitted that this is at once elegant and happv. 
 
 '' We
 
 GEORGE STEEVEN'S, ESft. 66l 
 
 Mr. Steevens was a most valuable member of the 
 literary world, and a bright star in the constellation 
 
 " We will now say somewhat of the man himself. Mr. Steevens 
 lived in a retu'ed and eligibly situated house, just on the rise of 
 Hampstead Heath. It was paled in, and had, immediately be- 
 fore it, a verdant lawn skirted with a variety of picturesque trees. 
 Formerly, this house had been a tavern, which was known by 
 the name of The Upper Flask ; and which my fair readers (if a 
 single female can have the coui^age to peruse these bibliomaniacal 
 pages) will recollect to have been the same to which Richardson 
 sends Clarissa in one of her escapes from Lovelace. Here Stee- 
 vens lived embosomed in books, shrubs, and trees : being either 
 too coy, or too unsociable, to mingle with his neighbours. His 
 habits were indeed pecuUar ; not much to be envied or imilatedj 
 as they sometimes betrayed the fliglits of a madman, and sp-Tie- 
 tiraes the asperities of a cynic. His attachments were warm, 
 but fickle both in choice and duration. He would frequently 
 part from one, with whom he had lived on terms of close inti- 
 macy, without any assignable cause; and his enmities, once 
 fixed, were immovable. There was, indeed, a kind of venom in 
 his antipathies ; nor would he sutler his ears to be assailed, or 
 his heart to relent, in favour of those against whom he entertained 
 animosities, however capricious and unfoimded. In one j;U"suit 
 only was he consistent : ojie object only did he woo with an in- 
 flexible attachment; and that object was Dame Drama. I have 
 sat behind him, within a few years of his death, and ^vatclied 
 his sedulous attention to the performances of strolling players, 
 who used to hire a public room in Hampstead,- and towards 
 whom his gallantry was something more substantial than mere 
 admiration and applau.se : fur he would make libei-al presents of 
 gloves, shoes, and stockings especially to the female part of the 
 company. His attention, and even delight, during some of the 
 most wretched exhibitions of the dramatic ai't, was truly sur- 
 prizing; ])ut he was then drooping under the pressure of age, 
 and what passed before him might serve to remind him of former 
 days, when his disceiriinent was quick, and his judgment matured. 
 
 " It i.s, however, but justice to this distinguished bibliomaniac 
 to atld, that, in his literary attachments he was not influen? e ! by 
 merely splendid talents or exalted rank. To my predecessor 
 Herbert (for whose memory I may be allowed, at all times, to 
 express a respectful regard) Steevens seems to have shewn marked 
 attention, I am in possession of more than a dozen original 
 letters from him to this Typographical Antiquary, in which he 
 not only evinces great friendliness of disposition, but betrays an 
 unusual solicitucle about the success of Herbert's labours ; and, 
 indeed, contributes towards it by nearly a hundred notices of 
 rare and ciirious books which wcjc vmknown to, or imperfectly 
 described by, Herbert himself: 
 
 Of these Mr. Dibdin gives several excellent specimens ; after 
 wUich he thus concludes. " It is now time to bid far^wel to the 
 
 subject
 
 C62 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 of editors of that century in which the names of 
 Pope, Theobald, Rowe, Warburton, Garrick, John- 
 son, Cape), and M alone, are conspicuous. Adorned 
 with a versatihty of talents, he was eminent both by 
 his pen and his pencil ; with the one there was no- 
 thing he could not compose, and with the other no- 
 thing he cQuld not imitate so closely, as to leave a 
 doubt which was the original and which the copy. 
 But his chief excellence lay in his critical knowledge 
 of an author's text, and the best pattern of his great 
 abilities is his edition of Shakspeare, in which he has 
 left every competitor far behind him ; and even John- 
 son, with his giant strides, could not walk by his side. 
 Mr. Steevens had a happy memory, richly stored, 
 was a very pleasant tete-a-tete companion, communi- 
 cative of his knowledge, but jealous of other men's. 
 
 subject of this tremendous note : and most sincerely do I wish I 
 could ' draw the curtain' upon it, and say ' good night' ^vith as 
 much cheerfulness and satisfaction as Atterbury did upon the 
 close of his professional labours. But the latter moments of 
 Steevens were moments of mental anguish. He grew not only 
 iiTitable, but outrageous ; and, ia full possession of his faculties, 
 he raved in a manner which could have been expected only from 
 a creature bred up without notions of morality or religion. 
 Neither complacency nor 'joyful hope' soothed his bed of death. 
 His language was, too frequently, the language of imjirecation ; 
 and his wishes and apprehensions such, as no rational Christian 
 can think upon without agony of heart. Aliliough I am not 
 disposed to admit the whole of the testimony of the good woman 
 who watched by his bed-side, and paid him, when dead, the last 
 melancholy attentions of her office although my prejudices (as 
 they may be called) will not allow me to believe that the \vindo\vs 
 shook, and that strange noises and deej) groans were heard at 
 midnight in his room yet no creature (;f common sense (and 
 this woman possessed the quality in an eminent degree) could 
 mistake oaths for prayers, ov uoJsterous treatment for calm and 
 gentle usage. If it be said wiiy 
 
 ' draw hLs frailries from their drear abode?' 
 the answer is obvious, and, I should hope, irrefragable. A duty, 
 and a sacred one too, is due To TiiE Living. Past example^ 
 operate upon future ones -. and posterity ought to know, in the 
 instance of this accomplished scholar and literary antiquary, 
 that neither the sharpest wit, nor the most delicate intellectual 
 refinement, c;in, alone, afford a man ' Peace at the Last.' The 
 vessel of human existence must be secured by other aachors 
 tlian these, when the storm of Death approaches!" 
 
 He
 
 GEORGE STEEVENS, ESft. $ 
 
 He was a man of the greatest perseverance in 
 every thing he undertook; often constant, but 
 not always consistent, as he would sometimes 
 break off his longest habits without any ostensible 
 reason. He discontinued his daily visits at Mr, 
 White's, the book(>eller, after many years regular 
 attendance^ for no real cause ; and left Mr. tock4ale, 
 whom he took up on quitting Mr. White, all at once 
 in the same eccentric ^nd unaccountable manner. 
 He never took a pinch of snuff after he lost his 
 box in St. Paul's Church-yard, though it had beeri 
 the custom of his life, and he was iiiuch addicted to 
 the practice, and in the habit of making hi^ me.i^p.r 
 randums by bits of paper in his box. 
 
 His Library (\\'hi.cjbi contained a valual^le poUec- 
 tion of Classics, and was par:ticularly rich in dra- 
 matic and other poetry, and in the miscellaneous 
 productions of the English press during th^ reigns 
 of Queen Elizabeth and James I. (was sold by auc- 
 tion (with the exception of the three curious ar- 
 ticles before mentioned as bequeathed to Lord Spen- 
 cer, Mr. Windham, and Mr. Reed,) in the month 
 of May 1800, and produced the sum of 2700/. 
 
 Six Plays sold for 1 58/. 46". Fuller's Worthies, 
 full of MS notes by the late Mr. Oldys, Mr. Tho- 
 resby, and Mr. Steevens, 43/- Rapin, 51 guineas 
 Purchas' Pilgrims, 22 guineas. Beaver's Mili- 
 tary Punishments, 13/. 55. Tracts relative to Mary 
 Toft, 14/. 105. Dodsley's Old Plays, 12 vols. L. P. 
 12 guineas. Nichols's Hogarth, with MS notes 
 by Mr. S. 13/. Ireland's Pamphlets, with Imita- 
 tions of the old Deeds, &c. sold originally from 
 Ireland, juij. to F. G. Waldron, for 18^. and pur- 
 chased of him by Mr. S. for 2I. 2s. 17 guineas. 
 Plot of two Plays prior to the time of Shakspeare 
 on two pasteboards, 11 /. Paradice of Dainty De- 
 vices, 21/. 10^. 6d. ^The second folio of Shakspeare, 
 18 guineas, and a copy of '^ Dido *" 17 guineas. 
 
 * " Tiiii) copy wa given me by Mr. Reed. Such liberality in a 
 Collector of old Plays is at least as rare as the rarrst of our dm- 
 niatic pieces. G. S." 
 
 No. XIII.
 
 ....:.( 664 ) 
 
 No. XIII. ISAAC REED, ESQ.* 
 
 This very eminent Collector of Books and abia 
 Coipmentator was born in the parish of St. Dun- 
 stan in the West -f, where his father passed unambi- 
 tiously through life, in the useful occupation of a 
 baker, and had the satisfaction of witnessing the 
 son's literary attainments ;{ with that enthusiasm 
 which frequentlyprevails in a strong uncultivated mind. 
 
 He commenced his public life very reputably, as 
 a solicitor and conveyancer ; but for several years 
 before his death had confined the practical part of his 
 business to the last-mentioned branch of his profes- 
 sion^. Placed in a situation which, above all others, 
 is frequently the road to riches and honour, Mr. 
 Heed's principal ambition was, to acquire a fun- 
 damental knowledge of the jurisprudence of his 
 Country ; and thus far he was eminently success- 
 ful. But the Law, however alluring its prospects, 
 had not charms sufficient to engage his whole at- 
 tention ; he loved, he venerated, that admirable 
 system, which, from the days of Alfred and Ca- 
 nute, from the bold usurping Norman to the pre- 
 sent amiable Father of his People, has been re- 
 gularly ameliorating ; but he detested the chi- 
 canery of which he was almost daily a witness in 
 
 * I trust that I shall be excused in presenting tliis memoir of a 
 worthy Friend in the words dictated from the heart at a period 
 wheUj from an unfortunate accident, I was unable to read a line, 
 or to hold a pen. 1 am aware that some Memoirs of Mr. Reed, 
 drawn up by a gentleman who knew him wtll, were piinted in the 
 European Magazine for February IdOS; from which a few cor- 
 rections shall be talien in the way of Notes. 
 
 t I understood, from himself, that his father resided there ; 
 but Isaac was born in Siewart-stree^, Old Artilleiy Ground. 
 , X Being of a delicate constitution, his earliest years were 
 passed at home with his parents; and he was afterwards placed at 
 a school in Streatham. 
 
 . He was articled as a Clerk to Messrs. Perrott and Hodgson, 
 eminent Attorneys ; and was afterwards an assistant to Mr. Hos- 
 kins, a respectable BaiTister and Conveyancer ; with whom he 
 continued about a year, and then commenced practice in cham- 
 bers in Gray's Inn, as a Conveyancer. He has beeft heard to say, 
 *' The practice of the Law was intolerable." 
 
 many
 
 ISAAC REED, ESft. 66 S 
 
 many of its professors. If ever there was a mind 
 devoid of guile, it W2is Isaac Reed's ; and an at- 
 tempt to make " the worse appear the better 
 cause" would have been with him a breach of moral 
 obligation. Hence an extensive line of business 
 was necessarily precluded ; but he had the satisfac- 
 tion of numbering among his clients many highly- 
 valued friends ; and other avenues to Fame, if not 
 to Fortune, were open to his capacious mind. His 
 intimate knowledge of antient English Literature 
 was unbounded. His own publications, though 
 not very numerous, were all valuable ; and he was 
 more satisfied with being a faithful editor, than am- 
 bitious of being an original composer. 
 
 In the year 1768, he collected into one volume, 
 12mo, " The Poetical Works of the Hon. Lady 
 M[ar]y W[ortle]y M[ontagu]e." His other pub- 
 lications were, Middleton's " Witch, a Tragi- 
 Coomodie," a few copies only for his Friends, 
 1778; the Sixth Volume of Dr. Young's Works, 
 1778, 12mo; " Biographia Draniatica," 2 volumes, 
 Svo, 1782, founded upon " Baker's Companion to 
 the Playhouse :'' the biographical department of 
 this work is the result of diligent enquiry, and his 
 strictures on the productions of the English Drama 
 display sound judgment and correct taste *; an im- 
 proved edition of Dodsley's Old Plays, with Notes, 
 12 vols. Svo, 1780 ; Dodsley's Collection of Po- 
 ems, with Biographical Notes, 6 vols. Svo, 1782; 
 " The Repository : a select Collection of Fugitive 
 Pieces of Wit and Humour, in Prose and Verse, 
 by the most eminent Writers," 4 vols. Svo, 1777 
 1783 ; Pearch's Collection of Poems, with 
 Biographical Notes, 4 volumes, Svo, I783 (which 
 
 * Mr. Reed hatl occasionally interested himself in arranging 
 and collecting materials for an impioved edition ; but, find- 
 ing himself unequal to continue his exertions, the property 
 of this work, before he had actually much enlarged it, was 
 transferred to the London Booksellers ; and on Mr. Reed's 
 strongest recommendation, the completion of it was undertaken 
 by Mr. Stephen Jones, in whose hands it will not fail to appear 
 before the publick with every advantage. 
 
 some
 
 C66 LITEHART ANECDOTES. 
 
 some have ascribed to the late George Keate, esq.); 
 '* A complete Collection of the Cambridge Prize 
 Poems, from their tlrst Institution, in 1750, to the 
 present Time," 8vo, 1773; an edition of Johnson 
 and Steevens's Siiakspeare, 10 vols. 8vo, 1785, 
 Avhich he undertook at the request of Dr. Farmer 
 and Mr. Steevens, the latter of whom resigning-, 
 for this time, the office of Editor ; some short Lives 
 of tliose English Poets who were added to Dr. Jolm- 
 son's Collection, in 179O; the last and splendid 
 Edition of Shakspeare, in 21 vols. 8vo, 1803, with 
 his name prefixed ; an efJbrt which he with some 
 difficulty was persuaded to make. So extremely 
 averse indeed was he to appearing before the pubr 
 Jiok, that, when he was asked, as a matter of 
 course, to add only his initials at the end of the pre- 
 fatory advertisement to the volume of Dr. Young, 
 his answer was nearly in these words : " I solemnly 
 declare, that I have such a thorough dread of put- 
 ting my name to any publication whatever, tbisit, 
 if 1 were placed in the alternative either of so 
 doing or of standing in the pillory, I believe I 
 should prefer the latter*." He was a valuable con- 
 
 * Thii> was written from memory. But the following Let- 
 ter, wliich 1 have since found, confirms the fact. 
 
 "Dear Sir, " Staple-inn, [1778.] 
 
 " Your note yesterday surprized me mnch, as I never had the 
 leat idea that it would be expected that my name should be to 
 Young ; and I was the more astonished, as you speak of the 
 matter as one of perfect indifference. I declare 1 have such a 
 horror of seeing my name as Author or Editor, that if I had 
 Ihe option of standing in the pillory, or in standing formally 
 before the publick in either of those hghts, I should find it dif- 
 ficuh to determine v.hleh io choose. It is what I never did in 
 my life, and what I neither can or will, let the consequence 
 turn out as it may. As the agreement with the Bookseller wji^ 
 as 10 him under that idea, I think he ought not to be bound by 
 it. I will readily refund the money, the first I ever received 
 for any literary imdertaking, at Christmas, and expect it will 
 never be taken any notice of The Work which I have taken 
 the most pains about, I mean Dodsley's Plays, where I inight 
 expect some credit on the score of my industry, will not have 
 my name to theni -. nor shall any thing else, if I ever undertake 
 any thing more t'.\iuch i think doubtful) ; for 1 heartily detest 
 all the squabi'Ies and palti-y tricks which are used by authors 
 ag-uinst qjie another, and w'nlch no one who gives his name to 
 
 the.
 
 ISAAC REED, ESS. 667 
 
 tributor to the Westminster Magazine from 1 773-4 
 to about the year 1780. The biographical articles 
 in that Miscellany are from his pen. He became alsp 
 very early one of tlie proprietors of the European 
 Magazine, and was a constant contributor to it for 
 jnany years, particularlv in the biographical and cri- 
 tical departments. He was also an occasional volun- 
 teer in the pages of Sylvanus Urban. So ample in- 
 deed was his collection of literary curiosities, so ready 
 was he in turning to them, and so thoroughly able to 
 communicate information, that no man of character 
 ever applied to him in vain. Even the labours of 
 Dr. Johnson were benefited by his accuracy ; and, 
 for the last 30 years, there has scarcely appeared 
 any literary work in this country, of the least con- 
 sequence, that required minutti and extensive re- 
 search, which had not the advantage of his liberal 
 assistance, as the grateful prefaces of a varietv of 
 vv'riters have abundantly testified. Among the ear- 
 liest of these was the Edition of Dr. King's Works, 
 177^, and the Supplement to Swift, in the same 
 year. In botli these v/orks Mr. Nichols was most 
 mateHally indebted to the judicious remarks of Mr. 
 Reed, whose friendly assistance also in many in- 
 
 the publick has a liglit to suppose liimself insignificant enough 
 to be exempt from. Writing is very painful to me, and 1 do 
 not know that I am perfectly intelligible. 
 
 " I thank you very heartily for Dryden * ; it came very season- 
 ably to fill up the taidium of a solitaiy evening. There are two 
 or three errors in points of fact, which must be rectifier!. My 
 illness is more stubborn than can be imagined. Isaac Reed." 
 
 Tlie two following Letters are of a somewhat similar nature : 
 " Dear Sir, " Staple-inn, Thursday, [I78I.] 
 
 '' I have made some alteration in the note you desired me to 
 look at, and wish my recollection woidd enable me to be more 
 positive about the fact. I am certain you are safe in ascribing 
 the poem to Croxall f- The permission you ottered me of draw- 
 ing upon you f<)r the money 1 wanted I yesterday accepted. 
 
 bhould Mr. refuse to repay you, pray let me know ; I will 
 
 then wjite into tlie rountry to get some money rai.sed upon 
 9om(i. property I have at Chesterfield, that you may be put to no 
 ; 'convenience. It is, I confess, what I would willingly avoid ; 
 
 * See the " Select Collection of Misctilany Poems, 1T?0 ITb .'," vol. I. 
 pp. .'.(;, IHl; vol. II. jip. 88, 'JQ. 
 t .Uiid. vol. VII. p. 0-15. 
 
 but
 
 66S LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 stances contributed to render his '' Anecdotes of 
 Mr. Bowyer," in 1782, completer than they other- 
 
 but as it will be the least of two evils, I shall not hesitate about it. 
 The illiberality of Mr. 's behaviour to nie, I believe and hope, is 
 without a parallel in the present times. Curll himself, whatever li- 
 berties he took with the miserable wretches who were dependant 
 upon him, never assumed the right of affronting a person 
 who had either character or respectability in the world 3 and I 
 protest, upon a review of my Hfe, I know of no circumstance in 
 it by which I have forfeited my claim to be treated with de- 
 cency. I may, I am sure, appeal to you, whether the note I sent 
 wall-anted an answer written by a ser\ ant, and not transmitted 
 immediately to me, containing at the same time nothing from 
 which I could collect a decisive reply to the request which I had 
 made, though from the nature of it a positive answer might be 
 expected. The ixideness and incivility of this conduct will, bow- 
 ever, be attended with some good tome. What neither the hints 
 of some, nor the remonstrances of other of my friends, could 
 effect, this transaction will bring about. I will renounce the 
 beggarly employment by which I have been too long disgracing 
 mvself, and return to my own profession, which I am ashamed 
 to ha\ e so much neglected. 1 confess, I am the more mortified 
 at t'iis business, as I cannot but reSect on the very different 
 treatment I met with from Mr. Dodsley on a similar occasion. 
 At a time when from illness I could not proceed on his work, 
 and v/hen, from appearances, it seemed probable that I never 
 iiiight be able to finish it, he, without scruple, or any pitiful 
 hesitation, advanced me the loan I asked of him ; and I do not 
 bel'fvehe has ever repented that he behaved to me like a gentle- 
 man. What I requested as a favour, I now will expect as a stipula- 
 tion. I therefoi'e will not look at the work again till you have sa- 
 tisfaction for the draft I have drawn, I am neither poor enough, 
 nor feuffiiciently abject for such a humiHating situation as Mr. 
 
 seeins to wish rue in ; and therefore he may take the aJ- 
 
 tc?na*^ivD. There were other names mentioned for the honour- 
 able task besides mine. Let him employ any of tliem. From 
 the review I have taken of it, 1 see, 1 can get as much money in 
 the time I must employ about it, even though I hire myself 
 out to write for a stationer ; and if I do I cannot be more 
 disgraced than I have been. I ought to apologize for plaguing 
 you with this scrawl ; but I want to forget the subject of it. I. R." 
 
 " Dear Sir, Staple-inn, Monday, [1787.] 
 
 " I this morning in the City met Mr, Flearsley, when, to mr 
 'utter astonishment, he tokl me he had been informed that I 
 was the writer of the unfavourable criticisms on his publication 
 in the Geriileman's Magazine. How such a report can have 
 originated I cannot conjecture. The falsehood of it you know ; 
 and I trust wiil do nie the justice to refute it *. 
 
 " After every recollection on the subject, i cannot recall to my 
 
 * Mr, KeareUy was assured by nif?, that thi? was fact. J.N. 
 
 niind
 
 ISAAC REED, ESa. 669 
 
 wise could possibly have been. He contributed 
 also many useful Notes to the later Editions of Dr. 
 Johnson's Lives of the Poets. To enumerate the 
 thanks of the Authors whom he had assisted by his 
 advice would be endless ; but in a Preface which I 
 have seen, those thanks are so happily expressed 
 that I feel a great pleasure in referring to it*. 
 
 With the late Dr. Farmer, the worthy master of 
 Emanuel College, Cambridge, he was long and in- 
 timately acquainted, and regularly for many years 
 spent an autumnal month with him at that pleasant 
 seat of learning. At that period the Theatricals of 
 Stirbitch Fair had powerful patronage in the Combina- 
 tion-room of Emanuel, where the routine of perform- 
 ance was regularly settled, and where the charms of 
 the bottle were early deserted for the pleasures of the 
 sock and buskin. In the boxes of this little theatre 
 Dr. Farmer was the Arbiter Elegantiarum, and pre- 
 sided with as much dignity and unaffected ease as 
 within the walls of his own College -j-. He was re- 
 gularly surrounded by a large party of congenial 
 friends and able Criticks ; among whom Mr. Reed 
 and Mr. Steevens were constantly to be found j^. 
 The last-mentioned gentleman, it may not here im- 
 properly be noticed, had so inviolable an attachment 
 to Mr. Reed, that, notwithstanding a capricious- 
 ness of temper which often led hiiri to difier from 
 his dearest friends, and occasionally to lampoon 
 
 mind that I ever wrote a Review of any kind, excc])t Jones's 
 Isaeus, about ten years ago, in the Gentleman's Magazine [see vol. 
 XLIX. p. 257.] If you renien^her any, pray let me know ; and- 
 if it is not too much trouble I will thank you to tell Kears- 
 ley every circumstance you know of my writing in the Maga- 
 zine. I am sure there is not a syllable either there or any 
 where else that I would not avow ; and when 1 say that, I should 
 be sorry there was any tUij^^ that could be injurious (;ls he 
 tells me this has been) to a ni;ui of business, who has always 
 been represented to mc as one struggling hard for the support 
 of a large family. If ycju will either v. rite to him, or see him, 
 I shall hold myself much obliifed. Yours very truly, Isaac Ried." 
 
 * By Mr. Ii;doe. See Gent. Mag. vol. LXXVII. p. 18. 
 
 \ This I state from my own knowledge^ having been prescrit 
 with him at the Stiibitcii Th(.atre 
 
 X See pages G51. 0"5-^. 
 
 them,
 
 gjO LITRiWlV ANECDOTES. 
 
 them, there were three persons with whom through 
 life he scarcely seemed to liave a shade of difference 
 of opinion ; but those three were gentlemen with 
 whom it was not possible for the most captious 
 person to have differed Dr. Farmer, Mr. Tyr- 
 whitt, and Isaac Reed. 
 
 To follow Mr. Reed into the more retired scenes 
 of private and domestic life : he was an early riser ; 
 and, whenever the avocations of business permitted 
 leisure, applied, in general, several hours in the 
 morning either in study or in the arrangement of 
 his numerous scarce tracts. His collection of books, 
 which were chiefly English, was perhaps one of the 
 most extensive in that kind that any private indivi- 
 dual ever possessed ; and he had a short time be- 
 fore his death made arrangements for disposing of a 
 great part of it. The whole was afterwards sold by 
 auction *. 
 
 He was naturally companionable ; and fre- 
 quently enjoyed the conversation of the table at the 
 houses of a select circle of friends, to whom his 
 great knowledge of men and books, and his firm 
 but modest mode of communicating that knowledge, 
 always rendered him highly acceptable. 
 
 Exercise was to him a great source both of health 
 and pleasure. Frequently has the compiler of this 
 
 * See " Bibliotheca Reediana ; a Catalogue of the curious and 
 extcii-ive Library of rhe late I^aac Reed, Esq. of Staple-inn^ deceas- 
 ed. Comprchendinga mnstextrai)rdinarycollecti(jn of books inEn- 
 glish Litcraturp, &c. ; sold by auction by Messrs. King and Lochee : 
 INoveniber, 1S07, Svo. F;\v collections attracted greater atten- 
 tion before, f.nd during, the sale vA' it, than did the library of Mr. 
 lleed ; a critic and literary ciiaractcr of ver\- respectable second-rate 
 reputation. Thepref?.ce to the Catalogue was written by the Rev. 
 H. J.Todd. It ishrlef, iudicioius, and impressive ; giving abundant 
 proof r;f the bibliomuniacal spirit oi" the owner of the libraiT, 
 wh(j would appear to liave adoi)ted tlie cobler's A\el!-known ex- 
 ample of applying one room to ahmost e^cl'y dome-jtic yjurpose : 
 for Reed made his library ' liis parlour, kitchen, and hall." A 
 b)'ave and enxiablc spirit this! and, in truth, what is comparable 
 with it? Mr. Reed's portrait is prefixed to the Catalog-ue^ it is 
 an indifferently stippled scrapir,g, cop/ied from a fine mellow 
 mezzotint, from the characteri.stic pencil of Rommey. This 
 latter k a private plate,, aau, asiuch, is rare," Bibliomania, p. 690. 
 
 article
 
 . ' ISAAir REED, Esa. Bfl 
 
 atticle* enjoyed a twelve miles walk to partake with 
 him ill the hospitalities of Mr. Gough at Enfield, 
 and the luxury of examining with perfect ease the 
 rarer parts of an uncommonly rich topographical 
 library. But the most intimate of his friends was 
 the friend of human kind at large, the mild, bene- 
 volent Daniel Braithwaite, esq. late comptroller of 
 the Foreign Post-office, who has frequently beguiled 
 him into an agreeable saunter of near 20 miles to his 
 delightful retreat in the pleasant village of Amwell, 
 where he was always as happy and as much at home 
 as Dr. Johnson was at Mr. Thrale's at Streatham. 
 
 With Mr. Bindley, senior Commissioner of the 
 Stamp-office, whose skill and taste in collecting rare 
 and valuable articles in Literature were so congenial 
 to his own, Mr. Reed had many interchanges of reci- 
 procal obligation. But his more immediate associates 
 were, James Sayer, esq. of Great Ormond-street; Mr. 
 Romney and Mr. Hay ley, the eminent Painter and 
 Poet; William Long, esq. the celebrated Surgeon; Ed- 
 mund Malone, esq. the great rival Commentator on 
 
 * I shall add two more specimens of his fiiendly letters : 
 " Dear Sir, Staple-mn, 12 Oct. 1782, 
 
 " Understanding that a frank will be sent to you this ni2;ht, 
 I just inclose a few lines, to inform you tiiat I received a letter 
 from Mr. Steevens this n:;ornin^, in v.liich he says you were ex- 
 pected at Camhrid^-e, and that Mr. Cole liad some curious MSS. 
 to offer you, which he wished to confer v/iih you about in per- 
 son f. If your arrangements are not finally made, perhaps you 
 may contrive to return that way J. If you do not, suppose you 
 write to Mr, Cole \i\mn the subject, liis health is so precarious 
 that it will be hazardous to lose any time ; and therefore I 
 th(night it worth while to send you the hint. I wish you all 
 possible enjoyment of the countiy. I. R," 
 
 " Drar Sir, " Staplc-mn, Saturday MoTning, March 1, 1788. 
 
 " The newspapers have just infornic.i me of the sad circum- 
 stance which has hrqjpeucd ia your faniiiy . I sincerely take a 
 part in your ciistre^s ; and though I am sensible nothing but 
 time can afford you comfort, I cannot help expressing my wish 
 that I could be of any use to you at this moment. Be assured 
 that if I can assist you in any manner, vou have only to com- 
 mand me. I am, dear Sir^ yours very truly, I. R," 
 
 f On the subject of Browne Willis's Buckinghamshire MSS. See vol. 
 Vi. pp. 199 5U-. t 1 V'^j then on au t-xcuriiun in Leicestershire. 
 
 S Se Gat. Mag. 178!j, vol. LVIII. 27>i( 
 
 Shakspeare ;
 
 673 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Shakspeare ; J. P. Kemble, esq. not only an excel- 
 lent Critick and Collector of dramatic curiosities, but 
 himself (perhaps with the exception of his Sister 
 only) the best living exemplar of Shakspeare's text ; 
 the Rev. H. J. Todd, the illustrator of Milton and 
 Spenser, to whom he left a legacy for his trouble in 
 superintending the sale of his hbrary; Francis New- 
 bery, esq. of Heathfield, co. Sussex ; Richard Sharp, 
 esq. M. P. for Castle Rising; and George Nicol, 
 esq. the judicious purveyor ofMiterary curiosities for 
 the King. Some of these gentlemen were members 
 of a select dining-club, of which he had from its 
 origin been the President. 
 
 On the bed of pain and anguish, another of his 
 oldest friends (though unable to hold a pen) feels a 
 soothing satisfaction in dictating this last tribute of 
 respect to so exemplary a character. He died Jan. 
 5, 1807, at his chambers in Staple-inn, of which 
 honourable Society he had long been one of the 
 antients, worn out by natural debility, which for 
 the last two or three years had rendered his hands 
 unable to do their office_, though his mind retained 
 its original firmness *. 
 
 Mr. Reed left considerable property to some rela- 
 tions, and small pecuniary remembrances to most of 
 his friends -f-. J. N. 
 
 * His remains were interred at Amwell, agreeably to his own 
 request, on Tuesday the 13th of January, attended by Mr. 
 Braithwaite, Thomas Green, esq. and George Nicol, esq. ; and 
 his relations, Mr. Aubrey Joseph Lum and Mr. Robert Lum. 
 See the article in the European Magazine already referred to. 
 
 t See a co})y of Mr. Reed's will, with Twelve Codicils, in the 
 Monthly Mirror, 1807, p. 130. The fii-st of these Codicils con- 
 tains only, " I give to Mr. John Nichols, Printer, two guineas." 
 The third, " I revoke the legacy given to John Nichols. I. R,. 
 See additional codicil, dated 7th August 1799. I. R." No co- 
 dicil, however, of sv.ch date appears ; nor am 1 conscious of ever 
 Iiaving given him tiie slightest offence, i ha\e, therefore, every 
 reason to behcie that he intended to have augmented the legacy. 
 
 END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 
 
 N1CH0X.S and Son, Friutcfs, Kcd Lion Tassage, Fket Street, Loudoo.
 
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 No. XIV. ADDITIONS to DR. LORT. 
 
 In a former article respecting this learned and 
 very eminent Divine, is a concise Essay, communi- 
 cated by himself, on the Author of '' The whole 
 Duty of Man*;"" to which, from the Collection of 
 Mr. GougJi, I now subjoin a correspondence of Dr. 
 Lort with Mr. Prichard-I-, a Herefordshire gentle- 
 
 * See before, p. 597. And see in Gent. Mag. for April 1812, 
 p. 314, some remarks, collected by him, on Antient Manners. 
 
 t " Mr. Prichard was a gentleman of fortune at Ledbury in 
 Herefordshire. He was a great Freethinker, and fond of com- 
 municating his notions in all companies. He had a particular 
 spleen to David's character, whicii he was known to have drawn 
 at length ; and was therefoie supposed to have been the author 
 of the Historj' of The Man after God's own Heart; but this he 
 always denied, and I believe, justly. In 17f'3 or 4, he went into! 
 the South of France for the recovery of his health, where he 
 died, and wai buried, by bis ov.n desire, in consecrated ground. 
 I saw him at Malverne Wells in 17t>l ; and, in company with 
 INIr. Jolm Yorke, was invited to breakfast with him at his house 
 near Ledbury, where he had an excellent garden, with every 
 thing in great perfection. His letter to me, he says, was written 
 by his servant 5 that is, by a woman whom others called his 
 mistress. M. L." 
 
 1. " Sir, Tr'mitij College, Cambridge, Sept. 10, 1761. 
 
 " Mr, Yoike was pleased to tell me that you had shewed him a 
 copy of Collins's Discourse on Freethinking, in which the famous 
 pa-sage of IdioLa' Evangelist cr, quoted by that writer, was left 
 untran-)l:it(.d j and thciic'./ concluded, that Dr. Bentley had very 
 unfairly triumphed over him, on a presumption of his having 
 rendered it Idivt Evangelists. Was this really the case, I should 
 have the most contemptible opinion of Dr. Bentley's understand- 
 ing, as well as moi-als ; for notliing could equal tlie wickedness 
 of so gross a misiepresentation, but the silliness of supposing it 
 could be long undi'^cox ered. 
 
 " In the copy which 1 have of Collins's book, the passage is 
 actually tranil.it ed; and Bentley has quon-d it very fairly in his 
 Jlemarks. But the mystery^ lyes here Collins had this book more 
 than once re-printed abroad, though in the title-page said lo be 
 at Ivondoi; ; and, he=id('s several considerable additions, the trans- 
 1,'itions of the Authors qu(;ted are in sevei'al places corrected 
 from Dr. Bentley's Remark-, and some references are made to 
 those Remarks. 
 
 "Thi-i is a'-serted in Collins's Life in the General Dictionary, 
 which has many ])aiti;d things in \\\i favour, liul'.-ed his moral 
 character was iievcr,tlut 1 kno\v of, impeached by his antagonist- > 
 
 Vol. II. Xx ou
 
 6*4 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 man, on a remarkable passage in Collins on " Free- 
 thinkinfr," and the two following very handsome 
 complimentary addresses to Dr. Lort, by young Stu- 
 dents who have since most highly distinguished 
 themselves in the Republic of Letters : 
 
 "Reverendo Doctissimoque Viro Michaeli Lort, 
 
 S. T. B. hujusce Collegii e Senioribu^ Sociis, et 
 
 Maecenati suo quamplurimum colendo. 
 
 t^um sacras hasce, Vir spectatissime, intueor aedes, 
 
 loci rehgionem, quotque qualesque et nunc et olim 
 
 optimis feliciter inclaruere studiis, animus mihi se 
 
 quadantenus subducit, et ingenii, ut ut sint exigua^, 
 
 vires quasi retrndit suas. Spe tamem benignitatis 
 
 tuae adducor (cujus non mediocris egeo) ut conatu in 
 
 arduoeam exoratum veniam. Tu, cum Juventutem 
 
 in Doctrinec ipso peregisti sinu, cam, per optimarum 
 
 rerum studium dignitatem meruisti, unde Farticeps 
 
 on the contrary, was well spoken of by some of tliem: yet I 
 know not how to reconcile a shuffling management of this sort, 
 which has, I doubt not, imposed upon others as well as you, Sir, 
 to the strictness of such a character ; or to that love of truth, and 
 consequently openness to conviction, which I shall ever honour 
 A\herevt;r they are fo\md, I flatter myself that I need seek for 
 no apology for troubling you with this ; if I did, the place from 
 whence it is dated, to which Dr. Bentley did so nuich credit, 
 will furnish me with a very good one. 1 cannot conclude without 
 returning you my thanks for the civilities which you were pleased 
 to shew at IMalverne, to. Sir, 
 
 " Y(nir most obedient humble sen ant, M. Lort. 
 
 *' To G. Pritchard, Esq. near Ledbury, Herefordshire." 
 
 2. " I am much obliged for the favour of your letter. Receiving 
 information must always be agreeable to me, as I hope truth will 
 always be the end I aim at in my enquiries. I own I am puzzled 
 in regard to the passage oi Idiot is Evangelistis in Collins and Bent- 
 ley, which you say is actually translated in the copy which you have 
 of t.ollins's IJook. Before I proceed, excuse a short query ; whe- 
 ther you do not quote from uiemory, rather than the book itself? 
 as you term it, " tlie famous passage of Idiotce ErangeUstd';" 
 ^vhercas, both in Collins and Bentley it is in the ablative, lUiotis 
 I'.vungelistis'''^ I hope you will not imagine that tliis is mentioned 
 by way of finding fault ; for i will own that I am often guilty of 
 little inadvertencies, and who is not ? But what can be said in 
 regard to this dillerence ? You say tliat tlie mystery lies in 
 " Collins having his book more than once reprinted abroad, 
 tliough iu ihe title-page said to be at Loudon ; and besides seve-
 
 DR. LORT. 675 
 
 evaseris Judicii per gravissimos Viros agendi de pree- 
 mio, seu commodi sive honoris avidis, aeqa^ ex- 
 optando. Verum eninivero simplici veritatis normae 
 nihil allaboro; cum ex mea oratione nihil dignitati 
 tuae vel subtrahi potest, vel adstrui. Liceat autem 
 haerenti mihi in conspectum vestrum tandem ali- 
 quando accedere, occursum non tarn reformidanti 
 quam reverito; cui nihil magis est in votis quam tuo 
 honestari sufFragio. Tu ne hunc animi dedigneris 
 affectum; temeritatis absit audiam pravseque dam- 
 natus fiducia^. 
 
 *'' Sum Tibi omni obsequio devinctissimus, 
 
 " GuL. L. Mansel/* 
 
 ral considerable additions, the translativOns of the Authors quoted 
 are in several places corrected from Dr. Bentley's remarks, and 
 some references are made to those remarks." Now my book of 
 Collins's seems to have all the signs of a tirst edition : there are 
 no such signs as you mention j so far from it, that several crcum- 
 stanccs plainly indicate tiic improbability of its being one of those 
 re-printed boolcs ; as, upon examination, I find it to answer 
 exactly in the several pages to Bentley's quotations ; which, if 
 there iiad been several considerable additions, it could not well 
 have done, especially as my ediiicn is in 8vo, as it was first 
 printed, and in a large i)rifit. Then here are no places, which I 
 can find, corrected from Dr. Bentley's Remarks (unless you sup- 
 jiose this passage in dispute to be so), or any references made to 
 H!iy Remarks. And ir really seems very extraordinary to suppose 
 Mr. Collins .^honld, in tlie same year in which he published hi^ 
 book (which was in 1713, which is likewise the date of mine), 
 ])Lji)!i.'^'n another edition*, only to alter two words, and indeed two 
 words (;f very little consequence, and at the same time make no 
 other alterations, by the additions, corrections, &c. you mention, 
 1 hough the same reason nniEt then subiist for his making such 
 a^ did at the time of any other edition in which you say he did 
 so ; as Bentley's Remarks must have been then published, if Collins 
 altered Idiot F-VdUf^clists to Iduitis J-A-angelistis in pursuance of 
 those Remarks. ."Vnd besides, there certainly was another edition, 
 in 12mo, printed at the Hague in this year 1713, that has those 
 additions, &c. you mention ; so I cannot avoid rc])ea(ing, that 
 it must seem very extraordinary that a book should be ])rinted 
 in 1713, and various Itemarks made ui)on it by Dr. Bentley, and 
 then immediately another edition of this book should come out 
 with two woids only, of triding consequence, ;dtered according 
 to those Remarks; though certainly there was another edition of 
 liiis book the very same year published by the author with several 
 
 * Is it not mo?t proLablo that Mr. Collins had the iii:le k';if only cau- 
 celled, ill wliich the off';iitive wordi occurred?" J, h N. 
 
 >>. X ^ additions.
 
 6j6 MTERARY ANECDCITES. 
 
 ** Reverendo Doctissimoque Viro Michaeli Lort, 
 S. T. B. hujusce Collegii ^ Senioribus Socio 
 dignissiino. 
 
 " Uiiicuique profecto est aliquid quo tendit, et 
 in quod arcuni dirigit. Varia autem hominuni 
 sunt studia, diversi etiam mores. Qui tameii in 
 Te una, qualiscunque sit, curam, quam potest, 
 impendit, in pretio habetur. In Olympico certa- 
 mine victorem palma donatum laudamus ; sed nee 
 Musis amico sua negatur fama: illi licet sub sole 
 
 additions, and several translations candidly cori'ected from those 
 Pi.emarks. Thus, Sir, 1 must leave it to you 3 and, as I hope 
 from your apparent candour, that Dr. Bentley's great learninfj; 
 has not biassed you to be an implicit admirer of him, 1 will ve}i- 
 ture to mention an answer I had fiom a worthy Dignitary of the 
 Church, upon my mentioning this Idiutis EvangeUstia affair to 
 him; whicii was, That nothing was too impudent for Dr. Bcnileij. 
 And give me leave to add hat, in my life, I never read any book 
 so pedantically affected, awkwardly \\itty, ovcrbeaiing, and scur- 
 rilous (I cannot find epithets sufficient) as Phileleutherics Lip- 
 micmis. I am certain I need not point out to you, Sir, the places, 
 to prove what I say. But, if the particular fault wherewith 
 Dr. Bentley has been charged does not belong to him, let hini 
 be cleared 3 for I would not be willing that even the Devil him- 
 self should be made to appear blacker than he really is. In- 
 deed, if any thiiig comes near the Doctor's way of writing, it is a 
 paper in the Guardian, vol. I. No. 3. which attacks tlie Autlior of 
 the Discourse of Freethinking in a pretty kind of tragi-comic 
 manner. If you have forgot it, let me recommend the re-perusal, 
 as it will affiu'd an odd kind of amusement. Be pleased parti- 
 cularly to attend to the place where p. 136 of Collins is quoted, 
 and turn to that page. I hope this is the only book wherein 
 people are treated with contempt for being sober icretches in their 
 religion, and for not having fire enough to be any farther de- 
 bauchees than merely in principle. You will excuse my freedom. 
 I consider myself as tiamiliai'ly talking to my friend, which 1 
 aincerely desire you to be, for I am. Sir, 
 
 " Your obliged and most obedient servant, Geo. Prich.vkd. 
 
 Hope-end, near Ledbury, in Herefordshire, 22<:/ Sept. IJ61. 
 
 " If you see JMr. Yorke, I beg you will present my most re- 
 spectful compliments to him. I thought it would not be disa- 
 greeable to have my letter copied by my servant, as I begin to 
 tind a great defect in the steadiness of my hand. If I am faulty 
 iii my address in the superscription, pray let me know it. G. P." 
 3. " SiK, Trinity College, Cambridge, October V2, 1761. 
 
 I have your favour of the '22d of September, to which I should 
 soojjer have retvirued an answer, but tliut I waited in hopes to 
 
 have
 
 DR. LOHT. 677 
 
 et in pulvere; huic umbratilis sit labor. At ne vo- 
 lenti quidem in arenam Pisaeam licuit descendere, 
 nisi prills de moribus, de totius vitae institute, 
 severissima habita ratione. At non mihi, stadium 
 hoc literarium mox ingressuro, cum hellanodicis 
 res agenda est; cum iis autem, quos oequiore animo, 
 veniam parum cautae Juventutis erroribus daturos, 
 et spero, et bonfido. Semper mihi honoratus erit 
 ille dies, quo primum me hospitem accepit Musarum 
 hocce domiciliunij cujus famam indies succrescen- 
 
 have found that same edition of Collins's book which you de- 
 scribe to be in your possession, the [)ages of which answer to 
 those quoted by Bcntlcy in his Remarks, but in which the words 
 Idiotis Evangelistis are untranslated. This I have not been able 
 to procure j yet, notwithstanding, I flatter myself that I shall be 
 able to give you farther satisfaction as to the matter in question. 
 
 " My copy of the Discourse on Freethinking is in Svo, London, 
 1713, and contains 178 pages, which answer exactly to lientley's 
 quotations." 
 
 Page 90, lines 21 and 22 run thus: " The Hohj Gospels as 
 written by Idiot Evangelists. 
 
 " On the back of the title-page I find what follows in my own 
 hand-writing : " The following alterations are to be found in the 
 second edition of this book ; viz. 
 
 " P. 40, after ahsolutehj necessary, the following paragraph is 
 omitted; If a vian be under any obligation to listen to any revaf 
 lation at all. 
 
 P. 90, By Idiot Evangelists, omitted. 
 
 P. 135, Though he -wm Chief Prieat. The word C/iic/" omitted. 
 
 " I cannot recollect, at present, how or whence I procured these 
 alterations; but, if they are all to be found in your copy, I think 
 the aflair will be sufficiently cleared uj), and it will aj)pear that a 
 new edition was printed, not indeed for the sake of altering two 
 words only, of trifling consequence; but, of //Vree which atlected 
 the author's credit as a Scholai", more jjerhaps than any other 
 three words in his book. 
 
 " That Collins should profit from his Adversai^'s Remarks, and 
 alter such })assages in his book as he was convinced thereby 
 were wrong, is so far from deserving censure, that it rather 
 merits conunendation ; but then an honest and imjjartial searcher 
 after truth wcnild candidly own his mistakes, or at lea>*t, in the 
 cjilfcrent editions of hib b(Jok, would fairly tell his readers in the 
 title-page, that it was the second, third, or fourth eJiliou 
 revised and corrected; whereas the chicane, for I cannot call 
 it otl\erwise, made use of by him, to conceal those circumstance, 
 savours much more of the Jcbuit, than of the generous and real 
 iVeetluuker. It certainly has drawn you in, Sir, very innocently 
 
 1 douln
 
 , ^73 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 tern vel invita fateatur Invidia. Nusquam eiiim ant 
 spe Doctriira? adipiscendae uberiore, aut praemiis 
 adeptae amplioribus Juvenes commovemur. Ouod 
 ad me attinet, nihil certe antiquius duxi, quam ut 
 eursu (ab optima Matre Academia praescripto) stu- 
 diorum quodammodojam peracto^ in honestissimum 
 Imnc ordinem qui cooptarer, rae tandem aliquando 
 dignum judicares. Nee est cur diffitear, me trepi- 
 dam quandam titillare spem, ut meum milii depo- 
 situm laudes pudorem, et quern non ita pridem 
 Alumnum Domus adscripsisti, beneficii haudimm.e- 
 morem, Socium adscribere digneris, 
 " Sum Tui observantissimus, 
 
 " Thomas Jacobus Mathias." 
 
 In a drawing which I possess, an inside View of 
 Tickencote church, Rutland, part of a beautiful set 
 taken in 1780 by Mr. John Carter, is a full-length 
 portrait of Dr. Lort, taken from the life, by his ex- 
 press permission. 
 
 Two Letters by Dr. Lort are printed in vol. IL . 
 p. 590- 
 
 I doubt not, to condemn Dr. Bentley for a most gross and impu- 
 dent forgery, to which he was altogether a stranger. Of this [ 
 am fully persuaded ; or otherwise no parts, no learning, though 
 greater than Dr. Bcntley's, should hinder me from, ioining most 
 heartily with you, in exposing and stigmatising such behaviour. 
 Thus much I will own, that in this and all the other writings of 
 the Doctor's, his great superiority of genius and learning so far 
 engross my attenti(in and admiration, as to leave rae very little 
 at liberty to be much afi'ected with those spots you remark in his 
 character; which yet, 1 will agree with you, would have been 
 nuich more perfect and eompleat without, '\^'ith regard to 
 1 he Guardian, tiic v irulcnce in the paper you were pleased to point 
 out to me, though certainly not to be excused, may possibly be 
 thus accounted for. Colhns published this book of his, when 
 party zeal was at the highest pitch, and the High t'hurcli iiact 
 gained the upper lir.nd pf the Low. The Autlior being well known 
 to belong to the latter, and a gi-(>at stickler for the Hanover suc- 
 ces>ion ; the Tories fjrescntly sounded the alarm, and represented 
 this book as containing the real sentiments of the greatest part 
 cf their ap.tagonists. The Whigs, on their side, disclaimed all 
 ronnexion with a writer, who, so far from being of the Low 
 Church, plainly discovered himself to be of none at all. Hence 
 probably tStcele, who was at tliat time the most popular wi-itcrfor 
 
 that
 
 ( 079 ) 
 
 Letter of Thanks* from the University of Cam- 
 bridge to the King of Naples, for his present 
 of the " Antigiuities of Herculaneum-}-." 
 
 " Serenissimo Principi 
 
 Ferdinando, 
 
 utrlusque Sicihie Hierosolymorumque 
 
 Regi, 
 
 Hispaniarum Infanti, 
 
 &c. &c. &c. 
 
 " Serenissime Rex, 
 
 " Nihil nobis vel -ad honorem ornatius, vel ad 
 studia jucundius, elegantissimo tuo munere. In quo 
 ciim erga nostras Musas se ostendat amor tuus (cu- 
 jus cum paterno sceptro haereditatem una creveris) 
 tum abundant ese dehciae, quae non modo permul- 
 cent artificio operis, sed commemoratione vetustatis, 
 artium fortunis, fama rerum. Haec vero tarn ve- 
 nuste, tam eleganter, tarn elaborate perfecta omnia ; 
 tarn ad laudem Academiae tuae Imperiique gloriam ; 
 quis miretur, qui aut de illorum splendidissimis in- 
 geniis aut Serenissimi Patris tui liberahtate vel fando 
 audiverit ? 
 
 " Summis igitur beneficiis sibi nos devinctos ha- 
 bet Gens tua Augustissima ; neque memoriam eo- 
 rum delebit ulla dies, ^uin, ut eluceat omnibus 
 
 tliat party, took occasion in his Guardian to declaim so often and 
 to vehemently ae,ainst liim ; tor, besides that 3rd number, I doubt, 
 not but that in the y, ^7, 55, 62, 70 and 77th numbeis he had 
 Collins chiefly in his eye. 
 
 " If, Sir, you should still have any doubts remaining-, and will 
 be pleased to communicate them, I will with pleasiue endeavoui* 
 to return a satisfactory ans\ver to them, if it should be in my 
 power, or fairly confess my inability so to do. 
 
 lam, Sir, your faitliful and obedient servant, M. LoKr.'" 
 
 * Written, it is supposed, by tlie Public Orator of Cambridi^e, 
 as it propeily falls within his province. In 17^>-, the R(:v. Joint 
 Skynner, who died not above a twehc-m(jnth ago, held that of- 
 fice ; which he had resigned many year* bcfurcj on ica\inu" tUo 
 Universitv. 
 
 -j .See 'vol. III. p. luG, 
 
 tarn
 
 680 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 tam illustre tuae erga nos benevolentia? testimonium, 
 sedulo cumbimus : Regiumque munus in Bibliothe- 
 cam nostram, Regia extructam atque ornatam mu- 
 niticentia, locabimus, tuebimur, suspiciemus. 
 
 " Neque intueri sane haec ornamenta licet, quin 
 veniat nobis in mentem, quam esset in bis studiis 
 utraque ilia tua Sicilia clara : Quae inde pictae ta- 
 bulae, quam pulcherrime facta simulacra, quanta 
 signorum, gemmarum, vasorum vis disseminarent 
 olim in Romanfi terra, quidquid elegantiae politioris 
 ettudit. Quae si, in ilia feritate armorum, rudes 
 atque incultos homines delenirent : si severi Con- 
 sules atque Imperatores fasces submitti, victamque 
 Siciliam triumphare paterentur vice sua ; quanto nos 
 amore, in hac luce literarum, eas artes amplecta- 
 mur, unde ornatur Historia, perlucent mores, virtu- 
 tesque omnes vel tacitae loquuntur ? 
 
 '' Quantas igitur de te spes susceperint universi, 
 qui in Museo illo paterno jam inde a teneris educatus, 
 ciiique gaza contigerit amplior, quam vel Medicea, 
 Estensis, vel, multa laude foeminae, Christinae do- 
 mus noverit ? Omnis tibi ars ingenii altricem stu- 
 diorumque se ministram lubenter praebet: Te cla- 
 rorum hominum ad imitationem rapiet imago om- 
 nis : mentemque tuarn ad famam, quam contem- 
 plaris, sensim ducet. Itaque quoties beneficum ali- 
 quem ac benignum Regem intuearis, sicut solebat 
 ille olim Mutinae dux Alphonsus, eorundem tecum 
 studiorum & fortunarum Princeps, ad virtutem to- 
 ties accendi te agnosces, Patronum litterarum 
 gpectes ; atque lineamenta exculti animi percurras ; 
 forsitan repatabis ipse tecum, " Haec illi studia 
 erant, hae artes, quibus famam aeternam meruit : eo 
 erat liberali aspectu atque vultu ; 
 
 * Sic ille oculos, sic ora ferebat.' 
 
 ' Tecum vero una florebunt, & similia accipicnt 
 incrementa, tuis sub auspiciis, liberales artes. Id 
 i-perare nos jubet Numisma illud Augusti ex auro 
 (quod quasi jure sue sibi vendicabant Cuesarei vul- 
 
 tas)
 
 LETTER TO THE KING OF NAPLES. 68 1 
 
 tus) singular! pretio atque eximia venustate. Ilia 
 etiam * Inscriptio ad exquisitam tuam Erato, mi- 
 nutis exarata Uteris, atque accentibus distincta, gra- 
 tissima sit necesse eruditis omnibus ; quarum rerum 
 setas & origo tantis usque adhuc tenebris involuta 
 jacuerit. 
 
 " Erit igitur Gentis tuee gloria, Celsissime Prin- 
 ceps, has a ruinis vindicasse praeclaras imagines, 
 easque non solum quasi mortuas excitasse, sed in 
 lucem immortalem famamque protulisse. Quod ve- 
 ro impertire eas aliis digneris, id quidem ejus est 
 liberalitatis, quae semper ibi illustrior visa est, ubi 
 artes floruerint maxim^. Uenique miseris his tem- 
 poribus & luctuosis, consulere te Uteris, ciim armo- 
 rum vis & tumultus cunctam fere Europam pei'a- 
 graverint, omnem laudis cumulum superat : & facit, 
 ut quas Statuas cum aliis communices, ipsi tibi po- 
 sitae videantur. 
 
 "^ Qmn preces ac vota pro salute tua Deo Omni- 
 potenti enixe fcremus, a quo uno datur Rej^jibus, & 
 posse, & velle, esse munificentissimis. Oui cimi 
 exterorum Regum benevolentiam nobis conciliarit, 
 turn, nunquam satis prcedicanda dementia, exem- 
 plo nos domestico docuerit, quam sint instrumenta 
 felicitatis publicee, subsidia virtutis, humanique ge- 
 neris ornamenta. 
 
 *' Sumus, 
 
 ^' Rex Serenissime, 
 ^' Omni observantije pietatisque studio, 
 " Datce " Celsitudini tuie devinctissiini, 
 
 fcSenaciilono^tro, 'aVocancellarius 
 
 Calen.las Mukis " l^eliquusque Senatus 
 
 I'jG'i:' '^ Academia.' Cantabrigiensis." 
 
 * fPATu; 
 
 No.,
 
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 No. XV. REV. DR. ROBERT MARRHAM, 
 
 a native of Cliesliire,was educated at St. Joh ii'sCoUege, 
 Cambridge, where he took the degree of B. A. 1748, 
 and that of M. A. 1752. He removed afterwards to 
 Brazen-nose College, Oxford; where he was incorpo- 
 rated, 1753; and elected a Fellow of that Society, 
 which in 17C8 presented him to the rectory of 
 Whitechapel. This respectable Divine, and most 
 exemplary Parish Priest, was remarkable for affabi- 
 lity, humanity, and suavity of manners. In 17t>8, 
 he also took the degree of B. and D. D. He died 
 Sept. 24, 1786 ; and was buried at Whitechapel. 
 
 A Sermon was preached on the Sunday after liis 
 interment from James i. 4, by his Curate, Mr, Rob- 
 son, which wa-s printed at the request of the parish, 
 but never formally published ^. 
 
 * " Benevolence," say-s the Preacher, " was, I think, the basis 
 of his character. Never man studied the happiness of his fellovv- 
 christians more, never man laboured more to promote it. Pub- 
 lic charities, and private miseries, fovmd in him a liberal support 
 and ready relief. I see many, very many now before mc, M'hose 
 grateful tongues can bear testimony to what I say, who have 
 ta,sted of his bounty, and who have heard him wish that the 
 quantity of his alms had been even doubled; thus enhancing the 
 value of a beneficent action by the manner of doing it. But the 
 benevolence of his disposition was sublimed into Christian charity. 
 He thought no evil of any one, neither of any did he speak evil. 
 He knew how to forgive injtu-ics, and did forgive them. Perha])s 
 it has been the lot of few men to reckon so small a number of 
 enemies as he did, if indeed he could reckon any. None could 
 maltreat him, save the bmtal and the envious; but there was a 
 lonity, a forgiveness about him, which obviated and overcame 
 e\ en brutality and envy. For ever avei'se from strife, and stu- 
 tlious of avoiding contention, wrath and resentment gave w;iy 
 before his face he was indeed a peace-maker, and blessed are 
 such. Th(i disputes wiiich molest half the worlds created no 
 
 (lis-
 
 -REV. DR. MARKHAiM. 6S$ 
 
 It is almost superfluous to add, that Dr. Markham 
 stood deservedly high in the esteem of his parishioners, 
 at whose expence an elegant monument was erected 
 to his memory in I788, executed hy Mr. Banks, and 
 representing Piety weeping at the tomh of Benevo- 
 lence. The figure of Piety is very beautiful, and 
 full of the expression of grief; it reclines against a 
 large sarcophagus-like urn, which is taken from that 
 of Cecilia Metella in the Campo Vaccino at Rome, 
 
 disquiet in his breast. His was a tolerant spirit. He could be 
 steady in his own opinions, without hating those who dissented 
 from him. His principles in religious matters were strictly those 
 of the Church of England. He did not live uj)on the revenues 
 of a church whose tenets he could not aj){)rove of, or acquiesce 
 in ; but, while he abhorred this ba^e temporizing practice, he 
 knew how to gi\e their due shure of honour to those who have 
 given up their ecclesiastical incomes that they may enjoy liberty 
 with peace of conscience. 
 
 '* But one controversy have T ever heard that he had, and that 
 was in defence of the doctrine of tlie Holy Trinity, and the 
 Deity of Him ' who in the beginning was with God, and was 
 Hod.' His love for his parish was boimdless. He lived among you 
 ^and like a faithful servant and observant follower of Christ 
 Jesus, he went about doing good. His life was irreproachable 
 as his doctrine was sound. He ke})t back nothing. He preached 
 the Gospel whole and entire. He extolled not faith without 
 works, neither did he recommend works witiiout faith. He 
 flattered neither the sinner nor the saint. But, resting salvatiou 
 upon these two pillars, faith and morality conjoined, he knew 
 that his doctrine was impregnable, and urged itv^iththat eaiuest- 
 ness Avhich a man ab^ays will do, when he knows that Iruth and 
 he contend on one and the .same side. In the little parochial 
 fli.^putes, which now and then oven the bc^st meaning men may 
 fall into, he was always a moderator; the real interest of the 
 parish wa^^ continually hi- object, and he was always happy when 
 he could select the aclviscable mea'-ures of both parties, and, by 
 ronibining them, gra'ify both, by the adoption of at Ica-^t the 
 wisest part of their plans, and thus render l)oth of utility to the 
 parish at large. E\ery one's imerest he consulted, sa\e hi:^ own. 
 lie was contented to receive bis own rightful due<, as the law of 
 the land and the usage of his predecessors bad settled them, and 
 to hand them down, uninjured by fiaud or violence, to his suc- 
 cessors. A true son, and faithful minister of the Cliunli of bJngkuuJ 
 as he wa-, he was loyal to the Head of the Clnnch under (brist. 
 The king had not a more dutiful or more al]e(tion;itr sultjcct, 
 nor the con-^titution a frl*nd who revered it more \lv wa- no 
 Tftott' u favourer of reput^iicanism, tliau he \sa.- :,'. opologirt fur 
 
 uiM'l'av
 
 684 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 and is marked out for the tomb of Benevolence, by 
 a small medallion on the pedestal exhibiting the cha- 
 rity of the good Samaritan. The whole is supported 
 by a tablet which receives the inscription, and is 
 backed by a slab of grey marble, which gives a 
 pleasing relief to the rest of the monument. 
 
 absolute monarchy. He disdained to court noisy popularity by 
 afFecting republican principles j and reverenced too much the 
 rights of mankind, to be an advocate for despotism. He was 
 satisfied with being a zealous and* sincere lover of his country's 
 form of government which is the happy mean between a com- 
 monwealth and an uncontrouled monarchy. 
 
 " He was a friend to the poor, a friend to mankind, a sincere 
 fi'iend to the Church of England, a zealous pastor of this his 
 numerous flock, a loyal subject to his sovereign, and a rr.a i lover 
 of his country. These are the great hues in his character j and 
 indeed I have not trenched upon panegyric in all I have said. I 
 have only spoken the truth. The more minute parts are jvist as 
 amiable. As a companion, his manners were bland and easy, yet 
 pure and unaffected. There was nothing of moroseness, notiiing 
 of darkness in him. Chearful as a good and benevolent mind 
 could make him, he carried his heart in his hand. He was the 
 delight of many J the comforter of many. Polite and affable, 
 he never wounded the feelings of any onej he never -.lid cruel, 
 or shocking, or unpleasantly blunt things. He was an ornament 
 to our common Christianity, truly adorning the religion which 
 he professed. 
 
 " He was a kind and an affectionate husband ; and consulted 
 the ease, comfort, and happiness of her, who with us mourns 
 for him, in e\ei7 thing. He was a considerate and a mild mas- 
 tor of a family, attentive to the circumstances of his servants, 
 imposing light services, and even in these esusily satisfied. 
 
 " No man ever made a better use of the health and spirits with 
 w hich God long blessed him ; they were employed in glory to 
 (iod, in promoting peace on earth, and preserving good-will 
 amongst mcni. And, when sickness overtook him, the woids of 
 the text were continually in liia mouth: " Let patience have her 
 perfect work." His patience \\a< perfect and entire. He submit- 
 ted to evciy expedient which friendly, rational, and experienced 
 medical skill could devise j submitted even when the cold hand of 
 death was already upon him, and medicine could only palliate, 
 not remove, his disorder. I myself was an eye-witness to his 
 la^t moments. I myself heard his last sigh. His death was that 
 which we might expect in so good, so gentle, so ]uous a man. 
 He took leave of his atteiidants with a blessing. He felt no pangs 
 o( body, he had no perturbations of mind. May we die the 
 d-'ath nf the righteous, and vuvj our last end be like his!" 
 
 *^ Sacred
 
 REV. DR. MARKHAM. 685 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of the 
 
 Rev. Robert Markham, D. D. 
 
 Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty George III. 
 
 and Rector of this Parish, 
 
 who died Sept. 25, 17 86, aged 59 years. 
 
 In testimony 
 of the high esteem in which they held his . 
 
 character 
 
 as a zealous Pastor of a numerous Flock, 
 
 as an earnest and orthodox Preacher 
 
 of the Gospel, 
 
 as a truly pious and benevolent Man, 
 
 as a Peace-maker, and a spiritual Father and Friend, 
 
 his Parishioners 
 
 have erected this monument. 
 
 The righteous shall he had in everlastlns 
 
 remembrance. 112 Psalm, 6." 
 
 There is a portrait of Dr. Markham, a private 
 plate, and an excellent likeness. 
 
 XVI. LETTERS of the Rev. Wm. COLE 
 TO Dr. DUCAREL, &c. 
 
 1. "Sir, King's College, Cambridge, Feb. 4. 1750-51. 
 " The favour of yours 1 received : and though it is out of my 
 power to give you my thoughts upon the Baptistery at Luton in 
 Bedfordshire, liaving ne\'er been there ; yet I am ghid I am able 
 to give you the observations of my friend and able Antiquary, i\lr. 
 Bh)mefield, upon that subject : though 1 could vvi^h in a more 
 ample manner. He visited this Church about '20 or 30 years ago, 
 and made the following remarks upon the subject of your en- 
 quiry ; which 1 shall give you in his own words ; being j)rinted 
 many years ago in a quarto volume^ and given by him to me -, 
 though they have never been published. " In the South ailc, to- 
 wards the West end, stands a fine old font, all inclosed in a chapel 
 of free stone, of antient work, beautifully carved, and raised as 
 high as the arch between the two pillars would j)ermit : on the 
 top of all, is a large bason, where the consecrated water used to 
 be kept, which was let down out of it by a pipe at the priest's plea- 
 sure
 
 6S6 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 sure into the font. On the inside, at the top, is a representation of 
 a vine, atiragon, and the Holy Lamb, which defends the vine from 
 the injury of the Dragon, signifying that Baptism defends us from 
 the Devil j and that, by the assistance of the I^mb of God, that 
 Kvil-one shall not have power to hurt the Church (of which the 
 vine is an emblem), but that we shall be safe under its branches." 
 From hence you will perceive that yoiu* information was wrong as 
 to the situation of this font, which is placed, as very connnonly 
 they are, towards the West end of the South aile ; and not in 
 the midst of the middle aile, which would be, as you rightly ob- 
 serve, a very unusual situation. I am sorry, when Mr. Lethieul- 
 lier was there with IMr. Frederick, that the draft of it was 
 omitted : which might have rectified another disagreement in 
 your description, where you mention a lion and a dragon in the 
 cieling : if ever 1 should be at any tolerable distance, won't fail 
 looking upon it myself, when I may be able to say more of it to 
 the purpose ; but, however that n)ay be, shall by no means let 
 slip so favourable an op])ortunity of embracing the offer of your 
 corresj3ondence, and at the same time of assuring you of tlie 
 j)leasure it will give to. Sir, 
 Your most obedient humble servant^ andscholefellow, Wm. Cole." 
 
 2. " Dear Sir, Blecheley, MarchSl, 1754. 
 
 " Though the arguments you make use of to encourage me to 
 lend my assistance to the \n ork you are engaged in, are very 
 forcible ones ; yet I have a more urging one in your favour than 
 those of Schoolfellow and Brother Antiqiiary : I mean, my own 
 strong natural bent and inclination to forward all works of tlie 
 sort you are about ; where the biographical history of our king- 
 dom is any ways concerned : and es[)eciaUy as it coincides with a 
 favovu'ite branch of that history ; in treating of the ecclesiastic 
 affairs and persons of your piofession, which is so blended with 
 Church matters, as not easily to be sejiarated one from the other : 
 for formerly the Pi'ofessors of the Civil Law were altogether in a 
 manner Churchmen. The design you are about is quite news to 
 me : for I don't remember you yourself ever mentioned it to me, 
 and 1 never heard it from any other quarter: and, had I known 
 your plan, 1 might possibly have been of further service : for I 
 have large collections in the biographical way ; tending chiefly 
 to the History of the Cambridge Writers : which, I suppose, I 
 shall make veiy little use of; it being a wo)k of that compass 
 and extent, that has utterly frightened my indolence to go on 
 w ith : but tliese are all left at Cambridge. I am heartily glad 
 you have undertaken a wt^ik, which, I am sure, nmst give plea- 
 sui-e to all lovers of Antiquity and English History, and that must 
 alscj be of use to illustiate a j)ajtlcular branch of it, hitherto un- 
 attemptcd, in your appendix concerning the Chancellors of each 
 Diocese. Though I have large coUeciions, as you observe, re- 
 lating to Cambridgeshire, yet they have hitherto laid in great 
 cunfubion: but, on your request, 1 have collected together all that 
 relates to your subject ; and for this purpose was obliged to make 
 an index to one book, U'hich vvuutctl one/iu order to gratify 
 
 you
 
 REV. WILLIAM COIE. 68 f 
 
 you with the account I shall send you ; which if it will be of any 
 service in your laudable design, I shall be amply repaid for all my 
 ti'ouble. The fund, from whence I diaw the materials to your 
 purpose, is five folio volumes of extracts from the Registers of the 
 old Bishops of Ely, which the late Bishop lent me at my leisure ; 
 these have all very exact and minute indexes to them ; by which 
 means I was enabled to collect from them eveiy circumstance re- 
 lating to each person. But the great misfortune is, that the ori- 
 ginal Registers begin no higher than 1336; and even from that 
 time to the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when Bp. Cox's Register 
 ends, are many hiatus's of several whole Registers, which arc ut- 
 terly irrecoverable : so that the following account, as of all insti- 
 tutions during that UDy.-, must consequently be very imperfect : 
 however, it is the best we siiall be able to get, and therefore must 
 be satisfied witii it. In the course of this affiiir, I often obserie 
 that one and the same person at difiereut times is styled by a dif- 
 ferent title ; as C hancellor, Conimis.sary, or Vicar Generai, and 
 Official : and as I am unacquainted with the exact distinction of 
 these offices (though I am persuaticd they oftentimes mean the 
 same thing in our Registers) I have therefore sent you a more mi- 
 nute account, giving the time sometimes when tiiey were styled 
 by one, and sometimes by another title ; that you may ixuike the 
 better judgment of the affair : however, if } ou had the account 
 which I shall now send you too minute for your purpose, pray 
 Jet me hear from you by the next post ; and I will abridge you of 
 the trouble of reading, and myself of writing so a cry particularly 
 ^;oncerning each person's preferment. 
 
 " I beg to know in what manner you purpose to ])ublish your 
 book, whether by the common way, or subscription ; if by the 
 last, desire my name may be in your list. Pray inform me also, 
 how 3'our book, which \ou read over to me, of your Tour 
 through Normandy, goes forward ? t was in hopes to have seen 
 that in print before this time. I shall be very glad to hear any 
 news relating to our studies, and more })articulariy what is going 
 forward at our Society. The list you sent me of the Ciiancellors 
 at Eh' is a very slight one, and veiy incorrect ; but the only one 
 I ever saw before ; I shall encrease it very considerably, and wish 
 vou as good luck in all the other dioceses ; for I long very muc h 
 to see such an account as you promise us. But I sliull leave no 
 room to give you a specimen of what you may expect ; and,, \\ ish- 
 ine: you success in your undertaking, I am, dear Sir, 
 
 " Your assured friend and schulefcllow, Wm. Coli:." 
 
 [In this and Eii.'-ht subseijutiif. Letters., containing b2 folio puge>\ 
 Mr. Cole has given at len<^th Mt'uoirs of the different Chancellors.'] 
 
 3. " Dkar Sir, Blecheley, April 13, 17u4. 
 
 " I am glad you prot)ose to give a minute and exact account 
 of the Chancellors throughout Kngiciiul ; and my rciison for it is, 
 that although an account of that smt may seem dry and tedioui? 
 to the generality of readers ; such as diitei of their preferments 
 and St detail ui" tneii digaiUes iu the Churtli ; yetj us Antiquaries 
 
 \vnte
 
 688 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 write chiefly for those of their own taste, such particularities can 
 never disgust them, inasmuch as it gives light into many branches 
 of their studies, and settles, very often, many points of History 
 and Chronology of greater importance. I have therefore been 
 very minute in the accounts 1 send you ; and here and there have 
 taken the liberty to mix with them some circumstances which do 
 not absolutely regard them, no further than as they were wit- 
 nesses : in particular, the manner of vailing of two widows*, both 
 as it illustrates the histoiy and customs of the times spoken of, 
 and also gives a specimen of the English language spoken at that 
 time, and likewise of the French : not to mention it may cuit a 
 glare of variety to a mere list of names and dates, too apt to be 
 tedious without such a vaiiety. I must beg you to remember, 
 that the accounts I send you are entirely taken from my collec- 
 tions : it might be easy otherwise to enlarge the account of some 
 of them from Newcourt and other printed authorities : which, 
 if you desire it, I will also do for you, after I have sent you the 
 first part, and which it will be very easy for you to add to it : I 
 make you this otter, to take off some part of your trouble in a 
 work that must necessarily occasion you a good deal. I am glad 
 to hear your Tour in Normandy is likely to be printed, as it will 
 be of so good use in fixing the dates of the building of many of 
 our Churches in England, from the similitude of one to the 
 other. 1 hear Dr. Rawlinson is designed to be left out in the next 
 Council: surely a man so indefatigable in the search of Antiquity, 
 and so deserving of the Society, very well deserves all the dis- 
 tinctions of it ! I am sorry to hear they are so little united, and 
 was ever of opinion that the Charter would be of disservice. I 
 shall be obliged to you if you would pay my last year's fees, and 
 take a receipt of our worthy Treasurer Mr. Compton, to whom 
 also my particular compliments; and at the same time to good 
 Mr. Vertue when you take my prints: I will order a gentleman 
 to repay you and take them for me next week: 1 should be glad 
 in your next to know how Mr. Vertue does, for whom I have a 
 great value, and whom I left last year in a very declining state. 
 But, to conclude, I am, dear Sir, 
 
 " Your most assured humble servant, Wm. Cole. 
 
 " I can't think of being in town at our election of Officers on 
 St. George's day, as it happens on the day of our Archdeacon's 
 
 * John de Newton was Official, June 20, 1333; and was present at the 
 taking the veil by Catherine the widow of William Bernard, in the Con- 
 ventual Church of the Friers Minors in Cambridffe, where the Bishop ce- 
 lebrated mass, and afterwards gave her the mantle and ring, and received 
 the vow of chastity from her, in the following words : " En la noun du 
 Piere, du Fitz, & de Seinte Espirit ; Jeo Katerine Hernard, femme nad- 
 gairs William Bernard, qui est a Dieu comandez, ottroiante la Grace de 
 JJieu, promette conversion dc mes meo's, & face mon uvowe a Dieu, 
 a sa doucC Miere Seinte Marie, & Seiiit Fraunceys, & as toux les Seiiitfr 
 de Paradys, en vos Mayns, mon reverent Pier en Dieu Thomas par la 
 Grace de Dieu Evesque de Ely, qui dc sore en avant serrai chaste de moii 
 eorps, & seinte chastit^ garderay loialmeut <Sc devoutemeiit toux les jours 
 de ui3i vie." 
 
 Visitation*
 
 REV. WILLIAM COLE. 689 
 
 Visitation, where I propose to attend: and I think of going to 
 Cambridge the week after to the Coimty Election: it is not 
 wnhkely but I may make my way back to this place through 
 London, where 1 shall certainly call upon you. I shall soon send 
 you another, to follow this list 3 which present list may be of ser- 
 vice to compleat the Catalogues of the Dignitaries in the Cathe* 
 drals of York, Exeter, Chichester, Wells, and Salisbury." 
 
 4. " Dear Sir, Blecheley, A'pr. 17, 1754. 
 " I take the opportunity of sending the prosecution of my 
 
 account of the Chancellors of Ely by one of my parishioners, 
 to whom I beg you will dcli% er my Antiquary Prints, and the re- 
 ceipt for my last year's payment from our Treasurer j and he will 
 pay you the guinea. When I have the favour of heaiing from 
 you next, let me know whether you will be troubled with a very 
 long account of the famous Dr. Cowcll, which I long since drew 
 np in my History of the Members of King's College: or whether 
 a more abridged account will sufRce: if he does not exactly come 
 into the list of Ely Chancellors or Commissaries, he has an un- 
 doubted title in the list of Canterbury Vicai's-general, or among 
 the Chancellors of Chichester. But to detain you no longer, f 
 am, dear Sir, your most obedient sei'vant to command, W.Cole." 
 After giving a long list of Chancellors, ha adds, " I will novf 
 take a little breath, and will send you the residue in a short time," 
 
 5. "Dear Sir, Elccheky, May 11, 1754. 
 " I am ashamed that I can make you no better excuse for my 
 
 deferring an answer to your last obliging letter, than a tit of 
 great indolence as to writing: though, if I was to alledge a 
 number of workmen about mc, and the delights of the present 
 season, after so long an intemiption of gardening weather, to 
 one who takes so great a pleasure in that amusement, it would 
 have a more important appearance: but the true reason is what 
 I gave at first, which, after so much writing as I had beea 
 engaged in Ijefore, with so candid a judge as yourself, will, I 
 dare say, be easily admittt'd. I thank you for the account of our 
 Society; which I am heartily concerned gives so nmcli into brigue:S 
 and animosities : it was easy to foresee what the cabals of a few 
 designing Members had in view before the Charter; and I aia 
 sorry to say it, that it has turned (mtjust as I tiiought it would. 
 do. You may soon expect to hear further from, dear Sir, 
 
 " Your assured friend and servant, Wm. Coi,2." 
 
 6. "Dear Sir, Blecheley, June 9,1, 1754. 
 
 " You would long ago have had the continuance of my Cata- 
 logue of the Chancellors of Ely, had I not been too solicitous 
 about a point of very snndl import, concerning Dr. Leedes : for 
 I had Hnished my account of thern inthe Winter : but a K'entie- 
 rnari supposing him to have been educated in his CoIIe^^e, when. 
 iti< asserted in print that he was oii^inally a Monk of Ely, made 
 me apjjly to that gentleman fur his authority many weeks a^^o ; 
 whicli a journey into Xoriolk prevented his answering: and now 
 he is retiuued, he i shy of beiijff particular, a^ tiie acccunt may 
 
 Vol. II. Y y' be
 
 ^90 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 be printed ; he having a design of soon publishing some memoirs 
 relating to him : so I shall send you only what I was enabled t 
 have done at my List breaking off. 
 
 " My last Prints were the sheet of deeds, Bp. Mutton's seal, 
 Greensted Church in Essex, some tesselated Roman pavements, 
 and Gloucester Cross J all which I had t(^ether, and have had 
 none since. I am obliged to you for the list of our Society ; and, 
 that you may have tlie present list the longer, will conclude my- 
 self. Your most obedient servant to command, VVm. Cojle. 
 
 " The continuation list you shall receive by the next packet, 
 
 Which sliall not be so tedious as this : indeed Mr. Cartwright'g 
 
 quitting this village a day sooner than I expected prevented your 
 
 not having two or three sheets more. Pray excuse my dilatoriness." 
 
 7. " Dear Sir, Blecheley, July 10, 1754. 
 
 " It gives me no small satisfaction to find that you relish those 
 rude accounts I send you of the Chancellors of Ely, and encou- 
 rages me to go on in the same track I set out with. In my last 
 I gave you an account of those Piints which are due to me as a 
 Member of the Society of Antiquaries, which I should be glad to 
 have as soon as you can procure them for me: though I am not 
 clear but that I shall soon have the pleasure of seeing you in Lon- 
 don ; if the scheme goes forward with a lady of my parish, \\h& 
 talks of taking a jaunt there for three or four days, and giving; 
 me a corner in her coach: if I come, you may depend upon 
 seeing me ; but, as this is uncertain, should be glad, if you get 
 my Prints, to send them to Mr. Cartwright's for me, who will 
 convey them to me. I take it I have two years' Prints in arrear. 
 I am much concerned to tind Mr, Folkes took so little notice ot 
 our Society: if he had done as much by the other, it would not 
 .'iave had so ill a grace ; but now it is invidious. I am heartilj 
 glad that we are so near having the pleasure I long have wished 
 Ibr, of seeing your Tour into Normandy made public ; but am 
 infinitely pleased to hear of your design of adding the foreign 
 religious houses which bore any relation to England, to it : such 
 a work nmst please every lover of our Antiquities. I am only 
 aA-aid that the appendix may retard the former treatise : it seem- 
 ing to me a work of that extent and obscurity, that, if you have 
 not long ago made collections for it, it may carry you fartlier 
 than at present you are aware of. I wish } ou success in the pro- 
 rsecution of this design, and further that I could help you with 
 any material? towards it: but I am afraid I can assist you but 
 poorly. We had one or two Alien Piiories in Cambrtdgeshire, 
 Swavescy and Linton. I will look about, and see what I have 
 concerning them , and when I see you, or know your plan, may 
 tre" better able to judge of what may be to your purpose. I am, 
 dear Sir, Your most obedient humble senant, VVm. Cole. 
 
 "I am now come very near to tiic end of my catalogue, and 
 have just time enough to tell you that the ladies propose setting 
 ;>ut for London to-morrow : but, as I am now in the very midst 
 of carpenters and bricklayers, hiving an old house in part to 
 r<sbuild, i cannot possibly think of going with them, and leaving 
 
 so
 
 REV. WILLIAM COLE. 6dl 
 
 so inany workmen to themselves; but hope before the year 
 finishes to call upon you. if you are disposed for a little excur- 
 sion into the country by way of variety, no one will be more 
 glad to see you. I made the greater expedition, that I might 
 have the opportunity of sending these four sheets by a gentle- 
 man who lives in the family with the ladies, and who has un- 
 dertaken to deliver them, and who will bring me my Antiquary 
 Prints, if you have not sent them for me elsewhere." 
 
 8. " Dear Sir, Blecheley, July 22, 1754. 
 
 " Youre of the 20th I received yesterday in the afternoon; 
 and return you my answer, rather that you may not think me 
 negligent in relation to your queries, than to solve them. I have 
 not the Monasticon, so can say nothing to the lists in either of 
 the volumes. As to your first query, where an exact list of the 
 religious houses in Normandy or France, which bore any relation to 
 England, is to be met with ? 1 can give yoii no satisfactory an- 
 swer : having never had occasion to think about it. I have a 
 folio Histoire Generate de Normandie par M. Gabriel de Moulin, 
 Curi de Maneval, printed at Rouen in 1G31. I was in hopes I 
 might have found somewhat relating to your question in it ) but, 
 upon a cursory looking into it, can find nothing to your purpose j 
 its chief subject turning upon the wars between the English and 
 Normans, &c. I have also in quarto a veiy old Clironicle of 
 Normandy, in black letter, printed at Rouen without any date ; 
 and which turns on the same subject. As to the second, whether 
 it be necessary to give an account of all the Abbeys mentioned in 
 the first volume of the Monasticon, tchether they relate to England 
 9r not? I should think such an account, though it might be 
 acceptable to many people, and to myself in particular, v/ouid 
 not be thought necessaiy in your present work, having no con* 
 nection with any part of our history. 1 speak thus, taking it 
 for granted that they are wholly Ff-ench foundations, and bearing 
 no sort of relation to any of our English religious houses ; yet, 
 methinks, as you say you have an account already drawn up, 
 with many quotations from the valuable records in the Tower, 
 rt is a pity they should be lost; so must leave this to your owa 
 judgement, being by no means a competent judge of the pro- 
 priety or impropriety of it. 1 am heartily glad of a piece of 
 news to me, tliat Mr. Willis is going to print his History of 
 Ruekinghamshire; and equally so that Dr. Burton is so near 
 puWishing his 'Monasticon Eboiacense': I shall subscribe to both, 
 and will, if you con-espond with the last, take the liberty of 
 begging you to send my name, &c. to him ; but of tliis I will 
 talk to you more at large wlieii I see you or wiite more at leisure, 
 having just room to subscrilje mvbelf, 
 
 " Your affectionate fiiend, Wm. Cole." 
 
 9. Deak Sir, Bk^heley, j^ug. 5, 17;j4. 
 
 " The favour of yours of the <27th of last month I received, 
 and llie Prints, by My. Bedingfield, viz. three Do n caster crosses ; 
 and three plans of the Savoy. liut I never had Sandal on Cii- 
 thero Castles ; so that they are due to me from the Society : the 
 thcr upright of the Savoy 1 h-id before. 
 
 V y 2 "I am
 
 Qg2. LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 " I am much delighted that your Tour into Normandy is in the 
 press i so hope to have the pleasure of seeing it soon published, 
 r But I will not detain you any longer, hoping to get tlu-ough 
 my Chancellors of Ely in this sheet of paper j and wishing you 
 all sorts of success in your laborious undertakings for the publick^ 
 I remain, with the greatest sincerity, 
 *' Your most obedient and faithful friend and servant, Wm. Cole." 
 
 " This has been wrote, as you may see, very near a week; but 
 having a promise of a conveyance to you without expence, and 
 it notbeing very pressing, as I guess, made me defer sending it 
 by the post. I hope I shall have the pleasure of hearing from 
 you soon." 
 
 10. " Dear Sir, Blecheley, Jan. 29, 1758. 
 
 *' I have desired my neighbour Mr. Cartwright to give you 
 another guinea, that I may not be in arrears to the Society : I 
 thought i had been indebted only one, upon a supposition that 
 accompts were settled at St. George, about which time I hope to 
 be in town, and have the pleasure of looking over your MSS. I 
 know the trouble and fatigue you must have undergone, from a 
 work of the same sort, which I undertook and compleated, of ab- 
 atracting and indexing the Registers of Ely Diocese. I shall be 
 Aio obliged to you for your assistance in lending me such parts 
 a your abstract as may hll up and compleat my series, when the 
 See of Ely was vacant, and w"hen the institutions were at Lambeth. 
 J wish you joy of your situation at Lambeth, of which I had not 
 heard: for, living so much in the country, and conversing so 
 little with people that know any thing of what is going forward 
 in the literaiy world, all news of that sort escapes me : 1 think 
 the Archbishop could not have made a more proper choice, in 
 very respect. I have sent my second volume of MS Escheats 
 for Cambridgeshirft to Mr. Norris ; I hope he will take care of it, 
 as it is a treasure to me, and useless to any one else: the Domes- 
 ijay I had entered into the left-hand leaves of it, and wish it proves 
 Qf any use. I beg the favour of you to send me Mr. Compton's 
 receipt, that by it I may have the pleasure of hearing from you j 
 and 1 am, dear Sir, yours very affectionately, Wm. Cole." 
 
 n. " Dear Sir', Blecheley, March 18, 1759. 
 
 " Being uncertain whether I shall come to town this Spring, 
 make bold to beg the favour of you to pay my annual subscrip- 
 tion for ine to our Society, and take a receipt of the Treasurer. 
 I have desired Mr. Cartwright to pay you the guinea, who will 
 call the week following, and take the receipt and my Prints for 
 the last year. 
 
 " I have now by me a most curious roll of parchment, sent 
 me by a friend out of Che.'shire, in order to gratify my curiosity :. 
 but he will not permit me to send it to town: it repi'esents the 
 procession of the Lords to the Parliament House, the 3d of King 
 Heury VI 11. in their Parliament robes ^ the Mitred Abbots watlk 
 iirsl, then the Bishops according to their consecration, who im- 
 mediately precede the King, followed by the Lay Nobility; and the 
 tirst of the Barons in the procession is the Prior of St. John's 
 vf Jerusalem ; over their respective heads are their seva'al arms 
 
 and.
 
 HEv. WILLIAM cole; '^ 
 
 %M names. It is a great curiosity, and as sucli I desired to 
 have sent it up to be shewn to our Society; but the gentleman 
 who favours me w^ith the sight of it is scrupulous about letting 
 it go out of my hands, as it is only lent to him j and he does not 
 care to ask to have it go any further. 
 
 " I hope you will excuse this trouble from, dear Sir, 
 
 *' Your very aflFectionate servant, Wm. Cole." 
 
 12. " Dear Sir. Blecheley, Jan. 10, 1762. 
 
 " I received your letter and proposals, and wish I could, out 
 6f my Farrago, furnish any materials for your publication * ; the 
 wtwk seems to be an exceeding useful one, and I heartily wish 
 you success in it. I wiU turn over my volumes of the Bishop of 
 Ely's Registers, where I think are some things for your purpose, 
 and will transmit the account to you. It grieves me to see you 
 go from your old design of the History of Doctors Commons : that 
 work would please more, though this may be of more general 
 use. I have met with an Account of all the Chancellors in the 
 several Dioceses of England, in Mr. Browne Willis's own hand* 
 writing ; probably you have it from him ; or it may be you may 
 have furnished him with itj it is only a mere list of names and 
 dates : I am going to transcribe it, and I think that coincided 
 with your former design. I do not think at present of seeing 
 London soon, and am in arrears two years last Christmas to out 
 Society, and shall be obliged to you to pay it for me, and will s^t 
 Mr. Cartwfight to repay you: should be further obliged to you if 
 you would be so kind as to procure me from the society what has 
 been published these two last years j I think Mr. Folkes'.s book 
 among the rest ; and lea\ e them for me at Mr. Cartwr ight's. 
 
 " I wish you your health and the compliments of tlie season ; 
 and am, dear Sir, youi* most obedient humble servant, Wm.Cole." 
 
 *^* I have now before me Mr. Cole's copy of the fir^t edition 
 of the " British Topography, 1769," in which are these entries-. 
 
 " May 2^, 1772. I received the following MS Notes and Addi- 
 tions from Mr. Gough, who sent them to me, among others, to 
 revise, designing a second Part or Volume of his useful Topo- 
 graphy," [These additions JUl 19 quarto pages-l 
 
 " Being at Strawberry Hill, in 1770, with Mr. Walpole's leave, 
 I copied from the margin of his book what notes and observations 
 he had entered thereon, with a design to send them to Mr. 
 Gough. On his meditating a new edition in 1772, ha\ing mi*i- 
 laid and indeed forgfjtten that 1 had such a paper, I accidentally 
 met with them, and sent them to him, having first entered them 
 on the margins of this book. W.m. Cole." 
 
 " Milton, near Cambridge, June 20, 1772." 
 
 In the following week be thus addresses Mr. Gougli : 
 
 "Dear Sik, June 'i9, 1772. 
 
 " Dining the other day with Mr. Nasmith at Ueu'ct College, 
 i met witii Mr. Tyson, who giving me yo\u' MS Additions lor 
 
 The proposed " Repertory of the Endowmenl of Vicarage*;." 
 
 Cam-
 
 694 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Cambridgeshire, here and there interlined with observations attd 
 corrections Ironi Landbcche *, with some additions ffora thence 
 also, signified to me yom- desire of my taking these papers witU 
 me, and adding such observations on the subject as fell in my 
 way with great pleasure I undertook the task, hoping it may, 
 M'ith the assistance of other friends, accelerate a work that will 
 assuredly confirm the a])plause with which the former edition was 
 received by the publick." A letter of 13 folio pages thus concludes: 
 *' I have now only to apologize for the numberless egotisms 
 and parades of materials in my own volumes, which struck me 
 on reviewing these papei*s, and which can only be excused from 
 the industrious care that has been taken* to insinuate that the lat 
 Dr. Mason was the only person who has busied himself in making 
 collections of this sort. My Collections for King's College are 
 only a part of a larger object, which encompassed the History of 
 the County and University : a plan too mighty for one of my 
 blender abilities and more indolent disposition. The many blots, 
 erasements, and interlineations, were occasioned by an hasty 
 writing, the letter being too bulky to be easily transcribed afresh." 
 
 A few specimens of Mr. Cole's Additions shall now be given. 
 
 P. 93. " Edmund Carter, a schoolmaster in Cambridge, by^the 
 assistance of some academical friends, compiled a History of the 
 County, &C.1 I hope, and dare say, that no academical person 
 was concerned in that trumpery performance. Mr. Smyth, of 
 Woodston, near Peterborough, lent him materials, which he did 
 not know how to make use of." 
 
 P. 102. note z. " Morris Drake Morris, esq. of Mount Mor- 
 ris, Kent, late Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, &c.] 
 " The late Dr. Conyers Middleton, whose first wife was X\\\? 
 gentleman's mother, gave me three volumes in folio, containing 
 the Lives of Pereons educated at Cambridge ; but, as they are 
 bare transcripts from Our common printed books, they are of no 
 value. When Mr. Morris hadfairly transcribed the whole from these 
 three volumes, and procured prints of suph pei-sons mentioned 
 in them as he could obtain, which he fixed before each person's 
 proper article, he made a present of them to the Earl of Ox- 
 ford at Wimpole, from whence they are now removed to the Bri- 
 tish Museiun. This account I had from Dr. Middleton." 
 
 "I have voluminous Collections for an Athena Cantabrigien- 
 scs, which a fifteen years' absence from the University, in the best 
 part of life for such disquisitions, has much discouraged, nothing 
 of that kind being thought of during that })eriod. However, I 
 occasionally now add to my Collections, which to sonae future 
 prosecutor of that design may be of some use." 
 
 " I have in my 35th volume of MS Collections many particu- 
 lars relating to Cheshire, taken from the papers and observations 
 of Sir John Crew, of Utkinton, in the parish of Torporley, who 
 vvas an excellent Antiquary : they were communicated to me by 
 my worthy and honest friend Mr. John Allen, now Senior Fellow 
 
 * By the Rev, Robert Masters, of Landbcche. 
 
 of
 
 REV. WILLIAM COLE. 6^5 
 
 f Trinity College, and rector of Torporley, a gentleman whose 
 taste and abilities in the same studies are very eminent. Hig 
 Collections for his native County of Stafford were large : these he 
 gave to Dr. Wilkes, of Wolverhampton, who was meditating a 
 History of that County ; and I am afraid they have fallen since 
 into worse hands. Among my Collections for Cheshire, are. Dr. 
 Williamson's Collection of Tenures for that Coimty, with short 
 Accounts of the several parishes in it ; Ijeing a very curious and 
 useful work. In my 35th volume, p. 102, is a curious Letter on 
 the subject of the Imputrefection of the body of Simon Worthy 
 esq. of Staverton." 
 
 " I come now to your papers delivered to me by Mr. Tyson." 
 
 Many of these papers, communicated by Mr. Masters, were 
 improved by Mr. Cole'.s coirections, and used by Mr. Goiigh 
 in his Second Edition. Among other remarks, Mr. Cole says, 
 ** Charles Nalson Cole, esq. is descended from Dr. Nakon, the 
 Author of the "Historical Collections;" and he concludes: 
 " Thus, dear Sir, have I got through this long and tedious 
 affair. If I have not tired you with reading, I assure you I have 
 myself with so much writing ; and nothing but the pleasing sub- 
 ject you are engaged in, with my desire to contribute my mite to 
 your most laudable researches, could have prevailed on my in- 
 dolence to have gone through with it. You are at full liberty to 
 alter and suppress what may seem peevish and petulant in the 
 above Remarks, which, if they develope any misinformation or 
 mistake, or give you any satisfaction, I have my end. If you 
 also have occasion for any further consultation, in which you 
 conceive I can be of any use, you have only to command, dear 
 Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, Wm.Colb. 
 
 " I forgot to mention in their places these farther particulars -. 
 
 *' In 1748 Mr. Ames, the late Secretary to our Society, proeured 
 for me, from Mr. Samuel Chandler, a 4to MS. on parchment, writ- 
 ten about the time of Edward III. containing a copy of Domesday 
 Book for Cambridgeshire. This is transcribed into my 37th vol. 
 and is of no small value. In the same volume I have a transcript 
 of a MS. which I found in the old turret of the Public Libraiy at 
 Cambridge, now pulled down to make way for the modern front, 
 among a parcel of uncatalogued books on the floor, containing 
 the Certificates and Surveys of Estates and Manors in Cam- 
 bridgeshire in 1633 : being a most useful Collection towards an 
 History of this County. 
 
 " I have also a large MS. formerly belonging to the late INIr. 
 Buck of Cambridge, given to me by the late Mr. Dawney of 
 t:aius College, containing the Owners of Manors throughout the 
 County in Hen. VIII. Edw. VI. and Eliz. reigns, with their value., 
 and succession, and many other curious and useful particulars. 
 
 " 1 have also Extracts fiom a folio volume of the late Mr, 
 Browne Willis, taken from a collection in about 20 folios at Hi- 
 chard Lowndes's at Winslow, Esq. INlember for Buckinghamshire, 
 >>^ing his Grandfather's Collectioup, all fairly WTitten, and well 
 
 touiid ;
 
 69^ LITERARY ANECDOTES, 
 
 bound ; containing all the Grants and Fee-farm Rents of the 
 Crown throjighout England, What related to Cambridgeshire I 
 have extracted. I have seen the original books at Mr. l^owndes'i 
 at V\'inblow : and it is indeed a most noble and useful collection." 
 
 In answer to some queries by Mr. Gough, relating to his " Se- 
 pulchral Monuments/' Mr. Cole, Jan. 25, 1774, says, " As I 
 foresee I shall have a good deal of writing, I take room accord- 
 in""ly, from the top of the paper. 1 have no Pedigree of Charlr 
 ton Lord Pmvis ; hut I make no doubt but the quarter! ngs may 
 easilv be recovered from such an one. The account of Bishop 
 JJiaybrook I shall send you as exactly copied into my 32d volume 
 p. 120." After a long account of that Bishop, he adds, " I will 
 now tell you a very strange story ; although as true as truth it- 
 self. About two months ago, not far from Totness, some work- 
 men wei-e digging gutters in a church-yard, in order to keep the 
 church dry. In the progress of the work, they were obliged to 
 open many graves ; in one of which, neai- the chujch wall, they 
 found a strong oak coffin, with a body in it, which had been 
 deposited above foui*score years. The body was \vi'apped in a 
 fine white sheet, which had preserved its colour and strength 
 entire. Over the sheet was piit a tar-cloth, which was also quite 
 sound and strong. The body itself looked as if it had not been 
 dead more than a day : but what surprized the people was, that 
 the limbs and joints were quite pliant, without any stiffness, and 
 the flesh, when pressed, would rise again, as in a living crea- 
 ture. It continued weeks exposed to the open air, and yet pre- 
 served the piiantness of its joints, and that springiness in the 
 fleshy parts. Some days since, a surgeon opened tlie body, and 
 found the heart, liver, and lungs, all sound and clean : nor were 
 there any othei- symptoms of decay, except only that the boweU 
 were a little shriveled. The gentleman that once occupied this 
 uncommon tabernacle of a body was, as it is thought, a Roman 
 Catholic, and in the French service. He died abroad, and was 
 brought over about 86 years ago, as appears by various testimo- 
 nies of writings, &c. He had a fine estate in the parish where 
 he was buried, and was the last of the name ; and so the estate 
 janie into another family, or at least name. I presume he will 
 add to the number of Romish Saints : doubtless he has as good 
 a title as many who cut a figure in their legends. However, 
 rhere is something very strange in the thing ; enough to exercise 
 lite genius of the curious to account for it. Many corpses were 
 found very near his, but all quite consumed, though buried but 
 few years. I have a great collection of circumstances of this 
 sort by me ; but, as I have almost tired myself with writing, I 
 won't fatigue you or myself any longer about them ; and, wishing 
 you many returns of the season, if not somewhat too late, I re- 
 Ciain, dear Sir, Your very faitiiful humbie servant, Wm. Cole." 
 
 XVIL
 
 ( ^^7 ) 
 XVII. DR. YOUNG and MR. JONES. 
 
 At the time I was printing the Letters of Mr. Jones in 
 Tol. I, p. 5S5, which were communicated by a friend, it had en- 
 tirely escaped my i-ec<)I!ection that I had (thirty years ago) trans- 
 cribed some of them myself, and printed them in the Magazine. 
 
 In the letter of Jan. 1, 1763, add, " The mismanagement too 
 %vcll known unhappily continues, and, still more unhappily, 
 seems to be increasing, to the grief of fi'iends, and, 1 need not 
 say, to the ridicule of others, who are not a few. \Vhat a pity ! 
 what a los-s ! but no advice will be taken, nor can it well be 
 offered. Penuriousness and obstinacy are two bad things ; and 
 a disregard to the general judgement and friendly wishes of 
 the wiser part of mankind, another. There seems to be no 
 hope so long as the ascendancy is so great. Enough to a 
 friend, and to a friend only." That of April 2, 17G5, begins, 
 "As soon as I got home, I enquired after Dr. Young, and found 
 that he had gone through very great pains since I left him, and 
 the pains return pretty frequently. Dr. Cotton of St. Alban's, 
 and Dr. Yates of Hertford, meet at his house every day on 
 consultation. But, whatever they may think of his disorder, and 
 the probable consequences, little or nothing as yet transpires, 
 only all that attend him constantly imagine there is little or no 
 Lope of his doing well again. For my own part, I judged 
 EO from the beginning. I find that opiates are frequently 
 administered to him, I suppose to render him less sensible of 
 hib pain. His intellects, 1 am told, are still clear ; though 
 what effect the frequent use of opiates may by degrees have 
 tipon him I know not. I am pretty much of his son's sen- 
 timents as to this, viz. that those ingi'edients, if for some 
 time longer continued, may have an ill effect ujion the brain." 
 
 On the letters of Mr. Jones, which appeared in the (lentleman's 
 ^lagazine, vol. I^ll. p. 283 j it was- remarked in vol. LIII. p. 
 1008, that ' they carry something of a contradiction with them. 
 The two or three first, where he thinks the Doctor has slighted 
 him, have something rather severe agaimt the Doctor anil the 
 lady who kept his house, who, I thoroughly believe, lived as 
 innocently as if they had been a hundred miles asunder. But 
 view M)-. Jones's last letter. How wonderfully is that gen- 
 tleman altered by the consideration of the legacy, and the 
 notice taken of him there ! From this I conclude, that Mr. 
 Jones had not so many virtues as the Doctor; and tjiat the 
 first was more pettish, jealous, and fiom hi.'; temper more 
 liable to suppose affi'onts, than the latter was inciiiieci to do an 
 injury." Another Curre.'<pondent says, " Dr. Young's house- 
 keeper was the daughter of a rector of .Mlhallows, Heitford ; 
 and, upon the marriage of Miss Caroline Lee, was invited by the 
 Doctor, who knew her family, to his house, bhe had some fortvue 
 of her own, perhaps very small, rh her father left many children. 
 She was advanced in years, was a woman of piety ^nd good scDse 
 iniprovwi by reading; and was always treat C(i by the Doctor, and 
 by his guests, even those of the highcl rank, \\ ith the politenes.o 
 
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 69$ LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 and respect due to a gentlewoman. The legacy which he be- 
 queathed her, was not more than might be due to one whom he 
 had never degraded by paying wages. Why she did not strictly 
 comj)ly with his last injunctions to destroy his manuscripts *, I 
 cannot pretend to sayj and can only lament that she did 
 not ; perhaps as Mr. Young was in the house, she might fancy 
 she had not the power. Dr. Young, after his first sleep, spent 
 the greatest part of the night in meditation, and in the com- 
 position of his works J and he had only to transcribe them (if I 
 may use that expression) when he arose, which was at an 
 early hour." 
 
 The following Letter of Dr. Young, addressed to the Rev. 
 Thomas Newcomb of Hackney, is printed from the Original. 
 " My dear old Friend, U'elwyn, Nov. 25, 1762. 
 
 " And nowj my only dear old Friend, for your namesake Col- 
 burn t is dead ; he died last winter of a cold, caught by officiating 
 on the Fast-day : he has left one daughter, I believe in pretty 
 good circumstances ; for a friend of his, some time ago, settled 
 upon her twenty pounds a year ; and he, no doubt, has left 
 her something considerable himself. I am pleased with the 
 stanzas you sent me; there is nothing in them of eighty-seven ; 
 and if you have been as young in your attempt on the Death 
 of Abel, it will do you credit; that work I have read, and 
 think it deserves that reception it has met withal. The Libel 
 you mention, I have not seen ; but I have seen numberless 
 })aj)ers which shew that oiir body politic is far from being in 
 perfect liealth : as for my own health, I do not love to complain ; 
 but one particular I must tell you, that my sight is so far 
 gone, as to lay me vmdtT the necessity of boiTOwing a hand 
 to write this. God grant me grace, under this darkness, to 
 see more clearly things invisible and eternal; those gi"eat 
 things which you and I must soon be acquainted with ! And why 
 not rejoice at it ? There is not a day of my long life that I 
 desire to repeat ; and at fourscore it is all labour and sorrow. 
 What then have we to do ? But one thing remains, and in that 
 one, blessed be God ! by his assistance we are sure of success. 
 Let nothing, therefore, lie heavy on your heart ; let us rely on 
 Him wlio has done so great things for us ; that lover of souls ; 
 that hearer of prayers, whenever they come from the heart ; 
 and sure rewarder of all those who love Him, and put their 
 trust in his mercy. Let us not be discontented with this world ; 
 that is bad ; but it is still worse to be satisfied with it, so 
 satisfied, as not to be very anxious for something more. 
 
 "My love and best wishes attend you both ; and I am, my good 
 old friend, sincerely yours, E. Young. 
 
 " P. S. I am persuaded that you are mistaken as to jrour 
 age; you write yourself eighty-eeven, which cannot be the 
 case ; for 1 always thought myself older than you,- and I want 
 considerably of that age. If it is worth your while, satisfy me 
 a? to this particular." [See the particulars of Dr. Young's 
 Funeral, Gent. Mag, vol. XXXV. p. 198.] 
 
 * Ste vol. 1, p, 63?, t l^iil- P- C40. 
 
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 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, 
 
 P 12. The father of Mr. Gibbs the Architect was a Catholic/ 
 and was proprietor of Footdees-myre, where he had a house 
 which was long known by the name of the White House in the 
 Links, and afterwards used as a mason-lodge, previous to the 
 building of the New Inn, by the mason society. The sour 
 presbyterians of Mr. Gibbs's time, used to spur on the idle boys 
 cf the town to annoy the old gentleman in his premises. He was, 
 it seems, a man of a considerable portion of humour ; and having 
 provided two dogs to keep the rabble who occasionally distuibed 
 him at a distance, it is said, he good-naturedly took his revengp, 
 by inscribing on the collar of one, Luther, and on the other, 
 Cahbi. ^The beautiful West Church in Aberdeen built by Mr. 
 Wyllie, an Architect from Edinbui'gh, and finished about 1755, 
 was from a plan by Mr. Gibbs. History of Aberdeen, pp. 184. 186. 
 
 P. 16. See some letteis of Mr, Arthur Collins m Gent, Mag. 
 vol. LIII. p.414. 
 
 P. 17. Mr. David Collins died March 24, 1810, aged 54. See 
 a full account of him in Gent. Mag. 1810, Part ii, p. 490, 
 
 P. 26. Mr. Buckley (who was Master of the Company of Sta- 
 tioners in 1738 and 1739) obtained an Act of Parliament, in 1733, 
 to prohibit the importation of Thuanus's History in Latin from 
 Foreign Parts ; where, as he statetl in his Address to the 
 Parliament, " it might have been printed at much less ex- 
 pence than he was at ; and, if not prevented by the said Act, 
 Iiave been sold even in his own Country, at a less price than it 
 cost him, who was at 2350/. charge in collecting materials, and 
 barely paying the duty on paper imported for his Work ; for as 
 the duty now stands, the blank paper to be used by our own 
 printers at home, pays a gi-eat deal more than \\hat is already 
 printed by Workmen abroad, the first paying by tlie ream, the 
 latter by thehundred weight. This," he adds, " is a matter, which, 
 for the encouragement of the natives of Great Britain, who, in the 
 advantages of trade, ought always to have tlie jHeference to 
 foreigners, it is to be hoped the Legislature will soon look into." 
 
 P. 31, Dr. Madden's " Memoirs" aie addressed, in an iron- 
 ical dedication, to Frederick Piince of Wales. There is a later 
 mezzotinto of him, by Richard Purcell, from a painting by 
 Robert Huntei', with his arms, and this inscription : 
 
 " Samuel Madden, D. D. uitalis sua; (J8, 1755. 
 Fortior qui se, * quam qui fortissiuui vnxcit moLiiia." 
 
 Mons, Grosley, a lively French traveller, speaking of a city in 
 the centre of France, " which at the bc^inuinti; of the fifteenth 
 centuiy served as a theatre to the graiulcst scene that ICjigland 
 ever acted in that kingdom," mentions several Knglish famiiies 
 as lately extinct, or still subsisting there. " 'I'his <.'ity," he says, 
 *' in return has gi\en the British donnnions an illustrious per- 
 sonage, to whom they aje indebted for the fiist prizes which 
 have been their distributed for the enoouiugeuieut of agricullur* 
 
 * See the Provprbs of Solomon, and a Sermon of Mous. Sturia ua 
 the same text: "Jklter is ht why rult-lb bU spiht," At, 
 
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 700 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 and arts. His name was Madain : being thrown upon the coast 
 of Ireland by events of which I conld never hear any satisfactoiy 
 account, he settled in Dublin by the name of Madden, there 
 made a fortune, dedicated part of his estate, which atnoimted to 
 four or five thousand pounds a year, to the prizes which I have 
 spoken of, and left a rich succession : part of this succession went 
 over to France to the Madams his relations, who commenced a 
 law-suit for the recovery of it, and caused ecclesiastical censures 
 to be published against a merchant, to whom they had sent a 
 letter of attorney to act for them, and whom they accused of 
 having appropriated to himself a share of their inheritance." 
 Tour to London, 177^2. vol. II. p. 100. 
 
 The extraordinary circumstances attending the printing and 
 suppression of these Memoirs have been already mentioned in p. 
 SI ; but the reasons for it are not very evident. The whole of the 
 business was transacted by Mr. Bowyer, without either of the 
 other Printers (Roberts and WoodfaU) ever seeing the author. 
 The book was finished at the press, March 24, 1732-3 ; and UiO 
 copies were that day delivered to the Author. On the 28th 
 a number of them were delivered to the several Booksellers men- 
 tioned in the title-page ; and in four days after, all that were un- 
 sold were recalled, and 800 of them given up to Dr. Madden to be 
 destroyed. 1 have never heard of more than two copies of it ; 
 one of which was Mr. Tutet's ; the other, Mr. Tickcll's, is now 
 in Mr. Bindley's Library. See p. 32. 
 
 P. 51. Mr. Stephens was one of the early members of the 
 Society of Antiquaries. He published " Lives of North, &c." 
 See^the Introduction to the Archceologia, p. xxxvii. 
 
 P. .57, note, 1. 14. read "p. 153." 
 
 P. 71. " Dr. John Law, son of the Bishop, was appointed to 
 the vicarage of Newcastle in 1782 ; but was never indticted, 
 as he was then in Ireland as Chaplain to the Duke of Portland ; 
 where having been promoted to the see of Clonfert, Stephen 
 LushingtoUj M. A. (his brother-in-law) was nominated to the 
 vicarage." Brand's JSleivcastle, vol. I. p. 390. 
 
 P. 105, 1. 9 from bottom. For ' ' he," read " his father purchased 
 Barton Segrave." There were four gentlemen named John 
 Bridges successively. 1. Colonel John Bridges, of Alcestcr. 
 
 2. John, his son, who purcha.sed Barton, and died 1712.. 
 
 3. John, his son, the collector, died in 1723-4. 4. Johttj 
 his nf;phew, died 1741. 
 
 P. 106". Mr. William Bridges, by the following drcular letter, 
 \n vain endeavoured to get patronage for his Brothers Historv'. 
 "Sir, Barton Segrave, July 1, 1735. 
 
 " Having been solicited by several of the Nobility and 
 Gentlemen of this and the neighbouring Counties to send abroad 
 The History of Northamptonshire, collected by my brother 
 the late Mr. John Bridges with great pains and expence, I 
 have at last determined to make it publick. To this end, I 
 have some time since put my brother's papers into the hands of 
 a gentleman recommended to me as well qualifiM for the 
 undertaking, who is pi-epra-ing them for the press Mrith all the 
 
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 BRIDGES S NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 7OI 
 
 expedition that the nature of such a Work will admit of. But 
 as the carrying it on with due care will still require a more than 
 ordinary charge, I have thought proper to apply to my friends 
 for theh- assistance ; and to this purpose, I have ordered the 
 bearer to wait upon you with the proposals, to which 1 refer 
 you for a more particular information. I only beg leave here 
 to assure you, that whatever is promised shall be faithfully 
 executed ; and that your encouragement will very much oblige. 
 Sir, your most obedient humble servant, VVm. Bridges." 
 
 In Ballard's Collection of MS Letters in the Bodleian 
 Library are several relating to Mr. Bridges's History, and of 
 its being placed in the hands of Dr. Jebb, to be digested and 
 published, ii. 1,3.22; that it was got into the press, 24 j 
 stopt, 30 ; and the expences of it, 32. 39. 179. In 1783, the 
 History was in an unpromising situation. Aug. 3, Mr. D. Prince 
 says, " I cannot think of running any further risque with 
 the Northamptonshire gentlemen, in continuing their History, 
 which is one of the most perfect things of the kind. It is 
 really, besides a Ci\'il History, an excellent Topographical 
 Account, and a modern Domesday Book. No one Nobleman 
 or Gentleman in that great County will take the least notice. 
 The time may come when they will find the want of so exact 
 a survey. The Bishop of Peterborough has the History of Peter- 
 borough, Avhich is very large. I think it would amount to 25, 
 if not 30 sheets. If such a thing could be done, I would sue 
 the Executors of the Board who employed me. Bodies of men don't 
 blush, and are not suable as private men are." In 1789 the 
 prospect of its appearance began to revive. Jubj 2, Mr. Pi'ince says, 
 " I believe now the Northamptonshire His(ory will soon be fi- 
 nished ; it will be set about as soon as Sir W. Dolbcn is released 
 from the slaverij of being Chairman to the Ccmmittee on the 
 African Trafle business." Feb. 11, 1790, "Northamptonshire goes 
 on, slow, but sure." Again, in Julij, " I know you will li.ke 
 to hear how the Northamptonshire History goes on, which 
 now draws towards a conclusion. Two months will finish 
 the body of the Work, which is under the care of an able hand. 
 Have you any thing to communicate *, or to give to the U^ork ? If 
 you have, send to Sir W illiam Dolbcn in Abingdon-street, 
 Westminster. I had a letter two days ago from the Earl of 
 Upper Ossoiy, with a plate of his Seat, and a description 
 of it, which is sent to Sir William." Aug. 17, "The Nor- 
 thamptonshire History is ended from J3ridgcs. ?Ir. Nares f 
 and Mr. Ayscough f, I expect, will soon put the finish to it; by 
 preface, index, ike. but no continuation. T.his i:< not tlia 
 working age, except a very few, .such as can, .ft let the Sej)ul-. 
 chral Monuments crumble to dust." Were ! to -ug.^est attain, 
 as I have ten times already, to biin;.^ the Northa^nptonshire 
 to the present time, no one \si;ild regard me I must 
 
 * The Editor of these Anecdote"; communicated tliree platt^s to tr.e 
 tmbeliishment of the History of Norib-rinptoiishire. 
 
 + r>Ir. >.'a;vi wi-yie tl.t i*r'-K:t, j.ivi .Mi. Ay-.cvUiih couip.j!.d the I:.vi"x. 
 
 nut
 
 703 LlT^RAIlY ANECDOTES. 
 
 not let any of the Northamptonshire go abroad till it i 
 finished, which will be soon." 
 
 P. 122. note 1. 13. r. " the then Curate, Mr. Scott." 
 
 P. 141. Mr. Wells Egelshan), a character not unknown in 
 the regions of politics, porter, and tobacco, was originally 
 bred to the profession of a Printer, and worked in that busi- 
 ness, as a Compositor, till disabled by rej)eated attacks of a for- 
 midable gout. For some years he was employed in the service 
 of Mr. Woodfall, father of the late Printers of " The Public 
 Advertiser" and " Morning Chronicle," to the former of 
 which papers the name of Egelsham appeared for some time 
 as the ostensible publisher. Having from nature a remarkable 
 squint, to obviate the i-ellections of others he assumed the 
 name of " Winkey j" and jmblished a little volume of humoroua 
 poetry in 1769, under the title of " Winkey's Whims." He 
 was one of the founders of " the honourable society of Johns." 
 In 1779 he was the author of "A short Sketch of English 
 Grammar," 8vo. A great variety of his fugitive pieces are 
 in almost all the public prints. The latter part of his life was 
 principally supported by the profits of a very small snuff and to- 
 bacco-shop, by the collecting of paragraphs for the Public Ad- 
 vertiser, and by officiating occasionally as an amanuensis to the 
 writer of this sketch to his memory. He died, overwhelmed 
 with age, infirmities, and poverty, April 4, 1786; leaving an 
 aged widow, who obtained a small pension from the Company of 
 Stationers, and survived till 1811. 
 
 I shall take this opportunity of noticing a few meritorious 
 persons ; whose memory I had elsewhere endeavoured to pre- 
 serve ; nor v,'\\\ the Header, I am confident, receive 
 
 "with a disdainful smile 
 
 The short and simple annals" 
 
 Mr. Henry Dench, who filled with reputation each depart- 
 ment of the naiTow circle of life which was his lot, was a 
 good husband, and a tender father. In his profession, that 
 of a Compositor, he was remarkably attentive and indus- 
 trious. He died December 8, 1788, of a violent asthma, in 
 the 50th year of his age. To say more of him, would be 
 impertinent. Not to have said so much, would have ill accorded 
 with the feelings of one who in llie early part of life reg-arded 
 him as a friend, and to whom for a long series of years he 
 was an affectionate servant. He left one infant son, who was 
 afterwards bred to the profession of a Printer ; and to whose 
 talents and integrity I gladly pay this tribute. To him the 
 present volumes are indebted, not only for a considci-able share 
 of manual labour, but for several useful literary suggestions. 
 
 Mr. Satr-uel Brookes, was another Compositor, whose modest 
 merits justify his being particularly noticed. Mild, imas.suming, 
 and courteous in his demeanour, he constantly gave satisfaction 
 to his employers ; and cUeeifully toiled through life, for the 
 maintenance of a rmmerous young family, two of whom he 
 
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 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 70$ 
 
 brought up to his own profession ; another of his children, a 
 daughter, had the atisfection of assisting a mother-in-law, dur- 
 ing his tedious illness of near three years, in repaying, by un- 
 remitted tenderness, the assiduities she had experienced from 
 him in infency. Mr. Brookes possessed an understanding of a 
 superior cast ; and had the honour of being frequently consult- 
 ed, a few years ago, by the Right Honovu^ble George Rose, on 
 the completion of his favourite plan for regulating Friendly 
 Societies j which, in many instances have proved of incalcu- 
 lable benefit to honest and industrious individuals ; but which, 
 unfortunately (as every thing that is excellent is liable to be per- 
 verted) have too frequently, in the hands of artful and designing 
 knaves, been made a stalking-horse for leading the unwaiy to 
 unwarrantable combinations. In this instance we speak experi- 
 mentally. He died at Pentonville, July 5, 1805, of a lingering 
 consumption, aged 50. 
 
 Mr. John Farmer, a very worthy and industrious Compositor 
 (as were his father and grandfather of the same name), was bora 
 in Jewin-street, and acquired the rudiments of his professioa 
 in the office of the late Mr. Bowyer, with whom his father 
 " long wrought," as that benevolent old gentleman particularly 
 expresses in his will (see vol. III. p. 282); who obtained Mr. 
 Bowyer's annuity in 1783, and died in 1786. Fojtunately for 
 John Farmer the yo\mger, he married, several years before, a 
 careful, hard-working woman, by whose unremitted assiduities 
 his latter years of painful existence were rendered comparatively 
 comfortable. So long as he was able, he diligently followed his 
 regular employment, and closed his labours, in the office where 
 they commenced, in the employment of the partner and succes- 
 sor to Mr. Bowyer, who was Oiie of the most intimate compa- 
 nions of his early days, and retained a real regard for him through 
 life. After long confinement by a complication of disorders, of 
 which the principal wore a severe rupture, and an inveterate 
 dropsy which had for some time ])reventcd his cxistiiig but in 
 an erect posture, he died, in Clerkcnweil, July 17, 1805, 
 aged 61. 
 
 Mr. John Copeland, Printer, died at Reading, in his 83d year, 
 in July 1301. He liad worked as a pressman in the office of the 
 Reading Mercury for 60 years, with so much assiduity, sobriety, and 
 regularity, as to attain the name of honest John. He enjoyed n 
 remarkably good state of health, and worked at his business, 
 with his accustomed regularity, till within a siiort tiiue of 
 his death. 
 
 P. 141. Dr. John Savage v.as Pjtsident of the. Club at 
 Royston, and his pictuie was in the C!ul)-room there \n 1/84. 
 He was so imposed on in the rebuildiiijr of the zec'.ory-house 
 at Clothall, tliat it was obliged to be rebHi!',. 
 
 P. 151. Humphry Hody was of VVadhaiu Collt>i;e, 0.\ford , 
 M. A. 1682 } B. D' 1689 ; D. D. 1692. He \v?ji ch.iphin to the 
 Ai-ehbiiiiop of Canterbury, Regias Professor oi the Greek Tcr.gue 
 
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 704 LITERARY AJ^EC DOTES. 
 
 at Oxford, and rettov of Great Cbart in Kent. He obtained tin* 
 Archdeaconry oi Oxford in 1704 ^ and died Jan. 20, 1700. 
 
 p. 165. Richard Arnald was born at London, and admitted 
 a pensioner of Bene't College, Cambridge, under the tuition 
 of Mr. Waller, in 1714. Afier taking the degree of B. A. 
 being disapjwintcd of a fellowship, he removed to Emmanuel 
 Ciill^^, Maieh 10, 1719; where he proceeded M, A. and 
 was elected fellow June 24, 1720. He commenced B. D, seven 
 years after, v-i the statutes of that house reijuired, and continued 
 tbere till the society presented him to the rectory of Thurcuston. 
 He was also prebendaiy of Femden, in the church of Lincoln. 
 Whilst fellow (rf that college, he printed two copies of Sapphic* 
 on the deativ of King George the First ; a Sermon preached at 
 Bishop Storlford school-feast (where he was educated), Au- 
 gust 3, 1/26, from Col. ii. 8 : another at the Archdeacon's 
 Visitation at Leicester, April 22, 1737, from Deut. xxxiii. 8 ; 
 and afterwaid published a third, under the title of " The Para- 
 ble of the Cedar and Thistle, exemplified in the great Victory at 
 Culloden, from 2 Kings xiv. S, 9, 1746," 4to. The first edition 
 of his " Commentary on Wisdom" (see page 16.5) a])pcared in the 
 year 1744 ; and the " Commentary on Ecclesiasticus" in 1748 ; 
 and the " Commentary on Tobit, Judith, Baruch, the History 
 of Susannah, and Bel and the Dragon, with Dissertations on 
 the two Books of Maccabees and fisdras," and another, on 
 the Daemon Asmoda^us, translated from Calmet, in 17-52. He 
 died Sept. 4, 1756 ; and Cathaiine his widow, who was daughter 
 of the Rev. John Woods, rector of Wilford near Nottingham, 
 April 11, 1782. Their son, William Arnald, was educated at 
 Manchester under Mr. Lawson ; took the degree of B. A. at St. 
 John's College, Cambridge, 1766, with great credit, being high 
 among the wran;^;'!ei-s of his year ; was elected fellow of his college 
 1767; became head tutor 1768; M. A. 1769; B. D. 1776 ; D. D. 
 1781. In 1775 he was appointed cliaplain to Bishop Hurd ; by 
 whose kindness he became prjecentor of Lichfield; and by whose 
 recommendation he was in 1776 appointed sub-preceptor to the 
 Prince of Wales and Duke of York, and was rewarded with a 
 canonvy of Windsor. In January 1782, to the unspeakable re- 
 gret as well as surprize of all his friends, some symptoms of insa- 
 nity unhLippiiy put a stop to any expectations of ftirther prefer- 
 ment; and this too at a time when the highest Personage in the 
 kingdom had cojidcscended so far to interest himself in his' 
 welfare, as to advise him to enquire into the value of the vicarage 
 of Twickenham, just tliea vacant by the death of Mr. Costard. 
 This unhajipy situation of mind (which tenninated only with 
 his death in the autumn of 1802) was for more than twenty 
 years the cause of real grief to a numcrotis circle of friends, 
 who, attached to him by the strongest ties of gratitude and 
 r.ffection, admired his abilities, lo\ed the sweetness of his 
 manners, and acknowledged the goodness of his heart. A 
 Sermon of his, preached before the University of Cambridge, 
 
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 on ComiYicncement Sunday, 1781, has been printed since his 
 death, 1803, agreeably to the directions of his will. 
 
 P. 166. The tablet containing Mr. Mann's epitaph was 
 placed, some years before his death, ovei- the Chapel door, an'd 
 covered with a blank stone, which, after his interment, was 
 removed. He was the author of " De veris Annis D.N. Jesu 
 Christi natali et emortuali Dissertationes dure Chronologic?e, 
 in quibus tribus celebratissimis Vaticiniis Jacob) Patriarches 
 Gen. xlix, 10. Esaiae vii, 16. et Angeli apud Danielem ix, 24. 
 nova lux affunditur. In usum exteronim tarn Judaeorum 
 quam Christianorum Latinfe rerlditse, emendata^, et auctas. 
 A Nicholao IMann, M.-igistro Hospitalis Suttoniani fundati 
 in Carthusi^ Londinensi, 1752," Svo. 
 
 P. 196, note, 1. 16. read "He communicated to the Gentleman's 
 Society at Spalding," &C. 
 
 P. 2n]. A learned Friend observes, ''In the account of 
 Philip Morant, I have always been led to suppose that he pro- 
 ceeded M. A. at Oxford, and that there must have been an 
 omission in the Gnuluate list, especially as that name did not 
 appear among the Cambridge Graduates. But, by a letter whicti 
 I have received from Oxford, the matter is thus cleared up. 
 ''Philip Mourant, as spelt in the Convocation Book by himself, 
 Pembroke College, B. A. September 21, 1721 ; A, M. of Sidney 
 College Cambridge \7?jO." 
 
 Soon after the publication of the first edition of the 
 " Anecdotes of British Topography," Mr. Gough was favoured 
 by Mr. Morant with the folloWina: remarks on it. 
 
 "Sir, ' ^ Sept. .'S, 1769. 
 
 " The Author of the History of Essex and Colchester, finding 
 that, in your " Anecdotes of Topography," you have com- 
 mitted several mistakes in relation to the said History, when vou 
 might most easily have been informed, and set right by him 3 
 he takes tlie liberty of making these few Strictures upon your 
 work. The Monthly Review for June hath prevented liim in 
 several particidars. You say, p. 160, that William Holman '}nib- 
 lished only the history of Hinrkford Hundred.' ^He did not jmb- 
 lish any part of it. See Review ]>. 457. P. 161. 'From these 
 valuable materials, "Ac* It was not from these materials, but 
 chielly from Mr. Holman's roUections, that Mr. Tindal published 
 his two Numbers. I lived then with him. Want of due ca- 
 eouragement, especially Mr. TirKlal's being better engaged in 
 tlie new folio edition of Rapin's History, took him from this 
 work. As hehafl liogun it, it would h-ive been too bulky and 
 tedious, and could not have been comprehended in less than 6 or 
 7 <)uarto Volumes. Ibid, note (e) A sullicient account of Mr. 
 .Tekyll [printed after the Anecdotes, R. (i.] is given in tlie preface 
 fo the first volume of the History of Essex. Of some of his MSS. 
 there is an account in Cntalogus Librorum MS AnglicB. vol. \l. 
 p. 103. under the title of Codices Viri Reverend! Johannis 
 Ousley. Among th** lakt Mr. AnPtis's books there was a compicat 
 
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 J06 LITERARY ANECDOTES; 
 
 catalogue of Ihem, now in All-Souls College library, by wTiich it 
 appears that many of them did no way belong to the History of 
 Essex. The best and most valuable of Mr. Jekyll's Collections, 
 were copies of Inqumtiones post mortem, from 27 Henry HI. 
 to 14 Car. I. Pedigrees of the Gentry of Essex, 4 volumes. 
 Abstract of Letters patent, from 1 Ric. HI. to 15 Jac. I. These 
 three most valuable articles are now at Colchester. From 
 these and all the rest of Mr. Jekyll's MSS. M. Holman had made 
 large and fcuthful extracts, inserting wliatever was any way 
 jnaterial undr the respective parishes of Essex. Above 400 of 
 his MSS. of this kind are now at Colchester, in my own 
 possession. Some of the MSS. that had belonged to Mr. Holman 
 are in the British Musaeum, the rest have be<'n dispersed. Dr. 
 R. Rawlinson bought the refuse of Mr. Jekyll's and Mr. Holman's 
 MSS. (with a good Cartulary of St. Bai'tholomew's, London) 
 for lOl, and left them to the Bodleian Library at Oxford. They 
 were not * all those made by Mr. Holman for Essex,' as you say 
 p, xxxivj only the refuse. As to the epitaphs, 'The costly 
 monuments of wealth and pride !' how few of them are worth 
 publishing ! do you judge, by perusing those of any one parish 
 in N. Salmon, and other books of the kind. The difficult]/ with 
 me about the publication of them is this ; either the best of them 
 for expression, accounts of families, &c. are to be printed, or 
 they must all be printed. If they are all printed, the world will 
 be loaded with a great deal of trash ; as epitaphs of butchers, 
 coach-drivers, &c. of whom nothing more is said than that they 
 lived so many years, and died. Those in church-yaids should 
 also be printed, as well as those in churches. And if only select 
 ones are printed, the descendants of those butchers, &c. will 
 complain, that their families have not had justice done them, &c. 
 and that the work is impeifect. However, to the great comfort of 
 admirers of epitaphs, the epitaphs of Essex most accurately taken 
 upon the spot, with a description of the Arms round them, are 
 all safe, and in my possession. But to have inserted and printed 
 them in the respective jmrishes, would have swelled the work 
 immeasurably. They will be better in a volume by themselve*, 
 to be published by and by. How exactly the epitaphs are 
 printed by N. Salmon, you nray judge by comparing his book 
 p. 226, with an exact copy of Sir Geffrey Gate's. 
 
 Pray for the Soicl, all ye that live in sight 
 
 Of Sir GeftVey Gate the curtisse Knight, 
 
 Whose W;^ff is beried here; by Goddes might 
 
 He bowght the Manor of Garnets by right 
 
 Of Koppeden Gentylman so he behight 
 
 Of this Witnesses his Wyftand Executors, 
 
 This yere and day come on his doly howrs, 
 XXil Janu. IVICCCCLXXVI. 
 And he leaves out part of many epitaphs. The poor man 
 intended to have comprised the whole County in 21 numbers, 
 for a guinea ; but how much he niitcalculated, his work shews, 
 "^Your assertion (in Preface, p. ix.) and (in Vl;a Book p. l(j], 
 
 notrt
 
 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 7O7 
 
 note g) your surmise, of a preference of N. Salmon's History to 
 the other lately published, must by all unprejudiced persons 
 be reckoned false, as well as injurious. But of that let the 
 world judge by comparing them together. P. 163, The * two 
 original books of the affairs of the Corporation of Colchester,* 
 were only two volumes of the Assemblies of that Corporation, 
 which were all carefully consulted, and are often quoted in 
 the History of Colchester. Thomas Rawlinson, esq. met with 
 them in London, and his brother the Doctor restored them to 
 the Corporation. Ibid. * A relation, &c. and * A true relation, 
 &c. of the expedition of Kent, Essex, and Colchester' were 
 one and the same book. Only this second edition by J. 
 Pilborough had some additions at the end, communicated by 
 Mr. Lufkin, myself, &c. A Plan of the town during the siege 
 was done in a wooden cut about that time, and afterwards en- 
 graved in copper. A veiy fine Ichnography of the town, with Views 
 
 of the buildings, hath been lately executed by Sparrow, 
 
 published by Jefferies. P. 16*6. Hawkwood's History is at length 
 in the account of Sible-Hedingham. Mr. Holman had extracted 
 all tliat related to him in his MS Collections for that parish, and 
 among the rest out of the pamphlet. But it bore so Grub-street 
 a title, that it would have been demeaning a serious work even 
 to mention it. It was reprinted some years ago for Mr. Thomas 
 Osborne. Too much indeed hath been said of that bloody 
 homicide, for such is the true title of a mere soldier of fortune. 
 Views of buildings, prints of tombs and monuments, and other 
 drawings, are great ornaments and improvements in topo- 
 graphical Works ; but so few gentlemen are willing or able 
 to contribute them, and engraving is so excessively dear, that 
 few Authors or Booksellers can venture upon so ruinous a 
 charge. Sir John-Griffin Griffin hath lately given a plate of his 
 seat of Audeley-Housc ; a print of whicli goes into the History 
 of Essex. P. '24. In your account of I-Ic.rmnnnidas, you do not 
 observe that his Description is illustrated witli plans of the 
 Cities and Towns. It is in elegant Iv.itin, copied chiefly, af 
 / bd'ieve, from Camden's Britannia, for I have not the Latin 
 Camden to compare them together. 
 
 " It would not have been amiss if you had mentioned the Registers 
 and Cartularies belonging to Religious Houses. The Right Hon. 
 the Earl of Hardvvick hath a very fine Curtidary of the Abbey of 
 St. John's, Colchester, and a Register of the same. James West, 
 esq. hath some, lliomas Astle, esq. liath a very fine Cartulary and 
 Register of Christ Chmxh, or Trinity, within Aklgate one of 
 BradenBtf)ke in Wiltshire, of the Priory of Worcester, Ilor- 
 ton Priory in Kent, &c. Tlie late Mr. An^i'i had Collection? 
 for the History of Norfolk, Yoikshire, and sevei-al other counties. 
 No. 3'J(). of Catal. Description of !-^uti')]i<, by lloberl Reyce, 
 No. 54.5. Collections concerning tiie (.'oiuity of Norfolk, by 
 Vincent, and otlKirs, 2 vols. No. t7<^ 171. Parochial Antiquities 
 of Coliton in Devonshire, No. <i2. Collections about Cornwall, 
 and the f^tunjuiric-. No. 1S9. ?>?P.. :5M Zil. 457- ")54. 577- 
 L 2 " Hie-
 
 7o8 
 
 LITERARY yVNECDOTES. 
 
 History of Launceston, No. 6^1. Description of Wales^ by 
 G. Owen, No. 203. You nientioa this last. It is a matter of no 
 great consequence, but Bishop Nicolson always \vrit his name 
 without an h. I remain, Sir, your humble servant, P. M." 
 
 " Reverend Sir, The Authpr of the ' Anecdotes of British 
 Topography' acknowledges the favour of the information he has 
 received from your letter to him, dated September 5. He has 
 the satisfaction to find you agree with him about the utility 
 of epitaphs, by your intention of giving the world such a copious 
 and correct edition of them with all their appurtenances. He 
 submits it to ypii whether a list of the incumbents of the 
 respective churches from the earliest dates to the time where 
 Newcourt leaves off, miglit not be added to compleat the 
 History of Essex. He leaves the world to judge of the com- 
 parative merit of the two Histories of that County, as well as of 
 the merit of the ' Anecdotes of British Topography.' To have 
 inserted Registers, &c. of Religious Houses, would have been 
 robbing,- Bishop 1 ann() rs useful Notitia, unless he could have 
 known by your, or ally other means, into whose hands those 
 in Mr. Anstis's possession, as well as many others, had since 
 passed. I remain, Sir, your humble servant, tvc. R. Gough." 
 
 P. 210. Mr. Jones of VVelwyn thus describes Mr. Gilbert West *: 
 "A gentleman to whose memory I owe all the returns of grati- 
 tude and esteem that I can possibly make, after so much friendly 
 correspondence, freedom in conversation, and many other in- 
 stances of his favour and regard, with which he was ])leascd to 
 honour me to his death, and of which I might probably have 
 made a far more advantageous use, in regard to temporal provi- 
 sions, than I did. Let his memoiy be ever dear to me, and 
 ever sacred to the friends of Christianity, in all succeeding ages. 
 I shall touch but upon a veiy few articles, such as tiaiisieritiy 
 occur to my memory : but my account, though short, shall be 
 just. Mr. West was a person of great discernment, and of a 
 very quick apprehension, and readily saw into men and things. 
 He was lively and agreeable in conversation, and very umch of a 
 gentleman in all his behaviour. I ha^e heard him say, that in 
 his voimger days he had gone over into the quarters of Inlidelity. 
 His uncle, the late Lord Cobhani f , did all in his power to instill 
 such principles into his mind, and that of his cousin Lyttelton, 
 when they paid their visits to him. But the latter, lie said, 
 happily stood his ground, and made little or no progress in those 
 perverse principles. When Mr. West's Treatise on the Resurrec- 
 tion of our Lord was first advertised in the public papers, the 
 point in the title-page being left in medio, and determining no- 
 thing, numbers of those who had conceived an opinion of his 
 continuing a staunch unbeliever, t>ent for it to his Bookseller, 
 
 * Ii^ will be no disparatfctnent to these particulars of Mr. West, to ob- 
 serve that they furnished some u<:eful hints to Dr. Johnson (to whom { 
 communicated the MS.) in the new edition of his Lives. 
 
 f 1 hat Noblenian left bini (soon ailer the pubUcation of his Observa- 
 tions) a le^'acy of 1000/. 
 
 honino;
 
 ADDITIONS AKD CORRECTIONS. JOg 
 
 h&ping- to find their own disbelief therein confirmed. But, 
 finding themselves disappointed, some of them were plezised 
 afterwards to rank him in the class of Methodists, &c. Preju- 
 dices to the last degree ! Others ranked him among the Soci- 
 nians : directly contrary to the former. How easy to invent 
 names ! But his time character, to my certain knowledge, was 
 a Christian, a Scholar, and a Gentleman. And one may justly 
 apply to him what one of the Antients said,of himself, ' My name 
 is Catholic, my surname is Christian.' He was very regular and 
 exemplary in family religion : ofiered up prayers (those of the 
 Public Liturgy) every day when well, at eleven in the morning ; 
 and then, when the weather was fair, rode out for his health. 
 On Sundays he went to church (not to that of his own parish, 
 but to St. James's, Dr. Clarke's church) ; and at evening ordered 
 his servants to coine into the parlour, where he read to them 
 the late Dr. Clarke's Sermons, and then went to prayers. He 
 read them always himself. One thing was somewhat singular: 
 he always said grace himself at his table, though a Clergyman 
 happened to be present. He gave me his reasons of his own 
 accord, and I did not disapprove them. He had an elegant 
 little seat, in view of tiie great metropolis ; and all about it was 
 neat. Lyttelton's'epigram to him, in 1740, contains a just cha- 
 Kicter both of the master and of his habitation : 
 
 ' To Mr. West, of VVickham. 
 
 ' Fair Xatmc's sweet simplicity. 
 
 With elegance relin'd. 
 Well in thy seat, my friend, I see. 
 
 But better in thy mind. 
 
 To both, from courts and all their state. 
 
 Eager I Hy, to prove 
 Joys far abo\'e a Courtier's fate, 
 
 Tranquillity and Lo\e.' 
 
 " He bore his last illness in a very exemplary manner ; veiy 
 patient, and entirely resigned to the divine will, &c. He had 
 foruied an excellent design of proving the authenticity of the 
 New Testament from many observations that had occurreil to 
 him from time to time, which he had begun to note down ; and 
 I remember he shewed me soiru.; valuable hints that had been 
 conmmnicated to liimbyDr. Doddridge, jiarticularly drawn from 
 the oonces.siops of Celsus, and otiiejs amongst the ujoro Ciirly 
 oppo-;ers o.^" Christianity. He seemed to diliglit in that subject, 
 and to be fully re.->uhed to |)iu-sue it, if (iod should give him 
 opportimilirs. I iiave heard liiin expatiate u})()n it in conversa- 
 tion wilii great cleiriiess of judgmenl and strength of argument. 
 \V hat ht-camii at' hi-> preparatory papers upon it, since his decease, 
 I kno'.v not; but iiavc reason to i)clieve, from wliat I have heard, 
 triat they were soun after dr-itroyed, with many others, and per- 
 haps all that he had left remaining upon any topics of Theology " 
 
 ii.MiiK t
 
 710 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Extrart of a Letter from Mr. West to Dr. Wilson, Feb. 3, 1753. 
 
 " If you have any opportunity of writing to Dr. Leland, I beg 
 you will return him my hearty thanks for his excellent Observa- 
 tions on Lord Chesterfield's Letters, in which he has with great 
 strength of argument, with the decency of a gentleman and a 
 DTjaa of true learning, and with the candour and spirit of a Chris- 
 tian, pulled oif ihe theatrical vizor from the vain and ostentatious 
 Writer, display eil botl^ his malevolence and weakness, his igno- 
 rance and inconsistency j and maintained the cause of religious 
 liberty against this its professing and hypocritical friend, but 
 secret and perpetual enemy. I esteem Dr. Leland's present of 
 his books, and the commendations he has been so good as to 
 bestow on me in it, as a very great honour ; and shall always 
 l*emember it with pride and pleasure. I am. Sir, 
 
 " Your faithful friend and servant, Gil. West." 
 
 P. 217. "Extracts from Mr. Pope's Translation, corresj)onding 
 with the Beauties of Homer, selected from the Iliad by W. FIol- 
 well, B. D. FR.S. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Ivlajesty," were 
 published in 2 vols. Svo. 1776- 
 
 P. 219. note, 1, 3. /or Vol. V. No. XVII I. read Vol. IV. No. XX. 
 
 P. 221. add, In 1750 Mr. Bowyer was appointed (with 
 the late Sir Thomas Frankland, Bart, and others) , one of the 
 executors of the will of his old friend Captain Linieburner ; and 
 was requested, on this occasion, to accept a cup which !iad been 
 given to the Captain for some signally gallant service. He polite- 
 ly refused the otfered present; but readily took on himself the whole 
 activepartof the trust, which hel'aithf ally executed till it was ren- 
 dered unnecessary by an only grand-daughter's coming of age to 
 enjoy her fortune. He accepted, however, of the Captain's carjc ; 
 after having, through excess of delicacy, taken oiF the golden 
 head, which he could by no means be prevailed on to keep. 
 Thomas Limeburner, esq. a gentleman of approved bravery, 
 and of long standing in the Royal Navy, was appointed Ca])tain 
 of the Seahorse in July 1740 3 and on the 29th of March, 1742, 
 being then commander of The Plymouth, he took the Galgo pri- 
 vateer, of St. Sebastian's, of 12 guns, 12 patereros, and 140 men, 
 which had then taken 21 English piizes. Soon after this event, 
 he transmitted to Mr. Bowyer 4600^. to invest for him in the pub- 
 lic funds. He was afterwards made Captain of the Fubbs yatch ; 
 anddiedNov. 5,1750. Sir Thomas Frankland died Nov.21, 17S4. 
 
 P. 222. Mr.Bladeii's sister was married first to Colonellluthven, 
 and afterwards to Edward Hawke, Esq. a barrister of Lincoln's 
 Iim, by whom she had Edward (afterwards the first Lord) Hawke, 
 the brave Admiral. 
 
 P. 230, note, 1. 21. for Vol. V, No. XIX. r. vol. VI. p. 468. 
 
 P. 240. "Dear Bryant, St. John's, Nov. \3, 1747- 
 
 " Your letter found me luckily, at my return to College, after 
 an absence of the six summer months. I need not say how much 
 it rejoiced me to find from it that you enjoyed your health, 
 and liked yoru" climate. You mention nothing (and indeed from 
 your writing seem to have nothing) of your hyp ; I believe vou left 
 
 that
 
 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 7II 
 
 that with your Old Chum ; for, generally speaking, this last year I 
 have been in low spirits, and though never to be called ill, always 
 fancying myself so. You gave me a very indeterminate order 
 about your Prints j however I gave directions to the Old one (who 
 came here last week to speechify) to buy you as many as would 
 furnish a room ; those from Vandyke are the best and cheapest 
 I know. I desired him also to put up in the packet a Poem, 
 much altered since you saw it, and ])ublished last March ; it 
 met with greater success than I could have imagined, for it 
 passed through three Impressions, though not specified on the 
 title, and 1 am told is now out of print again. I have writ 
 nothing since I saw you worth sending, but jerhaps my next 
 p.iay bring you something or other. 1 shall employ the rest 
 of my letter in giving you an account of what variation there 
 is in the situation of myself and the rest of your friends, since 
 you left England. As to myself, I have had the honour since 
 I came here last to be elected by the Fellows of Pembroke into 
 their Society ; but the Mctster, who has tlic power of a negative, 
 has made use of it on this occasion, because he will not have 
 an extranem when they ha\e fit persons in their own College. 
 The Fellows say, they have a power from their Statutes indiffc' 
 renter eligcre, er utraque Acudemia, and are going to try it 
 with him at Common J^w, or else get the King to appoint 
 a Visitor; if this turns out well, it will be a very lucky thing 
 for me, and much better than a Plat, which I came hither with 
 an intention to sit for, for they arc reckoned the best Fellowships 
 in the Uni\ersity, Another tiling has happened, which there 
 is also a probabihty may some time be of service to me ; and 
 that is. Dr. Hen ing's removal to Canterbury, and Dr. Hutton's to 
 Yoik ; this too may, 1 hope, affect Cayley, who had the bad 
 luck about seven mouihi ago to be rusticated for a small riot, 
 but I hope will now be soon admitted again. Dr. Burrell 
 I am told, gets great reputation and business at Leicester, and 
 has hod the foitune to perform se\eral remarkable cures. Allen 
 has got a smnll curacy at Mitcham in Surrey, and Wood one 
 at Biaxtead in Es-cx. Bourne has done the foolishest thing 
 that ever a sensible man was guilty of; he made solicitations 
 to the Duke of Devonshire for a Chaplainship to a Man of 
 War, and is now sailed in the Ruby, in I3o-cawcn's squadron, 
 for the J:;i>t Indies: this he did unknown to nio-,t of hit 
 friends, and witiiout any view of other interest than the bare 
 salaiy. t can recollect nothing particular of any body else, and 
 am conscious tliat my Utter is not yet half long eiiough to 
 de'^ervc carria^re to the West Indies; yet how to make it longer 
 I don't k/iow, for what assistance political news would give 
 me I have no great desire to tiy, antl as to litenuy, I believe, 
 it would be very small. Warburton lias published the Old 
 Woman's book against Dr. Rutherford, which boars a very 
 gofxi charafter: lie has also writ a \ery remarkable Preface 
 to it : this, with an edition of ShaksjMjare, is all that he has 
 done. Lord l3olin;^brokc has udv.rliscd a collection of Political 
 
 Tracts ,
 
 712 LITERARY ANECDOTES. , 
 
 Tracts; but I suppose they will be only such as have before 
 made their appearance in the weekly papers. Mr. Lyttelton 
 has wrote, a letter to Mr. West on St. Paul's conversion, 
 which also bears a very great character. I don't know any 
 thing else worth mentioning, except that Dr. "Rutherford is 
 taking subscriptions for his lectures (if that be). The same 
 person is also made chaplain to the Prince, and Rothery to 
 the Duke of Somerset, who has given Dr. Fry a great li\ ing 
 in Yorkshire, made vacant by the Bishop of Bangor's translation. 
 The news about poor Hooke reached me two months before 
 yours. I had tlie melancholy employment when at Hull to 
 condole with the family ; the sister was most remarkably affected 
 by it. Dear Bryant, write to me by all opportunities. 1 told 
 your brother, when I went up in March to l^ondon, and 
 cairied his letter with me, that I should write from thence; 
 but was prevented, which was the occasion of the mistake. 
 Wliethcr Liadsey writ or no, I don't know; but I confess I 
 did not. However, I will promise to be more punctual for 
 the future. Believe me, with the utmost affection, dear Bryant, 
 Your sincere friend, W. Mason. 
 
 P. S. Direct for me to this College; and it would be better if you 
 wrote upon it " to be left, and forwarded," with Mr. Powell ; by 
 which means if I be in the country or at Pembroke, 
 I shall the sooner and safer receive it, Mr. Peele and all friends 
 desire their compliments.' 
 
 P. 2.51. Add to the Letters from Mr. Vertue to Dr. Ducarel. 
 " Dear Sik, Friday, March 15. 
 
 ''I wish, amongst the numerous assembly last night,you had been 
 atthe Society, to have heard and seen the debates and motions upon 
 the reading of the draughts of the Charter for incorj)orating our 
 Society, and appointing a Committee to sign a petition to be 
 delivered to his Majesty as soon as jjossible, perhaps in a week 
 or less time. The principal promoters or movers in this affair, 
 besides the President, was Mr. Theobald, Mr. Webb, Sir Joseph 
 Ayloffe, Mr. Wray, Dr. Milles, &c. Little or nothing was offered or 
 saidjin opposition to these expensive schemes, by themembersof the 
 first institution, and not of the Royal Society schemers. But, when 
 the great question was put, some disputes arose about voting by 
 proxy. At leng-th that was carrfed, being supposed that they 
 were mostly procured to increase the number of votes one way; 
 as when the ballot was ])ioposed and agreed to be whether a pe- 
 tition should be presented to his Majesty, as was read, in order 
 to obtain the confirmation of the charter, at the ccnc^jsion of 
 the ballot stood 59 for the question, and 9 dissentient when a 
 Committee \yas immediately a};pointed, to withdrew for half an 
 hour, to consider and agree to name SO jiersons, including OfR- 
 cers of the Society, to be of Council to the Society, and to be 
 named in the Charter perso lally and the petition that is to be 
 presented. After these nanus were settled in a room below, 
 tliey returned to the company, and reported what had been re- 
 solved, and the names of the 20 mem.bers. Then ordered to jjro- 
 ceed. All this while little logard had been made of the cliarge 
 
 and
 
 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 713 
 
 and necessary expence of these extraordinaries, till Mr. Webb 
 mentioned that all care should be taken to make the expence as 
 moderate as could be, but money must be ready ; upon which 
 the Treasurer, Mr.Compton, being desired to mention what money 
 in hand that could be spared on this occasion, said one hundred, 
 pounds then could be advanced ; but, as that was not near what 
 was necessary, Mr.Theobald rose up, and said it would be conve- 
 nient to think of a method of raising more, by each member 
 paying down two guineas apiece ; and that might for the present, 
 unless more should be absolutely wanted, be passed as other af- 
 fairs, nem. con. ; nobody being willing to take upon them to con- 
 test or represent publicly what they privately said or thought ; 
 that had done without such expensive costs, and could not foresee 
 how they could do better ; nor to what benefit it wpnld end to 
 the advantage or knowledge of Antiquities. This hasty scrawl 
 may be all that I can say, with my true respects, and best wishes 
 of health, being. Sir, yours always, G. Vertue." 
 
 " Sir, ' Fridai/, Feb. 8, 1750. 
 
 " The enclosed letter was read last night at the Society, aad 
 Mr. Ames intends to take an abstract of it 3 but, as you desired to 
 have it returned to you to-day, I did not leave it with himj 
 therefore he will take some opportunity when he calls on you. 
 By the way, as you intend to write to Mr. North soon, who, you 
 told me, desires umch to see those drawings of ancient arches of 
 stone, in possession of Dean Lyttelton, I had them all last 
 week in my possession 5 but the Dean going out of town, has 
 taken them all back to carry with him (to return them about 
 April or May next), excej)ting two or three, being the wooden 
 church in Essex near Ongar, which h left, and ordered to be 
 grav'd for the Society hereafter, when a proper vacancy admits. 
 Last night Sir Joseph Aylotfe brought two more ancient gates 
 from a church in Kent, curiously drawn, and also circular arches 
 of great antiquity, much like Roman works, and most evidently 
 prior to the elliptic arch. Mr. Drake from York was there, 
 and he brought some drawings of Roman tesselated pavements 
 of late discovered in that part of Yorkshire ; with some account 
 of their being works of the Romans, &c. We had a full meeting, 
 and several other matters too long now to insert. In haste from 
 your always obliged i;ervant, and our compliments to Mrs. Du- 
 carel sincerely, G. Vektue." 
 
 P. 260, note, 1. 1?. rcuil " Christopher Pitt, son of Christopher 
 Pitt, M. D. and brother of Robert Pitt, M. A." 
 
 P. 279, note, ]. 3. read 172'J. 
 
 P. 281. John Ho(]g=on, M. A. born in Cumberland or West- 
 moreland, was sent to ^ueen's College, Oxford, v.here he took 
 his master's degree July 12, \7 >('> When a <]uld, he acciden- 
 tally fell into the fire, by which ti;e fingers of his right liand 
 were so miserably burnt, disfigured, and lamed, that he usually 
 wore a glove to hide them ; and wlieu he took up a pen, it was 
 with his left hand, wiih wliich he stuck it into his riglit j a 
 itranger therefore vo aid iu^\-c thought he could not have v.ritten 
 
 at
 
 714 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 at all, but notwithstanding his misfortune he wrote a very goocf 
 hand. At Queen's College he was much esteemed for his emi- 
 nent parts, learning, candour, and modest deportment, by Dr. 
 Smith, the provost. About the year 1752 he was private tutor 
 there to the present Francis Lawson, Esq. barrister at law, 
 and in the following year he went to reside with Philip Carteret 
 Webb, Esq. as tutor to his son 5 in which employment he en- 
 joyed great felicity : the well-furnished library and noble collec- 
 tion of antient coins of Mr. Webb ivas a great resource to him, 
 who was well versed in mathematicks, natural histoiy, and an- 
 tiquities, and the civilities he received from l\Tr. Webb and all 
 his family were veiy engaging to him. In 1756 he attended 
 young Mr. Webb to Bene't College, Cambridge, where he was 
 admitted ad eundem, and in vacation-time was frequently, with 
 his pupil, at Busbridge, where in the intervals of giving in- 
 struction, for which he was eminently qualified, he attended very 
 particularly to the study of antiquity. Thus he wrote to a friend 
 from thence, April 17, 1756 : " Though I have an rxtreme 
 regard for Madam Flora, and have, in reality, paid my addresses 
 to her with some warmth last summer, she has a rival here 
 that, for the present at least, engages my wholes application ; 
 'tis no other than the matron Antiquity, a person.ige of .some- 
 what a forbidding aspect at first, but whose features soften to a 
 wonderful degree of beauty the longer you are acqiiainted with 
 her. This venerable lady, who holds one of her rural retreats in 
 this place, lays so many baits for me, that I can haidly steal out to 
 an evening assignation with the other." Whilst at Busbridge, 
 Mr. Hodgson was employed in making a c-atalogue of Mr. ^\^ebb"3 
 library and of his medallions, and in studying the Anglo-Saxon 
 language, of which he pi'oposed to make himself fully master. 
 He had served two different curacies, and in 1757 that of St. 
 Antholin's, London, where he began collecting m hat relates to 
 the state of English poetry from the eaiiiest times. In 1758 he 
 was appointed one of the rectors of Codriiigton College, Barba- 
 does, for which island he embarked in January 1759, and arh\ ed 
 there the 9th of April. In the College he met with a worthy 
 agreeable associate, and found the inhabitants of the island very 
 kind and hospitable ; but the heat of the climate so disagreed 
 with him, that, about the latter end of the year 1760, he left 
 the island in a very bad state of health, and returning to England 
 died on his passage. Thus was lost to the world this excellent 
 young man, aged about 30. He was master not only of Greek 
 and Latin, but of the Hebrew, and very well versed in French 
 and .Spanish; had a turn to poetry, but never himself printed any 
 thing. Some verses of his got abroad, and were printed in peri- 
 odical publications of the time. One short poem the writer of 
 this note remembers to ha^ e seen in a magazine, thought to be 
 the London, which may be known by a typographical error, 
 Elian for Elcan. Another, an Epistle to a Friend, tlie writer has^ 
 but at present it is mislaid. The 27th of May, 1756, Mr. Hodg- 
 son was elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries, and ia 
 
 vol.
 
 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 7I5 
 
 vol. II. p. 4% of the Archaeolagia, is a dissertation written by him 
 on an ancient ComeKan, which with difficulty he was persuaded 
 to suffer being read there ; such was the modesty of this valuable 
 young man, this mild and unaffected scholar, to whose amiable 
 character the author of this note laments that he cannot do 
 greater justice, and will, therefore, conclude it with part of 
 Pope's epitaph on Gay, the following lines being equally appli* 
 cable to one as the other : 
 
 " Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; 
 
 In wit, a man j simplicity, a child." 
 For the credit of Mr.Hodgson it should be obser%'ed,that Clotwor- 
 tliy the first Earl of Massareene, when he removed from Oxford to 
 Bene't College, Cambridge, 17^8, brought with him fM* tutCwc- 
 a very different kind of personage, one Seth Pollard of Yorkshire, 
 who, after having taken the degree of M. A. at University Col- 
 lege, Oxford, June 1, 175tj, proceeded ad eundem at Cambridge 
 in 1758, was curate of Pudsey near Ledes, and died 176..; a 
 man of an athletic constitution, whose /or^e was skill in rowiiig. 
 
 P. 285. Mr. White's Three Letters were intituled, 1.; *' A Letter 
 to a Gentlemaa dissenting from the Church of England, con- 
 cerning the Lives of Churchmen and Dissenters," (four times 
 printed). *2. "A Second Letter to a Gentleman dissenting from 
 the Church of England ; wherein the great and popular Pleas of 
 Dissenters against Communion with the Church are refuted, and 
 reflected back upon themselves," (three editions.) 3. " The 
 Third awl last Letter 3 wherein the Design of the second is far- 
 ther pursued and completed. With an Appendix, containing 
 some Consklerations on the Lawfulness, Expediency, and Ne- 
 cessity of requiring all who are to be admittetl to the Ministn-, 
 or to any Ecclesiastical Preferment in the Church of England, 
 or to be Preachers or Teachers in any Dissenting Congregations, 
 to subscribe the Articles of Faith and Religion j and potting forth 
 the Inconsistencies between the notorious Practices of Dissenter.'*, 
 and the avowed Principles of many of them touching that mat- 
 ter," (three editions). 
 
 P. 311. In June 1741, Dr. Armstrong solicited Dr. BirchV. 
 recommendation to Dr. Mead, that he might be appointed 
 physician to the forces then going to the West Indies ; and in 1753 
 Dr. Theobald a<ldresscd the two following Odes 
 
 *'Ad ingcnuum Virum, tum medicis, i\\u\ poeticis, 
 fecultatibub pi-aistautem, Johannem Armstrong, M. D. 
 
 1, "Fubis Scotis. 
 
 " Artisque Cos O ct Cithami sciens, 
 Lltroque miit dexter Apolline ! 
 
 r>uem ]\I\isri ii.Lscfnteni F)cu5qut 
 Arcitenens studiosiori 
 Fmxere cihu ! Plectripotens modi-3 
 Fe^itivinriscarminis, agmlne 
 Clarum triumphato rebelli, 
 ToUe Duccm, au-piciis paternis 
 
 Cainpo?
 
 71^ LITERARY ANECDOTEf. 
 
 Campos volantem per Caledonios, 
 (Alc3 minister ceu Jovis) impetus 
 Hydraeque tundentem feroces 
 Herculeo penitus vigore. 
 lo Triumphe ! Ssdva Britannia 
 Sui^ente dicat sole, cadenteque : 
 Plausus pavimentum sacratum 
 Donee ovans fcriat polorum." 
 2. '' Docte cui Polyhymnia 
 
 Perblandum dederat tendere barbiton ! 
 O multumque Poeticis, 
 
 Et multum Medicis splendide dotibus \ 
 Nomen materia tuum 
 
 Capta ecce ! egregia Musa avide insonat ; 
 Lsete et per liquidum fuga 
 
 Roniani volitans aera Horatii, 
 Ter sublime rapit, poli 
 
 Et fugit rutillis purpurei choris : 
 Cous claius ubi Senex 
 
 Augusttun radiis emicat aureis, 
 Vatiim et nobilium })laga . i 
 
 Ccelestis resonat fervida plausibus; ' 
 Crescens laude nova, aetheri 
 
 Tu jam sternis ovans sidereo viam; 
 Jam jamque invidia caput 
 
 Major coelicolum coetibus inseris." ' 
 There is a mczzotinto portrait from a painting by Sir J. Rey- 
 nolds, inscribed, "John Armstrong, M. D. 
 The suffrage of the wise, the praise that's worth competition, 
 is attained by sense alone, and dignity of mind." 
 P. 31i}. Among other learned publications, Mr. Palairet was 
 author of " Thesaurus Ellipsium Latinarum, sive vocuni qua3 in 
 Sermone Latino suppressse indicantur, & ex prsstantissimis 
 Auctorihus illustrantur, cum Indicibus necessariis. Auctore 
 Ella Palairet, Reverendo in Deo Patri Joanni Bangorae Episcopo 
 a Sacris, & in RegiS. iEde Vicario, 1760," 8vo. 
 
 P. 320. " I tell Garrick, he grows wanton, like Sir Epicure 
 Mammon, who would have for his flatterers the purest of Divines ; 
 so he will deal with none but Doctors to furnish out his 
 entertainments. A Doctor of Divinity ushered in Barbarossa ; 
 a Doctor of Laws has lately restored Amphitryon : and, as 
 J)odsley now presses him to take a Tragedy of his fashion, I 
 advise him to insist upon the Bookseller's being previously made 
 Doctor of Physic, at least, at Edinburgh." Di\ M'arburton to Mr. 
 JJiirJ, Feh.7,17o7. " Garrick's portentous ode, as you truly call it, 
 lias but one line of truth in it, which is where he calls 
 Shaksjjcare the God of our idolatry : for sense I will not allow it ; 
 for that which is so highly satirical, he makes the topic of his 
 heros encomium. The Ode it=elf is below any of Cibber's. 
 Gibber's nonsense was something like sense ; but this man's 
 sense, whenever he deviates into it, is much more like nonsense. 
 Bp. Warhurton to Dr.Hurd, Sept, '^I'i, I70"9.
 
 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 7I7 
 
 P. 324. The Rev, Thomas Stona, of Emanuel college, Cam- 
 bridge j B. A. 17495 M. A. 1758; rector of Warboys, co. 
 Huntingdon, and in the commission of the peace for that 
 county, died August 12, 1792. He published " Remarks 
 upon the Natural History of Religion by Mr. Hume ; with 
 dialogues on Human Idolatry and the Christian Religion, by T, S." 
 
 P, 333. Father Boscovich died in 1787 at Milan, in which 
 University he was Professor of Astronomy. He was an honorary 
 member of the Royal Society, and well known to the learned 
 and ingenious. The printing of his elegant work, " De Solis 
 ac Lunis Defectibus, &c." was undertaken by Mr. Bowyer, at 
 the solicitation of Dr. Morton, and at the expence of Mr. Dodsley 
 and Mr. Millar; And thus a poem " which, however important 
 of itself to all the lovers of Astronomy, or honourable on many 
 accounts to the British Nation, was in danger otherwise of 
 being suppressed by disgust, or of being printed abroad," was 
 given to the publick by means of an English press. 
 
 P. 339. Edward Waring, M. D. Lucasian professor of mathe- 
 matics, was descended fioin an ancient family at Mitton, in the 
 parish of Fittes, co. Salop, being the eldest son of John Waring of 
 tiiat place, by Elizabeth his wife. He was born in 1734, 
 and after being educated at Shrewsbiuy free schools under Mr. 
 Hotclikis, was sent, on one of Millington's exliibilions, to 
 Magdalen college, Cambridge, where he applied himself with 
 such assiduity to the study of mathematics, that in 1757, when 
 he proceeded B. A. he was the senior wrangler, or most dis- 
 tinguished graduate of the year. This honour, for the securing 
 of which lie probably ])03tponed his first degree to the late 
 period of his twenty-third year, led to his election, only two 
 years afterwards, to the post of Lucasian professor. The ap- 
 pointment of a young man, scarcely twenty-five veal's of age, and 
 still only a bachelor of ar!s, to a chair which had been honoured 
 by ilie names ol' Newton, Saunderson, and Harrow, gave great 
 offence to some of the senior membeis of tlie University : by 
 whom the talents and pretentions of the ne\v pnjfessor \'.cre 
 severely arraigned. '1 he fast chaiJtej- of his " Miscellanea 
 Analylica," which Mr. Waring circulated in vindication of hj 
 scienlilic character, gave rise to a controversy of some duration. 
 Dr. Powell, mastei- of St. John's, couunenced the attack bv a 
 pamphlet of " Observations" upon this specimen of the professor s 
 qualifications lV>r his oflice. Waring was defended in a verv 
 able reply, for which he was indebted to Mr. Wilson, then an 
 undergraduate of Peter House, afterwards Sir John Wilson, a 
 Jutlge of the Common Pleas, and a niagLstrate justly belove.l 
 and revered for his amiable temper, learning, honesty, and 
 indt. pendent sjurit. In 17W), Dr. Powell wrote a defence of 
 hi.'; Olj^ervations, and here the controveisy ended. Mr. Waring'.s 
 detieicney of academical hon(jurs was supjilied in the same vear 
 by the degrei; of M. A. cunfened upon him by royal mandate, 
 and he remained in the undisturbed posscs.jon of his onice. 
 Two years afLev.vajdi, hi;j v.ork, a part of winch liad excited
 
 7lS 
 
 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 so warm a dispfiite, was published from the University press, 
 in quarto, under the title of " Miscellanea Analytica de ^qua- 
 tionibiis Algebraicis etCurvarum Proprietatibua," with a dedica- 
 tion to the Duke of Newcastle, It appeal's from the title-page, 
 that Waring \vas by this time elected a fellow of his college. 
 Of the book itself we cannot pretend to form an opinion : so 
 intricate and abstruse are its subjects, that it Is undei stood to 
 have been little studied even by expert mathematicians. The 
 author's own account of it in a work written many years after- 
 wards, is the best we can lay befoi-e the reader : "I have myself 
 wrote on most subjects in pure mathematics, and in these boolcs 
 inserted nearly all the inventions of the moderns with which 
 I was acquainted. In my prelaces I have given an history 
 of the inventions of the different writei, and ascribed them 
 to their respective autliors ; and likewise some account of 
 my own. To every one of these sciences I have been able 
 to make some additions, and in the whole, if I am not mistaken 
 in enumerating them, somewhere between three and four 
 hundred new pro])ositions of one kind or other, considerably 
 more than have been given by any English writer ; and in 
 novelty and difficulty not inferior ; I wish I could subjoin ia 
 utility ; many more might have been added, but I never could 
 hear of any reader in England out of Cambridge, who took 
 the pains to read and undei'stand what I have written. But I 
 must congratulate myself that D'Alembert, Eiiler, and Le 
 Grange, three of the greatest men in pure mathematics of this or 
 any other age, have since published and demonsti-ated some of 
 the propositions contained in my Medit. Algcb. or Miscell. 
 Analyt. the only book of mine they could have seen at that 
 time, and D'Alembert and Le Grange mention it as a book 
 full of excellent and interesting discoveries in Algebra} some 
 other mathematicians have inserted some of them in their 
 publications. The reader will excuse my saying so much, there 
 being some particular reasons which influenced me." For 
 his profession in life, Mr. Waring chose the study of medicine, 
 and proceeded a doctor in that faculty in 17C7. In ITri, he 
 appears in the list of physicians to Addenbrooke's hosj)ital 
 in Cambridge : and about this time practised in the neighbouring 
 town of St. Ives. But though he followed this pursuit with 
 his characteristical assiduity, and attended lectures and hospitals 
 in London, he never enjoyed extensive practice. Of this he 
 was the less careful, as, in addition to the emoluments, which 
 are considerable, of his professorship, be possessed a very 
 handsome j)atrimonial fortune, while his fa\ourite science 
 supplied him with an inexhaustible fund of amusement and 
 occupation. In 1776, he entered into a matrimonial connexion 
 with Miss Maiy Oswell, sister of Mr. William Oswell, a respect- 
 able draper in Shrewsbury, and not many years afternards 
 retired from the Univei-sity, first to a Louse in Shre\vsbury, 
 and at length to his own estate at Plealey, near Ponttsbury. 
 The mathematical enquiries which had occupied so Iar*ye a portion 
 
 of
 
 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 7I9 
 
 of his early life, he still continued to cultivate with undiminished 
 diligence; and he also occasionaUy indulged in philosophical 
 excursions of a more popular and intelUgible class. The result 
 of these he collected in a volume printed at Cambridge, in 1794, 
 with the title of "An Essay on the Principles of Human 
 Knowledge." Under this comprehensive title are contained 
 his opinions on a great variety of subjects. But this book, in 
 the front of which he designates himself as fellow of the 
 Royal Society of London, and of those of Bologna and Gottin- 
 gen, was never published. Thus passed the even tenour of Dr. 
 VVaring's life, interrupted occasionally by a visit to the Board of 
 Longitude, in London, of which he was a member, and from 
 which he always returned with an increased relish for his 
 country i-etreat at Plealey : and here he might have promised 
 himself many years of life and health, when his career was 
 terminated by a short illness, produced by a violent cold caught 
 in superintending some additions which he was maldng to 
 his house. He died on the 15th of August, 1798, in the 64th 
 year of his age. We shall sum up this sketch of the life of Dn 
 Waring, with the concluding words of his work lost mentioned, 
 which contain a just and pleasing specimen of his genuine piety 
 and unfeigned humility. "Should it please Providence to 
 deprive me of the use of my faculties, may I submit with humble 
 resignation ! May 1 for the future lead a life better in practice, 
 and more fervent in devotion to the Supreme Being ; and may 
 God grant me his grace here, and pardon for my sins, when the 
 trumpet of the great Archangel shall summon me to life again, 
 and to judgment !" 
 
 P. 339. The Memoirs of Mr. Stillingfieet (here promised) havp 
 
 since been published by Mr. Archdeacon Coxe, under the title ot 
 
 "The Literary Life and Select Works of Benjamin Stillingfieet, 
 
 esq."in three handsomeoctavovolumesjillustrated \vith plates; and, 
 
 by the friendly perniission of the Editor, I am enabled to present. 
 
 the portrait of Mr. Stillingfleet to my Readers ; referring them. 
 
 for a rich treat, to the very excellent " Literary Life," which 
 
 forms an entire volume of Mr. Coxe's publication : fioin which, 
 
 however, I shall copy an appropriate inscription j)iac(Hi on 
 
 a monument in St. James's church by his great-nephew : 
 
 " Infrii sepultus jacet 
 
 Bf.njaminus Stillingfleet, 
 
 cui delectationem perpetuam attulere Scientiy, 
 
 et jucundius factae, quod omnibus studiis praefuit Keligio. 
 
 Ex avo eruditissimo Edvardo Stillingfleet, Vigorniae Episcojx), 
 
 Litterarum amorem, et fidei Christianae venerationem hausit. 
 
 Excessit 15 die Decem. A. D. 1771 ; natus annus Gi), 
 
 Exceilentissimi viii Proavimcuii sni menioria; hoc 
 
 marmor consecravit 
 
 Edvardus-Hawke Locker." 
 
 P. 351. '" Dr. Herring, Preacher at Lincoln's Inn (afl(>rwanls 
 Abp. of Canterbury), was generally admired for his excellent 
 7naiiner of preiiching in that Chapel ; wliich, by the wav, lu- inul 
 
 I'jiini-d
 
 720 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 learned from Bp. Fleetwood, whose domestic chaplain he had 
 been. One of his auditors, being; chaimed with his eloquence, 
 said of him to a friend, that he was a second Tillotson. Another 
 60on after said to the same gentleman, He is art Avian, He is aii 
 Arian. This latter auditor (\n ould ypii believe it ? on second 
 thoughts, why not the more easily believe itr) was the famous 
 Hutcheson, author of the ' Principia,* &c.^ See the different 
 turns of men's minds. The orte candid : the other rigid. The 
 one an humble hearer : the other a snarling controvertist. 
 In scirpo nodum qtneritans. 
 Flectere si nequeat snperos, Acheronta movehit. 
 
 "Etoughtold me, that, waiting upon his Grace about the time 
 tliat Dr. Ellis was promoted to the sec of St. David's, and (accord- 
 ing to his former freedom) objecting to that promotion, as de- 
 trimental to Liberty, &c. the Archbishop told him, that it was 
 judged adviseable, as the stick had been bent rather too far on 
 the side of liiberty, to give it now, in some proper measure, a 
 bent towards the contraiy side, &c. The King had also desired 
 the Metroj)olitan, that the evening of his days might not be dis- 
 quieted by Chiu'ch-affaii-s. And his Grace pi'omiscd to use his 
 best endeavours to make all things easy." Mr. Jones ofM'elwrjn.MS. 
 
 P. 351. Mr. Herring, brother to the Archbishop, died at Ken- 
 sington, April 6, 1774. 
 
 P. 35.5. Mr. Caslon was born at Cradlcy, a laige hamlet of 
 Hales-Owen (the whole town and borough of which are ia 
 Shropshire), about two miles distant from it, and situated in 
 Worcestershire, near Stourbridge. 
 
 P. 356. Mr. Caslon's fiist residence was in Vine-street 
 in the Minories, where one considerable branch of his employ- 
 ment was to make tools for the book-binders and for the 
 chasing of silver plate. Whilst he was engaged in this employ- 
 ment, the elder Mr. Bowyer accidentally saw in the shop of Mr. 
 Daniel Browne, bookseller, near Temi)le-Bar, the lettering of a 
 book xmcomnionly neat ; and inquiring who the artist was by 
 whom the letters were made, Mr. Caslon was introduced to his 
 acquaintance, and was taken by him to Mr. James's foimdciy in 
 Bartholomew Close. Caslon had never before that time seen any 
 part of the business ; and being asked by his friend if he thought' 
 he could undertake to cut types, he requested a single day to 
 consider the matter, and then replied he had no doubt but he 
 could. From this answer M)-. Bowyer lent him 2001. Mr. 
 Bettenhara lent the same sum, and Mr. W^atts lOOZ. ; and by that 
 assistance our ingenious artist applied himself assiduously to his 
 new pursuit, and was eminently successful. The three ])rinters 
 abovementioned were of course his constant customers. It 
 appears by Ged's " Narrative of his Sclu^nie for Block-printing," 
 that so early as 1730 " he had eclipsed his competitors in the 
 art of letter-founding ; but found more difficulty than he appre- 
 hended in an attempt to make plates for block-printing." In 
 the Universal Magazine for June ] 750, is a good view of Mr. 
 
 Caslon 's
 
 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 721 
 
 Caslon's work-shop in Chisvvell-street, with portraits of six of 
 his workmen *. Mr. Caslon was three times married. The name 
 of his second wife was Longman ; of the third. Waters j and with 
 eacli of these two ladies he had a good fortune. The abilities of 
 his son WiUiam appeared to great advantage in a specimen of 
 tyyjes of the learned languages in 1748. His younger son, 
 Mr. Thomas Caslon, was Master of the Stationers' Company in 
 1782; and died March 29, 17S3. 
 
 fil,lliam Ged, an ingenious artist, was a goldsmith in Edinburgh, 
 and made his inij)rovement in the art of printing in 1725. The in- 
 vention was simply this. Frcnn any types of Greek or Roman, or any 
 other character, he formed a plate for every page or sheet, of a 
 book, from which he prmted, instead of using a type for every 
 letter, as is done in the common way. This was first practised, 
 but on blocks (,'f wood, by the Chinese and Japonese, and 
 pursued in the first essays of Coster, Guttenberg, and Faust, the 
 European Inventors of the present art. " This improvement," says 
 Jameb Ged, is pi inci})ally considerable in three most important 
 articles; viz. " expence, correctness, beauty, and uniformity." 
 But these improvements were contro\eited by Mr. Mores and 
 others. In July 1729, William Ged entered into partnership with 
 WiUiam Fen)ier, a Londt)n Stationer, Vvho was to have half the pro- 
 fits, in consideration of his advancing all tlie money requisite. To 
 supply this, Mr. John James, then an Architect at Greenwich 
 (who built Sir Gregory Page's house, Bloomsbury Church, &c.) 
 was taken into the scheme ; and afterwards his brother f , Mr. 
 Thomas James, a Founder, and James Ged, the inventor's son. 
 In 1730 tliese partners apj)l)ed to the University of Cambridge 
 for printing Bibles and Common Prayer Books by blocks instead 
 of single types, and, in consequence, a lease was sealed to them 
 Ai)ril 23, 1731. In their attempt, they sunk a large sum of 
 money, and finished only two Pra3-er-books ; so that it was 
 forced to be relinquibhed, and the lease was given up in 1738. 
 Ged inij)utl his disappointment to the villainy of the press- 
 men anil the ill-treatment of his partners (which he specifies at 
 large), ])articularly Fenner, whom John James and he were 
 advi.srd to jjrosecute, but declined it. He returned to Scotland 
 in 1733, and had no redress. He there, however, set about 
 Sallust, which he printed at FZdinburgh in 173G, ]2mo. Fenner 
 <lie(i insolvent in or before the year 1735 ; and his ridow 
 married Mr. Waugh, an A])othecary, who carried on the print- 
 ing-business with her, and whom ':hf^ survived, ^ler printing 
 materials were .sold in 176'8. James (icd, wer .1 with dis- 
 a|)p()intments, engaged in the Rebellion oP 1745 as :i Caj)tain in 
 J^'rth's regiment; and, being taken at Cai lisle, was condemned, 
 but, on his fatiiers account, iiy Dr. Suiidi s interest with the 
 Duke of Xewcastle, waa pardoned, and released in 17 18. He 
 all "'rward^ workt^d for some time, as a journevnian, with Mr. 
 jBetteniiam, and then commenced master; but, being un.^uc'- 
 
 * Til'- figure niark:;<] 3. i.-; the jioniait of Juc'kmjii : and 4. Cuttrell, 
 t" or ticor^e Jauj, iUioUitr brutinT, stc mjI. 1. p. /..'. 
 
 Vol. II. .3 A ces.ful,
 
 722 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 cessful, lie went privately to Jamaica, where Lis younger brother 
 William was settlod as a lejnitable Printer. His tools, &c. he left 
 to be shipped by a false friend, who most ungenerously detained 
 them to try his skill himself. James Ged died the year after he 
 left England ; as did his brother in 170J. In the above pursuit 
 Mr. Thomas James, who died in 17^i8, expended much of his 
 fortune, <ind sutfered in his proper business ; " for the Printers," 
 says Mr. Mores, " would not employ him, beeause the block- 
 printing, had it succeeded, would have been prejudicial to 
 theirs." Mr. William Ged died, in very indifferent circum- 
 stances, Oct. 19, 1749, after his utensils were sent for Leith to be 
 shipped for London, to have joined with his son James as a 
 Printer there. Thus ended his life and project ; which, ingenious 
 as it seemed, must," says Mr. Mores, " had it succeeded, have 
 soon sunk under its own biuthen," for reasons needless here to 
 recapituUite. [See the " Biographical Memoirs of William Ged, 
 including a particular Account of his Progress in the Art of 
 Block-printing," publiahedby J. Nichols in 1781, 8vo.] It is but 
 justice, however, to add, that, since that period, the plan has 
 been revived, first by my friend Mr. Alexander Tilloch, the 
 learned Editor of " The Philosophical Magazine," who, without 
 having known of Ged's plan, obtained a patent for a similar in- 
 vention, which he afterwards relinquished. But the exertions 
 of Mr. Andrew Wilson have been more successful ; as he has been 
 able to accomplish several very considerable Stereotype Editions. 
 
 P. 358. Mr.Morant, in a letter to Dr. Ducarei, says, " The print- 
 ing of Domesday-book will be a noble Work. But there ought to 
 go along with it a good Life of William the Conqueror, which, 
 in my opinion, hath not been yet tolerably executed : the best 
 being the Collections of Brady and his opposite Tyrrell, and his 
 Life by dEudemare in French. Mr. John Booth, a member of 
 your Society, hath often examined the said Domesday, and 
 sent curious accounts of it. What you are also doing about the 
 Anglo-Gallic Coins, and what yoiu- Society intend to publish 
 about the other Coins, will be both very curious and useful. 
 You have had aveiy great pleasure this winter, wliich I could not 
 enjoy at this distance ; and that is the sight of Dr. Mead's and 
 Mrs. Kennon's invakiabk Collections, Even the Catalogue of 
 the Doctor's gives me here no small satisfaction." 
 
 P. 261, note, 1. 3. for hurry read languor. 
 
 P. 358. note, 1. 42, r. " Censualis" and " inter Archivos Regni." 
 
 P. 370, note, 1. 10. Janitor.'] " This nmst mean I sher, Huissier, 
 Ostiarius, L'nder-mastcr 3 who sits by the door at tlie lower end of 
 the room, iia the head-master doth at the upjier end. Would a 
 Porter be qualified, or would a Scotch University behave so im- 
 properly to a Sc(jlch nobI"man r" T. F. 
 
 P. 374. Mr. Reed, in his Preface to Dodsley's " Select Col- 
 lection of Old Plays," thus speaks of the original Editor : "The 
 first edition of the present volumes was one of the many excellent 
 plans produced by the late Mr. Robert Dodsky ; a man to whom 
 Literature is under so many obligations, that it vaouIcI be un- 
 pardonable to neglect this opportunity of infonuing iliose who 
 
 iViUy
 
 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 723 
 
 may have received any pleasure from the work /that they owe it 
 to a person whose merit and abilities raised him from an ob.-cure si- 
 tuation in Ufe to affluence and independence. Modest, sensible, 
 and humane, he retained the virtues which first brought him into 
 notice, after he had obtained wealth sufficient to satisfy every 
 wish which could arise from the possession of it. He was a 
 generous friend, an encourag-er of men of genius ; and acquired 
 the esteem and res)>ect of all who were acquainted with him. IL 
 was his happiness to jiass the greater part of his life with those 
 whose names will be revered by posterity ; by most of whom he 
 was loved as much for the viitues of \\\i heart, as he was admired 
 on account of his excellent writings. After a life spent in the 
 exercise of eveiy social duty, he fell a martyr to the gout, at the 
 house of a friend, in the year 17(J4, when he had nearly arrived 
 at the age of 6"! 3'ears." He was buried in tlie Abbey church- 
 yai'd at Durham, where his toinb is thus inscribed j 
 "If you have any respect 
 for uncommon Industry and Merit, 
 regard this place, 
 in which are deposited the Remains of 
 
 Mr. Robert Dodsley : 
 
 who, as an Author, raised himself 
 
 ^uch above what could have been expectecj 
 
 from one in his rank of life, 
 
 and without a learned education ; 
 
 and who, as a Man, was scarce 
 
 exceeded by any in Integrity of Heart, 
 
 and Purity of Manners and Convei-sation. 
 
 He left this'life for a better, Sept. "25, 1764 
 
 in the (jlst yeai- of his age." 
 
 For further particulars of \\\\ Robert Dodsley, see the Life 
 
 of him pi<!lixed bv Mr. A. Cliahuers to his Poems, in the late 
 
 complete Collection of the Knglish I'octs, in '21 volumes, 1810. 
 
 P. 377. On tlie North wall of the chancel of BvHect church, a 
 white marble tablet is thus inbcribed : "To the memory of 
 Joseph Spence, M. A. Regius Professor of Modern Histoiy in tha 
 University of Oxford, PrelKiidai-y of Durham, and Rector of 
 Great Horwood, Buck-; in whom learning, genius, and shining 
 talents, teu)pered with judgment, and .'oftened by the most 
 exqui>ite sweetness of manneis, were greatly excelled by those 
 truly Christian irraces, Humanity evi'r ready to assist the dis- 
 tre-sed, constant and extensive Charity to the jioor, and un- 
 bounded Benevolence to all. He died Augur^t '20th, \'Hi'6, in the 
 70th year of his age. 
 
 P. ?'i'A. Dr. John Chibhe'i medical iiecpiirements had deser\edly 
 obtained for him the highest e^t(>em ol' the publick, and his moral 
 and social character the ati'ectio.i oi' a large ciicle of acquaintance. 
 Jle (li<:d at Ipswich, in .June IMl, in ;ii- 71>t year. 
 
 P. 371)." Dr. F^ancaster \\a- tin- autiior of a vi ly elegant " Kisay 
 on Dclicac\," printed in D<"i-le\'s Collection of l^roie Piece>, in 
 two volumes r2mo. He "-u-. in a MS letter to the Rev. ])r. 
 Chiu'lett, "1 never heard l-^nv'i-'i i'liuters hlanial so much for 
 
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 724 tlTEAARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 any thing, as for their paper s being too white, I have found bf 
 exi)erience, that eyes are very good things ; and yet I will not 
 say that 1 found it out first ; for they say old Friar Bacon knew 
 it, and even some Antedihivians hvcd k)ng enough to discover it. 
 Now brown ])aper preserves the eye better than white ; and for 
 that reason the wise Chinese write on brown. So the /Egyptians, 
 so Aldus and Stephens printed, and on such paper (xr velluni are 
 ohl MSS, written : and when authors and readers agree to be 
 wiser, we shall avoid printing on a glaring white paper. The 
 completest specimen of excellent Typography, in every respect^ 
 is the Louvre Thomas a Kempis, folio," 
 
 P. 379. "John Hill, M.D. an extraordinary genius, son to a cler- 
 gyman in \\'ales, bound apprentice to an apothecary in Westmin- 
 ster ; but when out of his time, not having sedateness enough 
 for that business, he tried his abilities ou the Stage, in the 
 character of the Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, and in the 
 Ghost in Hamlet. But, not succeeding ou the Stage, he 
 em])loyed himself in collecting IIoTtl Sicci, or dried plants, 
 for gentlemen ; and afterwards turned Author, He wrote, 
 and for a long time continued, a News-paper called the 
 Inspector, which was well received, till his own vanity pro- 
 claimed the Author J then he got into personal disputes, and 
 ruined the paper. A very skilful Botanist ; and has written 3 vols, 
 fol. of Natural History of Animals, Plants, and Fossils, well 
 received. He was forbid Chelsea garden for making too free 
 with it. He published a System of Husbandry, comj)iled from 
 others, and a System of Gardening, both in folio. A Naval 
 History, not esteemed. A Gardener s Calendar, 8\ o. Several 
 books vinder fictitious names; as. Travels to the East, '2 vols. Svo, 
 Conduct of a married State, by Lady Juliana Seymour, &c. 
 Pamj)hlets, many on subjects for and against Canning, 8iv. 
 Novels, serious some sensible, some otherwise. A Proteus in 
 his publications: not very commendable in his moral conduct. 
 Against Lord Bolingbroke in 4to. Lucina sine concubitu trash. 
 Economy of human Life, second part, sensible and well-written. 
 He is of all men I ever knew so mixed a character, none but 
 himself can be his parallel " alieni appetens, sui profusus" 
 in a chariot one month, in jail the next for debt ; but the virtues 
 of Sage, Honey, Valerian, and Bardana, made into essences, 
 may now keep up the four wheels." Mr. J. H'histun, MS. 
 
 P, 380. Mr. James White, who was afterwards an eminent 
 schoolmaster at Dublin, died within these few months. 
 
 P. 390. Charles Daubuz, a learned and worthy French Divine, 
 was born about 1070, and died about 1740. He came 
 over here, when the Edict of Nantes was re\'oked, and 
 had some preferment given hhn, was well esteemed, and 
 wrote " Pro Testimonio Joseph! de Jesu Christo, contra Tan. 
 Fabrum et alios. London, I70O." Svo. He published also a 
 " Commentary on the Revelation of St. John," in folio, 1712. 
 His son was a clergyman, beneficed in Yorkshire, near Ferry- 
 bridge. A studious man, and who lived in an obscurity he chose, 
 and died about 1752^ 1 tliiukj a bachelor, Mr, Duubuz, aji 
 
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 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 725 
 
 eminent Merchant in London, is descended from the first 
 of these, Mr. J. Whiston, MS. 
 
 P. 398, The full title of Mr. Stackhouse's publication was, 
 f' \ New History of the Bible, from the Be^nning of the 
 World, to the Establishment of Christianity : with Answers to 
 most of the controverted Questions j Dissertations upon the most 
 remarkable Passa2:es ; and a Connexion of pr )phane History, alJ 
 along. To which are added, Notes explaining difficult Texts, 
 rectifying Mistranslations, and reconciling seeming Contra- 
 dictions. By Thomas Stackhouse, A. M. Vicar of Beenham in 
 Berkshire, Author of ' The complete Body of Divinity, &c.* 
 It was announced by the following circular Letter ; 
 
 "Sir, I have at length quite finished my History of the Holy 
 Bible : a Work that has cost me an infinite deal of pains and 
 application to write, and no small expence of money to print ; 
 but this I have for my comfort, and in some measure the 
 reward of my labour, that it has been received with the ap- 
 probation and encouragement of many learned and eminent 
 personages both in Church and State ; and, if jt finds the same 
 kind reception with you (whose judgment in compositions of 
 this kind I have frequently experienced). Id ego me Palmarium 
 ducam, shall think myself still more happy and still more 
 obliged to be. Sir, Your most devoted servant, T. Stackhouse. 
 
 N. B. The Work here mentioned is sold at Mr. Austen's 
 at the Angel and Bible in St. Paul's Church-yard, London, 
 and by most other Booksellers." 
 
 Mr. Stackhouse published, in October 1725, "A new Transla-f 
 tlon of Drelincourt's Consolations againyt the Fear of Death; 
 done from the last Edition of the Fiench Original, with many 
 Improvements throughout ; the Translation akeady extant being 
 ii very mean and defective Performance." 
 
 P. 404. Mr. Abraham Portal was the sn of the Rev. William 
 Portal, rector of South Fambridge, Essex, 1734, vicar of St. 
 Helen, Abingdon, 1757; who died >ej)t 13, 17G8. Mr. Abraham 
 Portal, it is believed, was the autiior of "A Letter to David Gar- 
 rick, esq. occasioned bv the intended representation of The 
 Minor at the Theatre Roval in Drury Lane, 1/60,' 8vo ; a 
 pamphlet of 48 pages, to which the initials A. P- are affixed. 
 He married Miss Bedwell of Ai)ing(lon, June 19, 1758 ; and was 
 Bometime a silversmith on Liidgate-hill, in partnership with Mr. 
 H. Gearing, where they lUiled in 1770. 
 
 P. 433. Dr. Ovven^ widow (daughtiT of Dr. Butts, Bishop 
 of Ely,) died at Bromley C'i)llei;e, June 18, 1801. 
 
 P. 435, note, 1. 1:!. r. " 17S<i " 
 
 P.454. "Anthony Kiiv>. a \ejy sensible and ingenious gen- 
 tleman, succeeded Dr. I n vor in the Bi^lioprick of St. David's, 
 where he did his duiv in an exemplary manner. He was 
 an acute reasoner, an atllcling preaelKr, and a good man. About 
 lT3f* he |iubli.~h<"l " A Plea for ihe Sairainental Test," in 4to, 
 when ihe Dissenters petilioncd to have it taken olK He was of 
 ^.n amiable tenijier, but thought the lilcelesiastie il Goveinnient 
 oust besuppoj ttd bv the Civil. I'owcr," Mr. J. li h.oiton, MS. 
 
 V
 
 72(J LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 P. 459. Monsieur Rene I. a Butte, who taught the Vtenth 
 language in the University of Cambridge moi'e than 40 
 years, was introduced tiiere by Dr. Conyers MUldleton; and 
 acquired much credit by publisliing a French Grammar, 
 with an analysis relative to that subject. He was a na- 
 tive of Angers, in Anjou, and brought up a Printer, in. 
 which he excelled. On leaving Fiance, he worked in several 
 respectable Printing-offices in London, particidarly with the 
 late Mr. Bowycr, and solely composed that vahiable work of 
 Gardiner's, " Tables of Logarithms." He went to Cambridge 
 with the well-known Robert Walker (of FIcet-lane, or Old 
 Bai'ey) and Thomas James, Printers, when tliey first set up 
 printing a weekly news-paper in that town ; and, to establish 
 the sale of it, they printed, in octavo. Lord Clarendon's 
 " History of the Great Rebellion," and Bc)yeis " History of 
 Queen Anne," with neat cuts, &c. which they gave gratis, a 
 iheet a week, in the news-pajiers they distribtited. M. La 
 Butte married Mrs. Mary Gro^e.s, uf Cambridge j and was 
 possesseil of a very c'ood estate near Ely, and of money in the 
 funds, all obtained by his great intlustiy and cai'e. He died at 
 his house in All Saints' Churchyard, April 13, 1*90, at the age of 78. 
 He left the greater part of his fuitime to Iu.t wife ; and at 
 the time of his death he had a nephew and niece in France. 
 . P. 471. The Rev. Samuel Cane was son of Thomas Carte, 
 clothier of Coventry, where he was born Oct, 21, lCo2 ; and 
 instructed in grammar-learning in the free-school there j became 
 a member of Magdalen College, Oxford., in 1(>G9 j and was 
 jnatrictdared at the same time into the University, where he 
 took the degrees in arts, that of B. A. IG72 ; M, A. 1675, In 
 the Oxford Catalogue of Graduates, liis name is sjielt Chart, 
 though in the matrieulus it is spelt right. He received deacon'a 
 orders from the bishop of Liclilield and Coventry, at Eccleshall, 
 iSeptember 2 1 , lfi73 ; ])riest's from the bishop of London, at 
 6t James's Chapel, June 10, 1677} was collated by the bishop 
 of Lichfield and Coventry to the prebend of Tachbrook in the 
 Cathedral Chmxh of Lichfield, into which he was installed 
 September 30, lG8'2j presented by Sir John Bridgeman, of 
 Castle Bromwich, to the vicarage of Clifton upon Dunmore, to 
 which he was instituted March 26", 16S4, and inducted Mai-ch 
 28, where he lived till 1691 ; \s\\tr\, for tlie better education of 
 his children, he became Ma.'ter of the fi-ee-sehool at Coventry j 
 collated by the bishop of Licldield and Co^ entry to the viciirage 
 of Dunchurch, in the county of Warwick, Jul) 2, 1 ;97> 
 inducted Juh 30 ; presented by the Lord Chancellor to the 
 rectorv' of Eastwell, in the comity of Leicester, instituted Jan. 
 7, and inducted Jan. 21, ] 698-95 and in the beginning of 
 1700 he was presented by the Lord Chancellor to the vicarage 
 of St. Martin's in Leicester, which depending on v(;luiitary 
 contributions, he held it without institution tilfthe vear 1712, 
 when a person surreptitiously obtained from the Lord Chancellor 
 a presentation to it 3 but bemg deterred by the aliections of tiie 
 
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 ADDITIONS AND CORRECtlONS. 727 
 
 pafishloners from prosecuting it, Mr. Carte was again presented 
 to it, instituted Nov. 21, and inducted Nov. 28, 1712. Tliia 
 latter living Dr. Kippis (in the Biograjjhia Britannica) er- 
 roneously supposes that he resigned on tjie accession of King 
 George the First, as he is suppose<l to have as.=isted the celebrated 
 Jeremiah Collier, in preaching to a Nonjuring congregation in 
 Broad-street, J^ndon. It was not, houe\'er, tlie vicar of St. 
 Martin's, but his son Mr. Thonia.s Carte, the Historian, who 
 was the occasional assistant to Mr. Collier. The titles of his 
 sermons ai'e, 1. "A Dissuasive from Murmuring, London, 
 1694," 4t0 5 2. "The Cure of Self-conceit, London, 170.5," 
 4to. His "Tabula Chronologica, &c." was reprinted in Lord 
 Somers's Tracts, first collection, vol, IV. p. 344. 
 
 P. 471, note, 1. 14. read second volume of "Abbeys.'* 
 
 P. 472, 1..7. r. " Humphrey Wanlcy. ' 
 
 P. 509, note 'I refers to " Pioposal" in next page. 
 
 P. 514. In Gutch's "Collectanea Cuiiosa," vol, II. p. 76, Is 
 printed, " An Introduction to tlie History and Antiquities of the 
 antient County Palatine and Bisho])rick of Durham, and other 
 places in the Northern Parts," from a MS. in the Bodleian 
 Libraiy corrected throughout by Mr. lliomas Carte. Tliis is 
 'mentioned in the Appendix to ^IacJ)herson'6 Pa{)ers. 
 
 P. 519. The two following letters, one fiom Simon Ockley, 
 the other from bis widow, to the Earl of Oxford, are copied from 
 the originals in the British Museum. 
 
 " My Lord, Sivavesetj, Aprils, 1716. 
 
 " I have sent the three Hebrew lettei's I promised The first I re- 
 ceived from Rabbi Joseph Abendanim (the honest Jew I mention- 
 ed) in the year 16'99. The other two were sent me, since I came 
 to this place, by a rambling old fellow that travelled in several 
 countries, and seemed to have learned villainies of all. 
 
 "lam, &e. Simon Ockley." 
 
 " My Lord, Sn-avesay, October -i, 1720. 
 
 "It is a great concern to tliink that I must t)()uble vourLord- 
 hip with so melancholy ft subject ; but, relying upon yovu" Lord- 
 siiip's clemency, do liumbly beg pardon foi' thi.~ attt nipt, in laying 
 before you the deplorable state of my aftaij-H, m Inch at I'resent I 
 lal)our under by the decease of the Piofossor ; hi- debts beiui^ 
 beyond vvliat his eil'ects will amount to; and the sevcritv of his 
 creilitors is such, that the executoi' is tiot aliowed a leasonablc 
 time to make the best of his assets, Init li:id vc-ieiclay an intiiia- 
 tion read 'n\ tlie <"linrch, with the allowance of hut uiie WiH-k to 
 conx! in; by wiiich means I arn dtsvitnt( i;!^' necei-:,; it -, uu:. :ii,; 
 rendered incapable of a^-l>ting niv ehiichcn. 'Iiii> I oil', i i! 
 youi I/Jidship's con^ideralioj), hunilnv re(jU(stir:g voui ciju ii.iiae 
 assistance to the fatherless and widcw, V\ iih iiunihle i\ui\ ^ud 
 ervlee to my l.ady, 1 ren\ain, in all obedience, 
 Vovu' LorfKhip's un{ dutiful ()!)edie\it ^i. i vaat, M.\r;'i ii ^ (^ ;;i rv." 
 
 The duughti'r of jn'ofes^Jor Oekley died al Dioii.'ieid., lu.ar 
 JVi'ewark, in March 179H, at the age of 95. At (he monu nt of 
 this thect's passing through the prcs;~, my I'liend Mr. I) 1 liuli 
 
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 725 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 has ptiblislicd two excellent volumes on the "Calamities of 
 Axithors," in one Chapter of which, under the title of "The 
 Rewards of Oriental Literature," the talents, the simplicity, 
 and the misfortunes of Simon Ockley are admirably delineated. 
 In Mr Ellis's History of Shoreditch, pp. '341, 359, amongst 
 other curious particulars of Mr. Arthur Bedford (of whom see 
 vol. I. pp. 1/1, 7()4. ) is a letter from Mr. Bedford to Dr. Charlett, on 
 the establisluuent of a Saxon Professorship at Oxfoi-d, 
 
 P. 541. " Mr. Fielding's remark (see before, p. 170) on Dr. 
 Grev's HudibrHS might equally apply to the Writers necessary to 
 illustrate William Shaks{)care. There is, however, more wit 
 than ti'uth in the observation. Half Dr. Mead's books may be 
 supposed to be Plrv?ical, and the rest Antient Classics. What 
 were these to Presbyterians and Independents ? Besides, probably, 
 Taliacotiiis was there. It is a fact too, though not generally 
 known, that ')r. Mead parted with several of his Books a short 
 time before his death." T F. 
 
 P. .549. The Kev. VV illiani C ole of Ely was rector of Aldburgh ia 
 Norfolk J and died Jan. 10, 1793. He was buried in St. Mary's 
 chapel in the Cathedral at Ely ; wliere a mural monument is thus 
 inscribed : 
 
 "M. S. Mary Cole, 
 
 late wife of the Rev. William Cole, inhabitant of this City, 
 
 She was eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Zachciry Grey, LL. D. 
 
 late rector of liougliton (onquest, Bedfordshire. 
 
 She died Aiigust 27, 1T87, anno aitat. 65 j 
 
 being strictly, during the course of her life, 
 
 a follower of God, and friend of human kind. 
 
 In the same grave are interred the remains 
 
 of the above Rev. U illiam Cole, B. D. 
 
 rector of Aldburgh, in the county of Norfolk ; 
 
 who died Jan. 10, 1793, a; tat. 71. Ilesurgant," 
 
 V. ZT). "Dr. Jortin, being consulted concerning the question 
 
 on the intermediate State, rejijied. that he thought it a question 
 
 of no importance ; that', for himself, he diifered from Law, whom 
 
 he had found, in this and many other contro^ erted points, incon- 
 
 vincibly attached to his own opinion-." R. G. 
 
 P. 57S. 1. 7. Of the three daughters of Sir William Novell, Cle- 
 menee the eldest married Alexander Stuart, esq. son and heir ap^^ 
 parent of Sir Nicholas Stuart, iiart, and father of Sir Simeon 
 Stuart, second baronet ; anoilier to Dr. Wake, Archbit>iio}) of 
 Cantej bury. Hilhngton Hall is liow tlie ?eat and residence of the 
 Baronet Family of Folke-,, dcbCended from the President's 
 brother W iliiam i-olkes, ts(j. 
 
 P. 601, noie, 1. 28. r. " Mor/ey." 
 
 P. 611.1. 7- The second note want< the mark of reference f, 
 P. 617- The fourth Aokune of MooKe's "Roman History" 
 was publisheil in 1771 (it is believed) by Dr. Gilbert Stuait. 
 
 Ibid. A tablet to the uiemoi-y of Mr. Hooke has lately been put 
 up in the churchyard of Hedsor, Bucks, at the expeuce of Lord 
 Buolon, with the following inscription : 
 
 " Sub
 
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 ** Sub hoc tumulo corpus deponi jussit Nathaniel Hooke, armit^er, 
 
 qui mtiltiplici literarmn varietate et studio eruditus, 
 
 Romanae Historiae auctor celebratus emicuit ; 
 
 Ie literis vero quantum meruit edita usque testaburitur opeia. 
 
 Ex vit&. demigravit, annorum plenus et veie pius, 
 
 vicesimo secundo die Julii Anno Domini 17()3. 
 
 Ad cineres patris sui paiiter requiescit corpus 
 
 liliaj dilectissiinae Janae Maiiffi Hooke, 
 
 cujus anima? i)ropitietur Deus. 
 
 Sexagenaria obiit vicesimo octavo die Aprill<!, 
 
 Anno Domini 1793. Hoc pietatis signum poni voluit 
 
 Fredericus Baro de Bosron, 1801." 
 
 ^^* Robert Sanders (a self-created LL D.) was a characteC 
 
 of too great notoriety in the Litei aiy Annals of the Eighteenth 
 
 Century to be passed over wholly unnoticed. 
 
 During the long intercourse which Dr. SaJiders had with the 
 fiist Lord Lyttelton, as Corrector of the Press for his " History of 
 England," I had frequent opportimities of seeing him, and of 
 knowing the truth of many of the particulars contained inth, fol- 
 lowing account^ which was written in 1783 by Mr. Henry 
 Lemoine. 
 
 " Though the trump of fame is loud, it is seldom heard in 
 praise of modest merit. Fortune seems to have turned her face 
 from him of whom I am now to give an account, and to delight 
 in her capricious humours, to disappoint his fairest hopes. The 
 aubjects in which he was frequently engaged have for\\arded 
 many a less deserving author on the road to fame and opulence ; 
 but his name is hastening to oblivion, unless rescued by jour 
 means, that the publick may know to whom they are indebted for 
 many elaborate works. H. J.emoink. 
 
 " Robert Sandeis was born in Scotland, in or near Ikeadalbanc, 
 about 1727. At what time he came to London fust, is uncertain. 
 He had received a good education; and, with some talents, and a 
 prodigious memory, after serving an apj)renticeship to a couib- 
 maker, he followed the profession of a backney writei-. \Vbat 
 were the hrst books he assisted in comjjiling, 01 the iirst he com- 
 piled himself, I cannot pretend to sa) ; but what things J know 
 I shall set down as they occur to menioiy. My acijualntunce 
 with him enables me to inform the ])ubli(k of llu' followii^g [;ar- 
 ticulars. He had tnivellcd over the principal ])arts (pai ticuiaily 
 the Northern) of these kingdoms ; and from lii^ own actual 
 survey and tiie irdonnalion of books, he couijiilcd an lliuciuiy, 
 whicli was published in weekly nundxTs, imder the title of ' The 
 Complete English Traveller, b\ iSlv. Spincir,' on the j)lan of tin; 
 'English \V(jvthies ;' for, after u topographical and l.istoticul 
 description (jf each C(juaty, I\lr. ^^andeis a(idt<l iiiographicat 
 memoirs of the mo.-jt eminent men vsho had llouiislic ;1 in liicm. 
 It has been since re-printed b\ tlie original laibli^her, under thii 
 sanction of several authors' names, as a l]nrluiiit(in lor Enghuid^ 
 a Murray for Scotland, and a J.lcn'Aliju fov ^\ ales. 
 
 " Fasjinj; over u number of trivial pubiicutions^ I lui-tcn to 
 
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 730 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 mention his connexion with Lord Lyttelton, who employed him 
 to correct the press for thetliird etUtion of his History of King 
 Henry II. after Andrew Reid had decHned his Lordship's service; 
 and Dr. Johnson has mentioned him in that character in the life 
 of that poetical nobleman. ' AVhen time,' says he, ' bvou2:ht the 
 HistorT to a third edition, Rcid was either dead or dibcarded j and 
 the superintendance of t3p()graphy and punctuation was com- 
 mitted to a man originally a comb-maker, but then known by 
 the style of Doctor Sanders.' 
 
 *' He was also the author of a well-known work, intituled 
 
 * Gafler Greybeard J ' a satirical novel, in which he \ery ilUberally 
 abuses the chiefs of the Dissenting Ministry. He had perhaps 
 been hurt by some of that persuasion, and therefore endeavoured 
 to revenge liimself on the whole. What were his realsons for 
 abusing Dr. Gill, under the a])penation of Dr, Half Pint, and 
 Dr. Gibbons, of Hoxton-square, under that of Dr. Hymn-rnaker, 
 I know not ; but he has certainly hit off some of the charactei-g 
 of the over-righteous, and theii- crafty pr(jccedings, with tole- 
 rable humour. He is also blameable for imputing certain crimes 
 to certain persons, upon too slight grounds. About the year 
 1/64 he compiled a work intituled ' The Newgate Calendar, or 
 Malefactor's Bloody Register,' which came out in numbers, and 
 makes five volumes in 8vo. It is a collection of the lives of some 
 of the most notorious of th()se unfortunate culprits who fell a 
 sacrifice to the injured laws of their country, and made their 
 igTiominious exit at the gallows. He executed several other works 
 of Ifcss importance for 'the Booksellers, as ' Letter-writers,' 
 
 * Histories of England,' in folio and ([uarto, under \arious names; 
 but his principal work was the notes he w rote for the Bible, wlach 
 was published, 1773, undei- the name of Dr. Henry Southwell*. 
 This was no fictitious name, but the real name of a Clergyman, 
 who received a conr-itlciable gratuity (I befieve a hundred gui- 
 neas) for the liberty of using it, while the \viiler of the notes 
 was paid the poor pittance of twenty-fi\e or twenty-six shillings 
 a sheet : such was the ditference between the real and the re- 
 puted author. I do not find that he was afterwards engaged in 
 any considerable ur.derlaking either ibr himself or others ; but 
 he continued to drag a })ainful existence, under the incurable 
 complaint of an asthma, for some time before liis death, which 
 happened March '24, 17^.'.. A little before this, he hud projected 
 
 * A General Chronology of all Nations,' and had already printed 
 off some sheets, under the p.itronage of Lord Ihnvke, to wiioiu 
 it is dedicated. He received sDine ['ccuniary assistance also from 
 
 *"Dr. Ilrnrv Southwell v/as of .i good fnniily in Cambridg^esliire, 
 was educatid at M:igil..leii tolkio, :>. A. 17.")-; M. A. ITo'j; LL. ]>. 
 1763; and h,id the reciory c.f AMtM-'ny, Liii>'ol:'shiie ; but no one 
 that knew bini ever suspected ';ini of \\!it;nij ;i iiouk." He died in Sap- 
 tenilier 1T7.J. J. U. t)t ])r. ^onti.vs. D's HiClf ;<c v(d. HI. p. 760. 
 
 t " The name of J)r. llalf-piiit given to ])r. tdU, wa'^ meant as a pi;i! on 
 his name. (Dr. Johnson defines a giil to be a litpiid measure, eoi;- 
 tainin-jonly the fourth part of a pint.) The epithet of Dr. Hymn-aia!.er 
 was also aj^pHed to Dr. Gibbous for his poetry which will never rank vNith 
 Dr. Watts's." K. G. 
 
 Mr.
 
 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 73 1 
 
 Mr. Granville Sharpe, a gentleman well known to the publick by 
 his ingenious writings in defence of Civil and Religious Liberty." 
 To the foregoing particulars I shall add a brief history of Dr. 
 Sanders, conununicated by himself, Dec. 20, 1768, in a letter to 
 my late worthy friend, the Rev. John Buncombe. 
 
 '*' My pai-ents lived in reputable circumstances, and by them I 
 was designed for a life of trade. It is a just observation I have 
 eomevvhere read, that ' Nature often forms some of her works 
 only for one employment,' and this was the case with me. 
 From my early youth I contracted the most ardent passion for 
 reading and study, nor was it in the power of art ever to suppress 
 it. It would have been the delight of some parents to have cul- 
 tivated a mind so disposed ; but mine thought otherwise, by 
 doing e\ery thing in their power to depress it. Howevei-, during 
 seven years of an apprenticeship, I sat up the gieatest pai't of the 
 nights, and by mere industiy, with the help of books, without 
 a nia.-tei', acquired some knowledge of Latin, Greek, and He- 
 brew, with some part* of the Mathematicks, but my favourite 
 study was History. After perusing the best Greek and Roman 
 Classics, I turned my thoughts to studying the history of 
 those nations which took their rise from the ruins of the Roxnan 
 Empire, particularly Great Britain. It was partly owing to my 
 knowledge in that sort of study that I was employed as the Edi- 
 tor of Lord Lyttelton's History ; my reading being somewhat 
 extensive in the Feudal Law. During the time that work was 
 in the press, I was paid a weekly subsistence, which supported 
 myself, a wife, and five young childi'en, but nothing over ; so 
 that, when the work was finished, I found myself entirely desti- 
 tute of eveiy comfort of life, except a general proufise of being 
 provided for when his Lordslnp should have it in his jjower. It 
 was now that I began to look out for some way of pro^ iding for 
 my little fumilvj and, after some months spent iix>fruitless en- 
 quiry, a hai)py opportunity hath occurred, whereby 1 could 
 easily gain alj<Hit two guineas a week, and enjoy tbe comforts of 
 life, without being b\ufhensome to any person whatever; but, 
 like a i)Ooi' shipwjeckcd njariner, am eveii like to lofe'c that great 
 benefit within siglit of the haibourj it being impossible for me 
 to get e.-,tabli.-.iied in it without the sum of about tweh.o poimds, 
 which 1 have no possibility of raising. During these islx weeks 
 past I lune not la-led one whole meal of victuals at a time, and 
 fcomctimes uith my poor wife fasted whole days in (Jidcr t u >})are a 
 littk: for oui- ehildien. Had his late Grace of ('ar.terl)urv * been 
 ali\e, 1 would luue had the above sum on the iirst notice', as he 
 u->ed privately every veai" (o send me snmetliing unasked fer. 
 " Jh'u/,-l(Uic, ricdi- OUl-.slrcct 'J'itrii/)i/,i:. ]{oi;i:i:t S.\NnKKs." 
 
 'ilie aljove statement was coujiiiiiuieated by Mr. Duncon.'be to 
 the \(.l)le \uthor, by whom it wa.i tlius ecmdesceudingly ncit I'ced: 
 " 'ii', My jioor l]r(jtliei"s j deatli pre\('ule(l my answering- the 
 favour :;[' y(i\ii' l<tt(f SO soon as I ^hoidd havedone ; and \oii u ill, 
 lain eonlideiit, (xi use the delay on that account. The mua 
 
 * ArchLiihoi- backer. f JJr. Cliadcb LytttltoH, Bji. of ( arlislr. 
 
 wiio-it
 
 732 * LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 whose character you desire to know was employed by me as cor* 
 rector of the press, and more than paid for liis trouble ; but I 
 never gave him any promise (as he intimates to you) of providing 
 for him hereafter. Mr. Sandby, my Bookseller, and u very ho- 
 nest man, finding he did his business well, recommended him to 
 the Trade, for further employment in the same way ; and lie might 
 have procured by it a comfortable subsistence for himself and his 
 family, if he had not (as Sandby tells me) behaved so dishonestly 
 as to deprive himself of it, and forfeit his friendship. This, Sir, 
 is all I know about him ; and though 1 am soiTy to hinder him 
 from profiting by your goodness, yet I cannot recommend him 
 to you as a tit object of bounty oi" charity any otherwise than 
 merely on account of his poverty, in the distress of which his in- 
 nocent family share. I am, &c. Lyttelton." 
 
 Vol. I. p. 694. Add the following Letter to the Rev. W. Cole : 
 " Dear Sir, June 6, 1780, 
 
 " I am much obliged for your ready acquiescence in my wish 
 to be possessed of your Corpus Christi College MS. 1 do not 
 mean to huriy you, but yovu' Corrections to ' British Topography* 
 may come at the same time j and Mr. Essex will add to the 
 packet. Allow me to expostulate with you for witiiholding 
 from the world those valuable Collections of which you only permit 
 me to call you the possessor. Can you justify detaining sub arcto 
 vinculo your Cambridgeshire and Buckinghamshire papers, when 
 there is still so much encouragement to Antiquity, and your pa- 
 pers are so well arranged, and want so little modelling ? 1 have at 
 present undertaken to assist our brother Nash in pubHshing his 
 Worcestershire Collections. Abingdon's are hi? groundwork, on 
 which he builds a later superstructure. The pursuit is new to the 
 Editor J but he spares no expence of original records and plates, and 
 adopts the modest title of Parochial Collections. One volume is 
 nearly printed off. 1 was witness last Friday to a fury of a ilififerent 
 kind from electioneering. Fromthe windows of Alice's coffee-house, 
 I saw Lord George Gordon's paitizans pour into Old Palace-yard 
 like a tide. No violence j but an amazing crowd, most of them in 
 their best cloaths, with nmsic and flags, and if there was anything 
 pleasurable in such a matter, it was to hear an uniform elevation 
 of voices thrice repeated in their cheers after halting. Sorry I am 
 to hear what follows, both within and without the Parliament 
 House, and the excesses of the mob at night. We can only la- 
 ment that we live at the ends of the age of British Glory and 
 Good-sense. Our duty as Antiquaries is, to j)re])are for the worst, 
 andtreasm'e up all we can come at, befoie popidai- Ilage, heightened 
 by Faction, anticipates Time in his ravages 1 wish our fiiend Es- 
 sex would feel a little of this reasoning, and get his Gothic Ar- 
 chitecture engmved. We have lost one good associate, and 
 we are all of us but men. I am, &c. R, GouGii.". 
 
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