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 WILLIAM DAVIS. 
 
 A NEW EDITION, 
 With considerable Additions. 
 
 As 'tis a greater mystery in the Art 
 Of Painting to foreshorten any part 
 Than draw it out, so 'tis in Books the chief 
 Of all perfections to be plain and brief. 
 Bvtler. 
 
 LONDON: 
 PRINTED FOR W. DAVIS, BOOKSELLER, 
 
 At the Bedford Library, 
 Southampton Row, Russell Square. 
 
 1817. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 " If a man mutt wait till he can weave anecdotes int* 
 a system, we may be long in getting them, and get but 
 fen, in comparison of what we might get.' 1 
 
 DR. JOHNSON. 
 
 As it is the province of a good housewife to cater 
 according to the known tastes of the different guests 
 she expects at her Partner's table, so should it be the 
 aim of a judicious Compiler to select such materials as 
 will be most interesting to the majority of that class of 
 readers for whom his work is intended, or into whose 
 hands it is likeliest to fall ; these materials, when 
 selected, he may mould into what shape or form his 
 inclination or capacity may dictate or allow The 
 injudicious collector of Anecdotes, makes use promis- 
 cuously of any thing that falls in his way The Man of 
 Literary ability generally renders his materials subser- 
 vient to some particular object; but in doing this, is 
 often obliged, either to depart from the strict line of 
 his plan, by admitting circumstances which are not in 
 strict conformity with it, or to do violence to his own 
 inclination by omitting them entirely. The Author has 
 
 741 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 endeavoured lo steer a middle course, and whilst 
 Bibliographical amusement has been his principal aim, 
 he has been studious of blending with it Literary infor- 
 mation ; and though the Veteran will easily recognize 
 many of the anecdotes and memoranda contained in 
 this little volume, yet if he encounter any circumstance 
 which may have escaped his researches, he will not, it 
 4s hoped, be fastidious, but please to recollect, that to 
 the Tyro, for whose use it is principally intended, 
 much of the information will be entirely novel, and 
 should he not meet with the original remarks he may 
 expect, the Compiler has only to reply in the words of 
 Dr. Franklin, that 
 
 " Vessels large may venture more, 
 
 * But little boats should keep near shore" 
 
 A very limited number of the present Edition havi ng 
 been printed, any corrections, amendments or addi- 
 tional anecdotes, will be thankfully received, and in 
 the event of a third Edition being ever called for, 
 respectfully attended to. 
 
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL 
 
 AND 
 
 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 J< >//' llur/d in (lie i/cars 1740, 
 
 .7;/.vo//, A\y. compiled 
 If, ,7. 4/o 1748. 
 
 MR. WAI.TI.R, Chaplain of the Centurion, ha| 
 
 -.(rally considered as the author of this 
 Work, by having his nanit- affixed as such to the 
 title .id has in conscfjiicnce received in 
 
 MS literary journals as \\rll foreign as domes- 
 tic, praise to which he is not justly entitled The 
 
 1'ithor was H( njaniin Ro!ins, the champion 
 of Newton's Fluxions, in opposition to Bishop 
 Berkeley's Analysis, and author of NYv, Prin- 
 ciples of Gunnery. Walter's manuscript, which 
 B 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 was at first intended to have been printed, being 
 little more than a transcript from the ship's jour- 
 nals ; Mr. Robins was recommended as a proper 
 person to revise it, and it was then determined 
 that the whole should be written by him, the 
 transcript of the journals, serving as materials 
 only; and what with the introduction and many 
 dissertations in the body of the Book, of which, 
 not the least hint had been given by Walter; he 
 extended the account, in his own peculiar style 
 and manner, to nearly twice its original size. 
 
 From the ensuing letter it appears that if Mr. 
 Robins had remained in England, he designed 
 to have composed a second part of the Voyage 
 round the World. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 When I last saw you in Town, I forgot 
 to ask you, whether you intended to publish the 
 second volume of my Voyage before you leave ut t 
 which I confess! am very sorry for. If you 
 should have laid aside all thoughts of fa- 
 voring the world with more of your wwks, it 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 3 
 
 'i77 be much disappointed, and no one in it 
 more than 
 
 Your very much obliged. 
 
 humble Servant, 
 
 ANSON. 
 
 Bath, 22nd October, If 49. 
 
 If you can ttll the time of your departure, let 
 me know it. 
 
 Dr. Wilson relates that on Lord Anson's being 
 requested to permit that this testimony might be 
 exhibited to the world, of his Lordship's esteem 
 for Mr. Robins, he replied in the politest manner 
 " that every thing in his power was due to the 
 memory of one who hail deserved so well of the 
 Public." 
 
 At the period the preceding letter was written, 
 Mr. Robins was on the point of quitting England 
 for India, the East India Company having ap- 
 pointed him their Engineer-General, with a 
 settlement of ,500 per annum for life, on con* 
 dition that he continued in their service five yean, 
 B 2 
 
4 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 but in September, 1750, he was attacked by a 
 fever, from which he recovered; about < 
 months after which, he fell into a languishing 
 condition and expired at Fort St. Davids, the 
 Qth of July, 1751, with his pen in his hand. 
 
 CLASSICS ad mum 
 The Delphin, or Dauphin editions of the Clas- 
 sics, 4to. forming a collection of between 60 and 
 70 volumes, were planned by the Duke of 
 Montausier; encouraged by Mons. Colbert, and 
 carried on by Huet, Bishop of Avranches; it is 
 the latter who chose the commentators that \vt-re 
 employed, and who himself complains of not 
 being able to find a sufficient number of. persons 
 equal to such a task. 
 
 The Pharsalia of Lucan is not in the scries, 
 and the omission is said to have been o< 
 by the fear of the ill effects, the principles con- 
 tained in that work might have on the mind of 
 the Dauphin. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES* 5 
 
 Johnson, (Mr. Samuel) An humble and hearty 
 address to all the English Protestants in this 
 present army, 1686. 
 
 Johnson was tried at the King's Bench, and 
 found guilty of "writing and publishing this scan- 
 dalous and seditious libel against Government"; 
 and sentenced to pay 500 marks to the king, to 
 stand three times in the pillory, and to be whipped 
 by the common hangman from Newgate to 
 Tyburn. Exclusive of this sentence, which wai 
 strictly enforced, he was degraded from the order 
 of Priesthood by Crew, Bishop of Durham, 
 Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, ad White, Bishop 
 of Peterborough; commissioners for the diocese 
 of London, (the Bishop being then under a 
 suspension for refusing to obey the king's orders U 
 suspend Dr. Sharp for preaching against popery) 
 but his degradation was not complete, owing to 
 the omission of not stripping him of his cassock, 
 which omission afterwards saved him his benefice. 
 The judgment of the Court of King's Bench, 
 was subsequently in 1689, declared illegal and 
 B3 
 
fl BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 cruel, and a bill ordered to be brought in by u 
 committee of the House of Commons t 
 the said judgment; and two addresses were pre- 
 sented on bebalf of Johnson to the king, who 
 gave him s300 a year out of the post oirice, for 
 his own and his son's life, besides 100(> in 
 money, and likewise bestowed a place of about 
 ,100 a year on his son, 
 
 Mrs. Macaulay's Loose Thought*. 
 
 Mrs. Macaulay having published, what 
 called loose thoughts, Mr. Carrie k was asked it' 
 he did not think it a strange liile for a lady to 
 choose? "By no means", replied he, "the sooner 
 a woman gets rid of such thoughts thebel 
 
 Errata. 
 
 Beneath the word Finis, at the end of some 
 rery stupid book, a wit added the following 
 pointed couplet : 
 
 Finis ! an error 9 or a lie, my friend ! 
 In writing foolish books there is ;/ end. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 7 
 
 Er; 
 
 Scarron composed .some verses, to \\hich lit 
 l\edthe follov. ii : J.(inUlc: 
 
 wede met&Ur; but luiving a quarrel with 
 isler, In og liu- errata, and 
 
 a ur, road ma chlcnne 
 . nr. 
 
 The >n <>t the Pecline and 
 
 l ; nll of the Ko.iian Min.p in (juaiio, and 
 
 as the volumes appear. -d singly, (.Mbl;on used to 
 take them to I, t- the Duke of Cuiniu-rland. 
 
 ird to him <nr day, t-ialrd \\itli 
 pride at the delightful otli iinauining as 
 
 he went, what iiaudsuine things the duk 
 would say to !::in, what a i it must 
 
 have been to the historian, when the duke, in 
 his usual rough manner exelaimed, "Whftt? ah! 
 another d d big square book, eh ! 
 
 Dr. Johnson. 
 After one of the Doctor'f Publications, 
 
$ BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 Jas. Boswell, his biographer, on the first of the 
 ensuing month, repaired, according to custom, to 
 the lodgings of his idol, with the several magazines 
 of the day, in order to read the strictures which 
 were given on his performance. After perusing 
 two or three criticisms, which were not of the 
 most civil kind, the petulance of the Doctor got 
 the better of his good sense, and he exclaimed 
 peevishly, "Enough, enough, sir, now you have 
 taken infinite pains to bring an account of what 
 is thought of me individually ; give me leare to 
 ask what you imagine the world says of you and 
 me conjointly," "Upon my word, Doctor, I 
 cannot pretend to say," answered Jemmy. "Why 
 then I'll tell you", continued the Doctor, "They 
 say that I am a mad dog, sir, and that you are 
 the tin cannister tied to my tail." 
 
 The Whole Duty of Man. 
 
 Sterne, Arcbishop of York has been the gene- 
 erally reputed author of the "Whole Duty of 
 Man ;" but a MS in Dr. Birch's collection 
 
M'l" -DOTF.S. f) 
 
 in the "Biitis!: :issijrnisr4 
 
 18, 
 
 "Mr. Tho>.. ; of \V(rksoj>, in 
 
 <>\, \V.T!)<>; 
 
 "Mrs. C . iait- 
 
 "iiill, 
 
 N . 
 
 "At S! nic up into 
 
 "her cli ' mt 1 that 
 
 "hci r, of !> 
 
 "Aiiionu . the. pii\ 
 
 "of 
 
 * 4 1\ 
 
 "having written tl. 
 
10 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 "the same author, except the Decay of Christian 
 "Piety" She added too, that it had been pe 
 "rused in manuscript by Dr. Covel, master of 
 "Trinity College, Cambridge; Dr. Stamford, 
 'Prebendary of York, and Mr. Banks, Rector 
 of the great Church at Hull". Mr. Cauhon 
 "declared this upon his death bed, two days before 
 "his decease. 
 
 W. T. 
 J. II . 
 
 To William Chappell, Bishop of Cork arid Ross 
 in Ireland, to Archbishop Frewin, and also to 
 William Fulman, a native of Penshurst, iu 
 Kent, the authorship of this work has been 
 attributed, but to the latter not a shadow of 
 claim belongs, for in the preface to the folio 
 edition of the works of the author of the 
 Whole Duty of Man, 1648, it is mentioned 
 that the author was then dead, whereas Fulman 
 lived till 1688. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 11 
 
 for P/V/s or the Hook Fi*h, containing three 
 Treaties tchich were found in the belly of a Cod 
 Fish in Cambridge-Mark**, on Mid*ummer-eve 
 last. Sto. 1626 
 
 R(obert) B(urton in his Admirable Curiosities, 
 relates the followirg remarkable circumstance* 
 relative to this re-publication. 
 
 " Upon Midsumnur's-eve 1626, a Cod- Fish 
 was brought to the market in Cambridge, and 
 there cut up for sale, and in the maw thereof was 
 found a book in twelves, bound up in Canvas, 
 containing several treatises of Mr John Frith's 
 this Fish was caught upon the Coasts of Liu called 
 Lindress, by one VVm. Skinner; the fish being 
 cut open, the garbage was thrown by, which* 
 woman looking upon espied the canvas, and taking 
 it out, found the book wrapped up in it, which 
 was much soiled, and covered over with a kind 
 of shni and congealed matter; this was looked 
 upon with great admiration, and by Benjamin 
 Prime, the Bachelor's beadle, who was present 
 at the openning of the fish, was carried to the 
 vice-chancellor, who took special notice of it, 
 
12 BIPLKH ', I. AM 
 
 examining the particulars before mentioned. 
 The {eaves of the book were cart fully op. 
 and cleansed; and the Treatises contained in it, 
 were, A preparation for J)et;th; the 'J'rc, 
 of Knowledge; a Minor, <>r Looking (>la 
 kfiozo themselves by, a br. ction to teach 
 
 ova Killing to die ami not to /'car D' 
 They \\ere all re- printed i" Title <f 
 
 "I ox Pise J^, or the .Book //.-/.," viih a ]>r< 
 in \\hieh it is attributed to 1'iuh, but \\ ood, in his 
 Athenae Oxoniensis, says that Richard Tracy was 
 the Author and that the "Preparation ^ 
 iirst published at London in 1,)4(). Fuller in the 
 Worthies of England, is of the same opinion as 
 Wood with respect to the Author and talkir 
 the circumstance of finding the said Book, adds, 
 "The wits of the University made tl" 
 merry thereat ; one (Thomas Randolph) leaking a 
 long copy of verses thereon, whereof this ('ystick 
 I remember; 
 
 If fishes thus do bring us books, then w 
 May hope to equal Bodlye's library.' 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 A KEY to ''din/tal, or the Adventures of a Guinea" 
 4zW. 1768. 
 
 VOL. l 
 
 Commander of an English Capt.Powlett after 
 
 Man of War 
 
 100 Observe that Person 
 
 1 o 1 Important Places of State 
 
 1C5 The General had slept off 
 
 VOL. '2 
 
 4 
 50 
 55 
 
 57 
 58 
 
 60 
 78 
 
 tht- fumes 
 
 KnU'redher Graces Levee 
 
 Who sold o Kster-pipes 
 
 High Priest of the Conven- 
 ticle 
 
 Momus 
 Hunchback 
 
 Mrs. Brimstone's Mrs. Cole 
 
 The person 
 
 In my Ballad* 
 
 Finished all the Pamphlets 
 
 Parson of the Parish 
 C 
 
 wards Dk.of Bolton 
 Lord Chesterfield 
 Ld. Lt. of Ireland 
 
 Lord Ligonier 
 
 Ctss. of Yarmouth 
 Doctor Henzie 
 
 Whitfield 
 
 Foote 
 Squintum 
 
 Mother Douglas 
 
 Foote 
 
 Minor 
 
 Critical ScChristiar 
 Remarks on the 
 Minor 
 
 Archbishop of 
 Canterbury 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 75 Direction of the Squire 
 
 80 Went directly to her Grace 
 
 98 My new Master 
 
 102 August person 
 
 104 Found a person waiting 
 
 108 A young Lady 
 
 138 Bulgaria 
 
 194 Apostate 
 
 Motions of the Army 
 
 King 
 
 Countess of Hun 
 tingdon 
 
 Mr. Pitt 
 Gco. II. 
 General Wolfe 
 
 Miss Lowthcr a1 
 terwards Dutches 
 of Bolton 
 
 Prussia 
 Arch d . Bower 
 Battle of Minden 
 
 VOL.3 
 
 Page S He immediately camt to a Lord H. Powle 
 right understanding 
 
 3 A mighty Fleet 
 
 5 He was lolling in a listUss 
 manner 
 
 7 Who had been guilty of the 
 unpardonable &c. 
 
 12 When th Officer nexttohim 
 17 Said my Maiter to the 
 General 
 
 Expedition again! 
 the Havannah 
 
 Sir G. Pocock 
 Admiral Knowles 
 
 Admiral Keppell 
 Lord Albermarle 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 15 
 
 21 
 29 
 
 34 
 
 44 
 
 In my Patron's time 
 
 la so advantageous a light to 
 
 one 
 Though the Captain of thr 
 
 Ship (Here the set ne is 
 
 carried back to the Ha- 
 
 vannnli) 
 A Youth who had made 
 
 120 The Parson of the Parish 
 .122 Gave m to an Admiral 
 
 127 To wait upon the General 
 
 Of making regular Sieges 
 
 128 Yes, interrupted an Officer 
 130 Impatient to see hii Brother 
 138 That a person to vhom he 
 
 could not properly &c. 
 
 170 Execution of the Com- 
 mander 
 
 172 And relieve a Fortresi 
 
 173 Another Fortress 
 
 173 Commanding Officer 
 
 1 78 Thoie in power 
 
 D. of Cumberland 
 Chas. Townshend 
 
 Capt. Campbell 
 
 (The whole of this 
 story seems a Work 
 of Imagination.) 
 
 Bishop of Derry 
 
 Admiral Matthews 
 
 The Character is 
 here changed to 
 Lord Howe 
 
 Lord Loudon 
 Lord Charlet Hay 
 late Lord Howe 
 
 Sir Win. Johnson 
 
 Admiral Byng 
 Minorca 
 Gibraltar 
 General Fawke 
 
 Mr. Fox, Secre- 
 tary of state 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 179 As flagrant a case as his 
 
 180 By another set 
 
 Precipitately plunged them- 
 selves 
 
 181 The Officer who command- 
 
 ed 
 
 184 Orders of his Captain 
 
 185 One of those 
 
 186 The Little Gentleman 
 
 190 My master proceeded to 
 
 figure 
 
 191 A superficial smattering of 
 
 letters 
 
 A Tradesman 
 195 But the Managers 
 220 My master arrived in London 
 
 232 A person of a flighty ima- 
 
 gination 
 
 233 He erected a building 
 
 $38 Another candidate advanced 
 
 S39 The person who had that 
 day 
 
 Admiral Lostock' 
 Mr. Pitt 
 
 Captures before tli 
 Declaration of wa 
 
 General Blakenej 
 
 Capt. Hamilton 
 Lord Colvill 
 
 Mr. Pratt, after- 
 wards Lord Can 
 den 
 
 Dr. Hill 
 
 Mr. Fitz Patrick 
 
 Mr. Bourke 
 
 Garrick & Bear 
 Lord Or ford 
 Sir F. Dashwood 
 Lord le De.speiisei 
 
 Medenham Abbe 
 Mr. Wilkeg 
 
 Ditto 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTfeS 31 
 
 277 Given to a German Prince Ferdinand 
 
 A Commander of their own late D. of Marl- 
 borough 
 
 The Author of Chrysal, was Chas. Johnston, an Irishmam 
 of considerable abilities; by profession a Lawyer, but owing 
 to deafness he derived very little emolument from it, and in 
 consequence embarked for Bengal in 1782 where he turned 
 his abilities to better account, became joint proprietor of one 
 of the Bengal Papers, and by building speculations in a few 
 years acquired considerable property, which he lived to enjoy 
 till about the year 1800. The two first volumes of Chrysal 
 were written for amusement during a visit at the late Lord 
 Mt. Edgecumbe's in Devonshire, the unprecedented demand 
 for which induced Johnston to extend his work to 4 volumes' 
 To Lord Mt. Edgcumbe, he presented a key to the characters 
 delineated, as also to Capt. Mears. The author's intention 
 was to draw general characters, therefore, in the application 
 of the Key, the reader must exercise his own judgement in 
 distinguishing the real from the fictitious actions of th diffe- 
 rent personages. 
 
&% BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 Johnson's Dictionary. 
 
 Johnson, who received .1,575 for compiling 
 this work had almost exhausted the patience of 
 the Booksellers by whom he was employed and 
 was frequently urged to complete his engagement 
 Andrew Millar, who had the principal charge 
 of conducting the publication, could not forbear 
 acknowledging the receipt of the last sheet of 
 the Manuscript in the following terms. 
 
 Andrew Millar sends his compliments to 
 Mr. Saml. Johnton, with the money for the lust 
 sheet of the Copy of the Dictionary y and thank* 
 G*d ht has done with him. " 
 
 To which Johnson returned this brief answer. 
 
 Saml. Johnson returns his compliments to 
 Mr* Andrew Millar, and is vert/ glad to find 
 (as he doe* by his note)that Andrew Millar has 
 the grace to thank God for any thing. " 
 
 Boswell differs with Sir John Hawkins in his 
 relation of this anecdote, by denying any letters 
 to have passed between Johnson and Millar, but 
 the anecdote being the same in substance, 1 have 
 preferred giving it in Sir John's own words. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 23 
 
 /r> Jccottnl of DC/I mm k. 
 
 When Lord MoK swortlfs Account of Den- 
 mark was iirst published, the- Danish Ambassa- 
 dor complained to the Khi of the freedoms the 
 Author had taken \\itli hi* master's government; 
 ai.d hinted, that if one of hi< Danish Majesty's 
 subjects had taken the like liberties \vith the King 
 of England, he would, upon complaint, have ta- 
 ke:] off the author's head. il That, I cannot do," 
 replied the Kin.ir. " But, if yon please, I will tell 
 him \\hat you say, and he shall put it in the next 
 edition of his book. 
 
 Mfii de Montaigne, 4tn, Paris, 17 
 Published by Gueullette and Jamet Taine. 
 
 Barbier, in his Dictionnaire des Livres ano- 
 nymes, torn 1, page 251, says, that according 
 to a note of M. Jamet, the younger, at the 
 beginning of the copy formerly belonging to him, 
 M. Coste preferred this edition to that of London 
 \\hich had been published by himself. 
 
24 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 Gage's Survey of the West Indies. 
 Gage's Survey of the West Indies went through 
 two folio editions, the latter in 1()57, consisting 
 of 22 Chapters, and a Dedication prefixed to Sir 
 Thos. Fairfax, Lord Fairfax of Cameron. In 
 170 ( 2(and perhaps before) an octavo edition of 
 this work was published, in which the dedication 
 to Lord Fairfax was turned into a preface to the 
 Reader, and the whole twenty second chapter 
 omitted.* In the former, such passages as did 
 honour and credit to this Nobleman are expunged 
 and the rest accomodated to the style of an address 
 to readers in general. But the twenty-second 
 chapter, containing an account of the author's con- 
 versation, with several particulars concerning the 
 hopes the Papalins had of Laud's favourable 
 intention towards them, not being so capable of 
 transmutation as the epistle at the beginning, waj 
 wholly left out. 
 
 *In 1^77 the third edition \va published, in 8vo, 
 with the Preface as above-mentioned, and the 22nd- 
 Ciiaptcr entirely omitted.. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 17 
 
 49 He also built a church Ili^h VVycombe 
 
 Church 
 
 2.3(1 Sits the >up< rior Sir F. Dasiiwood 
 
 7 He hud a distant relation Late Lord VVest- 
 
 n&ortland 
 
 <2^3 A share of their power .reliorship of 
 
 the Exchequer 
 
 202 Shrine of a contested 
 
 saint Abbe Pa i is 
 
 272 You see one Lord Melcombe 
 
 274 This man who had thorough- 
 ly Dr. Thompson 
 
 VOL 4 
 
 Page 4 Old Dowager . Horncr 
 
 5 Pitched upon a near relation Lori llehester 
 
 9 Acquaintance with a Noble- late Duke of Rich- 
 man mond 
 12 First personages D. of Cumberland 
 
 18 Profitable employment Commissary of 
 
 Musters 
 
 19 Recourse to means Forging a Lease 
 23 An essential part Geril. of the Army 
 
 for Life 
 
 t4 But more profit Paymaster of the 
 
 Army 
 
18 
 
 BIBLIOGBAPHICAL AND 
 
 25 Those events 
 
 26 Perfidy of one 
 
 28 Possession of the same per- 
 
 son 
 
 - A person of distinguished 
 
 learning 
 
 29 An only daughter 
 
 46 A lady whom he addressed 
 50 Debilitated debauchees 
 56 One of her admirers 
 
 f>7 A brother of the person 
 69 A near relation 
 
 71 His success with one 
 95 Crowned head 
 My new master 
 
 136 Of the author 
 
 163 The most intimate acquain- 
 tance 
 
 166 Political pamphlet 
 
 1 75 The gentleman whom he 
 went to wait upon 
 
 Death of Geo. II. 
 Mr. Caicraft 
 
 Lord Sandwich 
 
 Dr. Sum 
 
 Niece 
 
 Lady Mansrl 
 
 Sir E. Mansel 
 
 Gcnl. Geo. Bos- 
 
 Mr. Burgh 
 Capt. Wheeler ol 
 
 the Isis 
 
 Miss Stephenson 
 Flcur de Lys 
 Mr. Prestagi tht 
 
 Auctioneer 
 Churchill 
 
 Mr. Wilkes 
 North Briton 
 
 Lord Temple 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 190 
 191 
 
 197 
 
 200 
 
 *01 
 203 
 
 S04 
 
 To a magistrate 
 His judges 
 
 Certain immunities 
 Integrity of the Magistrate 
 Former 
 
 Attack upon the Minister 
 
 A countryman of the Minis- 
 ters 
 
 A person was involved 
 
 An able and upright magis- 
 trate 
 
 A clergyman 
 
 His guest who came punc- 
 tually 
 
 Assistance of one of the lat- 
 ter 
 
 Of such a patron as yours 
 
 Lord Hallifax 
 Lord Hallifax and 
 Kiiivmont 
 
 Privilege of Parlia- 
 ment 
 
 Ld. chief justice 
 Pratt 
 
 ^oi Dr. Henry 
 Shebbahe, tak-n 
 upon Genl. War- 
 rants v\hen Mr. 
 Pratt was attorney 
 General 
 Lord Bute 
 
 Capt. Forbes 
 Mr. Martin 
 
 Lord Ch. J. Pratt 
 Mr. Kedgell 
 
 Doctor Douglass 
 
 Mr. Leach, Printer 
 Lord Bute 
 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 205 Leading a Bear 
 
 - . That impostor 
 
 20? Tearing off the veil 
 
 208 Two silly impostors 
 
 211 I have something to shew \ mi 
 
 Which the gentleman we 
 have been talking 
 
 218 The honor of one of them 
 
 220 One of his Tradesmen 
 
 VOL 4 
 
 Page 223 That a positive Law 
 
 227 By a gentleman of his ac- 
 quaintance 
 
 250 A lady of large fortune 
 
 256 Possession of my new master 
 
 271 Given to a Briton 
 
 76 Giving up the Countries 
 
 Travelling as tutor 
 to Lord Pultrwy 
 
 Mr. A. Hamilton 
 Bower 
 
 \Vriting the His- 
 tory of the Popes 
 
 Lauder and Eli/h. 
 Canning 
 
 on Women 
 
 Mr. Wilkrs 
 
 Bp. of Gloucester 
 A Bookseller 
 
 Marriage Act 
 
 Ld. Deloraine 
 Hon. Mrs. Knight 
 
 Sr. Charles Coote 
 K. B. 
 
 D. of Cumberland 
 
 Convention of 
 Closterhovcu 
 
UTT.KAllY ANECDOTES. t5 
 
 !iui respecting Sterne, and his Valet 
 La Fleur. 
 
 However much pleasure we receive in the 
 t ontemplation of an interesting and well drawn 
 character by the hand of a master, we never fail 
 to derive additional gratification from a know- 
 ledge that the original exists ; to the admirers 
 thrreibre, of Sterne's writings, the following ac- 
 count of La Fhnir, collected from himslf whilst 
 in London about the year 1791 and published at 
 that period, in one of the daily papers, cannot 
 I think, lull of being acceptable, especially when 
 compressed into a more connected narrative than 
 the original, which abounds \\ith cxtiuueous 
 remarks. 
 
 La Flerir was born in Burgundy: when a 
 mere child he conceived a strong passion to see 
 the world, and at eight years of age ran away 
 from ins parents. 1 1 is preven-.mcy was always his 
 passport and his wants \\erc easily- supplied- 
 milk, bread, and a straw bed amongst <h j pea- 
 santry, were all he want* i for the night, and in the 
 D 
 
$6 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 morning he wished to be on his way again. This 
 rambling life he continued till he attained his 
 tenth year, when being one day on the Pont N euf 
 at Paris, surveying with wonder, the objects that 
 surrounded him, he was accosted by a Drummer, 
 who easily enlisted him in the service. For Six 
 years La Fleur beat his Drum in the French 
 Army; two years more would liu\e entitled him 
 to his discharge, but he preferred anticipation, and 
 exchanging dress with a Peasant easily made 
 his escape. By having recburse to his old expe- 
 dients, he made his way to Montreuil, where he 
 introduced himself to Varenne, \\lio fortunately 
 took a fancy to him. The little accommodations 
 he needed were given him wilh cheerfulness, and 
 as what we sow we wish to see flouiish, this worthy 
 Landlord promised to get him a master; and as he 
 deemed the best not better than La Fleur meiited 
 he promised to recommend him to un Milord 
 Anglois. He fortunately could perform as well as 
 promise and he introduced him to Sterne, ragged 
 as a Colt but full of health and hilarity. The 
 little Picture which Sterne has drawn of LaFleur'a 
 
27 
 
 -Mr \vas fond of a very 
 ier of two sisters, 
 
 ^!io if ii ,ied the Maria of 
 
 Mou. ;r,::!TJ( d and \\hatever 
 
 lion, \N:I- none of Ins 
 jot i iclicr or hap- 
 a Mautua-iaakei 
 
 and i plication could produce no more 
 
 ! i.il IHT assistance 
 oil aud aft( r 
 
 Jiter bv ! ^puratcd and 
 
 h with what money he 
 
 ! litHllO llU 
 
 i;i [l>yA 
 
 is, There ill luck attended him, 
 \\ ar broke out; iitid liie lu>s of the English 
 Sailors, who navigated the packets and who were 
 his principal customers, so reduced his little busi- 
 that he was obliged again to quit his wife 
 and confide to her guidance the little Trade 
 which was insufficient to support them both: 
 "He returned in March 1783, but his wife had 
 
 Mod. A strolling Company of Comedians passing 
 D2 
 
28 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AN 
 
 through the town had seduced her from hci how*, 
 and no tale, or tidings of her have ever since 
 reached him. From the period he lost his wife, 
 says our informant, he has frequently visited Kn- 
 gland, to whose natives he is extremely partial, 
 sometimes as a Sergeant, at others as an Express, 
 where Zealand diligence were required, La Fleur 
 was never yet wanting." 
 
 In addition to La Fleur' s account of himself 
 the writer of the preceding, obtained from him, 
 several little circumstances relative to his master, 
 as well as the characters depicted by him, a few of 
 which, as they would lose by abridgement, I shall 
 give verbatim. 
 
 t There were moments," said La Fleur, "in 
 which my master appeared sunk into the deepest 
 dejection when his calls upon me for my ser- 
 vices were so seldom, that I sometimes apprehen- 
 sively pressed in upon his privacy, to suggest what 
 I thought might divert his melancholy. He used 
 lo smile at my well meant zeal, and I could se* 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 \vas happy to be relieve^. At ot 
 seemed to have received a new soul he launched 
 into the levity natural a monpays" sai^d La Flew, 
 "and cried gaily enough "Five la Bagatelle!" 
 It was in one of those moments that he became 
 acquainted with the (jlrisette at the Glove shop 
 she afterwards visited him at liis lodgings, upon 
 which La Fleur made not a single remark; but 
 on naming the Jille de chambre, his other 
 visitant, he exclaimed, "It was certainly a 
 she was so pretty and petite" 
 
 The Lady mentioned under the initial L. 
 the Marquise Lamb^rti: to the interest of this 
 lady he was indebted for the Passport which 
 began to make him seriously uneasy. Count de B. 
 (Bretuil) notwithstanding the Shakspeare, La 
 Fleur thinks, would have troubled himself little 
 about him. Choiseul was Minister at the time. 
 
 "Poor Mcu'ia 
 
 Was alas! no fiction "When we came upta' 
 her, she was grovelling in the Road like an infant, 
 D3 
 
10 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL 
 
 and throwing the Dust upon her head and yt-t 
 few were more lovely! Upon Sterne's accosting 
 her with tenderness, and raising her in his arms, 
 he collected herself and resumed some com- 
 posure told him her tale of misery and wept 
 upon his breast my master sobbed aloud. I saw 
 her gently disengage herself from his arms, and 
 she sung him the service to the Virgin, my poor 
 master covered his face with his hands, and 
 walked by her side to the Cottage where she lived; 
 * there he talked earnestly to the old woman." 
 
 "Every day/' said La Fleur, "while we stayed 
 there, I carried them meat -and drink from the 
 Hotel, and when we departed from Moulines, my 
 matter left his blessings and some money with 
 the mother." "How much/' added he "I know 
 not he always gave more than he could afford." 
 
 Sterne was frequently at a lost upon his travels 
 for ready money. Remittances were become in- 
 terrupted by War, and he had wrongly estimated 
 his expences he had reckoned along the Post- 
 Roads, without adverting to the wretchedness that- 
 to call upon him in his way. 
 
11TF.FARY AME DOTES. 51* 
 
 At many oi 'our stages my ma>ter. has turned 
 to me \\ith tears in Ins e\o.s * 'Those poor people 
 oppress me, Lu Flcurl Low shall I relieve me?" 
 lie wrote much, and to a late hour. . I told La 
 Fieur of die inconsiderable quantity he had pub- 
 lished li - lUxtunie >-urprue. "I know," 
 said he "upon our n turn tVom this tour, there 
 was a largo trunk completely tilled with papers/' 
 "Do you know any thing of their tendency, La 
 Hem ':'' **Yes they were miscellaneous remarks 
 upon the manners of the different Nations he vi- 
 sited, and in Italy he was deeply engaged in 
 making the most elaborate enquiries into the 
 differing (Jovermmnts of the Towns and the 
 characteristic peculiarities of the Italians of th$- 
 various stat 
 
 To effect this he read much; for the collections 
 of the Patrons of Literature we*e open to him; 
 he observed more. Singular as it may aeem, 
 Sterne endeavoured in vaia to speak Italian. 
 His valet acquired it on their Journey; but his 
 Master though he applied now and then, gave it 
 up at length as unattainable. "I the more woa- 
 
32 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AM* 
 
 dered at this," said La Fleur, "as he must have 
 understood Latin:" 
 
 The assertion, sanctioned by Johnson, that 
 Sterne was licentious and dissolute in conversa- 
 tion, stands thus far contradicted by the testimony 
 of La Fleur "His conversation with women/* he 
 said "was of the most interesting kind, he usually 
 left them serious, if he did not find them so." 
 
 The Dead -/* 
 
 Was no invention the- mourner was as simple 
 and affecting, as Sterne has related. La Fleur 
 recollected the circumstance perfectly. 
 
 To Monks 
 
 Sterne never exhibited any particular sympathy. 
 La Fleur remembered several pressing in upon 
 him, to all of whom his answer was the same 
 Monpire,je sms occwpc. Je suis pauvre comme 
 wits. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 30* 
 
 Le Antickita d' Etro/nno, ^;>,o.s/V con qualcht 
 ph'suziom \) tow folio In NapoK I7.'">7 cV'. 
 
 In the summer, 17-V2, when the two first 
 volumes of this work relating to tjerculaneum 
 
 Stabiir, Pompeii, and the antiquities discovered 
 in those Cities, \vnr ivady for Publication, 
 !Mous. Bajardi, the author of them, a learned 
 good prelate of the Romish Communion, though 
 it hath been said, of a genius not altogether suita- 
 ble to thut work, waited on the King of Naples, 
 afterwards King of Spain, to receive his directions 
 for the distribution of those volumes, which had 
 been printed by his own special command, ip 
 order to be scattered, as the other volumes have 
 since been, among the learned every where; the 
 King said to him, immediately, without noticing 
 Neapolitan, Spaniard, or any other People, 
 'G/re five Hundred copies to the Envlhh* Ba- 
 jardi, who was by no in :n, disinclined to that 
 Nation, replied, bowing, "I fi-ir in that case> 
 the rent of Europe icillfail of their proportion'* 
 'LET THE PRESS BE SEI A \ LV,THEF/ answered, 
 the monarch. 
 
14 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 EXTRACT FROM THE 
 
 "Rehears a I Transposed" vol. 1 , p . 4 7 
 
 Containing a spirited irony, concerning the mischief 
 the press has done to the discipline of the Church 
 and the peace of mankind. 
 
 The Press (that villainous machine) invented 
 much about the same time with the Reformation^ 
 has done more mischief 10 the discipline of the 
 church, than all the doctrine can make amends for; 
 it was ahappy time when all learning was in Mam** 
 script, and some little Officer, like our author did 
 keep the Keys of the Library; when tlu Clergy 
 needed no more knowledge than to read the 
 ".,itiir<ry. P'V! fi^ 1-j^v },,, - 
 
 i", that a, 
 
 \vrite u book, bat pn-scatly he is 
 juld the Press but OIHH- be conjured 
 to obey only an imprimatur, our author might not 
 disdain perhaps, to be one of its most zealous 
 patrons. There have been ways found out to 
 banish ministers ; to fine not only the people, but 
 even the grounds and fields where they assembled 
 in conventicles; but no art yet could prevent 
 
LITERACY AN F.i $$ 
 
 these seditious meetings of Two or three 
 
 brawny fellows in a corner, willi mere ink and 
 elbow-grease, do more harm than a hundred syste- 
 matieal divines, with their sweatv preaching; and 
 'uhiehisn strange thin ;n- -s u -Inch, 
 
 one would think, should rather deface and blot 
 out the whole book, and were antiently used for 
 that purpose, are become now the instruments 
 to make things legible, their ugly printing letters 
 that look like so many rotten teeth, how often 
 havr they been pulled out by B and L, the public 
 tooth-drawers, and yet these rascally operators of 
 the Press have gotten a trick to fasten them 
 again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a 
 set, and as biting and talkative as ever. O Print- 
 ing, how hast thou disturbed the peace of 
 mankind ! that lead when moulded into bullets 
 is not so mortal as when founded into letters! 
 there was a mistake sure in the story of Cadmus; 
 and the serpents teeth which he sowed were 
 nothing else but the letters which he invented. 
 The first essay that was made towards this art 
 was in single characters' upon iron, wherewith of 
 
38 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AN 
 
 old they stigmatized slaves and remarkabk 
 offenders; and it was of good use sometimes to 
 brand a schismatic ; but a bulky Dutchman di- 
 verted it quite from its iirst institution, and con- 
 tiiving these innumerable syntagmes of Alphabets 
 hath pestered the World ever since with the gros 
 bodies of their German Divinity/' 
 
 Drydcn 
 
 In the Life of Anthony Wood, prefixed to 
 'Athena Oxoniensis, 9 it is related, that on Decem- 
 ber 16th 1679, John Dryden, the Poet, being at 
 Wills' Coffee House, in Covent Garden, was 
 about Eight at night, soundly cudgelled by three 
 men, the reason as it is supposed, because he had 
 reflected on certain persons in Absalom and 
 AchitopeL 
 
 Granger's Biographical History of England 
 
 For the Copy-right of the first edition, 1769, 
 Mr. Granger received 50, as also 100 Guineas 
 afterwards, for the Supplement. Twenty-five- 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 37 
 
 topics of the Quarto Edition, were printed on 
 one side only, anil of the Octavo Edition, twenty 
 copies, in the same manner Tom Davies, the 
 . in a letter to Granger, says "The 
 of Gloucester (Dr. Warburton) hat 
 .lit the Book, which he calls an odd one ; 
 this is praise from him, for if he had not an 
 intuition to pcrsue it, he would have called it a 
 Book" 
 
 .l>enttc>/'< n\'m. } Historical Account of Hallifax 
 'and //.s Vihbet Laze 120. 1708 %c. 
 
 Dr. Samuel Midgley was the real author, and 
 wrote this work to support himself while contined 
 iu Hailifax Jail for Debt, where he continued till 
 his death in H )<).>. lie was prevented by poverty 
 ir ;:n printing it himself, and after his death 
 Biiitlty, \\ho was Clerk of Hallifax Church* 
 claimed the honour of it. 
 
 1 ho Law, of which an account is given in this 
 Work was peculiar to Hallifax and granted in the 
 rign of Henry VII. It was enacted, that if any 
 
38 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANB 
 
 felon be taken within the liberty of the Forest 
 of Hardvrick, with goods stolen within the said 
 precints, either hand-habead, back-berand, or 
 confeisioned, to the value of thirteen pence 
 halfpenny, he shall, after three market days within 
 the Town of Hallifax, next after his apprehen- 
 sion, trial and conviction, be taken to the Gib- 
 bet, and there have his head cut from his body. 
 The gibbet which was entirely removed some years 
 since, was freely used against Robbers of Tenter 
 Grounds, who were the principal sufferers by this 
 Law. The last executions were in 1650, the 
 Bailiff being threatened with a prosecution if he 
 repeated them. In construction, the Gibbet, was 
 similar to the Guillotines used by the French 
 fanatics during the Revolution, and happy had it 
 been for the French Nation, if they had been 
 employed only for the like purposes. 
 
 The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by 
 
 Daniel De Foe, 2 vol. Svo 1719- 
 In the Gentleman's Magazine, for 1788, a 
 correspondent attributes this work to the EarJ of 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 39 
 
 Oxford, on the authority of Mr. Bejamin Hol- 
 lo way, of Middloton Stony, and says, that his 
 Lordship wrote it, when confined in the Tower 
 of London, and gave the manuscript to Daniel 
 Defoe, who frequently visited him during his con- 
 finement, and that Defoe, having afterwards added 
 the second volume, published the whole as his 
 own production. But the most generally received 
 opinion, is, that Defoe, surreptitiously made use 
 of papers put into his hands by Alexander 
 irk, a Scoth Seaman; this opinion does not 
 appear to be well founded, for Selkirk's Story 
 was known several years before to the Public, 
 which any one may convince himself of, by 
 referring to Woodes Rogers' s Voyage round the 
 World, published in 1712. Robinson Crusoe first 
 appeared in 1719 in two volumes, and surely it 
 could be no difficult task to so practised an 
 Author as Defoe to enlarge upon and alter the 
 already published account, as easily as he could 
 have arranged any papers that Selkirk might have 
 
 written, after he went on board the Duke Priva- 
 E2 
 
4 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 teer, and the supposition is certainly a much 
 probable one. Accounts of Selkirk's Narrative 
 may be found in "Funell's Voyage round the 
 World;" "Cooke's Journal of Roger's Yo\ 
 and No. 26 of the Englishman; from \\liich and 
 Woodes Rogers' Voyage the following sim.i 
 was compiled, and inserted in the Gentleman's 
 Magazine, February J788. 
 
 ''Alexander Selkirk was born at Larjjo, in thr 
 County of Fife, about the year l()?0, and N\UM 
 bred a Seaman. He went from England in 
 1703, in the capacity of Sailing-Master of a small 
 vessel, called the Cinque-Ports Galley, Charles 
 Pickering, Captain, burthen about 90 tons, with 
 sixteen guns, and sixty three men; and in Sep- 
 tember, the same year, sailed from Cork, in 
 company with another ship, of twenty-six guns ? 
 and one Hundred and twenty men, called the 
 Saint George, commanded by that famous navi- 
 gator William Dampier, intending to cruise on 
 the Spaniards in the South Sea. On the Coast of 
 Brazil, Pickering died, and was suceeded in the 
 
LITERACY ANECDOTES. 41 
 
 Command by his Lieutenant, Thomas Stradling. 
 They proceeded on their Voyage round Cape 
 Horn, to the Island of Juan Fernandez, whence 
 they were driven by the appearance of two 
 French ships of thirty-six guns each, and left 
 five of Stradling's men on shore, who were taken 
 off by the French. Hence they sailed to the 
 Coast of America, where Dampier and Stradling 
 quarrelled, and separated by agreement on the 
 19th. of May, 1704. In September following, 
 Stradling came again to the Island of Juan 
 Fernandez, where Selkirk and his Captain had a 
 difference, which, with the circumstance of the 
 Ship's being very leaky, and in bad condition, 
 induced him to determine on staying there alone : 
 but when his companions were about to depart 
 his resolution was shaken, and he desired to be 
 taken on board again. Happily for him, the 
 Captain then refused to admit him, and he was 
 obliged to remain, having nothing but his clothes, 
 bedding, a gun, and a small quantity of Powder 
 
 and Ball, a hatchet, knife, and kettle, his t>ook, 
 3 
 
42 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 and mathematical and nautical instruments. He 
 kept up his spirits tolerably, till he saw the 
 yessel put off, when, (as he afterwards relaU cl) 
 his heart yearned within him, and melted at part- 
 ing with his comrades and all human society at 
 once. 
 
 <c Yet believe me, Areas ; 
 Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, 
 All Ruffians as they were, I never heard 
 A sound so dismal as their parting oars"* 
 
 The Cinque Ports was run on shore a few 
 months afterwards; the Captain and Crew, to 
 save their lives, surrended themselves prisoners to 
 the Spaniards, who treated them so harshly, that 
 they were in a much worse situation than Selkirk, 
 and continued in it a longer time. Some months 
 after Selkirk had left the South Sea, in the Duke 
 Privateer, Captain Stradling was sent a Prisoner 
 to Europe, on board a French ship, and by that 
 means got to England. Thus left sole monarch of 
 
 Thomson's Agnmerauou. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 43 
 
 the Island, with plenty of the necessaries of life, 
 he found himself in a situation hardly supportable. 
 He had fish, goat's tlesh, turnips and other 
 vegetables; yet he grew dt jcrted, languid and 
 melancholy, to such a degree as to be scarcely 
 able to refrain from doing violence to himself. 
 Eighteen months passed before he could by rea- 
 soning, reading his bible and study, be thoroughly 
 reconciled to his condition. At length he grew 
 happy, employed himself in decorating his huts, 
 chasing the goats, whom he equalled in speed, 
 and scarcely ever failed of catching. He also 
 tamed young kids, laming them to prevent their 
 becoming wild ; and he kept a guard of tame 
 cats about him, to defend him wheu asleep, from 
 the rats, which were very troublesome. Wheu 
 his clothes were worn out, he made others of 
 goats' skins, but could not succeed in making 
 shoes, which however, habit, in time, enabled 
 him to dispense with the use of. His only liquor 
 w as water. He computed that he had caught 
 one thousand goats during his abode there; of 
 which he had let go five hundred, after marking 
 
44 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 them by slitting their ears. Commodore Anson'a 
 people, who were there about thirty years after, 
 found the first goat, which they shot upon land- 
 ing, was thus marked, and as it appeared to be 
 very old, concluded that it had been under the 
 power of Selkirk ; but it appears from Captain 
 Carteret's account of his voyage in the Swallow 
 sloop, that other persons practised this mode of 
 marking, as he found a goat, with his ears thus 
 slit, on the neighbouring island of Mas-a-fuera, 
 where Selkirk never was. He made companions 
 of his tame goats and cats, often dancing and 
 singing with them. Though he constantly per- 
 formed his devotions at stated hours, and read 
 aloud, yet when he was taken off the island, hit 
 language, from disuse of conversation, was be- 
 come scarcely intelligible. In this solitude he 
 continued four years and four months, during 
 which time only two incidents happened which he 
 thought worth relating, the occurrences of every 
 day, being in his circumstances, nearly similar. 
 The one was, that pursuing a goat eagerly, he 
 caught it just on the edge of a precipice, which 
 
ANECDCM 45 
 
 red \\iili 10 that he did not per- 
 
 B it, and lo the boiiom, where lie 
 
 M count) t\\cn- 
 
 tv four hour i . luted to 
 
 Sir K: S; | the alteration of 
 
 the n<. 0:1. that he had lain thive da\s. \\hen 
 niic to hiniM-if, ho found the goat King un- 
 der him dra 1. Itvns with great chrliculty that 
 tbiiation, \\ii \\:;s 
 
 uiuihic to siir inr ; , ilid not 
 
 of his bruises for a long titno. '11. \ent 
 
 was, the at rival of a ship, \\hiclihefirftaiippo8ed 
 to be rVench : and sucli i,s ilie natural love of so- 
 iil the I 1 .:id, that lie \vas eager to 
 
 abandon hiss- , and surrender him- 
 
 self to them, although enemies; but upon their 
 landing, approaching them he found them to 
 
 , of whom he had too great a d 
 to tiust hiiii^ . Thi'y v, tie by 
 
 <o near, that it requiieu all Ins agility 
 to escape, *hich he vffected by climbing into 
 a thick Ucc, In ing shot at s>evual tii: : ; M ;.s he ran 
 off. Fortunately the Spaniards did not discover 
 
40 1UBLIOGBAPHICAL AND 
 
 him, though they stayed sometime under the trrc 
 where he was hid, and killed some goats just by. 
 J n this solitude Selkirk remained until the 2nd. 
 of February 1709, when he saw two ships come 
 into the bay, and knew them to be English. 
 He immediately lighted a fire as a signal, and on 
 their coining on shore, found they were the Duke 
 Captain Rogers, and the Duchess, Captain 
 Courtney, two Privateers from Bristol. Ilcgavc 
 them the best entertainment he could afford; and 
 as they had been a longtime at sea without t'r 
 provisions, the goats which he caught were highly 
 acceptable. Bis habitation consisted of two huts 
 one to sleep in, the other to dress his food in, 
 so obscurely situated, and so difficult of access 
 that only one of the ship's officers would ac- 
 company him to it. Dampier, who was Pilot on 
 board the Duke, and knew Scil.iiL v< ry well, 
 informed Ca ptain Rogers, that when on board 
 die Cinque Ports, he was the best Seamen on 
 board that vessel $ upon which Captain Rogers 
 appointed him master's-mate of the Duke. After 
 a r<;i might's stay at Juan Fernandez, the b 
 
:;\ \ \ i i inn ES 47 
 
 edcd on their erni*e a^aiiM the Spaniards; 
 plundered a town on the ena^t of Peru, look 
 a Manilla ship off California, and returned by 
 vsay of the East Indies to England, whnv 
 they arrived the 1st of October, 17H; Selkirk 
 having been ah^riU < i^iit years, more than 
 half of which time he had spent alone on 
 the Island. Captain Cook*' remarks, as an ex- 
 traordinary circtllliStancej that he had contrived 
 to keep an account of the days of the week and 
 month ; but this might be done us Defoe makes 
 Robinson Crusoe do, by cutting notches in a 
 post, or many other methods. 
 
 Sf evens' (George Aiernndcr) Lecture on Heads. 
 
 A country mechanic furnished Stevens 'with 
 the rirst idea of his Lecture ; being at a village 
 v here he was manager of a company of plavrrs 
 the force and humour, with which he heard this 
 countryman describe the members of the corpo- 
 ration, impressed so strongly on his mind, the 
 practicability of rendering somctliing of the soil 
 
 
48 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 subservient to theatric purposes, that he imme- 
 diately set about it. AY hen finished, the lecture 
 met \vith unexampled success, and in tide course 
 of a few years produced the author m ar of 10,000, 
 Stevens is said to have been the iirst instance 
 that can be produced of the same prison, who, 
 by his writing ami reritinir, eouid rnU-ilam an 
 audience for a continued space of four hours ; 
 he died in 1734, at Biggleswade, in IH dfonlshire, 
 it is believed, in not very affluent circumstances. 
 
 PhlUdor on C/u 
 
 It is not I believe, generally known that this 
 Author's i;eal name was Andi? Dan'uan; he 
 was a native of Drieux, neai Paris: Philidor 
 was a sobriquet or nick name, given him by the 
 King of Fiance, after an Italian Musician of that 
 name. He was near Seventy years of age at 
 his death, and so remarkable for his skill in the 
 difficult game of Chess, that abou' 
 before he died, he played two games blindfold, at 
 the same time, against two excellent Chess-play- 
 ers, and was declared the Victor. 
 
AUY ANECDOTES. 49 
 
 The Rambler 
 
 A French Gentleman, dining, in London, in 
 company with the celebrated author of the 
 Rambler, wished to express, at once, his esteem 
 both of the Work and its author; which he did in 
 m ^t laughable manner, by saying "Your 
 health Mr. Vagabond" This Frenchman was not 
 so distant from the real meaning as his country- 
 man, who translated Gibber's Love's la*t Shift" 
 into "La derniere Chemise de tAmvur\" or 
 him of the same nation, who altered Congreve'i 
 Muunihig Kride, into VEpouse du Matin; for 
 bond?, is frequently made use of in modern 
 French, to express Rambler; and the authority of 
 Sbakspeare and other old authors can be produced 
 to prove that the word Vagabond was formerly 
 used in the same sense in English 
 
 \\ hen first the Rambler came out in separate 
 numbers, as they were objects of attention to 
 Multitudes of people, they happened, as it seemr 
 F 
 
50 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 particularly to attract the notice of a Society 
 which met every Saturday evening, duriug the 
 Summer, at Rumford, in Essex, and were known 
 by the name of the Bowling-Green-Club. These 
 men seeing one day the character of Leviculuf, 
 the fortune-hunter, or Tetrica, the old maid; 
 another day, some account of a person who spent 
 his life in hoping for a legacy, or of him who is 
 always prying into other folks' affairs, began to 
 think in reality they were betrayed; and that 
 some one of the Coterie sat down to divert him- 
 self by giving to the Public the Portraits of all 
 the rest. Filled with wrath against the Traitor 
 of Rumford, one of them resolved to write to the 
 Printer and enquire the Author's name; Samuel 
 Johnson, was the reply. No more was necessary, 
 Samuel Johnson was the name of the Curate, 
 and soon did each begin to load him with re- 
 proaches for turning his friends into ridicule, in a 
 manner so cruel and unprovoked. In vain did 
 the guiltless Curate protest his innocence; one 
 was sure that Aliger meant Mr. Twigg, aud 
 that Cupid was but another name for Neighbour 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 51 
 
 :il the poor Parson, unable to contend 
 any longer, rode to London, and brought them 
 back full satisfaction concerning the author, who, 
 unknown to hiuiself, had so happily delineated 
 the members of the Bo\yling-Green-Club. 
 
 Pascal. Lett res tc rites a un Provi?icial, 
 ( M. Perrier 9 brother in law to Pascal) par 
 tin de ses amis ( l'a*cat } *ur le sujet des disputes 
 presentes de la Sorbonne. 4o 1656 # 7- 
 
 These famous letters were condemned by a 
 decree of Pope Alexander the VII. dated Sep- 
 tember 6th 1657, and burnt by the hands of th* 
 hangman, in execution of an order of the Parlia- 
 ment of Aix, dated February Qth 1657. They 
 were translated into Latin, under the Title of 
 'Ludovici Montalti (Pascal) Litters Provin- 
 ciates 1658, with the pretended notes of William 
 Wendrock, (whose real name was Pierre Nicole;) 
 and the disquisitions of Paul Irenee (the same 
 
 Nicole ;) which translation, was also 
 F 2 
 
5<5 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ASD 
 
 by a judgment of the Council of State to be burnt, 
 and the order put in execution Octom r 14th 
 1660. The order says "that exclusive of the 
 heretical propositions contained in this work, it 
 is injurious to the reputation of the late King, 
 Louis XIII. of glorious memory, as also, to 
 that of the principal ministers who had the 
 direction of his aifairs." The French Bishop?, 
 named in the preceeding order to examine the 
 Lcttres a un Provincial, condemned this work, as 
 sparing the rank of no one, not even the Sovereign 
 Pontil nor his Bishops, the King, nor the princi- 
 ple Ministers of the State, neither the sacred 
 faculty of Paris, nor the Religious Orders, and 
 that consequently this book merits the puinsh- 
 menig by law attached to defamatory libels 
 and heretical books." The best French author* 
 ascribe the fixture of the French language, to 
 these letters. They are a mixture of ingenious 
 raillery and strong eloquence, and to the wit of 
 Moliere unite the logic of Bossuet. Boileau 
 regarded them as the most perfect prose work 
 in the language, and went even so far as to at 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 3 
 
 they surpassed the best \rorks of the ancients* 
 Bossuet, interrogated as to which of the works, 
 written in French, he would rather be esteemed 
 the author? replied, Les Provinciates-, The fiery 
 Father Colonia, in his Dictlonnaire des livrt* 
 Jansenistes, speaks very differently. He thus 
 expresses himself "It is frequently sufficient for 
 the faithful, to name the author of a book to 
 them, to make them despise it, as Arnauld, Pascal 
 &c. whose names alone make a book drop from 
 the hands of any docile child of the Church. 
 It will, at once be remembered these too well 
 known names, were the founders of errors and 
 far from being true Catholics; on the contrary, 
 they have formally taught heresy, for which on* 
 was banished and the other saw his book burnt 
 by the hangman." Blaise Pascal was born at 
 Clermont in Auvergue June 19th, 1623, and died 
 at Paris August 1 Qth, 1662. Father Daniel op- 
 posed the Provinciates in his Entretiensde Cliandre 
 ft d'Eudoxe. 
 
 F2 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AN 
 
 Robert Recorde, 
 jln English Mathematician of the \6th Century. 
 
 To this ingenious man we are indebted for the 
 first treatise in Algebra, then named the Cossic 
 Art, in the English Language. In a book \\hich 
 he wrote on arithmetic, he is styled Teacher of 
 Mathematics, and Practitioner in Physic, at 
 Cambridge. 
 
 It was for some ages the custom among the 
 Moors, and after them among the Europeans, 
 to unite the title, as well as the practice of Medi- 
 cine, with those of Chemistry, Alchymy, 
 Mathematics and Astrology. It is remarkable, 
 that as the Moors were not less famous in 
 Europe for their skill in medicine than their dex- 
 terity in calculation, the terms of Physician and 
 Algebraist appear at first to have been regarded 
 as almost synonymous. When the bachelor 
 Damson Carrasco in Don Quixote, in his ren- 
 cpunter with the Knight, was thrown from his 
 
LITERARY ANT.CDOTES. 5 
 
 horse, and had his ribs broken, they sent in quest 
 
 of an /7_:r/;.>is7rt to heal liis bruises. 
 
 The first part of the Arithmetic above men- 
 tioned was published in 1,V oud in 1557 
 under the title of ''The IVhd Iliftc, ti'hich 
 is the tecokd pert of atitfitnetikc; containing the 
 ei'lrucilmi of Rw>/r>; tne Cossikc practise, with 
 the Rule of Equation^ and the workt* of Surde 
 numbers" The book is a dialogue between the 
 master and the scholar, and treats uf iiguratc 
 numbers, extractions of the Square and Cube 
 roots, ike. Then follow Algebra, or Cossik* 
 numbers, and the rule of Equation, commonly 
 called Algeber's rule. Here the character=is 
 employed for the first time, to signify equality. 
 Recorde says, "And to ai'oide the tediouse re- 
 pition of these u'oordes is equal to: I will settc 
 down as I doe often in &oork u*e, a pair of pa- 
 relle/s, or gemotcc lines of one lenghth, thus=: 
 because noe 2 thynges are moare equalled 
 
 * Mutton's Jracfi on many intrreftiug parts of the 
 Mathematical and Philosophical Sciences^ S ro/. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 Glareans Seat in the College of Bale. 
 Menkenius, in his book De Charlataneria 
 Eruditorum, gives the following as an instance 
 of the extravagant premeditated actions of men 
 of learning, to excite attention and make them- 
 selves talked of. 
 
 Henri Lorit Glarean was one of the friends 
 of Erasmus and hud taught philosophy at Bale, 
 and history and poetry at Fribourg with universal 
 applause ; but although by tke publication of 
 several excellent works in prose and poetry, he 
 had shewn himself superior to the masters of art* 
 yet not having been graduated, he had no right 
 evento place himself on an equality wilhthem,and 
 the professors of Bale not knowing what place 
 to assign him in their public assemblies, he was 
 obliged, (mortifying as it must have been to 
 such a mind) either to seat himself at the end 
 of the masters of arts' bench, or to mix witli the 
 croud of students. He concealed his chagrin, 
 
LITER A RY ANECDOTES. 57 
 
 however, for some time, in the expectation that 
 they would at last grant and point < -ut foi him a 
 e honorable siiuation; but the appointment 
 was so long in emhryo,that at iaM on I int- 
 
 ; the creation of doctor, G his 
 
 arance in the auditory, mounted on an ass. 
 The eyes of the \\ ii nbiy wci\ .tely 
 
 turned on him, and each made hi* o>n rom- 
 menti on so strange an appearance; SOIYK 
 him inad others that he was making game of 
 those on \\hom the\ NU re just going to coufcr 
 the cap. But no one could refrain from bursts 
 of laughter, when the animal either from ! 
 surprize, or perhaps from pleasure at being in 
 such good company, began braving and throwing 
 out his hinder legs. At lust the rector of the 
 university demanded of Glaiean the reason of 
 such conduct. "I have douc it,*' replied he, "to 
 relieve you from the en* lent you have so 
 
 long been in, touching the place you ought to 
 assign me either among the doctors or the mas- 
 ters of arts; and as I have no intention of stand- 
 ing any longer, you now behold the soat 1 shall 
 in future occupy in your Assemblies," 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANT) 
 
 Thiologie portative, on Dictionnaire ahrtgt 
 de la Religion Chrttienne, par M. C Ablti far- 
 mer (Dulaurent.) } { 2mo. Rome (Paris) 1773. 
 
 The same, with corrections and augmentation 
 by a disciple of the author. 2 vol. 12mo. 
 Rome, avec per mission tt privilege du Conclave, 
 1776. 
 
 This diabolical work, as it is called by Peig- 
 not,* and which was burnt by the hands of the 
 hangman in 1776, has been attributed to Voltaire, 
 but is in reality the work of one Dulaurent, au 
 apostate monk, born in the province of Artois, 
 and who took refuge in Holland, where he com- 
 posed many books of the same description as the 
 one above cited. An idea of the style and or- 
 thodoxy, may be formed from the following defi- 
 nitions taken at random from this dictionary. 
 
 * Dictionnaire dcslivrescondamnesau feu, 3 torn, 3vo. 
 Paris, iao6. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 3D 
 
 ADAM, the first man; God created him a 
 great ninny and to pirate his wife he was simple- 
 ton enough to gnaw an apple, his descendant* 
 have not yet been able to digest. 
 
 ASSES; animals with long ears, they are patient 
 and mischievous and the true models of Chris- 
 tians, who ought patiently to endure beating 
 and like that animal, always carry the cro>.-. 
 Jesus mounted on the back of an ass, by which 
 action he wished it to be understood that his 
 priests should have the ascendancy over, and 
 chastisement of Christian men and women, till 
 the end of time. 
 
 CAPUCHIN, a goat with two legs, loaded 
 with filth and ignorance ; he sings through the 
 nose in his convent and exhibits himself in the 
 streets for the edification of good women and to 
 frighten the little children. 
 
 HELL. The kitchen fire that makes the sacer- 
 dotal porridge pot boil ; it was founded in favor 
 of priests, and that they may have good cheer, 
 it is, that the eternal Father, who is their first 
 
60 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANP 
 
 cook, spits those of his children, who have not 
 that deference for their lessons, \\hich is due. 
 
 GOOSE. There are certain tales called *Goo 
 Tales. The tales that the Church U 11 us, are 
 Gooses' Tales, seeing that \vc are goslings and the 
 church is our mother. 
 
 jDe//;//.s the Critic. 
 
 D'Isracli, at the end ofj.be character of Den- 
 nis, in his Literary Miscellanies, has the follow- 
 ing anecdote: It appears that the Pro\ 
 Husband was acted for bis benefit, which pro- 
 cm ed him about ^100. Thompson and Pope 
 generously supported the Old Critic, and Sa 
 \\\\o h:td nothing but verse to give, returned tlu-m 
 poetical thanks in the name of Dennis. When 
 Dennis heard these lines repeated (for he was 
 then blind) his critical severity, and his natural 
 brutality, overcame that grateful sense he should 
 kave expressed, of their kindness and their ele- 
 gance. He swore "By God they could be no 
 one's but ilmtfool Savage's." 
 
 Or Mother GOGMJ'S Tales; the French term is 'O'ontei 
 
 !c iii* Mere i'Uie/ 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. (j I 
 
 The dates of the original editions of Milton's 
 Works, with some other particulars respecting 
 that author. 
 
 PROSE WORKS. 
 
 Of Reformation in England 1641 
 
 Of Prelatical Episcopacy 1641 
 
 Of Church Government 1G41 
 
 Animadversions upon the Remonstrants de- 
 fence against Smectymnns 1641 
 
 An Apology for Smectymnns 1642 
 
 Areopagitica 1644 
 
 The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. . . .1644 
 The Doctrine, c. of Divorce, much aug- 
 mented, a second edition 1644 
 
 The same 1645 
 
 The Judgment of Martin Bucer, concerning 
 
 Divorce 1 64 1 
 
 Of Education 1644 
 
 Of Education, printed at the end of his Po- 
 
 ins, Hvo 1673 
 
 Tetrachordon 1645 
 
 Colasterion 1645 
 
 Obsenatioiii on the Article* of Peace 1649 
 
 1644) 
 41 
 
6% BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANB 
 
 The same, 8vo. Amsterdam 1GJJO 
 
 The same, a second edition, much enlarged. 1050 
 
 Eikonoklastes, traduite do i'Anglois, sur hi 
 seconde et plus ample edition; et rrvue par 
 ruuteur; a Londres, par Guill. Du^anl, 
 imprimeur du Conseil d'Elati'an 1052, l'2->. 
 
 Tenure of Kings 10 U) 
 
 The same, second edition ir 41) 
 
 The same, a new edition with some additions 1000 
 
 Pro Populo Anglicano defensio 1051 
 
 The same in folio, editio emendatior 1G."> l 
 
 The same in 12mo 1 051 
 
 Pro Populo Anglicano defcnsio Antwerp 1051 
 
 The same Hl'r2 
 
 Defensio sec unda,. . . . 12mo. Magae-Comitum 1<>.V2 
 
 The same 1 054 
 
 Joannis Philippi angli responsio, 12mo- Lond 105U 
 
 The Defence of the People of Eu;hu,d 
 translated by Mr. Washington of the 
 Temple, 8vo ....'. 1G92 
 
 Pro Deffiisio.. . .12mo Hag. Comituui^ -1055 
 
 Scriptum Dora. Protect^ris Reipublicae An- 
 
 gliae &c. 1655 
 
 Liters?, Senatus Anglicani neciion Cromwelli, 
 
 &c. nomine, conscriptae, 12mo 1659 
 
 Considerations to remove hirelings out of 
 
 the Church, 12mo 1650 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTIC. ()'J 
 
 A lelter concerning the Corn . 1659 
 
 A ready and easy way to establish a Com- 
 nionwealtii \ 
 
 A Treatise of Civil Power, I2iiio 1659 
 
 The cabinet Council, containing the chief 
 arts of Empire, by the ever retio. 
 Knight Sir Walter Rawleigb. Publish* -i 
 by John Milton Esq. 12mo. Printed by 
 
 N ewcomb 1 638 
 
 Accedence commenced Grammar, 121110. 16'K) 
 
 The same 1 661) 
 
 Brief Notes upon a Sermon 1660 
 
 Aphorisms of State, a Tract of Sir Walter 
 
 Rawleigh's 8vo 1661 
 
 The History of Britain 1 670 
 
 The same 1671 
 
 Artis Logic* Institutio 12mo 1672 
 
 Idem edito secunda, 12mo 16?tf 
 
 Of true Religion, 12mo 1673 
 
 Epibtolarum Iraniiliarium Liber, 8vo 1674 
 
 Declaration of the Poles -1674 
 
 Letters of State, 12mo. 1676. Translated into 
 
 English 1694 
 
 The Historic of Moscovia, 8vo- 1682 
 
 02 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 Poetical Works 
 
 Paradise Lost, in ten Books 1667 
 
 The same 1668 
 
 The same, with the argument, and addn s> 
 
 to the reader, from S. Simons 1660 
 
 The same, without the address 1669 
 
 The same in twelve Books ,1(>72 
 
 Paradise Lost, in twelve books, 2nd, Edition 
 8vo ........ Kr/i 
 
 The same 1<>7."> 
 
 The same 1678 
 
 Poems. 12mo 1645 
 
 Poems, with the Tractate on Education, 
 
 written above twenty years since, 8vo -1673 
 
 Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes 
 
 8vo-. 1671 
 
 The same.. .... ., ..1680 
 
 All the proceeding editions, except those marked 
 otherwise are in Quarto. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 6.) 
 
 Milton experienced some difficulty in getting 
 his Poem of 1 Lost licensed, the licenser 
 
 imagining tha% in the noble simile of the sun 
 in an eclipse, he hail discovered treason. It was, 
 however, licensed, and Milton sold his M S. to 
 Samuel Simmons, April 27th 1667, for an im- 
 mediate payment of five pounds, with a proviso 
 that on 1300 copi <> receive 
 
 five pounds more; and the su.ue for the second 
 and third editions. 
 
 The first edition appeared in 1667, in ten 
 books, small quarto, advertised at 3s plainly 
 bound; but as it met with no very quick sale, the 
 titles were varied in order to promo! . 
 circulation thus the edition of 1667 is fre- 
 quently found with the titles of 1608 and 1669. 
 
 In two years, the sale of the poem gave the 
 Poet a right to his second payment, iLe receipt 
 for which was signed April 26th 166J. 
 
 The Second Edition was printed -in Svo. 1674, 
 but the author did not live to receive the sti- 
 pulated payment. The third edition was publish* J 
 03 
 
66 BIBLIOGBAPHICAL AND 
 
 in 167?.* The copy right then devolving to 
 Milton's widow, she agreed with Simmons to 
 receive eight pounds for it ; this agreement was 
 concluded, and the receipt signed, December 
 21st 1680. Simmons transferred the right for 
 twenty five pounds, to a Bookseller named 
 Brabazon Aylmer, and Aylmer solo half to 
 Jacob Tonson, August 17th, 1683, and the 
 other half at a price considerably advanced, 
 March 24th 1690. 
 
 Dr Bentley, for his edition of Milton in 17 
 received one hundred and five pounds, and 
 
 Dr. Newton, for editing the Paradise Lot, 
 received six hundred and thirty pounds, and for 
 Paradise Regained, one hundred and live pounds, 
 
 Baron, for ievi?ing the Edition of Milton's 
 Prose Works, 2 vol. 4to. received *O. 
 
 I shall conclude these unconnected puilirithus, 
 witli the following curious 
 
 PROCLAMATION 
 
 By the King 
 For calling in and suppressing of t>\o books 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTli. 6? 
 
 written by John Milton: the one, intituled, 
 Joha nnis Miltoni Angli pro Populo An^licuno 
 Dejensio, contra Claud u Ano/u/mi alias tia/tnas'd 
 Defensionem Regiam; ami the other in answer 
 to a book intituled, The l\mrtraicture of his 
 Sacred Majesty in lux Solitude and Suffering 
 and also a third book intituled, The Obttructor* 
 of Justice, written by John Goodwin. 
 
 Charles R. 
 
 Whereas John Milton, lute of Westminster, 
 in the County of Middlesex, hath published in 
 print two several books, the one intituled 
 Johannis jMiltoiii Ang/i pro Populo 
 ilefensio contra Claudll Anonymi, alias 
 Dc/ensiont J M lltgia/n. And the other in answer 
 to a book intituled The Portraicture of his sacred 
 Majesty in his solitude and sufferings. In both 
 which are contained sundry treasonable passages 
 against us and our Government, and most im- 
 pious endeavours to justifie the horrid and 
 unuialchable murder of our late dear father of 
 glorious memory. 
 
(38 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 And whereas John Goodwin, late of Coleman 
 Street, London, clerk, ha^.i also published in 
 print, a book intituled, The Obstrttctors of Jus- 
 tice, written in defiance of his said :rsty. 
 And whereas the said John Milton and John 
 Goodwin are both fled, or so obscure themselves 
 that no endeavours used for their apprehension 
 can take effect t whereby they might be brought 
 to legal tryal, and deservedly receive condign 
 punishment for their treasons and offences. 
 
 Now to the end that our good subjects may 
 not be corrupted in their judgements, with such 
 wicked and traiterous principles as are dispersed 
 and scattered throughout the beforementioned 
 books, we upon the motion of the Commons in 
 Parliament now assembled, doe hereby streightly 
 charge and command all and every person and 
 persons whatsoever, who live in any city, bur- 
 rough or town incorporate, within this, our 
 kingdom of England, the dominion of Wales, 
 and town of Beiwick upon Tweed, in whose 
 kands any of those books are, or hereafter shaH 
 
I.IT Ell All Y ANECDOTES. (>9 
 
 be, that they, upon pain of our high displeasure, 
 ami the consrquei;. .f, do forthwith, upon 
 
 publication of this our command, or within ten days 
 immediately following, deliver or cause the same 
 to be delivered to the minor, bailiffs, or other chief 
 officer or magistrate, in any of the said cities, bor- 
 roughs or towns incorporate, w here such person 
 or persons so live, or if living out of any city, bor- 
 rough or Down incorporate, then to the next justice 
 of peace adjoining his or their dwelling or place 
 of abode; or if living in either of our universities, 
 then to the vice-chancellor of that university 
 where he or they do reside. 
 
 And in default of such voluutarv delivery, w hich 
 we do expect in observance of our said command 
 that then and after the time before limited, expi- 
 red, the said chief magistrate of all and every 
 the said cities, borroughs or towns incorporate* 
 the justices of the peace in their several counties, 
 and the vice-chancellors of our said universities 
 respectively, are hereby commanded to seize 
 and take all and every the books aforesaid, in 
 
70 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 whose hands or possession soever they shall be 
 found, and certitie the names of the offenderi 
 into our Privy Council. 
 
 And we do hereby also give special charge 
 and command to the said chief magistrates, jus- 
 tices of the peace and vice-chancellors respect- 
 ively, that they cause the said books which shall 
 be so brought unto any of their hands or seized or 
 taken as aforesaid, by vertue of this our procla- 
 mation, to be delivered to the respective Sheriffs 
 of those Counties where they respectively live, 
 the first and next assizes that shall after happen. 
 And the said Sheriffs are hereby also required, in 
 time of holding such assizes, to cause the same to 
 be publicly burnt by the hand of the common 
 hangman. 
 
 And we do furrier streightly charge arid com- 
 mand that no man hereafter presume to print, 
 vend, sell, or disperse any the aforesaid books, 
 upon pain of our heavy displeasure, and of such 
 further punishment as for their presumption in 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 71 
 
 that behalf in. \'.c(?d upon ;; 
 
 by the hi : n. 
 
 al our Court at Whkehall, th- tliirti 
 
 day of August, in the twelfth year of our TV 1,511 
 
 Destruction of libraries in the Time <>/* 1L*ury 
 I 11L at the dissolution of the M<> ,, 
 
 It is a circumstance well known to every one 
 at all conversant in English History, that the 
 suppression of the lesser monasteries by that 
 rapacious monarch, Harrv the VIII. took place 
 in 1 0^6. Bishop Fisher, when the abolition was 
 first proposed in the convocation, strenuously 
 opposed it, and told his brethren that this was 
 fairly showing the king how he might come at 
 the great monasteries. "And so, my lords/' con- 
 cluded he, ''if you grant the king these smaller 
 monasteries, you do but make him a handle, 
 whereby he may cut down all the cedars within 
 your lebanons." Fisher's fears were bnore out 
 by the subsequent acts of Henry, who, after 
 
72 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 quelling a civil commotion occasioned by the 
 suppression of the lesser monasteries, immedi- 
 ately abolished the remainder, and on the wholt 
 suppressed 645 monasteries, of which 28 had 
 abbots who enjoyed seats in Parliament, Ninety 
 colleges were demolished, 2374 chantries and 
 free-chapels and 1 10 hospitals. Tht havoc that 
 was made among the libraries, cannot be better 
 described than in the words of Bay Its bishop of 
 Ossory, in the preface to Lelands ''New year's 
 Gift to King Henry the VIII " 
 
 *'A greate sombre of them \\hyche purchased 
 those, superstycyouse mansyons (monasteries) 
 reserved of those librarye bookes, some to serve 
 theyr jaket some to scoure theyr candleityckes, 
 and some to rubbe theyr bootes. Some they 
 solde to the grossers and sope sellers, and some 
 they sent over see toy e booke bynders, notin small 
 nombre, but at tymes whole shyppes full to y 
 wonderynge of foren nacyons. Yea y* Univcr- 
 sytees of thys realme are not alle clere in thys 
 detestable fact. But cursed is that bellye whyche 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 73 
 
 seketh to be fedde with suche ungodlye gaynes, 
 and so depelye shaineth hvs natural conterye. I 
 knosve a merchant manne, whyche shall at thy* 
 tymc be namelcsse, that boughte y e content' 
 two noble lybrarvcs for forty shyllynges pryce : 
 a shame it is to be spoken. Thys stuffe hathe 
 he occnpyed in y c stede of greye paper, by y* 
 space of more than these ten yeares and yet 
 he hathe store ynoughe for as manye yeares to 
 come. A prodygyonse example is thys and to 
 be abhorred of all men whyche love theyr nacyon 
 as they shoulde do. The monkes krpte them 
 undre dust, y e ydle-headed prestes regarded them 
 not, theyr latter owners have most shamefully 
 abused them, and y e covetouse merchantes have 
 solde them awaye into foren nacyonsfor moneye." 
 
 Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scot/and 
 to a friend in London, 2 rol. Svo. London 1754. 
 
 The author of these letters was one Birt, an 
 understrapper commissary, who, as is natural to 
 
 such people, w r as in his own opinion, a man of 
 H 
 
74 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 great consequence. Major Hepburn of Aldrr- 
 cron's regiment, mentioned at Madras an anec- 
 dote of Birt, which I think happened at lnv< 
 Birt giving himself some consequential airs, said 
 "He represented His Majesty." Upon which a 
 dry Scot replied, "Hoot monh/rw represent His 
 Majesty! He God bless him, is mucklr !u Un- 
 represented on a 
 
 The newe Attract hie, containing a short dis- 
 course of the Magnes or Lodes tone, and <////<> 
 other his tftrtucs, of a new disco uered secret, and 
 subtile properties concerning the dec ly /ting of the 
 Needle, touched therewith, under the pfaine of the 
 Horizon. Now Jirst found oat by ROUKRT NOR- 
 MAN, Hydrograpner. Small 4t'r. imprinted at 
 London, by John Kyngston,for Richard Ballard 
 1581. 
 
 This scarce Tract is the production of Robert 
 Norman, who first discovered whiu ; > ( , II' d the 
 dipping of the Needle, an:! which d : >\ei\ rhis 
 work was intended to proujii'^Jit Va ii'is curious 
 \vork is very little known, a ' its con- 
 
 leuts will perhaps, not bedeenitci uninterestini". 
 
LITER AKY ANKCDOTES. 75 
 
 The 1st. Chapter treateth Of tlie Magnes or 
 '<, where they :nv to he found, and 
 of their colours, \veight ami vrrtue in 
 drawying iron, or steele, and of other pro- 
 perties of the same stone. 
 
 2nd. Chap. Of the divers opinions of those that 
 haue written of the attractiuc poinct, and 
 where thei liave imagined it to bee. 
 
 3d. Chap. By what means the rare and straunge 
 dedinyng of the Needle, from the plaine of 
 the Horizon was first founde. 
 
 4th. Chap. How to tinde the greatest declinyng 
 of the Needle under the Horizon. 
 
 5th. Chap. That in the vertue of the Magnet 
 or Lodestone, is no ponderous or weightie 
 matter, to cause any suche declinyng in the 
 Needle. 
 
 6th. Chap. A confutation of the common re- 
 ceived opinion of the point Attractiue. 
 
 H 2 
 
76 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 Ilk. Clutp. Of the poinct Rtsp 'ctiue y where it 
 male bee by greatest reason imagined. 
 
 8th. Chap. Ccrtainc proofes of the power and 
 action, vvholie and ficelie bt'r\n in the 
 stone , to she we this poincte respective, and 
 in the Needle, by vinu-- :md po\\tr u< < 
 of the Stone, and not forced, or constrained 
 by any Attraction in Heaven or Y earth. 
 
 9th. Chap. Of the Variation of the Needle 
 from the Pole or Axlelree of the Earth, and 
 how it is to bee understoode. 
 
 10th. Chap. Of the common Compasses, and 
 of the clivers different sortes and makynges 
 of them, with the inconveniences that maie 
 growe by them, and the plattes made by 
 them. 
 
 After which followeth, A Table of the Sun's 
 Declination and three other Astronomical 
 Tables. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 77 
 
 The body of the \Vork, with the Tables, 
 Occupy (><2 pa.srs, printed \\ith black or old english 
 letter; exclusive of \vhich, at the In-giiininu, are 
 a dedicatory epistle , an address to the Reader, 
 and the Magnes or Lodt Mom 's Challenge, which 
 latter will be no unuelcoine guest, after the 
 preceding dry recital of contents. 
 
 THE MAGNES, OR LODESTONB's CHALLENGE 
 Give plaee, ye glittering sparkes 
 
 Ye glimmering saphircs bright 
 Ye Rubies redde, and Diamonds braue, 
 
 AY here hi ye moste delight. 
 
 In hreefe, \c Atones inrieht, 
 
 And buruibht all with golde, 
 Set fort he in lapidaries shoppes 
 
 For Jewells to be solde. 
 
 Give place, give place, I saie 
 Your beautie, gieame and glee 
 
 Is ail the vertue for the Whiche, 
 Accepted so you bee. 
 
 H a 
 
78 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 Magnes, the Lodestone, T, 
 Your painted sheathes defie, 
 
 Without my helpe, in Indian seas, 
 The beste of you might lie. 
 
 I guide the pilot's course, 
 
 His helping hande I am, 
 The Mariner delights in me, 
 
 So doeth the marchaunt man 
 
 My vertue lyes unknown, 
 
 My secrets hidden are, 
 By me, the Court and commonweale 
 
 Are pleasured verie farre. 
 
 No shippe could saile on Seas, 
 Her course to runne aright, 
 
 Nor compasse shewe the readie wait, 
 Were Magnes not of might. 
 
 Blush then, and blemishe all 
 Bequeath to me that's dewe, 
 
 Your seates in golde, your price in plate. 
 Which Jewellers doe renewe. 
 
UTERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 It's I, it's I, al n' 
 
 \Vhom you u^urpe upon, 
 M;iL. r nes l>y name, the Lodestone cal'd. 
 
 The Prince of stones alone. 
 
 If this you can denic, 
 
 Then t.eeme to make rcplic, 
 
 And let the painfull Seaman judge 
 The u hit he of us doeth lie, 
 
 THE MARINER'S JUDGMENT. 
 
 The Lodestone is the stone, 
 
 The onely stone alone, 
 Deseruyng praise above the rest, 
 
 Whose vertues are unknowne. 
 
 THE MARCHANTE'S VERDICT* 
 
 The saphire's bright, the diamonds braue 
 Are stones that beare the name 
 
 But flatter not and tell the troth, 
 Magnes deserves the fame. 
 
80 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 LePo'tte sansfard, ou 
 toutes sortes de sujets. (pfir Gacon.) 2 turn, 
 IQmo 1696. 
 
 This work, which was reprinted in 1701 with 
 some alterations, is a collection of satires which 
 Chancellor Boucherat caused to be suppressed, 
 and condemned the author to some months im- 
 prisonment. Frangois Gacon died in 172,3, at 
 the age of fifty, after having composed a great 
 number of very indifferent satirical works. The 
 following quatrain from the Poete sansfard may 
 be considered as a very favorable specimen of 
 the author's talents ; 
 
 Une beautc quand elle advance en age, 
 A ses a mans inspire du degout; 
 
 Mais, pour le vin, il a cet avantage, 
 Plus il viellif, plus il flatte le goat. 
 
 which may be done into English thus : 
 
 A beauty, when advanced in age, 
 In lover's eyes sees little favor; 
 
 But wine it is, has this advantage, 
 
 The older 'tis, the finer is its flavor. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 81 
 
 The Discmerie of tht gaping On //>//, <v//m'w 
 to I] /_./,./, td is like to i a French 
 
 Marriage., if the Lorrlc forbid .-tot I lit' Rands by 
 
 Jetting Iw of ajcsty (Queen Elizabeth) see the sin 
 **d punishment thereof. L>7}). 
 
 This Tract wa elicited by the incognito visit of 
 tin 1 Duke of Anjou to England, aficr the fi- 
 vorable receival of his proxy by the Queen. 
 The author John Stubbes, a ni mix r of Lin- 
 coln's Inn; the publisher William P ige ; and 
 Hugh Singleton, the printer, weie all three 
 apprehended, tried, and sentenced to have their 
 right hands cut off by a butcher's knife and 
 mallet. Never, I believe, was the courage and 
 loyalty of Englishmen more strikingly exempli- 
 fied than in the conduct of Stubbes and Page 
 when brought to the scaffold to have the sen- 
 tence put into execution, November 3, Io79-* 
 
 Stubbes addressing himself to the spectators, 
 said 
 
 " What a grieffe it is to the bodie to lose one 
 
 * ^ingleton, by the interest of his friends, obtained a 
 remittance of the sentence. 
 
82 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 of its' members you all know. I am come hi- 
 ther to receive my punishment according to the 
 laws. I am sorie for the losse of my hand, 
 and more sorie to lose it by judgment; but most 
 of all with her Majesties' indignation and evell 
 opinion, \nhome I have soe highlie displeased. 
 Before 1 was condempned, I might speak for 
 my innocencie; but noue my mouth is stopped 
 by judgment, to the which L submitt niysclrfe, 
 ame content patientlie to endure whatsoever it 
 pleaseth God, of his secrett providence, to laie 
 upon me, and take it justlie deserved for my 
 sinnes; and I pray God it maie be an example 
 to youe all, that it beinge so daungerous to of- 
 fend the lawes without an evell meaninge, as 
 breedeth the losse of a haund, you maie use your 
 haunds holylie and praie to God for the longe 
 preservation of her Majestic over youe, whom 
 God hath used as an instrument for a longe peace 
 and many blessings over us ; and speciallie for 
 his Gospell, whearby shee hathe made a waie for 
 us to rest and quiteness of our conciences. For 
 the French I force not, but my greatest grieffe 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 83 
 
 is, in soe nrtnv \\ei M < and dale's imprisonment, 
 her Majestic hath not once thought mr worthie of 
 her mereie, which she. hath oftentinu s extended to 
 divers persons in greater offences. For my liainul 
 .me it not soe mutch, for I tliinkc I colde 
 vivcd it, and might do yet; but I will not 
 have a guiltlesse harte and an ii. famous haunde. 
 1 praie youc all to pruie with me, that God will 
 strengthen me to endure and abide the paine that 
 1 ame to suffre, and gratint me this grace, that 
 the losse of my haunde do not withdraw any 
 parte of my duetie and affection toward her 
 Majestic, and because, when soe many veines of 
 bloude are opened it is uncertain howe they maie 
 be stayed, and what will be the eveHt theirof. 
 Then kneeling, he continued, "1 beseche youe all 
 to praye for me, that it wolde please God to for- 
 give me my sinnes; and I crave pardon of all the 
 worlde, and freelie forgive everie one that hathe 
 offended me, and soe with mercie to deale with 
 me, that whether I live or die 1 may live or die his 
 servaunt. My maisters, if their be any among 
 re that doe love me, if your love be not in God 
 
84 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 and her Majestic I ntterlie clenie your loue." 
 The hand ready on the Block to be stricken off, 
 he said often to the people " Praye for me, 
 no\ve mye calamatie is at handc." At the end 
 of these words his right hand was struck off' 
 when waving his hat with his remaining hand, 
 he exclaimed, "God save the Queen!" and im- 
 mediately swooued. 
 
 Page next ascended the scaffold, and ad- 
 dressing himself to the by-standers, said, 
 
 ' I am come hither to receive the lawe ac- 
 cording to my judgment, and thanke God of 
 all, and of this I take God to witness, that 
 knoweth the hartcs of all men, that, as I ame 
 sorie I have offended her Majestic, so did I 
 never mene harme to her Highness' person, 
 crowne or dignitie; but have bene as trewe a 
 subject as any was in England to my abilitie, 
 except none:" Then holding up his right hand, 
 This hand," said he, " did, I put to the 
 Plough and got my living by it many years. 
 If it wolde haue pleased her Highness to hive 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 85 
 
 pardoned it and have taken my left haund, or 
 my life she had clelte more favourablie with 
 me, for nowe I have no meanes to live ; but 
 God, which is the father of us all, will pro- 
 vide for me. I beseech*' you all to praie for 
 me, that I maie take this punishment pati- 
 entlie." And so laying his hand upon the block, 
 he prayed the executioner to perform his office 
 as quickly as possible, who, at two blows se- 
 vered his hand from his arm, whereat lifting 
 up the stump, he said to the people, " I have 
 left there a true Englishman's hand" and so went 
 from the scaffold very stoutly and with great 
 courage. 
 
 Littleton's (Adam) Latine Dictionary* 
 Quarto, London l6?B and 1(584. 
 
 When the Doctor was compiling his Diction- 
 ary, and announced the Word Concurro to his 
 Amanuensis, the scribe imagining from an affiinity 
 of sound, that the six first letters would give the 
 translation of the verb, said, "Concur I suppose 
 
98 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AM) 
 
 Sir, 9 ' to which the Doctor peevishly replied 
 "Concur! Condog!" The Secretary, whose 
 business it was to write down what his rm. 
 dictated, according, did his duty, and the word 
 Condog was inserted, and actually printed as 
 one interpretation of "con curro" in the edition 
 of 1678, but omitted in the subsequent one of 
 1684. 
 
 The author, at the end of this Dictionary pro- 
 poses an inscription fur the Monument to com- 
 memorate the u., IKS ot ih- Lord M,i\ .;s of 
 London under whose Mayoralitii B it is vuisbrgnn 
 continued and completed, ''worthy forit'.s length'* 
 says Southey "of a Sanscrit Legend, and extend- 
 ing through seven degrees of Longitude. 
 
 Advice to Authors on facility, of Composition. 
 
 Lope Felix de Vega Carpio wrote five times 
 the number of leaves that he lived days, and if 
 any one has the curiosity to know in what manner 
 such facility of composition is attained; let him 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 8? 
 
 listen to the advice that Ringelbergius (Sterck) 
 gives to an author under his tuition. "Tell the 
 Printers," says he "to make preparations for a 
 work you intend writing, and never alarm your- 
 self about it because it is not even begun, for after 
 having annouced it, you may, without difficulty, 
 trace out in your own head, the whole plan of the 
 Work, and its divisions; after which, compose th 
 arguments of the Chapters, and I can assure yoi 
 that in this mtnner you may furnish the Printer: 
 daily with more copy than they want. Butremem. 
 ber, when you have once begun there must be no 
 flagging 'till the Work is finished." 
 
 Voyage du ci-devant Due da Chatelet en Portugal 
 revue par M. Bourgoing. 2 torn. 8i'o. Paris 1798 
 
 The real author of this book was Dessotteux 
 an officer in Rochambeau's army, better known 
 by the name of Comartin. The Duke du Chatelet 
 never was in Portugal; in the year 1777 when 
 he is said to have departed from England, he was 
 not in that Kingdom, having been successively re- 
 placed as ambassador by DeG nines and Noaillet 
 
 I a 
 
$8 JSIBLiOGKAI'HiCAL AND 
 
 HALSTEAD'S (ROBERT) 
 
 Sdcdnct Genealogies of the noble and Ancient 
 Houses of A /no or De A I net o, Broc of Shephah 
 ^'La timer of Duntish, Drayton of Dray torn 
 Mauduil of Westminster, Greene of Drai/ton, 
 Vcre of Aadington, Fitz. Leicit of West Home- 
 don, llozcard of Ejfi?igham ana Mordmint of 
 Turkey yjuttijicdb if Public. Records, Ancient and 
 extant Charters Sfc. JoL Land* 1685. 
 
 The Author's name is fictitious, this work 
 being the compilation of Henry, Earl of Peter- 
 borough and Mr. Rans his Chaplain, Rector of 
 Turvey in Bedfordshire. 
 
 Only Twenty-four Copies of this Book wer 
 printed and it is so extremely rare as to have sold 
 at Joy's Sale in 1779 for Nineteen Guineas and 
 at Leigh's Auction Room, December Ibl 2 for 
 Forty-one Guineas. 
 
 Fenelon's Adventures of Tekmachus. 
 
 Bausset in his Life of Fenelon, says, that the 
 transcript of this work was secretly circulated in 
 several families previous to publication; and ac- 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 89 
 
 cording to Peignot this circulation was occasioned 
 by the faithlessness of the vulet dc cluimbre, to 
 whom he gave it to transcribe. The manuscript 
 was alter wards soldto the widow of Claude Barbin 
 who committed it to the press; but only two 
 hundred and eight pages of it had been printed, 
 when it was discovered to be the work of Fe- 
 nelon; and that suspicions King Louis XIV. or- 
 dered strict search to be made at the Printer's 
 for all the sheets that had been worked off, 
 which were confiscated and burnt; and every effort 
 made to annihilate this admirable production. 
 Fortunately, a few copies escaped, \\\\\\ tran- 
 scripts of that part which had not been printed, 
 one of these copies was obtained by Adrian 
 Moetgens, a bookseller at the Hague, who pub- 
 lished the whole work in 1699, Peignot says 
 that every edition previous to 17 ( 20 is incomplete 
 but I have not chanced to meet with any c !i- 
 tion of that date; there i one published in 
 Twelves at Rotterdam, in 1? IQ, with notes cri- 
 tical and historical, which was reprinted in 172.3, 
 
 but the one of 1?19 i* the scarcer of the two, 
 J3 
 
90 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 on account of the first impressions of the plates. 
 Some persons have believed that in this work 
 they could recognize the characters of 
 
 Madame de Montespan as. . . .Calypso 
 
 Mademoiselle de Fontangt 1 * as .... Rurharis 
 
 The Duchess of Boulogne, .as Ant 
 
 I ouvois as. ... Prolhrsilat 
 
 King James a*. . . . Idomeuce 
 
 and Louis XIV at.. ..Sesostrit. 
 
 Bqyle, (Pierre) Dictionaire Historiqueet Cri- 
 tique, revupar Prosper Marchand y 4roA in folio 
 Rotterdam 1720. Called the third, though /W/y 
 the fourth edition. 
 
 This is the dearest and most esteemed edition 
 of Bayle's Dictionary, for which reason i 
 mercenary Booksellers, and others, by mean* 
 of false titles bearing the date of 17-0, 
 vended inferior editions for the one sought alter, 
 and so defrauded the persons to whom U>ey were 
 sold. To detect any cheat of this description, 
 and to distinguish the true edition frorn it's 
 substitutes, remark First. That in the true edition 
 the title to the dedicatory Epistle to the Regent 
 r printed iu red and blacn. Sewndly, A detached. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. Ql 
 
 part of twenty pages, numbered with small 
 Roman Capitals, containing the Preface to the 
 first Edition (in Italics,) the Bookseller's adver- 
 tisement to the third edition, and the privilige of 
 the States of Holland. Third ami lastly, It will 
 be necessary to examine volume 2, to see if the 
 article David, Roi des Juifs, be entire as it 
 ought to be employed twice, and in a different 
 manner. In the first (which is seldom omitted) 
 this article is contained in pages 963, 964, and 
 the greater pait of 9t>5; in the second on the 
 contrary, the same article much extended, has been 
 separately printed on three leaves, paged from 
 963 to 968, with an asterisk before each, to dig- 
 tiuguish them from the preceding leaves, paged 
 with the same iigures. Jt is most important to 
 possess the above mentioned three leaves, for, if 
 they are wanting the copy is imperfect; and it'a 
 yalue much diminished. 
 
 Some copies were printed on large Dutch 
 paper, with verses by Limiers, in praise of the 
 Regent, at the head of the Dedicatory Epistle, 
 
93 BIBLIOGBAPHICAL ANB 
 
 which verses were suppressed in the other copie* 
 of the same edition. 
 
 Copies of this description are precious mor- 
 ceaux; one sold at M d'Angard's Salt 1 in i?89 
 for 1400 Hires, and another, of extraordinary 
 beauty, at the sale of M. Meon, December 1803 
 for 1173 livres. 
 
 The other editions of this Dictionary, are, 
 Rotterdam, 2vols. 4o. 1697- Ditto 3vols. 1702 
 * Ditto, 3 vols. Geneva, 1715. The same, Rot- 
 terdam, 1715. Ditto 4 volt. Amsterdam J730, 
 Ditto, ^Amsterdam, (Paris) 4 vols. 1734. 
 There is a supplement printed at Geneva , 1722 
 which completes and forms the fourth volume to 
 the editions of 1702 and 1715. The edition 
 next in esteem to that of 1720 is the one in 4 t vols 
 folio, La Haye, 1740; and some prefer it, on 
 account of being rather more ample. 
 
 The following, almost always accompanies the 
 ditions of 1720 and 1740. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTE! 93 
 
 Chaufepit (Jac. Georg. de) Dictionnahe 
 ffUtoriqite et Critique, pour sercir de suite a 
 celui de Baijle. 4 vol's jolio, La Haye, 1750. 
 
 On the first appearance of Bayle's Work, the 
 fanatic Jurieu denounced it to the consitory of the 
 Wallonian Church as containing much repre- 
 kensible matter, and it would have been suppres- 
 sed had not Bayle promised to correct the parts 
 objected to; but it appears he was in no hurry 
 to fulfil his promise, for in the subsequent 
 editions the only considerable alterations he 
 made were in the article David. 
 
 Literary Vanity. 
 
 Aldrovandus could never prevail on the book- 
 sellers to undertake the printing his works, and 
 at length determined to print them at his own 
 cxpence, which he did and ruined himself, for 
 no one bought them, which he at last found 
 out, and therefore made presents of them to the 
 Public Libraries, where they remained, as per- 
 petual monuments of his learning and generosity 
 
94 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 Parallel instances, in more modern times might 
 easily be produced. 
 
 Mrs. H. More, in her ' Christian Morals" 
 relates, that whilst in Wales, a clergyman who 
 had composed a sermon, and proposed pub- 
 blishing it, asked her advice as to how many 
 thousand copies he should print ; she recom- 
 mended him to limit them to hundreds, and the 
 sermon was printed, but few copies were sold 
 except those charitably bought by the author's 
 friends. On her return to Wales from the me- 
 tropolis a short time afterwards, he anxiously 
 enquired if his sermon had made much noise in 
 the Literary World, and whether she had not 
 observed a reformation of manners at the Court 
 end of Town since its publication. Another exam ^ 
 pie may be here added, 'tis a sketch from life of 
 the late Percwal Stockdale, He was the Child of 
 Irascibility, and the offspring of his brain bear evi- 
 dent marks of their parentage. For upwards of 
 half a century his search was immortality, his 
 claims to which he did not scruple to found on 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 95 
 
 his literary labours, and even to his death, he 
 nourished the delusive conviction that pos" 
 terily would do him that justice, of which he 
 fancied he was deprived by cotemporary envy ; 
 with this self conviction he used frequently to 
 quote instances of celebrated men who n. 
 received their due praise 'till after they were 
 laid under ground, and it has even found its 
 way into his life of himself, where giving a list 
 of his works, he says ' //. >>te at Ports- 
 
 mouth' ^nd '////> ?*Y/.S written at No. 2, Bateman's 
 Buildings. 1 Ridiculous egotism ! as it the world 
 cared one straw whether his this was written in 
 a counting-house, or his that in a coal-hole. 
 
 To crown the whole, a short time previous to 
 his death, he printed at his own expence, a new 
 edition of his Poems, of which I think I may 
 yenture to say, not twenty copies were sold ; and 
 had he lived long enough it was his intention to 
 have republished the whole of his own works, 
 which had he done, would in all probability 
 have reduced him to the same dilemma as Al- 
 droyandus. 
 
96 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 DrelincourCs Discourse on Death 8vo. 
 
 This is a Book of great credit among vulgar 
 enthusiasts; but when Drelincourt first published 
 it, he was so totally disappointed in it's sale, that 
 he complained to Daniel Defoe, Author of Ro- 
 binson Crusoe &c. of the injury he \vas likely -to 
 sustain by it. Daniel asked him if he had blended 
 any thing marvellous with his pious advice, he 
 said he had not, "If you wish to have your book 
 sell," said Daniel, "I will put you in the way/' 
 he then sat down and wrote the story of the Ap- 
 parition, which is to be found at the beginning of 
 Drelinco mt's Work, and which is alleged, as a 
 proof of the appearance of ghosts to be as au- 
 thentic as the affair of the Witch of Endor. 
 This Story will be looked for in vain, in the first 
 edition. 
 
 The Hereditary right of the Crown of England 
 asserted, fo/io, 1713. 
 
 Mr. Hilkiah Bedford, the reputed author, vras 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 97 
 
 tried for this work in the Court of King's Bench 
 1714, fined 1000 marks and imprisoned three 
 years. The real author was George Harbin, 
 a nonjuring Clergyman, who wrote a remarkable 
 epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton; Lord Weymouth 
 on account of his sufferings conveyed to Hilkiah 
 100 Pounds by the hands of the real author, as it 
 is supposed, without knowing it; for Bedford, 
 from zeal to the cause, and affection for the Au- 
 thor, submitted bravely to the tine and imprison- 
 ment, in order to screen his friend, who, I believe 
 was known but to few as the real author, 'till the 
 late James West Esq. having a copy once the 
 property of Bishop Kennett, and in which the 
 Bishop had written some notes, shewing it to 
 Harbin, Harbin told him he was the Aulh >r, and 
 immediately produced the original copy of the 
 same, together with three large volumes of origi- 
 nal documents from which it had been compiled. 
 

 93 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AN1V 
 
 Wood's (Anthony) Athena Oxorriensis; or, 
 Lives of Persons educated at Oxford, Jrom A. D. 
 1500. Qvoisfolio. 1691 find 1^92- 
 
 Anthony Wood stands prominent in that class 
 of laborious compilers, who may not inaptly be 
 termed 'Biographical Pioneers/ and to his inde- 
 fatigable labours \ve are indebted for this Cata- 
 logue of near one thousand native authors, 
 which, notwithstanding the charges of narrow 
 mindedness and furious prejudice brought against 
 the Author, continues to rective the approbation 
 of, and to be the model for, every \\riter in that 
 department of Literature; and it would be \\ell 
 if the authors and compilers of the present 
 day were to imitate the honest bluniness of An- 
 thony as well as his plan, and play praise a little 
 less into each other's hands, by judging impar- 
 tially, and candidly speaking what they think; 
 but I am afraid few ore inclined, like him, 
 to sacrifice every thing for the love of truth; 
 and if they value personal convenience, they 
 perhaps are right, for Wood having accused 
 the Chancellor, Edward, liuil of Clareudoii, of 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 9<J 
 
 biibcry and corruption, the University con- 
 demned the 2nd vol. of the book to be burnt 
 in the Theatre Yard, and expelled the author at 
 a disturber of the Peace, besides lining him 
 thirty four pounds. The passages which drew 
 these severities on our author are as follows: 1st 
 jijter the restoration of King Charles 11. it 
 was expected by all that he (Jenki/ns) should it 
 made one of the judges in West minster- Hall ' f 
 and so might he have been, nould he hove given 
 money to the then Lord Chancellor. 2W. (In the 
 life of Sir J. Glynn.) 'dfter the restoration of 
 Kittg Charles the II. he (Glynn) teas made his 
 eldest Serjeant at Law by the corrupt dealing 
 of the then I^ord Chancellor. 
 
 It has since transpired, rather singularly, from 
 CDC of Hearne's Manuscripts, that Wood, suf- 
 fered for a reflection of which he was uot the real 
 author, for he was furnished with it by Mr. Au- 
 brey, who had it from Judge Jenkins himself. 
 
 K 3 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 ELZEVIR CLASSICS. 
 
 The diwiinutiveness of a large portion, and the 
 !.t auty of the whole of the Classics j -y the 
 
 Elzevirs at Leyden and Amsterdam, huve long 
 rendered them justly celebrated, and the prices 
 they bear in public sales sufficiently demonstrate 
 the estimation in which they are at present held; 
 but, as Renouard observes, in his life of the 
 elder Aldus "How few are there of those who 
 esteem and pay so dearly for these pretty editions 
 who know that the types that so much please 
 them are the work of Francis Garamond, who 
 cast them 100 Years before at Paris." 
 
 Lewis Elzevir is said to have been the first who 
 observed the distintion between the r consonant 
 and the u vow el, which had been recommended 
 by Ramus and other writers long before, but 
 never regarded. 
 
 There were five of these Elzevirs, viz. Lewis, 
 Benaventure, Abraham, Lewis and Daniel. The 
 
LITERARY ANICDOTKi. 101 
 
 whole of the Greek, Latin and French works 
 printed by these celebrated men form a collec- 
 tion of about 100 volumes. 
 
 Dr. Franklin. 
 
 This excellent philosopher, politician and me- 
 chanic, has, in his own life, left such an emulative 
 example of what industry in the outset of life may 
 effect, that it is much to be regretted his account 
 of himself is not more generally known by those 
 to whom it seems principal ly directed and who 
 would derive the greatest benefit from it. On 
 commencing business on his own account as a 
 printer and stationer, he says ' 1 began to pay by 
 degrees the debt 1 had contracted, and in order 
 to insure my character and credit as a tradesman, 
 I took care not only to be really industrious and 
 frugal, but also to avoid every appearance of the 
 contrary. I was plainly dressed, and never seen 
 in any place of public amusement. I never went 
 a fishing or hunting. A book indeed enticed me 
 sometimes from my work, but it was seldom by 
 K? 
 
10 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 stealth, and occasioned no scandal ; and to shew 
 that I did not think myself above my profession, 
 I conveyed home sometimes in a wheel-barrow 
 the paper I purchased at the warehouses. I thus 
 obtained the reputation of being an industrious 
 young man, and very punctual in his payni< 
 The merchants who imported articles of stati- 
 onary solicited my custom ; others offered to fur- 
 nish me with books, and my trade went on pros- 
 perously." 
 
 Nash's(T) Collections for the History of Wor- 
 cestershire, Q vol. j'o/io, Loud. 1781, with a sup- 
 plement 1799- 
 
 Doctor Barton being in company with Nash 
 soon after the publication of his two heavy folios, 
 the warden humourously observed to the Doc- 
 tor, that his publication was deficient in several 
 respects. 
 
 Dr. Nash, as was but natural, endeavoured 
 to defend his volumes in the best manner he 
 was able. " Pray, Doctor are i/ou not a Justice 
 ef the Peace? "lam" replied the Doctor. Then 
 
LITERARY ANECDO1 103 
 
 says Barton "I advise you to send your Work 
 to the House of Correction.*' 
 
 ;.- .cs the First^ 
 
 In the year 1677, the Parliament voted two 
 
 months' tax, for the more decent interment of the 
 body of the unfortunate Charles, and to rai 
 monument to his memory. Mr. Chiswell, son in 
 law to Royston, then Printer to the King, pro- 
 posed a plan to supersede the necessity of a 
 monument, which was, that part of the sum 
 voted should be applied to the purpose of 
 printing a new edition of Charles's Works, a 
 copy of which was to be fixed with a chain to 
 every parish church in the kingdom ; this plan 
 was approved of by many, and Charles II. him- 
 self encouraged it; but the distrusts between the 
 King and people, the heats in Parliament, and 
 the Popish Plot, prevented the execution of it " 
 On the Duke of York mounting the throne, Mr* 
 Chiswell applied to Sir Roger L'Estrange to 
 procure King James's recommendatory letter; 
 t his request the King refused, stating as a reason 
 
104 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AHD 
 
 for his refusal, that he did not believe " Icon 
 Basilikt" to be his father's production ; Chiswell 
 on being informed of this, said, that omitting 
 " Icon Basilike" would render the works im- 
 perfect, and therefore proposed printing it at the 
 end of the works, as a sort of addenda after the 
 Finis; this the King consented to, on condition 
 that some expressions which he thought inju- 
 rious to the Monarchy might be expunged ; but 
 Chiswell objecting to this, it was at last agreed, 
 that the objectionable parts should be enclosed 
 within crotchets ; and thus " Icon BosHHc?** 
 stands at the end of the second partof the King's 
 Works, folio l6S6.f 
 
 * There were Seventeen Editions of " Eikon Basil ike" 
 printed in 1648, without the Prayers, and in 1649, 
 Twelve more, six of which, at least, were printed with 
 the Prayers. There were fifty editions in various lan- 
 guages, in the course of twelve months. 
 
 Anecdotes of Bovn/tr, 4to. 
 
 t Charles the First's Letter to Pope Gregory XV. is 
 omitted in his Works It is inserted in ' 'Cabala, or 
 Mysteries of State, 4to. Vittorio Siri's Italian Mercury/ 
 DuChesne's History of England,' and ' Ru&hworth's 
 Hiitorical Collections/ 
 
 Toland's Amyntor, or Defence of Milton. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 105 
 
 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 
 
 4to, 1st edition 1(><24 - St/i edition, in folio 
 
 Qth, edition <2 ro/v, 8ro, 1800, reprinted from the 
 
 best folio edition I6jl, 2. 
 
 Robert Burton was the younger brother to 
 William Burton, author of the description of 
 Leicestershire; according to Wood, " he was 
 an exact mathematician, a cuiious calculator 
 of nativities, a general read scholar, a tho- 
 rough paced Philologist, and one thut under- 
 stood the surveying of lands well. As he was by 
 many accounted a severe student, a devourer of 
 authors, a melancholy and humourous person, 
 so by others, who knew him well, a person of 
 great honesty, plain dealing and charity. 1 have 
 heard some of the ancients of Christ Church 
 often say, that his company was very merry, 
 facete, and juvenile; and no man in his time 
 did surpass him for his ready and dexterous inter- 
 larding his common discourses among them with 
 verses from the poets, or sentences from Classic 
 authors, which being then all the fashion in the 
 
106 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 University, made his company the more ac- 
 ceptable," Burton, composed the Anatomy \\ith 
 a view of relieving his own melancholy : but 
 increased it to such a degree, that nothing could 
 make him laugh but going to the Bridge foot, 
 and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which 
 rarely failed to throw him into a violent lit of 
 laughter. His epitaph, at Christ Chinch, in 
 Oxford, intimates that excessive application to 
 this celebrated work, the author's only produc- 
 tion, was the occasion of his death. Paucis 
 not us, paucioribus ignotus, hicjacet Democritut 
 Junior, cui vitam dedit et mortem melancholia. 
 
 Dr. Johnson was so well pleased with Burton's 
 Anatomy, that he declared it was the only book 
 that ever enticed him out of bed two hours earlier 
 than he wished to rise. 
 
 Anecdote for Antiquarians. 
 Pine, the Engraver and Herald used to relate 
 the following anecdote of Dr. Stukely. 
 
LITERARY ANECBOTE*. 1O7 
 
 As the Doctor and some other curiosos, among 
 whom was Mr. Pine, were \i-iiinij: certain anti- 
 quities in Hertfordshire, they came to a place 
 called Caesar's stile, situated on ihe brow of an 
 eminence. No sooner was ihe place named, than 
 the Doctor stopped all of a sudd-.-n an.i after an 
 attentive survey of tho neighbouring ground! pro- 
 nounced it to be directly the scite of a fortified 
 pass, which Ca>sar had left behind him in hi* 
 march from Covey-Suikcs to Vendan. Soaie of 
 the company demurring against this opinion, 
 a debate arose, and an aged man, a labourer, 
 coming up, the Doctor asked him, wilh great 
 confidence, "whether that was not called C#sar's 
 Stile!" "Ai/e master" said the old man, "that it 
 t\ / hare, good reason to know it, for many a day 
 did I work upon it for old Hob (Vw, re^t his 
 sou/, he lived in yonder Farm, and a sad road it 
 was before he made fhis Stile." 
 
 Library Arrangement. 
 
 Rimsky Korsakof, a Serjeant in the Guards 
 who succeeded Zontz, iu the aiicciiuns of 
 
106 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL 
 
 Catharine the Second, Empress of Russia, gave 
 the following order to his Bookseller: " Fit me 
 up", said he, a handsome library, little books 
 above and great ones below." Similar to the above 
 was the answer of the present possessor of a 
 large Library to the demand of the person who 
 was employed to arrange it, as to the manner 
 in which he would have it classed; "Range me/' 
 replied he "the grenadiers (fo/ios) at bottom, 
 battalion (octavos) in the middle, and iight-bobs, 
 (duodecimos) at top/' 
 
 FOXTEXULLE. 
 
 The author of the 'Pluralite des Mondes/ 
 jived to be nearly one hundred years old, and 
 even at that age had an extraordinary turn of wit 
 on suitable occasions. A Lady of nearly equal 
 age, said to him one day in a large company 
 "Monsieur, you and I stay here so long I have a 
 notion death has forgotten us!" "Speak as softly 
 as you can, Madam," replied the Veteran, "lest 
 you should remind him of us." 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 109 
 
 Mr. COLE'S UNPUBLISHED NOTES 
 
 On the Rev. James Bentham's History and 
 Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Lly 
 4to. ' Cambridge 1771 Second Edition Nor- 
 xich 1812. 
 
 Manuscript copies of these notes, the origi- 
 nals of which, are said to be in a copy of 
 Bentham's Ely, formerly belonging to Cole, are 
 in the possession of different persons, and 
 so well known by a number of the collectors of 
 Topographical History, that on referring to 
 the new edition of Bentham's book, it was 
 with infinite surprize I could find no notice 
 taken of them, and yet so much solicitude 
 shewn to defend his right to the authorship of 
 the Essay on Gothic Architecture, which it 
 appears had been falsely attributed to Gray. 
 It is possible the Editor may be ignorant 
 of the existence of these Notes, if so, it is 
 proper he should be no longer withheld from 
 a knowledge of them; and, in my humble 
 opinion, the refutation of the assertion that 
 
 James Bentham was not the author of the 
 L 
 
110 B1BLIOGKAPHICAL AND 
 
 book attributed to him, could not come v itl 
 a better grace from any other than the Kditor, 
 who is the author's only son, and \\ho^v rt: - 
 ty it should be, to endeavour to remove any 
 unfavourable impressions these notes may 
 have made on the minds of such peis-msas 
 have seen, or are in post-ssion of copies of 
 them; and it 'ha*- iv-t been from any \\ish to 
 disseminate scandal or untruth lhat tliey arc 
 now published, but from a knowledge of the 
 Jimvoiihy use that has frequently b( en made of 
 documents of a similar description, after the 
 demise of those persons in \\hose po\\vr it 
 was to have refuted ihun; and a \vish that the 
 author of a book \\liich has received praise 
 from so many quarters, should not with im- 
 punity be robbed of the reputation his labours 
 have so well merited. 
 
 The references are made to the first edition 
 but they will answer equally well to ihe second 
 which on Examination, will be found to be an 
 exact paginal rtpiint. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 Ill 
 
 RFFFHRNC E S. 
 
 IVn ttc Plate to 
 
 . . 
 
 This plate engraved for the new edition 
 
 . 
 
 of Bishop Godwin de Pra^uhbus Anglwe 
 \vas lent to Mr. Betithani by his Cousin Dr. 
 Richardson, Master of Emanuel College. 
 
 After it \vas convevecl in a cart from Ila- Pa:e 51 bottom 
 
 Imo, rtlauve tt 
 
 denham it laid in Mr. 13cuthum 9 yard for a^Ancm.-it^utit 
 
 several years, and at last was placed in the 
 
 Cathedral. 
 
 31OIV.. 
 
 I advised him to use a less vulgar expres- Pact- 103 line 7 
 
 liu.u tlC lOttOH4 
 
 bkulktd out 
 
 Thurstanus Abbas obit A. D. 1076 Ao. 1 1 
 snscepli sui Ordiuis Gradus M. S. liist^ 
 Ellen, in Bibl. Cotton. Claudius A. V11I. 
 
 p. i :>, line 16 
 
 nitat" 
 
 Fraternity. In a letter I advised him to call p a g C 122 line 2 
 it 'Your Brotherhood,' Fraternity in the 
 English Language means a Community, and 
 is never used in the Sense it is here put to ; .but 
 to no purpose: to shew that he was right he 
 added the Latin word, which was proving 
 nothing. Indeed Paternity from Pateni.as is 
 La 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 English, but Fraternity has acquired anothei 
 signification. 
 
 In 1 11 1 St. Peter's Tower at the Entrance 
 of the Cathedral Church was fired by light- 
 ning. Vide M. S. Coil. 
 
 n an 
 
 laie in 3vol. 12o. Paris 1774 vol. 1, page 
 
 85 &c. intitled Histoire Litteraire des Trouba- 
 dours," is the Life of one Geoffrey Rudell or 
 Kydell, who is called Prince de Blaye near 
 Bourdeaux. It appears that there were many 
 of the name of Geoffrey Rudell about the 
 12th and 13th Centuries who were the Lords 
 of Blaye, of the House of Angouleme; and the 
 French Antiquarians are by no means agreed 
 who this famous Troubadour is; no more than 
 the time of his Death, which John Nostrada- 
 mus fixes to 1162, who adds, that Geoffrey 
 Plantagenet, 4th Son of Henry 2nd, and 
 Brother of Richard 1st, King of Fugiaud, 
 coming into Provence, found Jeffrey Rudell 
 there, with the Lord D'Agoult, and that being 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 charmed with the songs of this poet, he took 
 him with him. But there are so many inconsis. 
 tencies and fable mixed in the account given 
 of him, that it is impossible to reconcile them 
 to truth, or probability, or chronology. It 
 seems equally probable from the connection 
 he had with our princes, the sameness of 
 name, the nature of his education, ike. that 
 this proveiiQal poet was no other than our Bi- 
 shop of Ely, whose connection with the 
 Countess of Tripoli seems to agree with the 
 tccount abovementioned, and shews that he 
 was of an amorous complexion. The argu- 
 ment that we have HO account of his be;; 
 a poet is of no consequence, for we were 
 under the same uncertainty of our King Hi- 
 chard's being a Troubadour, till M. cle 
 St. Palaie had evinced it beyond any possibi- 
 lity of doubt; for Mr. Walpole in his Noble 
 Authors, vol. 1. p. 3. seems to reject him as 
 such, against the authority of Rymer, be- 
 cause Rog. Hoveden who was angry that the 
 
 King patronised and brought over from France 
 L3 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 poets and jesters to chant panegyricks of him: 
 and this rather makes for my supposition; as 
 we see by it what was the practice. 
 
 The Monk Montmajeur treats Jeffrey 
 Rudell as a clownish fellow, "(Fhommegr 
 et ennemi de toutes les Da//n'.' J 
 
 Bishop Godwin p. 251 calls him "Homo 
 arrogant en I/tgcnii et parum cot/tis, wide 
 super hi Agnomen merit us." The Bishop does 
 not say from \\hence he had his authority, but 
 says that many things concerning this Bishop 
 Rydell are to be met with in the "Hist. lor* 
 tiolensis," I have not the Book. 
 
 What I have here advanced is only a slight 
 conjecture, and as such I leave it. He is men- 
 'iont'd again in vol. <2. p. 106 of "Histoire des 
 Troubadours." What may seem to reconcile 
 this conjecture to probability, is, that an Arch- 
 bishop of Auch, a great while after this, was 
 discovered to have been one of the Gai Sci- 
 ence, or a Troubadour 'tho' utterly unknown 
 to have exercised that art; till Mons. de St. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES 
 
 made the discovery, vol.2, page 202, 
 1.3, p. 81. 
 
 I suppose no other than their Co\vls \\hicli Page 150 line 13 
 
 i *** wear ( "P* 
 ey might put over their heads in the Church* fnit,,i to their 
 
 Prater Johannes Wisbeck dictae Capelhv 
 rabricam incepit A. Domini 1:321 Cujus Fa- 
 ica? primum Lapidem posuit vir venerabiJis 
 
 artificiosus Frater Alanus de Walsingham, 
 rior Eliensis Frater Johannes Wisbeck dum 
 dit Loca Fundament! Capellae S. Marie 
 opriis manibus interalios ihvenit Ollam Ox- 
 tm Nummorum deram, & stipendia opera- 
 3rum ex illis, quam dire duraverurit, per- 
 Ivit. Lehindi Collectanea v.l. p. 606. 
 
 I thought this so curious as to deserve par- 
 :ular notice. But there is a further curious 
 :count of St. Mary's Chapel immediately 
 Uowing, rather too long to be inserted here. 
 
 Had it not been called in Leland and else- 
 here a Chapel I should have thought that 
 
 Order! 
 
 Page 156 Th 
 
 Chapel of St. 
 Mary 
 
 bit John dt 
 Wislcck 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 this Chapel of St, Mary, had been originally 
 designed for the Chapter House. Mr. Essex 
 is clearly of that opinion. The fitting it up 
 with marble Niches all round and the Centre 
 Niche under the East Window bigger than 
 the rest for the Bishop or Prior, in a manner 
 evidently proves it. 
 
 The present trumpery altar piece that hides 
 those niches in part, is a modern work since 
 the restoration. 
 
 Page iri Arch- Dj\ Duck makes several mistakes in his 
 
 bishop y ifouen 
 
 #<* Life of Archbishop Chichley, in regard to 
 
 this affair. He says that the Pope by his 
 own authority appointed the Archbishop of 
 Rouen to this See, but that the design was 
 defeated by the Death of the Cardinal, who 
 died before Bishep Morgan: whereas the 
 contrary is evident. 
 
 Page 181 note These 4 Scholarships were in reality the 
 
 line 4 from the _ T 
 
 bottom. Scholar bounty of Henry Edraaifj Archdeacon of 
 College. ' Rochester, Chaplain to Cardinal Morton and 
 
LIfRARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 117 
 
 which B,*. Fisher ordained should be called 
 Cardi.idl Morton's Scholars. 
 
 He means one: but nothing could be ex- *'$ff o 
 
 pressed cooler on the subject, when he had ^^ -J" 
 
 the Lives of all the Bishops, Deans, and ''^J'^te 
 
 Canons &c. from one at large. P a>t "> t/u ' J *** 
 
 o i/u tc 
 
 It is probable that he got his translation to ^>^ j,?^,, 1 ^ 
 Ely at the recommendation of Archbishop 
 Tension and Sir Thomas Hanmer. 
 
 vide MacphrronS Oiigmal Papers vol 2. 46) 1. 
 
 He was at the expence of some cosily plates BUhJjF'jlaau 
 for this work, which he encouraged in every 
 way in his power, gave the Author a .20 note 
 to defray his expences when in London to 
 search the Records in the Palace at Holborn, 
 British Museum &c. and was otherwise un- 
 commonly generous to him: gave him a good 
 li\ii)^ in Norfolk, which not quite suiting him, 
 exchanged it for one of the Feltwells: for all 
 which, and many other Benefactions he grate- 
 fully drew up, or his Brother for him, a very 
 
118 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANI> 
 
 handsome Dedication of this book, which I 
 saw printed ; Hut the Uishopgn. 
 ly, and his Successor named, a stop was nut 
 to the Work to see how matters \vould go, and 
 to the surprize of his friends only, the De- 
 dication was cancelled, and a new one fra- 
 med at Oxford for the new Bishop, who 
 had it in his power to do more for him. The 
 thing I found fault with was not his Dedica- 
 tion to Bishop Kef ue, who might have been 
 flattered with a Dedication to the 2nd Part, 
 with the utmost propriety, as Mastei> 
 shewn him the way by his Dedication to 
 Archbishop h f PI ring, of whom he got 1,0 king 
 that e\er 1 lieauiof, but for the ungrateful 
 neglect of his real Lenefaclors. 
 
 JPaee*l4. Note It was grateful to iccord Mr. Piste's bene- 
 Piste, faction, \\hich in good truth set the road a 
 
 anc * ^ or ^hich he deserves to have, his 
 statue erected: but Air. Beiitham had other 
 to Ely. motive and inducements to mention \ir.iu*te 
 
 uilh honour. Ilia brother Joseph the Umver- 
 
I/ITEHARY ANECDOTES. 
 
 sity printer, by my introduction of him to her 
 an 1 i i, married Mr. I\ isle's only 
 
 sisUT an<! L-jir, at a time when it was very 
 i;k nt tor i:im to do so. For Mr. Joseph 
 j. r<mscicntKms good man, anH ex- 
 tremt l\ punctilious in ]is business, was never 
 satisfied with his printing, always cancelling 
 sheets and reprinting them, which consumed 
 much ti ne and paper, and in other respects 
 made not i! >se advantages that others would 
 hu\< done in his profession; for which he suf- 
 fered in his pocket, which I know was not 
 well filled at his marriage. I performed the 
 ceremony in Ely Cathedral. Mr. Riste left him 
 independently ot his wife, of 2000 and to his 
 sistei about 10 or oflSOO. They were both 
 advanced in yeais at their marriage and never 
 had any children : so that Mrs. Bentham was 
 looked at much by the author, whose son 
 might be bettered by her kindness. I was told 
 by Mr Essex, that poor Mr. Alderman Ben- 
 tham had wasted above 1500 of his #000 
 before his death in 1778. 
 
120 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AX1> 
 
 ^ nge rTrna ^ * s wortn observing the trimming in this 
 preferred in the article to avoH giving umbrage to the Dean, 
 c*.$t )/ York. by repeating his ten pieces of preferment : a 
 most scandalous abuse in those more especi- 
 ally who affect to find fault with the excesses 
 of this sort in a church which however in 
 general sets a better example than those who 
 find fault. 
 
 Page 564 W r hen this was penned and printed, Mr. 
 
 John T\ MI tfti 
 
 if. A <jc. Warren was absolutely Vice Bishop of Ely, 
 
 and governed Bishop Mawson entirely. 
 
 D^tn^nso/ It gives me great pleasure to see this mow 
 >ta( ' noble structure still in its original glory: for ] 
 much question whether at any time since it' 
 erection it ever appeared in greater Beautt 
 than at present, 1775. How much greats 
 my satisfaction is, from its narrow escape, ii 
 our shameful period of History in 1648, wil 
 appear by this threat ning Ordinance of Par 
 liament. 
 
 Ao. 1647 Mar. 3. "Ordered that it b 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTIC. 
 
 referred to a Committee for Sick and 
 
 " Wounded Soldiers, to consider of and ex- 
 
 " amine the state of the structure of the Ca- 
 
 " thedral Church in the Isle of Elye, m re- 
 
 4 latiou to the ruinous condition of the 
 
 ' same ; and what other Churches there are 
 
 " in the same place for the people to meet 
 
 " together in, for the hearing the word of 
 
 " God, and communicating the Ordinances 
 
 " of God ; and to bring in an Ordinance, 
 
 4 as they shall find the business, for making 
 
 " sale of the materials of the said Cathedral, 
 
 " that out of the proceed thereof, provision 
 
 " may be made for the relief of sick and 
 
 " maimed Soldiers, Widows and Orphans. 
 
 Journals of the House of Commons, vol. 5, page 478-531. 
 
 This pretence w r as specious and captiva- 
 tiny, these canting kypocritesknew well how 
 to gull the People with Appearances. When 
 the Concents were demolished, that monster 
 of Lust and Cruelty held out to the People, 
 Erections of Schools and Hospitals, Relief 
 M 
 
122 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANf) 
 
 from Taxes &c. in which they were, as \\;is 
 intended, disappointed. So this commitU e 
 wanted to be AT/////// the Letid. Stonex, and 
 Timber of this Vem'ntlde Pile toyw/v/ the 
 Monet/. 
 
 Plate xix. The Figure as I often told Mr. Hentham, 
 
 Monument of 
 
 Cardinal Lux- after I saw this plate, had not an Jlat on, 
 cinbourgh. . .. , , 
 
 hut a Mitre, as \vas visible by the rich labels 
 
 of it carved on the cushion, on \vhich reposed 
 the head, with the Mitre broken oil' by some 
 fonatick person. 1 often sa\\ it, and look 
 particular notice of it, and it \\as aluays a 
 wonder to me, that a person who \>as born 
 at Ely, and in a manner lived in the Cathe- 
 dral, and who sometimes amused himseif 
 with Painting should have so little observa- 
 tion. The Tomb is now covered by the 
 wainscot of the New Altar. 
 
 W. COLE. 
 
 Plate xxiii. This Tomb of Bishop Stanley was en- 
 
 Bishop Stanlcfs 
 
 Monument. graved at Manchester, I suppose at the ex- 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 123 
 
 of a sister of the Earl of Derby, at 
 ihi 1 iv<(iiest of my friend Mr. John Allen, 
 Rector of Torporley, to whom I applied, 
 knowing his acquaintance with the Lady, 
 with whom I once dined at his house at 
 Torporley. But had I known how it would 
 ha\c been executed, 1 should never have ap- 
 plied for it. 
 
 In 1719, being at Manchester, I took, in 
 my slight manner, a sketch of the Tomb, 
 which is in my vol. 35 p. 66, and is sufficient 
 to expose the miserable manner this is done 
 in. The Bishop is pourtrayed, very ele- 
 gantly in Pontiiicalibus, giving his benedic- 
 tion, and holding his Crozier in his other 
 hand, four shields, now reaved, were at the ., 
 
 corners of the covering stones, and on one 
 side had been the figure of a Priest, with a 
 label from his mouth, converted into a fish. 
 Indeed I hardly ever saw any thing done sot 
 bunglingly and aukwardly. 
 M 2 
 
124 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 P. 46* Appendix This is now in my possession, and is an 
 
 ArmtoJ James 
 xtanley, 8fc. Ornament of a small Hermitage in my gar- 
 
 den at Milton, near Cambridge, November 
 
 n, i,. 
 1777, being- originally s^iven to me hy Mr. 
 
 Barlee of Claferingin Kssex. 
 
 P .4?*Appndix. 1 was told so by Sir James 
 
 Arms of Bishop , . ..... 
 
 (tooth femevfoi Master of Cams, when I went with him into 
 the Chapel to look at the monument of the 
 Bishop, the Arms of which were then taken 
 oil' from it to be altered, probably to add 
 the Ulster addition : for the Coat was not 
 altered, and it was every day in the power of 
 Mr. Bentham to know it, who is to be 
 blamed for the mistake and not me. 
 
 lM7*Anpondix. Mr. Bentham was loth to let anv thine 
 After last time 
 
 appear in which he was not the chief com- 
 piler : witness the Dissertation on the Mly 
 Table by me is preceded by one of his own, 
 but entirely from materials I accommodated 
 him with ; in this of the Arms, of which he 
 was totally ignorant, it is inconceivable 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 125 
 
 to all who do not know the genius of the 
 Benthams what trouble 1 had with him 
 about several of these Coats, more espe- 
 cially those of Bishop Langham, for whom 
 a Coat belonging to an Abbey, was en- 
 graved in the plate, tho' I had heaped 
 authority upon authority, and repeated of- 
 ten my reasons to have him get it altered : 
 at last he was convinced, audit was altered. 
 
 Obstinacy and ignorance are often cou- 
 pled. There never was a more forcible 
 instance of it. It needed only to look in 
 the face of James Bentham, and be struck 
 with wonder that so good a book should 
 come from such Ideot appearance ; to hear 
 and see him open his mouth and talk to 
 you, to be convinced that it was impossible 
 for him to compose it. In short it was the 
 Work of his Brother Edward, Divinity 
 Professor at Oxford, whose custom it was 
 every year, to spend a few months at Ely, 
 where all the brothers and one sister met : 
 M3 
 
120 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 such fraternal love and harmony never ex- 
 isted in a family : indeed they are all worthy 
 people, who have every ones' good ^\ord ; 
 hut are all Benthams, that is, not like other 
 people. It was a common saying at Kly 
 and Cambridge, " That (iod made men 
 and women, and the Herveys (a specie* 
 between man and woman) to whom many 
 added the Benthams also, as they arc as 
 unlike in all their actions to the rest <>i 
 mankind as it is possible to concci\c, 
 though without guile, and quite inoffen- 
 sive." 
 
 Montague's (Edward If ortley) Reflections 
 on the Rise and Fall of the antic at Kc- 
 publics, adapted to the present state of 
 Great Britain. 8vo. first edition, 1759, 
 second edition, 1760, third edition, 1778. 
 
 This Work was written by Foster, tutor 
 to young Montague, who, after thrice run- 
 ning away, and being discovered by his 
 
LITERARY" ANECDOTES. 
 
 father's valet crying flounders about the 
 Greets of Deptford, was sent to the West 
 Indies, whither Foster accompanied him. 
 On their return to England, a good natured 
 stratagem \v;s practised to obtain a tempo- 
 rary supply of money from old Montague, 
 and at the same time to give him a favour- 
 able opinion of his son's attention to a 
 particular species of erudition, this work 
 uas published with the name of Ed- 
 ward Wortley Montague, Junior, sub- 
 joined. Old Wortley seeing the Book 
 advertised, sent for his son, and gave him 
 a Bank-note of of 100. value, promising him 
 a similar present for every edition the Book 
 should pass through. It was well received 
 by the Public, a second edition therefore 
 occasioned a second supply. 
 
 Gage's Survey of the West Indies. 
 
 Vide page 24. ante. 
 
 The 22d. Chapter of Gage's Book, was 
 reprinted in 8vo. for S. Popping, Paternos- 
 
128 TUnUOGRAPITTCAL AND 
 
 ter Row, in the year 1722. nml entitled 
 Some l\cni(irh((J)le P<i.wtfj<'x relttthuj to 
 Archbishop Lttud, purticulurhi of his uffec- 
 t\on to the Cluu'ch of 7to/w, prefaced by 
 an Advertisement to the Reader, stating it 
 to be the omitted chapter in the *vo. edi- 
 tion, but which appeared in the folio, some 
 years before the restoration of Charles M. 
 " The matters related herein," continues 
 this advertisement, " do so nearly atleet 
 " the character of Archbishop Laud, the 
 " great Darling of a clamorous and violent 
 " party, that one needs not long 1 doubt 
 " from wliat (quarter, or from what motives 
 " this fraudulent decree had its rise. 'Tis 
 " well, if the same party zeal which can 
 " thus maim and deface one History, has 
 " not added as much to others from its own 
 " invention. Who knows how far their 
 " INDEX EXPURGATORIUS extends.' If such 
 " a noted Modern History as Mr. GAGE'S 
 " SURVEY could in so very few years time 
 " suffer such an injury, and that deceit pass 
 
LITERARY ANFX'DOTES. 129 
 
 ; almost u holly unobserved ; what work 
 % * may \\e snspei-t has been made with older 
 %v Hooks \\hich are not fallen into honester 
 u hands r" In p. 14, of this reprint is an 
 order for Friar Gage's admission into the 
 (\mvent of Orleans, succeeded by the fol- 
 lowing- eharacterestic anecdote; " Yet after 
 
 * I had got this Order," says Gage, " I 
 " bethought myself further that I would 
 " try one way to see if I could find out a 
 " miracle, which might give me better 
 " satisfaction of the Romish Religion than 
 u had the former experience of my Life and 
 ^ the Lives of the Priests, Cardinals, and 
 " all such with whom I had lived in Spain 
 " and America. I had heard much of a 
 " Picture of our Lady of Loretto, and read 
 " in a book of Myracles or Lyes, concern- 
 4i iiii^ the same, that whosoever prayed 
 u before that Picture in the state of mortal 
 u Sin, the Picture would discover the Sin 
 " iik the Soul by blushing and by sweat- 
 " ing. Now I framed this argument to 
 
130 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 " myself, that it was a ivreat Sin, the Sin 
 " of Unbelief, or to waver and stai^vr in 
 " points of faith ; but in me, ^according 
 " to the Tenets of Uome) was this Sin, 
 " for I could not believe the Point of Tran- 
 " suhstiintiation, and many olhcr; there- 
 " fore (if the Myracles which were printed 
 " of the foresaid A*///// of I.orctio were (rue, 
 u and not Lyes) certainly she. would blush 
 " and sweat, when such an l T nbelic\cr as I 
 " prayed before her. To make this trial I 
 " went purposely to Loretto, and kneeling 
 " down before (jJod, not with any faith I 
 ^" had in the Picture, I pray'd earnestly to 
 " the true searcher of all hearts, that in his 
 "Son Jesus Christ, he would mercifully 
 " look upon me a miserable Sroner, and 
 " inspire and enlighten me with his spirit 
 " of truth for the Good and Salvation of 
 " my Soul. In my Prayer I had a fixed 
 " and settled Eye upon the Lady's Picture, 
 " but could not perceive that she did either 
 ;< blush or sweat ; wherewith I arose up 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 131 
 
 from my knees, much comforted and en- 
 conraged in my Resolution to renounce 
 and abandon Popery, and saving within 
 myself, as I went out of the Church, 
 surely if my Lady neither sweat, nor blush, 
 all is well with me, and 1 am in a good 
 wa\ tor sal \ation, and the My nicies that 
 are written of her are but Lyes. With 
 this I resolvM to follow the Truth in 
 some Protestant Church in France and 
 to relinquish Error and Superstition." 
 
 Crusoe. 
 
 The fascination of this extraordinary 
 work is not limited to the juvenile reader. 
 Mr. Tawney, a respectable -alderman of 
 Oxford, used to read Robinson Crusoe 
 through every year with great delight, and 
 thought every part of it as much matter of 
 fact as his Bible. A friend at last asked 
 him, how he could be such a child as to 
 credit a story so marvellous. " The origi- 
 
132 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 iml Crusoe," added lie, " was Alexam 
 Selkirk; and Daniel Defoe, an ingeniou 
 author, embellished the plain story of hi? 
 shipwreck upon the Island of Juan Fernan- 
 dez, with almost all the adventures and 
 remarks you so much admire. 1 ' " Your 
 information." said the Alderman with a 
 sigh, u may he correct, hut I had rather 
 you had withheld it, for hy thus undeceiv- 
 ing 1 me, you have deprived me of one of 
 the greatest pleasures of my old ftge." 
 
 Les Reveries de Maurice Cot/itc ti 
 
 2 tout, Mo. n'ith Maps and Plates. 
 Paris, 1757. 
 
 The original manuscript of these cele- 
 hrated Reveries of Marshal Saxe, and the 
 identical copy made under his own inspec- 
 tion, is in the King of Saxony's Library, 
 at Dresden, and at the end of the MS. is 
 a note, purporting that he composed this 
 work in thirteen -nights, during a fever, 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 133 
 
 and that he finished it in December, 1733. 
 In the Literary and Philosophical corres- 
 pondence of Baron de Grimm, is a spirited 
 sketch of the Marechal S axe's character. 
 " He was one of the handsomest men of 
 " his time: in him were united, to ma- 
 " jesty of size, and nobleness of features, 
 " the benignity of an unsophisticated and 
 u happy countenance. Amongst his great- 
 IM qualities, one must not omit, that 
 " iuseperable firmness, that unalterable 
 kw tranquillity of mind, which never aban- 
 " doned him. In the midst of the pleasures 
 " of Paris, he never lost sight of his pro- 
 u fession, he was always occupied with it- 
 " When with his army, he had scarcely 
 " any thing to do ; some one has said this 
 " was his time of relaxation. The fecun- 
 " dity of his genius was so great that he 
 " scarcely ever gave himself the trouble 
 " of preparing his rescources before-hand, 
 " he was sure of never needing them, and 
 " it was this richness of mind which gave 
 N 
 
131 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 " liim such entire security ; it was carried 
 
 " so far that he did not distinctly remem- 
 
 " her the details of his most brilliant trans- 
 
 " actions. He treated them, as we treat 
 
 " our every day affairs, in which the less 
 
 " memorable events leave no trace on the 
 
 " mind. And 1 know that during his 
 
 " journey to Berlin in 1749, and in the 
 
 " course of which, the King of Prussia 
 
 ** questioned him much respecting his cam- 
 
 " paigns in Flanders, this Monarch ap- 
 
 " peared .better acquainted with several 
 
 " of the details than the Marshal himiell'." 
 
 Genealogical History of the House of Yrcrt/, 
 hi its different branches of Yvery, La re/, 
 Perceval, and Gournay. 2 voU. Svo. 
 1742. 
 
 This rare work was principally compiled 
 by Mr. Anderson, but the Earl of Egmont 
 had a considerable hand in the publication 
 of this very laborious and expensive Work, 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 135 
 
 which is so frequently found mutilated by 
 tin* Barbarians of Collectors, that a list of 
 the Plates which it should contain, cannot 
 fail of being useful, if not interesting. 
 
 View of the Manor of Weston, Somerset- 
 shire vol. 1. page 360. 
 
 Monument of Richard Perceval vol. 1, 
 page 406. 
 
 Manor of Sydenham, co. Somerset vol. 2, 
 page 24. 
 
 Portrait of Richard Perceval, Esq. vol. 2, 
 page 120. 
 
 Ditto engraved by Toms. 
 
 of Alice Perceval, wife of ditto vol. 
 
 2, page 138. 
 
 of Sir Philip Perceval, first Baro- 
 net vol. 2, page 144. 
 
 View of Loghart Castle, near Mallow, 
 Ireland vol. 2, page 192. 
 
 Castle Liscarrol, Cork vol. 2, 
 
 page 215. 
 
 N 2 
 
136 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL A\T> 
 
 Portrait of Catherine, wife to Sir Philip, 
 first Baronet vol. 2, page 320. 
 
 of (jeorge Perceval vol. 2, page 322 
 
 of Sir John Perceval, seventh Baro- 
 net. 
 
 View of Castle Kanturk, Cork vol. 2, 
 page 335. 
 
 Portrait of Catherine, wife of Sir John 
 Perceval, seventh Baronet vol. 2, 
 page 361. 
 
 of Robert Perceval vol. 2, page 368 
 
 of Sir Philip Perceval, second Baro- 
 net vol. 2, page 376. 
 
 Monument of ditto vol. 2, page 386. 
 
 Portrait of Sir John Perceval, eighth Baro- 
 net vol. 2, page 389. 
 
 of Catherine, wife to ditto vol. 2, 
 
 page 396. 
 
 of the Hon. Philip Perceval vol. 2, 
 
 page 400. 
 
 *- of John Perceval, Earl of Egmont, 
 
 TO!. 2, page 403. 
 

 LITERARY ANECDOTES. 137 
 
 Portrait of Sir P. Parker, Ancestor of the 
 Countess of Egmont vol. 2, page 451. 
 
 of Catherine, wife of ditto vol. 2, 
 
 page 452. 
 of Catherine, Countess of Egmont, 
 
 born 1689 vol. 2, page 453. 
 View of Mount Pleasant, near Tunbridge 
 
 Wells vol. 2, page 461. 
 Portrait of John Viscount Perceval vol. 2, 
 
 page 467. 
 - of Catherine, wife of ditto vol. 2, 
 
 page 467. 
 View of Beverstan Castle vol. 2, page 496. 
 
 A copy of the preceding Work complete, 
 and containing the whole of the Plates, has 
 been sold for upwards of thirty Guineas. 
 
 History of Reynard the Fox. 
 
 Dr. Drake, in his preface to the " Secret 
 Memoirs of Dudley, Earl of Leicester," 
 N3 
 
138 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 says, that this book, though read by few 
 except old women and children, is sup- 
 posed by persons of greater judgment to 
 be an enigmatical History of the Earl of 
 Leicester and his family ; and by compar- 
 ing the History of Reynard the Fox, with 
 these Memoirs, this conjecture will nbt 
 appear fallacious, many circumstances ex- 
 actly tallying. The exploits of Leicester 
 are shadowed under the feigned adventures 
 and intrigues of brutes, the author not 
 daring to write his history plainly, fearful 
 perhaps of the Earl's power. 
 
 Drake pretends that the Memoirs of the 
 Earl of Leicester are a copy from an origi- 
 nal MS. but on being compared with, they 
 prove to be a mere re-print from " Leices- 
 ter's Commonwealth" Father Parson's 
 famous Libel against the Earl of Leicester 
 in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 139 
 
 The Diary of the late George Bubb Do- 
 dington, Baron of Melcombe Regis, from 
 March Sth 17489 to February th, 
 1761. Svo. first edition, Salisbury, 
 1784 third edition, 1785. 
 
 This Diary displays all the disgusting 
 Political Intrigues of the reign of George 
 the Second, during the career of this time 
 serving Courtier, whose reputation has 
 received such a blot from this publication 
 as ages cannot erase, and has proved him 
 to be a mean, fluctuating, and venal cha- 
 racter. 
 
 On practices most mean he raised his pride, 
 And craft oft* gave what wisdom oft' deny'd. 
 
 Lord Melcombe, when his name was 
 plain Bubb, was intended by the adminis- 
 tration of that period to be sent Ambassa- 
 der to Spain. While this matter was in 
 contemplation Lord Chesterfield met him, 
 
140 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 and touching him upon the proposed Em 
 bassy, told Bubb, that he did not think 
 him by any means fit to be the represen- 
 tative of the Crown of England at the 
 Spanish Court. Bubb begged to know the 
 ground of his objection. " Why," said his 
 lordship, your name is much too short 
 Bubb! Bubb! Do you think the Spani- 
 ards, a people who pride themselves on 
 their family honours, and the length of 
 names and titles, will suppose a man can 
 possess any dignity or importance with a 
 name of one syllable, and which is pro- 
 nounced in a second ? No my friend, you 
 must not think of Spain, unless you make 
 some addition to your name. Bubb desired 
 his Lordship to say what he would have 
 him do. Lord Chesterfield pausing a mo- 
 ment, exclaimed "I have it," What do 
 think of calling yourself Silly Bubb ? ? 
 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 141 
 
 Edmund Stone. 
 
 He was a self-taught mathematician, a 
 native of Scotland, and son to a Gardener 
 in the Duke of Argyle's service 1720. He 
 gave the Duke, his patron, a curious ac- 
 count of the progressive advance of his 
 studies; and his example proves what ele- 
 vated and distant objects the regular course 
 of determined diligence can reach. " I 
 was first," said he " taught to read. I saw 
 the Duke's architect use the rule and com- 
 passes, and make calculations ; the science 
 railed arithmetic was explained to me ; 
 so I bought a book of arithmetic, and 
 learned it. I then learned geometry. I 
 was told there were good books on the 
 subject in French and Latin ; so I bought 
 Dictionaries, and learned French and La- 
 tin. The book you see me reading is the 
 Principia of the great Newton, It seems 
 to me, that if a man once knows the letters 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 of the alphabet, lie may acquire any kind 
 of learning." 
 
 Bonaparte a Friend to Literature. 
 
 Campbell the Poet being asked at a 
 literary dinner to name a friend to Litera- 
 ture, toasted " Bonaparte." Being asked 
 how he ranked him among her supporters ; 
 he replied, "he had shot a ^Bookseller." 
 If Literature had many such friends. Poets 
 would be obliged to turn Printers and 
 Publishers on their own account, and 
 unless their purses are better filled than 
 when Goldsmith and Thomson wrote, few 
 of their lucubrations would ever appear in 
 print, but for the assistance of the Book- 
 sellers, of whose liberality many instances 
 are well known and might be here related, 
 but are needless, as it is absurd to suppose, 
 unless the Public patronize works, that a 
 
 * Palm. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTE*, 143 
 
 Publisher can pay highly for Copy-right, 
 and expend his property in Paper and 
 Print, which oftentimes lays mouldering" 
 tor years on his warehouse-shelves, and 
 is at last sold to the Cheesemongers as 
 waste paper. 
 
 Goldsmith had a higher opinion of Book- 
 sellers than our modern Poet appears to 
 have. The Earl of Northumberland pre- 
 vious to his departure as Lord Lieutenant 
 of Ireland, hearing that Goldsmith was a 
 native of that Country, expressed his 
 willingness to do him a kindness ; hifc 
 answer to the gracious offer, was, that he 
 " could say nothing, but that he had a 
 brother there, a clergyman, who stood in 
 need of help. As for myself," he adds, '" I 
 have no dependence on the promises of 
 great men ; I look to the Booksellers for 
 support ; they are my best friends, and 
 I am not inclined to forsake them for 
 others/' 
 
144 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 Pennant* s Tour in Chester. 
 This pleasing Tourist always wore hi^ 
 own hair, and had a mortal aversion to a 
 wig. Dining one day with an officer who 
 wore one, Pennant made rather too free 
 with the bottle, and a friend who was in 
 company carefully placed himself between 
 Pennant and the wig, to prevent mischief. 
 After much patience, and many a wistful 
 look, Pennant darted up, seized the wig, 
 and threw it into the fire. It was in flames 
 in a moment; and so was the officer, who 
 ran to his sword. Down stairs ran Pen- 
 nant, and the Officer after him, through 
 ' all the streets of Chester. But Pennant 
 escaped from superior local knowledge. A 
 Wag called this, " Pennant's Tour in 
 Chester." 
 
 TJte Elzevir Family. 
 
 The reader is requested to take the fol- 
 lowing as a more accurate account of the 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 145 
 
 Elzevir Family and Classics, after the first 
 paragraph at p. 100, ending with the ex- 
 tract from Renouard. 
 
 Of Twelve Printers of the Family of 
 Elzevir, who exercised the art of printing 
 in Holland during the seventeenth century, 
 SEVEN have made themselves known, by 
 the number and beauty of their editions. 
 
 1. Louis Elzevir, at Leyden, from 1595 
 to 1616. He is said to have been the first 
 who observed the distinction between the 
 v consonant and the u vowel, which had 
 been recommended by Ramus and other 
 writers long before, but never regarded, 
 as also the vowel i from the consonant j. 
 
 2. Isaac, at Leyden, from 1617 to 1628. 
 Brunet in his Manuel du Libraire, com- 
 mences his account of the eminent printers 
 of the Elzevir Family by this member of 
 it. 
 
 O 
 
146 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 3 and 4. Bonaventure and Abraham^ 
 brothers and partners, printed at Leyden, 
 from 1626 to 1652 epoch of (heir death. 
 
 5. John, son of Abraham, printed at 
 Leyden, in Partnership with Daniel, in 
 1652, 3, and 4, and alone from 1055 to 
 1661. 
 
 6. Louis, the son of Isaac, who printed 
 alone at Amsterdam, from 1640 to 1655, 
 and from this latter period in Partnership 
 with Daniel, till July 1662, when he died. 
 
 7. Daniel, the son of Bonaventure, 
 printed at Leyden, in Partnership with 
 John from 1652 to 1654 ; then at Amster- 
 dam, in Partnership with Louis from 1655 
 to 1662 ; and lastly on his own account 
 from this period till his death, which hap- 
 pened Sept. 13th. 1680. 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 147 
 
 What is called The Elzevir collection, 
 contains 97 volumes in 12mo. nearly uni- 
 form in size ; but to form a complete col- 
 lection according to Brunei's list, would 
 require a perseverance in the collector and 
 a purse of such dimensions, as few even in 
 the more elevated ranks of society would 
 be able or willing to employ. 
 
 Fielding's Amelia. 
 
 Alderman Cadell told Sir W. Wraxail 
 that his predecessor Millar the Bookseller, 
 bought Fielding's Amelia of the author ; 
 giving him for the Copy-right, eight hun- 
 dred pounds ; a great sum at that time. 
 After making the purchase, Millar shewed 
 the manuscript to Sir Andrew Mitchell, 
 who subsequently filled the Post of British 
 Minister at Berlin ; requesting to have his 
 opinion of the Work. Sir Andrew observed 
 to him, that it bore the indelible marks of 
 
148 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND 
 
 Fielding's genius, and was a line perform- 
 ance ; but nevertheless, far beneath " To m 
 Jones-" finally advising him to get rid of 
 it as soon as he could. Millar did not 
 neglect the counsel, though he was too able 
 a man to divulge the opinion delivered by 
 his friend. On the contrary, at the first 
 sale which he made to the Trade, he said 
 " Gentlemen, I have several works to put 
 " up, for which I shall be glad if you will 
 " bid : but as to Amelia, every copy is 
 " already bespoke." This manoeuvre had 
 its effect. All the Booksellers were 
 anxious to get their names put down for 
 copies of it, and the edition, though very 
 large, was immediately sold, 
 
 Mrs. Piozzi, one day in conversation 
 mentioned Richardson's Clarissa as a per- 
 fect character, "on the contrary, 1 ' said 
 Dr. Johnson " you may observe, there is 
 always something which she prefers to 
 
LITERARY ANECDOTES. 149 
 
 Truth." Fielding's Amelia, was, in the 
 Doctor's opinion, " the most pleasing He- 
 roine of all romances." 
 
 Gems in the Collection of the Duke of 
 Devonshire, engraved by Gosmond, on 
 99 Plates. Mo. 
 
 The engraver, a Frenchman of the name 
 of Gosmond never completed this collection. 
 After cheating his noble patron, who had 
 advanced him large sums of money, he 
 absconded with the copper-plates, and 
 was never afterwards heard of: it is sup- 
 posed that he was lost on his passage to 
 the Continent. The Plates were done by 
 order of William, Duke of Devonshire. 
 A copy, mostly proofs, was sold at Leigh 
 and Sotheby's Auction Room in 1804, for 
 e42. and bought by the Duke of Devon- 
 shire, 
 
]50 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL &C. 
 
 Specimen of Literary Abstraction. 
 
 Budaeus one of the most learned men of 
 the sixteenth century was engaged in deep 
 study in his library, when his servant eanie 
 running to him in a great fright, to tell him 
 the house was on fire. " Go," said he, 
 with perfect calmness, and hardly raising 
 his eyes from his book, " and inform your 
 mistress ; 'tis her concern, you know I 
 never interfere in domestic matters." 
 
 The BOOK, an Epigram. 
 
 A Poring Wight, who being wed, 
 Was always reading in his bed, 
 His wife addressed with am'rous look* 
 And said, " I would I were a Book !" 
 " Why so, good dame ?" the sage replied 
 " Because you'd love me then," she cried. 
 " Why that might be," he straight rejoined, 
 " But 'twould depend upon the kind 
 " An Almanack, for instance, Dear, 
 " To have a new one every year." 
 
 FINIS. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE, 
 
 Advice to Authors on facility of Composition.. te 
 
 Anecdote for Antiquarians Km 
 
 Anson's Voyage Round the World l 
 
 Le Antichita d'Ercolano 33 
 
 Dictionnaire de Bayle to 
 
 Bedford's Hereditary Right 96 
 
 Bentley's History of Halifax 37 
 
 Bernier (Dulaurent) Theologie Portative 58 
 
 Book (the) an Epigram 150 
 
 Bonaparte a Friend to Literature 142 
 
 BudaMis'M Literary Abstraction 150 
 
 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy 105 
 
 King Charles the First's Works 103 
 
 Voyage dii Due du Chatelet en Portugal 87 
 
 Chrysal, (Key to the Characters in) 13 
 
 i usum Delphina 4 
 
 Cole's Notes on Benttiam's Ely Cathedral 109 
 
 De Foe's Life of Robinson Crusoe 3 and 131 
 
 Dennis the Critic 60 
 
 Destruction of Libraries, temp Henry VIII 71 
 
 Discoverie of the Gaping Gulph 81 
 
 Dodington's Dairy 139 
 
 Drelincourt's Discourse on Death 96 
 
 Dryden 36 
 
 Elzevir Classics 100 
 
 Elzevir Family 145 
 
 Errata 6 and 7 
 
 Fenelon's Adventures of Telemachus 88 
 
 Fieldings Amelia 147 
 
 Fontenelle 108 
 
 Dr. Franklin 101 
 
 Gacon, Le Poete sans fard 80 
 
 Gage's Survey of the West Indies 24 and 127 
 
 Gems engraved by Gosmond 149 
 

 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 (iihhon's Roman Empire 
 
 Glarcan's Seat in the College of Bale 
 
 Granger's Biographical History of England : 
 
 Halstead's Genaologies of the Houses of Alno, &c. 83 
 
 History of Reynard the Fox 1: 
 
 House of Yvery 1^4 
 
 Johnson's (Mr. Sam.) Humble and Hearty Address. 5 
 
 Johnson (Dr.)and Boswell, Anecdote of 
 
 Johnson's (Dr.) Dictionary 22 
 
 Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland 73 
 
 Library Arrangement 107 
 
 Literary Vanity ! 
 
 Littleton's Latine Dictionary 
 
 Macaulay's (Mrs.) Loose Thoughts 6 
 
 Milton's Works, &c 61 
 
 Montague's Antient Republics 126 
 
 Essais de Montaigne 23 
 
 Molesworth's Account of Denmark 2;3 
 
 Nash's History of Worcestershire 103 
 
 Norman's (Robert) Newe Attractive 74 
 
 Notitia respecting Sterne and his Valet La Fleur... 25 
 
 Pascal, Lettrcs ecrites a un Provincial 51 
 
 Pennant's Tour in Chester 144 
 
 Philidor on Chess 4* 
 
 The Rambler 4( 
 
 Robert Recorde 5< 
 
 Rehearsal Transprosed, (Extract from) 3< 
 
 Reveries de Saxe 13; 
 
 Stevens' (Geo. Alexander) Lecture on Heads 41 
 
 Stone (Edmund) the Mathematician 14; 
 
 Vox Piscis, or the Book Fish i; 
 
 Whole Duty of Man i 
 
 Wood's Athenae Oxoniensis 91 
 
 F. Marshall, Printer, 
 31, Kenton Street, Brunswick Square. 
 
ERRATA. 
 
 24 
 
 ir>, for conversation 
 
 read conversion. 
 
 25 
 
 7, for Itimslf 
 
 read himself. 
 
 37 
 
 8, for persue 
 
 read peruse. 
 
 39 
 
 11, for scoth 
 
 read scotch. 
 
 139 
 
 19, for Ambassader 
 
 read Ambassador. 
 
 71 
 
 20, for bnore 
 
 read borne. 
 
 98 
 93 
 
 4, for according 
 5, for consitory 
 
 read accordingly. 
 read consistory. 
 
 100 
 
 1"), for distintioii 
 
 read distinction. 
 
 46 
 
 '.', for 1734 
 
 read 1784. 
 
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