940 H436 fefc IRLF 51 E3b LETTERS ADDBESSED TO THOMAS HEAKNE, M.A LETTERS * ADDRESSED TO THOMAS HEAKNE, M.A., OF EDMUND HALL. EDITED BY FREDERIC OUVRY, F.S.A, LONDON : PRIVATELY PRINTED. 1874. WESTMINSTER: PRINTED BY NICHOLS AND SONS, 25, PARLIAMENT 3T3EET. P K E F A C E. THE originals of the following letters are in the Rawlinson MSS. preserved in the Bodleian Library. The transcripts were kindly given to me by my friend the late Rev. Joseph Stevenson, and they appear to me of sufficient interest, in connection with Dr. Bliss's admirable extracts from Hearne's diaries, to deserve printing. I had placed the manuscript some years since in the hands of Mr. John Gough Nichols with the intention of then printing a few copies, but the matter was forgotten ; and it was not until my friend's lamented death that I became aware that he had taken the trouble to add an Index. The Letter signed S P page 34, is most likely from Samuel Parker, but was probably addressed to Rawlinson not Hearne. FREDERIC OUVRY. 12, Queen Anne Street, 1874. M128599 CONTENTS. PAGE 1. 1705. Jan. 7 . From Thomas Cherry, Esq. 1 2. 1706. April 17 . the same . 3 3 May 17 . ,, the same . 5 4. N July 25 . Elias Smith . . 7 5. Aug. 19 . John Hudson . . 11 6. 1707. April 5 . George Hickes . 12 7. ,, May 8 . Bishop Thomas Wilson . . 13 8. May 22 . ,, Henry Dodwell . 14 9. 5; August 8 ,, John Hudson . 15 10. ,, Sept. 30 . George Hickes . 18 11. 1708. April 7 . John Woodward . 19 12. July 3 . Robert Roberts . 19 13. August 3 John Hudson . 21 14. August 5 Henry Dodwell . 24 15. 1708-9. Feb. 7 . Robert Roberts . 26 16. 1709. April 26 . George Hickes . 27 17. April 27 . Robert Roberts . 28 18. Nov. 10 . D[avid ?] Evans . 29 19 Dec. 1 . John Bennett . . 31 20. 1709-10. Jan. 13 . . S P ... . 34 21. Feb. 21 . ,, Henry Dodwell . 36 22. March 7 . Hilkiah Bedford . . 37 23. 1710. Dec. 7 . ,, John Thorpe . . 38 24. ,, Dec. 11 . . Hilkiah Bedford . . 40 25. 1711. April 5 . the same . 41 26. May 17 . the same . 43 VI CONTENTS. 27. 1711. June 10 . . From Francis Cherry, Esq. 28. June 12 . George Hearne 29. June 19 . . H.Bedford . 30. ,, June 27 . Francis Brokesby . 31. ? Aug. 7 . Roger Gale 32. Aug. 21 . ff. Cherry 33. Nov. 22 . . H. Bedford . 34. 1712. Aug. 9 . Mary Barnes . 35. 1716. May 19 J. Sotheby 36. Aug. 4 . Marmadnke Fothergill 37. Sept. 22 . J. Woodward . 38. Oct. 8 . Mr. George Hearne . 39. 1716-17. Jan. 15 . . Mr. E. Curll . 40. March 12 ,. Mr. George Hearne . 41. 1717-18 Jan. 7 . H. Bedford . 42. 1718. Oct. 23 . Dr. Richard Mead . 43. 1719-20. March 20 Mr. George Hearne . 44. 1722. June 13 . J. Bromley, Esq. 45 1724. Dec. 3 Samuel Gale . 46. 1725. Nov. 5 . . ,, Richard Richardson . 47. M Dec. 22 . Hon. B. L. Calvert . 48. 1725-6. March 19 ,, Richard Richardson . 49. 1726-7. Jan. 7 John Anstis, Esq. . 50. 1727. March 30 ,, John Tottenham 51. April 6 . James West, Esq. . 52. June 22 . the same 53. 1729. April 15 . the same 54. M October 25 Thomas Ward 55. 1730. Nov. 11 . C. Constable, Esq. . PAGE . 45 . 46 . 47 . 48 . 51 . 52 . 53 . 54 . 56 . 57 . 58 . 59 . 62 . 63 . 66 . 67 . 69 . 70 . 71 . 73 . 74 . 76 . 77 . 80 . 81 . 82 . 84 . 87 88 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THOMAS HEARNE, M.A, No. 1 (VOL. IV. No. 67). FROM THOMAS CHERRY, ESQ. DR CHUM, My hopes were so bent on seeing you this Xtmas that I neglected all opportunitys of writing. I have been at Smewins lately ; but found none of those Arms you mention'd nor any else in the house. I thank you for yr informing me of the Coyns that were found at Clifton. I am glad my Friend Abraham & you keep a correspondence with each other, w ch I wd gladly do if I cd direct to Him. my service to him when you write. I hope your method has prevailed upon the Lady of his acquaintance ; which I am certain would not fail with many of mine : for I have told none the story, but what presently wisht themselves able of Purchasing so great an Honour, at any Rate. Yesterday came Mr. Purcival of X* Ch: (who has lately returned from Ireland). He inform'd us of more Particulars of Mr. Secheveral's sermon out of a Letter he receiv'd from Dr. Charlott. Our neighbouring Clergy and all Honest Men do very much approve of his Courage, and hope 'twill animate the well-affected in the Univ: I wish his words may meet B 2 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO with better success than those of Mr. Casar's : who, as Mr. Fipps tells us was very unjustly dealt with ; & y* he only suppos'd such & such things, adding (if) to all he said. Mr. Fipps had like to have far'd no better himself in trying a cause at the House of Com: lately ; where he took Occasion to expose the Gentle- man's character (agst whom he pleaded, & who also came in through Fanatick's means) too much ; for which He was bid withdraw, and order'd to be dealt with ace: to Law. However at last, by the help of his ffriends he made shift to escape. Mr. Dodwell's Treatise of the Difference of Soul fy Spirit is almost finish'd. 'Twill be about as large as his book of Schism. Pray send us what news you can to make amends for the loss of y r good Company. I hope you have had a merry X^as & wish you a happy new year. I have not yet heard from Mr. Beckford; but I believe he'le stay till I return and bring him his belt. Pray send word, what are the particular sciences for Examination. I'le perform all my Exercise as soon as I come to Town, if I can. Don't trouble y r selfe any more in sending the Mercury. All friends here joyn in their service to you, as does, particularly, Your obligd ffriend and servt, THO. CHERRY. My service to all ffriends. Shottsbrook, Jan: 7, 1705. If you coud conveniently send me an Ox: Almanack I shd be oblig'd to you, by if you send by y e Carrier don't write with speed nor trouble y r self to pay carriage. THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. No. 2 (VOL. IV. No 73). FROM THE SAME. DR CHUMM, Shottsbrook, Apr. r 17, 1706. I had wrote to you sooner ; but that I expected you woud have sent me the things I desir'd first. I beg you woud not fail to send them the next time by the Carryer. You need not give your self any Trouble about them ; but only tell Mrs. Wells I woud have her to pack up of my old shews one pair, & see they be well black'd first, one pair of black fine stockens, & to goe to my Mercer & take up two pair of thred stockens, & if I have left any old ones to wash & send them, & all linnen I left behind excepting Bands, and the Books I desired. I hope you got well home & shall be glad to hear the first Opportunity. I coud not enjoy the Queen's men's Company long ; they being to meet some other Friends from London. But they were very generous to me the while I staj^'d. I have not since heard of any news excepting that Mr. Dodwell's Book is going to be answer'd by three more Persons, viz. Dr. Fowler, B. of Gloucester, Dr. Turner, and Mr. Wise ; both the last I think Cambridge men. This we had in a Letter from Dr. Kennett about 2 weeks agoe. I have heard Mr. Clark's answer read over to Mr. Dod, & which he had examin'd before. But when my Cozen read it to him he was so full of his answers ; & so uneasy & impatient under Mr. Clark's objections ; that he interrupted almost in every sentence. He now designes to stay & hear what Dr. Fowler, Dr. Turner, & Mr. Wise have to say & object against that Paragraph, & part of his Book wherein he shews there can no danger arise from his discourse. Indeed, 4 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO that was the only thing that induc'd him to answer Mr. Clark ; & with which he intends to begin his answer ; for he says he cannot conceive how it shou'd be so hurtfull as people imagine it, & that men now living can receive no harm by it is plainly shewn in his Disc, for he says the hurt that is done must be either to those that have receivd the Gospell, and wo'nt live according to it ; or those that have heard of the Gospell & wo'nt embrace it, or such as neither have heard of it ; nor consequently can embrace it. The two first sort of men are like to meet with the same state after this Life in his Book ; that they do in the Scriptures. And as for the 3 d sort; they are never likely to hear of his Book; & therfore no harm can accrew to them. & he says that if ignorant men shoud refuse to baptize their Children through hopes of preventing their Damnation ; The ruine which they pretend to remove from their Children will inevitably fall on their own Conditions. Nor does Mr. D. see why he shoud be any way charg'd with Dr. Coward's Principles of making the soul to cease from Punishment or reward till Judgmt. He also expected Mr. Clark woud have wrote some resolves about the Doctrines of Original Sin, the Immortality of the Soul &c. He goes to London tomorrow, &. carrys with Him his Letter relating to the Schism ; but whether he designs to print it or no I cannot tell ; He talk'd of only handing of it about to Persons concern'd. I suppose he inform'd you better about it than I am able. I believe his Philo will be the next thing he designes to publish. He bad me desire you woud compare the edition of Rinesius's Yarise Lectiones, by Camerarius (Typis Johannis Petreii, Norinburgise 1532), y e 14 chap. 3 d Book with the manuscript of Selden's relating to Ycttius Yalence in which book he is often mentiond. THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 5 I am in extreme haste, & therefore I hope you'l excuse all faults. My Cozen, Mr. Holden & all ffriends are [well?], & desire me to remember their service to you. I desire you wd do the same to all ffriends by me, not forgetting Mr. Thwaits when you see him ; & of whose wellfare & all honest ffriends I shall gladly receive an acct from you which I shall expect the next opportunity. In the mean time I am, Dr Chum, Yr constant lover, THO. CHERRY. Pray don't fail to send all the news you have, & how to direct to Mr. Kent. No. 3 (VoL. IV. No. 74). FROM THE SAME. DR CHUM, Nothing but your good Company coud afford me greater delight & satisfaction ; than did yr kind Letter. I coud never hope for such full informations of y e affairs at Ox: were 'not you pleasd to communicate them to me. I wish I had receivd yours before the 9th instant, that I might have answer'd it according to your desire, & prevented my writing to Mrs. Wells. Mr. Dodwell was somewhat concern'd at Dr. South's becoming his adversary ; much dreading the resentment he is us'd to write with in matters of Controversie. For which reason he was comanded to cease a dispute about the Trinity with Dr. Sherlock by K. William. Which Mr. Dodw. thinks He is now reviving. He LETTERS ADDRESSED TO speaks pretty favourably of Dr. Turner ; but thinks him guilty of the same mistake in generall with Mr. Clark. I cannot represent the surprise he was in at first hearing of Mr. Mills's opposing him. It immediately causd him to reply in the words of the Psalmist ; That had it been an Enemy if had done me this harm I coud have born it, but mine own Familiar /riend in whom I trusted fyc. So great was his opinion of him ; that nothing but this design coud make him think amiss of him. But it was no disappointment to my Cozen ; for he was always dispos'd to think otherwise of him than we imagin'd ; & knew him to be of a long time what he has now shew'd himself. Neither had he any greater Opinion of his Learning than of his Integrity, nor does he greatly fear the un- answerableness of his book; if it be writt proprio Marte. The many Favours Mr. D. has bestowd upon him woud make one more wonder at his ingratitude. For all that service he did him in his St. Cyrill ; he woud not so much as accept of a Book for his pains, but bought one on purpose to prevent his ffriend's charges. Nor did he think at all amiss of Mr. Mills when he desir'd Mr. D. to withdraw & conceal his Familiarity & Friendship with him, fearing it might be a means to obstruct his rise in the & many other kindnesses may be mentiond to prove his baseness in this respect. I thank you for your acct of the performance at Ox. lately, & am glad of the great favour Mr. Grabe met with then. But am very much concern'd at the ill usage of my Friend Mr. Gibson; to whom & all others pray give my service when you see them. I shall greatly rejoyce to heare Mr. Th waits doe well after this dismal remedy. I am very much obligd to you for the acct you gave me of Mr. Adams his sermon, & hope the University will always continue to THOMAS HEARSE, M.A. 7 expose the implacable temper of the Fanaticks & oppose their abominable practices. I hear by your Father (who gives his Love to you) that you designe to goe into Warwickshire. I hope you won't forgett me to my friend Abraham, & tell him I shall be glad to meet him next Act. Mr. Brooksby has not been here this Whittsuntide as he promiss'd. You may direct for him thus. For Francis Brooksby, at Hinckley by Coventry Bagg. I suppose Mr. Parker coud have inform'd you as well. I thank you for your kind advice in my studys : and heartily wish my own concern for my Interest had always excited me to practice; what yours did to direct, for which & all other Favours I shall ever remain, Dear Sir, Yr most oblig'd, affectionat Friend & servant, THOM. CHERRY. Shottsbrook, May 17, 1706. Mr. Dodwell talks of being with you very shortly. Pardon haste. No. 4 (VOL. IX. No. 104). FROM ELIAS SMITH. SIR, Turnliam Green, 25 July, 1706. By this opportunity I can't but let you know y 6 effects of another journy I had lately to Town abt Burton's Britan. Rom. My Friend told me again y* my Ld Weymoth had renew'd his search, but did not find it ; he has still another place of Books 8 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO to examine, & if it is there, you may depend upon it, as soon as it can be got. I presume your use of it may be to assist Mr. Lloyd in y e publication of his Antiquities, & therefore I shal send it w th y e greater expedition if ever it comes into my hands. About a week ago I read over & returned a MS. (y* came from my Ld Somer's Library) of considerable antiquity, it is calld Liber Niger Scacarii wrot in Hen. 2 d time, abt 650 years ago. I tran- scrib'd y e enclosed passages purposely to oblige you y 1 you may do the like to yr Friend if you think them worth communicating, al y e rest of y e Book relates to the Treasury affairs. I shew'd these places to Dr. Davenant, who told me they were a very great curiosity. The most entertaining news I can send you is that of Books, & therefore I'll trouble you w th al I know. Mr. Collier, I'm inform'd from one of y e undertakers (who are Keble & Took), is engag'd upon writing y e Ecclesiastical Hist, of Britain, he has already brought it down to y e times of Will. y e Conqueror. Mr. Flamstead is publishing all his curious observations of y e Heavens under y e title of Urania. Now I mention this I'll tell you of a great discovery. There's one pretends y* he has found y e long-studied secret of taking y e Longitude by Sea. He has comunicated wth Sir Is. Newton & Mr. Flamstead, and is preparing a large Instrumt to make y e experimt, & will go down to York to try it, it is not improbable y* he may succeed at sea if wt he says is true y 1 he can do it w th ease & certainty as he walks on foot by looking at some stars thro his Instrumt. When he has sufficiently experienced it he designs to go to my Ld Pem- brook to gett a Proclamation for a publick reward, & to appoint him wt Judges y e Governmt pleases to try it & publish it to. Besides his expectations from y e Pub. he is sure of a prsemiura of 1,000. left in will by a Gent, for that purpose, this account I had from one of y e Trustees of that will, who offer'd to shew it me. I'll tell you as a secret wch you may depend upon y e D. of Buckingham is actually upon y e Hist, of K. Charles 2 d Reign. Dr. Sherlock is upon y e last Book y* ever he will publish, y e place where we al hope to terminate in viz. y e Joys of Heaven, it will be a Digest in one or two 8vo. from several serm. as y e rest of his works of y* nature are, y e text of this is, " In my Father's House are many Mansions." Dr. Atterbury has not undertaken y e answer of TindaPs Rights of y e Ch, as was reported. One Mr. Caroll (who was converted from a Rom. Priest and is now in D. of Ormond's Family, & y e same who advertis'd upon Mr. Clark's Lectures) has made Reflections upon that & Lock's 10 th Ch. of H. Understanding. In respect of this last I'll give you an unhappy instance wch I had from y e very person in whose arms y e late E. of Shaftsberry expir'd, he said when he attended him at his last hours in Holland he recommended to him y e confession of his faith & y e examination of his conscience y e E. answer'd him e fourth had been married to a Ball of mine. The next morning I rode through y e Fenns to Crowland : where I was extremely pleas'd w th y e triangular bridge : undr w ch 'tis common for a coach & six to pass. For contrivance & work- manship I believe y e world has not the like. There's hardly so much as any mines of y e Abby remaining : y e stones I believe (w ch are exceeding scarce in y* country) being carried off by those y* wanted y m Since I have been here I read Mr. Camden's description of it : w ch shows y* y e the country near it has been much chang'd since his time ; as I shall make appear to you when I see you next. From thence I gott to Spalding, a small town in y e Fenns much like unto Woodstock ; & so on to Boston y* night : where I refresh'd myself w th a glass of good wine, not forgetting y e common-room. The next day I pass'd over anothr part of y e Fenns, & by Bullingbrook-castle to Alford : from whence, after I had passd y e barber's hands, I gott to Theddlethorp, just as a noble dish of Fish was going to y e Table. W 1 follow 'd D 18 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO after this you may easily imagin. I intend to stay here till y e 18th of this month: so y* you must not send sheets to me unless they can be in London y e 9th of this month. I shall be at York y e 19th. & if anything can be sent me by the York-coach w ch will reach me by y i time, I would have you write to Mr. Fisher to try w* may be done. I cannot yet give you any directions, where you may write to me aftrwards, but if it be possible, you shall know it. A lettr to York must be left at Mr. Lumley's at the M . . ner House. My service to all. Yrs, J. HUDSON. No. 10. (VOL. VII. No. 42). FROM GEORGE HICKES. SIR, Sepf. 30, 1707. I thank you for your letter. I am heartily sorry for Mr. Thornton's death, whose excellencies none knew better, than my- self. He hath not left a more learned, or orthodox divine behind him. He knew the primitive divinity of y e first 4 centuries, and judged all other writers since the reformation by them. As for Dr. Taylor's Liberty of prophecy, I always thought it was first pub- lished after K. Ch. I. death ; for w ch I must refer you to the first edition. It is certain at the Restauration that book was objected ag* him, and hindered him from being an English bishop. In truth the good he did by all his other works scarce compensat for THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 19 the evill that hath done, so great care ought learned men to take what they write. I am, Sir, w th true respect, Your faithfull frnd and servt, GEO. HICKES. No. 11. (VOL. XII. No. 89). FROM JOHN WOODWARD. $ R Gresh. Coll. 6th Apr. 1708. You had had this sooner but that I was not able to light of Mr. Howard, who made y e drawing of y e Gemm, sooner. He thinks Mr. Burghers has not perform'd his Part near so well in this as in his Copy of y e Shield. 'Tis like, upon a Review, he will improve his Graving of it. Signior Beneditti saies it is of the Age of Scipio : & he is the best Judg in England of these Things. It's being of y* Antiquity, w th that variety of Figures in it, renders it y e more con- siderable. I should be glad y e Letters, w th a further Dissertation upon y e shield were published ; 'tis what is calld for on every hand, & I have long had materials by me for y e Purpose, but my Business now will allow me no leisure for such a work. My service attends all Friends. I am in greate haste S r Your most obliged humble servt, J. WOODWARD. No. 12. FROM ROBERT ROBERTS. GOOD SIR, I receiv'd both your letters & a receipt from Mr. Adams in vour last. I render you many thanks for all favours. I have one 20 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO request more to beg of you, w ch is to send to Mr. Robert Griffith who lives at y e two Brewers in Hart Horn Lane, near Charing- cross London for forty shillings more of my money. Mr. Williams y e upphoulster perhaps may return them for you gratis, & if so, be pleased to dispose of them after y e following manner. Fourteen shillings to Antony y 1 belongs to X* Church Com- mon room, nine shillings to goody Vesey my bedmaker at X* Church, one shilling to goody Earl a scout y l belongs to Oriel Colledge, one shilling for you & Mr. Gunnis to drink, and the remaining fifteen shillings w th y e 25 y* lye in y r hands tender to Mr. Hcpson. If he refuses them be pleased to keep them in y r hands untill you hear further from me. Get a full discharge of Antony & Vesey & likewise of Hopson at y e payment of the money, let neither of them know my place of Abode. Be pleased to tell Collins & Polin that I will satisfie them at Miclemas. My service to Mr. Gunnis who perhaps will assist you in this matter. I am y r very obliged friend & humble servant, ROB: ROBERTS. I hope to be able in a little time to send you a larger token to drink. Petworth, July y e 3d, 1708. Mr. Robert Griffith who has y e forty shillings in his hands is Mr. Owen Griffith's brother who rcturn'd you my last money. THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 21 No. 13. FROM JOHN HUDSON. MR. HEARN, Aug.3,1708. This day I reed your letter: w ch I shall answer after I have given you a short acct of my rambles. That morning I left Oxon 'twas my luck to meet w th Mr. Busby at home, who entertained me very handsomly, & obliged me to pass y* day w th him & y e fair Ladys at his house. Early y e next morning I made for Bedford : w ch is but a very mean place, & as I fancy much short of w* it has been formerly. After dinner I sett out for Cambridge : & y e heat of y e weathr making me call at a little town in y e edge of y* County, I mett w th such incomparable liquour, as would have stop't you from reaching the University that night. In y 6 strength of it I gott safe to Cambridge : and noe sooner was alighted, but Joslmah came bouncing upon me ; his lodgings being next door to my Inn. A little after I had Professr Sykes, Davis, & Crownfield who w th o r merry Greek toss't a bottle & debated some matt" abt books & printing. The morning following I went to y e press : w ch is a pretty, large, & lightsome room : w th anothr over it very convenient for drying y e sheets. Besides o r friend's Homer, they are agoing on w th Hierocles & a piece of Tully: w cl1 will be beautifull books, & I believe well done. After I had subscribed for Cole's map & given y m a little money to drink, I visited two or three friends & dispatch'd y e little business I had : & then I waited on Dr. Bentley, who reed me w th a sort of haughty civility, such as it seems is natural to him. I talk't u little w th him abt Josephus & y r College-chappell (w ch is 22 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO the statleyest & finest I ever saw) & then w th Professr Sykes call'd upon John Laughton. He did not so much as invite me eithr to eat or drink w th him ; w cb he might have done wthout being in danger of my accepting his offerr : neither could he be prevail'd w th to take a single copy of Livy. Leaving this poor mortal, we call'd on Joshuah, who went w th us in his Jerkin to y e Tavern. Here we had a good dinner y* cost us nothg, & excellt wine at 20d. a bottle. We sent for Geoponic Needham, & w r as merry both here & at my Inn in y e evening as you can well imagin. By four in y e morning I mounted Ball and jogg'd on to Thetford : w ch is nothing but y e poor scantling of an ancient spatious town, as one may conjecture from y e ruines of a castle and some chs. In y e evening I gott to Norwich, a large & beautifull city, at y* time in all its glory. After a little refreshmt I calld on y e Chancellr, & had a great deal of discourse w th him on various matters. I did not forgett to remind him of Antony a Wood : & am in hopes of prevailing w th him, to put his book into our hands. He show'd me his copy of Leland, & anothr in Bales's own hand, w th several things in it, not to be found in o r book, the Queeii's-men print from ; whethr he had a bettr copy of Leland, or has inter- polated it, I know not. In y e morning I waited on y e Bp & y e Dean, who courteously reed me, & invited me to dine w th him. But this I declind, being willing to reach Linn y* night, w ch I fail'd of, y e Norfolcians giveing a larger measure to y r miles y n to y r cloth. By eight the next morning I arrivd there, & sent for my old Acquaintce Dr. Littel ; who show'd me all y e curiosity s of y e place, as Kg John's sword, and a golden cup, w dl Mr. Mayor fill'd w th sack, a noble church, & some THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 23 ruines of a religious House. He made me dine w th him, & officiously conducted me to y e Ferry. I was forc'd to stay so long for y e tide at the Washes I was to pass over, y* I mett w th but very poor lodgings y* night. A short & hard bed, & y e stinging of y e Gnats occasion'd my rising early y e next morning. But my boy was so tir'd, y* I had much adoe to gett him to Boston (w ch was w th in six miles) y e next morning. After five or six hours rest here, we sallied forth, pass'd by y e ruines of Bullingbrook castle, and pretty late at night came to this place. I need not relate w* noble entrtainmt is here : it fully answering y e accts I have formerly given you. Florence is y e liquor we remembr o r friends in ; & good Port wine & water passes for o r small beer. For several reasons, you know, I shall shorten my stay as much as possible, & have thoughts of being w th you on tuesday-evening. If I take a day or two more, I hope every one (w m my return most concerns) will pardon me. I do not expect anothr lettr from you. Now in answer to yours. The weathr grows so hott, y 4 I do not wondr at some people's madness. The Low-Chmen must cry up one anothr, or else no body would hear of y r merits. Mr. Thwaites is out in w* he says of y e Dean's Ignatius, for I'm sure he has an exact copy of y e Florentine MS. y* must be put in y e Public Library, as soon as y e Dean has done w th it. My s r vice to all y e Common-room, particularly to Mr. Dugdale : who I hope wants not good assistance. I am yo 3 J. H[UDSON]. 24 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO No. 14. (VOL. XXV. No. 32). FROM HENRY DODWELL. WORTHY S* Shottcsbrooke, Aug. 5, 1708. I did expect that you would receive the Copyes of my last Book before a return could be made to your first Letter concerning it. Now I understand that they are arrived. I have lately received a Letter from the excellent Person that occasioned this whole Dispute, by which I understand that he is perfectly of my mind, though the manager of our correspondence had possessed me with an expecta- tion of the contrary. That excellent Person understands me rightly, and takes what I say to be onely the revival of what was truly antient. And tells me of another of our mind in Scotland. I have the like* account from other parts. I hope therefore my friends in Oxford also may now begin to bear the reading of what I say with less Prejudice. My Adversaryes treatment of me as they have done may, in Providence, have been designed as an expedient to dispose them to it. Mr. Cherry has returned your Pliny. It is a very valuable Book, being an Original, for so much as is in it, of the later Editions. I wish you could have told us whether the man of the house, where D r Smith lives, have the name of Smith also, or whether he be onely his Brother in Law by mariage of his own sister. Directions to inmates must be by the name of the Masters of the house. I remember the D rs specimen of Bp. Pearson's Adversaria. But, being onely Adversaria, I wish I knew his design, as to the form he intends to put them in, if a perpetual commentary as the Bp. had intended, if God had enabled him to put them into his own intended form. I might then help him to some things further for the improvement of the Edition. 25 You may tell Dr. Hudson that 1 am on a short Discourse concerning his Dionysius Periegetes. But I would gladly see how forward he is for the Edition, that I may not lose my pains. If he has done the Text, I should be glad to see it together with both the antient Latine Paraphrasts in verse. Especially that of ffestus Avienus, which I want. The enclosed is my Answer to the excellent Perizonius relating to the parcel you sent me from him. It was a Thesis against Absolute Monarchy, in favour of our Republicans. The Corollaryes also, if his, contain some suggestions against our constitution here, both in Church and State. I send it to you, knowing your con- venience, in the Library, for sending it to him, by some of those foreigners which come continually in your way. And I send it to you open, that you may read it. When you have done so, be pleased to seal it, before you send it forward. We have been told here that the Bp. of Waterford has entertained you with a Greek Lecture. You will be pleased to give us a full account of what he has done relating to the late Disputes concerning him : whether he has not demanded his Salary, and how the matter is like to be accommodated between him and Mr. Thwaites. I find, by the Lipsick Acts, that there is a late Edition of the Periegesis, wherein the Editor has made some new Observations concerning the Author. If you have it in the Library, be pleased to let me know whether there be any thing fit to be taken notice of in Dr. Hudson's Edition of the same Author. JSo more but that I'm jour affectionate ffriend HENRY DODWELL. Accept Mr. Cherry's and Mr. Brokesby Service. 26 LETTERS ADDRESSED To No. 15. (VOL. IX. No. 40.) FROM ROBERT ROBERTS. DEAR SIR, I render you my Hearty thanks for all favours, I am glad y* you receivd y e money of Mr. Bartlett, & do not question but that you have disposed of it a long time agoe according to my desire. I have one request more to beg of you, viz : to go to one Mr. Simmons a Barber who lives in Cornmarket Street near North Gate in a day or two after the receipt of this to encourage him to make me a wig : I am in a manner a stranger to him, yet I writt to him by this post relating to this matter. W* I desire of you, is to give all encouragement you possible can to make me a good one by telling him y* he will be infalliby paid y e sum I promised him, viz : 30 shillings upon demand, w ch I design (God willing) to committ to y r hands in order to pay him by y e time y* y e wig will be finished w ch I hope will be ready by Lady day. I am mightyly grieved y 1 I can* pay my remaining creditor in y r city, who truely is y e only creditor (God be praised) y l I have in the world, I hope to make a good step towards it by Lady day; at w ch time I have above ten pounds due to me from Dr. Felling who is as indigent as myself notwith- standing he has nigh six hundred pounds per annu. I shall make great effords for y e said sum at y* time, but I despair of having all. My service to Mr. John Jones & to Mr. Gunnis, THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 27 & tell 'em y t I desire 'em to encourage this barber to make me a good wig, they both are well acquainted with him. I am y r most humble and obliged friend & servant, ROBERT ROBERTS. Petworth, Feb. 7, 170$. I hope my creditor will not come to know my place of residence by employing this man to make me a wig. Xo. lu\ (VOL. VII. No. 44.) FROM GEORGE HICKES. 8lR, April 26, 1709. Had I not been sick ever since I received your letter, and kind present, I had sooner returned my hearty thanks for it, w ch I pray you now to accept w th my hearty wishes, y* you may long live to serve the commonw of learning, and the University, and that the latter may take the first opportunity to reward you for all the services you have done, and are daily doing for it. I am sorry you meet w th discouragements of any kind. But the world is so made, and mixed, that you must expect them : and bear them, and he that expects to do good of any kind, or would go to heaven, must prepare for disappointmts. discouragemts. and ill usage, and by patience overcome them ; by Christian patience, and forgivenesse without w ch no man will get to heaven, w ch is an abouudant recompense for all troubles. I could wish you were set to publish useful MSS. of any sorts, w ch would be in my opinion much more for the honour of the University, and 28 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO more useful to learning, than new editions of any printed books, except such w ch were grown almost as scarce as MSS. w ch are but very few. I wonder you never come to this town. When any occasion invites you hither, you shall be very welcome to your obliged freind, and faithful servt, GEO. HICKES, No. 17. (VOL. IX. No. 42.) FROM ROBERT ROBERTS. DEAR MR. HEARN, Petworth, April 27, 1709. I want words to express my gratitude to you for all favours : I have nothing but good wishes for y r health & success in y e world to make a sort of retaliation for all y r kindnesses to me : I have sent to Mrs. Griffith (Mr. Griffith being in Wales) twenty shillings for Mr. Symmons's use munday last was seavennight, w ch j jj p e k e nag rece ived 'ere this : I have likewise sent to her, by yeasterday's carrier two pounds and nine shillings & six pence, w ch I desire you to send for as soon as possible you can, and to dispose of them after y e following manner. Six pence for y e return of the money into y r hands, a shilling for Mr. Symmons, pray, tell him y* I reed my wig, and y* it answers my expectation pretty well, I shall send him another shilling about Miclemas if ye w ig wears toller able : two shillings I give to drink between Mr. Lloyd, yrself, & Mr. Gunnis if in town, you may bring Mr. John Jones fellow of Jesus Coll : among you, if you think fit. Be pleased accept of six shill : yourself ; and to give Mrs. Law the remaining forty ; I am ashamed to desire you to appear my advocate before her, she (I expect) will tax me with injustice 29 towards her, by detaining her thus long from her money, but I beseech you to satisfie her y* I have not been able to pay her, and that I mean honestly ; I design (God willing) to send forty shillings more into y r hands for her about Miclemas, and 38 shill : being y e remaining part of y e debt at X^nas, at w ch time I will make her any reasonable allowance for not sooner payment; I intreat you to pacific her, and to perswade her to make no further enquiries about my place of residence ; tell her y* she shall be honestly paid at y e above mention'd time, before w ch I cant without doing myself much hurt : I had some thoughts of going to London this week, but my circumstances w d not allow it. Pray let me know w* Mrs. Law will tell you in relation to my debt, I hope y* she has not found out my place of abode, not- withstanding her diligent enquiry. My humble service to Mr. Lloyd, Jones, & Gunnis. I am y r most obliged friend & humble servant, ROB: ROBERTS. No. 18. ( VOL. V. No. 4.) FROM D[AVID?] EVANS. WORTHY SB, *> ndon > 9br r xth C 1709 J- I humbly Beg y r pardon for passing through Oxford so abruptly last Summer, without paying my respects to you & Mr. Sherwyn or any of my friends. Assure yourself it was not for want of respect to you, but for want of time, caused by y e exigency of a long suite in Chancery. Mr. J: Collier sent me word about 2 months ago for to come 30 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO & speak with him, but y e Jacobites are so discountenancd here in London, that upon second thoughts he would not be seen afterwards, as Mr. Sare of Gray's Line his friend told me. Last Saturday being y e vth of Novemb D: Sacheverel your mighty Boanerges thunderd most furiously at Paul's against y e phanaticks for condemning y e King of high treason against his supream subjects, as he express'd it. He spoke very freely of y e toleration Act, & charged y e Mayors and Magistrates with want of zeal for y e Church, & play'd particularly & expressly upon y e B. of Sarum ; whom he hoped was no great friend to popery he said, but by his exposition on the Articles on w d think he was halfe channelled over. We were about 30 Clergymen in y e Quire, & among y e rest y e minister of Batter sea who is lately come over to our Church, Sacheverell having heard of his Conversion, levelled his arguments & anathemas most virulently against him, and y e whole tribe of 'em : in so much y fc all y e Congregation were shaken agen at the terrours of his inveterate expressions. The whigs says he are Conformists in faction halfe Conformists in practise, & non Conformists in Judgment, formerly they labour'd to bring y e Church into y e Conventicle, but now they bring y e Conventicle into y e Church, which will prove its Inevitable ruine. His text was this word : In perils among false brethren, & his sermon upon't was so violent that I think my Ld Mayor & Court of Aldermen will hardly desire him to print it : but if it be printed, I'le endeavr to get it you, provided I happen to be then in Town. David Jones is a soft mild preacher in comparison to this : and now I speak of D: Jones, last Sunday I was preaching at Aldgate Church, from whence I was Invited by a gentlemen of my THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 31 Acquaintance to come & see a miracle in y e Queen's Bench prison, viz. to see D: Jones, but yesterday I was prevented, for I met him accidentally in Westminster hall, & hardly knew him, his Com- plexion were so alter'd ; he shew'd me his head, & his Coal black hair was turned milk white of a night he said for y e greatness of his troubles. I w d correspond with you oftener, & pay for your Letters & mine too with a good will but I fear that then they will not arrive safely into our hands : pray give my hearty Respects to Mr. Howells of Jesus, and Mr. Sherwinne & partake of y e same yourself from, Sr, y r affecte friend & servt, D: EVANS. No. 19. (VOL. II. No. 102.) FROM JOHN BENNETT. DEAR SR, I am very sorry I have not had leisure, thro the fatigue of a long Term, which is now just ended, to return you thanks for your last kind Letter : yours are always wellcome to me, but more especially then, when they come full fraight, not with such idle stuff as fills the Common Newspapers, but the Present State of learning in y e Universities. 'Tis my great misfortune that I am not able to answer you in the same way ; but however I hope [this] will be no discouragement to you to proceed, since 'tis so kindly received by him, who would be glad of any Opportunity to do you all y e service that lies in his power. 32 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO I am very sorry you are under apprehensions Dr. Grube will be taken of from finishing the Great & Excellent Work he has begun & made a considerable progress in : and the rather for the sad ccasion of it, Mr. Whiston's Heretical Book ; which I am very sorry, none of our own Church & Country will give themselves the trouble to answer ; but that it must be left to a Foreigner. I don't question but that you have seen Dr. Sacheverel's bold discourse at St. Paul's on y e 5th November. I had the Curiosity to hear it, & so can assure you 'tis verbatim as 'twas preach't. It lasted a full hour & a half, & was deliverd with all the Assurance & Confidence that violent Preacher is so remarkable for. I could not have imagined if I had not actually heard it my self, that so much Heat, Passion, Violence, & scurrilous Language, to say no worse of it, could have come from a Protestant Pulpit, much less from one that pretends to be a member of the Church of England. If I had heard it in a Popish Chappel, or a Conventicle, I should not have wonder'd : but in a Cathedral, it greatly surprized me. I'm sure such Discourses will never convert any one, but I'm afray'd will rather give the Enemies of our Church great advantage over her ; since the best that her true sons can say of it, is that the man is mad : and indeed most People here think him so. I'm mighty glad Mr. Strype's Edition of Stow's Survey of this great Metropolis is so near publication. 'Tis a book 1 shall be very fond of, especially if it be improved with that care & industry, that such a work requires. I am likewise very glad to hear of Mr. Maddox's Antiquities of the Exchequer Court & that it is done by an able hand. I would beg the favour of you in your next, to let me know, what Authors have writ of our English Antiquities, either in general, or of any particular Town, or County ; besides THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 33 these few which I have ; let me know your opinion, which of 'em are worth buying, which not. I have at present those that follow : Dugdales Warwickshire. Fishers Monuments of St. Pauls. St. Pauls. Somner of y e Cinque Ports. Plot's Oxfordshire. of Canterbury. - Staffordshire. Verstegans Antiq. of the Engl. Nation. 'Inigo Jones Stonehenge. Guidot's Antiq. of y e Bath. Izaakes Antiquities of Exeter. Gunter of the Ch. of Peterborough. Kings Antiquities of Cheshire. Wright's Antiquities of Rutlandshire. Keepes Monuments of Westminster are now new printing & very near finish'd, with y e Additions, &, Cuts of y e principal ones. I shall be highly obliged to you for your Judgement concerning these, or any other I have not yet heard of. I can't learn at present how to direct a Letter to Mr. Kent ; as soon as I'm inform'd I shall not forget your Request. Your old Friend Tom Mills, alias Lord Bp of Waterford was last week to make me a visit; which, I dare say you don't question I took for a mighty favour from a man of his figure & quality. Mr. Fox is bringing his Lady up to Town, to ly in. All discourse of peace is blown over, & we're preparing for another year's vigorous prosecution of y e War. I am, your real Friend & humble servant, J. BENNETT. Essex Street. Decemb. 1 [1709]. I'm informd some misunderstandings between the Vice Chanc. & Dr. Aldrich, have deprived us this year of an Oxford Almanack, which use't to appear long before this time. 34 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO No. 20. FROM S P REV. AND HON. SIR, Oxon > Jan - 13 > 1709 - 10 - The greatest (hindrance) has been the melancholy news of the death of the B. of N. of venerable memory, and the reflections that arise upon the consequences of it, as it appears to have made an alteration in the state of Church affairs. A further provision we are told in general is made, but in whom, and in what S. with other material particulars, we are not yet informed, tho' there seems to be a necessity of knowing some of them for the satisfying of conscience. Particularly the question into what is, I humbly conceive, a very important one, because if your con ns were only at large, and into no particular. dist as, where is the altar against altar upon which the schism first commenced ? If, instead of depriving so many bishops and substituting others in their places, without authority to do so, somebody had let the diocesans quite alone, and only procur'd so many new ones to be ordain'd at large, I presume that would have lay'd no foundation for a schism. And why then should bishops at large do so now ? Then in my humble opinion it may be fairly ask'd whether it lay in the power of the con rs to ordain them into sees, the right of the election which is necessary to it, having never been, by any judicial act of the Church, taken from the electors, namely, the deans and ch rs since the breach ? It may be further necessary to know into what sees, because if any one of them should have been ordained into a see falling before the dep ns and not vacated since, it would seem to involve that person and those who adhere to him in the very thing we have objected to others. It THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 35 may also be necessary to know who, if 'twere only for this reason, that we shall not otherwise know when their titles end with their lives. These things, Sir, makes us impatient to be more particularly and distinctly informed in this matter, and the sooner your leisure will permit you to favor us with a few lines about it, the happyer we shall think ourselves. The great interest of all is at stake, and I doubt not but you'l be ready both to pardon and gratify a sollicitude from a concern for that. Honour'd Sir, Your much obliged and most humble servant, S. P. No. 21. (VOL. XXV. No. 28). FROM HENRY DODWELL. HONOURED SR, Soon after the receipt of your's I went to London and presented my old ffriend the Archbishop of Dublin with my copy of Wolfius's Book compleated by the sheet you were pleased to transcribe for me, for which I am endebted to you, and am willing to satisfy you when I know what is due for it. I shewed also to some of my ffriends what you had been pleased to communicate to me for confuting the wicked Pamphlet concerning Priestcraft &c. I understand an Answere is intended by very able Persons, wherein I doubt not but that the informations you were pleased to send them will be used to good purpose. I was also with Dr. Woodward, who was pleased, among', other rarityes, to show me the Original of your shield. He lent me also his Letters from learned men concerning it, among others one from you. His design was, I perceived, to have my opinion also concerning it, which I am now 36 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO better qualified to give since I have seen the Original, and have had the history how he came by it, which he could not trace far, nor out of England, having got it as old Iron in an Ironmonger's shop, who is dead, and can give no account how it came into his hands. I therefore proposed whether it might not have been modern, upon the improvements or rather the retrievements, of the manual Arts in Italy by the interest of some of the modern Camilli, a name frequently occurring in the late Historyes of Italy. But the Dr. assured me that it had been twice patched with modern Iron, so that it could not be later than the time of Charles the Great. But I reserve what I have to say more for a second view, and the leisure my fayling eyes will allow me, which do me little service in this gloomy weather. I send you here enclosed a Copy of the Bath Inscription as it is engraved for the use of Dr. Musgrave's Book, by which you will find the Bookseller to have been mistaken when he pretended it to have contained a Head or TTporojmrjv of Julius Vitalis. But the Book is hardly yet begun, but will be, I believe now, speedily. No more at present but that I am Your aff. ffriend, HENRY DODWELL. Shottesbrook, ffeb. 21, There is one Buddseus, a very learned and civil German of Jena in Saxony, who has written against my Parsenesis. Bp. Mills had gotten him, and sent him with his other books for Ireland before I could get a sight of him. However he spoke to a German book- seller to get me one, which cannot be expected till 2 moneths time. Perhaps you may see it before that time in Oxford. 37 No. 22. (VOL. II. No. 74). FROM HILKIAH BEDFORD. GOOD SB, Eagle Street, Mar. 7 th [1709-10]. I am afraid y will think o r good friend Dr. Smith has recom- mended one to y r fav r y 1 very little deserves it, since I have reed two most obliging lettrs from y, one of y m near a fortnight & the other a week since, & have not yet had y e good manners to thank y for y m . Indeed, S r , I have been so busy w* w th examining Collins's Book, & some affairs y* have very frequently call'd me whole days from it, that tho' I resolv'd to write every Post, yet they have constantly return'd upon me, and found me still oblig'd to stay till y e next, & now at last I shall not be able to give y y* ace* I intended of w* materials are found, besides those y have oblig'd me w th on this subject. Dr. Smith prebendary of Durham has lately found a 4th Copy of y e English Edit, of Articles w th y e clause in 1571 y had heard of y e 3 others, 2 Mr. Wyat's of Salis- bury, y e other Mr. Ausley's of o r (St. John's) Coll. in Camb. these 3 are in town, & if y e difference of y e Titles be any argumt, are several editions of y* year. Besides these we have at Camb. several copies of y e edit, of 1581, 1586, 1593, and so downward, all w th y e clause, & y r friend Dr. Smith has all those editions here. I am told y* the 1 st edition of Rogers on y e Articles, called y e English Creed, was printed 1579 by Andrew Mansel, no doubt w th y e clause I hope y will find it at Oxford. W* he says in his dedicaon to A. Bp. Bancroft (w ch is in all y e modern edit.) 28, and 37, is remarkable. I hope y have e'r now hear'd w* Mr. Thoresby may have found to this purpose. I thank y for re-examining y e names 38 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO in y r labell & y r Collation of y< Edition, w ch I shall carefully & thankfully return to Dr. Smith. I thought it of use to quote y* part of y r learned letter on this argumt, wherein y give an acct of Collins's Oxford Correspondent, but instead of Mr. J T , I make y say, " a certain gent, whom I will not name," by w ch Mr. J. T. is conceal'd to every body, but to Mr. Collins & himself, if he have kept his own Council, & I hope so much may do y no harme, and him good, however I have so much reason to take care of y, y* even y* shall be left out, if y desire it. You have likely taken notice, y* Mr. Selden (probably convinc'd by y r copy of 1563 w th y e subscription, w ch was his) asserts y e authority of y e the clause. Table-talk, p. 34. A P r - 5 > 711 - I have been long in y r debt for y r last kind letter, but I thought it better to differ writing 'till I had something to send y besides thanks. I forgot to mention y r query to Mr. Harbin, when I G 42 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO saw him last, but I think y need not scruple making y e Dis- tinction y speak of. I can not fear y fc any one will be so much wanting to himself, as not to be glad of all y e succeeding Vol. of Leland as fast as they come out. I think I can answer for all y* I am concern'd for, who are rather sollicitious least they should any way fail of y m , & to such I have been as ready to undertake for you Sr, as I am to you for y m . I know not whether y will have heard y* y e Master of o r Coll. is dead, & y* y e Coll. have unanimously resolv'd upon our friend Dr. Jenkin to succeed him in y e Mastership, as y e University, in y e Margaret Professorship ; into w ch I expect e'r I seal this, to hear he was yesterday chosen w th out competition. On Monday next he will be chosen Master, his Predecessor being to be buryed on Saturday, who has left an augmentation of ab* 110Z. per annum to y e Mastership, after y e death of a nephew, & after 500Z. rais'd from y e estate to purchase an Advowzon for y e Coll. he has also left y e Coll. 201. per annum for 2 exhibitions appropriated to St. Paul's School, & y* of Dorchester, y e place of his Nativity, & given his books to y e Coll. Library, only y* Mr. Brome one of y e Fellows is to have y e use of y m while he stays in y e College. If y e Bp. of Ely w d have y e same regard to our Coll. y l Bp. Gunning had to his, who gave a Living to y e master ; & give Dr. Jenkin either of our late Master's other Prefermts, w ch were a Prebend of Ely & a Living of abt 200. per annum, I sh d be less concern'd y* Dr. Gower's augmentation of y e Mastersp is not like to take place in Dr. Jenkin's time. However as Master & Professor he will have ab* 400/. per annum, & if he were not y e modestest man in the world, he could not fail, I sh d hope, of some additional prefermt in a short time : but he will be so far from seeking it, y* 43 I am confident he w d be willing to get fairly quit of y e most popular part of w* he is now taking, I mean of y* Mastership, & choose rather to live privately on the other, than to be thus produc'd into y e world. But I am glad he is not herein suffer'd to please, & to hide himself. I am, dear Sir, y r most affectionate humble servt, H. BEDFORD. Since I wrote this I met Mr. Harbin, who desires y* his degree may not be mentioned, for y* y e Revolucou prevented him pro- ceeding Mr. of Arts. No. 26 (VOL. IL No. 30). FROM HILKIAH BEDFORD. DEAR SR, On rec* of y ra & y e 8 books I went immediately to Mr. Sare's to chide w th him ab e y e Dean's Book, not yet it seems sent to y, any more than to Dr. Jenkin, tho' I order'd both before it was publish'd, & to get y r advertisemt publish'd: As to y r letter, he told me a stranger w d get it publish'd sooner than he or Mr. Wilkin, who have shares in y e Courant, & y* an Advertisemt of y e Dean's Book had waited 3 weeks for a place in the Courant. I therefore went this morning to Mr. Buckley's y e Dolphin in Little Britain, where y e Courant is printed, & gave in y r Advertisemt & half a crown, & am promis'd it shall be publish'd in y e Courant of Saturday next. Y e remaining 44 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO U 5s. 6d. y have here a bill for, w th my heartiest thanks for y r kind present. As for y e Dean's Book Mr. Sare desires y will excuse him for having dispos'd of y e first bound parcell where he thought there was more haste, because y w d have y e use of y* in y e Public Library, but has promis'd y shall have one soon : & my interest in y* great work is so little y* I must content myself [w th his] promise, but I will become bound for y e performance of it to you. Mr. Baker lately observd to me in a Letter, y* y e speech printed in y e 2 d Vol. of Leland was delivered by Bp. Fisher A 1507, to y e Kg then at Cambridge, but by y e word Cantabrigia, he suspects y r copy not to be an original, because he finds it always written Cantebr. or Cantibr. in y* age, tho' Cantabr. took place soon after. I mention this because of y e Review of y e whole y intend in y e last Vol. Mr. D. of "Worcester has been very dangerously ill, but we begin to hope he may recover. I am sorry Mr. Cholm'ley & Mr. Johnson were so taken up y 1 they could not wait upon y. I have a former kind letter of y to thank y for, tho' neither time now nor room left for it. Bp. Ken dyed at Longleat Mar. 19, 171^, a little after 5 in y e morning, & was bury'd ab* y e same hour on y e Wednesday following in y e parish (Froom) Church yard. His last illness of ab* 8 days continuance, mostly a difficulty of breathing, calFd by y e Physicians a nervous Asthma, siez'd first in January last ab* 5 in y e morning w th violent coughing at Mrs. Thynne's at Lewston in Dorcetshire. about a week after he was again early in y e morning taken w th a dead palsey in his left side, w ch lasted a day or 2, but y e hand remain'd useless to his death, ab 4 a fortnight after y* he was siez'd w th spitting blood, yet he was THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 45 well enough to remove to Long Leat 9 days before he dyed, & design'd in 3 or 4 days after he got thither to go to Bathe. I am dear Sir, Yr most oblig'd humble servt, H. BEDFORD. May 17, 1711. Mr. Wilkin desires to have one of all y e Vol. of Leland, if y can help him to y e 2 first, & is contented to pay 10s. for y m , & 4 a piece for y e rest. If y can oblige him, please to send y e 3 first Vol. up when y e 4th comes out. No. 27 (VOL. XXV. No. 55). FROM FRANCIS CHERRY, ESQ. SR, It is wth infinite Griefe y* I write you this Letter wth the melan- choly News of y e Loss of Mr. Dodwell who died, wth the same Piety wth which he had always lived, about fFour of the Clock in y e morning on Thursday y e 7th instant & was buried yesterday in this Church. M rs Dodwell desires you as soon as you can after you receive this to go to y e House where Mr. Dodwell used to Lodge in Oxon & to let his Trunk & his Books & his Gowns & what other things he hath there be removed to y r Chamber & then to give me an Account of them by y e next Post & you shall receive farther Directions about them from Yo r humble serv*, if. CHERRY. Shottesbrooke, June 5* 10 th 1711. 46 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO Rec d this Letter about half Hour after 10 Clock in the morning, on Thursday June 14, 1711. THO : HEARNE. No. 28- (VOL. XXVI. No. 1). FROM MR. GEORGE HEARNE. DEARE AND LOVING SON, These after all our Loves to you is to let you know of the Lamented Death of old Mr. Dodwell who died on thursday last past and was Buried in the great Chancell of Shottesbrooke Church on Satterday 'tis said he died of a Consumption he was a man that will be very much missed amongst the poor people to whom he was a constant benefactor. I went and saw him laid into the ground and there was bread given away to the People after his Burial there was no sermon but he was Buryed very decently several Gentlemen and Ministers being Invited I have perused your last Leland and like it mightilly only I wish I understood the latin of some of the passages I thank you for it and all other Kindnesses and hope God will Reward you, I continue still in great paine with my Lameness & hope to have a Letter from you your brother John came to se me and Dined with me on Sunday last and is well and he and all the rest of your B. give their Loves to you & so doe all the rest of your friends & your Mother in Law. I am in great hast at present praying God to bless you I remaine your truly loving father GEO : HEARNE. THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 47 I have a great Desire to se you once more at Oxon for I think my time will not be long in this world I think to ride over before harvest if I can haveing some Business there for a friend to doe 'tis extream hott here & we have no sort of ffruit. No. 29 (VOL. II. No. 75). FROM HILKIAH BEDFORD. GOOD SR, Eagle Street, Jim. 19 [1711]. I have two obliging Letters to thank y for, & had answer'd y e former of y m sooner, but y 1 I have been in a great hurry of business for others, besides w* I have had of late of my own. Bp. Ken was bury'd before 6 in y e morning by his own appfo*, for y e more privacy : attended to y e grave only by my Ld W[eymouth]'s Steward (I think) & 12 poor men y* carried him by turns, & had 5s. a piece for it; y e coffin cover'd w th a few yards of black cloth, instead of a Pall, & y i given to y e minister of y e Parish for a gown. I am oblig'd to y, Sr, for y r intended favr to Mr. Chom'ley, I am sory he shd not have waited upon y all this time, & hope he will make his own excuse for it. If it had been his good fortune to have been plac'd where you are so kind to wish him, I shd have had an opportunity of seeing him soon ; for I am going down to o r Coll. w th one of his School- fellowes, S r Streinsham Master's son, & can hardly forbear wishing he were to follow Mr. Chom'ley, y i I might have had so good an opportunity of seeing good Mr. Hearne. I pay'd y r complemt to y e Dean of Worcester, who returns his most hearty service, but 48 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO continues very infirm & much dispirited. I heartily condole w th y on y e loss w ch both Religion & Learning have had in y e death of Mr. Dodwell; & yet I can not forbear thinking y* it had been better for both, & more for his own reputation, if they had suffer'd y e loss some years since. I hope to be back from Camb. before y e end of next week, w ch will probably be as soon as y r Lelands can be bound & sent up. I'll take care to deliver y m when they come, & return y y r money. If I had known of my Camb. journey soon enough to have reed any commands thither from y, I would have sent y word of it, w ch I have not had time to do so much as to my friends there. I am, in some haste, dear Sr, Y r obliged & most humble serv 1 , H. BEDFORD. No. 30 ( VOL. III. No. 122). FROM FRANCIS BROKESBY. WORTHY SR, Shottesbrook, Jun. 27, 1711. I was at London when yours with my Papers came hither, & since my coming home have bin imploied in some things intrusted to my Care by our late excellent firiend Mr. Dodwell. He had near finished his Dissertation upon Dr. Woodward's Parma Equestris. That, according to Mr. D's direction, I delivered (together w th some other Learned Persons, as Baron Spanheims, Gronovius, & (w* Mr. D. most approved of) Cuperus's thoughts on that subject) w c he lent to Mr. D. into the D rs hands. None of them had taken THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 49 y e 10 th of y e Pains in considering it as Mr. D. has don. This, I believe, Dr. W. will publish, & I doubt not, will be welcome to Learned men, as discovering much of Roman Antiquities out of the Ordinary Road. I have just now transcribed the beging of a Ir, of the Laws of Nations & Patriarchal Scheme, w ch he intended (if G. had granted him a longer continuance among us) to have prosecuted. This I am to transmitt to a Learned person to see whether he'l be pleased to undertake it. His Barnabas, the Para- phrase, Annotates, & his Dissertation on the mystical Interpretatn of the Old Tostam* & also his Discourse concerning Theoph. Antioch. if not before published by Mr. Schelwig (for he has a Transcript of it). These both are intrusted to Mr. Cherry m * I waited for this opportunity of thanking y for y r last by y e same kind hand y* brought it. Mr. Bishop has procur'd me y e following acct of Dr. Hickes from y e Registers : Matriculated, May 19, 1659, of S* John's College. Took his degree of A.B. Feb. 24, 1662, of Magd. Coll. May 23, 1664, elected ) . . Fellow of Lincoln Coll. June 20, 1664, admitted) Nov. 6, 1675, elected Sub-rector. All w ch I think agrees w th y e ace* y were so kind to procure me, except Feb. 24, for 4, in y e 2d. Article. I am sorry I cannot send y herewth an ace* of Dr. Smith's Matriculation & Degrees ; but having not y r letter by me, when being accidentally in company w th Dr. Taylour, Mr. Gandy & Mr. Bishop, I desir'd y* any one of y m w d procure me y e ace 1 of Dr. Hickes, I forgot y e other particular, till I come now to look back into y* letter of y re , but probably I may have some other occasion to make y* enquiry for y. The D r wrote his name Hicks when matriculated. Dr. Charlet supposes y* he remove! to Magd Coll to wait upon Dr. Erbury when he was restored in 1660, & remov'd thence to Magd. Hall some time after A.B. Are there no Registers in Magd. Hall to shew when? Mr. Deacon, who sends his service, tells me Camden is now ready, you may please to inclose my Parcel in his, because he lodges near y e Carrier, & he'll give me notice 67 when they are come. I have not yet seen Mr. Chom'ley, tho' I believe he is in town. I am w tb all respect & y e best wishes of y 6 season, Dear Sr, Y r most affect humb servt, H. BEDFORD. My nephew Smith, who gives y his service, being in town, I have by him made an offer of Dr. Smith's 2 Letters, & Mr. Ledgard's collation of y e Florentine MS. of St. Ignatius, to Mr. Wootton of our Coll, if he thinks it proper to publish y m w th his Clemens Romanus, & 'tis on y* ace* & because y s d y were in no haste, y t I have deferr'd sending those MSS. to you. No. 42. (VOL. VIII. No. 38.) FROM DR. RICHARD MEAD. WORTHY SR, My Lord Arran came to town on Tuesday ; yesterday I gave to Dr. King yo r Letter to his Ldship, and the Copy of that you wrote to the late Vice-Chanc. He gave them to my Lord this morning, who was pleased immediately to write a Letter with his own hand to the V. Chanc. to this purpose, " That his Ldship had reed a Letter from you in which you signifd your sorrow for having given offence to the University by what you had printed in your Preface to Camden's Elizabeth; that several gentlemen for whom he could not but have regard had applyed to him on your behalfe, and that therefore he made it his Request that all Prosecution agt you should be stopt, and that you may go on to LETTERS ADDRESSED TO Print as formerly. This Letter I read, and do send it with this to the Post-house ; so that you may wait on the Y. Chanc. as soon as you think convenient, and I hope in the next to give you Jy f your Troubles being at an end. Dr. King gives his most humble service to you, he keeps a Copy of the Letter. I am, your most faithful servt, R. MEAD. Blomesbury, Oct. 23, 1718. No. 43 (VOL. XXVI. No. 19). FROM MR. GEORGE HEARNE. MOST DEARE & LOVING S After all our loves and thankfull acknowledgmts to you for all kindnesses received and the last this is to acquaint you that having tryed severail things to get some ease for my terrible pains and miseries which I endure both day and night it doth not please God to grant me any the least redress but am far worss then ever but especially since the last snow which fell here on Shrov Sunday and was pretty deep by reason of the wind blowing it up about my going to church that day and the extraordinary cold weather since has brought me into such a deplorable condition that I scarce can stand some times or go about and am in worss paine in Bede a nights and am a meer cripple and know not what I shall do but doubt I must be forced at last to crave some help from y e Parish which through the good help of God & you and som other good friends I have hitherto avoided and will still if I can possible but truly I cannot se how to doe it tho' I rely still on God's Providence and hope he & my friends will never forsake THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 69 me utterly, and my wife poor woman has taken abundance of care and pains with me and does still, I can not tell how I shall subsist till after Easter being obliged to pay my half yeares Rent before then and if I live till then if I can not goe about I must get my poor wife to doe it for me and shall get but a poor little I am afraid of what I use to doe pray good son lett me have a line or two from you next return next week to comfort me in my misery I begg earnestly of you & for yo r Pray and I offer up mine to God Almighty for your health and that you may out live me or elce I am utterly undone in this world yo r uncle thanks you he keeps his bed and the Parish helps him a little he is in a mellan- choly weak condition and Stephen Edwards is grown very flfeeble and weak yo r Broth rs and sister are well & Rembers all to you I heard you had a fire at X Church at Candlemas which did con- siderable damage you may please to let me know a little of it and of your health. Here has lately happened a very unhappy accident at Ruscomb Squire Aldworth having envited som Gentlemen to Dinner on Sunday the 6th of March which I think they say was his Birth-day ther was among the rest Owen Buckingham Esq r . of Reading it so happened that in the evening that Mr. Aldworth and he had som words and went out from the house som distance and they say drew and Mr. Aldworth's hard fate was to kill Mr. Bucking- ham on the spott how 'twill be decided I can not tell. There has been a Baker killd at Windsor on Satterday was sen'night by on had been a souldier the Baker was on horsbake and the Rogue bid him stand and deliver his money, and shott him into his head with a pistoll dead, the Rogue was pursued and taken at Hounslow the same night & is now in Newgate, there was seaven 70 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO condemned at Reading this Assizes I think there was five hanged on was a Blackmore send me word how many suffered at Oxon. Mr. Arthur Van Sittart was lately two or 3 daies at the great house at Shottesbrook and they say will be here to reside in the summer he has purchased a good estate at Clure and Windsor some times the Duke of Albermarles so that he is now a vast rich man I lost a great friend of his Brother, I am not acquainted with this Gent, yet yo r Brother Ned works there and helps mannage the work in the Gardens and is liked of well I desired Anne Mayer to send a Letter by the Oxford Carrier to her sister from Mr. Whorwoods of Whatley where she lives but she has not yet don it let me know if you sent her letter as I believe you did. God bless you deare S. and pray for me your afflicted disconsolate father G. H. March 20, 17. Yo r Mother in Laws love and thanks to you if I wax any worse I will send you word when I write againe for I am quite dis- consolate to think what I shall doe. No. 44. FROM J BROMLEY, ESQ. SR ? Bagioton Jun 13, 1722. I was not Mr. Wright's Executor, but a Legatee, to whom he did by his will devise all his MSS. I have examined them, but find nothing in them relating to Glastonbury. I have heard the Impropriation there is in the Bp of Bath & Wells, & the Ch THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 71 served by a Vicar, or Curate at a very small allowance. That bishop Ken resolved to encrease it upon renewing with his Tenant, but they could not agree & the Tenant tempted him often with the Fine before his Deprivation, to no purpose. His Successor, Kidder, took it without any farther Provision for the Church. The last Session of Parl an Act passed for inclosing Glastonbury Commons, w ch the present Bp. would not consent to without an Augmentation for the Church. I have seen Proposals for printing two additional volumes to the Monasticon, by Capt. J. Stevens, I know him not, I should be glad to have your thoughts of the Work, if you please to give them to S r Your faithfull, humble servant, J. BROMLEY. No. 47 (VoL. VI. No. 53). FROM SAMUEL GALE. SR, Presuming y* Langtoft's Chronicle is almost finished & not being willing to lose y e advantage of subscribing to y r accurate works I desire you would be pleasd to insert me in y e list, I shall take Care to return you y e whole mony by y e fittest oper- tunity. I have nothing Curious at present to entertain y r Speculations with but only that I have lately & accidentaly purchas'd an antient but fine Picture of y e Beautiful Rosamond, 'tis painted on a pannel of wainscott & represents her in a 72 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO three quarter proportion, dress'd in y e Habit of y e Times, a streight Body'd Gown of changeable red Velvet, with large square Sleeves of Black flowr'd Damask Faceings, turn'd up above y e Bend of her arms, & close sleeves of a pearl coloured Sattin puff'd out, but button'd at y e Eist appearing from under y e Large ones, she has several Rings sett with pretious Stones on her Fingers, Her Breast cover'd with a fine Flower'd Linn en, gather'd close at y e Neck like a Ruff. Her Face is Charmingly Fair with a fine Blush in her Cheeks. Her Hair of a Dark Brown parted with a Seam from y e middle of her Forhead upwards under her Coifure which is very plain, but a Gold Lace appears above it & y* cover'd with a small cap of Black Silk. She is looking very intensly upon y e fatal Cup which she holds in one hand, & y e Cover in y e other as going to Drink it. Before her is a table Cover'd with black Damask on which there lies a prayer Book open, writt in y e antient black Caracter, y e whole peice is extreamly well preservd. I take it to have been done about Harry y e Tth's time. You'l Excuse this Excursion which nothing but so beautiful a Lady could have run me into, thus to intrench so far upon y r Time ; but I flatter myself y* you have y e same value & respect for this English Venus y* I have, in confidence of which favorable Sentiments I subscribe myself S r yr most obedt servt, SAM L GALE. London, Dec br - y e 3 d , 1724. 73 No. 46 (VOL. IX. No. 33) FROM RICHARD RICHARDSON. DEAR SR, North Bierley, Nov. 5 th , 1725. I received jour's of Oct. 11 which as far as I can informe my selfe was the day that Mr. Thoresby dyed, for some time before his death he had lost the use of his right side in a great measure which disabled him from writing, & his distemper had so far affected his head that he was capable of very little buisines. His museum remains still in the same state he left it, his eldest son (who is a clergyman & preferred in the south by the Bishope of London) is not yet come into the country, 'tis beleived that the Bishope of London wil have the disposall of his Collection. The most valuable part of it is his medalls, which are chiefly Romane & Saxon, & a good collection of English Coyns & ccasional medalls fron the Conquest to this time ; his Bookes are alsoe valuable & prety numerouse, & indeed it is not to be wonder'd at, since the foundation of this collection was my Lord Fairfaxes medalls & his Library which were purchased by Mr. Thoresby's father, to both w ch there has since been made considerable additions. If I can learn any certainty of the disposall of that Collection, I wil acquaint y u . I shall be glad to see Langtoft's Chronicle, which Mr. Yarburge will take care to send me, & alsoe subscribe for John of Glastonbury's Chronicle, or any other Booke you publish for which he has my orders. I 'have met with nothing in Antiquity latly worth communicating to you. If in any thing I can serve you, you may be assured of a friend in, Yours Ric: RICHARDSON. L 74 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO No. 47 ( VOL. IV. No. 19). FROM THE HON. BENJAMIN LEONARD CALVERT. DEAR SIR, Woodcote, Dec. 22, 1725. I hope before this comes to your hands, Mr. Lowe will have transmitted you the money for y r last book, and I heartily beg your pardon you had it not sooner, w ch was owing to an accident, for he having sent me y r letter and directions into the Country, had forgot the money was to be payd to the Carrier, and I at the same time thought he had pay'd it ; but when I was last in London, I gave directions about it. I have been every week since my arrival in hopes of seeing you at Oxford, my Brother Baltemore intending a journey that way, as well as myself, but unforeseen accidents have hitherto prevented it, to my great disatisfaction. I hear Dr. Rawlinson will be soon (if not already arrived) in England, who by his long stay in Italy, is well provided w th curious observations & collections. My time in Rome, was too short either to satisfy e my Curiosity or enrich my Collections. The little store I have, with other things, are not yet arrived from Italy, so that at present I cannot give you any detail of them. I think I formerly mention'd to you in a letter from Italy, the Tomb of St. Richard, K. of England, at Lucca, where he is much adored. I enquired much after him, as the Canonization of a Richard K. of England seemed to me extraordinary, I mean the Richards since the Conquest, & before I don't remember our Annals mention any of that name, I met with this S l . Richard's life in Italy, but it gives no particulars of him, only that he was 75 R. of Kent, that he resigned his Crown, & going in Pilgrimage to Rome, dyed at Lucca. Where this Author got this history I don't know, no more than what Baronius in his Annals mentions under y e year, 750. He there styles him Rex Anglorum, that he went the pilgrimage, with his children, viz. Willibaldus & Winbaldus, his sons and Valtpurga his daughter. For my part I know nothing of these good persons, if you do, I should be glad of informaccn. As to the foreign Libraries, I assure you my endeavours were not wanting to get an insight of them, but my expectation was no way answer'd. They were generally in Confusion without order or Catalogues, so that it was almost impossible to profit by them. I spent many days in the Florence Library to find a MS. history of Brittain, w ch Mountfacon, in his Iter Italicum, mentions to be there, but no such could be found. The Vatican Library is in some order, but it is hard to get a sight of any thing there, from a jealously in religion, even Mountfacon himself told me they refused him the sight of many MSS. there. The Ambrosian Library at Milan is in the best order, & easiest got at, w ch is owing to y e founder's express directions. Mountfacon mentions the most remarkable MSS. w ch I had not time to examine. What I lookt into most there, was a volume of original letters of Cardinal Borromeo, Nephew to Pius y e 4, this Cardinal was canonized by the name of S*. Charles. He certainly was a good pious man, but his letters show him a thorough Bigot. These letters were they printed would satisfy the world, that y e unfair practises in the Councill of Trent w ch Father Paul complains of, were true. Herein are the original directions to y e Legates, for Bribing Bishops, managing points, &c. LETTERS ADDRESSED TO I must now finish, wishing you a merry Xhnass, and a happy new year & subscribe myself yours most entirely BEN. LEO. CALVERT. P.S. Be please! to continue me your Subscriber as before, & direct for me at Mr. Lowe's. My respects to Mrs. Lehunte, Whiteside, Colley, &c. No. 48 (VOL. IX. No. 34). FROM EICHARD RICHARDSON. DEAR SR, You may reasonably wonder that I have not before this time answerd yours of Jan. 1 st , which was sent to me in Craven, where I was confined in the gout & continued so for six weeks after, before I could get home, I have not stil got quit of it. I wrote immediately to a friend at Leedes in order to get the best information I could of Mr. Thoresby's Musaeum, & how it was to be disposed of, but his two sons who are both clergymen & setled in the south were then come to no resolution about them, I wrote a second & third time but could get no satisfactory account to send you ; I had orders from a gentlemen in Cheshire to have bought a great number of his printed Bookes, but a few days agoe I had a letter from Leeds which brings me an account that Mr. Thoresby's eldest son (who I perceive has the disposall of the MusaBum & Bookes) was then at Leedes & had pact up all in order to remove them into the south, but whether to London or to his living I can not informe you, the most valuable part of his Collection (viz.) his Medals & Bookes belonged to Tho : 77 Ld Fairfax, which Mr. Thoresby's father purchased, who was then a curiouse person, & made considerable additions to it before it came into the hands of his son, you wil find every thing that is valuable in his Musaeum printed either in the Philo: Tran: or else in his Ducatus Leodiensis, 'tis very- probable you may still get a sight of his collection, if I had known that y u had desired a sight of any of his M:S: I am sure I could have prevailed upon him to have obliged you. I have not yet received Peter Langtofs Chronicle, I ordered Mr. Yarbourge not to send mine till it could be conveyed hither by a safe hand ; exchanging carriers before any thing come to this place twice, has been the occasion that 1 have lost severall things sent from Oxford. The Precentor of Yorke is my relation & a man of good learning, he wil be a very fitt person to apply to about Eccleston's History de adventu fratrum minoru in Anglia, I wil write to him the next weeke, & the account of it which I know he wil not faile to give me, shall be sent you by Your assured friend & servat, Ric. RICHARDSON. North Bierley, Mar. 19, 17f|- No. 49 (VoL. I. No. 104). FROM JOHN ANSTIS, ESQ. SR, I hope by this time you have received the MSS. which I sent to our friend Dr. Mead. If you print that life of Hen. V. you may, if you please, take the notices of it being ascribed to Roger Wall by 78 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO some Historians, misled by the device of the owner of the book, which I have proved in the History of the Garter, p. 375, at large. And if you have any occasion to mention Worcester, I can add several materialls to those printed by me both of the father and of the son in my life of Sr John ifastolf, and indeed I must correct that conjecture concerning the reason of the name Botoner often used by them. If I am not mistaken the Harley Library ascribes a book in prose to Elmham possibly a copy of what I sent you, but there is his Hist, of H. v. in the Cotton Library Jul. E. 4 in verse, which you will find trouble to explain. I give you an instance upon the treason of the Duke of York, Henry Lord Scrope, and Thomas Greye, detected at Portsmouth. ( a ) SCrVtVs Consplrat RIMatVr OLeVCIa PLebi ( b ) Rumpe Jugo COR Aiens Res Dabit ultra sonum, ( c ) EIA Ruit GenS Avita Malis Opus Hoste Triumphat &c. ( a ) The Initial letters of the words in this verse make Scrop, and the numerals are C.V.V.C.M.V.L.V.C.L. U15. 1 MCCCLLVVV. ( b ) The Initial letters of the first words are Richard, and Zorc (for York frequently) by changing the letters in Cor, and adding Jugum that is Z. ( c ) The great initial letters & other great letters in this verse set together & read backwards make Thomas Graie. If you print it without notes, it will be an unintelligible Jargon, and in several places you will have, occasion to consult (Edipus ; That was the fantastical humour of the Poets in that age, as appears from Gower & others, some of their verses relating to the devices of persons living in their ages are cited by me in the 1 There is some mistake here, though it is exactly as Anstis has written it. There are four V 1 which would make 1420 instead of 1415. THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 79 Garter books, and you know the like enigmatical verses are upon the Mosaick Pavement erected by Roger Ware in Westminster Abbey, I know not whether the late authors about that abbey have explained them, which you may have from me if you should have any occasion for them. That booke of Worcester contains several valuable peices and I suppose you will print some of them. If you print that letter about the battle of St. Alban's sent to Sr John ffastolf, I will explain the titles of the Officers therein named, and you may add thereto a short acct of both battles of St. Alban's from Whethamstede in our Library. You know who John Somerseth was to whome the Life of Hen. V. is dedicated was, otherwise I will send you some account of him. I have somewhere in the book of the Garter observed from a foreign Historian that Hen. V. would not permit the use of ffetherbeds to his souldiers, & intended when he had fully conquered ffrance to have cut down all the Vines, being it seems of the opinion of Lycurgus, but I know not in what part of my book it is. This is not, I believe, mentioned by any of our Historians. You know the occasion why the ffrench Historians who hated him say he dyed of a Distemper which they called ffiacre. I know not whether these hints will be of any service, however I scribble them out hastily to shew you with what respect I am Yr most humble sert, JOHN AFSTIS. Putney, 7 JanT. 172f. 80 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO No. 52 (VOL. X. No. 131). FROM JOHN TOTTENHAM. DEAR SR, You have underneath y e account I promis'd you when we parted. In y e middle of y e Lady's Chappel, w ch is behind our Quire, near y e steps leading to y e Altar, the workmen digging a grave for Mr. Healy, in y e beginning of this month, found a freestone coffin about twenty inches under y e Pavement, in w cl1 were the bones of Bp. Button y e first in due order. There was a large gold stone ring on his finger which Dr. Archer with much ado recoverd from y e workmen. In y e coffin was found a small silver cup full of Liquor w ch was thrown in y e dirt before any body of curiosity came to y e grave. The cup was cover'd with a small silver Paten w ch was a little eaten up with rust. There was no inscription upon either of them. They are in y e hands of y r friend y e Archdeacon, who would not have suffer'd y e good Bp's bones to have been disturb'd had he known where they had lain. He is y r very humble servt. He cannot find any ace 4 of Bracey. John de Somerton's Election was confirmd by Radulphus de Salopia Bp. of Bath & Wells 14 Kal. Aug. 1334. Pray give my service to Mr, Whiteside. I hope to see you in Catstreet in abt a month. I'm yr most humble servt, JOHN TOTTENHAM. Wells, March 30, 1727. THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 81 Dr. Morris, our town Physician, who died last week at Ensham, order'd in his will y i three Sonatas should be play'd over his Corps just before it was carry 'd from y e house to y c church. And y e Ceremony was yesterday performed. No. 51 (VOL. XL No. 121.) FROM JAMES WEST, ESQ. WORTHY SR, Last week the remains of Sr Isaak Newton were deposited in Westminster Abbey with great Solemnity. The Dean of West- minster performing y e Funeral Service. The Dukes of Montross & Roxburgh The Lord Chancellor & The Earls of Pembroke Sussex &, Macclesfield supporting y e Pall. People talk of a very magnificent Monument to be erected for him. His Chron- ology was near finished and Innys had printed one sheet of it before he died. It is very short and I am told, will be a diminution of his Learning if ever it appears. On Wednesday sevennight Sr Hans Sloane was unanimously elected President of The Royal Society, where I hope the Natural History of our own Countrey will be more cultivated & encouraged than it hath been of late years. I had a Paper given me yesterday, being a Comparison between St. Peter's at Rome & St. Paul's Church in London built by Sr Christopher Wren which joined to y e several other Churches built by him in this great City sufficiently testifye his good Taste & exquisite Judgment in Architecture. A Copy of this Paper I here send you. 82 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO ST. PETER'S. ST. PAUL. Feet Length 669 . . .500 Front of y e Portico 91 ... 40 Length of y e Cross 442 . . .223 Heigth of y e Church .... 146 . . .110 Length within 226 . . .110 Length of y e Front 395 . Diameter of y 6 Cupola . . . . 140 . . .100 I set out tomorrow for Cambridgeshire and shall see that University before my return where I shall have the happiness of seeing tho' not of conversing with that great Man & y r good Friend Mr. Baker. I shall be in Town again in Ten Dayes by which time I hope to hear from you. I have likewise a short Memorandum by whoom or on what authority wrote I know not that Inigo Jones built St. Mark's Church att Florence. Perhaps you may know more of it. I have two or three trifles to send you at my return. & am My Good Friend, Yr most assured Friend & servt J. WEST. Inner Temple, April 6, 1727. No. 52 (VOL. XL No. 123). FROM THE SAME. WORTHY S B I had yours and am to return my thanks for your notices relating to our Language in its first Deviation from y e Saxons. The Charter you have printed p. 391 of Textus Roffensis is y e oldest fragm* I can think of & indeed the oldest I had taken 83 notice of before was that of Edw d Confess' printed in Blounts Tenures (a usefull & entertaining Book) p. 103, and that of King Ethelstan to St. Wilfrid under y e word Frodenortel in his Dictionary for I look on that of William 1 st to William Portreeve of London to have been translated since. M r . Le Neve Norroy showed me some time since an old Parch- ment Deed dated MCCXX sealed with y e seal of y e abbot of Tame whose abbot is an arbitrator between y e abbot of St. Nicholas of Bittlesden & y e abbot of Oseney. The reason of my mentioning it to you is because I do not remember any abbey of y e Cistertian order at Bittleden was dedicated to any Saint but y e Virgin Mother. I am glad y e verses pleased you. The Charge was a mere trifle and I never think it any trouble to serve one I have so great an esteem for as y r self. I shall endeavour next time I see Mr. Norroy to procure a copy of y e above mentioned Charter which if acceptable I shall afterwards transmit to you. Simon Degge Esq. M.D. F.R.S. desires to be a subscriber for y e small Paper w ch if you please to send with mine with a line beforehand I will transmit y e money. I forget whether I paid you subscription money for my own Pray let me know. The sudden news of y e King's Death hath brought all the nobility & gentry of y e Kingdom to London. Their now Majesties behave themselves in y e most affable & obliging manner to all Persons whatsoever & seem entirely rooted in y e affections of y e People. Every Person is admitted to them & no body comes away displeased. I hope to hear in your next when we may expect Adam de Domerham. John Murray is in Town and 84 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO will continue here about a week. My Service to Mr. Whiteside. I am Y r truly affec te Friend & Ser 1 J. WEST. Inner Temple, June 22, 1727. P.S. In some letter of yours to me some time since I remember you mentioned your desire of knowing something of Coins dug up in Sweden by Keder. I believe no such book was ever published. I had lately a Book giv'n me by a Swedish Gentleman entituled Nummorum in Hibernia antequam hcec insula sub Henrico II. Anglic Regis per Nicholaum Keder e Regia Societate Antiquaria Holmiensis. Accessit Catalogus Nummorum Anglosaxonicor* fy Anglo- Danicor* Muscei Kederiani. Lipsits apud Jo. Fridericum Gleditsch A.M.DVIII. 1 Tis a most rare & scarce book very few copies having (as I am informed) been printed. I have not yet had time to look it over. If there is any thing you want out of it, I shall gladly transcribe. Iterum vale J. W. No. 53 (VOL. XI. No. 145). FROM THE SAME. WORTHY SR, Dr. Woodward's Shield was bought back by his Executors who were resolved it should not be sold under 100 guineas. The name of Captain Vincent was made use of to prevent the true Purchasers being known. Since the sale of it here hath been dispersed 2 1 This should be A.M.DCC.VIIL THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 85 pages in 8 VO of notes under the name of Mr. Downes formerly of Baliol College endeavouring to prove it spurious, one which I doubt not Dr. Eawlinson hath presented you with. Mr. Ainsworth, the Compiler of the Kempian & Woodwardian Catalogues tells me Mr. Dodwel had seen these strictures & had wrote a sufficient confutation of them, the original of which he found among Dr. Woodward's papers & intends to publish shortly. . Dr. Woodward's books amounted to 1471 17 0. His Curiosities & antiquities came to no great sum. The chief of what fell to my share were, Simulachra & Statuae, N 1, 1. Apollo & Diana. Tabula Caelate, N 3 & 4. Inscriptiones, N 2. Urna> fictiles, N 2 & 3, 16, 21, 22. Diana Venatricis ritu succincta prope D. Pauli eruta Gemmae, A. 1, C. 6, D. 3. Miscellansea pleraeque. I yesterday saw Mr. Le Neve who desired me to tell you he had at last found the true Roll which (If you want) he will send you. Mr. Le Neve formerly bought the Library of Mr. Wilkinson for 10. He was Parson of White Waltham and there are among his books several MSS. Volumes of Pedigrees especially of Persons in that neighbourhood any of which at your desire you may command. Silas Taylours Antiquities of Harwich is almost finished. It is fine 4 to printed by M r Dale whoom I have formerly mentioned to you. Tindals Practice of Prelates is printed at Marborch, 1580. My Boecius is printed at Tavistock in Denshire. I do not 86 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO remember to have any book in my small Collection printed at Greenwiche but sure I am I have seen some. I have not heard of Duke of Kingstons Library being yet printed but shall enquire. Mr. Palmer hath published the 1 st part of his History of Printing which he designs to continue monthly. He hath had free access to Pembroke & Oxford Library w ch to a judicious man must be of great use. The Earl of Oxford hath lately met with a noble Leiger book of Bittlesden Abbey formerly said in Tanners Notitia to belong to George Duke of Buckingham. I am ever Dear M r Hearn Y r assured & faithfull servant JAMES WEST. April 15 th 1729. P.S. M r Murray received your Letter there is no mention made in the book that William Worcestre was the Author tho' my Lord Oxford will send you Tully de Senectute printed by Caxton & another MS. shortly. Since I wrote my Letter I have found a Book I had then mislaid. It is entitled, A Faithfull admonycion of a certen trewe pastor and Prophete/ sent unto the Germanes at such tyme as certen great princes went aboute to bring in aliens into Germany/ and to restore the Papacy/ the kingdom of Antichriste. Now translated into English for a Lyfe admonycyon unto all trewe Inglyssh hartes/ whereby this may lerne and knowe how to consyder and receive the proceedings of the Inglyssh magistrates and Bisshops with a preface of M. Philip Melancthon. 87 At the end, Impiynted at Grenewych by Conrade Freeman in the month of May 1554. With the most gracious Licence and privilege of God Allmighty Kyng of Heaven and Erth. No. 54 (VOL. XL No. 69). FROM THOMAS WARD, ESQ. SIR, I have so great a desire for a compleat sett of all your works (it being my misfortune, not to be acquainted w th your merit, before Robert of Gloucester came out) that I cannot wholly refuse your kind present ; but accept it on these Terms only, Viz: in ex- change for Hymni Christiani, w ch is also very much at your Service. And shall be glad to do the same by the best of my Books or MSS: for any other Duplicates of yours. In the mean time, please to favour me w th your thoughts on the Date of my English Herball, printed at London by Lawrens Andrews, anno M.CCCC.XXV. I did not hear of your Friend M r Graves's death before, w ch am very sorry for : when he died or of what disease I cannot yet learn. Mr. Newsham to, lies dangerously ill of a Feaver. God preserve you this sickly time, otherwise the learned World in general will sustain no small loss, but particularly yo r Friends, among w ch number I beg leave to subscribe my self, who am w th best wishes, Dear Sir Yo r ever oblig'd humble Serv*, THO: WARD. Barford, Oct. 25*, 1729. 88 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO P.S. Bold Beauchamp's Tomb being lately open'd when the Chappel was new paved w th blue and white marble, some Friends had a great curiosity to see the Remains of this once great man ; where they only met w th a few of the larger Bones in a shatter'd wooden coffin, the bottom of w ch was 2 inches thick, and under- neath his Scull lay all the Hair just as it slipt off, w th part of the shrowd, being white flower'd satten. On the wall, writ w th chalk : James Fish 1 ( clark ) I 1681. perhaps the time John Dunkley J (mason) when this new vault was made, being of freestone neatly jointed, and but little wider than the Coffin. I have here inclosed a Lock of the Hair as it was given me. 1 M r Fish has at last permitted me to compare the Will, wherein I have observed every minute difference, be pleased to return this again, because I intend to bind it up w th my Copy. No. 55. FROM CUTHBERT CONSTABLE, ESQ. Novemb. 11, 1730, SlR, Burton-Constable. My love of books often inclines me to goe to the book-sellers shops and to inquire there what new books have lately been pub- lished and amongst others I found one which indeed seems to have been writ by both an ingenious pen and by one who has neither 1 The lock of hair remained with the letter when Mr. Stevenson made the tran- script. He describes it as black, glossy, and silky. It is still there. THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 89 spared labour nor cost to satisfy him self about the requisits for making a new edition of the Greek testament, but as he seems to reflect upon you more than (I think he ought to have done) I thought it woud not be improper to send you the book itself which you will please to accept, tho' I am sensible the book might have be (sic) sent to your University before. The page in which it makes mention of you is the 34 th line the fourth. The Author I am told is not forty his name is Westenius Professor at Basil, son of one of the printers of that name at Amsterdam. A very learnd man who has red part of the book told me that the man must have taken a great deal of labour but that it plainly appeard to him that he was inclined to that fashonable great Heresy Arianism and that his new Edition might weaken the proofs for the Trinity when ever it comes out and that this likely is his intent of giving the world a new Edition. But having mentioned Arianism and the Gentleman who told me what he thought of the Prolegomena ; I think it will not be amiss to acquaint you with some of the good qualities of that worthy person, who had a publick dispute with Dr. Clark at his own house where there were more Ladys of Quality than Scholars which was the greater pitty ; however the Gentleman I speak of was generaly thought to have had much the better in the dispute and Dr. Clark was so fair an enimy as to acknowledge and confess his great learning and abilities and one of the greatest persons of quality amongst the Ladies and who was so great an admirer of Dr. Clark that she ust commonly for her tost to chouse Dr. Clark Mistress which she was accustomed to say was truth so blinded she was by this smouth Dr. This Lady I say as great an admirer as she was of Clark yet sent the next day after the N 90 LETTERS ADDRESSED TO dispute to his adversary and made him very handsome compli- ments : but that I mav not keep you in suspence about the person who has merited so well in the Christian Cause I shall begin with his true name which is Howarden tho' he commonly goes here by the name of Harrison he is a Catholick a Doctor of Divinity, taught above 15 years divinity at Doway but being a potent enimy to the bad Doctrine of the Jesuits and a thorn in their sides they contrived things against him and least he might be forst to quit the University by forse he left it before things came to that hight and has since lived in England. He may also be called an Oxfordian because he was there some few days before the unhappy revolution. He lives a privat retired life far from rich but not poor, he is certainly the best Scholar amongst the English Catholicks and if his singular great humility be con- sider'd with his great learning and exemplar piety I scarce think he has his equal in Europ and indeed tho' I have always esteem'd his vast erudition yet I have much more admired his much greater humility and true piety. After this dispute with Dr. Clark he writ the little book which perhaps is a stranger in your University but I hope will be esteem'd by some worthy to appear in any University, and tho' what common report says be oftner untrue than true yet as it is some time true I shall here add what was commonly said that after Dr. Clark's dispute with Dr. Howarden and his writing the little book against him he never held up his head. I sometime have the satisfaction of seeing this good man and have askt him about this dispute, almost all that he said was that he hoped he did noe harm by that dispute, he also commended Dr. Clark for a man of learning and particularly for his great mildness and moderation which he shewd to the THOMAS HEARNE, M.A. 91 person of his antagonist ; tho' he was at the same time very zelous for the cause he defended, that he talkt much but not correctly or eloquently, and that he had much to doe before his admirers to get him to answer his questions, being very backward like the old Arians to discover openly his opinion. This little I coud get from him about this dispute, more of the particulars you may see in the little book 1 have sent you. It was one Mr. Hook a gentle- man of good learning who was acquainted both with Mr. Clark and Dr. Howarden who was the bringer about of the dispute. Dr. Howarden being an humble man was very far from being fond of a publick dispute and excused himself by saying that it woud doe noe good but Mr. Hook woud not be contented with such an answer and prevaild at last upon him by telling him that he durst not dispute with him which saing so roused up his zeal that he promised him he woud and mett according to appointment at Dr. Clark's own house. Now I think I have told you all I coud get out of the humble Dr. only I have forgot to tell you that Dr. Clark after the dispute made a very handsome treat for the Dr. and told him that he did not think there was an English Catholick so learnd in England as he found he was. Mr. Maittaire who speaks so handsomely and justly of you in his Annalibus Typographicis, vol. i. pp. 51 and 52, writ a letter of thanks and civility to Dr. Howarden upon his writing the little book against Clark a copy of which I got and have writ it in a leafe of the Dr's book. Sr, your most humble servant C. CONSTABLE. 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