of Ely. In 1782 he published "Hints respecting some of the University Officers," Svo*; and died Oct. 29, 1788.

P. 399. The following Epitaph is at Wycliffe, Yorkshire : "H. E. S. Thomas Robinson, A. M.

hujus ecclesiæ rector per annos fermè triginta octo. Obiit septimo Calendas Aprilis, A. D. 1769, æt. 66." H. E. S. Stapylton Robinson, A. M. reverendi Thomæ Robinson filius. Obiit quarto Calendas Junii, A. D. 1769, æt. 28." I subjoin two Letters written by Mr. Robinson: 1. "To the Bishop of Carlisle, at Rose Castle, Cumberland. "MY LORD, Wycliffe, Sept. 21, 1764.

My son returned hither in good health on Monday in the evening about seven o'clock; and the very kind reception and extraordinary civilities he met with at Rose Castle, have made on him so strong an impression, as, I believe, can never be obliterated and I, my Lord, am at a loss for words sufficiently expressive of the due sense I have of your goodness and favours to him, and of my thankfulness for the same.

"Before my son left this place, he informed me that your Lordship appeared to him to be a diligent searcher into the Antiquities of this Kingdom, as well as the Curiosities of Nature and Art in the several Counties. You must very probably have been acquainted with the late Roger Gale, Esq. F. R. S. and sometime a Commissioner of the Excise, who many years ago published Registrum Honoris de Richmond,' folio. This learned Antiquary had caused the last folio edition, save one, of Bishop Gibson's Camden's Britannia to be interleaved, wherein he has wrote a very great number of curious observations, and enriched it with variety of maps, &c. This book his son Roger Gale, Esq. was so obliging as once to shew me, not very many years ago, in his Library at Scruton, not far from Bedale. The perusal of these MS additional notes would, I am persuaded, give your Lordship very great pleasure. It is a pity they were not known to the Editor of the last Edition, and he permitted to print them. The son, who at present lives at Stockton upon Tees, in the County of Durham, told me that his father, whenever he met with any ingenious Officers of Excise that had a taste for this kind of knowledge, employed and rewarded them for procuring and sending him accurate accounts of every thing curious and memorable from all parts of the Kingdom, he removing them from place to place as best answered his design. If you are acquainted (as my son seemed to think) with Christopher Crowe, Esq. of Kipling Hall, in this County, a Major in the North Riding militia, and whose sister the present Mr. Gale married; he, I am of opinion, could readily prevail with Mr. Gale to lend you the book, when you shall return again to Rose Castle the next

From the operation of various causes since 1570, when the Univer sity Fees were regulated by Statute, the emoluments of the several Officers were become inadequate to their trouble: he suggests the propriety of new regulations, but forbears to specify them till the Members of the University had considered them.

summer.

summer. I humbly beg pardon for trespassing so much upon your Lordship's time by this long letter; and am, my Lord, with the greatest veneration and esteem, your Lordship's most obliged and most obedient servant, THO. ROBINSON."

2. To the Reverend Dr. Burn, Chancellor of Carlisle. "REV. SIR, Dec. 8, 1767. "The publick in general are extremely obliged to you for your very learned and most useful labours, your 'Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer,' and your 'Ecclesiastical Law.' The former you have brought to very great perfection in the late Editions; and I doubt not but the latter will, in due time, be equally improved. To this end, nothing can contribute so effectually as a Collection of the Decrees and Determinations, in the several Courts, on the subjects you treat of. The inclosed Copy of a Decree in the Exchequer, [Rickword against Trimmer, 21 June, 1750] I presume, had not come to your knowledge. as I do not remember your having cited it in your 'Ecclesiastical Law.' The late Dr. Brown, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, had been, as I was informed, attacked with the paralytic disorder (which at last put a period to his life) when I first received the said copy; and his faculties were said to have been greatly impaired, so that he was judged incapable of giving a proper explanation of it, which is much wanted, otherwise I should have sent it you long ago. This Decree must either have been very badly drawn up, or my copy of it is very imperfect. And if the latter should happen to be the case, you can easily get that defect supplied.In the second volume of the quarto edition of your Ecclesiastical Law,' title Terrier, you have given us a very good form of a Terrier, in that of your own Vicarage of Orton. If you have not already seen them, you will be well pleased to find annexed to Dr.Ibbetson's Charge to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of St. Alban's, in the year 1765, Instructions for Ministers, Church-wardens, and others, in forming true and complete Terriers of Glebe Lands and other Possessions belonging to Churches;' first published in 1761, under the direction of Bishop Sherlock; which are excellent, and will be a very valuable addition to that title. The general character of your humane, benevolent, and communicative disposition, has encouraged me to take the liberty of troubling you with the inclosed case, and requesting that you will be so good as to take it into consideration, and favour me with your opinion of it. THO. ROBINSON."

P. 401. I have a print without date (size 9 by 14 inches) of the Chevalier Taylor delivering a lecture, with this engraved title on the top, "Dr. Taylor, M. D. Oculist,' &c. [see below] and the following lines engraved at the bottom. The Doctor is mounted in a decent rostrum, and dressed in the same manner, and with a similar cushion before him as described in p. 400. He is holding forth to a polite and crowded audience, in which a number of physicians and others, sitting at a long table, provided with pens, ink, and paper, are represented as taking down his honeyed words. JAMES DOWLAND."

« Dr.

"Dr. TAYLOR, M. D. Oculist to ye King of Great Brittain, Fellow of several Coleges of Physicians, &c. Lecturing on the Nature and Cure of the diseases of ye Eye.

"Hail, curious Occulist! to thee belongs

To know what secret Springs of Vision move
The Ball of Sight, what inward cause retards
Their native Force; what Operation clears
A cloudy Speck, or bids the total Frame
Resume the Lustre of the lucid Ray,

Is Thine to tell-Deep-veil'd to gloomy Shade
The darkling Eye retires, nor (Feels) ye Force
Of solar Beam-anon a darting Gleami

Shoots thro' ye Glass, and gives ye bright'ning Orb
To visit Light-1 see the liquid Stream
Flow, as ye guiding Hand directs ye way,
And bids it enter, where a total Gloom
Had drawn dark Cover o'er ye Seat of Sight.
Whether in Choroeid, or nervous Net
Fair Vision shines, thither ye streaming Rays
Converge their Force, and in due Order range
Their colour'd Forms-Anon ye Patient sees
A new Creation rising to the View

In living Light!-There blows ye flow ry Mead
With Sweets of every Bloom, where limpid Ril
Glides on soft Foot-Here fair Pomona smiles
In Luxury of Charm-There Flora paints
Her Vari-colour'd Train-Here Lunar Orb
Soft sheds ber silver Light, to cheer ye Gloom
Of languid Night, till orient Sun reveals
A living Scene, with radiant Lustre spread.-
Go on, Thou Favourite of Heav'n, to bless
The darkling World with Light, give it to see
The Maker's Works, and teach ye greatful Tongue
To sing his Praise, for what ye Eye beholds
To Rapture rais'd, fair Work of Power divine.—
While Others court ye Populace for Fame,
And envy Merit, which they cannot claim;
Be Thine ye task to beam in open Day

And shine with Lustre of unborrowed Ray."

P. 413. 1. 10. "The Alice Bosville, who is here mentioned, wife of Dr. Jackson, was one of four sisters, who all married Ciergymen, the daughters of Thomas Bosville, or Bosevile, who was Rector of Sandal-parva and Vicar of Braithwell, both in the County of York. They had a brother, whose tomb at Ufford, in Northamptonshire, is thus inscribed:

"Near this place lieth the body

of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Bosville, B. D. late Fellow of St. John's College, in Cambridge, who was presented to the Rectory

of Ufford by that learned Society.

A most

A most affectionate husband, a tender father, and a
sincere friend, a true son of the Church of England,
and a most faithful pastor of his flock.

He died Oct. 28 anno Dom. 1718, ætat. 48.
He chose without these sacred walls to lie,
Still here to preach humility,

The soul that takes her rise from humblest ground
Is always with the highest glory crown'd;

If thou wouldst raise thy lofty towers on high,
Lay the foundation in humility:

The building's strongest, and will soonest touch the skie." Quære, If Alexander Bosville, who was a Printer or Bookseller in London, concerned in the first edition of Gibson's Camden, and who is mentioned with respect by Thoresby, was not another brother?-The Rev. Thomas Bosvile, of Ravenfield in Yorkshire, and of Ulvescroft Abbey in Leicestershire, is now the Representative of this very antient Family." J. HUNTER.

P. 427. Dr. John Hind, Rector of Findon, Sussex, says, his great Grandfather, Richard Hine, or Hyne, of Merton College, M. A. May 14, 1667, (in a former generation written Hinde) Rector of Boddington, Northamptonshire, and of Grittleton, Wilts, died at Grittleton (as the Register says) in 1690.-His son had, perhaps, the Pectory of Lillingston Lovell.-His son, Richard Hind, D. D. of Christ Church, Rector of Lillingston Lovell, of St. Anne's, Westminster, and finally Vicar of Rochdale, Lancashire, was born in 1715, (Qu. whether at Kettering or at Northampton?) He left two sons; 1. Thomas Hind, Student of Christ Church, M. A. 1779; Rector of Ardley and Westwell, Oxon. and Vicar of Culworth in Northamptonshire; died Jan. 10, 1815, æt. 58. 2. John Hind, M. A. 1780; B. D. 1789; D.D. 1797; late Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; and now, 1815, Rector of Findon, Sussex.

Ibid. "Thomas Wray, D. D. Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and successivelyChaplain to Archbishops Hutton and Secker, born of poor parents at Bentham in Yorkshire, in the churchyard of which place he has inscribed an affectionate epitaph to the memory of a careful and laborious mother, who was, under Providence, the instrument of his advancement in life. He was a pious, abstemious, mortified man, never married, of weak constitution, of most amiable deportment, yet a zealous reprover of vice in public and in private. He had learned too from his master, Secker, not to despise the meanest, nor to shrink from the most disgusting, offices of his function. It ought rather, perhaps, to be said, that both had learned this temper of an higher Teacher: One of his first steps as Vicar of Rochdale was, to procure an Act of Parliament (for which his Successor as well as the Town are much indebted to his memory) enabling the Vicar for the time being to grant leases for the term of 99 years. Those who knew and understood him will not be displeased to have the peculiar expression of his countenance recalled to their

memory

memory by a single stroke from the hand of a master-the excellent Editor of Butler's Remains:

"While modest Wray with silent grace

Just steals a meaning smile."

A plain stone within the altar-rails has the following inscription, which renders any farther account of this good man superfluous : "H. S. E.

Thomas Wray, S. T. P. hujus Ecclesiæ Vicarius ;

ob. 22do die Februarii, 1778, annos natus 55."

P. 428. "I possess Rolls of Eton College and School, of the close of the 17th Century, with the early parts of the 18th, preserved by Stephen Apthorp, many years Assistant, and finally Fellow of it." E. JONES.

Ibid. Did not H. Taylor write ably against Soame Jenyns;
as well as Maclaine, the learned Translator of Mosheim?" F. W.
P. 431. In the brief Memoir of Bishop Warren it is mentioned
that his first preferment was Archdeacon of Worcester 1775,
by favour of Bishop Johnson, who was his nephew." This state-
ment is erroneous. Dr. John Warren, Bp. of St. David's, never
was Archdeacon of Worcester;-nor was he a relation of Bishop
Johnson's.-The fact is, that The Dr. John Warren, Archdeacon
of Worcester, was of a very different family from that of Dr.
Warren, Bishop of St. David's. The Rev. Dawson Warren, Vi-
car of Edmonton, is a nephew of the Archdeacon of Worcester.
Ibid. The following Letter should have preceded the others :
"SIR,
Bungor, Oct. 6, 1795.
"I saw an advertisement last week, in one of the public pa-
pers, from the Printers in general, setting forth, that they
wanted some young lads, properly educated, for apprentices; and
if they are still in want, I have one whom I can recommend;
and I should like to have him placed with you, if it should hap-
pen to prove convenient to you. The lad has been known to me
several years, having been a singing-boy in our Cathedral, and
I can recommend him as a very sober well-inclined young man ;
and, as he understands Latin, and can construe a chapter in the
Greek Testament very well, he would, I think, prove very useful
in your office. As his parents are poor, no apprentice-fee can
be given with him; but I have so good an opinion of him, that
I will give him a sufficient quantity of cloaths, and pay his expences
up to town, if he can be taken as an apprentice, and diet, and
lodging, and washing, found him. I shall be much obliged to
you for an answer; and I hope it will be a favourable one; and
am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, JOHN BANGOR."

P. 432. 1. 1. for " Bovey," read “ Bury."
P. 434. Mary Ballard Long, wife of Edward Long, Esq. died
July 16, 1797, æt. 60; and was buried at East Barnet.

P. 435. In Gent. Mag. vol. LIX. p. 161, is an Imitation, by Mr. Long, of Horace's Ode I. xxix. "To Dr. Anthony Robinson, on his being appointed an Acting Lieutenant in a Company of Foot quartered at Savanna la Mar, in the Island of Jamaica; communicated by a Correspondent in that Island, who

erroneously