P. 5, note, 1. 9. "Young's Concio was styled 'Amoris Christiani Mynμoveutixor,' on John xiii. 34, 35." F. W. P. 21. Add, “Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesauri Grammatico-Critici, & Archæologici, Auctore Georgio Hickesio, conspectus brevis per Gul. Wottonum, S. T. B. Cui, ab Antiquæ Literaturæ Septentrionalis Cultore, adjectæ aliquot Notæ accedunt; cum Appendice ad Notas. Londini: Typis Gul. Bowyer, sumptibus Ricardi Sare, Bibliopola, in Portu Australi Hospitii Grayensis, apud quem prostat hic Liber venalis. 1708." I have a copy of this curious little Volume, in which are the Autographs, first, of "Chr. Anstey, ex dono Authoris ;" and afterwards of Mr. John Whiston, who had purchased the Book and given it to his Brother: "Donum Johannis Whiston, Fratri suo charissimo Gulielmo Whiston, 7° Martii, 1730-31.”- Mr. Bowyer, also, has filled a page with a brief Epitome of some of the most material parts of the book. Bound up with this volume is a rare little Tract, "Notæ in Anglo-Saxonum Nummos, Oxoniæ, anno Domini 1708," 24 pages, without a name; but Mr. Bowyer has written "By Thwaites."-Plot, "De Origine Fontium," formerly Dr. Pegge's copy, is bound in the same volume. P. 37. To the various evidences respecting the Author of the "Ikon Basilikè,” which I have adduced in vol. I. pp. 522–529; it would be uncandid, were I not to refer my readers to the able Remarks on that performance in Dr. Symmons's Life of Milton, pp. 272-298; where the idea of its being the production of the King is refuted, and the charge against Milton, of having interpolated a Prayer, is indignantly refuted. P. 69. "Under 1713, you have not mentioned Bishop Bull's 'Important Points of Primitive Christianity,' though inferrable by implication from Note † p. 55. The Life, &c. of 1714 in my set is printed not by W. B. but by J. L." F. W. P. 158, for "Classic Literature," r. "Classicks," as them follows. P. 206, 1. ult. "How could the death of Mr. James Brydges cause the Earldom to become extinct?" G. H. W. 2 P. 263. "Joseph Wasse's Contributions to Thucydides are mentioned in p. 706, 1. 8 and 9 from bottom; where read, Amsterdam, 1731." F.W. P. 287, r. "The Hon. John Vane." G. H. W. P. 288. The Translator of a very popular Work appears by the following Epitaph in Woodham-Walter Church, Essex : "Here lieth the body of the Rev. Marjus D'Assigney, B. D. who died Nov. 14, 1717, aged 74. He translated Drelincourt's Christian Defence against the Fears of Death, 6th Edition, London, 1709.” A new Translation of it, by Mr. Stackhouse, appeared in 1725. P. 361, 1. 6, from bottom, r. "úna." P. 372. P. 372. Add, "De Religionis Christianæ Fundamentalibus, et eorundem Usu Disquisitio brevis. Lond. Typis G. Bowyer, Impensis R. Williamson, prope Portam Hospitij Graiensis, in vico vulgò dicto Holborn. MDCCXXVII." Svo. pp. 33. P. 416. "I cannot account for the mistake respecting Peter Le Neve, unless it arose from the Octavo edition of the History of Norfolk, vol. III. 1781; where, after saying from Blomfield, "He (Peter Le Neve) was educated at Merchant Taylors School," it is added, "he fought a duel," &c.: but it is cer tainly meant of Oliver Le Neve, which is "further ascertained by reference to Collins's Peerage, article "Buckinghamshire." W. L. VOLUME II. P. 14, 1. 21, for "assessing," r. " assisting." P. 23. "The late Mr. Pentycross gave me, as his own, the Lines on General Oglethorpe 'Religion watches o'er his urn,' &c." F. W. P. 53, note, 1. 22, r. “ vol. XV ;" I. 25, r. " vol. XIV." P. 60, 1.2, for "learning," r. "ineaning." P. 64, for "152," r. " 176," as there are 160 paged numbers; and in note r. " thirty" for " thirty-seven copper plates." P. S1. A short account of the Life of Benjamin Newton is prefixed to the two Volumes of his Sermons. P. 85. The [ironical] Vindication of Bishop Hoadly was by the Rev. Philip Skelton." R. W. P. 89, 1, 33, for "have expected, r. " expect." P. 115, note, 1. 5, for 66 as," r. "of." P. 125, 1. 4, for " Sharpe," r. "Sharp." P. 137. On the subject of Lauder's forgery, see the strong Remarks of Dr. Synimons, in his Life of Milton, pp. 549-566. P. 200, r." and 45 Sonnets in the Edition of 1758." P. 205. Mr. Cole, speaking of Mr. Walter's publication, says, "The Author of this Book I was acquainted with at Cambridge, when he was Fellow of Sidney College [B. A. 1730; M. A. 1744]; and was always esteemed a very worthy and sober man. His father was a silk-mercer in London. He was rather a puny, weakly, and sickly man; pale, and of a low stature; and suffered great hardships on board, being often forced to do the most laborious duty, for want of sufficient hands to work the ship, when it was at times so déplorably over-run with scurvy. So he came back to England in another ship, by the Cape of Good Hope, on the Centurion's first getting to China, &c. After he got home, he married, and settled at Portsmouth, where I think he had one of the churches; and coming some time afterwards to Cambridge, I met him several times at Dr. Middleton's. It was then generally said, that a gentleman of that squadron. had the chief hand in drawing up this account; which Mr. Walter Walter had the publication of, as well as the profit attending a large subscription, &c."-Cole adds in another place, that "Mr. Robins is said to have been the writer of Lord Anson's Voyage;" and cites a passage, complaining that neither in Walter's nor in Hawkesworth's compilations are there passages as if the authors thought that the crews were Christians, and believed in a Providence. -For this and a few other extracts from Cole's " Athenæ Cantabrigienses," I am indebted to Sir Egerton Brydges's "Restituta." P. 256. Mr. Charles Bathurst, the respectable Bookseller, was generally reputed a Baronet, though he did not choose to assert his title. His only son by his first marriage, died before him; and late in life, he married a second wife, by whom he had one daughter, who inherited an ample fortune. P. 286, 1.8, r. " drawn up by." P. 292, note, 1. 25, r.“ ready to receive." P. 307. Mr. Nevile published his Imitation of the XIVth Satire of Juvenal, separately, in 1769. Mr. Cole says, "I was informed, May 4, 1776, that this gentleman never associates with any of the College; spends all his time with himself; and rarely goes out of the College walls. He was of a good gentleman's family in Lincolnshire; tall and thin: has an impediment in his speech, which may occasion his much solitariness; and is a Layman. Dr. Ashton not allowing him to go out in Physic, he removed to Emanuel, where he took his M. B. degree; and then returned to his old society, where he died, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1781, of an epidemial fever, weak nerves, and hypochondria. Supposed to be the Author of The Capitade, printed in Gent. Mag. 1781, p. 530." Cole. "I remember him when I went to Cambridge, under the character and appearance here noticed." Sir E. Brydges. P. 324, note, 1.6, put mark of parenthesis before "excepting." P. 375, 1. 31, note, Add, "this is also reprinted in Dodsley's Fugitive Pieces." P. 393, note, 1. 21, A second edition of Stackhouse's Body of Divinity was published in 1734, in folio. P. 415. "Dr. Warner's Ecclesiastical History of England' deserves the highest applause, on account of that noble spirit of liberty, candour, and moderation, that seems to have guided the pen of the judicious Author. It were at the same time to be wished, that this elegant Historian had less avoided citing authorities, and been a little more lavish of that erudition which he is known to possess: for then, after having surpassed Collier in all other respects, he would have equalled him in that depth and learning, which are the only meritorious circumstances of his partial and disagreeable History." Mosheim's Eccles. Hist. ed. 1758, 8vo. ii. p. 27, note 2.-P. 419, l. 8, r.“ Lyons." P. 420, note, 1. 28, for " has," r. "have." P. 425, 1. 8 from bottom, r. "Eight, viz. A. D. 26 and 33 inclusive."—1. 2. "A. D. 26. Eight (as appears from the next page, in his Latin Letter to Boscovich, 1. 17 from bottom). The sequel sequel of that Letter, however, in which he says that from A. D. 26 to A. D. 35, 'ne semel quidem in sextâ feriâ Paschale Novilunium cecidit-in tabulis Rogeri Bacon, quamvis in eum finem tabulas composuerit," is at variance with his Table of Computations (see Conject. 8vo. p. 108), where A. D. 30 and A. D. 33 both give the contrary result." F. W. P. 440, note, Mr. Church published, "A Serious and Expostulatory Letter to the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, on occasion of his late Letter to the Bishop of London, and other Bishops; and in Vindication of the The Observations upon the Conduct and Behaviour of a certain Sect usually distinguished by the Name of Methodists.' London, 1774," Svo. "Remarks on the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's last Journal, in a Letter to that Gentleman. Lond. 1745," Svo. "An Analysis of the Philosophical Works of Lord Viscount Bolingbroke [Anonymous], Lond. 1755," 8vo. P. 441, note, Dodwell's Dissertation on Jephtha's Vow was published in 1745. P. 454. Dr. Anthony Ellys was Vicar of Great Marlow from 1729 to 1753. P. 499, note, 1. 40. "Such a Certificate is necessary against Confirmation. An old woman said, "Thank God! this is the first time that I have been Bushoped." T.F. P. 508, note, 1. 10, r. " Letter from." P. 561, 1. 18, Dr. Jortin's "Remarks on Ecclesiastical History," vol. I. contained the substance of his Boyle's Lectures, or at least of some of them. See the Preface. Quæstio." P. 567, n. l. 17, r.“ 572.”—P. 569, 1. 24, r. " P. 614. The Countess of Marchmont died in 1797. See before, p. 506; and Gent. Mag. vol. LXVII. p. 444. P. 650. "The Father of George Steevens, Esq. was an Elder Brother of the Trinity-house, and Captain of a Ship, but not to the East Indies." R. G.-See a very remarkable Letter of Mr. Steevens, on Gillray's celebrated Portrait of "the PseudoShakespeare," in Gent. Mag. vol. LXVII. p. 931. P. 694. " Morris Drake Morris, Esq. was a Fellow Commoner of Trinity College; Lord of the Manor of Coveney in the Isle of Ely, where I think he died, and was buried at his family estate in Kent; Matthew Robinson, Fellow of Trinity Hall, Esq. and Member of Parliament, being his heir, (probably) a son of his sister; for I remember Mr. Robinson calling Dr. Middleton jocosely his grandfather. There is some account of Mr. Robinson prefixed to each of the three volumes [of his Athena Cantabrigienses.]" Cole." Mr. Morris was son of Mr. Drake, Recorder of Cambridge, by the daughter and heir of Thomas Morris, Esq. of Mount Morris, in the parish of Horton, near Hythe, in Kent. His sister and heir married Matthew Robinson, Esq. of West Layton in Yorkshire; and was mother of the celebrated Mrs. Montagu, Mrs. Scott, Matthew second Lord Rokeby, who died 1800, &c." Sir E. Brydges. P. 716, 1. 18, г." rutilis."-P. 720, l. 13, r. " Ellys." VOLUME III. P. 8. 1. 5. read "Rennell." P. 22. The immediate predecessor of Archdeacon Blackburne in the Rectory of Richmond was, by marriage, a near Relation; and they are both thus recorded in Richmond Church: 1. " Depositum Thomæ Brookes, A. M. hujus Ecclesiæ per annos xxx111 Rectoris, Viri erga Deum pii, erga homines probi et benevoli: in omnibus denique vitæ muniis obeundis integerrimi. ex quâ suscepit Gulielmum, Mariam, Aliciam, Superstitem reliquit Gulielmum & Annam Archdeacon of Cleveland, and Rector of Richmond; and the equal Rights of Man in every Country. P. 57, 1. 3, after " Worthington, D. D." insert “ 1769.” P.73. 1. 42. Dr. Heberden married, first, Miss Martin, of the family of Martin, the late M. P. and Banker; by whom he had one son, the present Rev. Thomas Heberden, Prebendary of Exeter. He married, secondly, Mary eldest daughter of Francis Wollaston, esq. by whom he had four sons and three daughters. P. 84, note, 1. 10, read" Is it." P. 142. Add, "To Dr. J. Thomas, Lord Bishop of Winchester. "MY GOOD LORD, St Maries, July 9, 1765. "You are extremely obliging in expressing no disgust at the liberties I take with my pen. You may find reason hereafter to be sorry for such encouragement. I did not know of any papers in Mr. Pearson's hands that could possibly be of use to your Lordship; or I should certainly have ordered them into your custody. If he has any more, it will be obliging me to commu* See vol. VIII. p. 423. VOL. IX. 3 E nicate |