in the county of Northampton; a native of Rutland; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he was many years fellow, and wherein he discharged the office of an able and exemplary tutor, with the greatest reputation and usefulness; being also, generally, Dean of the College, and an excellent dis ciplinarian [which, by the way, might be the principal reason that he did not succeed in his competition for the Headship of the said College.] When a young man there, he was recommended to the late Charles Cæsar, esq. of Benington in Hertfordshire, to be a private tutor to his sons. Mr. Cæsar had expressed his desire to have a young gentleman of the best learning and qualities proposed to him for this office. Parnham was in every respect qualified for the trust, and a fit person to live in a gentleman's family, and to do it credit. He spent there, I think he told me, about seven years. He did not tell me, but I was told by those who well knew, that all that time he received little or no pay; only Mr. Cæsar assured him, from time to time, that he should be paid, and also that he should have the livings of Benington and of Abbots Ripton (both in Mr. Cæsar's donation) when vacant. Both the turns were sold afterwards for ready cash, and good Mr. Parnham was disappointed, which he bore without regret or complaint; and at the end of about seven years he returned to his College, and commenced tutor, &c. for which office he was excellently well qualified. The first acquaintance I had with him was at Abbots Ripton, where I was then curate to Mr. John Hotchkin, about the year 1728; and in all my life I hardly ever saw a more valuable man; so learned, so knowing, so experienced, so honest, of so good a temper, and so agreeable and entertaining, as well as free and open, in all his conversation. He was well skilled in musick, and sung the bass incomparably well; though (as his friend Dr. Long observed to me lately) he would sometimes exceed in humour, and in the profoundness of his voice, &c. How well did he chant that humourous song of Matt Prior on the Master of Wimpole! All was attention and delight in Mr. Bonfoy's parlour when he sung this, and the ballads of Chery Chace, &c. He had some choice friends, at certain times, for concerts of musick, afterwards, at his house at Ufford, where he was a most exemplary and useful parish-minister, and very beneficent to the poor. He kept, all the time he was rector there, a most exact account of the variations in his hydrometer, which he had fixed in his garden. A short history of those various changes, for about 25 years, was published in one of the news-papers last Winter. [Who hath now those diaries, if still preserved, I know not] I remember he once told me, that old Mr. William Whiston would sometimes associate at the stated meetings of learned and worthy Clergymen at Stanford [of which number the late Archdeacon Payne, rector of Barnack, was one]. Whiston, in one of those conversations, asserted something that surprised the company. Mr. Parnham, with his usual good-nature, gently took him up, reminding him of some

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passages in Antiquity, which he thought he had overlooked, or forgotten. Whiston, like an honest man, readily gave up the cause, knocking three times under the leaf of the table, Vicisti. All the company were pleased with the poor old man's ingenuous and free confession of his mistake or forgetfulness. He was very exact and regular in the order of his family, and very kind and compassionate; but at the same time very wise and discreet in his deportment towards his servants, who lived with him, when found faithful, to their old age; and no doubt but he rewarded He lived and died them, as they had deserved, at his death. unmarried; a man of a pure and uncorrupt life, through the whole course of it. I have some reasons to suppose that, some time after his entering upon his benefice, he had some thoughts of engaging in the matrimonial state, and that he made proposals, with this view, to a family with which he and I were well acquainted. I am not sure of this, for he never told me so, but I suspected it. The event was, that a Dean in Ireland was preferred to a Rector (though a most worthy one) in England. The lady died about three years ago in Dublin, her husband (the said Dean) being then a Bishop."

P. 558. Mrs. Newcome died, at Bath, Aug. 18, 1794.

P. 559. The Archdeacon and Bishop [Squire] in this page are the same person.

P. 563. In the Chapel of St. John's College:

" M. S.

JOHANNIS NEWCOME, S. T. P. Decani Roffensis, pro domina Margaretta Prælectoris Theologici, et hujusce Collegii per triginta fere annos præfecti integerrimi.

Obiit 10 Jan. 1765, anno ætatis 82."

Ibid. Dr. Zachary Brooke, many years a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; B. A. 1737; M. A. 1741; B. D. 1748; D. D. 1753; Margaret Professor of Divinity 1765. He was also one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to his Majesty; Rector of Forncet St. Mary and St. Peter, in Norfolk; and Vicar of Ickleton, co. Cambridge. The distance, in a direct line, between the two livings occasioned a witticism well known at Cambridge, that, "by the help of Dr. B's crow, any man might obtain preferment in the Church." Dr. Brooke died at Forncet, August 7, 1798, aged 72; and was succeeded in the Professorship, which is a valuable sinecure, by John Mainwaring, B.D. of St. John's College; that respectable Society having the disposal of it by the will of their munificent Foundress.

Mr. Mainwaring was a native of Warwickshire; educated at St. John's College; B. A. 1745; M. A. 1750; S. T. B. 1758; Rector of Church Stretton, Salop, in the gift of Lord Weymouth; and of Aberdaron, co. Caernarvon; highly esteemed for his classical knowledge and taste. He published, in 1780, a volume of Sermons on several Occasions, preached before the University, most of which had before appeared singly. These Discourses, and the elegant prefixed Dissertation on that

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species of composition, have been admired as polished specimens in their kind, and place the genius and judgment of their Author in a most respectable point of view. He also published a Sermon at the primary Visitation of Dr. Butler, Bishop of Hereford, and a few other occasional Sermons; and was engaged in a controversy with the late Bishop Hallifax, about the proper way of quoting passages of Scripture. He died, at Cambridge, in April 1807, aged 72; and was succeeded as Professor by the very learned Herbert Marsh, D. D. F. R. S.

P. 571, note, 1. 28, r. " Flixton."

P. 602. "Dr. Comber should not have created his Patroness's husband an Earl, as the highest title that any King ever conferred upon the family was that of Baron of Baltimore." J. BROWN. Ibid. note, 1. 24, for "Ward," r. Hood;" and, 1. 42, dele near Aslack."

P. 614, 1. 34, for "to," r. "at."

P. 622, 1. ult. r. "Hallows."

P. 629. "Dr. John Green was Bishop of Lincoln in 1764; and was indeed a personal friend of Mr. Jones." D.

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P. 639. Wishing to obtain better information than I possessed respecting Dr. Benjamin Dawson, one of the Writers on the subject of The Confessional," and Dr. Thomas Dawson, from whom I received the MSS. of the Rev. John Jones; I solicited assistance in the Gentleman's Magazine for October 1811, p. 357; and was in consequence favoured with the following communication a few days after the publication of my Volumes:

"Benjamin Dawson, LL.D. was an active Writer in the controversy excited by the publication of "The Confessional," more than 40 years ago, and author of various Theological Tracts, and of several single Sermons. So lately as Midsummer-day 1812 the Doctor was, to my knowledge, still living, in very advanced age, and a state of much debility, at his rectory of Burgh, near Woodbridge in Suffolk. He is the surviving brother of five (if no more) sons of a respectable Dissenting Minister, in his day, at or near Halifax; and it is remarkable, that of four of them, who were educated by him with a view of their entering into the same line as he was in, three became Conformists to the Established Church. To mention them in the order of their birth, is beyond my ability. I have a clear recollection of Thomas Dawson's (afterwards M. D.) being either a fixed or occasional Minister of the Gravel-pit Meeting in Hackney some time between the years 1750 and 1757; but do not know when he changed his profession. He was one of the Physicians to the London Hospital before, in, and after the year 1768; and I remember passing nearly a day with his still surviving brother Benjamin, immediately after the latter's return from attending the funeral of Thomas, who remained a Dissenter till his death, in the Spring of the year 1782 [he died April 29]; and his telling me that his recently-deceased relation never recovered the shock he sustained a few months before by his brother

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Samuel's instant death in an apoplectic fit whilst sitting at his table during a visit to him at Hackney. This seems to be the person mentioned in the Obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LI. p. 444, as follows: Sept. 26 (1781), Rev. Mr. Dawson, late rector of Ightham* in Kent.' I had heard that he had formerly been a chaplain in the Navy.

"Another brother, Obadiah, was an eminent merchant at Leeds, and died, I believe, within the last twenty years.

"Another was Abraham Dawson, M. A. long rector of Ringsfield, near Beccles in Suffolk, who published, at three or four different times, a new translation from the original Hebrew of several chapters of the Book of Genesis, with notes, critical and explanatory. If I am not mistaken, he was living at a later period than the year 1900; but I do not find the decease of either of the two last-mentioned recorded in the Obituaries of the Gentleman's Magazine. It was understood, many years ago, that Abraham and Benjamin were indebted for their preferment in the Church to the interest of the very respectable family of Barne, of Sotterley, Suffolk." Gent. Mag. July 1912, p. 26. P.640. I shall add two or three more of Mr. Jones's fragments: "Thorold stands foremost in my list of friends, Rais'd up by Providence for noblest ends : As good as great: benevolent and kind, And fraught with ev'ry virtue of the mind. Much do I owe thee, best of men."

"Jan. 8. 1765. Lately died in Dublin, Mrs. Carter, aged 104. She was great-granddaughter to Archbishop Usher."

Dr. Whichcot, Provost of King's College, Cambridge.] "I know none of that coat of a more universal temper, and worthy of being esteemed learned, than that Doctor." W. Penn, Truth rescued from Imposture, vol. I. p. 492.-" Dr. Whichcot never conformed to the Scotish Covenant; nor was it tendered in his time to any of his College." Ibid. p. 520.

"Dr. William Wake (Whethamstead). Large family-Relieving 12 widows and other poor, 6 every Sunday, with 6d. each, boil'd beef, bread (4), and broth (pitcher) — Sent Reliefs from Canterbury, and Sexton. - Daily family prayer - eldest daughter reading a Sermon every Sunday evening to the servants, &c. An assistant and curate when gone to Canterbury, 50l. a year salary, house, garden, dove-house, &c."

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Impenitents. The Chaplain of Newgate very honestly ex-'horting the famous Turpin to repent, &c. Well,' says Turpin, "what if I do not or cannot repent?" "You will be cast into Hell-fire." I think (said Turpin very coolly) that I can bear it.'

"Hell-fire for ever!" cried the Coachman of Sir W. Stanhope in the streets of Aylesbury at the Election; where those who were against his Master cried No Hell-fire Club!' &c.

P. 647, note, 1. penult. for "Geo." r. “Glo.”,

* Samuel Dawson, M. A. (according to Hasted) was rector of Ightham 1763-1769. Qu. did he resign that living?

P. 648,

P. 648. "You and Bishop Lowth differ upon the question who honoured Gloster Ridley with the degree of D. D. though both may be right. In the List of Oxford Graduates he is said to be "D. D. by Dipl. 25 Feby, 1767." J. BROWN.

P. 657. Mr. Cole, speaking of Baberham, says, “I call this my native parish, though I was born in Little Abington just by, as my father and mother constantly and uniformly went to church to Baberham, he holding the great farm there. It is remarkable for its honey, which to this day I always have from thence. W C." The Father of this eminent Benefactor to the History and Antiquities of England was a gentleman, it appears, of some considerable landed property.

Vol. XLVII. p. 473, contains a list, with inscriptions, of seven gold rings sent December 1773 to a silversmith at Cambridge, followed by another list of sixteen which he kept by him in remembrance. Amongst these were,

"Wm. Cole ob. 11 Jan. 1734. æt.63;" with a crystal, "MyFather.""Catherine Cole ob. 25 Apr. 1725. æt. 42." "My dear Mother.""Browne Willis Esq. ob. Feb. 5, 1760. æt. 78."

Whilst the present sheet was preparing for the press, I had the opportunity of perusing the well-digested Memoirs of Mr. Cole in the Tenth Volume of the "Biographical Dictionary," gathered by my accurate friend Mr. Chalmers from a diligent perusal of the several MS Volumes in Mr. Cole's Collection; and shall here supply, from that article, some particulars which I had not be fore the opportunity of obtaining."His stepmother (his father's fourth wife) was a relation of Lord Montfort. By her,' says the son, he had no issue, and very little quiet. After four or five years' jarring, they agreed to a separation.'-At Eton young Cole was placed under Dr. Cooke, afterwards Provost, but to whom he seems to have contracted an implacable aversion. After remaining five years on the foundation at this seminary, he was admitted a pensioner of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Jan. 25, 1733; and in April 1734 was admitted to one of Freeman's scholarships, although not exactly qualified according to that benefactor's intention: but in 1735, on the death of his father, from whom he inherited a handsome estate, he entered himself a fellow-commoner of Clare Hall, and next year removed to King's College, where he had a younger brother, then a Fellow, and was accommodated with better apartments. This last circumstance, and the society of his old companions of Eton, appear to have been his principal motives for changing his College. In April 1736 he travelled for a short time in French Flanders with his half-brother, the late Dr. Stephen Apthorp. In 1737, in consequence of bad health, he went to Lisbon, where he remained six months, and returned to College in May 1738. The following year he was put into the commission of the peace for the county of Cambridge, in which capacity he acted for many years. In 1740 Ld. Montfort, then lord lieutenant of the county, appointed him one of his deputy lieutenants. In 1743, his health