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remonstrance. He has at times written a letter coolly, and, at the same moment, chronicled his suppressed feelings in his diary, with all the flame and sputter of his strong prejudices. He was expressively nick-named Cardinal Cole. These scandalous chronicles, which only shew the violence of his prejudices, without the force of genius, or the acuteness of penetration, were ordered not to be opened till twenty years after his decease; he wished to do as little mischief as he could, but loved to do some. When the lid was removed from this Pandora's box, it happened that some of his intimate friends lived to perceive in what strange figures they were exhibited by their quondam admirer! — Cole, however, bequeathed to the Nation, among his unpublished works, a vast mass of antiquities, historical collections, and one valuable legacy; he was a literary Antiquary, and the Cardinal disappeared, when I witnessed the labours, and heard the cries, of a literary Martyr. — Cole had passed a long life in the pertinacious labour of forming an Athena Cantabrigienses, and other literary collections-designed as a companion to the work of Anthony Wood. These mighty labours exist in more than fifty folio volumes in his own writing. He began these Collections about the year 1745; and in a fly-leaf of 1777 I found the following melancholy state of his feelings, and a literary confession, as forcibly expressed as it is painful to read, when we consider that they are the wailings of a most zealous votary: In good truth, whoever undertakes this drudgery of an Athena Cantabrigienses must be contented with no prospect of credit and reputation to himself, and with the mortifying reflection that, after all his pains and study through life, he must be looked upon in a humble light, and only as a journeyman to Anthony Wood, whose excellent book of the same sort will ever preclude any other, who shall follow him in the same track, from all hopes of fame; and will only represent him as an imitator of so original a pattern. For, at this time of day, all great characters, both Cantabrigians and Oxonians, are already published to the world, either in his book, or various others; so that the Collection, unless the same characters are reprinted here, must be made up of second-rate persons, and the refuse of Authorship - However, as I have begun, and made so large a progress in this undertaking, it is death to think of leaving it off, though, from the former considerations, so little credit is to be expected from it.'-Such were the fruits, and such the agonies, of nearly half a century of assiduous and zealous literary labour!" Calamities of Authors, vol. I. p. 237. P. 662, L. ult. The following familiar Epistle from Mr. Steevens will illustrate this and several other passages in these Volumes:

"DEAR NICHOLS, Emmanuel College, Sept. 18, 1782. "I enclose to you a very curious and interesting letter from Pope to Broome on the subject of Fenton's death, and beg you will carry it (having first secured a copy) to Dr. Johnson, with my best respects. It certainly should be printed at the end of

Fenton's

Fenton's Life; but, if it comes too late to appear in its proper place, ought at least to be thrown into some Appendix. I would advise you to set it up before you part with it.

"I have made the best I could of the Hogarth business; but can find no such word as either piliss or pitisando. Let the reader try his skill at it. Stirbitch Fair has so thoroughly dissipated us all, that we have no taste for critical investigations. Reed is gone to dinner with the Vice-Can. &c. at the Fair; but will possibly add his scrawl to mine when he returns. You must have patience about your other sheet, as Master Cole is very ill. As soon as he can look it over, it shall be returned. Any commands of yours will be welcome; but, as the bell rings for dinner, I cannot wait to express myself with studied civility; though with much sincerity, when I assure you I am entirely yours, &c.

"As Reed, it seems, will not be back till the post is gone out, he must take the consequences of his idleness, and provide a frank for himself if he has any thing to send.-I have only read such parts of the sheet as were new. The verses are too bad to be examined with the least degree of attention.-When you print Pope's letter I should wish you would preserve all his peculiarities in the distribution of capitals, stops, &c. as I have copied the original now before me with great exactness. If you wish to have it corrected here, you can send it. Never mind franks.-The Master and Cole desire their compliments. G. STEEVENS."

P. 663. "Charles Plumptre was born at Nottingham (which town his father, John Plumptre, esq. represented in several Parliaments); educated at Merchant Tailors School; and thence elected of Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1730. Having taken his degree of B. A. 1733, he afterwards removed to Queen's College, where he was elected Fellow; and proceeded to his degree of M. A. in 1737; and of B. D. in 1746. The Earl of Hardwicke first presented him to the rectory of Wimple in Cambridgeshire in 1745, and afterwards he had the living of Whaddon in the same county, on the presentation of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. About 1746 Lord Hardwicke also promoted him to a prebend in the Church of Norwich; which he resigned in 1751, on being collated to the Archdeaconry of Ely. In 1752 he was created D. D.; and was presented to the rectory of St. Mary Woolnoth in London, and of Orpington, Kent, in the gift of his Patron as Lord Chancellor, at which time he resigned his Cambridgeshire Livings. He was afterwards appointed Afternoon Preacher at St. James's, Westminster; and died Sept, 14, 1779.To those who are curious in enquiring into the histories of men, of whatever station in life, it may not be uninteresting to be informed, that Archdeacon Plumptre was the great-grandson of that Huntingdon Plumptre*, Doctor of Physick at Nottingham in the

He is noticed also in Wood's "Athenæ Oxonienses,' vol. II. Fasti, 112; and was famous, in his day, as the Author of a little volume, now extremely rare (but what rare tract does not Mr. Bindley possess?) intituled, "Epigrammatan Opusculum duobus Libellis distinctum. Quibus,

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troublesome times of the seventeenth century, of whom mention is made, but not honoris causâ, by Mrs. Hutchinson, in the Life of her husband Colonel Hutchinson, lately published. Of the family itself some account may be found in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire, and Deering's Nottingham, a work dedicated to the Father of Archdeacon Plumptre, who was Member for that town in several Parliaments during the reigns of Queen Anne, George the First, and George the Second; as was his eldest son, John Plumptre, on the death of his father in 1751 till 1774, when he retired altogether from Parliament It is somewhat singular that a family which seems to have supported the rank of Gentry for so many years (their Pedigree going back for above five centuries) should yet not be able to shew one ancestor even of the lowest degree of titles, that of a Knight. Whether this be to their praise or the contrary, the Reader will decide. Perhaps he will apply to them what Charles the Second said of a family which in 200 years had neither increased nor diminished their patrimony: that there had never been a wise man nor a fool amongst them.' The Grandfather of the Archdeacon, Henry Plumptre, is mentioned in the State Trials as one of twenty defendants in an Information by the Attorney General for a riot at Nottingham, which arose out of the proceedings on the part of the Crown against the Charter of that Corporation. The Information was tried at Westminster, before Jefferies, at that time Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who, when Mr. Stanhope, one of the Counsel for the Crown, asked a Witness whether Mr. Plumptre was present, interrupted him by saying, You had as good ask if Mr. Peartree was there.' John Plumptre, esq. of Fredville in Kent, is the elder branch of this family, and was high sheriff of the county in 1798, at the time of the trials for high treason at Maidstone, and acquitted himself of the duties of his office with a propriety that gave general satisfaction." Bentham's Ely, 1812, p. 280; and Appendix, p. 16. P. 670. Charles Collignon, of Trinity College, Cambridge; M. B. 1749; M. D. 1754; was elected Anatomy Professor in that University in 1763; and died Oct. 1, 1785.

P. 682. Mr. Cole's letter misled me in the former Edition of the "Anecdotes," and Dr. Kippis has made the same mistake, as to the dates of Mr. William Clarke's degrees. He took that of B. A. in 1715; and M. A. 1719.-The dates "1731" and "1735" apply to Mr. John Clarke, of Bene't College.

leporis gratia, Homeri Batrachomyomachia Latino carmine reddita, multisque in locis aucta, post Miscellanea quædam subjungitur. Authore Huntingdono Plumptre, in Artibus Magistro Cantab. Londini, typis Tho. Harper, impensis Roberti Allot. An. Dom. 1629.” 12mo. —This volume is inscribed to Sir John Byron, Knight of the Bath; and con tains several little complimentary addresses to various branches of the Byron Family. Prefixed to it are verses by "Nich. Byron,” “Rich. Byron," "Geo. Aldrich, Coll. Trin. Cant. ;" and "Tho. Randolph, Coll. Trin. Cant."

P. 685.

P. 685. The three successive Rectors of Lambourn were, Dr. Thomas Tooke, 1707 (who purchased the advowson in 1718); John Tooke, M. A. 1721; and Robert Tooke, M. A. 1764.

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P. 687. Add the following Letter from Mr. Cole to Mr. Gough: July 24, 1780, I should have answered your letter sooner had I not staid to hear whether Dr. Farmer could answer your queries; and absolutely carried this paper to Cambridge on Friday July 14, where I was sure to meet him at dinner; but the company was so numerous, so mixed, and inconvenient, that I could not speak a word to him, as I came just as the company was seated. He called this morning, Monday July 24; and you have all he says here. My MS. (long promised) you shall have shortly; an untoward affair makes me keep it a little longer; and I shall be obliged to scratch out some lines, which I thought I might safely and honourably have sent; but I am not allowed it. I saw Mr. Masters yesterday at his own house, and the Master of Bene't on Saturday, who then called upon me. W.C."

P. 691, 1. 2, r. "Tanqueray;" and, note, 1. 4, "Le Pipre." P. 703. "An error has crept into the article of Dr. Philip Bisse. He married the widow of Charles Fitz Charles, Earl of Plymouth. The marriage is correctly stated in vol. VI. p. 225." J.H.

P. 706, 1. 16, r. 'Dr. Henry Godolphin," uncle to Francis Earl of Godolphin. He was appointed Fellow of Eton College in April 1677; and Provost Oct. 23, 1695. He caused to be erected, at his own expence, a copper statue of the Founder of the College in the School-yard; and was a considerable benefactor to the College. He was not Dean of Durham; but was installed Dean of St. Paul's July 18, 1707. He died in 1732, leaving two sons and one daughter. His widow died June 30, 1743. — On the Earl of Godolphin's death, in 1766, the Earldom became extinct. Sir Francis, the Provost's son, succeeded to the title of Baron Godolphin of Helston; but he dying in 1785, without issue, that title also became extinct. Ibid. 1. 30, r. "1710."

P. 708, 1. 21. “Divisianæ" is right; not "Davisianæ." P. 709. Mr. William Sharp was a surgeon of the highest professional eminence. After a number of years successful practice, he retired to Fulham, where he purchased Stourton-house (so called from having been the property of the noble family of that name), now Fulham-house, adjoining the bridge. Mr. Sharp made considerable improvements in the premises; and built a beautiful cottage near the water-side, which communicates with the house and gardens by a subterraneous passage made under the narrow way called Church-lane. In this delightful retirement, after adding to a life which seemed to have reached its termination more than 22 years of personal enjoyment and enlarged social usefulness, he died in a good old age. He was buried, with a justly-beloved sister, in the church-yard at Fulham, where an elegant monument is thus inscribed:

"Here lie the remains of

ELIZ. PROUSE, late of Wicken Park, Northamptonshire,

who

who died Feb. 23, 1810, aged 77;

and of her Brother,

WILLIAM SHARP, Esq. late of Fulham House in this Parish, who died March 17, 1810, aged 81.

Endeared to their family connections and society by an amiableness of character which has seldom been equalled, and to each other by a degree of mutual attachment which has never been surpassed;

They were lovely in their lives,

And in their deaths they are not divided."

Mr. Granville Sharp, whom every one knew, and whom every one esteemed, died, full of years, and rich in good works, July 6, 1813. - In the latter part of 1812 he had shewn that his faculties retained their full vigour, by an elaborate illustration of the LXVIIIth Psalm, relative to the Hill of Bashan, and the calling together of the Jews. See Gent. Mag. vol. LXXXIII. ii. p. 55,

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P. 2, note, 1. 44, r. "Easton-Neston."

P. 13. There is also a print of Gibbs (by Baron from Hogarth) in his Description of the Radcliffe Library, inscribed "Jacobus Gibbs Architectus, A. M. & F. R. S. 1750.”

Ibid. "Had only 50l. for plan. How dear would Gothic buildings come now!" T. F.

P. 16. Mr. Collins also wrote an Account of the Noble Family of Harley, inscribed to Edward Earl of Oxford, &c. London, printed 1741, 8vo, pp. 37, no printer's name. It appears to have been printed for the Earl (who died in that year) and his particular friends.-The following particulars of this able Genealogical Historian are extracted from his own unpublished Diary:

"Jan. 30, 1752. I breakfasted with their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Portland, with their two eldest daughters, Lady Elizabeth Cavendish Bentinck and Lady Henrietta Cavendish Bentinck, both very beautiful in their persons, of most agreeable sweet tempers, with a modest and affable behaviour. The discourse between us gave me an opportunity to say how I was descended, and the misfortunes that attended my family and myself; on which they seemed to pity me, but said nothing more. The Countess of Oxford had sent up pictures of her ancestors to be engraved by Mr. Vertue, one of the most eminent of his profession; but her Grace of Portland, thinking of the expence, determined to have only two engraved, that of Elizabeth Countess of Shrewsbury, who was the advancer of the noble Family of Cavendish, and of Horace Lord Vere of Tilbury, a person very famous, and from whom the Countess of Oxford was also descended. Her Grace desired me to call on Mr. Vertue, that he might have the pictures; which I did, and then returned to Highgate, where I employed myself in writing part

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