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debilitated body, increased by the usual infirmities of old age!
When he nearly approached the close of life, he was sometimes
so exhausted, in performing the usual service of the Church, as
to be under the necessity of taking some refreshment whilst
reading of prayers, in order to recover sufficient strength and
spirits to finish them. The offices of Commissary and Official
he resigned as soon as the infirmities of age rendered him inca-
pable of performing them with that care and exactness he had
always shewn in their discharge.-In whatsoever respect his life
is considered, it will be found truly exemplary: as a man, he
was sober, upright, and sincere; active in the service of friends;
and possessed of much useful knowledge, which on all occa-
sions he employed with the greatest readiness, for the benefit
and peace of the many that consulted him. As a Christian, he
was grave without austerity, humble without meanness, pious
without superstition, and charitable without shew. As a Mi-
nister, he was learned in the doctrines and constitution of the
Church, plain and intelligent in his discourses, and instant in
every other part of the pastoral duty. After labouring diligently
upwards of fifty years to promote the kingdom of his great Lord
and Master upon earth, he was removed hence, to receive that
reward which is promised to every good and faithful servant.
To his many eminent acts of benevolence may be added the
active part which he took in the rebuilding of Kirkley church.
He married Mary daughter of Robert Knight; but had no issue,
On a white marble in the chancel at Lowestoft is inscribed:
"MARY the wife of JOHN TANNER,

who died Nov. 28, 1744, aged 62 years.

The Body of JOHN TANNER, 51 years Vicar of this Church, was here interred Dec. 26, 1759."

P. 174. Mrs. Mary Cooper, Bookseller in Pater Noster Row, and a Publisher of considerable consequence, died Aug. 5, 1761. P. 177. The two Sermons noticed in this page appear to have been the same, probably with some alterations; and had origin. ally been published as a Visitation Sermon, in 1738, under the title of "Faith working by Charity to Christian Edification;" a second time in 1745, as "A faithful Portrait of Popery ;" and again, as "A Sermon occasioned by the present unnatural Rebellion." P. 181. See some good verses, by Anna Williams, on Richardson's Clarissa, Gent. Mag. 1754, vol. XXIV. p. 40.

P. 189, 190. Mr. Warburton was actually married when he wrote this Letter.

P. 193, note, 1. 38, г. " ten thousand." A more particular account of Dr. John Chapman may be seen in the much-improved Edition of Mr. Hutchins's Dorsetshire, 1796, vol. I. p.65.

P. 196, 1.23, r. "curve side i, g?"— P. 197, l. 4, r. "Holliport." P. 205. "The purposes Anson was sent for were quite different from what was executed. I think he was to have attacked Panama, and formed a junction with the captors of Carthagena, separated only by a march of 40 miles, but almost impassable.

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The former was never attempted; the latter, under Vernon and Wentworth, failed, to our great shame and loss." T. F.

P. 215. The then President of St. John's College, Oxford, was William Holmes, D. D. elected June 1, 1728. He was vicar of Henbury, Gloucestershire; rector of Boxwell in the same county; Regius Professor of Modern History 1736; dean of Exeter 1742. He died April 4, 1748, and was buried in the College chapel.

"H. S. E.

GULIELMUS HOLMES, S. T. P.

et hujus Collegii Præses colendissimus.
Vir ingenii dotibus, morum elegantiâ,
Rerum experientia, fœlicissimus.
Fuit Academiæ Oxon. primò Procurator,
deinde per triennium Vice-cancellarius :
Ecclesiarum Parochialium,

olim Henbury in com. Gloucest. Vicarius,
nuper Boxwell in eodem com.
et Hanborough in com. Oxon. Rector.
Postremùm

Serenissimo Regi à sacris domesticis ;

Moderne Historiæ apud Oxonienses Professor Regius;
et tandem Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Exoniensis Decanus.
Inter titulos tamen

nunquam immemor quod Joannensis fuerit
Whiteanæ Domus Alumnus,

quos semper pro filiis habuerat,
Hæredes constituit.

Uxorem duxerat

SARAM ROBERTI ENGLAND Arm. Viduam,
ut virtutum æmulam, ita famæ participem ;
quæ illustre Conjugis propositum
non solum ex animo comprobavit,
sed ex facultatibus suis, liberaliter provexit.
Postquam vir optimus

hoc Collegium per xx annos rexerat :
Moribus ornaverat, Fortunis auxerat,
Supremum illud Affectûs Testimonium superaddidit,
quod, animâ Deo redditâ,

Corpus suorum Johannensium gremio mandari voluit.
Obiit Apr. IV, MDCCXLVIII, ætat. LIX.
Benefica Matrona, SARAH HOLMES,
postquam Beneficiorum Cumulum,
quibus Vir munificentissimus
hoc Collegium locupletavit,
Mantissâ non exiguâ adauxerat,

juxta Mariti cineres suos inhumari voluit :

Obiit Dec. 111. A. D. MDCCL."

P. 217, 1.37, r. "auctiorem."

P. 229, point, "Animalibus, Exercitationes in Collegio," &c.
P. 236. Sir Francis Bernard's youngest son, Scrope Bernard,

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of Nether Winchenden, esq. LL.D. should have been noticed. He was M. P. for Aylesbury in three Parliaments, and several years Under Secretary of State. He married, in 1785, Harriet, only child of William Morland, esq. M.P. for Taunton, by whom he has had seven children.

P. 238, 1. 38, r. "Correspondence."

P. 241. An elegant marble tablet in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, is thus inscribed:

Optimo Viro GULIELMO MASON, A. M.

Poeta, si quis alius, culto, casto, pio, Sacrum.

Ob. 7 Apr. 1797, æt. 72."

See Mrs. Mason's Epitaph in vol. VII. p. 3.

P. 245. Strike out the first nine lines of the note, and refer to it as previously given in p. 231.

P. 247, I. 30, r. "Edward Harley."

P. 248, note, l. 1. "This is not correct. On looking over my Collection of Oxford Almanacks, which for the eighteenth century is complete, I find two engravings for the year 1794; one, very ill executed by Michael Burghers (then an old man, and who died in 1726), and the other by Vertue, being the first Oxford Almanack he engraved. The Almanacks for the years 1725 and 1726 were engraved by Harris; and from 1727 to 1731, inclusively, by Vertue. Those for 1732 and 1783 are without an engraver's name; the latter in Vertue's style. From 1734 to 1751, inclusively, are also by Vertue, and the last he engraved. The Oxford Almanacks for 1752 and several succeeding years were engraved by Green." J. DoWLAND.

P. 252. Dr. Ducarel, after many enquiries, obtained a copy of Picart's book on the Stonehenge in Frizeland; the title of which was, "Korte Beschryvinge van eenige vergetene en verborgene Antiquiteten van't oude Vrieslandt & Annales Drenthiæ. Johan Picardt. Amst. 1660." 4to, with cuts. The description of the Stonehenge, as the Doctor calls it, is in c. 5, p. 22, from whence the following account is taken by Keysler, in his "Antiquitates Septentrionales, 1720," p. 5: "In Drenthe in Over Yssel near Coeworden, on the borders of East Friesland, is a collection of stones of immense weights, the heaps of which are 16, 18, 20, 25 paces long, and 4, 5, 6 broad. Upon smaller stones are laid others of much larger dimensions, some of which are 56 feet in circumference some 40, 36, 30, 20." Compare also Schaten History of Westphalia, VII. p. 487. The print, as copied by Keysler, represents three or four of these piles of stones in a confused, indistinct manner, ruder than our Stonehenge. Keysler adds, "such stones are more numerous in this tract than all other kingdoms put together. There is one of very large dimensions near Anlo, two near the village of Ann, one near Balloo, several near Benthem, nine of different sizes at Borger, near 16 at Drowen, one of amazing size at Embsbuir, others near Ounen, two in the neighbourhood of Rolden, a very large one at Saltzberg," &c. &c. If in these several instances the number of stones

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form but one mass, it is only a cromlech, and not to be compared with that at Drenthe, which seems to come nearer to our Stonehenge. Picardt, from certain observations, determined it to have been erected by the heathen Saxons, who afterwards came into England, conquered the Nation, and left many monuments erected, without inscriptions. Mr. Vertue, in a letter to Dr. Ducarel, says, "he remembered a gentleman of the Doctor's acquaintance saying that he lived in Friesland near this stone monument, and had often seen it, and had the printed account," which was so difficult to be got, but which Dr. Ducarel afterwards procured, and which was sold at the sale of his library, April 8, 1786, N° 1211, for 19s. 6d. to Mr. G. Nicol.— Picardt wrote also a History of Drenthe, printed 1659, and reprinted at Groeningen 1732. - Dr. Ducarel informed me, "that he had an English translation of that part of Picardt's account; and, if he knew of any Antiquarian adventurer that would go there to take a drawing of it, would not only lend the book, but would give five guineas to the person towards his travelling charges." The book was filled with accounts and engravings of Druidical Antiquities in that part of the world, where the names of the places appear to be Saxon, and very nearly allied to our pronunciation, having much affinity with names of several towns in this kingdom.

P. 253. That Mr. Gilpin "stretched the bow-string with too tense a hand" is evident. I have two admirable portraits by Vertue Sir Hugh Myddelton, engraved 1722 from a painting now at Welbeck, by Cornelius Jansen; and Sir Robert Harley, engraved in 1737, from a miniature by P. Oliver." J.D.

Ibid. To the epitaph on Mr. Vertue (which was written by Dr. Parsons) the following lines were added by Mr. Bindley : "MARGARET VERTUE, his faithful wife, who survived him near twenty years, lies buried in the same grave.

She died March 17, 1776, aged 76."

Mr. Bindley has a very scarce portrait of Vertue (ornamented with his famous print of Sir Hugh Middleton after Cornelius Johnson) engraved by himself from a painting by Gibson, 1715.

P. 260, n. I. 15. The article in "The Projector," here referred to, was written by Mr. Bowyer; and the characters were very accurately delineated from real life.-P. 270, 1. 19, r. "writer."

P. 275. Letter to a Friend in Italy.] "Of some invention, but no judgment; when he shewed me at College the Verses on Italy, I observed to him, that he had totally omitted the revival of Learning and the Medici's." T. F.

P. 280, I. penult. In the conclusion of the "Remarks," which are dated November 6, 1745, Mr. Webb apologises for such expressions as may at first sight seem too harsh. "The reader," he says, "will probably excuse them, when he reflects that where Truth and his Prince are abused and menaced in the manner they are by the Declaration, it is very difficult, and pos

sibly not expedient, to preserve that moderation and decency of expression which on all other occasions the Author is sensible he ought to prescribe to himself." And in the Postscript we learn that the "Declaration," and the "Commission and De claration which were the subject of the former Remarks," were burnt at the Royal Exchange by order of Parliament Nov. 12, 1745, with general acclamation.

P. 283, note, l. 12, r. "contained."-P. 287, 1. 17, r. " battler." P. 289, 1. 33, add, "But he was Greek Professor and Principal of an Hall. Bramley 30l. clear yearly value." T. F.

P. 293. "Bp. Hoadly's Letter might pass through the hands of many Lawyers, &c." T. F.

P. 294, 1. antep. r. "Dr. John Nicoll." He was admitted King's Scholar at Westminster 1704; elected to Christ Church 1705; M. A. there March 15, 1710; second Master of Westminster School from 1714 to 1732, when he became head Master; Rector of Meanstoke, Hants, Sept. 13, 1728; D. D. by diploma April 26, 1733; Prebendary of Westminster Oct. 6, 1740; and Canon of Christ Church 1757. He died Sept. 29, 1765; and was buried in the North transept of the Cathedral at Christ Church, where is this inscription under the great North window: " M. S.

"JOANNIS NICOLL, S. T. P. qui Scholæ Westmonasteriensi diù præfuit, postea istius Collegii factus est Præbendarius, deinde hujus Ætlis Canonicus. Cujus merita si quis posset requirere; quantum doctrina, bonisque valeret Artibus, si foret alicubi incognitum, statim illi subjicienda sunt decora illorum hominum ingenia, qui laudatissimâ ipsius disciplinâ innutriti, per decursum annorum fuerunt utrique Academiæ, imo ipsi Ecclesiæ et Reipublicæ subsidio simul et ornamento. Optimi viri mores, et consuetudinem familiarem propius intuendo, imaginem habes ante oculos positam, qualis cogitari vix possit amabilior. Liberalitatem in illo cerneres propè singularem : Comis erat erga omnes et humanus, jucundissimæ quoque simplicitatis. Cum provectissimæ ætatis incommoda omnia pariter ingravescerent, cum Hora mortis non inscienti indies appropinquaret, solitâ tamen usus est urbanitate extremum usque ad Halitum. At solamen illi et fiduciam afferebat anteactæ vitæ recordatio, tum Spes futuræ. Eâ verò fuit animi constantia et firmitate, quæ rarò cernitur. Præproperam ergo filii mortem dilectissimi et unici humaniter, prout decuit, fortiter tamen tulit; quasi secum reputaret jam senior, ea sibi mox adeunda esse Loca, ubi nullâ rerum vicissitudine charissima ipsius soboles è conspectu suo posset iterum avelli. Juxta illius cineres hic loci componitur, inter bonorum luctum, inter justissimas suorum complorationes. Mortuus est A. D. 1765, annum agens plus quam octogesimum.”

On two white marble grave-stones below : "JOHANNES NICOLL, S. T. P. ob. 19 Sept. 1765, æt. 82." "Reverendus JOHANNES NICOLL, A. M.

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