work in English: and that he had been taken for a Dutchman. It were to be wished England had more such Dutchmen and such "Miscellaneous Observations" at present. I should hope that this very able and learned Writer will hold a distinguished rank in the new edition of the Biographia Britannica." R. G. P. 564. On a mural tablet in Ely Cathedral:

"Here lies the body of FRANCIS SAY, Esq.

Principal Librarian to her late Majesty Queen Caroline,
and Secretary to five succeeding Bishops of this Church,
with whom he lived beloved and honoured.

He very early in life gained great reputation,
and preserved it unblemished to his death.

No one was ever less covetous of praise; no one deserved it more.
He was a Scholar, a Gentleman, a Christian;
learned without pedantry, complaisant without flattery,
and religious without ostentation.

These rare endowments

were accompanied with a singular modesty, which, casting a beauty and lustre over them, made his, as far as might be, a perfect character. He was just to all the World, and the World was just to him, for he had not an Enemy in it.

He died Sept. 10, 1748, aged 58."

P. 569. Dr. Samuel Nicolls, son of Samuel, and younger brother of Dr. William Nicolls, was of Magdalen College, Cambridge; B. A. 1735; M. A. 1739; LL. D. 1746; vicar of Northall, Middlesex, 1748; master of the Temple 1753; prebendary of Newington in St. Paul's Cathedral 1756; rector of St. James, Westminster, 1759; chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty; and died Nov. 11, 1763.-He published several single Sermons: 1." On the Rebellion, 1745;" Psalm exxii. 9, 9. — 2. Before the Sons of the Clergy, 1746; John xix. 26, 27. - 3. A Fast Sermon before the House of Commons, 1748; Psalm lvii. 1.4. For the Irish Protestant Schools, 1749; Isaiah lx. 22.— 5. A Farewell Sermon, 1750; Jude 20. 21.-6. At the Annual Meeting of the Charity-Schools, 1756; Psalm lxxviii. 5—7.7. "A Sermon preached at the Temple Church, Nov. 15, 1761, on the death of Dr. Thomas Sherlock, late Lord Bishop of London, who departed this life July 18, in the 84th year of his age, 1762;" Hebrews xiii. 7.

Samuel Nicolls the father was of Magdalen College, Cambridge; B. A. 1686; M. A. 1690; prebendary of Sutton in Marisco in the Cathedral of Lincoln 1711; rector of Gayton, and vicar of North Somercoats, co. Lincoln; died in 1719, and was buried at North Somercoats. Sarah his widow died in 1751.

William Nicolls was also of Magdalen College, Cambridge; B. A. 1714; M.A. 1718; D.D. Comit. Reg. 1728; rector of St. Giles, Cripplegate, 1729; the first rector of St. Luke, Middlesex, 1733; and sometime master of Magdalen College. He died in 1774, and was buried at Cripplegate church, with this epitaph:

"Gu

"GULIELMUS NICOLLS, S.T.P. Coll. Magd. Cantab. olim Præses; Eccles. hujusce dein Vicarius, 1774.

SAMUEL NICOLLS, 1769.".

William-Henry Nicolls, son of Dr. William; of Clare Hall; B.A. 1761; rector of Stoke Newington, 1763; died July 15, 1767.

P. 571, 1. 4. “Mr. Rogers Jortin's first wife was eldest of the two daughters of Mr. William Prowting, a respectable Apothecary in Mark-lane or Great Tower-street, London." J. BROWN.

P. 574. "With respect to Salomon's Song, I have nothing to say to all the allegory and mysticism that certain Divines antient and modern have found in it; but I believe nobody who admires beautiful poetry will think his time lost in reading Mr. J. M. Good's Translations of those sacred Idylls. I cannot, however, help wondering at some things which a man of so much good sense and learning as Dr. Jortin has said of it; particularly that he should take up the vulgar error, that the name of GoD is not mentioned in it. I say 'vulgar error;' for any man who will consult Poole's Synopsis, Bp. Patrick, Dr. Hodgson's Translation, Good's Notes, Williams's Translation, Castalio's, and Junius and Tremellius's Latin Bibles, and Dr. Gill's Exposition, will find that they all agree, with one consent, in translating chap. viii. 6, the Flame of Jah; and the latter gives a list of older Latin Writers who concur in the same translation. And as to its never being referred to in the New Testament, let the curious Reader see what Dr. Gray says upon the subject in his Key to the Old Testament, p. 308." J. BROWN.

P. 578, r. "No VIII."

P. 594, r." No IX."

P. 595, l. 15, r. "1769."

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P. 596. "The note from Dr. Lort, 15 September, shews how apt a person who begins to write in the third person is to be led to write in the first person. The Doctor begins, Dr. Lort thinks →→→ and goes on, he has mentioned'--and then 'desires me to say'"I will submit'-'as I think.' J. BROWN.

P. 601. William Stainforth was collated, Sept. 16, 1681, to the prebend of Botevant in the Church of York; which he exchanged in the February following for that of Langtoft in the same Cathedral. He was also rector of St. Mary Bishop's-hill the Elder in York, vicar of St. Martin's Coney-street, and prebendary of Southwell.

P. 602, note, 1. 5, for "1798," r. "1698."

P. 604, note, 1. 10, r.

P. 606, r. "N° X."

NINETEEN Letters."

P. 60S, note, 1.13. The great contest was in "1754."

P. 614. "The late Earl of Marchmont had not quite completed his eighty-sixth year. It is not correct to say that his titles are extinct, as they are claimed by a distant Relation. His widow died Feb. 12, 1797; see Gent. Mag. vol. LXVII. not LXIV." J. BROWN.

P. 615, note second, 1. 11, for "has," r. "have."

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P. 618. "I observe that you have been very large in your ac count of my intimate friend Dr. Farmer. He was admitted of Emanuel College, not in 1753, but in October 1752, and came into residence at the same time. Though he arrived within a few days after me, yet he was a year my junior, because he had not been admitted before the Commencement. We were near neighbours in Bungay-court, and almost always together. I could have wished a fairer account of our most respectable tutor and Dr. Farmer's firm friend Mr. Hubbard. He was a Tory, but not the least of a Jacobite; nor was Dr. Richardson. They were both Disciplinarians; and considered minutia, perhaps with some reason, as the outworks of discipline. We see now the consequence of their having been given up. The citadel has been stormed. Bickham, the junior tutor, was a bold man, and had been a bruiser when young. I do not think he was of any party. It is inaccurate to call him the Classical Tutor, for he gave us lectures in Euclid. He did not want parts, but he was idle. Dr. Farmer's degree should not have been called inconsiderable; it was even reputable. Considering how idle he was, and how little inclination he had for mathematicks, it shewed the goodness of his parts. There was no contest be tween him and Sawbridge for the cup; Farmer had it of course, as senior in the Proctor's list. I was much oftener Curate of Swavesey than Dr. Farmer. Mr. Allenson, the Vicar, went every other year to see his relations in Yorkshire, and was absent 12 months. At these times Dr. Farmer or I were his substitutes. I never recollect there being any Methodists in the parish. Dr. Farmer was not famous as a Preacher. His Sermons were florid, and composed in haste; his enunciation was loud and hurried; his setting-off was so violent as to make nervous people start. As a proof of his hurrying, I heard him relate, that, having been to preach at Huntingdon, and on his return riding over the bridge, he heard a man say to his companion, Ay, there he goes; if he rides as fast as he preaches, he will soon be at Cambridge.' He was occasionally writing Remarks on Shakspeare from the very first of his residing at Cambridge. I perfectly recollect his little porte-feuille, filled with scraps of paper of all sizes, in no order, which I occasionally attempted to arrange; and sometimes he would bring me some of his own writing to decypher, when he could not make it out himself.”"Farmer's engagement at Whitehall (p.626) did not require him to be in London a certain number of months in the year, but only two Sundays, or at most two and a half. It was his Canonry of St. Paul's, which Mr. Pitt gave him many years after, that required three months residence." See the note in p. 634.— P. 627. "He very justly writes raptim, or calamo rapidissimo, at the end of his letters, for he was always in a hurry. He suffered a disappointment in love very early in life (see p. 637). From his first coming to College he always gave Miss Benskin

as

as a toast, and never could mention her name without evident feelings of the most ardent affection. We were then so intimate that his joys and sorrows were poured into my bosom. After a lapse of almost 60 years, it is no wonder if I do not correctly remember how the connexion terminated; but I have some notion that at length she married another person, there being little prospect of the connexion with Dr. Farmer speedily taking place. But as she was a Leicester girl, Mr. Nichols may perhaps know this circumstance better than I do. This I am certain of, that the disappointment affected his mind very deeply, and was the source of his peculiarities. Of his latter connexion with Miss Hatton I cannot speak with the same certainty, because at that time I did not reside in the University, and our intimacy had ceased, though we continued very good friends to Dr. Farmer's death; as indeed who could be otherwise than friendly with so kind and good-humoured a man as he was? Dr. Colman was likely to know the truth of the affair with Miss Hatton. To the character given of him I make no objection. The Encyclopedia, Mr. Isaac Reed, Mr. Dibdin, and Dr. Parr, have done him justice. There is nought set down in malice; nor is the truth concealed or even varnished. I still look back to him with great affection." T. M.

P. 618, 1. 16, for "twenty," r. "thirty."

P. 622, note, 1. 26, r. "'Ex."

P. 671, last line, for "978," r. "274."

P. 674. "The two Latin Addresses from Mr. Mansel (now Bishop of Bristol) and Mr. Mathias to Dr. Lort were not, I apprehend, confined to him, but a sort of circular, addressed to the Master and eight Seniors as Examiners and Electors at the time the two very respectable persons I mention were Candidates for Fellowships—and that all the Senior Fellows every year, at the time of election, received the same sort of addresses; but I suppose Dr. Lort thought these so much better than usual that he preserved them. They were both considered as extraordinary good Scholars; and their labours and pursuits in Literature have been thought joined more than once." E. B.

P. 683, note, 1. 7, r. "share."

P. 693, 1. 23, for "out," r. "our."

P. 698, 1. 13, r. "Newcome."-"Mr. T. Newcome was not the Reverend. Three successive HackneyNewcomes, all Laymen." E. J. P. 699. Dr. S. Madden was appointed Anatomy Lecturer of the City of Dublin May 25, 1734; and died Dec. 31, 1765. Ibid. 1. ult. for "their," r. "there."

P. 704. "Had not Mr. Arnald the rectory of North Church, Herts, also in the gift of the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall?" E. J.-"The younger Arnald had been many years out of his senses, as his father probably was. I examined him, Pearce, Cave, Pennington Wise, and some other good ones, for Fellowships, all at once. Pride and good fortune overset him." T. F. P. 710, read “Lord Bolingbroke's Letters."- Gilbert West died

long

long before the publication of Lord Chesterfield's Letters; and so did Dr. John Leland. W.

P. 716, 1. 18, r." rutilis."

P. 716. "Sir Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Dr. Armstrong is now, I believe, among the Marquis of Bute's magnificent Collection at Luton Hoo." J. BROWN.

P. 717. "The Rev. Leonard Hotchkis, of St. John's College, Cambridge, B. A. 1712; M.A. 1716, second master of Shrewsbury Free-School; and appointed head master in 1735. He died in 1754. This worthy person, who passed through every gradation in the school, with which he was connected nearly half a century, is still remembered with respect by a few of the older inhabitants. He was the intimate friend of the learned Dr. John Taylor, at whose instance he employed himself in preparing a new edition of "Hephæstion :" but these papers, together with four folio MSS. of curious and important Collections for the 66 History of Shropshire," bequeathed by him to the Library, are now (1810) unfortunately missing." Hist. of Shrewsbury, p. 357. P. 719, 1. 42, r. "eo jucundiores."

P. 720, 1.7, r. "Hutchinson."

P. 723. Of Mr. Robert Dodsley there is a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, engraved by S. F. Ravenet, prefixed to his "Trifles, 1777."

P. 726, note 2d, 1. 8. "Is not the word matricula?" J. BROWN. P. 727, 1. 2 from bottom, for Newark," r. "Chesterfield." P. 730. The second note should stand first, referring to 1. 15.

VOLUME III.

P. 4, note, 1. 30. "The animadversions (Gent. Mag. vol. XLVII. p.337) are upon the subject of the Apamean Medal, and not the Translation of Orosius." T. S.

P. 4, note, l. 34. "Lord Mulgrave was not created a Peer, but succeeded his father in the title; see p. 182;—not a very young man when he went to sea." E. J.

P. 10, note, 1. 38, for "retained," r. “restrained."

P. 12, note, 1.7, r. "read."

P. 14. "I lived at College for a trifle more than 40%. but was a scholar of the House; yet I had an estate' of 60l. per annum, though my uncle's claim on it was not given up. All this my father kept for a year after I was of age." T. F.

P. 19, note, 1. 13, for "had," r. "having."

P. 22. The following Inscriptions in the Church of Stonegrave, in the North Riding of the County of York, illustrative of the Descendants of a learned Divine (noticed in vol. I. p. 602), will perhaps be thought worth preserving :