"RICHARD HIND, D.D. 12 years Vicar of this Parish,
died 18 Feb. 1790, æt. 75."

P. 97. Dr. Stephen Apthorp was educated at Eton College; and thence admitted at King's College, Cambridge, 1728; B. A. 1732; M. A. 1736; D. D. 1749; and Fellow of Eton College 1759. He was tutor to the Hon. George Brodrick, son of George the first Viscount Midleton, to Sir Brooke Bridges, bart. and to George Lord Walpole, son of Robert the second Earl of Orford. He was many years an assistant at Eton, and was candidate for the under-mastership when Dr. Dampier was chosen. He was rector of Monxton and Stevington, both in Hampshire; and afterwards rector of Worplesdon in Surrey, in the gift of the College, as settled in exchange by Act of Parliament 3 and 4 William and Mary. He was presented to it in June 1774; and his brother-in-law, the Rev. William Cole of Milton, at the same time, to Burnham near Eton. Dr. Apthorp died Dec. 12, 1790, aged 82. His only daughter, an accomplished young lady, was killed, by the overturning of a coach, as she was returning from a play in London to Mr. Newcome's at Hackney.

P. 109. Extract of a letter from Bp. Pearce to Dr. Ducarel, June 26, 1770: "Upon looking over my papers, &c. I find that I have a copy of the Survey of the Manor of Bromley, and the original Surveys of the Rectory of Dartford, of the Rectories of Frendsbury and Strood, and also of the Houses and Lands in St. Margaret's near Rochester, belonging to the See of Rochester. As for my estate in St. Saviour's, Southwark, I have a copy of an Act of Parliament in the time of Henry VIII. by which the Bishop of Carlisle's house is taken from him, and given to Sir William Russell (as the Act says, "that he, his Majesty's Privy Counsellor, may be nearer to him when wanted"). That house was in Covent-garden, and the Bishop of Carlisle was recompensed with the Bishop of Rochester's house at Lambeth (now called Carlisle House), for which the Bishop of Rochester had a house allotted to him at Chiswick in Middlesex. the Act goes; but how the helpless Bishop of Rochester of those days was removed again from Chiswick to St. Saviour's in Southwark (like a vagrant passed from parish to parish) I have not been yet able to discover."

So far

P. 116. " Fumifugium" was edited by Thomas White, esq. F. R. S. father of Thomas Holt White, esq. of Enfield.

P. 117. "Vincent Bourn was usher to the fourth form at Westminster, and remarkably fond of me. I never heard much of the goodness of heart." T. F.

P. 126. Of the Rev. Henry Taylor, rector of Crawley, and vicar of Portsmouth, Hants, Cole says, he was "a cheerful, lively, and sensible little man, very thin, and of no promising appearance." He refers to his vol. XLVIII. p. 276.—Mr. Taylor was probably a native of Essex. He was the owner of a real estate in that county, which lay, it is believed, at South Weald, near Brentwood. His father, a gentleman, whose baptismal name might

be

be Edward, was a man of a very ready wit, and author of that well-known humourous tale in verse, "Numps; or, The ApplePye." Nor was his son inferior to him in witticism, devoid of the asperity of lashing satire and biting sarcasm. He was so pleasant a companion, that at the temperately-convivial domestic table he has been known to "set it in a roar" of laughter. The following epigrammatic jeu d'esprit on the Crew of a ship in distress (all members of the Church of Rome) was written by him: "It blew a hard storm, and, in utmost confusion,

The Sailors all hurried to get absolution.

This done, and the load of the sins they confest

[Priest;

Were transferr'd, as they thought, from themselves to the
To lighten the ship, and conclude their devotion,
They toss'd the poor Parson souse into the Ocean."

He was also the author of an elegant copy of verses on the felicity of a married pair, intituled "Paradise Regained," inserted in Dodsley's Collection of Poems.

Mr. Taylor was educated at Dr. Newcome's School, Hackney, where he formed connexions among his school-fellows which were of essential benefit to him through life. On leaving School, he was admitted a member of Queen's College, Cambridge; B. A. 1731; became a Fellow in 1733; and M.A. 1735. He soon after married Christian Fox, fourth and youngest daughter of the Rev. Francis Fox*, with whom he lived very happily. At the time of his marriage Mr. Taylor held the living of Whitfield, near Tetsworth, co. Oxon. for a minor; but was afterwards presented to another living, which he exchanged for the vicarage of Portsmouth. After some years, he succeeded to the rectory of Crawley, near Winchester, tenable with Portsmouth, through the interest of his school-fellow Chancellor Hoadly, son of the Bishop of Winchester. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had a numerous offspring; of whom three children only are now living; the Rev. Henry Taylor, who enjoys a benefice in Lincolnshire; William Taylor, an eminent tin-manufacturer; and Anna Taylor, who is domesticated with her sister-in-law, the relict of her brother, the Rev. Peter Taylor, at Tichfield, Hants, of which parish he was rector under the patronage of Peter Delmè, esq. his godfather, and another of his father's school-fellows. Peter died without issue. Henry is unmarried; and William has a large family by his wife, who was a Miss Courthauld, a lady of a French Hugonot family.Mr. Taylor preached a Visitation Sermon, and published it in the form of an essay, under the title of "An Essay on the Beauty of the Divine Economy" (see vol.III. p. 126). His "Letters of Benjamin Ben Mordecai to Elisha Levi," in defence of the Arian Trinity, by him styled the Apollinarian, are well known (ibid. p. 127). His last work, it is believed, which was intituled "Thoughts

* Of Edmund Hall, Oxford; M. A. 1704; vicar of St. Mary's, Reading, 1724; vicar also of Pottern, Wilts; and prebendary of Salisbury. He died at Reading. See Memoirs of him in Mr. Coates's History of Reading, p. 116.

on

on the grand Apostacy" (ibid.) well merits the serious attention of the Reader. The preceding particulars are extracted from a communication to the "Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature" (May 1813, vol. VIII. p. 285), by the Rev. Francis Stone*, his nephew-in-law; who adds, that, having lost his father in his third year, he had the happiness to find a classical scholar and a theological friend in his uncle. “ Exclusively of the advantages which as a youth," Mr.S. says, "I received from personal visits to, and occasional correspondence with, my uncle, on my election off from Charter-house, as Captain, to University College, Oxford, I owed my knowledge of Hebrew to his kind recommendation of me to the notice of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Hunt, then Regius Professor of Hebrew in that University. The Professor, in his friendship for my uncle, with gratuitous generosity instructed me in the language. When I was of age to take orders, my uncle gave me a title, by appointing me his Curate of Crawley, on which rectory he resided, and of Hunton, a chapel of ease annexed to it. During my clerical connexion with Mr. Taylor, I recollect that he lamented to me that a necessary Church-reform was obstructed by Church-authority; but that he thought it probable I might live to be an instrument in removing that obstacle." Not long before his death, in conse quence of a letter from Mr. Stone, stating his disbelief of certain doctrinal subjects, it was settled by Mr. Taylor that Mr. Stone should make him a visit in the ensuing Summer; but before the time arrived, Mr. Taylor was seized with the sickness which terminated in his death.

P. 128. Mr. Potter's "Eschylus" is ornamented by drawings as to every scene by Flaxman. The copy Lady Spencer gave to the Translator, bound by Paine, is valued at 601. more or less. I have seen an explanation of the Prometheus, which made Æschylus more knowing in the darker ways of Providence than any of the Sacred Writers. This is like Dr. Hyde's telling us that the Persians had plainer prophecies of the Messiah than even the Jews themselves; but, cui bono? were the Athenians or Persians the better for them?" T. F.

P. 130, note, 1. 30, r. "Pictorum.”

P. 130. Dr. John Warren was educated at St. Edmund's Bury School, and admitted of Gonvile and Caius College, Cambridge; B. A. 1750; M. A. 1754; S. T. P. 1772. He was presented, by Ep. Gooch, to the rectory of Leverington, in the Isle of Ely. He was chaplain to Bp. Keene, of Ely, who collated him to the rectory of Teversham, co. Cambridge; afterwards to the seventh prebend of Ely, Jan. 23, 1768; and, the same day, on his resigning Teversham, to the rectory of Snailwell, co. Cambridge. He was promoted to the bishoprick of St. David's, on the translation of Bp. Yorke to Gloucester, 1779. While he filled the see of St. David's, he published a Fast Sermon before the House of Lords, 1780, from Joel i. 14; and, before that, one at Cambridge, for

The Rev. Francis Fox (p. 429) was Mr. Stone's maternal grandfather.

the

the benefit of Addenbroke's Hospital, 1777, Luke xiv. 18; and one for the Sons of the Clergy, 1778, James i. 14. His first preferment was Archdeacon of Worcester, 1775, by favour of Bp. Johnson, who was his nephew. He was translated to Bangor in 1783, on the advancement of Dr. Moore to the see of Canterbury; and with the bishoprick of Bangor he held the archdeaconry of Anglesea and Bangor. He married, April 12, 1777, a daughter of Henry Southwell, esq. by whom he gained a considerable fortune; and collated his nephew John to the deanry of Bangor in 1793. He died Jan. 27, 1300; and his remains were, on the 10th of February, interred in the North aile of Westminster Abbey. Mr. Bentham acknowledges his assistance in his History of the Church of Ely, for which he drew up "An historical Account of the Royal Franchise of Ely," printed in the Appendix, No. XXVII. p. 21*. His Lordship was a Prelate of the greatest application to business, undoubted talents, candour, and integrity; no man was more fully or more accurately acquainted with the duties of the station, which he uniformly discharged in such a manner as shewed his sense of its high importance. The Diocese that laments his loss will long bear testimony to his virtues, to his zeal for the propagation of Christian knowledge, to his ardour for the suppression of vice, to his acts of charity, numerous and wise. The powerful enemies, who from party motives detracted with unrelenting malice from his fame while living, will not, now their fears are buried in his grave, deny this character to be the tribute of justice to the dead. The following Letter, with which he honoured me, Nov. 1, 1795, will shew the goodness of his disposition:

"SIR, I have been favoured with your obliging answer to my letter, in which I inquired whether you, or some of the Trade, had not an opening for taking an apprentice; and I was sorry to find that there was not, as the young lad whom I wish to recommend is perfectly qualified for the business of a Printer, and would, I am sure, make a profitable servant to any one who would take him, as he is very well disposed, and a very good scholar in Latin and Greek; and I am so much prejudiced in favour of learned Printers when I consider how very useful they have been, that I should be very glad if this young man could be put into this line; and perhaps, in the multitude of Masters in your way, one may yet be found who is in want of such a character as this young man justly deserves; and if there is, I should think myself much obliged to you if you would acquaint me with it. I am, Sir, with many thanks for your last favour, your most obedient, humble servant, JOHN BANGOR."

P. 133, note, 1. 40. "One of the good [best] things in it is the behaviour of the Quixote at the Leasowes." T. F. P. 136, note, 1. 7, r. "Hanslope, Bucks."

P. 149, note, l. 14, r. “ p. 1036."

P. 157, note, 1.22. "Among other MSS. in Dr. Deering's handwriting, I have his own account of his life, in a long letter,

dated

dated July 1, 1737, addressed to his friend Mr. Bovey of Nottingham." J. D.

P. 157. The following Letter was addressed by Mr. John Martyn to Mr. Knapton the Bookseller:

"When I saw you last, I told you that the declension of the sale of our 'Abridgment *' was entirely owing to the Papers translated by Mr. Chambers †. To prove my assertion, I have sent you the first paper that came in my way, which, I assure you, is very far from being one of the worst; and desire you would give yourself the trouble to look over it. The Author writes with great prolixity; and Mr. Chainbers is so far from having abridged him, that he has paraphrased him, sometimes using two or three words where the Author contents himself with one. But, what is worse, the English style (if it may be called English) is very low and poor, and full of blunders. I shall only point out to you 'some of the errors of a few pages, which I wish you would read over carefully, and try if you can even make sense of them :P. 160. Remarkables are discoverable; this sounds very ill to the ear; and I question whether Remarkables is English. In the French it is ce qu'il y a de singulier. I have extended my observations to see-nettles, instead of sea-nettles. —P. 161. Folding, or two-leaved, might be expressed by one proper word, bivalve.— P. 165. Laverison, instead of the French word Lavignon. Mr. Chambers was ignorant of the English names of most of the shell-fishes. Thus he translated oeil de bonc the goat's eye, instead of limpet, which is a well-known name; and these Lavignons are called Purrs on our coast.—I shall trouble you with no more; the paper goes on in the same manner, or rather worse. I will only desire you to turn to p. 182, where you will find my hand again to some French words spelt in a surprising manner. Mr. Chambers never makes use of any stops, which occasions a great deal of trouble both to the Printer and me. Most of his papers are so ill done, that it would be as little trouble to translate them from the original, as to reduce his to common sense and tolerable English."

P. 158. "Professor Martyn was not the editor of "Aranei, or The Natural History of Spiders;" but Thomas Martyn the Entomologist, of Marlborough-street, a native of Coventry." T. S. P. 158, note, 1.8, r "dedicated."

P. 162, 1. 10, r. "Augustorum." P. 180, note, 1. 24. For as much money (50l. I think) The Row will furnish a man with the expence of a Doctor's degree for the use of his name in their title-page. Dr. Wright allowed his name to be prefixed. His "Heylin" should be continued, and reprinted, with Viscounts, Barons, and Baronets." T. F.

Of the French Memoirs; see vol. V. p. 660.

+ Author of the "Cyclopædia;" of whom see vol. II. pp. 129, 132; vol. IV. p. 713; vol. V. pp. 30, 659.

P. 182.