dalous verses, printed under an hieroglyphical picture, prefixed to one of the volumes of "The Craftsman." He was found Guilty and not surrendering himself, was taken in execution Feb. 12, 1732-3, by a Writ of Execution from the Crown, and carried to the King's Bench Prison; and on the 1st of June was sentenced to pay a fine of 50l: to be imprisoned for two years; and give security for his good behaviour for seven years. — Mr. Rayner married Mary the widow of Sir John Dineley Goodyere (who had been murdered by his brother in 1741); by which marriage he acquired the lordship of Charleton in Worcestershire, which he soon after alienated. P. 468. "Your interesting and affecting account of Mr. and Dr. Loveday brings much to my recollection; as I had the pleasure of repeatedly visiting the good father, at Caversham, with my brother Sturges, Vicar of St. Mary's Reading, and being since known to the Doctor, as well as to his respectable friend Mr. Churton, whom I occasionally meet in this County. Mr. Loveday did my brother the high honour of naming him in his will as trus tee for his family. I fear those who only knew both superficially might have remarked a strong habit in both of a quality, even to a convulsive degree, opposite to weeping. My brother often indulged me with the perusal of Dr. Loveday's frequent and excellent letters; and even brought here, and read to me, several within an hour of his own death, 1805, which was almost instantaneous, under my roof.” E. J. P. 472. "The preceding article." Is it known who wrote that article? I believe "Crito," p. 475, was by Dr. Taylor, an eminent Physician of Reading." R. C. P. 474. "Granger, a friend of Dr. Loveday's," should be "of Mr. Loveday's;" though it is true that Mr. and Dr. Loveday were, both of them, friends of Mr. Granger. I had a very pleasant breakfast with all three at the Greyhound in Oxford, near Magdalén College, once, perhaps in 1774, or thereabouts." P.C. P. 476, note. “Dr. Ducarel,” I believe, should certainly be "Dr. Bacon," a friend (as Dr. Ducarel also was) both of Mr. and Dr. Loveday, particularly of the latter. I do not remember to have heard that Dr. Ducarel was a punster; but Dr. Phanuel Bacon, author of "The Snipe," "The Kite," &c. was a very renowned punster. I was Curate to him at Marsh Baldon at the time of his death, and some years before, and heard some of his latest puns. When I told him of Lord Rodney's victory he said, 'He has made them feel the first part of his name." He had a sister named Frances,' who in her younger days was called Miss Franky;' and he was then, and to his dying day, called Phany Bacon.' R. C. P. 479, l. 15, r. was grandson." P. 483, note, 1. 29, r. "Laniere." P. 484. The Epitaph given in this page is for the Grandfather of the Historian. In the very elegant republication of the "History of Ely" is an inscription as humble as it is just : "In memory of SAMUEL BENTHAM, M. A. Persons much beloved and respected in this neighbourhood. but they were rich in good works; died at Bath, February 4, 1732-3, aged 52, Ursula, died February 17, 1752, aged 27. Edward, D. D. the King's Professor of Divinity, and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, died August 1, 1776, aged 69; and was there buried. Joseph, Printer to the University, and Alderman of Cambridge, died June 1, 1778; and was buried in Trumpington Church. Jacobus, A. M. hujus Ecclesiæ Canonicus. Thomas, A. M. Sacelli S'i Petri apud Stockport, Cestren. Provinc. Minister. Philippa. Edmundus, A. M. de Wotton Courtney in agro Somerset. Rector. - Et Galfridus, A. M. hujus Ecclesiæ Canonicus Minor,-Superstites, eandem mortis viam ituri, Parentibus bene merentibus, mense Martio MDCCLXXXI. posuere." P. 484. Under the East Chancel-window of Waterbeach Church, on the outside, is the following inscription: "Sacred to the Memory of ROBERT MASTERS, B. D. F. S. A. the faithful and diligent Rector of this Church 41 years; whose charity to the poor, and humanity to the distressed, rendered his life truly exemplary, and his death lamented. He died July 5th, 1798, aged 84 years." P. 489, 1. 18, for "1738," r. " 1783." P. 493. In noticing the Brothers of Mr. Bentham, add, 1. Jeffery, died Sept. 7, 1719; buried at Ely. 2. Samuel, educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, B. A.; died March 7, 1723-4; buried at Ely. Of those who survived their father, 3. Edward, the eldest, was born in the College at Ely, July 23, 1707. He was entered, when 16, at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, under his relation Dr. Burton. He made the tour of France, &c. with Robert Hoblyn, esq. M. P. for Bristol, and his friend Dr. Ratcliff, afterwards Master of Pembroke College. In 1729-30 VOL. VIII, Ge 1729-30 he was Vice-principal of Magdalen Hall, and in the April following was elected Fellow of Oriel College. In 1732 he proceeded M. A.; and was appointed Tutor in the College; a duty which he most conscientiously discharged for more than 20 years. In 1743 he took the degree of B. D.; and was collated to the prebendal stall of Hundreton, in the Church of Hereford. He proceeded D. D. in 1749; and was presented in 1754 to the fifth stall in the Cathedral at Christ Church, Oxford. At the persuasion of Archbishop Secker and other learned friends, he reluctantly accepted the King's appointment of him to the Divinity Chair, on the death of Dr. Fanshaw; and in 1763 was presented to the eighth stall in the Cathedral. After a short illness, with the serenity of mind and meekness of disposition for which he was remarkable, he died August 1, 1776, a few days after having entered his 70th year. He was buried in Christ Church, where his tomb is thus inscribed: M. S. Reverendi Uiri EDUARDJ BENTHAM, S. T. P. R. In Alumnorum studiis promovendis, Postca in Cathedram Theologiae mandato regio evectus, Ut novis insuper lectionibus, sponte et gratuito, Kon mediocrem in se susciperet laborem, Singulari bir modestia et morum suabitate insignis : Interpres fidus ac Propugnator: Academiae decus, Amicorum desiderium, Dmnibus carus, suis carissimus, mortale aebum cum immortali For a full account of Dr. Bentham and his many truly valuable publications, see the Biographia Britannica, vol. III. or the Biographical Dictionary, by A. Chalmers, 1812, vol. IV.-Of his three children, Edward died young. Thomas, M. A. rector of Swanton Novers cum Wood Norton, Norfolk, and student of Christ Church, died in 1803, aged 45. He was a pious, beneficent, good man. Elizabeth, who died at Cheltenham July 9, 1903, in her 44th year, bequeathed 400l. Three per Cent. Consols. to the Infirmary at Gloucester. 4.James, 4. James, the Historian, died in 1794, and was buried in the South aile of the Choir of the Cathedral at Ely, where a neat marble monument has been put up to his memory, in a canopied niche, with the following inscription from the pen of the Reverend and learned Dean, William Pearce, D.D. Master of Jesus College, Cambridge: "H. S. S. JACOBUS BENTHAM, A. M. hujus Ecclesiæ primùm Canonicus Minor, deinde Canonicus. in Paludibus emuniendis, in Viis Publicis sternendis, 5. Joseph, the Printer and Alderman, was born at Ely in November 1708. He married Anne, sister and heiress of George Reste, esq.; and died June 1, 1778, s. p. He was buried, as was his wife, in Trumpington Church, in the same vault with a very near Relation; to whose memory they placed the following Inscription, obligingly transmitted to me by Mr. George Dyer: "In a vault near this place are deposited the Remains of GEORGE RESTE, Esq. Alderman of the Town of Cambridge, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Town and County of Cambridge, and one of the Conservators of the River Cam; who, among other tokens of friendship, gratitude, and public spirit, out of a pious regard to the place of his nativity, bequeathed 20l. to be given to the Poor of this Parish at his decease, and 10l. to be charged on his estate at Botesham, to be distributed among them in bread and coals annually on St. Thomas's day. He died October 1761, aged 66 years. "Joseph Bentham, Alderman of Cambridge, and Ann his wife, only sister of the said George Reste, erected this Monument, to commemorate his charity, and their affection for him." Mr. Dyer adds, "From the total want of even a scrap of inscription over Mr. Joseph Bentham, it is evident that he was more careful in perpetuating the memory of his friends, than his survivors have been to perpetuate his. I understand that through his wife he possessed handsome property. He was not eager after money in the way of his business, but rather ambitious of printing Works that would do him credit. He printed his Brother's valuable History at a considerable expence to himself. He had a great taste for Gardening, and a turn for humour. He was an amiable man, as all the Benthams were; and was the only Bentham of the family that was not in orders. There were six brothers, who all used to assemble at the Prebendal-house in Ely at Christmas. An uncommon affection existed among them; and indeed there could not exist a family of brethren who more cordially loved one another." GG 2 6. Thomas, 6. Thomas, born April 14, 1714; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; B. A. 1735; M. A. 1778; vicar of Abberford, co. York, and afterwards minister of St. Peter's Stockport, co. Chester; died May 2, 1790, s. p. at Stockport, where a monument is erected to his memory. 7. Edmund, born at Ely in May 1716; admitted at St. John's College, Cambridge; B.A. 1728; M.A. 1742; rector of Wotton Courtney, co. Somerset, and rector of Sutton; died at London, s. p. April 8, 1781; and was buried at Twickenham. 8. Jeffery was born in June 1720; died June 5, 1792; and was buried at Ely.-[In p. 493, last paragraph, for " Catherine Hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1777, M. A. 1780," r. "St. John's College, Cambridge, B. A. 1741, M. A. 1752." The same mistake is made in the new Edition of Bentham's Ely. — Memoirs, &c. p. 2, note, 1. ult. James Bentham, the son, Vicar of West Bradenham, was of Catherine Hall, as above stated.] 1. Ursula, died Feb. 17, 1752, aged 27. 2. Philippa, born in 1715; died, unmarried, Oct. 12, 1804, in her 90th year; buried in Ely Cathedral. P. 495. See, in Gent. Mag. vol. LV. p. 284, a most curious and valuable account of the dispersion of Dr. Askew's Library, written principally by Mr. Gough. Over the South door of the Chancel of Hammersmith Chapel, on a marble tablet, is inscribed, "Sacred to the memory of ELIZABETH, the Wife of ANTHONY ASKEW, M. D. and Daughter of Robert Holford, Esq. Master in Chancery. She exchanged this life for a better, on the 2nd day of August, 1773, in the 39th year of her age." Ibid. 1. 23-25, r. "benefit-gives." P. 508. "Dr. Rose, Dr. Griffiths, and the Rev. Jabez Hirons, who died in 1812, an old Dissenting Minister at St. Alban's, successor to Dr. Clark, married the three daughters of Samuel Clark, D. D. a respectable Dissenting Minister there, who died in 1750. Mrs. Griffiths, the last survivor of the three sisters, died at Turnham Green, Aug. 24, 1812." J. BROWN. P. 515, 1. 7, r. "were;" I. 13, "degree." were P. 517, note, 1. 1, r. “ vol. LXII. pp. 699, 769." P. 519, note, 1. 42. "If Thomas Penyston, esq. lineally descended from the Baronet, how came the title to be lost?" J. BROWN. P. 520, 1. 6, add " See Gent. Mag. vol. IV. p. 216.” P. 537. Dr. Patten, rector of Childry, Berks, who died Feb. 28, 1790, was formerly fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; where he took the degree of M. A. Feb. 17, 1736; B. D. April 10, 1744; D. D. July 17, 1754. He was author of, 1. "The Christian Apology, a Sermon, preached at Oxford July 13, 1755," 8vo. 2. "St. Peter's Christian Apology, as set forth in a Sermon preached, and further illustrated and maintained against the |