the Objections of the Rev. Mr. Ralph Heathcote, Preacher Assistant at Lincoln's Inn, 1756," Svo. 3. "The Sufficiency of the External Evidence of the Gospel farther supported, against the Reply of the Rev. Mr. Heathcote to St. Peter's Christian Apology, &c. 1757," 8vo. 4. The Opposition between the Gospel of Jesus and what is called the Religion of Nature, a Sermon, preached at St. Mary's, Oxford, July 1, 1759," 8vo. 5. "King David vindicated from a late Misrepresentation of his Character, in a Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1762," 8vo. P. 545. For a material correction in this page, see vol. VII. p. 5, P. 569, 1. 22, for "ar," r. "as." P. 575. Sir Edward Littleton was elected Recorder of London in 1631; and was Reader at the Temple in 1633. He was appointed Solicitor-general in 1634; Lord Keeper 1640; created a Baron 1641; and died in 1645. P. 578. May 22, 1684, the Charter of the Company of Stationers was renewed by King Charles II. P. 580, 1. 4, strike out the word "December." P. 582, note, 1. 14, r. put him upon-" P. 585, 1. 22, for "have," r. "has." P. 588, note, 1. 30, for "before," r. "after." P. 599. "June 29, 1722, Mr. Richard Mount, an eminent Stationer on Tower-hill, had his leg cut off, which had been broken some days before by the kick of a cart-horse as he was riding over London Bridge; and died in a few hours after the operation, being about 70 years of age." Historical Register, 1722."Mr. John Mount, son of William, and grandson of Richard, with his partner Mr. Thomas Page, purchased the remaining term in old Jacob Tonson's Patent for supplying many of the Public Offices (the Stamp-office among the rest) with Stationery, &c. upon the death of the younger Jacob Tonson; the other brother, Richard, not chusing to continue in business. This Mr. Mount I knew well, and have seen him often limp into our Board-room; he had lost his leg pretty high up, and wore constantly one of cork. How he came by his accident I do not recollect; but so it was- - an extraordinary coincident, that two persons of the same name, and so very nearly related, should each of them have met with a similar misfortune." J. B.-Thomas Page, esq. who was partner first with Mr. William Mount, and afterwards with his son John, died April 2, 1781.-Ibid. note, 1. 12, r. “1703.” P. 601. Mr. Arthur Bettesworth, an eminent Bookseller in Paternoster Row, died June 5, 1739. P. 606. Mr. Simon Beckley, Clerk of the Stationers' Company, and Deputy of the Ward of Farringdon Within, died Sept. 23, 1723. P. 607. Robert Limpany, esq. a Merchant of eminence, and a Liveryman of the Company of Stationers in 1664, resided many years at Fulham, in a neat house in Church-lane. His estate in that parish was so considerable, that he was commonly called "Lord of Fulham." He was a great benefactor to the parish; and died March 5, 1735, aged 94, worth 800l. a year. He had been been 60 years a considerable Merchant, yet never had arrested any one person; and is said never to have instituted a legal process against any of his tenants; but, if any pleaded poverty, he generously forgave them their arrears. In 1686, under his auspices as churchwarden, the church was new roofed, beautified, enlightened, and the inside made much more commodious, at about 1601. charge to the parish. In the North aile there still remain, of his gift, but "in the last stage of decay," two volumes of "Fox's Book of Martyrs." By his will, dated in 1734, he directed that all the parishioners should be invited to his funeral; and gave, out of the rents and profits of his house called the King's Arms, in Fulham town, yearly, as follows: to the organist 1.; to the poor, in bread, 21.; for keeping his monument in repair, 1.; to the charity children, at Christmas, 10s.; to the poor, at Christmas, in meat, &c. 31.; total, 71. 10s. Though he directs his monument "to be kept in repair," there is no inscription either for himself or his wife; but, in the North aile, a large marble tablet, surrounded with a beautiful broad frame of wood, richly carved and ornamented, is thus inscribed: "Here lyes buried ELIZABETH LIMPANY, and in the third year of her age." (See Faulkner's History of Fulham, pp. 50, 100, 101, 157, 266.) P. 609. Dr. Joshua Hoyle was not sequestered, but continued Vicar of Stepney till his death in 1654. He was a native of Yorkshire; sometime Student at Magdalen Hall, Oxford; afterwards Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and Professor of Divinity there. He was one of the Assembly of Divines; and assisted in the evidence against Archbishop Laud. He afterwards procured from the Committee the appointment of Master of University College, and Regius Professor of Divinity; both of which preferments he held with Stepney till his death, when he was buried in the old Chapel at University College, since pulled down. During his incumbency at Stepney, Jeremiah Burroughs, an eminent Divine among the Puritans, preached in that church every morning at seven o'clock; and William Greenhill, who succeeded Hoyle in the vicarage, every afternoon at three; which occasioned Hugh Peters (whom Anthony Wood calls the Theological Buffoon), in a Sermon preached from that pulpit, to call one the Morning Star of Stepney, and the other the Evening Star. P. 610. "Mr. Chiswell the Bookseller was not a Director of the Bank. The Bank Director of the name of Trench was Samuel, who held that office from 1736 to 1741, in which year died." J. BROWN. he P. 612. "I have a duodecimo oval Portrait, not noticed by Bromley, with the following inscription underneath : "Hospitii, quicunque petis, quis incola tanti Spiritûs, egregia hunc, confide, scripta dabunt. Lombart sc. 8vo. Το To what work was the Portrait of Dr. Terne prefixed * ?" E. P. P. 614. Mr. John Noorthouck, of Oundle, "one of the few Survivors whom I have the pleasure of recollecting as a Friend of other times in the last Century," has favoured me with what he is pleased to term "a humble bibliomaniacal tribute of sincere respect;" being a Catalogue of Part of the Library of that eminent Statesman John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (who died Aug. 24, 1682); intituled, "Bibliotheque de feu Monseigneur le Duc de Lauderdale; où, Catalogue de Livres choisis, en Langues Françoise, Italienne & Espagnole, recueillis par ses soins et avec de grandes depenses; dans lequel se trouvent plusieurs Ouvrages de l'Histoire, l'Antiquité, l'Architecture, la Geographie, viz. Cartes, Mappes-Mondes, &c. comme aussi quantité de Traitez de Medailles, & enfin sur tous autres sujets curieux. Les dits Livres seront vendus à l'enchére le Mecredy 14 jour de May 1690, à Sam's Coffee-house, dans la rue qui s'appelle Ave-Mary-Lane, proche Ludgate-street.-Catalogues are distributed gratis, at Mr. Holford's in the Pall-Mall, Mr. Partridge's near Charing-Cross, Mr. Hensman in Westminter-Hall, Mr. Wilkinson's in Fleet-street, Mr. Bateman's in Holborn, Mr. Swalle's in St. Paul's Church-yard, Mr. Eddowes under the Royal Exchange, Booksellers; as also at Mr. Hall's, Printer at the Theatre in Oxford; and at Mr. Dawson's, Bookseller in Cambridge."-"Au Lecteur. Ce Catalogue contient cette partie de la Bibliothéque du feu Duc de Lauderdale, composée d'une grande quantité de Livres François, Italiens, & Espagnols, sur toutes sortes de sujets. Ces livres sont tres bien conditionez & magnifiquement reliez : & il y en a beaucoup de papier Royal & Impérial."-The Sale began at Three in the Afternoon. The Catalogue fills 40 quarto pages, on eleven of which the Prices are written. P. 615. Mr. George Strachan, the eminent Bookseller, was a son of the Rev. John Strachan, D. D. in the University of Aberdeen, and Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh, who was incorporated D. D. at Oxford July 15, 1693, and afterwards a resident in the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. P. 616. A large flat stone at Fulham is thus inscribed: anno D'ni 1731, 12° Junii, die ætatis 65. primò Mariam Claudii Barachini filiam, "The Portrait enquired after above is that of Christopher Bennett, a distinguished Physician; and is prefixed to his "Theatri Tabidorum Vestibulum, London, 1654," 8vo. The distich underneath it was written by his friend Dr. Christopher Terne, a Licentiate of the College; who having subscribed his name to it, has occasioned your Correspondent's mistake about it, as it has done to others. Granger has the print under its proper head, and so has Bromley. See his book, article Bennett." J. B. 10 Januarii 1704-5 denatam, et Londini sepultam in Cemeterio Templi quod Divi Ægidi in Campis nomen habet. Secundò Catharinam Caroli Testardi filiam; quæ morti occubuit 29° Aprilis 1730, ætat. 56, et in hâc camerâ unà cum Patre, Filio Testardo Ludovico qui obiit 21 Martii 1730-1, ætat. 25, Hic jacet etiam Catherina Edwards, et Vidua Johannis Ñoades et Oliveri Edwards Armigeri. Faulkner's History of Fulham, p. 110. P. 617. The Hon. and Rev. Edward Townshend, youngest son of Charles second Viscount Townshend, was of Trinity College, Cambridge; M. A. 1742; D. D. 1761. He was Deputy Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty, a Prebendary of Westminster 1753, Dean of Norwich, and Rector of the Pulhams and Tivetshall in Norfolk. He died Jan. 27, 1765, having married Mary daughter of Brigadier-general Price, by whom he left issue one son, Edward, in holy orders, who married, March 23, 1785, Louisa daughter of the late Sir William Milner, bart.; and five daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, Henrietta, who died unmarried, Charlotte, married on May 12th, 1773, at Lambeth Chapel, to John Norris, of Whitton in Norfolk, esq. and Lucy, who died unmarried. P. 618. "It is a manifest error to give 1760 as the two-hun, dredth year since Queen Elizabeth's accession, and may be corrected by the title of Bp. Pearce's Sermon "since the date of their Charter of Foundation." J. BROWN. P. 619, 1. 8 from bottom, r. "Coin and Coinage." P. 621, note, 1.35, for "so," r. "to."-The following Letter is thus indorsed by Dr. Ducarel, to whom it was addressed: "12 Oct. 1772, Mr. Ratcliffe (the great Collector of old Black-letter Books in East-lane, Rotherhithe)—about old English Herbals." "Doctor, Thursday, 12 o'clock. "The eldest Herball I can at present think of is a thin Folio, printed for Peter Treveris in Southwark, 1529 — another, printed by Jhon. King, 1561. I have since found a book called The vertuose Boke of Distillacion,' by Jerom of Brunswick, containing a large Herball, printed by Laurence Andrew, 1527.I will call on you Friday 23 Instant, when shall hope to discourse the matter over with you. I am, with utmost respect, your most obedient servant, -J. RATCLIFFE." "Mr. Ratcliffe used to give coffee and chocolate every Thursday morning to Book and Print Collectors. Dr. Askew, Messieurs Beauclerck, Bull, Crofts, Samuel Gillam, West, &c. &c. used to attend, when he would produce some of his late purchases. He generally husbanded them, and only produced a few at one time. He would exultingly say, 'There, there is a curiosity!what think you of that?'-though probably at the the same time he had more than two or three copies in his possession. When some one or more of his visitants would say, Ah! if I could be so fortunate to procure a copy, I should not mind the price! his answer was, he had almost despaired of ever meeting with such a rarity; but if he should be so fortunate in his researches to find another, they might depend,' &c. He generally used to spend whole days in the Booksellers' Warehouses; and, that he might not lose time, would get them to procure him a steak or chop. His house at Bermondsey was once on fire, and he ran about the place like a mad-man, exclaiming, 'Oh! my Caxtons! -Oh! my Caxtons!' His Housekeeper, thinking he meant his wigs, said, Sir, I beg you will not be so uneasy about your wigs, they are all safe. If his Catalogue had been arranged as now, the Sale would have been double the extent; there were many hundred most rare Blackletter Books and Tracts, unbound, with curious cuts. They were sold, I remember, in large bundles, and were piled under the tables in the Auction-room on which the other books were exposed to view, and were not seen but by the Booksellers who were the purchasers, viz. Chapman, Collins, &c. He always wrote on the first fly-leaf-Perfect—or otherwise, in Roman print, which he in general wrote neatly and expeditiously. - At the Fleetwood Sale I was a great purchaser, though not to a large amount; they were sent me from Paterson's by bags-full. Mr. Dodd purchased most of his curious articles at that sale. Garrick also attended. There was one curious Play that I think sold for 27 shillings, and was the only one Garrick did not possess; but he lifted up his hands and eyes with astonishment at the extravagant price, and I think was not the purchaser." R. P. 622, 1.4. Of Dr. Furneaux see Gent. Mag. vol. LIII. Part II. pp. 982, 1063. Ibid. 1.9. Dr. Thomas Wilson was the only surviving son of Dr. Thomas Wilson, the pious and learned primitive Bishop of Sodor and Man; and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took the degree of M. A. Dec. 16, 1727, and accumulated those of B. and D. D. May 10, 1739, when he went out Grand Compounder. He was many years Senior Prebendary of Westminster, Minister of St. Margaret's there, and 46 years Rector of St. Stephen's Walbrook, London, in which last he succeeded Dr. Watson in 1737, on the presentation of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke; it is now in the gift of the Grocers' Company. He published "The Ornaments of Churches considered, with a particular View to the late Decoration of the Parish Church of St. Margaret, Westminster. To which is subjoined an Appendix, containing the History of the Church, an Account of the Altar-piece and Stained Glass-window erected over it, a State of the Prosecution it has occasioned, and other Papers, 1761," 4to. To the second edition was prefixed a view of the inside of this church, with the Speaker Onslow in his seat. This pamphlet has been ascribed to a son of Dr. Shebbeare, under Dr. Wilson's inspec |
