ing Remarks on many Parts of his Translation and has nothing to add on that subject; but I transcribe the copy of a letter of my own, written some years ago to Mr. Pratt, who requested me to furnish him with some particulars of my Father's journey. Though my letter was written without any idea of its being published, Mr. Pratt thought it contained so faithful a picture of my Father, that he asked, and obtained leave to insert it in his Harvest Home.' This, however, for some reason of his own, he declined doing; and it is very much at your service, if you think it a proper appendage to your new edition of the Roman Wall.' My Father says, it tells him more of himself than he knew before, and has copied it into his Manuscript Life. I am, dear Sir, with great regard, "Your very grateful and obedient servant, CATHERINE Hutton." In a subsequent Letter, Sept. 5, 1813, Miss Hutton says: "I have looked over my Father's copy of The Roman Wall; and send you here a transcript of some alterations I find in his hand-writing, and his correction of the Map. I also send such verbal corrections as the Work appeared to me to require.My Father becomes more infirm; but is yet in health, and as much yours as when he was able to assure you of it himself. C. HUTTON." "I am, with great regard, &c. One of the Corrections thus communicated was the following concluding paragraph:-" By easy marches I arrived at Birmingham, August 7, 1901, after a loss, by perspiration, of one stone of animal weight; an expenditure of forty guineas; a lapse of thirty-five days; and a walk of six hundred and one miles. As so long and solitary a journey on foot was, perhaps, never wantonly undertaken by a man of seventy-eight, it has excited the curiosity of the town: and causes me frequently to be stopt in the street, to ascertain the fact." In a Letter received whilst this Note was printing, July 18, 1814, Miss Hutton says, "There are frequent applications for my Father's whole Works. He continues well; but grows more infirm. He bids me present his kind remembrance to his longrespected Friend, with that of, dear Sir, "Your very faithful humble servant, C. HUTTON." The apprehensions of Mr. Hutton, that the famous Well where Richard quenched his thirst will sink into oblivion, I am happy to observe, are totally done away, by the recent exertions of my profoundly learned Friend, the Rev. Dr. Parr; by whose indefatigability, intelligence, and erudition, the site of this memorable spot will be handed down to the latest posterity.-In a Letter dated "Hatton, Sept. 13, 1813," which I use by his express permission, Dr. Parr says, "I hear you are going to re-publish the History of Hinckley, and also some Work upon Bosworth Field. Pray, my Friend, put down my name as a Subscriber.-I suppose that you knew Dr. Morres*, Vicar of Hinckley, as I did; and I hope *Of whom see hereafter. that Notes. In a Letter to the Author*. By John Sturges, LL. D. Chancellor of the Diocese of Win that you have spoken of him as a man of taste and great classical learning. As to Bosworth Field, six or seven years ago I explored it, and I found Dick's Well, out of which the tradition is that Richard drank during the Battle. It was in dirty, mossy ground, and seemed to me in danger of being destroyed by the cattle. I therefore bestirred myself to have it preserved, and to ascertain the owner. The Bishop of Down spoke to the Archbishop of Armagh, who said that the ground was not his. I then found it not to be Mrs. Pochin's. Last year I traced it to a person to whom it had been bequeathed by Dr. Taylor, formerly Rector of Bosworth. I went to the spot, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Lynes, of Kirkby-Malory. The grounds had been drained. We dug in two or three places without effect. I then applied to a neighbouring Farmer, a good intelligent fellow. He told me his family had drawn water from it for six or seven years, and that he would conduct me to the very place. I desired him to describe the signs. He said, there were some large stones, and some square wood, which went round the Well at the top. We dug, and found things as he had described them; and, having ascertained the very spot, we rolled in the stones, and covered them with earth. Now Lord Wentworth, and some other Gentlemen, mean to fence the place with some strong stones, and to put a large stone over it with an, inscription; and you may tell the story if you please; and I will desire Mr. Lynes to send you the inscription. "Believe me, dear Sir, with great respect, Your faithful friend, and obedient servant, S. PARR.' RICARDVS. TERTIVS. REX. ANGLIAE CVM. HENRICO, COMITE. DE. RICHMONDIA ᎬᎢ . VITA. PARITER. AC. SCEPTRO ANTE. NOCTEM. CARITVRVS II. KAL. SEPT. A. D. MCCCCLXXXV." "Those who know with what views the new Translation of Isaiah, here referred to, by Michael Dodson, Esq. was made, and those who consider it merely as a new Translation, will be alike pleased with the candour and learning with which the Remarker examines it. Mr. Dodson returned an answer, couched in terms of equal candour and liberality, in a Letter to Dr. Sturges, &c." Mr. Gough in Gent. Mag. vol. LXIII. p. 60. This learned Divine was a native of Hampshire. His Father, the Rev. John Sturges, was a Prebendary of Winchester, and Rector of Wonston near that City; his Mother was Sister to Bp. Lowth. Their only child, John, was Fellow of New College, Oxford; M. A, 1759; B. and D. C. L. by Royal mandate in chester, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty." 1783; Prebendary of Winchester and Chichester, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. He married Judith Bourne, sister of Francis Bourne Page, Esq. M. P. for the University of Oxford; from whom the Bourne estate descends to his son, William Sturges-Bourne, Esq. sometime one of the Lords of the Treasury. A second wife was sister to Bp. Buller, through whose interest with his father-in-law, Bp. Thomas, he obtained the valuable Rectory of Alverstoke, Hants. (resigning preferment of his own Chapter, which he might have held); and the Chancellorship of the Diocese of Winchester, in which he had been Official to Dr. J. Hoadly long before. Dr. Sturges died at Alverstoke, Oct. 2, 1807. His publications are, "A Letter to a Bishop, occasioned by the late Petitions to Parliament for Relief in the Matter of Subscription, 1772;" "Considerations on the State of the Church Establishment, 1779," 8vo, in "Letters to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London," wherein he notices the "Plan of Lectures on the Principles of Non-conformity, by R. Robinson ;" and the manner in which it is written places its Author in a most creditable light, both as a sensible and a moderate man. In 1791 he wrote the above-noticed "Short Remarks on a new Translation of Isaiah," which were answered by Mr. Dodson, and produced very favourable testimonies to the learning of the Doctor, and the candour of his Adversary. He next published" Discourses on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, 1792," 8vo; and in the same year a single Sermon, preached in Lambeth Chapel, from Romans xii. 4, 5, at the Consecration of Dr. Buller, Bishop of Exeter; another, on Gratitude to God for the public Blessings of Religion. "Reflections on Popery," occasioned by Dr. Milner's "History of Winchester." Dr. Milner had grossly insulted the memory of Bishop Hoadly, Patron of Dr. Sturges, by an unfounded assertion that his Monument served to undermine the Church when he was dead, as himself had done when living.' Dr. Milner replied, in "Letters to a Prebendary," adding another assertion relating to Winchester College, which Dr. Sturges, in an Appendix, proved to be erroneous in more than one particular. He published also " Thoughts on the Residence of the Clergy, and the Provisions of the Statute of the Twenty-first Year of Henry VIII. c. 13. 1802;" an excellent Pamphlet; which produced, from a Member of a considerable College at Oxford, "Observations on Dr. Sturges's Pamphlet respecting Non-residence of the Clergy, in a Letter to Baron Maseres;" a spirited Tract, in which the Author, with the greatest regard and respect for Dr. Sturges, completely differs from him in some of his opinions. The Family of STURGES has produced so many eminent members of the Established Church, that I shall stand excused for mentioning here two brothers of the first-named John Sturges. One of these, the Rev. Charles Sturges, was Fellow of Queen's College "Sermons; now first printed from the Original College, Cambridge, B. A. 1712; M. A. 1716; B. D. 1725; Prebendary of Milton Manor in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln; Rector of Orlingbury, co. Northampton; and for a short time of Glatton, co. Huntingdon. He married Sarah, sister of Ambrose Isted, Esq. of Ecton in Northamptonshire; and died Feb. 5, 1745, aged 52.-A monument in Orlingbury Church has the following inscription: "H. S. E. Obiit 18 die Januarii, anno Domini 1758, ætatis 52. Thomas et Anna, Infantes nuper mortui, juxta Patrem obdormiunt." Thomas Sturges, a third brother, was educated at Eton; admitted of King's College, Cambridge, 1715; B.A. 1719; M. A. 1723; Fellow of Eton College, Jan. 14, 1746. He was Secretary to Dr. Green, Bishop of Ely; and presented by him, when Bishop of Norwich, to Feversham and Hadstock in Cambridgeshire, and to Littlebury in Essex. He died in 1751.-The Patron and Relative of these three worthy and learned brothers had been Bp. Trimnell, of Lincoln and Winton. The Rev. Charles Sturges (son of Charles the Rector of Orlingbury) was some time Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; B.A. 1762; M.A. 1765; in 1763, forashort time, Vicar of Kenton, co. Devon; and of Ealing, co. Middlesex, from 1775 to 1797; in which year he was presented by Lord and Lady Mendip, and Mrs. D'Oyley, to the Rectory of St. Luke, Chelsea; near 42 years Vicar of St. Mary's, Reading; Prebendary of the Cathedral of St. Paul, and of Netherbury in Terrâ in that of Salisbury; and Chaplain to his relation Earl Cadogan. He married Penelope, second daughter of James Waller, Esq. of Hurst, co. Berks, and niece of Dr. Terrick, Bishop of London, by whom he had six daughters; the eldest married to the Rev. Moses Dodd, M. A. Prebendary of Chichester, and Rector of Fordham in the county of Essex; and two sons; Richard, who died an infant, and Charles. Manuscripts of John Wallis, D. D. sometime Savi Charles. This exemplary Divine expired April 22, 1805, in the 67th year of his age, after only half an hour's illness, from an apoplectic seizure, immediately before the hour of dinner, at the Rectory-house of Loddington, co. Northampton; and his remains were interred in the Chancel of that Church on the 2d of May, near to those of an only sister (who died Nov. 20, 1801, in the 60th year of her age), Sarah, wife of the Rev. Edward Jones, M. A. Rector of that Parish. His son Charles, who had been Fellow of King's College, and Curate to his father at Reading, died in 1801, nearly in the same sudden manner as his father, in the 27th year of his age.-A small Tablet, with a short Inscription, has been erected to the father's memory in his church at Reading; and one to the memory of the son at Broadwater in Sussex. Of Mr. Charles Sturges mention has been respectfully made in Mrs. Trimmer's publication on the Sunday Schools of Old Brentford, a hamlet to Ealing; on his accession to which Vicarage a Correspondent of Mr. Urban's from Acton (vol. LVIII. p. 110) mentioned, that Bp. Terrick, his Patron in that Preferment, and in that of the Prebend of St. Paul's, said of him, that "he was one of the best Parish Priests he knew." Another Correspondent (for whose authority I can myself vouch) had occasion, in consequence of an illiberal attack on him in the Evangelical Magazine for January 1798 (Memoirs of his Predecessor, Mr. Cadogan), to observe (vol. LXVIII. p. 288) that "the Rectory of Chelsea was offered to him, not merely because he stood, in the clerical line, the nearest in family connexion with the heirs of Sir Hans Sloane; but because they had known him for more than 20 years past in their neighbourhood' on the Vicarage near town,' more than 30 years near Caversham, as Vicar of St. Mary's, Reading;" adding farther, that "the present Bishop of Durham collated him to a Prebend in the church of Salisbury, expressly on account of his character and conduct in that situation being so well known to his Lordship when his Diocesan." The late Dr. Loveday, in a Letter to Mr. Urban, says, "Mr. Coates, the ingenious Author of the "History and Antiquities of Reading," was, for several years, the highly-esteemed Curate of Mr. Sturges, at Ealing; who is noticed in pp. 100, 102, 122, 137, of that valuable work; from which it appears that he has a copy of Latin verses in the "Musæ Etonenses* ;" and another in the "Academiæ Cantabrigiensis Luctus," on the death of King George II. He also printed some papers on Confirmation, with a Prayer. "Religion and Loyalty," a Sermon preached at Reading, 1792, and published at the request of his Parishioners. Mr. West's annual Charity Sermon, 1794, to which is added an account of the Reading Girls' Charity School, * Edited by Mr. Herbert, brother to the Earl of Carnarvon. |
