P. 179. Mr. Nasmith's Widow died at Norwich, aged 76, in 1814. She bequeathed considerable sums for the use of public and private Charities.

P. 182, 1. 30, for" 1625," r. 1725."

P. 187, note, 1. 2. "Should it not be Owe? present Heir, i. e. Grandson, owe—” J. BROWN.

thy Son, and

P. 191, note, 1. 2, r. " 1776."-L. 13. "Charles-Nalson Cole."

P. 192, 1. 6. Add, Epitaph at Christ Church, by Browne Willis :

" M. S.

THOME ILES, S. T. P. hujus Ædis Canonici,
qui obiit 20 Junii 1649.

Cujus inter Encomia non hoc erat minimum,
quod sub ejus auspiciis & patrocinio

Academic

Eruditionis Elementa hâc in Æde hauserat
THOMAS WILLIS, M. D. Literato in Orbe notissimus.
Viro de ipsius Avo, etiamque de Patriâ, optime merito,
hoc parentavit MNEMOSYNON B. W. LL.D."
Ibid. 1. 8. Qu. if "Exhibition" is rightly explained?
P. 194. The article of Willis is corrected throughout, and
much enlarged, in vol. VIII. p. 219.

P. 195. "Thomas and Anne Willis were by the first wife."
P. 196, 1.4, for "her," r. "his."-L.ult.r." died some years ago."
P. 201. The two Merrills were buried in Great St. Mary's
Church-yard, Cambridge, with the following Epitaph:
66 To the memory of

JOHN MERRILL, Esq. Alderman,

who served the office of Mayor in the year 1781.
He departed this life Oct. 17th, 1801, aged 70.
Also to the memory of

JOSEPH MERRILL, Esq.

Brother of the above MERRILL,

who departed this life Oct. 13th, 1805, aged 70." "In the year 1805 Mr. Joseph Merrill, of Cambridge, Bookseller, bequeathed the sum of 16671. Bank Stock to the Trustees of Story's Alms-houses, for the purpose of paying, by half-yearly payments, the sum of 61. each to the eight poor persons of Jakenett's Alms-houses; the remainder of the interest to be appropriated to the defraying of incidental expences."

Lysons's Cambridgeshire, p. 153.

P. 207. See two exquisitely-beautiful Love Songs by Miss Talbot, with some interesting traits of that amiable Lady's cruel disappointment in an early attachment to "one of the most beautiful and agreeable of men," communicated by the late Mrs. Berkeley, who appears to have been deep in the secret, in Gent. Mag. vol. LXVI. p. 631.

P. 212, I. 9, r. "April 11."-P. 237, 1. 3, r." King's College."
P. 259, 1. 8, r. Regius Professor of Physick in Oxford."
Ibid. 1. 36. A Second Edition of Mr. Pegge's "Anecdotes of the
English Language," corrected and improved by his own detached
MSS. was published in 1814. His other printed Essays are,

1. "Illus

1. "Illustrations of the Churchwarden's Accompts of St. Michael Spurrier Gate, York," in Nichols's "Illustrations of the Manners and Expences of Antient Times." 2."Historical Anecdotes of the French Word Carosse," in Antiquarian Repertory, 1809, vol. IV. p. 642. 3. "On Numerical Letters, M, D, C, L, X, V," (ibid. p. 643). 4. "On Custom observed by the Lord Lieutenants of Ireland" (ibid. p. 422). 5. "Biographical Memoirs of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Pegge," Gent. Mag. vol. LXVI. P. 260. The Fire at Mr. Brander's was in 1765, not 1766the same that burnt Tredway's, mentioned in p. 619.

P. 266. Samuel Dyer, esq. F. R. S. 1760; died Sept. 15, 1772. P. 267. The Rev. John Cott, B. A. 1750; M. A. 1754; B. D. 1760; was presented to the Rectory of Great Bracksted in 1762; and had afterwards the Vicarage of Coggeshall. He published an Assize Sermon, 1769, 4to.

P. 270, 1. 9. The Rev. Benjamin Forster was of Bene't College, Cambridge; B. A. 1757; M. A. and Fellow 1760 (in which year he was Curate of Bromfield and Chignel Smeely, Essex); B. D. 1768. He was presented, in 1766, to the Lectureship of Wakefield, of the foundation of Lady Camden, in the gift of the Mercers Company; in 1772, to the united Rectory of St. Mary Abchurch and St. Laurence Pountney, in the gift of Bene't College, Cambridge, to whom he suffered it to lapse, on being presented, by the late Lord Camelford's Father, to the consolidated Rectory of Boconnoc and Broadoake, to that of Cherichayes St. Michael, St. Stephen, and St. Denys, and the Vicarage of Cherichayes, all in the county of Cornwall.-Mr. Forster died, at Boconnoc, Dec. 2, 1805, aged 70; and the following tribute was paid to his memory in the Western Provincial Papers: "He was a man of genius, accomplishments, learning, and the finest taste; and in him the possession of these advantages was wholly unaccompanied by that arrogance and pedantry by which the lustre of talents and learning is too frequently tarnished. His benevolence and politeness in social intercourse never permitted him to display his superiority at the expence of another's feelings or his own good-breeding as a gentleman. The delicacy of his wit, the brilliancy of his fancy, his poignant humour, and that happy variety of allusion by which his conversation was distinguished, will long be remembered and regretted. One who has frequently derived from him instruction and delight pays this tribute to the memory of the Friend of Mason and Gray, of him whose name (but for the obscure retirement in which he was lost) would have been handed down to posterity as one of the most shining ornaments of his age and country."

I was frequently favoured with the correspondence of Mr. B. Forster; and shall transcribe one or two of his Letters.

"DEAR SIR, Boconnoc Parsonage, March 20, 1784. "I received your favour; and am obliged to you for having put to the press the Memoirs of Mr. Toup. I have no sort of objection to your knowing from what quarter any communica

tions from me come; only it is as well to have another ostensible Cornish name in the way, in case of enquiries, that I may not be engaged in a correspondence with any of my Cambridge or London Acquaintance respecting any communications, as I have generally more than enough business on my hands. You will therefore be so good as to keep my name to yourself only. I am happy that you too have a respect for the memory of the late Mr. Toup, and that you feel some sort of connexion with him by having composed the press for his Emendationes in Suidam. Perhaps you can inform me what number of copies were struck off; I apprehend only 150 [250]. If it does not any way interfere with the convenience of your impressions of the Magazine, I should esteem it a favour if you could let me have a copy of the sheet containing the Memoirs as soon as may be. My motive is, that I might have an opportunity of shewing it to Mr. Toup's Relations before they leave St. Martin's. They would probably have it in their power to furnish me with some additional anecdotes, which in a leisure morning I might work up into a future article for the Gentleman's Magazine, together with some letters which would do honour to the memories both of Mr. Toup and of his learned Foreign Correspondents. Yours, B. FORSTER." "DEAR SIR, Boconnoc Parsonage, April 7, 1785. "You have my very sincere thanks for your obliging communication of the two Letters from Mr. Toup. The good man was indeed all wrapt up in Greek lore; but I think you mistake when you suppose what is contained in his other Letter a proof of his necessity. I believe he meant no more than what I have often experienced-the difficulty of making small payments, or remitting small sums, to London. He had the Rectory of St. Martin's, which is a valuable one, before he printed the First Part of his Emendations; and he was always a good œconomist. I believe I shall, at my first leisure, send a supplemental article; and I have in contemplation a Sketch of another Life, of more variety, as soon as it may be proper to print it. At present I am pretty deeply engaged in business of immediate consequence.There are a few trifling mistakes in your Anecdotes of Bowyer, respecting Families with which I am acquainted, in which I will set you right, in case of another Edition- for I too am somewhat of an Anecdote-monger; and any information in my power you may always command from Yours, &c. B. FORSTER. "P. S. I forgot to return you my thanks for your obliging and judicious alteration of my mistake about Archbishop Secker." "DEAR SIR, Cornwall, April 14, 1787.

"Mr. Gilpin, in a late ingenious publication, has justly observed, that, in taking views of real scenery, too servile an imitation should be avoided. If the Draughtsman confines himself to copy every stump of a tree or bank of rubbish, or if he has not the skill and fancy to distribute his light and shade so as to give the most picturesque appearance to his drawing, it will be cold and inanimate, and will fail of making such an impres

sion on the mind as is produced by the real object. This is un-
doubtedly true; but it is no less true, that, in a professed view
of any particular scene, the great and leading features should be
faithfully preserved. I am sorry to say this is not the case with
the View of Roche Rock and Church, given in your Magazine
for March. The Writer of this has frequent occasion to visit
them, and can assure you that the Rock rises from a dry
common, scattered about with moor-stones, on which there is
no pool of water, nor even any small rill; that its form is
very different from that represented in your Plate, as may be
seen from a more faithful though tasteless Engraving of it in
Norden's Survey of Cornwall; that the walls of the antient
Hermitage, built on the summit of the Rock, are still very
discernible; that the Rock is more lofty than the Church-
tower; that the proportions of the Tower are different from
those in your Plate; that it has no tree near it, nor any
stair-case at either corner of it;-in short, that the View given
in your Magazine does not, in any one respect, resemble the
original. If I am not misinformed, an Artist from London was
in Cornwall during the Summer of last year, and took Views of
the Rock and Tower from two or three different points. En-
gravings from his Drawings would, I doubt not, be well received
by the Publick. The Correspondent who signs himself H. D.
in your last Supplement, deserves the thanks of all Antiquaries
for the just censure he has past on the removing Armorial
Bearings from the buildings in which they were originally
placed, without such removal being properly recorded. Where
such removal is into a Church, an entry of it might be made in
the Parish Register. A notice of it in your useful Repository
would also be proper in that as well as in every other case, as
sad experience shews how little care is too often taken of Parish
Registers.
Yours, &c. ¡B. FORSTER."
Mr. Benjamin Forster was brother to "the excellent English
Merchant" lamented in vol. VI. p. 616; as was also Thomas
Furley Forster, esq. who died, at Quendon, Essex, March 26,
1806, aged 71; and to whose memory the following elegant tri-
bute was written by his Brother (at that time in his 76th year):
"Life's business past, in this sequester'd spot

The call of Friendship fix'd his happy lot:
Unanxious to obtain the vacant stare,
The notice which the vulgar make their care.
Of wealth ev'n to his utmost wish possess'd,
And with the power of blessing others bless'd.
When failing harvests rais'd the peasant's fear,
When want alarm'd, his ready hand was near.
Where scarce a spring for many a mile was found,
Or, buried deep, diffus'd no comfort round,
He from the soil bid hidden waters burst,
Where now the wearied peasant slakes his thirst.
The Master-Shepherd led to this abode,

This glen through which the streams of comfort flow'd;

His crook conducting in the shadowy vale,
Death's gloomy path, no terrors could assail;
But, at an age when vital powers must cease,
Death came, the harbinger of endless peace."
P. 270, note, 1. 2, r. "Hampshire a third time."
P. 272, note, 1. 11, for "which," r. whilst."
P. 290, note, 1, 26, for "work," r. "worth."

P. 296. Sir Richard Hoare, in one of the greatest Bibliographical Curiosities of the present day, a Catalogue of his own extensive and splendid Topographical Library at Stourhead (a handsome octavo volume, of which the impression was limited to twenty-five copies, seven of them on large paper), after noticing Mr. Gough's "Sepulchral Monuments," most handsomely and appropriately adds, "I cannot dismiss this article without recording in a more particular manner this splendid Work, for the origin and publication of which the World stands indebted to the zeal of an Individual -a Work that would do honour to the exertions of a Nation. It is to be hoped that Mr. Gough's plan, begun with such energy, and executed with so much ability, will, at no distant period, be completed; for his Work terminates with the Fifteenth Century. The same Artists who drew and engraved a great part of the Tombs and Effigies are still living; but in vain may we expect to find again any Individual with the means, zeal, and ability, requisite for the prosecution of so great an undertaking. May I indulge a hope that the Society of British Antiquaries will undertake the taska task worthy of their attention, worthy of the enlightened Body of Men of which it is composed, and worthy of the British Empire? It might be taken up after the conclusion of the Volume of Vetusta Monumenta, now in a course of publication." The honourable and learned Baronet will see, by a reference to the Sixth Volume of these "Anecdotes," p. 296, that ample materials for a Continuation of the "Sepulchral Monuments" are deposited in the Bodleian Library; and there can be little doubt that the CURATORS OF THE OXFORD PRESS would meet the wishes, if such they should fortunately be, of the SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.

P. 299, end of 1. 2, add "of."

P. 300. In the "Literary History of the XVIIIth Century" the Rev. John Brand is too striking a feature to be passed over unnoticed. This industrious Investigator of hidden curiosities was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne about 1743, and educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he took his Bachelor's degree : but left College in 1774, on being presented, by Matthew Ridley, esq. to the Curacy of Cramlington, a Chapel of Ease to St. Nicholas at Newcastle, from which it is distant about eight miles. While at the University, he published a Poem "On illicit Love, written among the Ruins of Godstow Nunnery, 1775," 4to. The spot where this poem was written is the burial-place of the celebrated Rosamond, mistress of Henry II. whose history has

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