"At a minute of leisure I will see what the subscription comes to; and take care to send it to you. Remember I would have the large paper. I return you the printed proof-sheets, and will send back the printed books when I return from Bath. "I am,dear Sir, your faithful humble servant, S. RUSSELL." "DEAR SIR, Bruntingthorpe, Aug. 27, 1795. "I confess, I had a longing desire to possess a set of your History of Leicestershire, which I thought I could hardly miss of. At the same time, I did not think that in obtaining it I should be considered as a common customer*. If, however, any great loss was to be sustained by you from so voluminous and expensive a publication, I would waive all pretensions to discrimination. "Yesterday came hither two volumes of your publication; but, though I expressed a wish to become a Subscriber in preference to your presenting me with a copy of this book, I now find the price beyond the modicum of my abilities, especially at this time, when I have sustained an almost ruinous expence from a very long and dangerous illness, from which I am not now recovered, and which will probably hinder me from ever reading or doing any sort of business again †. "I came from Bath only last Wednesday, after a stay there of fifteen weeks. I hope I am better, but still so feeble as not to be able to walk, and can take but very small excursions on horseback. The books and MSS. I have of yours shall be returned to you as soon as I can go to Sadington, and get them packed. "I wish to know whether I can be of any use in illustrating the two articles of Sadington and Bruntingthorpe. If so, my poor abilities are at your service. I am, dear Sir, "Yours very sincerely, "MY DEAR SIR, SAMBROOK RUSSELL." Bruntingthorpe, Sept. 1, 1795. "Your letter has dispersed the embarrassment. In my view you now stand in the same lustre as formerly; that is, as the same good-natured, liberal, and honourable man I always thought you. I never had a thought of making a profit of my historical researches, thinking them, although curious and new, and valuable to a few inquisitive examiners of our history, no marketable commodity, or likely to be paid for by a bookseller. They now stand where I wished to see them, and I shall be content if they do not injure your valuable work. My only wish was a copy of the History. But, when you told me at your house its prodigious bulk, and I saw the immense expence incurred by you, who seemed determined to outstrip all competitors in the walk of County Historians, which you have easily done, - I doubted whether you * Two Volumes were sent to Mr. Russell as a present, to which he was most justly entitled. He did not live to see a Third portion; but contributed three guineas (one of the last kind actions of his life) towards the expence of engraving his church and parsonage at Bruntingthorpe. This was too truly his situation. His strong mind had begun to fail, from ill health, aggravated by some petty domestic vexations. could could afford to make even me a present of a set of the work, were you ever so well inclined. Indeed I trembled for you, and had alarms even for your family, lest all might suffer in the loss. "When you can, pray let me see you; which will always give me pleasure. I yet continue deplorably weak, and fear for the recovery of my strength. Perhaps Bath waters did me good in some respects, but I believe a good part of my weakness is owing to their relaxing power. I am, my dear Sir, "Your sincere friend, and most humble servant, S. RUSSELL." "DEAR SIR, Bruntingthorpe, Sept. 25, 1795, "I beg the favour of you to insert the following article in your next Magazine *. I hope I am not too late for the next month. If a copy of it has been sent from another quarter, you will please to prefer this, which is a little different. I long to know what reception your History meets with; and am, dear Sir, SAMBROOK RUSSELL †." "Your assured friend, *The death of his Brother; see before, p. 751. This was the last Letter I received from Mr. Russel. His infirmities rapidly increased; and in the December following he calmly resigned his breath. See p. 749. The Rev. Dr. SAMUEL KIRSHAW, Son of the Rev. Richard Kirshaw, was educated at Katherine Hall, Cambridge; where he took the degree of B. A. 1727; proceeded M. A. 1731; and D.D. 1740. — In 1736 he succeeded his Father in the Rectory of Ripley, in Yorkshire; where, during a summer residence of four months, he annually visited, at their own houses, every family in a parish of no inconsiderable extent. He was elected Vicar of Leeds in 1746; but, owing to a litigation respecting the rights of the electors, was not regularly appointed (under the sanction of the Court of Chancery) till 1751, when the parish had great reason to be thankful for the decree. Through the remainder of a long life Dr. Kirshaw devoted himself to the duties of his station with Of Clare Hall, Cambridge; B. A. 1681; M. A. 1685; D.D. 1702; Rector of Ripley, 1719-1736. He died in 1736. great great assiduity. He died, much regretted, at the age of 80, Nov. 1, 1786; and was interred beneath the communion-table of the parish church of Leeds. The truly classical epitaph, written by his son, and inscribed on a mural monument in the choir, has the additional merit of speaking the language of truth, as well as of affection* : "Hic requiescit, Beatæ Resurrectionis fretus sincerâ spe, hujusce Ecclesiæ per XL annos Minister fidissimus ; Vir non modò morum integer, æque verò servantissimus, ut de eo, filius licet profari audeam, Dr. Kirshaw was the author of two papers in the Philosophical Transactions; "An Account of two Pigs of Lead found near Ripley," vol. XLI. p. 560; and "An Account of a Thunder and Lightning Storm, by which Mr. Huntley, of Harrowgate, was killed, Sept. 29, 1772," vol. LXIII. p. 177. The Doctor's son, Mr. Richard Kirshaw, mentioned in p. 750, was of Trinity College, Cambridge; B. A. 1766; M. A. 1769; Rector of Marsham, in Yorkshire, a College Living; and Minister of the Donative of St. Trinity in Leeds. He died, unmarried, Jan. 27, 1791. * Dr. Whitaker's Leeds, p. 55. The The Rev. Dr. SAMUEL HENLEY. This eminently learned Orientalist was some time Professor of Moral Philosophy at the College of Williamsburg in Virginia; and was afterwards appointed one of the Assistants at Harrow school; Curate of Northall in Middlesex; and was elected F. S. A. in 1778. He married, in 1780, a daughter of Thomas Figgins, esq. of Chippenham, Wilts; in 1782 was presented to the Rectory of Rendlesham in Suffolk; and in 1805 was appointed by the East India Company Principal of their then newly-established College at Hertford. This situation he resigned in January 1815; and died on the 29th of December in the same year. Dr. Henley published Three Sermons, preached in America: 1. at Williamsburg, May 1, 1771, for the Benefit of a Fund to support the poor Widows and Orphans of Clergymen in Virginia, 8vo. 2. The distinct Claims of Government and Religion considered; before the Honourable House of Burgesses at Williamsburg, March 1, 1772, 8vo. 3. In 1776, on the Anniversary of the Foundation of the College, 8vo. He published also "A Dissertation on the Controverted Passages in St. Peter and St. Jude, concerning the Angels that sinned, and who kept not their first Estate, 1778," 8vo. In 1779 he was the Editor of "Travels in the Two Sicilies, by Henry Swinburne, Esq.;" and in 1786, of " The History of the Caliph Vathek, from an unpublished Manuscript; with Notes, Critical and Explanatory *." In 1788 he published "Observations on the Subject of the Fourth Eclogue, the Allegory in the Third Georgic, and the Primary Design of the Æneid of Virgil; with incidental Řemarks on some Coins of *This very singular work was originally written in French by William Beckford, esq. of Fonthill; and translated by Dr. Henley, who enriched it with many curious and learned Notes; on one of which, a sportive remark having been made by the Rev. Stephen Weston, in the Gent. Mag. vol. LVII. p. 55, I received from the learned Annotator the Letter printed in p. 764. the the Jews," 8vo; and in 1792, "An Essay towards a new Edition of the Elegies of Tibullus, with a Translation, and Notes," 8vo. In the Archæologia, vol. XIV. 205, is printed Dr. Henley's" Explanation of the Inscription on a Brick from the Site of Antient Babylon ;" and some of his papers are inserted in the Monthly Magazine, particularly one on the Zodiac in the Temple of Dendera. Dr. Henley was an intimate friend of the Rev. Michael Tyson, F. S. A.; who communicated to him in 1777, by the kindness of Mr. Gough, one of Queen Elizabeth's Suffolk Progresses (belonging to Mr. Claxton); which Dr. Henley at that time intended to publish, with other accounts of the same kind. He was, however, diverted from this design by another literary undertaking; but this curious Record of Royal Splendour was soon after included in the ample Collection of "Queen Elizabeth's Progresses," which the Compiler of the present Memoir had the honour of laying before the publick. Letters of Dr. HENLEY. TO RICHARD GOUGH, Esq. "DEAR SIR, Harrow on the Hill, Aug. 7, 1779. "Herewith you, will receive a tract lent me by Mr. Tyson, from whom I have this moment received a letter, desiring me to transmit it to you. Many serious avocations have obliged me to delay the publication of that and other tracts of the same kind relative to Queen Elizabeth's Progresses, which being now chiefly removed, will I hope allow me to send them to press this winter. In that case, may I hope for the use of this tract again for that purpose?-the same impediments to the process of the whole work having made me defer the transcription of this, which indeed seems to be inferior to the rest! I am, &c. S. HENLEY." The following Verses, addressed to a Friend just leaving a favourite Retirement previous to settling abroad, were written by Dr. Henley in the close of the Winter of 1780; and a very few copies of them were printed for private distribution. "Ere yet your footsteps quit the place Your presence long hath deign'd to grace, With softening eye and heart deplore The conscious scenes, you own no more. "When |