Yes, we shall meet again, my friend, Where our joys shall know no end, Where Death shall have no power to separate. LANCELOT NEWTON, B. A. On the Death of my pious Friend and Schoolfellow, With honest tears to praise the virtuous dead, Finish'd in virtue, though a youth in years; Ah! no, my friend, a thousand ties invite, Ah! hapless youth! by what mistake of fate, And Nature shew'd us what thou might'st have been; But, ah! we think amiss, and wrong his fame : What is the world, The seat of danger, error, and mistake, He He reach'd the goal, ere others had begun, Hail! happy youth! discharg'd from flesh and blood, LAWRENCE JACKSON, A. B. There was a monument erected for him in the chancel of Allhallows, near the place of his burial, with the following inscription, made by Mr. Jackson, the author of the foregoing verses: "Respice paululùm, si sincera fides, si candida veritas, Recepit pia Sancti Johannis ædes, Ejusdem adis alumnus, fratrem charissimun ut pietate, ita et morte quàm proximè secutus est. Ob. enim 14 Mar. ejusdem anni [1714-15], ætat. suæ 18.” * See vol. I. p. 418. + "This small addition was made to the inscription on the death of his brother, who died of the small-pox, and was buried close by him; by whose death the preceding account of the life of Ambrose lost much of its perfection. But, such as it is, it may No. VI. DR. WILLIAM RICHARDSON. WILLIAM RICHARDSON, son of Samuel Richardson, B. D. youngest son of Mr. John Richardson*, was born at Wilshamsted in Bedfordshire, where his father was vicar, July 23, 1698. He was educated at Oakham and Westminster schools, and at Emanuel college, Cambridge; B. A. there 1719; M.A. 1723. In 1726 he published, from Mr. Bowyer's press, the "Prælectiones Ecclesiastica" of his learned uncle John Richardson, B. D. well known by his masterly "Vindication of the Canon of the New Testament," against the artifices of Mr. J. Toland, in his Amyntor. In 1730 he published four Sermons on the necessity of Revelation; and in 1733 an occasional Sermon preached at the consecration of the new parochial church of St. John, Southwark, being at that time lecturer of the parish church of St. Olave. There he married, in 1728, Anne, only daughter and heir of Mr. William Howe, of an antient family in the county-palatine of Chester, and Elizabeth his wife, only daughter and heir of Mr. Humphrey Smith, of Walton-upon-Thames, Surrey. Having undertaken, at the request of the Bishops Gibson and Potter, to publish a new edition of "Godwin de Præsulibus," he returned to Cam may be depended upon as faithful, having been chiefly made up out of his letters which his father had preserved, and those other private papers which were never designed to see the light, but by his sudden death had the good fortune to outlive him. W. BOWYER." * See Calamy, vol. II. p. 451. bridge in 1734 for the convenience of the. Libraries, and in 1735 proceeded D. D. After the death of Dr. Savage he was chosen, Aug. 10, 1736, master of Emanuel college, of which he had never been fellow, a rare and almost unprecedented compliment to a man of letters. He published at Cambridge, in a splendid folio volume, his valuable edition of "Fr. Godwin de Præsulibus Angliæ Commentarius;" with a continuation to the present time, in 1743. He served the office of Vicechancellor in 1738 and 1769. He became Præcentor of the cathedral church of Lincoln in 1760; that dignity being an option of his late learned friend and patron Archbishop Potter, which was recovered from his Grace's executor Dr. Chapman, by a decree of the House of Lords*, after the reversal of a decree of the Lord-keeper Henley. He was chaplain to their Majesties from 1746 to 1748; when he retired; but was called forth at an advanced period of life, by the friendship of Sir John Cust, to preach before the House of Commons, on Jan. 30, 1764; this sermon is also printed. He died March 14, 1775, and was buried in the same vault with his wife (who died March 21, 1759), under the litany desk in the chapel of his College. He was many years an honour to the Society of Antiquaries; and left in MS. many valuable collections relative to the constitution of the University of Cambridge; many biographical anecdotes preparatory to an Athence Cantabrigienses, which he once intended to publish, and an accurate alphabet *His carrying his option-cause by appeal into the House of Lords was entirely owing to Mr. Yorke, who insisted upon it, offering to plead it gratis. + Dr. Richardson's attachment to Frederick Prince of Wales occasioned that sarcasm in the Capitade, "He prays for George, to Frederick's cause adheres." "I have heard of Mr. Richardson's design of Athenæ Cantabrigienses; cannot find from Dr. Newton that he has yet the use of the Registers; and it will hardly be safe to correct Mr. Wood without such helps." Baker's Letter to Hearne, 1734, in the Bodleian Library. |