ing Pieces 1. A Display of the bad Principles of the Methodists, in certain Articles proposed to the Consideration of the Company of Salters in London; 2d edit.-2. Rules for the Discovery of False Prophets, &c.; a Sermon preached before the University of Oxford, on Whit-Sunday, 1758, dedicated to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury; 3d edit. 3. Dr. Free's Edition of Mr. Wesley's first Penny Letter; the second impression, dedicated to Mr. Wesley. 4. His Edition of Mr. Wesley's Second Letter. 5. Dr. Free's whole Speech to the London Clergy, at Sion College, May 8, 1759; with a Remonstrance to the Bishop of Winchester. That printed in "The Monitor" is imperfect. POETRY and MISCELLANEOUS. 1. Poems upon several Occasions, the second Edition, 1757, containing an Ode to the King of Prussia on the Victory at Prague; an Ode of Consolation to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, on the Loss of Minorca, &c.; Jephtha, an Oratorio, set to Musick by Mr. Stanley; Advice to the Fair Sex; Stigand, or, The Antigallican, a Poem; Susannah, an Ethic Poem; Judith, an Heroic Poem, &c. To the whole is prefixed a curious Account of the Origin and peculiar Nature of English Poetry, and how far it is similar or different from that of the Greeks and Romans, in a Letter to a Member of Parliament.-2. A Poetical Dialogue, intituled, "The voluntary Exile," 1765.—3. Stadia Physiologica duo, or, Two Stages in Physiology, exhibiting all along the Opinions of the best Writers, &c. with Variety of Observations entirely new, 1762.-4. A genuine Petition to the King; and likewise a Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Bute; concerning the very hard Case of an eminent Divine of the Church of England. Published from the Originals by the Rev. Dr. Free.-5. The Petition of John Free, D. D. relative to the Conduct of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York; most humbly addressed to the Hon. House of Commons.-6. Matrimony made easy, &c. a Serio-comic Satire, tending to expose the Tyranny and Absurdity of a late Act of Parliament, intituled, An Act for the better Prevention of Clandestine Marriages, &c.-7. A Plan for the Use of the Empress of Russia, in founding a free University for the Reception of People of all Nations and Religions: with a Specimen of the Universal Library, for the Use of the Students, in Latin, French, and English; 2d edit. 1761. — 8. Tyrocinium Geographicum Londinense; or, The London Geography: consisting of Dr. Free's short Lectures, compiled for the Use of his younger Pupils. Published chiefly for the Information of gentcel young Citizens. Dedicated, by Permission, to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen; and the Author honoured for the Work with the Freedom of the City. To which is added, by the Editor, translated from the Greek into English Blank Verse, the Periegesis of Dionysius, the Geographer, from the Edition of Dr. Wells: comprehending, for the use of the Ladies who read history, and the Youth of the Universities, both the antient and modern Systems. P. 287. "Some esteem the edition of Bayle in 1702 the best, as being the last in his life-time. The edition of 1720 is an exact copy; only the Supplement is inserted in its place. That of 1730 is not well esteemed, nor any after, for correctness. In that of 1720 should be a large article on King David." Mr. J. Whiston, MS. P. 290. Add to the Antiquarian Friends of Mr. Bowyer, Mr. JOSHUA BLEW; who was elected a member of the Society in 1741; died in 1765; and is thus recorded on a stone in the Temple Church. "Here lyeth the body of Mr. Joshua Blew, F. S. A. and died, universally lamented, Jan. 22, A. D. 1765, ætat. 79." [Mrs. Mary Blew died August 15, 1762, æt. 67.] Memorandum of a piece of Gold Plate presented to King James I. by the Inner and Middle Temple, communicated, May 6, 1762, to Dr. Ducarel from Mr. Blew. "The piece of gold plate weighing 200 ounces and with an altar Nil nisi vota, &c. was given by the two Societies of Inner and Middle Temple to James Ist on his granting to them and their successors the Soyl of the two Societies-an account of which appears in a MS (the hand of Mr. Selden) in the Inner Temple Library, No. dorso 17, Press 5, fol. 406.-Old Stoakes, mentioned by Vertue, was Charles Stoakes; he lived at his son's (Charles Stoakes) at the Red Lyon in Fleet-street, Stationer, where he died many years since. Dr. Middleton and Dr. Warren, both of Cambridge, lodged with Charles Stoakes the Stationer.-Henry the Eighth's head by Holbein Mr. W. had from Mr. Blew."-This Hint is to be communicated to Horace Walpole, esq. A. C. D. Mr. JOHN BOOTH, of Barnard's Inn, Attorney at Law, was admitted F. S. A. 1746. He died Jan. 10, 1757, ætat. 63; and was buried at Islington; as was his sister Margaret, who died Jan. 20, 1755, ætat. 40. P. 324. Frances, another of the daughters of Mr. Robson, was married May 27, 1809, to Bartholomew Parr, M. D. Senior Physician to the Exeter and Devon Hospital, and Author of several valuable publications. He died in November 1810. P. 329. I have many interesting letters from Mr. Frank to Dr. Ducarel, by whom (at the request of the relict and the nephew of Mr. Frank) his tomb was thus inscribed: Sacred to the Memory of Richard Frank, of Campsall, esq. Recorder of the Corporations of Pontefract and Doncaster in the county of York, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. a faith a faithful friend, and a most affectionate Husband. because his chief delight was in doing good. Margaret his disconsolate Widow erected this monument, 1763." Bacon Frank, esq. many years an active magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, died at Campsall in that county, April 4, 1812, in his 74th year. P. 330. "Alexander Gordon, a Scotchman, of some learning, which he turned to the Study of Antiquities. He published, in 1728, Itinerarium Septentrionale, or a journey through Scotland, with an Account of the Roman and other Antiquities therein, with a great many copper-plates, folio, a work of some value, as every one who endeavours to illustrate his own country is commendably employed. To this he added an Appendix, about 1732, of a few sheets. He published also, Observations on two Egyptian Mummies, in a folio tract, about 1736. He was but in narrow circumstances. For some time he was in partnership with Mr. John Wilcox, bookseller in the Strand. But his education, temper, and manners, did not suit him for a trade. He was afterwards Secretary to the Society for promoting Learning; but, not giving a satisfactory account to the Society of the money he was entrusted with, he was dismissed, and his effects seized on. He then went abroad, 1742; and I believe died there about 1750; for I never heard of him afterwards. He had some learning. some ingenuity, much pride, much deceit, and very little honesty, as every one who knew him, believed. Poverty tempted him to dishonesty; his national character and constitution to pride and ingenuity; and his dependence on the Great to flattery and deceit." Mr. J. Whiston, MS. P. 351. Mr. Park, in his elegant edition of the "Royal and Noble Authors," vol. V. p. 258, has given a specimen of Lord Colerane's lyric productions, taken from "Academiæ Oxoniensis Comitia Philologica, in Honorem Annæ Pacificæ, 1713.”— In Dyson's History of Tottenham, 1792, 12mo, p. 38, "A Memorandum of Henry Lord Colerane, senior, writ about 1705," contains an attestation that his Lordship had been careful to preserve all the memorabilia about Tottenham, which had been mentioned by the Rev. William Bedwell (an Oriental scholar, and one of King James's Translators of the Bible) in his Antiquities of the Parish." P. 374, 1. 9, read, "a son, a husband, a father," &c. Ibid. 1. ult. read, "1. Williamı, is a Captain in the 8th Regiment of Light Dragoons; 2. John, Joint Registrar of the Admiralty Court at Malta; 3. Edward-Hawke Locker, esq." to whom Mr. Coxe, in the Preface to his elegant Life of Mr. Stillingfleet thus expresses his obligations: "On his return from India, hearing that I was occupied in republishing the Works, and sketching the Life of his venerable Relation, he voluntarily tendered his assistance; furnished me with various family anecdotes; and submitted to my use, all the manuscripts of 22 2 Mr. Mr. Stillingfleet; which had survived neglect or accident; or escaped the flames."—Of my late worthy Friend, the brave but modest Commodore Locker, Mr. Coxe has preserved some very interesting Anecdotes. P. 388. The following extract of a Letter from John Darker, esq. F. A. S. (dated Dec. 23, 1766), to honest Tom Martin, is a melancholy confirmation of his distress: "I am much concerned to be informed by you that any reasons should compel you to part with any part of your valuable Collection; I should think that if your materials are ready, the publication of your Collections in regard to your favourite County, might raise you a sum sufficient to answer all your purposes. I have seen Mr. Norris, and have paid him 71. 78.—I suppose Mr. Farmer's History of Leicester' will soon be published, and I dare say will give satisfaction, by the accounts I hear of it. J. DARKER." P. 401. The printing materials belonging to Mr. Mores were sold by auction, by Mr. Paterson, Nov. 20, 1781; and a Catalogue of his large collection of matrices (formed from the number of old founderies which were accumulated in that of Mr. John James, who died June 23, 1772), was published in 1782. There are two small portraits of Mr. Rowe-Mores, each in an oval.. P. 406. The small rectory in the Isle of Ely was Coveney, to which Dr. Middleton was preferred in 1728. To the rectory of Hascombe in Surrey he was presented in March 1746-7. "Dr. Middleton was at first more addicted to musick than learning; but Dr. Bentley calling him a fiddler, it excited him to a close application to study; and he soon shewed Dr. Bentley he could write as well as fiddle. The best answer to Dr. Middleton was wrote by Mr. John Wesley, 8vo. Bishop Sherlock told me he presented Dr. Middleton with this book when first published in 1725; and that he soon after thanked him for it, and expressed his pleasure in the perusal. In a letter of his to Lord Radnor, which I saw, he says, "Had they given me a stall at Westminster, or made me Master of the Charter-house, I had never given the Clergy any trouble;" (or words to this purpose, for it is several years since I saw it, about 1750.) He had a well-chosen Library, which sold for about 440l." Mr. J. Whiston, MS. P. 414. "I wait with some impatience for Dr. Middleton's Tully, as I read the greatest part of it in manuscript; though indeed that is rather a reason for my being impatient to read the rest. If Tully can receive any additional honour, Dr. Middleton is most capable of "conferring it." Mr. Walpole to Mr. Conway, March 25, 1741. P. 436, 1.38, read “Lyttelton." P. 444. Mr. North's letters were addressed "to Dr. Ducarel," not "Mr. Vertue;" and the two following Letters of Mr. North may be added, according to their dates. 1. " TO JOHN WARBURTON, Esq. Somerset House. "SIR, Codicote, 26 Dec. 1751. When I had the pleasure of waiting on you, the beginning of last month, with my good friends Dr. Ducarel and Mr. Vertue, you you most obligingly promised me your assistance in my enquiries. of the antiquarian kind, which are my chief amusements in a country retirement. A little piece I am now drawing up lays me under a necessity of requesting some information from you.' I think, I remember, that Gwillim in his book of Heraldry says, that the family of Spence bear for their Arms, 3 Penny-yardpence proper. What I beg to know is, when those Arms were granted?where the family then lived?-and upon what occasion they took, or were granted such strange bearing? and any particular you can favour me with concerning the Penny-yard-pence. The subject of my little work is very remote from Heraldry, or any thing of family history; you may therefore be surprized at my making these Queries: as soon as it is finished it shall wait on you with great thanks, for your assistance, and with the respects of, good Sir, your obedient humble servant, GEORGE NORTH." "SIR, 2. To Dr. DUCAREL, Codicote, Feb. 13, 1751-2. I return you thanks for the favour of yours of the 6th. Nicolson's Historical Library, in which you say there is a passage relating to the old Society of Antiquaries, I have not got, and should be obliged to you for a transcript of it. The mistake I made through haste and inadvertency of Member instead of the more considerable word Fellow, I have sent to have corrected in case I wrote it so in my title-page. Dr. Stukeley's opinion relating to Mr. Clarke's coin, that it is no other than a Counter, is near the matter; but a more particular account what it is, and which I apprehend is the best that can now be given, will be seen in my Answer; though I was under no obligation to proceed any farther than to shew it was not what that gentleman pretended it was; the whole will I believe set several things in a clearer light than what they have hitherto appeared in. It will be no small pleasure to me if your friend should procure from Hamburgh a couple of copies of Bircherod's book of Danish Coins, and I account myself obliged to you for your endeavours to procure it. As a great reason of my coming to town was to see Mr. Webb, I could not forbear since my return reflecting on how different the scene was to what I expected. There must be a great mistake somewhere, for I expected no other than to discourse about the feasibility of my being put into a condition to become serviceable to the Society, and that this was the only point to be discoursed upon; whereas Mr. Webb appeared as absolutely ignorant of it, and did not shew the least knowledge of such a scheme or any the least previous knowledge of my You will therefore pardon me for expressing my apprehensions that you must have put too strong a sense upon any expressions he may have used in conversation on the subject of another Secretary; otherwise such an appearance of perfect ignorance is hardly reconcileable to the rules of common civility, or a decent regard to his own words. I am, dear Sir, your obedient humble servant, GEORGE NORTH." name. |