WILLIAM BOWYER, PRINTER, F.S.A. AND MANY OF HIS LEARNED FRIENDS; EMINENT WRITERS AND INGENIOUS ARTISTS; WITH A VERY COPIOUS INDEX. THE FIFTH VOLUME. No. I. Memoirs of Mr. Edward Cave ........... - Mr. John Dunton ............. Rev. William Freind, M. A...... Rev. Robert Freind, D.D. ........ Rev. William Freind, M. A. ......... John Freind, M.D. .................. 92 Rev. W. Freind, D.D. Dean of Canterbury 104 Rev. 'Thomas Baker, M.A........ 106, 662 Mr. Ambrose Bonwicke ............. 113 VI. - Rev. William Richardson, D. D. ...... 157 Rev. William Webster, D. D.......... 160 VIII. Remarks on Stephens's Thesaurus .............. 176 History of Lexicons, and Anecdotes of eminent IX, Memoirs of Rev. Samuel Wesley, B.A.............212 - Rev. Samuel Wesley (the younger), B.A. 216 - Rev. John Wesley, M. A. ............ 221 Rev. Charles Wesley, M. A. .......... ibid. X, Memoirs of Eminent Antiquaries, Friends Mr. Robert Ainsworth ..... ........248 Rev. Thomas Birch, D. D. ...... Rev. William Borlase, LL.D..... 326 328 · .382 384 Memoirs of Mr. Peter Collinson ... .........309 William Cowper, M. D. ... ....316 Mr. George Edwards ... 317 ..368 John Locker, Esq. ............ 372 William Locker, Esq. ...... 373 .423 470 James Parsons, M. D......... 472 Richard Rawlinson, LL. D.... 489 Rev. William Stukeley, M. D... ... 499 Sir Peter Thompson ......... 511 527 No. XI. Memoirs of Bishop Warburton ...... 529 XII. Mr. Ephraim Chambers ..... 659 XIII. Addition to Mr. Thomas Baker ......... 662 XIV. Epitaph on Bishop Halifax. . 664 XV. Memoirs of Mr. Joseph Strutt..... .......665 XVI. - Rev. John Free, D.D. .... ......687 XVII. Additions and Corrections ...............696—12 .. 405 ibid. 517 ESSAYS ESSAYS AND ILLUSTRATIONS REFERRED TO IN THE LITERARY ANECDOTES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. No. I. EDWARD CAVE. “ THE curiosity of the publick seems to demand the history of every man who has by whatever means risen to eminence; and few lives would have more readers than that of the Compiler of The Gentleman's Magazine, if all those who received improvement or entertainment from him should retain so much kindness for their Benefactor as to enquire after his conduct and character. EDWARD CAVE was born at Newton in Warwickshire, Feb. 29, 1691. His father was the youngest, son of Mr. Edward Cave, of Cave's in the Hole, a lone house, on the Street-road in the same county, which took its name from the occupier ; but, having concurred with his elder brother in cutting off the intail of a small hereditary estate, by which act it VOL. V. B was |