The elegant Historian of pure and simple manners, The ingenious Author of works of fancy, gay, sentimental, tender, his imagination in its freest sallies paid respect to those decorums, the sense of which was ever conspicuous in his private life. The tribute may be vain, which thus Affection pays his memory, and vain the marble monument which would perpetuate his fame; at least, they mark the spot made sacred by a husband's dust, where widow'd love, when it pleases Heaven to dry its sorrows, is anxious to repose. To these revered ashes have accordingly been added those of JANE-Catharine KeaTE, his relict, who died 18 March, 1800, aged 70; whose endearing virtues, which graced and adorned her own life, had, as he attests in his will, spread unceasing happiness and sunshine over his." P. 341. David Ruhnkenius, principal Librarian of the University of Leyden, and for 41 years Professor of Latin Literature, Eloquence, and History, died there, May 6, 1798. Of his two celebrated "Epistolæ Criticæ in Homeridarum Hymnos, Hesiodum, Callimachum, et Apollonium Rhodium," the first appeared in 1749, and the second in 1781. His Inaugural Dissertation on taking possession of his chair, in 1757, had for its title, "De Græciâ Artium ac Doctrinarum inventrice." Before this, he had published, in 1754, at Leyden, in octavo, “Timæi Sophistæ Lexicon Vocum Platonicarum." The work by which his reputation has been the most extended, his "Homeri Hymnus in Cererem," appeared in 1782. He left behind him an infirm widow and two daughters, one of whom was blind. P. 345. Add the following "tribute to the memory of a great Scholar," by the Rev. Stephen Weston: "IN MORTEM TOUPII. O subtile caput, vastumque o mentis acumen ! Suave poetarum fortiter omnigenum Morte ignominiam non memorata gemunt. Pulchrior atque iterum ad prelum mittetur Alexis, Nullus et in toto corpore nævus erit." P. 347. Mrs. Brooke was buried at Sleaford, without any Epitaph; but the following Memorials in that Church were written by that elegant Lady, the first of them for her Uncle, the second for her Father: 1. "Near 1. "Near this place lie the remains of RICHARD MOORE, Gent. second son of the Rev. William Moore, M. A. by his second wife, daughter of Edward Secker, Gent. of Grantham. Joining application to integrity, he considerably improved his parental fortune by those commercial pursuits so justly honoured in a free state. He died May 14, 1771, aged 46. His widow, Anne Moore, erected this marble as a memorial of his merit and her affection. Jane daughter of Edward Secker, Esq. of Grantham. for every moral, social, and Christian virtue, His affectionate sister, Elizabeth Lomax, erected this monument to the memory of a Brother, not more endeared to her by the ties of blood than by those of esteem and friendship." P. 364. "January 15, 1558-9. was the Coronation Day of Qu. Elizabeth. It is certain that the word Inauguration may with great propriety be applied to that ceremony; but in English it is commonly considered as synonymous with the Accession; and, as appears repeatedly in this very page, the word Coronation, and that only, is the word used to designate that ceremony." J. BROWN. P. 368. "Dr. George Markham, Dean of York, is not the Archbishop's eldest son. The eldest is William, formerly in the East Indies under Mr. Hastings. He was the person who seized Cheyt Sing at Benares." W. VINCENT.-P. 383, l. 12, r. "30th." P. 420. "Dr. Lowth never was Bishop of Limerick; accepting a Stall in Durham, and Sedgfield, a Living in that Diocese, in preference." E. J. P. 421, 1. 15-20. Lord Mansfield, who, in common with every scholar, much admired this beautiful Epitaph, was of opinion that it would have been still stronger had it concluded with the fourth line. P. 422 The following Epitaph was proposed for Bp. Lowth: "If learning, genius, manners void of guile, The Schoolman's labour, and the Christian's toil; If brightest parts devoted but to good, A soul which every selfish view withstood; If heavenly Charity's most winning charms, And boundless love, with ever-outstretch'd arms; Of private virtues, such as grace the plain; If If God's Vicegerent, acting on that plan Which most endears man's dignity to man, E'er won thy heart;-LowTH's sacred shrine survey, And with a weeping World thy tearful tribute pay." CLIO. P. 435. Dr. Owen's Father died at the age of 100; and the Son, from his athletic form (if we may judge from the Portrait taken of him at the period of life when he practised Physick), seemed to have a probable chance for an equally long duration of life; but the res angusta domi, affecting his naturally chearful spirits, might probably have accelerated his dissolution. P. 439, note, 1. 10, for "accused by," r. "accursed for." Pp. 439-441. "To the Works of Archdeacon Dodwell might (perhaps should) be added his posthumous Tract on the Athanasian Creed, a small duodecimo volume, published perhaps ten years ago, chiefly at the suggestion of Dr. Loveday. It was delivered in a Series of Charges at his Visitations as Archdeacon of Salisbury. The latter part I myself heard the venerable Author deliver at a Visitation at Abingdon, about the year 1778, when I had a curacy near Abingdon. The worthy Archdeacor was very pleasing, communicative, and interesting in his conversation after dinner, detailing anecdotes of persons whom he had known who were elected Demies of Magdalen at the same time with Addison; when, I think, he said there were fourteen vacancies (far more than usually happen); and I think Sacheverell was one of the fourteen who were elected; but I do not recollect that he spoke of him in particular." R. C. P. 441. Sir Daniel Wray never was Sheriff of London. P. 454, note, 1. 29, r. "Feb. 28." P. 469, note, 1. 15, for "defluxit," r. "distinxit." P. 472. "It is stated that Mr. Carte had a controversy, respecting the King's share in the Irish Massacre, with Mr. (afterwards the celebrated Dr.) Chandler.' Now the fact is, that it was with the Father of Dr. Chandler that Mr. Carte had the controversy alluded to; viz. Mr. Henry Chandler, who was one of my predecessors as Minister of the Congregation of Presbyterian Dissenters in this city [Bath]. He was a worthy, sensible man. Some account of him is to be found in Dr. Chandler's article in the Biographia; but a fuller account is given of him in one of the volumes of the Protestant Dissenters' Magazine. I find this mention of the Chandlers in a small Collection of unpublished Letters of Archbishop Secker, written to a near Relation, while he was a young man: 'Mr. Chandler's Son, of the Bath, who has lodged with me these four months, has got a place of 70l. a year, and is to leave us next week; as I would do the town (he continues) if it was not chiefly for one reason I have a good opportunity of studying Natural Philosophy, and particularly Anatomy, this Winter, which I know not whether I shall ever meet with again, and therefore would willingly im- · prove now. London, July 26, 1716.' - Writing from Paris, 19 July 1719, he mentions his intention of spending another Winter there; informs his Correspondent of some civilities he had received from Lord Huntingdon, whom he had known at Buxton; and assigns as a reason for not visiting earlier, that he had had the company of Mr. John Bowes [afterwards, I believe, the Irish Chancellor of that name], who was come to Paris to see if exercise and diversions would carry off an intermitting fever, with great depression of spirits, under which he was suffering. He (i. e. Mr. Bowes) was at Bath this Spring (where, by-the-bye, Mr. Chandler is dead), and fell into acquaintance," &c.-These Letters of Secker's, twenty-two in number, besides some written at a later period of his life, shew him to have been a lively, ingenious, sensible young man, and entertaining correspondent. As they are, in every point of view, creditable to his memory, they may possibly, at some future time, be given to the Publick." J. HUNTER P. 476. "I never met with any body but Mr. Thomas Carte who talked of Impartiality and Mr. Thomas Carte in the same breath. But, waving that question, I cannot help asking, If the Irish Rebellion, and all the mischiefs of that period, are to be attributed to Commissions and Powers forged by the soidisant Earl of Glamorgan, what pretence is there for laying all the load and odium thereof upon the Parliament?" J. BROWN. P. 513. "Cistern Jernegan died 8 October 1761." J. BROWN. P. 537. Henry Heaton, a native of Doncaster, was admitted of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1730; and became Fellow and Tutor of that College; B. A. 1774; M. A. 1777; B. D. 1786; Domestic Chaplain to Archbishop Herring, who collated him in 1752 to the Vicarages of Boughton under Blean and Herne-hill, Kent; to the Mastership of Eastbridge Hospital in 1753; and to the Rectory of Ivechurch in 1754, when he quitted Hernehill. He was presented in 1757 to the First Stall in the Cathedral of Ely (being an Option) by the Archbishop's Executors. From 1757, the year in which the Archbishop died, Mr. Heaton resided chiefly at Boughton; where he died July 7, 1777, and was, by his own desire, buried in that parish church, where a mural monument is thus inscribed: "Near this place lie the Remains of the Rev. HENRY HEATON, B. D. late Prebendary of Ely, Master of Eastbridge Hospital in the City of Canterbury, Rector of Ivechurch, and Vicar of this Parish. He was a great example as well as an admirer of the antient simplicity of manners, which he thought had been unhappily exchanged for the vicious refinements of the present age. He was a liberal benefactor to the poor and distressed; and, being attentive only to the sincere discharge of the duties of Christianity, he sought not the praise of man; and as he was good himself, not from ostentation but religion, so he censured not the failings of others, but beheld them with compassion. Actuated by this spirit of universal charity, he died, as he lived, in peace with all the world, on the 7th day of July, MDCCLXXVII, aged LXVII." KK 2 P. 548, P. 548, 1. ult. The Rector of Stisted was son of Mr. Samuel Jackson, of Namptwich in Cheshire, of a respectable antient Shropshire family. He was educated at Audlem School in Cheshire; removed to Brazenose College, Oxford, of which he was a Fellow about ten years, and collated to Stisted by Archbishop Potter, Oct. 4, 1742. His first wife, hy whom he had no issue, was the daughter of William Wickeham, esq. of Gazington, co. Oxford. Her two nieces, the representatives of their family, are married to the second and fourth sons of William Drake, esq of Amersham, Bucks. His second wife was the eldest daughter of John Blencowe, esq. of Marston, co. Northampton. This pious, learned, and benevolent Divine died March 10, 1792, in the S4th year of his age, and the 50th year of a constant residence and minute attention to every duty of his charge. During the last 30 years a palsy, gradually creeping over his whole frame, deprived him of every power, except the faculties of a mind naturally most penetrating, and improved by the purest science. His own tenderness as a husband, father, friend, and master, was so gratefully felt and dutifully returned by all his relatives and dependents, in their watchful relief of his infirmities, as, under the Divine Providence, to be the probable means of his continuing among his parishioners to so late a period, an example of the warmest piety, the firmest patience, and humblest resignation, and of extending to them a charity that knew no bounds but in the degrees of misery meriting relief. By a second marriage he left two sons, the elder of whom, on his uncle's death, inherited the property of that family; assumed the name and arms of Blencowe; married his first cousin, Miss Bree; and had by her, some time since deceased, a numerous family. He was afterwards married to Miss Biker. The younger son, who married Mary second daughter of Dr. Wakeham, Dean of Bocking, purchased, for his residence, Duton-hill, in Easton, near Dunmow, Essex. P. 553. John Ryland, esq. was born in London; but spent the very early part of his life at Stratford-upon-Avon; from which circumstance he used sometimes to call himself a Warwickshire man, and, at one period of his life, possessed some landed property there. He was originally bred to the Law, but most probably quitted that profession early in life, as he was engaged in a West-India connexion for many years with Edward Clerk Parish, esq. and afterwards with John Bond, esq. in Crutched-friers. Mr. Ryland was a very early associate of Dr. Johnson, and also of Dr. Hawkesworth, whose sister he married, and with whom much of his younger life was spent. From his connexion with that gentleman he was a contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine; and, during Dr. Hawkesworth's occasional absence from London, conducted the Review department in it for a short period. He was a good scholar, and expressed himself, both in writing and speaking, in a peculiarly elegant and forcible manner. 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