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P. 607, 1. 13, for "as," r. "and." L. 18, r. " with the most perfect."

P. 608, note, 1. 23. The book entitled "Political Considerations, 1710," was written by Dr. Wm. King the civilian.

P. 626, l. 17, for "months," r. " weeks."

P. 638, l. 14, r. "Dr. French Laurence, Rev. Charles Burney, D.D." and add "Rev. Stephen Weston and Dr. Gillies."

P. 638, 1. 21, add, Daniel Braithwaite, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A., died in Harper Street, Red Lion Square, Dec. 28, 1817, aged 86. He was Comptroller of the Foreign Post Office, and an associate of the literati of his day. He was an early friend of G. Romney, R.A., and to him Hayley dedicated his life of that artist. (See Lit. Anecd. Index, vol. VII. p. 48, and Gent. Mag. 1817, ii. 634.)

P. 669, note 3 from bottom. Mr. Beloe's acknowledgments to Mr. Isaac Reed were thus expressed: "With great respect and sincere attachment I also introduce, among those to whom I am essentially indebted, the venerable Mr. Isaac Reed. He is far above my praise, but I can never, forget the free use of many curious articles in his collection, the clearness, the precision, and the kindness of his various communications on many subjects of Early English Literature, concerning which I was either ignorant or imperfectly acquainted."

P. 672, omit the line " End of the Second Volume."

P. 683, text, 1. 2 from the bottom, r. "Mr. Robson contributed largely to Mr. Malcolm's Account of the Parish of Whitechapel. See Londinium Redivivum,' vol. IV. pp. 445-463." Capt. Thomas Limeburner."

P. 710, 1. 23, r. 66

P. 720. On the death of Mr. Thomas James the business of letter-founder was carried on by his widow and son John James. Mr. John James died June 23, 1772. His matrices, &c. were bought by Mr. Rowe Mores, and on his death were sold by auction by Mr. Paterson, Nov. 20, 1781. (See Lit. Anecdotes, III. pp. 401, 700.)

P. 723, 1. 4 from bottom. It was Dr. William Lancaster, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, who died in 1716, that was the author of the " Essay on Decency," not Dr. Nathaniel

Lancaster.

P. 724, 1. 10 from bottom, for "p. 300," r. " p. 390."
P. 732, l. 15, for "p. 694," r.
(6 p. 686."

VOLUME III.

P. 54. "The Evidences of Christianity," &c. should have

been placed under the year 1769.

P. 57, 1. 9, after "D.D." add the year of publication, "1769."
P. 65, note, l. 9 from bottom, r. "Nevill."

P. 67, note, l. 14 from bottom, for "1747," r. "1746."
P. 68, note, 1. 4 from bottom, r. " Mr. Richard Hayward."
P. 69, note, l. 9, r. " Magdalenienas."

P. 111, note, l. 4 from bottom, omit reference *.

P. 132, 1. 4, after "divine," insert "Bishop Watson."

P. 148, note, l. 6 from bottom, after "of," add "Mr. Mason in." P. 183, 1.9 from bottom, the following paragraph has unfortunately been wrongly placed. It applies to the dissolute Capt. Ayscough, recorded in p. 182, and should follow the words "blush to read," in note, 1. 8.

"During the latter part of his life Capt. Ayscough lived at Kirk Ireton in Derbyshire, in a most miserable state, both of body and mind, under the care of Mr. Gough, the minister of that place. He removed from thence a short time before his death, which happened Oct. 14, 1779."

Ibid. after “his father Joseph Ayloffe," add, "He married," &c. as in line 5 from bottom. A very full account of the Ayloffe family is given in Morant's Essex, vol. I. p. 64.

P. 194, l. 19, "for Leicestershire," r. "Derbyshire ;" and 1. 32, for "had ingenuity," r. was ingenuous."

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P. 197, note, 1. 18, for " Helesia," r. "Halesia."

P. 200, I. 2, r. << Bruyere."

P. 207, note, l. 7, from bottom, after 4to. add, Mr. Topham drew up the Account of St. Stephen's Chapel, published by the Society of Antiquaries in 1795. See Gent. Mag. vol. LXV. p. 503.

P. 226, note, l. 10, " Mountjoy's House." See vol. VI. p. 153. There is another letter from Vertue in vol. III. pp. 756-7.

P. 255. By the kind assistance of William Cotton, Esq. I have been enabled to collect more particulars relative to Charles Rogers here noticed. Mr. C. Rogers was placed in the Custom House under Wm. Townson, Esq. who was then at the head of that department, and from whom Mr. Rogers appears to have early imbibed a love of virtù and book-collecting. Whether he was connected by any ties of relationship with that individual Mr. Cotton was not able to discover, but it is certain that he became his heir and residuary legatee. Mr. Townson died at his house at Richmond in 1740, having settled his estate, real and personal, after the death of two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth Townson, on Charles Rogers and his heirs, and in default of such, on Charlotte Rogers (afterwards wife of William Cotton,) and her heirs. To the former he bequeathed all his Books and Prints. This acquisition of property, which consisted of houses in the parish of Lawrence Pountney and at Richmond, enabled Mr. Rogers to indulge that taste for the fine arts which distinguished him through life; while the legacy of Books and Prints became the nucleus of that extensive and valuable collection, the formation of which was his chief source of pleasure and relaxation after the fatigues

of business, and which at his decease became the property of Mr. Cotton's father, in pursuance of Mr. Townson's will.

Mr. Rogers corresponded with Sir Edward Walpole, Horace Walpole, Sir Joshua Reynolds, R. Gough, D. Braithwaite, Paul Sandby, Cipriani, Romney, Angelica Kauffman, and others.

Among Letters of Mr. Rogers in Mr. Cotton's possession are some to Viscount Hampden on Tessera and on the Sortes of the Antients; to Daniel Wray on 5th Eclogue of Virgil; and to E. Standley, Esq. LL.D., on the antiquity of the Speaker's Mace. His correspondence also with Mr. Charles Townley (who engraved the portraits of the most eminent painters in the Florentine Gallery,) as it relates almost entirely to painting, during Townley's residence in Italy, from 1773 to 1776, is not without interest.

Mr. Rogers kept up a correspondence with Mr. Horatio Paul (son of Mr. Robert Paul, Collector of His Majesty's Customs), when Mr. Paul was collecting prints, &c. abroad.

On Mr. Paul's collection of art being sent to England for sale, Mr. Rogers acquired many of his rarest and most valuable prints. To Robert Udney, Esq. he was indebted for acquisitions of the same kind during his travels on the continent; and Mr. Cotton has letters of Sir Robert Strange to Mr. Rogers from Rome, Naples, and Florence, in 1761, and from Paris in 1776, during the sale of the famous Marrietti collection.

In 1836 was privately printed (25 copies, as "Donum Amicis"), "A Descriptive Catalogue of some Pictures, Books, and Prints, Medals, Bronzes, and other Curiosities, collected by Charles Rogers, F.R.S., F.S.A., and now in the possession of William Cotton, M.A. F.S.A., of the Priory, Letherhead, Surrey, royal 8vo. 207 pages; embellished with an etching of the interior of the Library at the Priory, Letherhead;" the private Portraits of C. Rogers, Esq. after Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Wynne Ryland sculpsit, 1778; and several vignettes; among which is one of the exterior of the Priory, an account of which by the Rev. James Dallaway, (as read before the the Society of Antiquaries in 1824), is printed in this volume.

The following Letters and Essays were communicated by Mr. Rogers, and read at the various meetings of the Society of Antiquaries.

1. A Letter to the Bishop of Carlisle on the Duke of Norfolk's Shield, which was presented to the Earl of Surrey (temp. Hen. VIII.) by the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Read 13th May, 1767.

2. A Letter to Lord Willoughby of Parham, on a bronze Hamadryad, belonging to Thomas Hollis. Read 16th April, 1768.

3. A Letter to Col. St. Paul, dated 24th August, 1769, on the antiquity of Racing Horses, published in 3d volume of Archæologia.

4. A Letter to Dean Milles, dated Feb. 18, 1779, describing two small pictures of an old Greek master. [This letter is printed in Gent. Mag. 1784, vol. LIV. p. 265.] Also see the Catalogue

of Mr. Rogers's Pictures, &c. by Mr. William Cotton, 1836, p. 26.

5. A Letter to Dean Milles, on certain Terra Cottas brought from the Mosquito Shore. Read 16th March, 1780, and printed in vol. VI. of Archæologia.

Mr. Rogers was also a contributor to the Gent. Mag.:

1. A Letter signed Londinensis, on Improvements in the City, and suggesting the removal of the Monument to Cornhill, in Nov. 1760. (XXX. p. 501.)

2. A Letter signed" Colunna Milliaria," Nov. 16, 1765.

3. A Letter to Mr. Astle, on ancient block printing, in 1781. Vol. LI. p. 269.

P. 257, note, 1. 9 from bottom, for "Bartolozzi," r. Wynne Ryland, 1778."

"William

P. 262, last note, see Additions, Lit. Anecd. vol. VIII. p. 437. P. 263, note, l. 8 from bottom, add "This voluine was sold to Mr. William Walker, bookseller, 196, Strand, 28 Feb. 1821, for 50 guineas."

P. 273. The circumstances under which the following curious letter was written by Mr. Bowyer are detailed in a note in p. 273. It is probable that Mr. Nichols thought proper to disguise it, and yet was unwilling to destroy it. He therefore handed it over to his friend Mr. Chalmers to introduce into a number of his "Projector," in which it was printed; see Gent. Mag. for Oct. 1809, p. 917. Whether it was ever printed at the time in any periodical, or only addressed to some friend, is not known; but it is so intimately connected with the melancholy fact of the disputes between Mr. Bowyer and his only son (whose waywardness distressed his father from the time of his being a boy till the father's death), that it is thought proper to reprint it. It is dated from Chelsea, where probably Mr. Bowyer had a lodging at the time the letter was written, which was about the year 1754. "SIR, Chelsea, Sept. 29. "You, who trace the source of all our passions, can best direct the current of them. Mine are at present somewhat tinctured with bitter; but whether the fountain is corrupt you shall judge, when I have laid open my heart before you.

"I married, about seven years since,* a second wife, whose universal goodness more than compensates for her want of fortune; and yet, I will fairly own to you, from this disposition, for aught I know, arises my present uneasiness.

"I had a son t by a former venter, of no great abilities, and of a turn of mind which is not easily fixed. His kind mother-inlaw gained his affections more than I could, who was oftentimes chagrined to find my endeavours unsuccessful to fit him for business or the pulpit. You will not wonder that Tom (for that is

Mr. Bowyer married Mrs. Eliz. Bill, 21st Aug. 1747. She died Jan. 14, 1771, aged 70.

+ Mr. Thomas Bowyer.

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his name) did not consider my reproofs as the strength of affection, or her palliatives as the habitual effects of female softness.

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"At the same time she was kind to Tom, she discovered, as I thought, at least, a more lively passion for Bill, a neighbour's little boy,* which was strengthened by a long friendship with his artful mother. As he grew up, I found he was, in a manner, adopted into my family. If Madam was invited into the country, the compliment was always heightened with, Pray bring little Billy with you.' Tom, who looked upon him at first as a harmless child, over whom, in point of age and fortune, he claimed a superiority, felt in him in time a powerful rival. This jealousy I hoped to have converted to his and my advantage. I persuaded him to open his thoughts to me without reserve, and to rely on me as his best friend. When I had lodgings in the neighbourhood of the town, I courted him to visit me in my happy moments, and to shorten my way home with his conversation. This was a favour I could rarely gain; while Billy was ready to attend with the most cheerful assiduity. At length, Tom, shy of his father, and perhaps not brooking a divided share of his mother, or rather, I believe, out of a levity of mind, or a desire of liberty, begs leave to go into a far country. He perhaps may have found a cure; but his jealousy is, in some measure, devolved on me. My wife now attends me to my country lodgings, which I could never get her even to visit before; and whither, she says, in a mysterious kind of compliment, she never should have accompanied me, if the care of Tom had not been first removed from her. No sooner were we arrived, than I found her little favourite in possession, and, at every recess from school, a regular inmate. And now (say you, Sir), is thine eye evil, because hers is good? Is not the object of her choice more worthy of it than your son? And shall she be restrained from fixing on good qualities in a neighbour's family, because she is allied to bad ones in yours? Let virtue have its reward, wherever it appears.' Good Sir, I blush to own the narrowness of my heart. The good qualities of my wife's adopted boy, placed before my eyes, make me often lament the defects of my absent son; and I sometimes fear, that the exclusion of him from us (which is but, indeed, the consequence of his own desertion) will make him cease from all efforts of regaining his natural kingdom in my heart. Does our Heavenly Father deal thus with his children? When we were fallen from him, did he utterly reject us, by taking a new race of beings into his favour? If we descend to human policy, I might appeal to the Romans; among whom adoption was allowed of in those instances only (at least in the flourishing state of the Commonwealth) where there were no children. Where there was but one, how froward soever, they waited for the turns of Nature, or submitted to the judgment of Heaven.

"I was going on upon this subject, Sir, when two old friends broke in upon me. Upon opening my case, Jack Single's obser

* Mr. William Emonson.

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