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"Peekirk," r. "Peakirk;" for "Glenton," r. "Glinton;" 1. 33, for "Shenton," r. " Finborough;" 1. 43, r. "assiduous."

P. 835, 1. 29, r. "twenty-second Dragoons;" 1. 38, r." Paston."

VOLUME II.

Additions and Corrections to this Volume will be found at the end of it, pp. 845--852.

P. 2, 1. 25, for " Brideford," r. "Bridgeford."

P. 23, l. 16, r. "Ben Smith's affair;" 1. 31, r. "Poor Ben." P. 51, 1. 4 from bottom, r. " there."

P. 57, l. 1, r. 66 you."

P. 85, 1. 3, r. "living in."

P. 94, 1. 11, for Savanna*, r. Savanna †.

P. 136. The first note should be marked *, instead of †.
P. 203, 1. penult. r. "Worde."

P. 214, 1. 13, r. " Antony."

P. 232, 1. 4. A correspondent, M. H. observes,

"The nine-men's morris is all filled with mud."

Nine-holes or morrice-holes was a play in which nine holes were dug in the ground, and a ball bowled: the owner of the hole into which it ran was obliged to strike one of the other players with the ball, or pay the forfeit of his failure. Nine holes were always used, although the number of players did not always amount to so many. Titania seems to mean, from the badness of the weather the usual pastimes were no longer practicable. P. 384, 1. 2, for "wells," r. "walls.”

P. 633, 1. 23, "nayword, perhaps bye-word." M. H. observes, "Nayword is still used in Staffordshire more frequently than bye-word."

P. 652, 1. 3 from bottom, and p. 653, 1. 10, r. " Dauphin."
P. 654, 1. 21 from bottom, for "1674," r. "1574."
P. 655, l. 26, r. "Laureatcy;" 1. 9 from bottom, r.

"set."

P. 683, 1. 20 from bottom, for "the," r. " the company."
P. 723, note, l. 7, r. "Moore Smith's comedy."

P. 731, 1. 18 from bottom, dele "own."

P. 739, 1. 1, r. "are compared."

P. 770, note, 1. 5, r. "Heneage Finch."

P. 831, 1. 15 from bottom, r. " engrossed."

VOLUME III.

Some Additions and Corrections in this Volume are printed in page xvi.

P. viii. in advertisement, l. 14, r. "Bierley."

P. x. is by mistake marked xii.

P. xii. 1. 21, for " eminent bookseller," r. " Triphook."

P. xiii. 1. 9, r. "Dr. John Burton, of York."

P. 10, 1. 20, for "addicted," r. " applied;" as the former word is generally used in a bad sense.

P. 13, 1. 6, for "1784," r. "1788."

P. 17, 1. 5 from bottom, for " expense," r.

"existence."

P. 18, 1. 8 from bottom, for "1793," r. "in the long vacation of 1792."

P. 23, 1. 13, "liberality of sentiment." The whole of this does credit to Mr. Hardinge's head and heart.

P. 24, 1. 27. The date of Mr. Hardinge's letter was probably "Oct. 15."

P. 41, notes, 1. 14 from bottom, r. "Jemmatt."

P. 44, 1. 15, r. "Rev. Philip Salter." See vol. i. p. 11.

P. 46, 1. 5 of note, for "xlvi." r. "xxvi."

P. 48, 1. 2. The Rev. H. Hardinge died Sept. 7, 1820. See Additions to Lit. Anecdotes, vol. v. p. 345.

Ibid. 1. 18. How delighted would Mr. Justice Hardinge have been to witness the deserved success and renown of his nephew, Lord Viscount Hardinge!

Ibid. 1. 18. Sir Richard Hardinge, Bart. died Nov. 5, 1826, aged 71. He was the 8th son of Nicholas Hardinge, esq. by Jane, daughter of Lord Camden. Having no issue by his wife, Mary, daughter of the Earl of Ross, the baronetcy, by virtue of the remainder, devolved on his eldest nephew, the Rev. Charles Hardinge, brother of the late Viscount Hardinge.

P. 49, l. 12. Afterwards created "Lord Viscount Hardinge." This eminent soldier and statesman died Sept. 24, 1856. P. 54, 1. 10 from bottom, dele "have."

P. 56, 1. 21, for "Diomede," r. "Diadem."

P. 92, 1. 2 of the Poetry, for "

grave," r. "wave."

P. 100, 1. 12. "M. S. Nicolai Hardinge. Decessit mense Aprilis, 1754." The following Notes on Mr. G. Hardinge's Latin Lines on his Father are by himself:

Ibid. 1. 17, "Pieridum." "He was allowed on all hands to be one of the best Latin poets in his day; and few since the Augustan age have been so happy in imitating its poetical vein, that of Horace in particular."

Ibid. 1. 21, "Nupta," &c. "I have attempted his character in a series of Elegiac Poems, called, The Filial Tribute.'

Ibid. 1. 22. Patriot, &c.] "He was a rigidly honest, useful, public servant of the revenue, as Joint Secretary of the Treasury. In his general politics he was a determined and zealous Whig." P. 126. The markt refers to note* in p. 129.

P. 127, 1. ult. r. Gent. Mag. vol. lxxv.

P. 146, 1. 10. Add

Of domestic bliss depriv'd,

For his country he surviv'd.

P. 206, 1. 25, after "Warewyk," add "see Walpole's Letters to Cole," p. 42.

P. 213, 1. 4. Add note on

excellent remarks."

"engagements."

"These are

Ibid. 1. 27, after "execution," add note, "The sale of Charles Fox's effects took place in 1781."

P. 224. l. 16, r. «Triphook and Co.;" 1. 29, r. "17s. 44d." The five last lines run thus :

"My living assets cannot pay your bill,

Because to mention it I'm broken-hearted-
Because this life insolvent I departed.

Messieurs, I'm yours, without one single farthing;

For my executors and self, George Hardinge."

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P. 362. Add to note, "Six tracts by the Rev. John Watson are printed in the Archæologia: 1. A Letter to Lord Willoughby of Parham, ascertaining the true situation of Coccium; vol. I. p. 65. 2. An Account of a Roman Station lately discovered on the borders of Yorkshire, 1766; ib. 216. 3. On the antient Campodunum; ib. p. 222. 4. Druidical Remains in or near the parish of Halifax in Yorkshire, discovered and explained; vol. II. p. 353. 1771. 5. Account of a Roman Station called Melandra Castle; vol. III. p. 236. 6. Account of undescribed Antiquities; vol. V. p. 83.

P. 366, 1. 27, for "Rev. Thomas Wilson," read "Mr. Thomas Wilson."

P. 373, 1. 1, for p. " 412," read "312."

P. 383, 1. 14. Ömit the words "the Dr."

P. 435, 1. 14, for "Rev. Mr. Burroughs," r. "Rev. James Burrough."

P. 438, 1. 9. The unpleasant circumstance to which Mr. Jones refers in this letter was one that made a great deal of noise at the time in the world, especially among the Dissenters, viz. the death of Elizabeth, widow of Lord James Russell, fifth son of the first Duke of Bedford, and second wife of Sir Henry Hoghton, Bart. on the 1st September preceding the date of this letter, and the consequences that followed upon it. Who she was originally I have not been able to discover; but "she had" so managed as to acquire (as Mr. Urban says) "an excellent character," and especially among the poorer classes of Dissenters, multitudes of whom she had persuaded to lodge their little pittances of money in her hands, very probably, I should suppose (though I have no proof of the fact at this distance of time), from the same cause which has taken in so many weak people to their ruin-the expectation of an unreasonable and illegal interest. All this went on very smoothly while she lived, but at her death the principal was not forthcoming, and nobody found to pay any more interest; in consequence of which many were left in circumstances of miserable distress. I remember hearing two old relatives of mine discussing the business some forty years ago, of whom one endeavoured to

* Lord James Russell married secondly, 14 Aug. 1697, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Tryphæna Grove, Dr. Burgess performing the ceremony. Wiffin's Memoirs of the House of Russell, ii. 223.

reason with the tenderness and piety of your good-natured letterwriter here, and cried for mercy upon the character of Lady James; but the other was disposed, though by no means an illtempered man, to think it all misplaced tenderness, and to join the general cry of the world, who gave her ladyship no quarter, and said that it arose from nothing but an ambitious desire to scrape together, viis et modis quibuslibet, so much money as to make her only child, Miss Tryphæna Russell, a fortune of 100,000l. (a great sum of money in those days), to Mr. Thomas Scawen, M.P. for Surrey, to whom she was married: the real state of facts cannot now probably be ascertained-sub judice majore lis est. At all events everybody seemed to join in exculpating her husband Sir Henry Hoghton, who was considered as a very honourable man, who had no share in the plot, and who, having no children, was much more likely to have lost than gained anything by his lady, whose conduct was understood to have been a source of great trouble and distress to him. Poor Dr. Doddridge was said to have had a funeral sermon ready cut and dried for the apotheosis; but the bubble had burst, and such hints had been whispered about before the appointed day, that he very prudently laid it up for future use."-J. BROWN.

P. 447. The first note on this page should have been at the bottom of the preceding page.

P. 465. Mr. James Brown observes: "A gentleman some years ago gave to a dear friend of mine, now, I trust, τη μakapırıdı, a fine print, from a painting of Teniers, of ' The Miraculous Draught of Fishes,' dedicated to Archbishop Herring, with his arms, impaled with those of the See of Canterbury, on the margin-Gules, 3 herrings between 9 cross-crosslets argent."

P. 472, l. 1, r. "Rev. Dr. Thomas Wray."

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P. 484, 1. 9 from bottom, for " 1768," r. probably "1708." P. 492, note. The Rev. Richard Arnald wrote a Commentary on the Apocrypha, but not on the Old Testament.

Ibid. 1. 10 from bottom. "Mr. Gustavus Brander is not totally unknown to you; though he was to the archbishop."―J. BROWN. Mr. Brander was elected a Trustee of the British Museum: see the memoir of him in Lit. Anecd. VI. 260.

P. 515, lines 3 and 22, r. "W. S. Powell;" Dr. William Samuel Powell, Master of St. John's College, Cambridge. See Lit. Anecd. Index, VII. 332, 655. Literary Illustrations, vol. IV. p. 373.

P. 518, 1. 2, for "Mr. Lawson," r. "Rev. John Lawson."
P. 545, note, 1. 1, "for Robert," r. "Ralph."

P. 573, Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart., died Sept. 8, 1837, in his 75th year: see memoir of him in the Gentleman's Magazine for Nov. 1837, p. 534; and his "Autobiography," published in 1834.

P. 678, 1. 26. "The name Mr. Morant inquires after is generally understood, I believe, to be designed for Thomas Pride, though it may pass as well for Humility. I see I have written in my copy of Noble's Memoirs of the Regicides Vix legibile.' I

remember there was many years ago in one of the numbers of the Universal Magazine, which I then possessed, a good copy of the Death Warrant, probably taken from that published by the Society of Antiquaries, and some memoirs of every one who signed it.". J. BROWN.

P. 704. The two notes on Dr. Tunstall and Bishop Yonge are transposed.

P. 742, 1. 3 from bottom, r. " Earl Fitzwilliam's, at Wentworth House." Wentworth House and Wentworth Castle are different places; the latter was the residence of the late Earl of Strafford.

P. 743, 1. 21. William Alexander, Esq. F.S.A. Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum, died July 22, 1816. See Gent. Mag. vol. LXXXVI. ii. 279, 369, 565; and Britton's Autobiography, for a portrait of him.

Pp. 747 and 749, for "Nicholas Sambrook," r. "Sambrook Nicholas" Russell.

P. 830, note, 1. 3, for "Preston," read "Troston."

VOLUME IV.

P. 3, 1. 10, r. "Kepler."

P. 50. The following curious particulars, connected with the works of Sir Isaac Newton, are from the letters written by Mr. William Bowman, some of which appeared in The Scotsman in Jan. 1828. Of Mr. Bowman see some notices in Literary Illustrations, vol. V. 53; see also many particulars of him in Literary Anecdotes Index, vii. 39.

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"Egham, June 22, 1760.

By the posthumous works of Sir Isaac Newton, I meant his Chronology and Explanation of the Prophecys, published by Mr. Conduit, whose daughter married Lord Lymington, son to the Earl of Portsmouth, but, both being dead, their children are under the care of their grandfather; and consequently all the papers of their grand-uncle at his disposal. To those may be added, two Dissertations on the Spurious Texts, 1 John, ch. v. and vii., and 1 Tim. ch. iii. and xvi., sent by Mr. Locke to Le Clerc at Amsterdam, without a name; but he not daring to print them, he deposited them in the public library, whence they were copied and printed new in 1754. Whiston mentions them in his Athanasian Forgerys 1736, and Wetstein used them in his edition of the New Test. 1757. The old gentleman never would see Whiston and Emlyn, but conversed with Dr. Drake* only, during the Domitianan controversy on the subject; and from him transpired the faults of these texts, which these papers demonstrate so clearly, that Dr. Waterland never once durst quote that of St. John.

"Next to be added, are four letters to Dr. Bentley in 1692, chaplain to Bishop Stillingfleet, in order to make him comprehend * James Drake, M.D. F.R.S. See Lit. Anecd. vii. 115.

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