a consultation to destroy him, and they agreed that the best preparation for that work would be to blacken enough. Mr. Herbert, to whom the care of the body was committed, has left Memoirs,' and having minutely noticed every little circumstance, and doubtless sat up with the body, he would hardly have omitted such a circumstance as this.

"I have forgotten what you told me concerning Johnson's prologue to Goldsmith's play. Pray be so good as to send it to me. The Life' will very soon be sent to the press.

"Yours, dear Sir, most faithfully,

E. MALONE."

P. 513, 1. 2. Three interesting Letters from the celebrated Linnæus to Marmaduke Tunstall were communicated to the Gentleman's Magazine for Jan. 1824, by the Rev. Samuel Hopkinson, of Morton. See vol. xciv. I. p. 24.

P. 555. The Rev. John Gutch, M.A. and F.S.A. was for sixty-two years Chaplain of All Souls' College at Oxford; also Rector of St. Clement's near that city, and of Kirkby Underwood in the county of Lincoln. To the former benefice he was presented by the Lord Chancellor Loughborough in 1795; and to the latter by Dr. Thurlow, Bishop of Lincoln, in 1786. He was also many years Chaplain of Corpus Christi College. He took his degree of M.A. June 8, 1771. Mr. Gutch was elected to the office of Registrar of the University, and also Registrar of the Courts, &c. of the Chancellor, in 1797, on the decease of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Foster. The important duties of Registrar he fulfilled until 1824, when, “in consideration of his long and faithful services to the University," an annuity of 2007. was granted to him. He retained the office of Actuary or Registrar of the Chancellor's Court to the day of his decease. As senior Chaplain of All Souls, it was his duty to preach before the members on three different festival days in the course of the year, and on Christmas Day 1819 he commenced his sermon by alluding to the fact, that "this is the fiftieth anniversary that I have had the honour and happiness of performing my official duty from this place; nay more, to speak the whole truth, as I make my appearance here at three seasons of the year, it is really the one hundred and forty-eighth time, without any intermission, by indisposition or otherwise, as far as my recollection will carry me." Shortly after a subscription was set on foot by the then members of the Society and several others who had formerly belonged to it, to purchase and present to him a piece of plate, which was accordingly done in the shape of a superb silver ink-stand, inscribed with the College arms, together with his own.

In 1781 Mr. Gutch published in two vols. 8vo. “Collectanea Curiosa; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to the History and Antiquities of England and Ireland, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a variety of other subjects; chiefly collected from the MSS. of Archbishop Sancroft, given to the Bodleian Library by the late Bishop Tanner;" and in 1786 he published, in 4to. the

first volume of "The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford, now first published from the original Manuscripts in the Bodieian Library, written by Anthony Wood, with a continuation to the present time." This voluminous work was commenced at the suggestion of his warm friend Thomas Warton, B.D. Fellow of Trinity College, Poetry Professor, Camden's Reader in Ancient History, &c. &c. and was afterwards followed at intervals by the publication of the "Fasti Oxonienses, or a Commentary on the supreme Magistrates of the University, with a Continuation, and Additions and Corrections to each College and Hall, 1790." And also in 1792, 1794, and 1796, by "The Antiquities and Annals of the University," in 3 vols. From Mr. Gutch's long residence in the University he became known to most gentlemen engaged in antiquarian and topographical pursuits; and, from the opportunities he enjoyed in the prosecution of his own studies in these branches of knowledge, he possessed peculiar advantages in facilitating similar inquiries and the researches of his friends, to whom he was ever as ready to lend his personal services as he was to extract and transcribe for them whatever they required from those vast stores of historical information, the libraries and archives of this celebrated University. At the period of his decease he was the oldest resident member of the University, and, till within a very few days of the close of a life of peculiar serenity and content, he enjoyed his usual good health and spirits. He died at Oxford, July 1, 1831, aged 86. (Abridged from a memoir in the Gentleman's Magazine for Sept. 1831, which is accompanied by Mr. Gutch's portrait, drawn and engraved by T. Wageman.) See Lit. Anecd. Index, VII. 165; and Lit. Illustr. Index, VIII. 41.

P. 558. The following Letter from Mr. Nichols to the Rev. John Price was written on occasion of the proposed transmission of Mr. Gough's valuable legacy of his topographical library to the Bodleian :

"DEAR SIR,

May 8, 1809.

"I am much gratified by the Vice-Chancellor's favourable acceptance of my proffered services in the transmission of Mr. Gough's very valuable bequest to the Bodleian Library, and shall begin this day to prepare some of the more material articles for packing. Among the earliest I shall send the large portfolios of English Antiquities and the Sepulchral Monuments-a collection of never-fading value to the antiquary. In less than a fortnight I hope you will have many of the volumes safe in the Antiquaries' Closet. Some of them will need much arranging, being crammed with loose leaves and prints-and others the assistance of the binder. You are not to expect many largepaper copies, or splendid outsides, but you will find much that is valuable within. In a few days you shall hear that a parcel of cases is consigned to Mr. Medwin, to whose warehouse in town they will from time to time be brought by an especial carrier from Enfield. The topographical books are divided into classes accord

ing to their several counties; and of these there is an exact Catalogue printed; but, unluckily, the impression (with the exception of a single copy) was consumed by fire.*

"I beg that you will have the goodness to present my best respects to the Vice-Chancellor,† with many thanks for his obliging letter, and that you will consider me as

"Your faithful, humble Servant,

"To Rev. John Price, Bodleian."

J. NICHOLS."

P. 560. William Bray, Esq. joint author with Rev. Owen Manning of the "History of Surrey," in three volumes folio, and Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries, died at his residence at Shere, near Guildford, on the 21st Dec. 1832, in his 97th year. He was baptized at the same place on the 7th Nov. 1736. He was descended from a younger branch of Bray, barons of the realm; was educated at Rugby, and placed with an eminent attorney at Guildford, but soon removed to London to a situation in the Board of Green Cloth, which he continued to hold for nearly fifty years, when he was permitted to retire on a superannuated allowance. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1771, and Treasurer in 1803, and was a frequent contributor to the Archæologia. His first work was "Sketch of a Tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire, including part of Buckingham, Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Northampton, Bedford, and Hertford shires, in 1783, 8vo., which is illustrated from some of the early drawings of John Carter, afterwards draughtsman to the Society of Antiquaries. In 1800 Mr. Bray compiled "Collections relating to Henry Smith, Esq. sometime Alderman of London, the estates by him given to Charitable Uses, and the Trustees appointed by him," printed in 8vo. ; on which subject there is a later work by Mr. Charles Perkins Gwilt, B.A. 1836. Mr. Manning, who had commenced the History of Surrey, died in 1801, before he quite finished the first volume. Mr. Bray undertook to complete the work, for which purpose he visited every parish and church in the county. The first volume was published in 1804, the second in 1809, and the third and last in 1814, when he was in his 78th year. Mr. Bray was the first to present to the world some of the Loseley MSS., and those of the Evelyn family at Wotton; and it was in consequence of his introducing to the latter Mr. Upcott of the London Institution that the Diary of the author of Sylva was given to the public. See further of Mr. Bray in the Gentleman's Magazine for Jan. 1833, p. 87.

Mr. Bray had held the office of Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries for twenty years, when he resigned in 1823, and THOMAS AMYOT, esq. was elected in his room. It would be

* A Catalogue of Mr. Gough's Collections was afterwards printed by the University in 4to. 1814: see Gentleman's Magazine, vol. lxxxiv. 1. 479. + Dr. Parsons.

Of the Rev. Owen Manning, see Lit. Anecd. Index, VII. 248, 623. Lit. Illust. Index, VIII. 70.

unpardonable to omit the name of this gentleman, who was universally beloved by his numerous friends. He died Sept. 28, 1850, and ample justice was done to his memory by his old friends Mr. Henry Crabb Robinson and Mr. John Bruce, (the latter of whom was the next Treasurer of the Society,) in the Gentleman's Magazine for Jan. 1851, accompanied by a portrait of Mr. Amyot, a very excellent likeness.

P. 568. The Rev. Richard Polwhele, of Polwhele, near Truro, was born Jan. 6, 1760, the son of Thomas Polwhele, Esq. by Mary Thomas. He was educated at Truro School under Dr. Cardew, and at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1782 he was ordained Deacon, and was appointed Curate of Lamorran. Shortly afterwards he married Miss Warren, and became Curate of Kenton, where he resided ten years, and produced many of his works, both in verse and prose. "The English Orator," his Translations from the Idyllia of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, and the Elegies of Tyrtæus, were deservedly commended. His "History of Devonshire" was begun at Kenton, and the second volume was the first published, 1793. The first volume of the work appeared in 1797; and the whole was ultimately completed in three thin folio volumes, but not much to his own satisfaction or that of his subscribers. His work cannot be considered so much as a regular history of the county as a poetical description of scenery, biographical notices, and articles more to the taste of men of genius than the antiquary. In 1793 he lost his first wife. In the following year he was married to his second wife a daughter of Captain Tyrrell, and removed to Exmouth. He was then presented by Bishop Buller to the vicarage of Manaccan, Cornwall, where he spent some of his happiest days, and there he published "The Influence of Local Attachment, and other poems." In 1797, "The Old English Gentleman, a Poem;" in 1798, "The Unsex'd Females;" in 1799, "Grecian Prospects, a poem." Whilst at Manaccan he also published various volumes of "Sermons," and other religious works. In 1806 he removed to Kenwyn, near Truro, on account of the education of his sons; and whilst at Kenwyn his ardour for publication was unabated. Volumes of Poems too numerous to mention were produced. Amongst others, were the "Family Pictures," 1808; "The Minstrel ;""The Deserted Village School," 1812; "Fair Isabel," 1815; and "Specimens of the Picturesque," 1819. Between 1810 and 1821 Mr. Polwhele published no less than ten different works on Theology, or subjects connected therewith.

Mr. Polwhele's "History of Cornwall" consists of seven thin volumes, 4to. 1803. Vols. I. II. and III. contain the General History. Vol. IV. the Civil and Military History. Vol. V. the Language, Literature, and Literary Character of Cornwall, with Illustrations from Devonshire. This volume contains also much biographical information. Vol. VI. contains a Cornish-English Vocabulary, &c. Vol. VII. much statistical information.

In 1821 Bishop Carey presented Mr. Polwhele to the vicarage of Newlyn, Cornwall, where he resided till 1828. In 1823