sidering its construction, he unconsciously stepped from off a broad beam on which he was standing, and on both sides of which the flooring had been removed, fell through the aperture, and striking his head in the fall was killed on the spot. He was buried, at the expressed wish of the Dean and Chapter of Ely, in Bishop Alcock's chapel in the north aisle of their beautiful cathedral, with the full cathedral service, the Bishop himself officiating. Among the many mourners who attended his remains to their honoured grave, were the Dean, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Dr. French, the Rev. H. S. Selwyn, Professor Willis, and several other distinguished members of the University of Cambridge.

P. 881. Edward Hay, Esq. died Oct. 13, 1826; see Gent. Mag. 1826, p. 477, and Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors, 1816, p. 150.

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P. 869. The Rev. William Layton died Feb. 19, 1831, at his residence, St. Mary at Elms, Ipswich, in his 81st year. He was the only surviving son of the Rev. Andrew Layton, A.M. for twenty-eight years Rector of St. Matthew in Ipswich, descended from an ancient family in Yorkshire, a pedigree of which is given in Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis.' He was born in the rectory house of Sproughton in Suffolk, and placed at a very early age under the tuition of his uncle, the Rev. Anthony Temple, A.M. Master of the Free Grammar School at Richmond in Yorkshire. After having reaped the benefit of his uncle's instruction for a period of nine years, he was removed to St. Paul's school, London, and, with an exhibition from that school, was entered a pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proceeded A.B. in 1773, and A.M. in 1776. In 1774 he was licensed, on the nomination of George-William Earl of Bristol, to the perpetual curacy of Playford in Suffolk; and in the following year was presented by the Crown to the rectory of Helmley in the same county, and to that of St. Matthew in Ipswich. In 1826 he resigned the curacy of Playford. In his public as well as in his private character Mr. Layton was highly valued and deservedly respected; and few persons ever passed a more active and useful life. On all subjects connected with ecclesiastical affairs, his knowledge and information were most correct and extensive; these therefore were constantly sought after by his clerical brethren, and as freely and kindly imparted to them. A zealous advocate for civil and religious liberty, and firmly attached to those constitutional principles which were established at the Revolution, his sentiments were liberal and enlarged; and, although such sentiments at one time exposed him to obloquy and censure, yet on every occasion he fearlessly maintained them, and boldly acted up to those principles with firmness and consistency. In disposition he was kind and benevolent, and his contributions to charitable institutions, more especially to those of Ipswich and his native county, were liberal and extensive, and exceeded only by his more numerous acts of private beneficence.

Mr. Layton was never married, but he left two sisters, viz. Elizabeth, the wife of the Rev. Joseph Lowthian, M.A. Vicar of Thatcham, Berks, and Mrs. Marianne Layton, of Ipswich, who died January 26, 1844, aged 81.

In 1815 Mr. Layton was presented by the members of the Ipswich Book Club with a handsome gold medal, commemorative of his services; and at the time of his decease he was one of the oldest surrogates and incumbents in the county of Suffolk, as well as members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, of which he was for many years the valuable and active secretary to the District Committee of the town of Ipswich.

Mr. Layton possessed a very valuable and extensive library, rich in works of topography, antiquities, and genealogy, to which branches of literature he was early and ardently attached; and in which not a book was to be found that did not contain some marks of his corrective hand. But his attention was chiefly directed to the ecclesiastical history of his native county, and in this, his favourite department, his manuscript collections were most ample, and of the highest value from their extreme accuracy and minuteness of research. The writer of this memoir has often heard him remark, that 'for fear of error he dared not put pen to paper;' but when the pen was once put, the fact or date was then unquestionable.

The pages of the Gentleman's Magazine were frequently indebted to him for many useful corrections, and various short biographical notices; and those of the Literary Anecdotes,' as well as the 'Illustrations,' are enriched with many of his valuable and judicious remarks. (See Advertisements to vol. VIII. of Lit. Anecd. and to vols. I. IV. and VI. of Lit. Illustrations.)

P. 869. The Rev. George Rogers died Dec. 15, 1836, at his rectory house at Sproughton, near Ipswich, where he had been Rector for upwards of half a century. See his character, by the Rev. J. Ford, in the Obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine, N. S. vol. v. p. 555. He published the Sermons of the Rev. E. Evanson in 1806.

P. 879. The interesting article on the Dawson family, and several Suffolk Worthies, was from the pen of the Rev. James Ford; as were also the following ones on the Rev. George Barton, p. 880, and Mr. John Mole, p. 887.

VOLUME VII.

The Reader is requested to notice the Additions and
Corrections in this volume at the beginning, p. xxv.

P. 1. Jan. 22, 1800, George Steevens, Esq. His library was sold in 1800 by Mr. King. The number of lots was 1943, and

*The Rev. James Ford. See before, p. 659.

they produced 27401. 15s. See account of the books by Mr Clarke in "Repertorium Bibliographicum," p. 543.

P. 23, 1. penult. r. " Thursday last, Jan. 8."

P. 90. Through the kindness of Mr. Hawkins, of the British Museum, and Mr. Blewitt, secretary of the Literary Fund, Mr. Robert Jamieson was nominated by Prince Albert to be one of the Poor Brethren of the Charter House. He came from Scotland about 1843, and died at the Charter House Sept. 4, 1844.

P. 99. See account of Dr. Traill in Literary Illustrations, vol. VIII. p. 382.-P. 103, l. 4, r. "Woodhouselee."

P. 103. The Rev. Edward Ryan, D.D. died January 1819. P. 105. In Aug. 1802, Dr. Anderson paid a visit to Bishop Percy at Dromore, and was welcomed by a Sonnet by Mr. T. Stott (see vol. VII. 174). Dr. Anderson returned to Edinburgh in October, and was addressed in another Sonnet, signed H. These two Sonnets were printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1802, ii. pp. 952, 1140.

P. 109, note. See a second letter of Lady Dalrymple, on the same subject, in vol. VIII. p. 374.

P. 120. Professor Richardson, of Glasgow, died Nov. 3, 1814. P. 134, l. 18 and 23 from bottom, r. "Woodhouselee."

P. 205, 1. 16. Dr. Alexander Adam died Dec. 20, 1809. See account of him in Gent. Mag. 1810, i. 178.

P. 302. In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1785, p. 741, are two letters, between the Bishop of Derry (afterwards Earl of Bristol) and Mr. James Boswell, on the proposed Union of England and Ireland.

P.316. Professor John Young, of Glasgow, died Nov. 18, 1820. P. 320. In a copy of "Moral and Historical Memoirs," by the Rev. William Johnson Temple, LL.B. which formerly belonged to the Rev. John Brickdale Blakeway, the excellent historian of Shrewsbury, and passed from him to the late Rev. Edward Burton,* D.D. Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, Mr. Blakeway has left these memoranda: "William Johnson Temple, LL.B. of Trinity college, Cambridge, was originally intended for the law, but afterwards took orders. He died August 1796. See Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. iii. pp. 190, 756. This gentleman was the author of the anonymous character of the late Mr. Gray, which has been adopted by Dr. Johnson. He is reported to have left a legacy of 300l. to John Wilkes for his attachment to freedom." The book occurred in the sale of Mr. Story's library at Shrewsbury, Oct. 29, 1857, lot 1540.

P. 327, note *. Of Mrs. Elizabeth Montague see Literary Anecdotes, Index, vol. VII. pp. 271, 630; Lit. Illust. Index, p. 74; and Chalmers's Dictionary, vol. XXII. p. 275.

P. 359. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Parr died at his parsonage of Hatton, co. Warwick, on the 6th March, 1825. See his Life, by

Dr. Burton died Jan. 19, 1836, in his 42d year. See memoir of him by the Rev. Dr. Bliss, in Gent. Mag. 1836, i. 310.

Dr. Johnstone, prefixed to Dr. Parr's Works, in 8 vols. 8vo. A long memoir of him is given in Gent. Mag. for April 1825. See notices of him in Lit. Anecd. Index, VII. pp. 310, 645. Lit. Illust. Index, VIII. 82.

P. 399, note. See an account of the Pitt diamond in Lit. Illust. VI. p. 67, and a cut of it in p. 70.

P. 401. On the Apamean Medal, see Additions in vol. VII. p. 437.

P. 405. Of the Roman Milliary found at Leicester, see Additions in p. 437 of the same volume.

P. 436. George Baker, esq. Historian of Northamptonshire, died on the 12th Oct. 1851, aged 70, and a memoir of him appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for Nov. 1851, p. 551.

P. 438. A portrait of Dr. Lort was painted for Rev. Wm. Cole, and had been copied for Dr. Farmer; both were returned to Mr. Cole Dec. 81, 1781. In a large drawing of Tickencote Church, by Mr. J. Carter, is a whole-length portrait of Dr. Lort, drawn by his permission. See Lit. Anecd. II. 678.

P. 454, note, 1. 1. Bishop Smallwell died June 26, 1799, at his palace at Cuddesden. He was elected Bishop of St. David's in 1783; and translated to Oxford in 1788. He was also a Canon of Christ Church, and Rector of Batsford, Gloucestershire.

P. 482, note 1. ult. Dr. James Macknight died January 13, 1800. See memoir in Gent. Mag. vol. LXX. p. 281.

P. 493. Mr. Soame Jenyns died Dec. 18, 1787. See Cole's character of him in this volume, p. 575; Index to Lit. Anecd. VII. 197, 602; Index to Lit. Illust. VIII. 59.

P. 503, note t. Of Dr. Samuel Hallifax, Bishop of St. Asaph, see Lit. Anecdotes, Index, VII. pp. 166, 585; IX. p. 659; and Chalmers's Dictionary, vol. XVII. p. 79.

P. 512, note. Of Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort, see Index to Lit. Illust. VIII. 8.

P. 513, note, add "Rev. Dr. Charles Berington, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Midland District, died June 9, 1798. He was a scholar of great classical taste, a man whose judgment was profound, and whose hilarity of conversation rendered him the delight of society. '

P. 547, note, l. 3 from bottom, omit "it is believed," and refer to Gent. Mag. 1814, i. 480.

P. 555, 1. 4 from bottom, r. "Glynn."

P. 565. The Rev. Thomas Maurice, M.A. Assistant Keeper of the MSS. at the British Museum, was originally intended for the law; but his wish was to be in the Church. At his own earnest desire, an appeal was made to the celebrated Dr. Parr, who took a great interest on his behalf; he became one of the Doctor's favourite pupils, and was ever afterwards honoured by his friendship. On leaving school he entered at St. John's College, Oxford. The bent of his mind led him to poetry, as may be seen by the titles of his numerous early works. The first was a Translation of the Edipus Tyrannus of Sophocles; followed by "The School Boy,"

1775; "The Oxonian;" "Netherby," 1776; "Hagley," 1777; "Monody on the Duchess of Northumberland;" "Warley, a Satire," 1778. A collected volume of his Poems appeared in 1779. "lerne Rediviva;" "Westminster Abbey," 1784; "Panthea, or the Captive Bride, a Tragedy," 1789; "Elegy on Sir Wm. Jones," 1795; "The Crisis," 1798; "Grove Hill," 1799. In 1800 appeared another edition of his "Poems, Epistolary, Lyric, and Elegiacal;" in 1806, "The Fall of the Mogul, a Tragedy;" and in 1807," Richmond Hill, a Poem."

But the principal works on which rests Mr. Maurice's reputation as an author are those connected with the history of Ancient India, particularly of Hindostan, and other publications relative to the same subject. These met with great approbation, as they ably defended Christianity. His objects in writing such laborious works were ably stated in his Prefaces. (See also Gent. Mag. 1824, i. 470-472.)

Mr. Maurice published his own " Memoirs; comprehending the History of the Progress of Indian Literature, and Anecdotes of Literary Characters in Britain, during a period of thirty years." Three parts were published, carrying on his history to the year 1796, but the fourth and final part was never printed. The work is very amusing.

Mr. Maurice was in early life curate of Woodford, in Essex; where in 1786 he married Miss Pearce, an amiable lady, whose early death in 1793 was the greatest misfortune that could have happened to Mr. Maurice, as it entirely altered his mode of life.

The talents, attainments, and virtues of this learned and esteemed man amply expiated his singularities and infirmities.

Mr. Maurice died March 30, 1824, in his 70th year, and was buried at Woodford, accompanied to the grave by his nephew Wm. Bevill Maurice, Esq.; his executors Sir H. Ellis and J. B. Nichols; T. J. Pettigrew, Esq. Taylor Combe, Esq. and other friends.

P. 577, 1. ult. Rev. Samuel Harper died July 13, 1803 (not 1804); see Gent. Mag. for 1803, p. 697.

P. 581, 1. 2 from bottom. Elizabeth, third wife and widow of the Rev. Robert Nares, Archdeacon of Stafford, died at Exeter, May 20, 1853, aged 84. She was the youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr. S. Smith, formerly head-master of Westminster School. P. 594, note, 1. ult. add, "Gent. Mag. for 1848, p. 256." P. 598, 1. 20. "The Life of Goldsmith."-The Life was compiled from materials collected by Bishop Percy, who employed Dr. Thomas Campbell on the work in 1790 (see Lit. Illust. vol. VII. pp. 766, 777-780). Afterwards the Bishop transferred the materials to the Rev. Henry Boyd, who in 1797 completed the "Life" (see the following letter of Bishop Percy to Messrs. Cadell and Davies). The Life was ultimately published in the collected edition of the Poet's works, and edited by Samuel Rose, Esq. in 1802. It is thus noticed by Archdeacon Nares in a review of it in the British Critic for Sept. 1802" This