P. 213, 1. 4. Add note on "engagements." excellent remarks."

"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. 4žd.” The five last lines run thus :

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, l. 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 100,000 7. (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, rη 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, 1. 1, r. " Rev. Dr. Thomas Wray."

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.

"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.

his system, and the use to be made of it in religion, before he ventured to introduce it into his sermons at Boyle's lecture, about that time begun. They were deposited in the library at Cambridge, and at last printed in 1756, after I had a copy of them sixteen years in MS. In page 19, he quotes Blondel on Bombs, for Plato's Lyncea, that if the planets from some remote region had been let fall towards the sun, in arriving at their several orbs, their motion of falling would have turned into a transverse one. I doubt the passage is not in Plato's works, but in some of his scholiasts or commentators, as perhaps you may be informed by Mr. Muir.* From these it appears that Sir Isaac was at great pains to thrash his principles into Bentley's head, and prevent his misrepresenting them, and doing mischief. Wherefore he was a most arrogant pedant, in boasting that, if he had not introduced the Newtonian Philosophy into the world, Sir Isaac might have taught a school to his death at Cambridge.

"It must be owned that the clergy, who used to be frighted at common sense, were afraid both of him and Mr. Locke; and it is remarkable that Stillingfleet, who dreaded Locke's metaphysiks, was the first who incouraged the Newtonian philosophy in religion. Of all inen, Sir Isaac had the most comprehensive idea of the connexion of the material and moral world, without uttering his schemes otherwise than by his organs Drs. Bentley and Clarke, particularly the latter. At the Revolution we had some vestiges of Christianity in reformed churches, but none of its pure genuine principles. These Sir Isaac and Mr. Locke brought to light, which shone but faintly on my coming to town forty-one years ago. But had Sir Isaac's History of Christianity for the First Four Centuries escaped the flames, we should have seen to what a degree priests had corrupted it in those early ages (of this work some fragments and chapters still remain), more than sophists and mountebanks had vitiated all natural knowledge.

"You'll excuse these anecdotes on Sir Isaac's posthumous works, which your inquiries have led me into."

Egham, June 3, 1762. "I hear the Hutchinsonian cabbalists are busy mumbling the Newtonian Philosophy; one Jones having wrote a great book f against it, and Allen ‡ of Oxford has another in the press, gnawing it like a rat, which does no honour to that University education. From 1728 to 1729, I remember at the Bambou coffee-house,

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* Probably George Muir, M.A. of Paisley, Scotland, author of two sermons, Propagation of Christian Knowledge, Matt. viii. 11, 1766." 8vo. "Parable of the Sower, Luke viii. 5, 1769." 12mo.

† See p. 625.

John Allen, M.A. Vice-Principal of Magdalene hall, Oxford, B.C.L. 1730, author of "The Two-fold Evidence of Adoption. Rom. viii. 16. 1758." 8vo. "The Weakness and Wickedness of being Righteous over-much, the folly of affected Wisdom, and the ruin consequent upon both. Eccl. vii. 16. 1759." 8vo.-" No Acceptance with God with Faith only, James ii. 14. 1761." 8vo.-"The Enthusiasts' Notion of Election to Eternal Life disproved, 1 Cor. ix. 27. 1769." 8vo." Associations against the Established Church indefensible. Isaiah viii. 9, 10. 1773." 8vo.

corner of St. Martin's-lane, the old black Diogenes Hutchinson,* then clerk of the delivery of corn and hay in the King's Mews, there placed by Charles Duke of Somerset, from being his Master of Horse. He always moved in a solitary corner, and was known to the company by the name of a Dark Lantern; but knew no more of mathematics and philosophy than the King's horses. Nor can all his disciples together in one blind divan decypher any one section in the Principia, even with the help of all its commentators. I have a burlesque print, and wish it realised on their heads, a parcel of rats, one knawing Sir Isaac's books, papers, telescopes, and optical instruments; and above, Mother Mid-night drowns 'em in a deluge inscribed Frontis-p-. But men are too apt to believe what they hear, and discredit what they see."

"Egham, July 29, 1762.

"DEAR SIR, "You may justly wonder what is become of me in not answering your letter of June 28. But the 26th I set out for Oxford, and there waited till July 3 for the Hertford family, who promised to be there the 30th. I lived among the young people of Christ Church, Lord Beauchamp,† his brother, Sir James M'Donald,§ and Mr. Pepys, Mr. Swinton, and other acquaintances. dined twice in the hall, and frequented the common room, where conversation flows with the bottle. Three discourses I heard delivered in the Theatre, on the commemoration of their founders and benefactors, among all which the preference is still given to the Royal Martyr. In imitation of Dr. Blackstone's English Law lectures, Dr. Jenner** of Doctors' Commons having undertaken the civil law, but upon attending one of them I was surprised to find he had mistaken the law of nations for the civil. In short, I do not find that they have a notion of studying any one branch of science from regular principles, but harangue and lash away at all, turning their scholars into books of all sorts, like colts into a haymeadow, while their young tutors undertake all, before they are masters of any one.

"They have demolished able to understand it. just printed, intituled an

the Newtonian philosophy without being For there met a 4to book of 280 pages, Essay on the First Principles of New

* Rev. John Hutchinson. See Lit. Anecd. Index, vii. 192.

† Francis afterwards second Marquess of Hertford, K.G. created M.A. June 15, 1762. He succeeded his father 1794, and died 1822.

The Hon. Henry Seymour-Conway, of Hertford college, B.A. June 20, 1764; afterwards of Merton, M.A. July 1, 1767. He was subsequently Lord Henry Seymour-Conway, and died 1830.

§ Sir James Macdonald, 8th Baronet, succeeded 1746, died at Rome July 26, 1766, unmarried, and was succeeded by his brother Sir Alexander, afterwards created Lord Macdonald in 1776.

|| William Weller Pepys, of Christ Church, B.A. 1763, M.A. 1766; afterwards a master in chancery, created a Baronet in 1801, and father of Lord Chancellor Cottenham.

John Swinton, esq. of that ilk, afterwards Lord Swinton, and a member of the College of Justice in Scotland?

** Robert Jenner, of Trinity college, B.C.L. 1737, D.C.L. 1742, Regius Professor of Civil Law 1754-1767.