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Charlton Wollaston, his eldest son, died unmarried in 1729; and is thus recorded in the chancel of Great Finborough church: "H. S. E. Charlton Wollaston, arm', Gulielmi filius natu maximus,

vir naturâ eximiâ atque illustri,
quam literarum et artium studiis ita excoluit,
ut ad summum reipublicæ munus
cùm dignitate accederet.

Sibi ipsi verò potissimum cordi fuit more majorum,
agere privatus, et esse notus
in Deum spectatæ pietatis,
paterni in fratres et propinquos animi,
benignitatis in eruditos,

et in omnes humanissimæ suavitatis.
Ob. Aug. 6, a. C. 1729, æt. 39."

After his decease, the family estates became the property of the next brother, William, who resided at Finborough Hall, Suffolk, who died in 1757, at the age of 64; and was succeeded in his estates at Shenton and at Finborough by

William his second (but eldest surviving) son; Colonel of the Suffolk Militia; and M. P. for Ipswich 1768-1780; who died at Bath, Nov. 10, 1797, s. p.; and is thus recorded at Shenton: "D. O. M.

William Wollaston, son and heir of
William and Elizabeth Wollaston,
died Nov. 9, 1797, aged 66 years.
Fredericus, frater et hæres, F. C. M."

He was succeeded by his next brother, Frederick Wollaston, of Clare Hall, Cambridge; LL. B. 1759; LL. D. 17.. : one of his Majesty's Chaplains, Lecturer of St. James in Bury, and Prebendary of Peterborough; all which he resigned; Rector of Woolverstone, Suffolk, and of Peekirk, with Glenton, Northamptonshire. He married, in 1753, Mary Ray, by whom he had one son; who, with the mother, is thus recorded at Shenton: " M. S.

Mariæ conjugis dilectissimæ Frederici Wollaston,
quod mori potuit hic subtùs depositum est.
Talis fuit naturæ indoles,

talis erga amicos, parentes, conjugem, Deum,
fides, pietas, amor, cultus,
talis erga omnes benevolentia,
ut paucas visa est æquales,
superiorem neminem relinquere.
Dolores, heu! nimium atriduos
longè præter fidem tolerans,
ignoscens injuriis, ignoscátque precata Deum,
in primo puerperio, cooperante phthisi,
vitam, ah! brevem,

quam verè Christianâ peregerat patientia,
verè Christianâ resignavit patientiâ,

27mo Septris, 1758, ætat. 23;

nuptis innuptisque exemplar,

amicis luctum, probis piisque sui desiderium,
mærorem conjugi ineffabilem, relinquens.
Hæc si redundent, Hospes benevole,
Ignoscas Vidui, precor, Elogiis;
Si supra modum defleat mortuam,
Quam longè præter solitum dilexit vivam.
Fredericus, nativâ cinctus innocentiâ,
Infans obiit, Novris 21, 1758,

felix in græmio matris etiam mortuæ."

He married, secondly, Priscilla Ottley (still living); and died at the Hot-wells, Bristol, and was buried in Clifton church, where the following inscription is placed on an elegant tablet : "In a vault beneath lie the remains

of Frederick Wollaston, LL. D.

third son of William and Elizabeth Wollaston,
of St. Edmund's Bury, in the county of Suffolk.
He was born July 14, 1735;

and died at Clifton, March 8, 1801.

Laude sepulchrali quid inanius? Æqua trophæa
Cui non Vita dedit, neve Sepulchra dabunt.
Marmorei Præconis eget si Fama superstes,
Nomen cum membris vile perire volo.
Hoc qualecunque' pietatis indicium
F. W. W. filius & hæres
diuturnum precatur."

Dr. Wollaston left four sons; of whom the eldest,

1. Frederick-William Wollaston, esq. formerly Colonel in the Second Light Dragoons; High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1807; and who is the present owner of Shenton Hall; which he has considerably improved, by the new front, and by the additional ornament of elegant and spacious gardens and plantations.

2. George Wollaston, Lieutenant-colonel of the Western Battalion of the Suffolk Militia, and one of the Deputy-lieutenants. 3. Charles Wollaston, Captain the Royal Navy.

4. Henry-John Wollaston, of Sidney College, Cambridge; B. A. 1792; M. A. 1795; Chaplain to his Majesty; some time Rector of Pasley, co. Northampton; and now Rector of Scotter, co. Lincoln.

P. 269. Of Sir Hans Sloane, and of his house and museum at Chelsea, many interesting particulars are given by Mr. Faulkner, in his well-digested History of that Parish, pp. 233-260. — His Epitaph and a View of his Monument are in the same volume, p. 67; and a satisfactory account of the Physic Garden, to which Sir Hans was so very considerable a benefactor, in p. 18.

P. 430, I. 27. Strike out" ingenii;" and 1. 30, read, "ingenii præbuisti."

P. 443. Mr. Robert Hutchinson died at the early age of 22. The Portrait prefixed to his "Remains" exhibits him in the habit of an Under-graduate of Sidney Sussex College.

P. 467. The liberal gift of Mr. Capell s Shakesperiana to Trinity College occasioned a most striking proof of the wanton industry

of

of Mr. Steevens, who was at the trouble of transcribing the MS Catalogue; and at the expence of printing a few copies of it, which he distributed amongst a few friends, with an injunction "not to permit the publication to fall into the hands of any Bookseller or Printer*;" though almost at the same instant he sent the following remarks on it to the Critical Review, vol. XLIX. p. 79. "Catalogue of Mr. Capell's Shakesperiana; presented by him to Trinity College, Cambridge, and printed from an exact copy of his own MS. 1779." [No Publisher, or Price.]

"This general title is backed by the following edict and enumeration of manuscripts: June 26, 1779. Ordered, by the Master and Seniors, agreeably to the express desire of Mr. Capell, that the whole Collection given by him be kept together in the same class; and that no manuscript or book belonging to it be taken out of the Library on any pretence whatever.

'MSS.

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"J. PETERBOROUGH, M. C.'

1. "Shakespeare," by E. C. 6 vols. 4to †.

2. "N. & V R." belonging to it, and the "School of Shakespeare," by ditto, 3 vols. 4to, (containing in them besides, a "General Glossary" to his Plays, of the order and time of writing them, a Treatise; a "Brief Essay on Verse," as of his modelling; the "Notitia Dramatica;" and "Anecdotes of Sir John Fastolfe of Castre in Norfolk," by Lord Dacre.

3. Milton's" Paradise Lost," by E. C. 4to. (at the end of it, -a Treatise on Letters, intitl'd" Hermes," &c. and a " Vocabulary of the Poem, marked.

4. Prolusions, or Select Pieces of ancient Poetry," by E. C. 2 vols. 4to, small.

5. "Shakespeare's Poems," by E. C. Svo."

Here succeeds a second title, viz. " Catalogue of a Collection intitled Shakesperiana; comprehending all the several Editions of the Works of Shakespeare, old and new, divers rare old Editions of Writers Prose-men and Verse-men; with a variety of other articles, chiefly such as tend to illustrate him; made by his last Editor, E. C. and by him deposited in the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge, this eleventh day of June in the year 1779."

This pamphlet, consisting of a sheet and a half, we received by the penny-post, unaccompanied with either card or letter. If it be a performance designed hereafter forgeneral inspection, we are obliged by so early a sight of it. But if a few copies of it only are printed off, for the use or entertainment of particular Readers * One of these injunctions, an autograph, I possess, with one of the rare copies of the Catalogue.

"The four remaining articles are not yet [1780] deposited in the Library. G. S."

In the conclusion of some severe remarks on Mr. Capell, in the Critical Review, vol. XLIII. p. 352, Mr. Steevens adds, "that a Right Reverend Critic, in a private Letter (which he once had the pleasure to peruse), with great frankness acknowledges every Editor of Shakespeare to have exposed himself in some degree; but that this man [Mr. Capell] has hung bimself up in chains over the Poet's grave."-See also a severe Review of Mr. Capell's labours in vol. LVI. p. 404.

(which we suspect to be the case) we know not why the Editor, or any of his friends, should wish to have a work characterised to the publick, in which the publick will have so little interest. We shall therefore content ourselves with observing, that the Catalogue before us contains 363 articles, comprized in 245 volumes, together with a list of Desiderata, and the three subsequent pieces of information, the value of which we submit to the judgment of our Readers. - MS Note in Mr. Capell's copy of Hanmer's Shakespeare, 4to: These books were a present to the Rev. Arthur Kynnesman (head master of a school which he raised to the greatest splendour, and maintained in that splendour for half a century, the school of St. Edmund's Bury) from his Friend and Patron, their Editor: and came to their now possessor, E. C. by bequest of that gentleman, in a will, which honours his grateful scholar with the title of-The true Restorer of Shakespeare." March 26, 1774.

"MS Note in Capell's Shakespeare, vol. I. “N. B. In marking the Poet's numbers, as is done in this copy, it was not perceived till too late that breves were not necessary, and the copy is something blemished by effacing those breves: nor is the marking so otherwise perfect as could be wished in all places, being a first essay, and there may be mistakes in it. 'Tis of the year 69. E. C."

MS Note on the title-page of the Letter to George Hardinge, Esq. 1777. "Seen through the press by Mr. H- -ge:" Note in p. 18 added, "and the Postscript new moulded by him. E. C." -From the last memorandum, it should seem that part of this Letter was written by the gentleman to whom it is addressed *."

P. 505. Mr. Hardinge, as well as Archdeacons Cambridge and Coxe, are mistaken in the appellation of Lord Braybrooke's Father, which was not " Mr. Aldworth Neville," but "Mr. Neville" only, or rather Mr. Neville Neville. Before he changed his name (in 1762) from Aldworth to Neville, his appellation was Richard Neville (both Christian names) Aldworth, afterwards he dropped entirely the name of Aldworth when he took the name of Neville, retaining his two Christian names of course.

P. 549. The following Letter from Abp. Cornwallis to Dr Davies, and another from Dr. Davies to Dr. Timothy Thomas, were communicated by Edward Evans, esq. of Eyton Hall, Leominster, after the Life of Dr. Davies was finished at the press : Eccleshall, Sept. 17, 1768.

"MY DEAR SNEYD †,

"I return you my hearty thanks for your kind congratulations, and friendly wishes, upon my unexpected promotion. I am sorry to hear your health is not better; and heartily wish for

*This Epistle, however (as we have since been informed) received some addition from the pen of the late Lord Dacre-tante molis erat. But all would not succeed. The Subscribers to Mr. Capell's Notes were so few, that his Editor was ashamed to print their names.” G. S. 1793.

+ This Letter is an ample proof of the good Primate's strong attachment to Dr. Davies; and mentions the Father of Mr. Evans in a very pleasing way. It was to Abp. Cornwallis and Lord Camden that Dr. Davies dedicated his Poems in MS. They were his intimate Friends; and certainly the two first men in Church and State.

its amendment. If Evans is with you, tell him I am not unmindful of him. There is nobody I have greater regard for than you; and can assure you that I am, dear Sir, with the utmost sincerity, your faithful friend, &c. FRED. CANT. Elect,

"P. S. My wife desires her compliments. She has got the money for the cyder sent to Lord Cornwallis last spring, and will leave it with Mr. Hinckly for you."

"MY DEAR DOCTOR,

Dec. 18, 1746.

"I heard from you, prima vice, a little before morning church on Sunday; and 2da, per Ben. Thomas, who kept the Letter in his hands but one day; the purport of it an apology for not acknowledging the receipt of venison. This puzzled me at fir-t; because you know me too well to imagine I could expect any such formality. After due muzzing and plodding how this came to pass, I found it out: namely, I bade Susan ask John Barber, whether any venison came safe, being really suspicious it might be spoiled that muggy weather. Dr. Cranke * values your present highly, to whom I shewed your Letter, and added a few Stanzas. Ad P. C. M. D. cum Numismate THOMASIANO.

Freindii vultum, meritò perenni

Ære sacratum, licet intueri.
Februm victor, celer & fidelis,

Freindius ille est.

Parte in adversa, gemina en imago!
Ut manus gaudent sociare amicas!
Hic pater quidnì Hippocrates, Fruenus
Audiat alter?

Artis o solers veteris novæque,

Docte sermonis utriusque Cranki;

Quem priùs vester, meus, erudito

Munere donet?

sc. T. T.

On which he asked a few more, on poor Pe's Recovery, as follow:

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Peter Cranke, M. D. who built and resided at Eyton Hall.

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