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Letter from the Earl of Oxford, dated April 19, 1734: "SIR, "By this day's post I received the enclosed. St. John's College. You will let me know if you would have me write to him again for any more papers relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, as he mentions, and I will. I am, your humble servant, "OXFORD. "P.S. You see that I take care to get you all the information I can that you may depend on." 8 Extract of another letter written by the said Earl, and dated 10 Dec. 1734: on King James I., 149 Arms Wanted Astronomical letter and paper from the Rev. Mr. Baker, of Verses-Barten-"The Barrow Diggers Broadsides Bridgnorth Election Chaucer MSS. "The Cid"-The Coming, the Chieftain, and Badge of the Mac Raes, or M'Craas-General Dilkes-"The Elms," Smithfield Gopsill "The Green Bag' Huguenot Pastors enter the Church of England-Interment in the Goodwin Sands Jack Ketch and his BrotherhoodMummy Cases-Philip, Earl of Pembroke's Will, &c., 149. 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Now I have found the author of Mr. Booth's fine MS. in Defence of the Lawful Regiment of Women, to have been Henry Earl of Northampton himself; and he had this beautiful copy of it made in the year 1613, which he then presented to Sir Robert Cotton, to be preserved in his library. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth consists of fifty pages. The rest of the book, 426 pages more in folio, appears to have been written in the 32nd year of her reign, or A.D. 1590. Mr. Booth told me he bought the MS. in Chester. See A. Wood's Athen. Oxon., Fasti, i. 102., edit. 1721 (Bliss's edit. Fasti, i. 182.)6 Mar. 15. Mr. Joseph Morgan's Life and Character of Prince Henry, published from Sir Charles Walpole (Royal and Noble Authors, i. 177., ed. 1759), in his Life of the Earl of Northampton, mentions a MS. of this work as being then in his possession, and another in the Bodleian [Arch. A. 170.] In Harl. MS. 7021, art. 11, occurs, "An Answere to the Coppie of a rayleinge Invective against the Regement of Woemen in generall, with certaine maliparte Exceptions to divers and sundry Matters of State; written unto Queene Elizabeth by the Right Honourable Henry Lord Howard, late Earle of Northampton." 116 pages, fairly written. "You see I omitt no opportunity to furnish you with every thing I can possibly towards the perfecting the good work you have undertaken, and indeed you deserve all encouragement, for you take true pains." In the Literary Magazine, 8vo. for January, 1736, there is an abstract of this Life introduced with these words: "It is the duty of a biographer to be industrious in collecting his materials, careful in his choice of them, and regular in digesting them. Mr. Oldys has failed in neither of these particulars. He has taken in all the assistance that could be had from printed books and manuscripts of the best credit. He has been indefatigable in the search of authorities, and made a proper and judicious use of whatever publick records or private anecdotes could afford for his purpose.' Extract of a letter from Scarborough, by Robt Robinson, Esq., Recorder, dated 10th October, 1736; no consequence no more than the quotation from Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper in her Muses Library, 8vo. 1737, in her character of Sir Walter Ralegh. A letter from Mr. George Vertue to me, dated October 13, 1743, sent with Geo. Gascoigne's 7 The work alluded to by Oldys is entitled The Life and Character of Henry-Frederic, Prince of Wales, writRoyal Highness's Household. The Dedication is signed ten by Sir Charles Cornwallis, sometime Treasurer of His J. M. Lond. 8vo. 1738. At pp. 43, 44, Mr. Oldys is commended as "a very exact and faithful writer," and "an accurate biographer." 8 The kindness of this noble Earl is also thus acknowledged by Oldys in his Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, Works, ed. 1829, i. 62.: "The three letters, whereof I have here given the substance in Ralegh's own words, were communicated to me by the Right Hon. the Earl of Oxford [Edward, the second Earl], from the collections of the reverend and learned Mr. Baker of St. John's College, Cambridge, who copied them out of the originals." Steele Glass, a Satyre, 4to. 1576, wherein he has 17. Wrote the Dedication of Mr. Hayward's British Muse to the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, which she approved of. 20. To speak with Mr. Birch about an abstract of the Life of Ralegh for the General Dictionary. Also to ask him whether, in his late edition of Milton's Prose Works, he has inserted or mentioned A Copy of a Letter from an Officer of the Armey cerning the changing of the Government, dated from Waterford, 24 of June, 1654, in 4to., attested under the hand of Henry Earl of Clarendon, to be written by Milton. In the Literary Note Book, written with that Earl's own hand, whence I draw this information, and which is in my possession, there is also a book entered with this title, which should be enquired after, The Life of Edward Lord Herbert, Baron of Cherbury and Custle Islands in Ireland, and Knight of the Order of the Bath, written by himself for the instruction of his posterity. This MS. was lent me (says my Lord) by the Lady Dowager Herbert, daughter to the Earl of Bradford, June 11th, 1696.5 22. Saw Mr. Ames in the afternoon, and gave 18. To remember it be enquired of Mr. Martin 10, what memorials he has, among Mr. Le Neve's papers relating to Norfolk, of Sir John Fastolfe, for augmenting my life of him, which is inserted in the General Dictionary [10 vols. fol. 17341741.] Also to ask Mr. Anstis if he has any further account than what he has publish'd of him. Mr. Locker 2 promised me to borrow of Dr. Raw-him more materials for Mr. Ward of Sir Thomas linson Father Parsons' (or Cresswell's) Answer to Queen Elizabeth's Proclamation against the Seminary priests, which is a MS., and, as he says, in English, though I never saw any but the Latin one, printed in two or three places abroad, A° | 1592, 1593, &c., as I have quoted it in the Life of Ralegh. Father Parsons does not deny it to be his, and Watson, in his Quodlibets [4to. 1602, p. 107.], often calls it his; but Lord Coke and other contemporary writers constantly ascribe it to Father Cresswell.3 As to the internal evidence of this poem being Raleigh's, the critics are at variance. Oldys and Brydges assume that it is completely in Raleigh's favour: Mr. D'Israeli, also, though he hesitates about the spelling of the name [Rawely], says that "these verses, both by their spirit and signature, cannot fail to be his;" while Mr. Tytler says, that "although written in the quaint style of his age, their poetical merit is below his other pieces, and it is difficult to believe that they flowed from the same sweet vein which produced the answer to Marlow's Passionate Shepherd." Oldys (Life of Ralegh, i. 22., ed. 1829), however, says that "the poem itself, to me, discovers, in the very first line of it, a great air of that solid axiomatical vein which is observable in other productions of Ralegh's muse:· 'Sweet were the sauce would please each kind of taste.” ” 2 John Locker, Esq. barrister, and commissioner of 5 In Dodd's Church History, ed. 1789, vol. ii. pp. 405. 419., it is attributed to Robert Parsons as well as to Joseph Creswell. The Bodleian Catalogue has the following note: "Auctor fuit vel Jos. Creswellus vel Rob. Parsons, Jesuita, vel utrique junctim." It is written to prove the lawfulness of rising against what the writer calls an heretic prince, and entitled, "Elizabethæ Angliæ Gresham, from Sir Robert Cotton and David Papillon. Bought for him at Bacon's auction, Arnold's Chronicle for 9s. 6d., and for Mr. Thompson, John Collins his Discourse on Salt and Fishery [4to. 1682], with the Treatise of Watermachines, for 4s. 9d. To dine with him on Sunday, and meet Dr. Oxley about Cecil's Letters. 24. Met Mr. Calverley, Hayward, &c., at the Greyhound Tavern, in the Strand, and they finished about the Sportsman. Mr. Hayward to go to Andover on Monday the 27th. 26. Dined with Mr. Ames. Had some talk with reginae in Catholicos sui regni edictum, cum responsione ad singula capita; per D. Andream Philopatrum, presbyterum," 8vo. 1592; 8vo. et 4to. 1593. A reply to this work was written in English, entitled "An Advertisement written to a Secretarie of my L. Treasurer's of Ingland, by an Inglishe Intelligencer as he passed throughe Germanie towardes Italie. Anno Dom. 1592." Svo. Consult also Miscellanies Historical and Philological, &c. found in a Nobleman's Study, p. 171, 1703, and Oldys's Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, i. 168., ed. 1829. 4 This Letter is in the British Museum among the King's Pamphlets (Press mark 104 a. 10.) It is signed R. G., and dated "Waterford, 24 Iune, 1654;" but on the copy in Thomason's collection, he has written "A feigned date," and has substituted that of 1656 with his pen. The pamphlet makes 23 pages of 4to. The style is Miltonic. 5 This book, which Walpole pronounced "the most extraordinary account that was ever given seriously by a wise man of himself," was first printed at Strawberry Hill in 1764. For a most amusing account of the manner in which Walpole obtained the use of the MS., see his Letter to Montagu of 16th July, 1764. The most complete edition is said to be that published by Jeffrey, London, 1826. 6 Of David Papillon, Esq., of Acryse or Aukridge, in Kent, who, after sitting in Parliament for Romney and Dover, was appointed one of the Commissioners of Excise in 1742, there is a brief memoir in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, v. 470., et seq. Dr. Oxley and Mr. White about the intended publication of Cecil's Letters, and was asked if I would assist in it. Understand that they would publish from the beginning of old Cecil's administration to the end of Robert Earl of Salisbury's Life, 1612; but find that they are inclined to leave out the letters and testimonies of Princess Elizabeth's girlish frolicks with Ambrose Dudley. Were these letters to be fairly published by an indifferent and unbiassed person who had intimacy enough with the period of time they comprehend, to know what would be most needful to complete the history of it, he might probably find enough to satisfy the most curious out of this collection. But where many important things must be stifled in favour to the character of one man, History descends as corrupted to posterity through the wilful partiality of the knowing, as through all the involuntary imperfections of ignorance. 31. Much talk with Mr. Jernegan' about his late lottery; the troubles and opposition he has had in it; by what means he avoided the Act of Parliament; how the ladies stood his friend; and upon what proffer his fine bason and ewer, which was at first so much admired by Lord B-n, came to be slighted. Also why he made those emblems upon his medals, rather than a representation of the great cistern or himself upon them. Also of the talents of Vanloo1, the portrait painter, so much in vogue now at court; and concerning a print to be made of Capt. Robert Jenkins, who had his ear cut off by the Spaniards 2; and, lastly, A Collection of State Papers left by William Cecil, Lord Burghley, edited by Samuel Haynes, A.M. fol. 1740. 8 Afterwards Baron L'Isle and Earl of Warwick. Probably Oldys was thinking of Elizabeth's girlish tricks with Sir Thomas Seymour (Lord Seymour of Sudley) which are not suppressed in the Burghley State Papers (see pp. 99-102.). Lord Seymour made his addresses to the Princess Elizabeth with so much warmth that the Council found it necessary to interfere, and the depositions of several persons taken on that occasion have been preserved by Haynes in the above work. Mr. Henry Jernegan, fourth son of Sir Francis Jerningham or Jernegan, of Cossey, in Norfolk, a goldsmith and jeweller, in Russell Street, made a curious silver cistern (of which there is a fine engraving by Vertue), which was disposed of by lottery about the year 1740. The price of a ticket was five or six shillings, and the purchaser had a silver medal worth about three shillings into the bargain. There were 30,000 tickets, and the medals induced many people to buy them. He died 8th Nov. 1761, and was buried at St. Paul's, Covent Garden. See Nichols's Lit. Anec. ii. 518. 1 This was John Baptist Vanloo, who came to London in 1787, and whose portraits of Colley Cibber and Mac Swinney the actor, procured him the patronage of the Prince and Princess of Wales and Sir Robert Walpole. 2 In June, 1781, the Rebecca, commanded by Capt. Jenkins, was taken in her passage from Jamaica by a Spanish Guarde Costa, who put all on board to the torture. The captain was hung up three times, once with a cabin boy at his feet, and afterwards had one of his ears cut off, bidding him to carry it to his king, and tell his of his strange projects to prevent all disputes in religion, provide fortunes for all younger sons, and marry all the daughters without any portions. He certainly is a pleasant man in his nature, of an open, generous, and brave spirit, and no wonder he should be somewhat conceited, or strive by uncommon flights and fancies to make the abilities of his mind appear extraordinary, who has been by nature so liberally endowed with those of the body, having been a man of the greatest agility in his time, very personable; and it is much his elegant form and features are not more declined, considering how much he has been lately harrased by this troublesome engagement; how much more possibly by his amours and gallantries; and that though he yet appears not above forty, he is drawing on towards fifty years of age. Apr. 6. Passed some time with Mr. Caban very merrily; promis'd to come and bring the French Books he so much recommends. To enquire more particularly about the translator of Milton's Paradise Lost into French, with whom he seems to have been acquainted when he was last in France. 14. Mr. Vertue called. Memorandum, when I write to Mr. Hayward, to mention the plays Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was to have had of him for Lady Pomfret. 20. Remember to go with Mr. Ames to Mr. Pate3 to get a sight of some observations he has in manuscript on The History of the Three Impostors. Mr. Lewis his Life of Caxton to be out in three weeks. 22. The merry Gascon promised to procure me of Capt. Le Croise a sight of the famous book called The History of the Three Impostors, the manuscript whereof is valued at five guineas. The French manuscript is a translation, or pretends to be so, from the Latin; and has a French dissertation upon it prefixed, which, by the beginning, whereof he shewed me a copy, should be the same as that Mr. Ames talks of.5 28. Finished the Catalogue of my English Lives, 8vo. in 74 pages, concerning above 200 English persons. Mr. Caban, among the French authors he brought for me, did lend me one somewhat like Mr. Hayward's Collection in three volumes, but is far from being so general or various; for majesty, that if he were present they would use him in the same manner. - Gent. Mag. i. 265.; viii. 336. 5 William Pate, the friend of Dean Swift, who lived over against the Royal Exchange, and was commonly called the learned tradesman." In 1734 he was one of the sheriffs of London, and died in 1746.-Nichols's Lit. Anec. i. 99. John Evelyn published in 1669, The History of Three Impostors, Padre Ottomanno, Mahomed Bei, and Sabatai Sevi, the Messiah of the Jews in 1666, with the Ground of the Present War between the Turk and the Venetian, and the Cause of the Extirpation of the Jews out of Persia, 8vo. 5 The Gascon is probably Caban, mentioned April 6th. |