ing material Points, in opposition to vulgar Prejudices and Opinions, are clearly established: 1st, That this Abbey did not take its Name from the Head of Archbishop Becket, though it was dedicated to him: 2d, that the Founder of it had no Hand in the Murder of that Prelate; and, consequently, that the House was not erected in Expiation of that Crime; 3d, the Dependance of this House on that of Welbeck, in the County of Nottingham; a Matter hitherto unknown*. By the late Rev. Samuel Pegge, LL. D. F. A. S."

"A Comment upon part of the Fifth Journey of Antoninus through Britain; in which the Situation of Durocobrivæ, the Seventh Station there mentioned, is discussed; and Castor, in Northamptonshire, is shewn, from the various Remains of Roman Antiquity, to have an undoubted Claim to that Situation. To which is added, a Dissertation on an Image of Jupiter found there. By the Rev. Kennet Gibson, late Curate of Castor. Printed from the Original MSS; and enlarged with the Parochial History of Castor and its Dependencies to the present Time. To which is subjoined, an Account of Marham, and several other Places in the Neighbourhood," 4to.

* "This last mark of friendship, presented by the venerable Antiquary of Whittington to his and our Printer, is here offered to the Publick with every improvement it was capable of from the revisal and correction of his Son, whose pursuits were congenial with his Father's; and plates from drawings procured at the Editor's expence. All these circumstances united will, we doubt not, recommend this local work to the lovers of our national antiquities." Gent. Mag. LXXI. 1023.

"Kennet Gibson, Clerk, B. A. formerly of Christ's College, Cambridge, Rector of Marham, and Curate of Castor in the County of Northampton, proposed to print by subscription, for one guinea, A Comment upon Part of the Fifth Journey of Antoninus through Britain: in which a particular inquiry is made after the true situation of Durobrivis, the Seventh Station there mentioned. In this Work it will be attempted to prove, against the objections of some late Writers upon British Antiquities, that Castor in Northamptonshire has an indubitable claim to the Station in question. The remains of Roman camps,

military

"Brief State of the Royal Humane Society;" as delivered by Mr. Beaumont*, their Registrar, for

military ways, tesselated pavements, sepulchral and other urns, local deities, aquæducts, the antient navigable Roman cut called Caer-dike, coins, and several other Roman antiquities, are considered in an historical view; the whole tending to illustrate the parochial antiquities of Castor, and the adjacent parts in the liberty of Peterborough, and some other places in the County of Northampton.' The Propo als for the above work were dated Castor, July 3, 1769; but Mr. Gibson's death interrupted the design. He died in 1772, and the MS. remained several years in obscurity, till, in the year 1795, it was offered to the Editor by the then proprietor of it, the Rev. Daniel Bayley, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridget. Several articles from Bishop Kennett's Library, rendered valuable by his MS notes, fell into Mr. Bayley's hands by consanguinity, his mother being granddaughter to the Bishop; and have been almost ever since in the press, receiving from time to time, considerable additions from a general view and information of a friend [Mr. Gough] who visited the spot, which will not be unworthy of public regard. These are, some accounts of the parish of Castor, with its dependencies, in the modern state, including the subsisting mansionhouse of the Fitz-William family at Milton, and the dilapidated one of the Dove family at Upton. The former of these families make a distinguished figure in the history both of England and Ireland; and we have been enabled to present our readers with a specimen of their housekeeping for seven years in the beginning of the 17th century, a description of their monuments, and a portrait of an unknown and hitherto unnoticed painter, who, though his coat of arms do not rank him among them, probably drew many of their portraits as a friend and independent artist, and enrolled himself among them. As connected with the same County of Northampton, are added an account of the goods, &c. of the Priory of St. Andrew, in the town of Northampton, at the dissolution, and of a Roman tesselated pavement discovered at Cotterstock 1798, where others had been found 60 years before." Editor's Advertisement.

* This venerable and worthy man, a descendant from that antient and respectable family the Beaumonts of Whitley in

+ B. A. there 1785; M. A. 1788; S. T. B. 1795; Senior Dean of the College, 1804; in which year he was presented to the Vicarage of Madingley in Cambridgeshire, on the resignation of Haggit. Mr. Bayley died August 13, 1805, aged 42. His mother was the eldest daughter of Bishop Kennett, and died a few years ago, leaving this son and two daughters surviving; an elder daughter, Priscilla, dying before her. Mrs. Bayley was possessed of several books with the Bishop's MS notes; and, amongst others, a copy, much improved, of Bishop Kennett's Funeral Sermon on William Duke of Devonshire, 1707, with Memoirs of the Cavendish Family; which was afterwards the property of the Rev. Henry Freeman, M. A. Precentor of Peterborough; who, in 1797 (see p. 206), permitted me to present a new edition to the publick.

Yorkshire,

the Anniversary, for the year 1800; when the usual

Yorkshire, was bred to the profession of his father, an eminent Apothecary in Henrietta-street, Covent Garden (where he was born Sept. 12, 1733), and commenced business in 1758, in Villiers Street in the Strand. In 1774, Mr. Beaumont was one of the first Members who associated with Dr. Hawes and Dr. Cogan, in the formation of the Humane Society. The former (Dr. Hawes) is gone to inherit the reward of a life most disinterestedly and assiduously devoted to the preservation of the lives of his fellow-creatures; while the latter (Dr. Cogan) survives, an honour to his country, and highly entitled to our warmest respect, not only as the joint Founder of the Royal Humane Society, but for his brilliant mental accomplishments. Mr. Beaumont accepted the important but gratuitous office of a Medical Assistant; and shortly afterwards was twice honourably gratified, by being presented with the Medal of the Society, for two remarkable cases of accident in the River Thames, near Hungerfordstairs, in which the lives of two valuable members of society were happily restored. The particulars of both these cases are very fully and correctly stated in the Annual Report of the Humane Society for 1776. Mr. Beaumont, subsequently, attended more than 400 cases, either alone or with other Medical Assistants, carefully employing the usual means for recovery, and generally with success. These great exertions were the more praise-worthy, as, in the infancy of the Humane Society, the bare attempt at resuscitation was encountered both with ridicule and opposition. "Our first object and chief difficulty," says his late coadjutor Dr. Hawes, were to remove the destructive incredulity which prevailed. Our attempts were treated, not only by the vulgar, but by some of the learned, even by men of eminence as Physicians and Philosophers, as idle and visionary, and placed upon a level with professing to raise the dead. Such prejudices were first to be removed by incontestible facts of our own. Happily, the animated exertions of a few individuals enabled us to produce them."-In 1794, Mr. Beamont was appointed Registrar and Secretary of the Royal Humane Society, in the room of Dr. Hawes, who was chosen Treasurer; and after the death of that lamented friend, in 1808, paid the rewards adjudged by the Managers to the several claimants who had been active and useful in the preservation of life.-In 1802, it may be added, Mr. Beaumont was elected a Member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; and was an useful attendant at their public meetings and Committees ; as he was also on the Committee of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical men.—Modest and unassuming in his general habits of life, Mr. Beaumont never was ambi ous or anxious to become a popular character. Being of a domestic turn, he confined himself to the practice of his profession; which he pursued, for the very long period of 56 years, with the strict

est

Sermon was preached (but not published) by Dr. John Buckner*, Lord Bishop of Chichester.

"Poems for the Anniversary of the Literary Fund, April 24, 1800; by Henry-James Pyet, Esq. William Boscawen, Esq. and WilliamThomas Fitz-Gerald, Esq." 8vo.

A Second Edition, with considerable Additions, of Dr. Moseley's "Treatise on Sugar, with miscellaneous Medical Observations."

est punctuality and integrity; and which enabled him to bring up a large family, with comfort to himself, and the approbation of his relatives and friends; by a large circle of whom, as he lived respected, so has he died lamented: but they have the consolation to reflect, that, he has "come to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in, in his season." He died Nov. 8, 1814, in his 82d year.-A good Portrait of him is prefixed to the "Annual Report of the Royal Humane Society, 1813."

*Brother to the late Admiral Buckner. This eminent and very learned Prelate was educated at the Charter-house School, on the foundation, and elected to Clare Hall, Cambridge; B.A. 1755; M. A. 1765; D. D. 17...; Rector of St. Giles-in-theFields in 1788; Archdeacon of Chichester 1792; and raised to the Bishoprick of that see in 1797.

This valuable Institution, established in 1790 through the suggestions of Mr. David Williams and a very small circle of intimate friends, has now attained a high degree of reputation, under the patronage of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, who most graciously bestowed upon it a local habitation." Its funds, and consequent sphere of utility, have been considerably augmented; and ages to come will bless the memory of the original Founders. See "The Claims of Literature; the Origin, Motives, Objects, and Transactions of the Society for the Establishment of a Literary Fund, 1804," compiled by Mr. Williams and Mr. Boscawen.

Of this kind-hearted and highly-respected gentleman, who died Aug. 11, 1813, some account will be given hereafter.

§ A Commissioner of the Victualing-office, and well known by his Translation of Horace. A Poem of his was recited at the Literary Fund, May 6, 1811; and he died on the 13th, in his 48th year. He was a gentleman of the most amiable disposition; and his death was a public loss.

|| This animated Bard may be justly styled the Poet-Laureat of the Literary Fund. For eighteen years successively he has entertained the members of the Society, and greatly benefited their funds, by his Tyrtæan strains.

END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Laus Deo.