his life-time only three were published: but such was his reputation as a Preacher, that many of his Sermons in MS. have been since carefully preserved in the hands of some of his Reverend Brethren, who appear with high credit in the pulpit, decorated with his plumes. The late venerable Dr. Pegge, in his "Life of Roger de Weseham," p. 38, styles him " a person of great worth and learning, and well known to the world by his excellent theological performances;" and his fellow-collegian the truly-respectable Dr. Townson, in his "Discourses on the Four Gospels," justly describes "this late valuable Author" as one "who was as much loved by all who knew him for a pleasing simplicity of manners, as admired for strength aud clearness of reasoning." The name of Dr. Horbery occurs in Gent. Mag. vol. XLIV. pp. 297, 356, 399, 503; LVIII. 790, note; LIX. 12, 1028; LXIX. 169, 281; LXXII. 182; LXXIII. 409; LXXV. 1021; and LXXVI. 546.

P. 678. The Rev. Charles Jenner was of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; B.A. 1757; M. A. 1760. He distinguished himself at the University by obtaining two of the Seatonian prizes, "The Gift of Tongues, 1767," and The Destruction of Nineveh, 1769;" and by a "Collection of Poems" in 1766, 4to. He succeeded Dr. Hutchinson in the Vicarage of Claybrook, co. Leicester; and, having obtained a Dispensation to hold this Vicarage with Craneford St. John, co. Northampton, was instituted in 1769. He was the Author of two Novels, "Letters from Altamont in the Capital to his Friends in the Country, 1764," Svo, and "The Placid Man, 1773;" and of "Letters from Lothario to Penelope," 2 vols. 12mo, including "Lucinda," a Dramatic Entertainment; a Sentimental Comedy, called "The Man of Family, 1771," 8vo; "Town Eclogues, 1772," 4to; "Louisa, a Tale; to which is added, an Elegy to the Memory of Lord Lyttelton, 1774," 4to; and many other poetical pieces, some of which have great merit, and shew that he possessed elegant literary accomplishments, refined taste, and exquisite sensibility of heart. In one of the "Town Eclogues," intituled "The Court Chaplain," the Author thus introduces himself:

"Grown sick of liberty and country air,

The morning saunter in the one-horse chair,
The social pipe, the solitary Muse,

The bowling meeting, and the weekly news,
The rustic Vicar quits his lone retreat,
To try what joys the London Clergy greet.
He mounts his mare, whilst Thomas at his back
Conveys twelve shirts and his best suit of black;
A half-year's tithe, to pay his way in town;
His six best sermons, and his last new gown.
To some kind neighbour he gives up the care
Of buying two young heifers at the Fair,
To tend his stock, to keep his garden nice,
And sell his barley at the market-price,

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With all the pride of hagling for two groats,
And shewing a clean sample for his oats.
Joys more refin'd he means in town to seek,
And hires snug lodgings at a pound a week."

The situation and employments of a Court Chaplain are well contrasted with those of the rustic Vicar:

"Behold him now enur'd to courtly ground,
A constant dangler in the same dull round.
Deep read in Ecton; at his fingers' ends,
Preferments, values, old incumbents, friends;
With who stands first on every Courtier's list,
Who's serv'd, and who with promises dismiss'd;
With expectation sees each morn appear,
Though disappointment closes every year;
And, still with crosses ev'ry hour perplext,
Rests well assur'd his turn must be the next.
If chance a country neighbour strays to town,
He singles out the antique wig and gown;
Turns Ciceroni to his wond'ring friend,
And points out all the Court, from end to end;
Tells who is in, and who is out of place,
And feasts upon a simper from his Grace;
Explains the mystery of the wands and keys,
And ev'ry colour'd ribband that he sees;

More vain, alas! of this most useless knowledge,
Than all the learning that he brought from College.
Then having plac'd him in the foremost row,
To see the King pass by, and make his bow,
Announcing, as they pass, each lord and groom,
He next conducts him to the Chaplain's Room;
There vainly shews him how Court Chaplain's dine,
And toasts a Maid of Honour in French wine."

Mr. Jenner was also the Author of a Copy of Verses intituled "April," written at the request of a Lady for the Bath-Easton prize, which they obtained; and these, I believe, were the last productions of his Muse*. He had a fine taste for musick; and his society was much courted by the Amateurs of that art. He possessed a considerable share of wit, and (what rarely happens) without the smallest tincture of ill-nature or malignity. His dispositions were humane and benevolent; his manners were soft and gentle, affable and condescending; his pulpit composi tions were animated and persuasive; in short, his talents and accomplishments as a Clergyman, a Scholar, and a Gentleman, rendered him the object of universal respect and esteem; and he died, most sincerely lamented by his parishioners and the whole neighbourhood, May 11, 1774, aged 38.

A monument was erected to his memory in Claybrook Chancel, by Lady Craven, whose Muse thus weeps o'er his urn in beautiful and pathetic strains:

See them in the History of Leicestershire, vol. IV. Part I. p. 135.
"Here

"Here in the Earth's cold bosom lies entomb'd
A man, whose sense, by every virtue grac'd,
Made each harmonious Muse obey his lyre:
Nor shall th' erasing hand of powerful Time
Obliterate his name, dear to each tuneful breast,
And dearer still to soft Humanity,

For oft the sympathetic tear would start
Unbidden from his eye; another's woe
He read, and felt it as his own.

Reader!

It is not Flattery or Pride that rais'd

To his remains this modest stone; nor yet
Did partial Fondness trace these humble lines;
But weeping Friendship, taught by Truth alone,
To give, if possible, in future days,

A faint idea to the race to come,

That here reposeth all the mortal part

Of one, who only lived to make his friends,

And all the world, regret he e'er should die. E.C. 1775." P. 678. The Rev. Henry Barton, of Merton College, Oxford, proceeded M. A. 1740; B. and D. D. 1759; in which year he was elected Warden. Of the Doctor, who was a man of hu mour, and of a cheerful disposition, many pleasant anecdotes are in the recollection of his friends. That he was no enemy to a pun, the two following bear testimony. Being in company with a gentleman who had just printed two heavy folios, the Warden humourously observed, that the publication was deficient in several respects.' The Author, as was but natural, endeavoured to defend his volumes in the best manner he was able. "Pray, Doctor, ar'n't you a Justice o' Peace?" 'I am,' replied the Doctor. "Then," says Barton, "I advise you to send your Work to the House of Correction."-In the year 1763, on the Peace being proclaimed at Oxford, and the Heads of the Colleges being assembled, as is usual, on a temporary building erected for the purpose, Dr. Barton very gravely went up to the several Heads of Houses that were met on the occasion, and said, "I don't know why the Nation should be so well pleased with the Peace; for my own part, I think it a very bad one.' 'A bad one, Doctor! why should you think it a bad one?' "That, certainly," says the Doctor, "is a bad Peace which brings so many Heads to the Scaffold." He died July 13, 1790.

Ibid. Mr. Joseph Gales quitted England in 1794; and settled as a Printer at Washington in America, where his office was destroyed by the victorious British Army in August 1814.

P. 687. Mr. John Shave was for several years one of the Printers. of the Ipswich Journal. He died May 30, 1798.

P. 688, 1. 22, r. "Tupman."

P. 695. Mr. William Hudson, author of the valuable "Flora Anglica," was a native of Kendal; was brought up to Physick, and kept an Apothecary's shop in Panton-street, where he prac

tised with great reputation till, a few years before his death, the house was found to be on fire at nine o'clock in the evening. He was not insured, but had no wish to be plundered by the mob, and kept the doors fast till he and his servants were nearly caught in the flames. He was elected F. R. S. 1761; and died May 23, 1793, in Jermyn-street, St. James's, aged 59.

P. 697. Mr. John Stevenson's Collection, consisting of five volumes, are now in the Bodleian Library, under the title of "Johannis Stevenson ANEKAOTA quædam Historica de rebus Abingdoniensibus."

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Ibid. Sir James Stonhouse, of Radley, Bart. (the eighth Baronet of the name); of St. John's College, Oxford; B. C. L. 1742; Rector of Clapham, Surrey, 1753; D. C. L. 1757; died at his seat at Radley, Berks, April 13, 1792, aged 74. He was the youngest son of Sir John Stonhouse, Bart. Comptroller of the Household in 1712, who married to his second wife one of the daughters of Sir Robert Dashwood, Bart. of Kirtlington, co. Oxford, by whom he had three sons and six daughters. The three sons, John, William, and James, succeeded to the title, and all died unmarried. The estate devolved, first, to Lady Rivers, the heiress of the eldest of the daughters, for her life: and next to Capt. Bowyer and his heirs, an officer in the Navy, the second son of the second daughter, who was wife to Sir William Bow◄ yer, Bart. The title went to the Rev. James Stonhouse, M. D. (a collateral relation, who became the ninth Baronet). He received his academical education at St. John's College, Oxford; M.A. 1739; B.M. 1741; D. M. 1745; where his superior talents soon displayed themselves. In consequence of an early determination, he principally applied himself to the study of Physick; and, whilst he was yet a young man, commenced his medical career at Northampton; where, for exquisite skill and sound judgment, he soon attained to the highest degree of celebrity. Through a long course of years he there successfully discharged the urgent claims of his professional duties with equal care and equal fidelity to the poor and to the rich. With affectionate sympathy and regard he administered his assistance to the humblest victims of poverty and disease; nor did he neglect the opportunities that were afforded him of offering the balm of consolation to afflicted minds, whilst he exercised the powers of medicine for the relief of corporeal infirmities. He was a very useful Member of the Committee appointed to superintend the publication of Mr. Bridges's "History of Northamptonshire;" and to him alone is owing the institution of the County Infirmary at Northampton, in the year 1743; an Institution originally. promoted by his benevolence, forwarded by his activity, and for many years regulated by his judgment. He continued to preside over it, in the capacity of a Physician, with unremitting anxiety, as long as he remained in the town. The admirable Book of Statutes and Orders which he compiled for its government, and which, on account of its superior excellence, has been admitted,

into other Establishments of the like nature, will remain an everlasting monument of his vigilance and attention; and his "Friendly Advice to a Patient," a work, both in its design and execution, worthy of its Author, clearly proves that he was not unambitious of being a Physician of the Soul. Dec. 1, 1747, he lost his wife, Anne, aged 25, a few days after the birth of her fourth child. "She was a lady of fine accomplishments and the greatest benignity of temper; perfectly amiable in all the relations, and uniformly good in all the offices, of life; which qualities must unavoidably render her death at once a cause of the most distressing sorrow and of the most delightful hope; and cannot fail to make her memory dear, her example useful, so long as any who knew her shall survive." During his residence at Northampton, he lived in habits of strict intimacy and friendship with Rev. James Hervey and Dr. Philip Doddridge; men, whose known sincerity gave a wide effect to their piety; and to whose writings, directed as they were by knowledge and tempered by charity, Posterity is indebted not only for rational amusement, but for solid instruction upon subjects which must deeply interest, because they nearly concern, the general welfare of mankind.: From principle, and not from prejudice, from candid enquiry, and not from blind zeal, from the certainty of conviction, and not from the prevalence of custom, was Dr. Stonhouse strongly attached to the tenets of the Established Church; and from the desire of enlarging the sphere of his exertions, and from the hopes of becoming more instrumental in making men "wise unto salvation," was he induced to relinquish the practice of Physick for the more important engagements of the Clerical Function. This circumstance in his life cannot possibly be attributed to any undue spirit of self-interest and accommodation; since the advantages arising to him from his former profession were much more considerable, and the difficulties attending it (to a mind like his) much less arduous, than those which awaited him in the discharge of his parochial duties. Soon after he entered into holy orders he was presented by the Earl of Radnor to the Rectories of Great and Little Cheverel, in Wiltshire; where he continued zealously to enforce the saving truths of the Gospel, till bodily infirmities rendered it necessary for him to spend a great part of his time at Bristol, for the benefit of the medicinal waters. Yet, even when thus separated from his flock, he still preserved a most anxious concern for their welfare, which was continually manifested by the wise and liberal provision which he made for their temporal as well as spiritual necessities. But, though these claimed his special regard, yet his zeal rested not here: that benevolence which is the true offspring of vital religion pointed out an ample range for the exertion of his talents. His leisure hours he employed in preparing Exhortations and Devotional Tracts, of which he published a considerable number. Some of them have been very widely disseminated by the Society for

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