Hon. Henry Fane, 1776." 9. "Copy of a Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, 1777." 10. "A Sermon, preached in a Country Church on the Fast Days 13th December 1776, and 27th February 1778; London, 1778." 11. "A Charge to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of St. Alban, in the Year 1778; London, 1778." 12. "Extract from a Charge to the Clergy in April 1780." 13. "Extract from a Charge to the Clergy in April 1780." 14. “An Address from one Ecclesiastical Judge to another." 15. "Extracts from Two Letters to the Rev. LL.D. Chancellor of the Diocese of· 16. "Letter to Mark Holman, Doctors' Commons." 17. “A short History of the General Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, holden in the 21st Year of His present Majesty."He died Aug. 12, 1781; leaving a son, a Barrister of Lincoln's Inn. P. 685, 1. 27, r. "Matthew xvi. 21."

P. 713. Dr. William Cuming, of Dorchester, youngest surviving son of James Cuming, an eminent Merchant in Edinburgh, was born in 1714. After a suitable education in the High School of that City, and under the particular tuition of Alexander Moir, formerly Professor of Philosophy at Aberdeen, he applied himself to the study of Physick four years in the University of Edinburgh, and became connected with some of the most eminent Students in that line. In 1735 he spent nine months at Paris, improving himself in anatomy and the French language; and he passed some time at Leyden the following year; but returned just before the death of his father. An elegant Ode, addressed to him on his going to France, August 31, 1735, by Mr. S. Boyse, is printed in Nichols's "Miscellany Poems," vol. VI. p. 341; and in the same volume, p. 328, is "The Vision of Patience, an Allegorical Poem, sacred to the Memory of Mr. Alexander Cuming *, a young Gentleman unfortunately lost in the Northern Ocean, on his Return from China, 1740."— In 1738 he quitted Edinburgh for London; and while his friends meditated a settlement for him at King's Lynn, in the room of Sir William Browne, his friend Dr. Fothergill found out a more promising one for him at Dorchester, where he remained to the last, notwithstanding the most pressing invitations from his friend Fothergill to succeed Dr. Russel in London. In 1752 he received a diploma from the University of Edinburgh; and was soon after elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians there, of which he died senior Fellow." He was elected, in 1769, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London; and, in 1781, of that of Scotland. In the space of a few years after his estab lishment at Dorchester he came to be employed in many, and,

Elder Brother of the Doctor, and first Supercargo of the Suecia, a Swedish East India ship, which was wrecked on a rock about two miles East of the Island of North Ronalsha, the Northernmost of the Orkney Islands, Nov. 18, 1740. Immediately on the ship's striking, Mr. Cuming went off in the barge, accompanied by the Surgeon and six of the boldest Seamen, in order to discover what the Island was, but were never more heard of. Thirty-one of the Sailors were saved out of one hundred, the ship's complement.

in process of time, with an exception of three or four at most, in all the families of distinction within, the county, and in the adjacent ones. At length his chaste manners, his learning, and his probity, as they were more generally known, rendered him not only the physician, but the confidential friend of some of the best families into which he was introduced. His warm and friendly attention to the interests of the late Mr. Hutchins, author of "The History of Dorset," in bringing into light that well-written and well-arranged work, cannot better be expressed than in the grateful language of its Author: "One of the gentlemen to whom my acknowledgements are eminently due permitted part of that time which is so beneficially employed to far better purposes, and is so precious to a gentleman of his extensive practice, to be diverted to the work in hand; the publication of which he patronized and promoted with great zeal and assiduity; nor did his success fall short of his zeal. Without his friendly assistance my papers might yet have remained undelivered to the press; or, if they had been committed to the Publick, would have wanted several advantages and embellishments with which they now appear." [The Doctor's interleaved copy of this work, which he bequeathed to Mr. Gough, his friend and co-adjutor in its publication, has been of very great service in improving a Second Edition.]-The tenderness of his eyes was, through life, the greatest misfortune he had to struggle with; and, considering the many obstacles which the complaints of those organs have occasioned in the pursuit of knowledge, it is wonderful how he attained the degree of erudition which he was well known to possess. In his retreat from the more busy pursuits of this world, the surviving companions of his youth continued the friends and correspondents of his advanced years; and he enjoyed to the last the singular satisfaction of being visited by the most respectable persons in the county for probity, rank, and fortune. It is much to be regretted that Dr. Cuming, who had been the means of so many valuable performances being laid before the Publick, and some of them improved by his pen, had not himself stood forth to give that information for which he was so well qualified, both in point of classical learning and elegant composition.-The Sherborne Mercury of March 31, 1788, records his death with this honourable testimony: "He was a Physician of learning, strict integrity, and great humanity; possessed of a happy turn for enquiry and observation; devoted, from an early age, to the faithful discharge of the duties of his profession. The death of this excellent man is a misfortune to his friends and neighbours more immediately, to the faculty in general, and to all mankind." See Memoirs of his Life, and several of his Letters, at the end of the fourth edition of the Life of Dr. Fothergill by Dr. Lettsom, by whose favour a good Portrait of Dr. Cuming, by Sharp, after Beach, is here annexed. -I possess a considerable number of his friendly and intelligent Letters.

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P. 7, 1. 23. "Mr. Cave had this improvement so much at heart, that it was hardly possible to miss the good effects of such a temper. If he heard of the loss of a single customer, he would say," Let us be sure to look up something, taking of the best, for the next month."

P. 12. Sir Thomas Raymond was made Serjeant at Law 1677; Baron of the Exchequer April 1679; and Judge of the Common Pleas February following. He died on the Circuit, 1693. His Law Reports are well known. His only son and heir, Sir Robert Raymond, was appointed Solicitor-general 1710, and Attorneygeneral 1720; a Judge of the King's Bench Jan. 31, 1723-4; one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal January 1724-5; and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench Feb. 24, 1724-5, on the death of Sir John Pratt. He was created Lord Raymond Jan. 15, 1731. He died March 18, 1732-8, having married Anne daughter of Sir Edward Northey, Attorney-general, by whom he left an only son, Robert, second and last Lord Raymond; on whose death, 1753, without issue, the title expired. P. 18, 1. 14, for “lest,” r. “last.”

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P. 32. The following particulars of Mr. James Ralph, “an Author by profession," were communicated by the late Rev. S. Ayscough, from Ralph's Letters to Dr. Birch, and other sources. " May 20, 1739, requests Dr. Birch to correct the Universal Spectator. May 30, requests farther lights for the Debates in Parliament, in which he was engaged. Nov. 12, requests the loan of two or three guineas. Feb. 14, 1740-1: "I am to have a benefit at Drury-lane on Tuesday Feb. 24;. and, if it suits you to do me any service, it will most seasonably oblige," &c. Without date. He complains that all his schemes are broken requests to be redeemed from such a plunge of misfortune. - No date. Mentions his Poems of Night, Zeuma, Muses' Address, and Clarinda. - No date. "As poor as a Poet, I am now really at my last resource till my Play is finished; and, unless you can reprieve me, both that and I shall die together."

March 22, no year. Requests attendance at the Hay-market, to a new Comedy of his.-Birch MS. 4304, Letter from Thomas Dale to Dr. Birch. "I have seen some extracts of the Prompter. By the manner and style, I take Ralph to have a hand in it. Pray let's know what he does now, and how he lives; whether still with Astrea; and what's gone with the woman and children." Dec. 19, 1736. - James Ralph, Literat. ob. 1762, Jan. 24. See Biog. Dram.; Whincop's Poets; Lond. Mag. 52. Miss Ralph, Chiswick, dau. of Literat. 1762. Lond. Mag. 166.-See Monthly Review, XVIII. 348. He wrote anonymously The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade stated, with regard to Booksellers, the Stage, and the Publick.- Egerton's Theatrical Remembrancer, p. 165: James Ralph, esq. I. The Fashionable Lover, or Harlequin's Opera; performed at Goodman's-fields.