compassionately ordered 1100l. to be paid, to release him from prison, and to bring over him and his family to England. But his joy on this event was so great, that he gave a feast in the prison, with a profusion of punch and spirits; and, making his guests drunk with repeated bumpers to the Lord Chancellor of England, drank to such an excess himself as threw him into a state of suffocation, in which he must have died if his friend Dr. Macdonald had not instantly relieved him by copious bleeding. After his return to England in May, as he was then within 18 months of coming of age, he was again beset by a nest of harpies, who so far fascinated him that he became totally regardless of the entreaties of his friends, and was scarcely ever with his wife and family, but took lodgings at a distant coffee-house, where he entered into every extravagance, contracted many debts, and lived in a state of inebriety little better than lunacy. Being at last persuaded, by the entreaties of his wife, his friends, and his physician, to go to the Continent, he accordingly went, at the end of March 1790, with his family, to Holland; and thence, in April, by easy journeys, to Lausanne. On his arrival there, he was attended by the good Dr. Tissot, who, compassionating his youth and situation, conceived a real affection for him and his family, and became to him not only the Physician, but a Friend, a Father, and Protector; and such is the force of goodness, that this excellent man's advice produced the happiest effects on his patient, who soon became a convert to his excellent admonitions, and a most sincere penitent. Bitterly lamenting the errors of his life, he left off entirely his bad habits; and, had it pleased Providence to indulge him with longer life, there was reason to hope that he would have become a worthy man; but it was too late, as he was reduced almost to a skeleton, and undergoing the severest afflictions. An happy crisis happened in his illness, from which the Doctor entertained real hopes. He began visibly to mend, and his appetite returned; when a ruthless Creditor in England, who had a bill for a large sum, immediately on his coming of age, empowered a person at Lausanne to commence a suit. The imprisonment was frustrated; but the terrors into which the youth was thrown threw him again into a state from which he never recovered. Never was a more sincere penitent. With his last breath he fervently prayed for pardon, and for the choicest blessings on his wife, his child, and friends; and that God would forgive, as he did, all his enemies, and those who had cruelly abandoned or injured him. After finishing that prayer, with only two gentle sighs he expired in the arms of his wife, Dec. 18, 1790, at the early age of 22 years and one month.

P. 209. George Scott, esq. of Wolston-hall, Essex, was lineally descended from William Scott, Lord Chief Justice of England and Justice of the Forests in the reign of King Henry III.; and to one of this family, William Scott, esq. of Stapleford Ferry, Wolston-hall was granted by King Henry VII. William Scott

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was succeeded in 1494 by his eldest son John; and in that family the property continued till it devolved on George Scott, esq. a gentleman remarkable for his great knowledge, and for goodness of heart, a diligent enquirer after Antiquities, and a generous communicator to others. Mr. Scott was of St. John's College, Oxford, created M. A. 1743; and in 1763 (being then of Ingateston-hall) D. C. L. He married Jane daughter of Bp. Gibson; and died Sept. 2, 1780, aged 59, the last of an antient family. In some Manuscript Notes of the late Mr. Da Costa he is thus described: "A great Antiquary, not only of charters, leases, records, &c. but of matters or materials of Antiquity, such as coins, abbey seals, Roman lamps, and Etruscan ware; warlike instruments, as swords, daggers, pistols, helmets, saws, &c. other antient instruments; regalia, watches, monuments, or sarcophagi, baçalta, bronzes, idols, apparel, pictures, portraits, miniatures, and prints; and a numerous Collection it was; some trivialities, as usual in such Antiquarian Collections. The reserved Part of the Collection (so expressed in the Catalogue) was sold by Mr. Gerard, in Lichfield-street, Soho, on Thursday and Friday 4 and 5 July, 1782. He was between 60 and 70, and died about a year before the sale, a widower with no children; lived some years in Crown-court, Westminster; but retired to his seat at Wolston-hall in Essex about 1768. A very humane and friendly Gentleman, and communicative. He was Nephew to the celebrated Naturalist Dr. Derham; and published Mr Ray's Remains, in octavo."

P. *274, 1. 7, r. "Dr. Peter Woulfe."

Ibid. 1. 15. Dr. Messenger Mounsey was for a considerable time Family Physician to Francis Earl of Godolphin, and Physician to Chelsea College; where he died, Dec. 26, 1788, in his 95th year. His character and humour bore a striking resemblance to that of the celebrated Dean Swift. By his Will he directed that his body should not suffer any funeral ceremony, but undergo dissection; after which, the "remainder of his carcase (to use his own expression) may be put into a hole, or crammed into a box with holes, and thrown into the Thames, at the pleasure of the Surgeon." The Surgeon to whom he assigned the charge was Mr. Forster, of Union-court, Broad-street. In pursuance of the Doctor's singular Will, Mr. Forster gave a Discourse, in the Theatre of Guy's Hospital, to the Medical Students and a considerable number of intelligent Visitors, on the dissection of the body. He introduced the subject by a sketch of the mental powers of Dr. Mounsey; observing, that his understanding was very comprehensive; that his genius and wit ranked him high in the Literary World; that his company was courted by men of the first character for talents and distinction; and that he retained the strength of his judgment, and the liveliness of his fancy, to the very advanced period at which his life ended.Mr. Forster then vindicated the Doctor from all affectation, vanity, or whim, in having ordered his body for dissection and prohibited

prohibited all funeral ceremony; stating, that whatever singularity might appear in his Will was resolvable merely into a zeal for knowledge, and a desire of benefiting mankind, as he conceived that a dissection of his body would lead to the illustration of much useful truth. He mentioned also the philosophic contempt in which the Doctor held all funeral pomp, and every species of un necessary form. - - Mr. Forster then adverted to the morbid affections which he had prepared for demonstration, describing the appearance of the thorax and the abdomen, with their viscera in situ. He remarked, that the quantity of interstitial fluids was unusually small; that the viscera universally exhibited an healthy appearance; that there was no adhesion of the lungs to the pleura; and that the abdominal viscera were sound. The heart he observed to be much larger than the ordinary size. He demonstrated an entire bony ring at the mittral valves of the left ventricle; an ossious deposit in the side of the same ventricle; the semilunar valves completely ossified in their open state; the aorta descendens considerably enlarged, and loaded with innumerable deposits of ossious matter during its length, even to the extremities. He hinted, that the symptoms the Doctor experienced for many years back, on rising from the horizontal position, might be accounted for by these ossifications. He mentioned, that all the cartilages between the vertebræ were absorbed, consequently the spine was an entire bone. He observed, there were several deposits of ossious matter, as big as peas, in various parts of the spine; and that there were several holes likewise from absorption of the vertebræ themselves. The spine had a considerable incurvation. After the whole of the demonstration he said, that, having made his Report of these morbid affections to Dr. Heberden, according to the Will, he should deposit all the parts with these singular appearances in the Museum of Mr. Cline, as that able Anatomist would doubtless, in his Lectures, be able to render them subservient to the promotion of public utility. Mr. Forster, through the whole of this Discourse, amply justified the high opinion which Dr. Mounsey had entertained of his professional skill and general abilities.

P. 282. "The Rev. George Ashby went to the School in Turnmill-street about 1732, as he had before to George Basse in George's-court. Welby was a Presbyterian, and had only a few grown Scholars much older than George Ashby, who caught the small-pox from one of them who came abroad too soon. The School was near the New Prison. As soon as recovered, was sent, aged 9, to the Rev. Mr. Mills's School at Croydon, Surrey. After continuing there for three years, he finished at Westminster and Eton." T. F.

P. 285. Dr. John Cock was of St. John's College, Cambridge; B. A. 1737; M. A. 1741; D.D. 1760. He was presented to the Rectory of Great Horkesley, Essex, by the Hon. Philip Yorke, afterwards Earl of Hardwicke, on the cession of the celebrated

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