post he was succeeded, in 1783, by the Hon. Thomas Pelham, now Earl of Chichester. As Comptroller of the Ordnance and Fireworks, he directed the splendid Exhibition in the Green Park on the Peace in 1749. He was created K. B. in 1761.

P. 85. "Of Samson Gideon many a story might be told that would amuse you, if some of my old Friends and Acquaintance were in esse who well knew him; but they are far removed from me, and for the most part all numbered with the dead.' He was a Jew Broker, the most considerable of his Tribe, the great Oracle and Leader of what used to be called Jonathan's Coffeehouse in Exchange-alley, but has since been dignified, I suppose, by the more appropriate and characteristic name of The Stock Exchange in Threadneedle-street; and the great Agent and Manager in the last age for the rich Bankers and others who had acquired what used to be thought great Ready-money Fortunes. He amassed a very considerable property; and possessed an odd mixture of character: but he was a man of a strong natural understanding, of great liberality and generosity, and of some fun and humour. He gave, I believe, for many years successively, 100l. at the Feast of the Sons of the Clergy. He procured for his only son a Baronetage, by Patent dated May 21, 1759, in which he was styled 'Samson Gideon the younger, Esq. Son of Samson Gideon, of Spalding in co. Lincoln, and of Belvedere in co. Kent, Esq.' (having educated him as a Christian); and sent him, with the Patent, a very handsome and sensible Letter, exhorting him to remember his dignity, to maintain a conduct worthy of it; and telling him that, though it were the lowest hereditary honour in this Country, it was frequently a step to higher. It has been said to have been an axiom with him and indeed other persons have held language something similar — Never grant an annuity for her life to an old woman they wither, but they never die.' And when people dealing with him for such articles have happened to be taken with a dreadful asthmatic cough as they approached his room-door, he would tell them, Aye, you may cough; but it shall not save you six months purchase of your annuity.'-In the year 1745 old Mr. Thomas Snow, the first Banker of the name in the Strand (who succeeded, I think, an old gentleman of the name of Warner in the House), had lent Samson 20,000l. for some specific purpose, three months: but the Prince's Army made some advances; and the old Gentleman, being taken with a panick, sent Samson a pitiful note, stating his apprehensions of a run upon the House, and all manner of dreadful consequences, and begged for God's sake that he would return him the money immediately: so Samson went very coolly to the Bank, got twenty Bank-notes, sent to the Apothecary's for a phial of hart's-horn, rolled up the phial in the notes, and sent Mr. Snow all his money back again, to his great satisfaction. By his last Will, he gave to the Poor of the Synagogue of Portuguese Jews 2000l. provided they would permit him to be interred in their Burying ground at Mile-end,

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and say Prayers over him according to the accustomed Ceremonies of their Religion. He was carried in great funeral pomp from Belvedere, where he died Oct. 17, 1762, aged 63, to Pewterers' Hall in Lime-street, and thence to the desired spot, and buried with his Fathers; leaving a Son, as before mentioned, who married a Daughter of Lord Chief Justice Wilmot, took the name of Eardley, and was created an Irish Peer by the title of Baron Eardley of Spalding; and two Daughters, of whom one married Lord Viscount Gage, and died without issue in 1783; and the other died unmarried in 1784." J. BROWN.

P. 87, 1. 3. For "Robert Guy," r. "Gay, Treasurer of Christ's Hospital, Member for Bath in the fifth and seventh Parliaments of Great Britain."

Ibid. 1. 7. Rev. John Hardy was S. A. S. August 26, 1718. He died in 1740.

P. 88, note, 1. 13. The Family of Heron seems to have ended with Lady Fraser, who long outlived her Brother.

P. 91, note, 1. 3 from bottom. See a Head of Job ben Soliman

Dgiallo in Gent. Mag. June 1750, vol. XX. p. 972.

P. 93, note, 1. 12, for "their President," r. President of the former" (i. e. College of Physicians).

P. 94. Dr. Long in 1728 was Rector of Cherry Hinton in Cambridgeshire; and published that year a Commencement Sermon on the Blessedness of Believing. He was elected Master of Pembroke Hall, on the resignation of Dr. John Hawkins, Oct. 12, 1733. In 1742 his celebrated Work on Astronomy was published in two vols. 4to; and it has since been reprinted. During his residence in the College he erected the Wooden Sphere noticed in p. 95; and ordered that the Keeper of the key should be allowed 10l. a year, which is always bestowed on an Under-graduate. He was presented to Bradwell juxta Mare in 1751, and held it till his death in 1770.

Lines, written by a Lady, on his grave-stone in Trinity Chapel:
Step soft, ye Youths, nor with unhallow'd tread

Dare to molest the mansions of the Dead.
Within this tomb, freed from all earthly ties,
In peaceful sleep a Reverend old Man lies.
With silent awe approach his quiet grave;
These good remains from each disturbance save;
The Widow's comfort; ever kind to Youth;
Religious Advocate; a Friend to Truth.
LONG was his name; and long in Virtue's road
He serv'd his Country in the cause of Gon.

Let fall one tear, for loss of such a Man :
Follow his paths; - improve them, if you can."

P. 98. The Hon. Edward Molesworth was fourth son of the
first Viscount Molesworth, a Major in the Army, and died Nov.
29, 1768. He is mentioned also in p. 72.

P. 99. Dr. La Motte was Rector of Warkton in Northamptonshire.

P. 100, note, 1. 17, r. “he knew not.”——“Mr. New was a Descendant of Edward Strong, Citizen and Mason of London, and of New Barns in the parish of St. Peter, St. Alban's, Gent, who died Feb. 8, 1723, aged 72; perhaps eldest Son of Robert New of New Barns, and Elizabeth his wife, only daughter of Edward Strong, and born Dec. 7, 1700. Mr. Strong has a fine large marble monument against the wall of St, Peter's Church, with a bust of him at the top, crowned with a flowing peruke, ' in eternal buckle,' like Sir Cloudesley Shovel's in Westminster Abbey, and a long inscription, celebrating his 'masterly abilities and skill in his profession and reciting, that in erecting the Edifice of St. Paul several years of his life were spent ; and herein, equally with its ingenious Architect Sir Christopher Wren, and its truly-pious Diocesan Bishop Compton, he shared the felicity of seeing both the beginning and finishing of that stupendous fabrick." J. BROWN.

P. 104. Anthony Oldfield, gent. (second son of Sir Anthony) was many years Steward of the Courts to the late Duchess of Somerset, and to his Grace the Duke of Rutland, and Surveyorgeneral of the Window-lights, &c. He died at Newmarket, in his 69th year, in September 1787.

P. 105, Epitaph, 1. 6. "William Perry, esq. of Turville Park, Bucks; afterwards of Penshurst, Kent, having obtained that estate by marrying the Heiress of the Sidneys; which name he assumed in 1752, and died in 1757. — I understood he was Brother to Captain Perry." J. BROWN,

P. 107, 1. 2, r. “Wykeham.”— P. 110, 1. 16, r. "certam." P. 112, 1. 11. Mr. Southgate died Jan. 25, 1795. See next page, & postea. -Ibid. note, 1. 5, after "Midhurst," add "and of John Smith, esq. M. P. for Nottingham."

P. 119. Bow, Dr. Warren's Rectory, is in Middlesex, not Esser. P. 120, 1. 1, dele "Hon."; he had not that title or appellation. P. 121, note, 1. 5, after his own time," add "and a second volume 1730."— L. penult. r. “ was lost."

P. 123, l. 5, г. “ indefatigable exertions are apparent," &c. P. 128, note, 1. 2. The Second of the Volumes-was sent, &c. P. 129, note, 1. 7, r. "hunc tumulum."

P. 130, note, 1. 19, r. “ partridges."

Ibid. 1. 25. "In the Antiquarian Repertory, 1809, vol. IV. p. 467, is a curious specimen of Dr. Stukeley's Antiquarian Wit*, at the expence of Sir Michael Bruce, of Stenhouse, Bart. for his Destruction of Arthur's Oon, with a quotation from the Georgics, III. 37, at bottom, where he has written ignem for amnem. He has also committed a strange blunder for a Herald, by placing over the head of the miserable Baronet the Arms of Ulster, the cognizance of an English or Irish Baronet, instead of that of a Scots one." J. BROWN.- The Demolition of Arthur's Oon," says Dr. Stukeley, Sept. 24, 1743, “is a most grievous thing to think on. I would propose, in order to make his name execra* Mr. Tyson had little doubt but that this Caricature was a joke of Captain Grose. See vol. VIII. p. 659.

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ble to all posterity, that he should have an iron collar put about his neck like a yoke; at each extremity a stone of Arthur's Oon to be suspended by the lewis in the hole of the ear: thus accountred, let him wander on the banks of Styx, perpetually agitated by angry dæmons with ox-goads; SIR MICHAEL BRUCE' written on his back in large letters of burning phosphorus.' On the Plate is, "Sir Wilchil Bruce, Stone-killer, 1742. W. Stukeley inv. & del."

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P. 134, add to Neve, "a son Frederick, now of Sunning Hill." P. 137, 1. 21, r. “1740-1.”—P. 139, 1. 20, r. sutures." P. 143. Mr. John Warburton to Mr. Thomas Martin: [Indorsed, "1764. July 14th. Mr. John Warburton had laid aside the thoughts of the Heralds Office. Should be glad to see me at Fulham. Answered from London, 22 July."]

"SIR,

Fulham, July 14, 1764. "Permit me to return you my thanks for the trouble and pains you have taken on my behalf, at the instigation of my much-honoured friend Mr. Calvert, to whom I am under everlasting obligations, as well as to yourself; and to beg you would not give yourself any farther trouble on account of my coming into the Heralds Office. Having received a letter from his Grace of Norfolk, wherein he tells me, he wishes I would lay aside all thoughts of the Office; but, in any other way or employment, what has formerly happened can be no objection, or in the least diminish the good character I hear of you.' As this seems to tend towards his Grace's doing something for me in another way, should take it as a particular favour would you consult Mr. Havers, and give me your advice how to act, or what to apply for. I am told, the reason why his Grace will not admit me into the Office is on account of a difference that subsisted between his Grace and my Father; and his Grace, on that account, declared I should not come into the Office while he lived. I shall esteem it a particular favour to have a line from you; and, when you come to town, should look on it as a great honour to have your company at this place.

"I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, JOHN WARBURTON."
P. 145, 1. 13, for "writing," r. "assisting."

P. 156. Mr. Madox's large and valuable Collection of Transcripts, in 94 volumes in folio and quarto (briefly noticed in vol. I. p. 248) consist chiefly of Extracts from Records in the Exchequer, the Patent and Clause Rolls in the Tower, the Cotton Library, the Archives of Canterbury and Westminster, the Collections of Bene't College, Cambridge, &c. made by him, and intended as materials for a Feudal History of England from the earliest Times. These Collections were the labour of 30 years; and Mr. Madox frequently declared, that when young he would have given 1500 guineas for them. Fifty-nine volumes of Rymer's Collection of Public Acts relating to the History and Government of England from 1115 to 1698 (not printed in his Fœdera, but of which there is a Catalogue in vol. XVII.) were purchased for the Museum by order of the House of Lords.

P. 157.

"Rev.

P. 157, note, 1. 12, r. "adjutorem."-Ibid. 1. 39, r. John Creyke."-" Poor Vertue was, I doubt not, a very honest, simple, industrious, pains-taking man; but of all the letters I ever saw preserved, scarcely any contain so many displays of false grammar is added Medals the Election of Officers are continued · was motioned - is mentioned Names-is men

tioned Reports

is my wishes." J. BROWN.

P. 158, note, 1. 2 and 29, r. "Simon de Passe."
P. 159, note, 1. 3, r. "alter."

Ibid. 1. 15. A fine Engraving of this Medal may be seen in Simon's Seals, Plate XVI. It is inscribed, "FOR EMINENT SERVICES IN SAVING THE TRIUMPH, FIRED IN FIGHT WITH THE DUTCH IN JULY 1653."—"This Ship was so effectually fired, that most of her Crew threw themselves into the Sea; yet those who stayed behind were so lucky as to put it out." Heath's Chronicle, p. 147; Campbell's Lives of the Admirals, vol. II. p. 184.-This Medal represents a Fleet of Ships, curiously displayed in this small compass; and on the other side the Arms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in three shields. On the Reverse, an anchor with the cordage, and three escutcheons, with the Arms of England, Scotland, and Ireland appendant, on the beam, inscribed at top MERUISTI. And on the beam of the anchor is inscribed T. S. the initial letters of the Artist's name, "August the 8th, 1653."-"1652, June 12th, the Captains Taylor and Peacock, in two English Frigates, engaged two Dutch Men of War on the Coast of Flanders for refusing to strike; of the which one was taken, and the other stranded." P. 160, note, 1. 26, r. "Volumen."

P. 167, l. 17, r. "Dr. Peter Lily."-L. 38, r "Christ's College." P. 170, note, l. 18. The Rev. John Husbands, Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, died Nov. 21, 1732. He was preparing for the press a Comparison of the Eastern and Western Poetry. P. 173. "A sad blunder for Dr. Warton, in the two first Letters, l. 1 and 15- Neither of these pieces are read

66 Ni l'un ni l'autre est -"

P. 174, add, "MY DEAR SIR,

66

J. BROWN.
Winton, July 20, 1788.

May I flatter myself you will excuse the freedom I use in troubling you with a little commission? as I take for granted you are in town. The King has been so good as to grant me a Dispensation for strict residence there, as it is called; and I learn from Lord Sydney, that his Lordship has been so good as to order the Instruments to be made out. Shall I trouble you to go to Lord Sydney's Office, and receive this paper - and, if not done, to enquire when it will be finished?—and I will send you instantly a draft on Child for the fees of office, if required. I rather wish this not to be mentioned in the News or Magazine. "I am always very sincerely yours, J. WARTON." P. 176, 1. 10. “The Poetry Professor in Oxford is elected for five years only, but allowed to be once re-elected for five more. Lowth also was so." E. J.

P. 179.