death of any one of their own college, which are pinned to the pall at the funeral, like so many escutcheons, this tribute of respect was prepared for Mr. Manning, who was much beloved by his fellow students; and it is said that the verses were presented to him afterwards, and that he kept them for many years as me.. moranda of his youthful friendships. Scarcely had he met with this narrow escape, when, his disorder having made him for some time subject to epilectic fits, he was seized with one of these whilst walking by the river, into which he fell, and remained so long that he was thought to be drowned, and laid out on the grass, until he could be conveyed to the college, where Dr. Heberden being again called in, the proper means of recovery were used with success.-Mr. Manning published, whilst at the University, "An Essay on Ratiocination. By A. G. O. T. U.O. C.; i. e. "A Gentleman of the University of Cambridge." There have also been published, "XXIV Sermons on important Subjects. By Owen Manning, B. D. late Prebendary of Lincoln, Rector of Pepper-harrow, Vicar of Godalming, and Author of a History of Surrey, and also of a Saxon History. In Two Volumes, 1812," 8vo; left for publication by the Reverend and learned Author, "in the hope of counteracting certain doctrines which appeared to be gaining ground in many parts of these kingdoms."

P. 446. The Rev Edward Lye, born at Totness in Devonshire in 1704, was educated partly at home, under his father, who kept a school at Totness, partly under other preceptors, but chiefly (being obliged to return home from consumptive complaints) by his own private care and application. At the age of 19, he was admitted at Hart Hall (now Hertford College) in Oxford; took the degree of B.A. 1716; was ordained Deacon in 1717, and Priest in 1719; and in that year was presented to the Rectory of Houghton-parva in Northamptonshire; where he laid the foundation of his great proficiency in the Anglo-Saxon language. In 1722 he proceeded M. A.; and, having now qualified himself completely for a work of that nature, he undertook the arduous task of publishing the " Etymologicum Anglicanum" of Francis Junius, from the manuscript of the Author in the Bodleian Library. To this undertaking he was led, as he tells us in his Preface, by the commendations which Hickes and other learned Antiquaries had given to that unpublished work. In the seventh year from the commencement of his design, he published the work, with many additions, and particularly that of an Anglo-Saxon Grammar prefixed; and the work was received with the utmost approbation of the learned. In 1750, Mr. Lye was elected F. S. A. and about the same time was presented by the Earl of Northampton to the Vicarage of Yardley Hastings, on which accession he resigned Houghton; giving an illustrious example of primitive moderation, especially as he had hitherto supported his mother, and had still two sisters dependent upon him. The next publication which he issued, was that of the Gothic Gospels, undertaken at the desire of Eric Benzelius, Bp. of Upsal, who had collated and

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corrected them. This, which he had been long preparing, appeared from the Oxford press in the same year, with a Gothic Grammar prefixed. His last years were employed chiefly in finishing for the press his great work, the Anglo-Saxon and Gothic Dictionary, which was destined to owe that to another Editor, which he had performed for Junius. It appears by the following Letters to Dr. Ducarel, that Mr. Lye had been employed on his Dictionary a long time before 1765, and that he had almost relinquished the design from a dread of the labour and expence. In the labour he had none to share with him, but at the time above mentioned Abp. Secker offered him a subscription of 50l. to forward the work, and he appears to have hoped for similar instances of liberality:

Yardley-Hastings, near Castle-Ashby, "DEAR SIR, Northamptonshire, June 11, 1765. "Aldhelm was, with some Theological Pieces of Bede, published by Wharton in the year 1693. The Lambeth MS. was of great service in his Edition, of which he writes thus in his Preface: 'Opus istud ante mille circiter annos Author scripsit. Haud inferiorem ætatem præ se fert codex, quo usus sum, Bibliothecæ Lambethanæ, literis Saxonicis majusculis exaratus.' I am of the same opinion with that learned Editor as to the age of the MS. I thank you for your readiness to shew me the Library, but more particularly the MSS. some of which would be of great use towards the improvement of my 'A.Saxon Gothic Latin Dictionary;' but, since I have lost my Patron Lord Granville, I have in a manner laid aside the thoughts of appearing once more in print. However, my acknowledgments are due to his Grace. You will, therefore, if you shall think it proper, present my duty and most humble thanks to him for the offer of the MSS. which he was pleased to make me by you. I admire your care and industry, as well as judgment, in the arrangement of the muniments, &c. You have now removed them out of the confusion wherein they had long lain, and put them in such order that they may be readily consulted. My compliments to Dr. Fewel and Mr. Porteus; and to the latter, my congratulations on his change of condition. Yourself, Sir Joseph, and Mr. Astle, have ever my best wishes. When at liberty, a line or two would be very agreeable to, dear Sir, your most obedient humble servant, EDW.LYE." "DEAR SIR, Doctors' Commons, June 25, 1765.

"In answer to your very obliging Letter of the 11th instant; His Grace the Abp. of Canterbury (to whom I have shewn it) has ordered me to request your answer to these two Questions; viz. 1st, Whether you have so totally laid aside your intention of publishing your A. Saxon Gothic Latin Dictionary,' as utterly to reject all thoughts of proposing the printing of that valuable Work by Subscription? If not, I have his Lordship's directions to inform you, that if such a proposal is made and agreed to by a number of Gentlemen willing to forward it, his Grace is ready to subscribe fifty pounds towards its publication. 2nd, The Abp.

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desires likewise to know the title of the Theological pieces of Bede published by Wharton in the year 1693, as that book is not in the Lambeth Library. A line from you in answer to this will much oblige, Sir, your most obedient servant, A.C. DUCAREL." "DEAR SIR, Yardley-Hastings, July 5, 1765. "Had I laid aside the thoughts of printing by subscription my Dictionary, His Grace of Canterbury's most generous offer towards the publication of it would make me alter my resolution, and put myself once more in the press. Encouraged by so great and learned a person, I shall with pleasure engage in a most laborious Work, and doubt not of having his Lordship's example followed by many others, so as to enable me to undergo the expence as well as the trouble of the Impression. The trouble will not be little, as I have none to share with me in it; and the expence very considerable, as my time must for the most part be spent in Oxford and London. You know of what service the Work will be, both at home and abroad. In Germany they have, unknown to me, given an account of the Specimen I printed for the use of my Friends; and express an earnest desire of having the whole make its appearance in public. You will not forget to make my most humble acknowledgments to his Grace for the honour he hath done me in his Subscription. The Title of Bede's Pieces is as follows: Bedæ venerabilis Opera quædam Theologica, nunc primùm edita, necnon Historica, antea semel edita. Accesserunt Egberti Archiepiscopi Eboracensis Dialogus de Ecclesiastica Institutione, et Aldhelmi Episcopi Scireburnensis Liber de Virginitate ex codice antiquissimo emendatus. Londini, 1693. As this Book is not in the Library, if his Lordship will please to allow it a place there, I will send it you by the first opportunity. My compliments to Sir Joseph Ayloffe and Mr. Astle. I congratulate the latter on his late preferment. To hear from Dr. Ducarel will give pleasure to his most obedient, &c. EDW. LYE." The manuscript was at length completed; and he lived to print about 30 sheets of the Work; but died of the gout, August 16, 1767, in his 73d year, leaving the completion of it, and the subscription, to his intimate friend and countryman the Rev. Owen Manning, who, after four years close application, published it in 1772, from the press of Mr. Allen of Bolt Court; prefixing a perspicuous account of the rise and progress of the Work, in an elegant Latin Preface, and accompanying it with a Grammar of the Saxon and Gothic languages, and large additions to the sheets before composed. In an Appendix are subjoined fragments of Ulphilas's Version of the Epistle to the Romans, sundry Saxon charters, a Sermon, a fragment of the Saxon Chronicle, and other instruments.-Mr. Lye was buried at Yardley Hastings, with a commendatory but just and elegant epitaph. There is a Portrait of Mr. Lye, in a lay habit, sitting in his Study, after a Painting by F. Reynolds, (sister of Sir Joshua) by T. Burke, 1784. See vol. II. p. 107; vol. III. pp. 669, 707; vol. IV. p、 122; vol. V. pp. 404, 461. VOL. IX.

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P. 456." Samuel Martin, Esq. of Marshalswick, Herts, was a gentleman well known in the political world, particularly from his having fought a duel, in 1763, with Mr. Wilkes. He had the reversion of the Ushership of the Exchequer. His Portrait is engraved in Gent. Mag. LXXV. 17; where a short account of him is given, some errors in which are corrected, ib. 199.

P. 480. Mr. Wilkes, from early life, was not only a great reader of books, but a collector also of many that were curious; and, in the wreck of his fortune, felt no small concern for the loss of his whole Library, which, about 1769, fell a sacrifice towards the payment of some of his private debts. The Biblio maniac flame was at that period scarcely kindled; and "the select and valuable Library of John Wilkes" (in which many volumes were enriched by his MS notes) was dispersed, with the ordinary furniture of the house, to the usual frequenters of such sales. Not dispirited, however, Mr. Wilkes again began to collect; and, at the time of his death, had three distinct Libraries, which are specifically noticed in his Will.-To his daughter Harriet Wilkes, he gave the lease of the house, plate, prints, pictures, books, &c. at Sandham Cottage.To Mrs. Amelia Arnald, the lease of his house at Kensington Gore, with all the plate, pictures, prints, books, &c.-To his beloved daughter Mary Wilkes, the lease of his house in Grosvenor Square, with all the prints, pictures, books, &c.-" Part of the Library of the late John Wilkes, Esq. Alderman and Chamberlain of the City of London, brought from Sandham Cottage in the Isle of Wight, by order of the Executor, and Guardian of the Legatee, consisting of Classics, Poetry, Belles Lettres, Miscellaneous," &c. was sold, by Leigh and Sotheby, June 1, 1799. There was a second sale of "Part of the Sandham Cottage Library," by Leigh and Sotheby, in 1800; but Mr. Wilkes's name did not appear. Neither of these sales attracted much public attention; though they con tained many curious articles; several of which were purchased by Mr. Bindley; among them, a copy of "Theophrastus," on vellum, and a Political Work, "The History of the Minority;" the author of which was not, I believe, ever known to a certainty, published while he was in France. It appears to have been bound there; and, though many leaves (no doubt very curious ones) are clean cut out, it still contains a vast deal of Mr. Wilkes's own hand-writing, relating to the inquisition made after him for his political writings. It very evidently passed at the sale without much notice, and was bought by Mr. Bindley, who has kept it very choice ever since; and has also a copy of Catullus, Barbou's beautifully printed book, which, as appears from an inscription in it, was a present by Mr. Sterne at Paris. Mr. Wilkes had corrected the text in many places, possibly with a view at that time even, in 1764, to a new Edition of Catullus by himself.The Books in Grosvenor-square remained till the death of Miss Wilkes; who directed her executors "to deliver all her honoured Father's Library, according to the Catalogue, to

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Mr. Peter Elmsly, of Sloane Street (as stated in p. 478). All her books not mentioned in the Catalogue (except the Gems of Worlidge) she gave to Miss Mary Hayley Baker, with her drawings; and the Book of Gems just mentioned she gave to Miss Harriet Wilkes, as also the gold watch which belonged to her Father."-Miss Wilkes died March 12, 1802; and “the very valuable Library of John Wilkes, Esq. M. P." (1478 articles) was sold, by Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby, in the November following. Amongst other books in this sale was a vellum copy of his Editions of Catullus and Theophrastus; and an article, intituled, "Boulanger, Recherches sur l'Origine du Despotisme Oriental, 1763," 8vo.; printed by Mr. Wilkes, at his own private press in Great George-street; bound in morocco with gilt leaves; and, Copies taken from the Records of the Court of King's Bench, 1763;" in which was this note: "Printed by P. C. Webb, one of the Solicitors to the Treasury; never published." P.485. Dr. Robert Uvedale was born in the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, May 25, 1642; educated under Dr. Busby, at Westminster school; where, in 1658, he took from the bier of the Protector one of the funeral escutcheons, which is still preserved in the family, and is supposed to be the only one remaining. He was elected one of the Divinity Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; and afterwards offered himself a candidate for the Lay Fellowship of that College. Mr. Newton (afterwards Sir Isaac) was his competitor: but the Master, Dr. Barrow, decided in favour of Mr. Uvedale; saying, "that, Mr. Uvedale and Mr. Newton being (at that time) equal in literary attainments, he must give the Fellowship to Mr. Úvedale as the senior." Mr. Uvedale, however, soon after vacated the Fellowship by marriage. He kept a flourishing school at Enfield, where he had the honour of educating Theophilus Earl of Huntingdon, and others of the Nobility. Archbishop Tillotson presented him to the valuable Rectory of Orpington, and Chapel of St. Mary Cray, Kent.

Dryden, and some other learned men, having agreed to translate Plutarch's Lives from the original Greek, Dr. Uvedale translated the Life of Dion, and the work was published in 1684. In the British Museum (Bibl. Sloan. 4064, Plut. 28. F.) are fifteen Letters from Dr. Uvedale to Sir Hans Sloane; also Letters from him to Dr. Sherard and Mr. James Pettiver.

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In December 1691 Dr. Uvedale is described by J. Gibson, as a great lover of plants, and having an extraordinary art in managing them; is become master of the greatest and choicest collection of exotic greens that is perhaps any where in this land. His greens take up six or seven houses, or roomsteads. His orange-trees and largest myrtles-fill up his biggest house, and another house is filled with myrtles of a less size, and those more nice and curious plants that need closer keeping, are in warmer rooms, and some of them stoved where he thinks fit. His flowers are choice, his stock numerous, and his culture of them very methodical and curious. But, to speak of the garden in the

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