Catalogues will be distributed gratis, 1693" seven leaves foolscap quarto, containing 127 numbers of Folios; 131 numbers of Quarto's, and 126 of Octavo's and 12mo's.

P. 552, 1. 53. Add, "The Library of the learned Mr. Hodges, late Chaplain General of His Majesty's Fleet; consisting of a choice Collection of very valuable Books, on Divinity, History, Geography, Travels, Law, Crown and Statute, was sold by Auction in the inner lower Walk of Exchange, Dec 23, and following days, 1702; Catalogues (6d. each) sold by D. Browne, R. Smith, Mat. Wotton, and George Strahan."

P. 561. 1. 9, for "proposal," read " perusal;" which shews the very high esteem the purchasers entertained of their bargain, at a price which is, perhaps, unequalled.

P. 608. See several particulars respecting Dr. Mounsey, in Mr. Batler's Life of Bp. Hildesley, and in Faulkner's Chelsea College.

P. 609. Cornelius Lyde, esq. left two daughters coheiresses, one of whom married Lionel Lyde, esq. an eminent Tobacco-merchant, and was created a Baronet in 1772, and died in 1793. His widow died in 1814. Sir Lionel's property devolved on his brother Samuel Lyde, esq.

Ibid. The Rev. Edward Jones was an excellent scholar, a truly benevolent man, and a conscientious Divine. He was educated at Eton; and elected to King's College, Cambridge, in 1759; B. A. 1764; M. A. 1767. Early in life he was patronized by Bp. Lowth, to whom he for some time was Domestic Chaplain; and to whose friendship he was indebted for the Rectory of Uppingham; and, if I mistake not, for some earlier Living. For some time he held the Rectory of Great Doddington in Northamptonshire. In one of his Letters, he says, "I have been in orders more than fifty years; and have resided as officiating Incumbent nearly the whole of that period, the greater part in a country village, but ten of them in a market-town." His meinory was retentive, and richly stored; which rendered his conversation truly interesting, and his correspondence uncommonly pleasant, as by the valuable additions to this, as well as to my preceding Volumes, will abundantly appear. Some of the proof-sheets had also the benefit of his revisal, particularly that containing the Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Sturges, and his near relations, in pp. 107-112; which he returned, accompanied by the following heartfelt sentiment: "The momentary painful sensations, occasioned by a renewal of regret for departed friends, are more than compensated, when they bring with them the flattering recollection of having enjoyed the esteem of such men for such a length of time. For more than half a century it was my lot to have been intimately acquainted, and almost as long nearly connected with the parties in question."-His son, the Rev. Edward Jones, M. A. was educated at Eton; in 1789 elected to King's College; and is now Vicar of Greetham, in Rutland: and Rector of North Kilworth, in Leicestershire.

P. 610.

P. 610. Add the two following Letters from Lord Coleraine : "For Dr. John Woodward, S. R. S. at Gresham Colledg. These. "MY WORTHY FRIEND, June 19, 1707.

"I thank you for the sight of your Discourse, which is much more ad Rhombum than that of Stephanides, formerly so esteemed, and which honest John Stow made such use of as we find in his miserable Translations of it.

"Your method to discover the antient bounds and extent of this City is very nice and learned, and deserves improvement, being well grounded; as are also your conjectures (from these late discoveries) that the City's old Wall could not be older than Severus's time, and perhaps repaired by Constantius Chlorus, or his descendants, because there are some of your Coins with an Arr or Castrum, that intimates their raising some places of defence about London; as I shall further inform you, if you please; but Geoffry of Monmouth's innumerable towers is a jest, and Cassibeline's seat (Sulloniacum) was in a great wood, where there hath been no ruin of any building found, as I have often searched and inquired (living long by Borham Wood). You know my present condition will not let me enlarge to-day. You have done well to waken Sir Christopher Wren in this matter, and I rest your engaged Friend, H. C[OLERAINE."]

"For my worthy Friend Dr. Woodward, at Gresham Colledg: July 25, 1707.

"In answer to yours of the 22d instant, I thank my worthy Friend for accepting such a blotted paper as was not designed for any other sight but yours, which often winks at my faults. As to the Medal of Constantius Chlorus, which I mentioned, it is not now in my hands; nor can I find either in Mezzabarba or Du Fresne, any such Reverse of an edifice with P. L. But in both those noble Authors there are other Reverses belonging to the said Chlorus with the characters of P. L. C. which I say may as well be construed Pecunia Londini Cusa, or Lugduni; for we know by much elder British Coins (such as yours of Cunobelin), that there were Mints very early, though rude, in this land; and because there is a brass Helena (the wife of Chlorus), whose Reverse hath on it P. L. C. and Securitas R. P. I strengthen my argument, that it was coined at London, not at Lyons; yet I am but a guesser, and pretend to no more. As to my health; being now, as Horacewas, Præcipuè sanus, in latebris nostris Tottenhamia, Quæ tibi me incolumem reddant Septembribus horis. I dare not think of the Bath: it is so infected; and it is enough now to be well, and, Sir, your assuredly affectionate Friend, H.C."*

Indorsed, "Lord Coleraine, 25 July, 1707. Of a Coin of Constantius Chlorus with a Castrum upon it: and the inscription P. L. C. which he conjectures was stamped upon occasion of the Emperor's repairing the Walls of London. - London called Augusta by reason of its strength and stateliness. Rather, as it was a Roman Colony: and as Augusta Trevirorum, Augusta Tauronorum, &c." J. WOODWARD.

P. 622.

P. 622. Lady de Montalt was daughter of Mr. Philip Allen, the Postmaster of Bath, and niece to Ralph Allen, Esq. under whose will Prior Park passed, in 1796, to her noble husband.

P. 627. Rev. Martin Stafford Smith, at the time of his marriage with Mrs. Warburton, was Vicar of Langton in Gloucestershire, and Rector of Uphill, Somersetshire. In 1793 he obtained, from Bp. Hurd, the valuable Rectory of Fladbury, where Mrs. Smith died Sept. 1, 1796; but was buried at Claverton. Mr. Smith, in December 1797, married, secondly, a lady of the name of Plaisted. P. 629. "A Translation of Boerhaave's Institutiones Chemiæ: intituled, A New Method of Chemistry; including the Theory and Practice of that Art, &c. published jointly by P. Shaw, M. D. and E. Chambers, Gent. with additional notes and sculptures.' was published in 1727, 4to. This appears to be a Translation of a work surreptitiously published in Holland without the Author's consent, and probably from the notes of some of the Students attending his Lectures. It contains, however, a very valuable treatise on the science, and was considerably improved in the Translation by the addition of Notes, selected from recent authorities, extending the knowledge of that branch of science. The original work having been received with much approbation abroad, the illustrious Author appears to have been reluctantly induced to publish, still in a less perfect state than he could have wished, his work intituled Elementa Chemiæ, which appears to be an enlarged and improved re-publication of the former work, with a very characteristic address to his brother, and a preface reciting the occasion of this re-publication. This also appears to have been translated by Peter Shaw, M. D. and published as a second edition of the "New Method of Chemistry, 1741." 4to. A third Edition appeared, 1753. 4to. To this is prefixed a short Advertisement, announcing that most of the notes made use of in our first Edition are here preserved, and several others added, where they seemed to be necessary. An Appendix is also added, to shew the way of carrying the Art still further, signed P. S. It does not hence appear how to distinguish the respective parts of the labours of the Translators and Editors in the first publication of the work, which, however, from the state of the science at that time in this Country, seems to have been an important accession, and to have ranked among the foremost of the systematic treatises on philosophical principles, which have promoted the advancement of that science in our Country; as it does not appear that at that period we possessed any approved Elementary Treatise on that science in our language. It is observable that, under the word Chymistry, in the Cyclopædia, a quotation is made of a passage from the first edition of the abovementioned work in 1727.-In the books before mentioned I find no notice as an Author of Peter Shaw, the joint Editor with Ephraim Chambers of the Editions of Boerhaave's Chemistry, who is also the well-known Editor of the Abridgment of the Philosophical Works of Bacon, 1733, 3 vols. 4to. and of those of

Boyle,

Boyle, 1725. 3 vols. 4to. Besides which, he is the Author of "Chemical Lectures, read in London in 1731 and 1732, and at Scarborough 1733, for the improvement of Arts, Trades, and Natural Philosophy," 1725, 8vo. 2nd edit.; subsequent to which, he published, "Essays for the Improvement of Arts, Manufac tures, and Commerce, by means of Chemistry, 2d edit. improved by P. Shaw, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty." It is the more observabie that such slender notice occurs of this Author in either of the sources of information before mentioned, as, from the great extent, variety, and importance of the objects of science comprehended in the long successive results of his literary labours, he appears among the most eminent and extensively useful of those Writers to whom the English Reader is indebted, for more ready access to, and communication of, the knowledge contained in the works of the illustrious Fathers of Science of our own Country, as well as for affording the means of acquaintance with the principal improvements in science of those more recent Authors who have eminently distinguished themselves in other parts of Europe. It affords me, however, some satisf ction to find mention of this Author, as an eminent Physician, whose only daughter was mar ried to the late Dr. Richard Warren, who succeeded to his practice, in the Literary Anecdotes, vol. III. p. 131.

"Another Author, to whom the Publick is greatly indebted for the advancement of the science of Chemistry in general, in its application to the Arts and Manufactures, and as more particularly applicable to the purposes of Medicine, and whose merits, as an Author have probably been obscured by the superior advantages of more recent promoters of that science, is William Lewis, M. D. late of Kingston in Surrey, who first communicated to the English Reader the advanced state of Chemical knowledge of the German Chemists and Metallurgists in his Translation of the "Chemical Works of Gaspar Neuman," 1737, 4to. illustrated with copious notes from the discoveries of more recent Authors, and from his own extensive experience; which is conspicuously evidenced in the elaborate work published some years afterwards, intituled "Commercium Philosophicum Technicum; or the Philosophical Commerce of Arts; designed as an attempt to improve arts, trades, and manufactures," 4to. 1763.-This Author appears to have been among the first promoters of that excellent Institution, the Society for the Improvement of Arts, Manufactures, &c. from which in 1767 he obtained the gold medal for an Essay on Pot-ashes, from the successful production of which in America, subsequent to that period, it appears that this Country derived considerable advantages. Another work of this Author, which has acquired much reputation as a work of comprehensive scientific knowledge and of great utility, is the "History of the Materia Medica," 1741; 4to. republished by the Author, and since republished with successive additions and improvements from the hands of Dr. Aikin." E. BROOKE..

P. 633.

P. 633. The Rev. John Jones, of Baliol College, Oxford, M. A. 1682; Editor of Horace in 1726, had been also in 1722 the Translator of Oppian's Halieutics (vol VI. p. 171).-His son, the Navy Chaplain, sometime an assistant to Bp. Hildesley whilst Vicar of Hitchin, is thus noticed in a Letter from that venerable Prelate to the Rev. William Cumming, his successor in that Vicarage:

"You are not a stranger, 1 imagine, to my proposal for encouraging the continuance of the additional duties, which I had introduced at Hitchin; viz. the Summer-Morning Sermons, and the Friday-Night Lectures. by allowing forty pounds per annum for a joint assistant at Hitchin and Holwell; and which I thought might readily have been accomplished, if Mr. Morgan had engaged Mr. Jones after, as well as before, he came to reside. This indeed I left open, and free to mutual choice, and rather wished than recommended it; but, if this should not have taken place, as Mr. Jones had often signified in my family, that in case he failed of the presentation to Hitchin, he believed he should go to London, or return to Oxford, and sometimes talked of getting to be Chaplain to a man of war; I had no idea, after ali these various tendencies to motion, and especially as I had heard nothing from him, that he would have fixed at Holwell: but this, as I am since informed, though not from himself, he now it seems intends, and also to hold Tekleford with it." Mr. Cumming's son adds, "Mr. Jones's expectation of obtaining the presentation to Hitchin must appear a little singular at first sight; as the tronage was in Trinity College, Cambridge, and Mr. Jones himself belonged to Oxford. But the case was this: The King usually filling up such preferments as became vacant upon the appointment of a new Bishop, it was supposed that the prerogative would have extended to the instance of Dr. Hildesley's promotion: which it did not. The parishioners, however, petitioned the College in behalf of Mr. Jones, not being aware of the informality of so doing; or that a Society were not likely to dispose of the presentation to any one not a member of their body."

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P. 634. The Rev. John Wheeldon was of St. John's College, Cambridge; B. A. 1759; M. A. 1762. He married a niece of Dr. John Greene, Bishop of Lincoln; who gave him the Prebend of Milton Major in the Church of Lincoln; and in 1773 the Rectory of Whethamisted, Herts, with the Chapelry of Harpenden annexed. He was a good Scholar, and a man of deep research. He published a Latin Poetical Epistle to Mr. Pennant, on his Tours; "The Life of Bp. Taylor, and the purest Spirit of his Writings extracted and exhibited for general Benefit, 1793," 8vo; A new Delineation of Job's antient Abode, by a Gentleman now contemplative in Arabia Petræa, transmitted from Alexandria to John Wheeldon, M. A. To which are added a few Observations on the Book of Job, by the Editor, 1799." Mr. Wheeldon was deeply versed in the writings of Wowver; and mentioned to me, in 1799, a wish to re-publish his " Dies Æstiva, sive Pægnion de Umbra;" but this he did not live to accomplish.

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