lected from his own reading. Lord Chedworth and the gentlemen of his hunt, who were used to spend annually in the hunting season about a month at Campden, hearing of his fame, generously allowed him an annuity of sixty pounds for life, upon which he retired to Ŏxford, for the benefit of the Bodleian Library. Mr. Mores (who mentions a curious MS. transcribed by Mr. Ballard) calls him "a mantuamaker, a person studious in English Antiquities, laborious in his pursuits, a Saxonist, and after quitting external ornaments of the sex, a contemplator of their internal qualifications." I shall insert below an extract of an unpublished letter from Mr. Ballard to Dr. Rawlinson, which * They offered him an annuity of 1007.; but he modestly told them that sixty pounds were fully sufficient to satisfy both his wants and his wishes. ↑ "I know not what additions Mr. George Ballard can make to Mr. Stowe's Life. This I know, that, being a taylor himself, he is a great admirer of that plain honest Antiquary." Mr. Thomas Hearne to Mr. Baker, Oxford, July 3, 1733. "HONOURED Sir, Having been informed by my friend Mr. Rawlinson of Pophills of your noble design of continuing Mr. Wood's 'Athenæ,' and that any notices which would be serviceable towards such an undertaking would be kindly received: I drew up a short account of the life of my late learned and ingenious friend Mr. Graves. I am truly sensible how unfit I am to attempt any thing of this kind, and especially of so worthy a person; but the great veneration I have for the memory of so dear a friend, and imagining but few of his other more learned correspondents had an opportunity of having a more perfect knowledge of him, I have therefore ventured to inform you, that Richard Graves ||, esq. was born at Mickleton, in Gloucestershire, anno 1676, and was the son of Samuel Graves, esq. who was the son of Richard Graves § (who was lord of the royalty of the hundred of Kiftesgate, and of the manors of Mickleton, Aston, and Weston, in this county for many years one of the benchers, and at length reader of Lincoln's Inn), who was the son of Richard Graves, Whose portrait, engraved by Vertue, is preserved in Dr. Nash's History of Worcestershire," vol. I. p. 298; where there is a pedigree at large of this family, so "eminent for producing many learned and valuable men." Of his son, Morgan Graves, esq. there is a mezzotinto by Valentine Green. § See note § in the next page. has been obligingly communicated by the Rev. Mr. Price, from the original in the Bodleian Library. He drew up an account of Campden church in 1731; which was read by Dr. Morell, at the Society of Antiquaries, Nov. 21, 1771. who was the son of John Graves §, of Beamesley in Yorkshire, gent. of the family of Graves of Heyton in that county. He was educated in grammar learning, partly at Campden, and partly at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, but chiefly at the former place, under the tuition of Mr. Robert Morse. From thence he was sent to Oxford, about the year 1693; was fixed in Pembroke college; how long he continued there, or what degrees he took, as yet I am ignorant. But, being delighted with a private life, he retired to his manor-house at Mickleton; where he was an indefatigable student in antiquities. He was a very obliging communicative gentleman, and of such a sweet deportment, as gained him the love and esteem of all those who had the honour and happiness of his conversation. To be short, he was a gentleman endowed with all those excellent qualifications which might justly intitle him Great and Good; he was a complete master of the Greek, Latin, and Saxon tongues; was admirably well read and skilled in the Roman and British antiquities; and was a most curious Historian, Antiquary, and Medalist. Besides curious letters, pedigrees, &c. that are made public in the performances of several learned men; he has drawn up (in middle-sized octavo) an Historical Pedigree of his own family, most elaborately done; and had likewise made vast collections towards the history and antiquities of Kiftesgate Hundred, and the several places where his estate lay, which he had collected with very great pains and expence from the Domesday Book, from MSS. and records in the Tower, Cottonian and Bodleian libraries, and many other ways; which he designed by way of annals, in imitation of Kennett's Parochial Antiquities; and a little before his death had designed to have methodised and compiled it, in 3 volumes, folio. He was master of many much-esteemed MSS. the greater part of which were purchased after his death by James West, esq. a gentleman of very extraordinary accomplishments. His collection of medals (which were about 500, among which were many very valuable pieces) consisted chiefly of Greek and Roman coins, a great part of which I collected for him, from Worcester, Gloucester, Marlborough, Devizes, and several other places; all which coins were purchased after his death by Roger Gale, esq. an intimate acquaintance of Mr. Graves, who is a great master of those studies, and many other useful parts of learning. He died (to the great grief of all true lovers of antiquity, as well as of all those who knew him) upon WedPortraits of both these gentlemen, by Vertue, are preserved by Dr. Nash. nesday Mr. Ballard was instrumental in procuring Mrs. Elstob a visit, in 1733, from Mrs. Chapone*, a clergyman's wife at Stanton in Gloucestershire, a woman of letters, and an old acquaiutance, for whom he was used to make gowns and mantuas, that being his trade or employment †. nesday about seven o'clock in the morning, being the 17th day of September, 1729, in the 53d year of his age, and is buried in a vault in the North aile of Mickleton church, near to which is a very neat marble monument fixed in the wall, with the following inscription, composed by James West, esq. "Subtùs requiescit RICARDUS GRAVES armiger, hujusce manerii dominus; qui eximias animi dotes mira indolis suavitate temperans, liberos tenerrimo affectu, amicos inconcussâ fide, semper prosecutus. cum res Græcas Romanasque penitus perspectas haberet, His profecto unicè deditus investigandis dilucidandis omnem adhibuit diligentiam. ex quâ quatuor filios duasque filias superstites reliquit. Ne tantas patris virtutes nescirent posteri, MORGAN GRAVES, arm. filius natu maximus." *See vol. IV. p. 134; where this lady's name is wrongly called Capon. † Dr. Lightfoot, on the authority of the late Duchess Dowager of Portland. See the Notes on the Tatler, ed. 1786, vol. II. p. 392, He He died rather young, in the latter end of June 1755, owing, it was thought, to too intense application to his studies; and his tomb is thus inscribed: 66 "H. S. E. GEORGIUS BALLARD, Campoduni sui haud vulgare ornamentum : ut animum interea disciplinis liberalibus In celebritatem et literatorum amicitiam nec ignobili, nec reipublicæ literariæ inutilis; quotquot Britanniam scriptis illustrârunt, memoriam He left large collections behind him; but published only the "Memoirs of British Ladies who have been celebrated for their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts, or Sciences, 1752," 4to; re-printed in 8vo, 1775. The work was printed by subscription, and the list of the public contributors towards its support was such as did honour both to the author and themselves. A very large Collection of his Epistolary Correspondence is preserved in the Bodleian Library. No. III. No. III. THOMAS CARTE. (Vol. II. p. 192.) THOMAS CARTE, son of the Rev. Samuel Carte (M. A. of Magdalen College, Oxford, prebendary of Lichfield, vicar of St. Martin's, Leicester, and rector, 1699, of Eastwell in that county) was born at Clifton-upon-Dunsmoor, in Warwickshire, where his father was at that time vicar; and was baptized there, by immersion, April 23, 1686. We have no account of the place where he received his grammar * Who published two Sermons, in 1694 and 1705; “Tabula Chronologica Archiepiscopatuum et Episcopatuum in Anglia et Wallia, ortus, divisiones, translationes, &c. breviter exhibens ; unà cum indice alphabetico nominum, quibus apud authores insigniuntur; concinnata per Sam. Carte, Vic. S. Martini, Leicestr. et explicata per eundem," folio, without date. Part of a letter of his to Mr. Humphrey Wanley, dated Aug. 7, 1710, concerning a tesselated pavement found about 1670, near All Saints church in Leicester, with a drawing of it by B. Garland, is in Phil. Trans. No. 331, p. 324. And his account of that town, in answer to some queries of Browne Willis, esq. (from a MS. in the Bodleian Library) is printed in the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. His assistance to Dr. Willis is gratefully acknowledged in the Preface to the second volume of " Mitred Abbeys;" and to him Dr. Stukeley inscribes his plan of Roman Leicester, plate 92 of his Itinerary, vol. I.-He is said in Letsome's "Preacher's Assistant" to have been vicar of St. Mary's, and in Phil. Trans. is miscalled vicar of St. Margaret's. Of the last of these misnomers he has himself taken notice in one of his MSS. which was shewn to Mr. Cole by Dr. Farmer; and the other was a mistake. He was vicar of St. Martin's; and the time of his death, with some traits of his character, will appear from the following inscription on a stone in the floor of the chancel at the steps of the altar of that church: "The remains of SAMUEL CARTE, M. A. many years Vicar of this parish. He was a person of great learning, exemplary life and conversation, strict piety, sound judgment, orthodox principles, and a zealous and able defender † of the + This will be illustrated by his conduct to Mr. Jackson; of whom see the Article (No. IV.) which follows this. It is somewhat extraordinary that the word "able" is an interlineation on the stone. doctrine |