tans; Medicinam, Academias utrasque laudans; Empiricos, eorum cultores perstringens; Collegium usque à natalibus illustrans in Theatro Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensium habita Festo Divi Lucæ, MDCCLI, à Gulielmo Browne, Equite Aurato, M. D. Cantab. et Oxon. hujusce Collegii Socio, Electo, Censore, F. R. S. et à Consiliis. Solidorum duorum pretio venalis 1751," 4to. This oration was embellished with Sir William's arms in the title-page; a head piece*, representing the Theatre at Oxford, the Senate-house at Cambridge, and the College of Physicians; and an emblematic initial letter. These ornaments accompanied all his future publications.

2. "A Letter from Sir William Browne, Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk, to his Tenants and Neighbours, seriously recommended at this Time to the Perusal of all the People of England, 1757," 8vo.

3. "Ode in Imitation of Horace, Ode III. L. III. addressed to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, on ceasing to be Minister, Feb. 6, 1741; designed as a just Panegyric, on a great Minister, the glorious Revolution, Protestant Succession, and Principles of Liberty. To which is added, the Original Ode, defended, in Commentariolo, by Sir William Browne, M. D. 1765," 4to.

4. "Opuscula varia utriusque Linguæ, Medicinam; Medicorum Collegium; Literas, utrasque Acadevoluerunt, officium, amorem, præstans, dat, dicat, uti par est, Orator Harveianus)" was accompanied with the following admonitory distich :

"Docti et justi nomen parvi penderet,

Qui Sermonem hunc, invito me, verteret."

* Inscribed, "Et cantare pares, et respondere parati;" and under a figure of the Sun," Mihi magnus Apollo."

On the first institution of the Militia, Sir William Browne had the honour of being appointed one of the Earl of Orford's deputy lieutenants, and was named in his Lordship's first commission of the peace.

This edition of the Ode to Sir Robert Walpole was inscribed to George Earl of Orford, as an acknowledgement of favours conferred by his Lordship, as well as by his father and grandfather.

mias; Empiricos, eorum Cultores; Solicitatorem, Praestigiatorem; Poeticen, Criticen; Patronum, Patriam; Religionem, Libertatem, spectantia. Cum Præfatione eorum editionem defendente. Auctore D. Gulielmo Browne, Equite Aurato, M.D. utriusque et Medicorum et Physicorum S. R. S. 1765," 4to. * 5. "Appendix Altera ad Opuscula; Oratiuncula, Collegii Medicorum Londinensis Cathedræ valedicens. In Comitiis, postridie Divi Michaelis, MDCCLXVII, ad Collegii administrationem renovandam designatis; Machinaque Incendiis extinguendis apta contra Permissos Rebelles munitis; habita à D. Gulielmo Browne, Equite Aurato, Præside; 1768." 4to.

6. "A Farewell Oration, &c. a translation of the preceding article, 1768, 4to.;

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7. Fragmentum Isaaci Hawkins Browne, Arm. sive Anti-Bolingbrokius, Liber primus. Trans

*This little volume (which was dated "ex Areâ dictâ Reginali, MDCCLXV, III nonas Januarias, ipso Ciceronis et Auctoris natali) contained, 1. "Oratio Harveiana, in Theatro Collegii Medicorum Londinensis habita, 1751." 2. "A Vindication of the College of Physcians, in reply to Solicitor General Murray, 1753." 3." Ode, in Imitation of Horace, Ode I. addressed to the Duke of Montagu. With a new interpretation, in Commentariolo, 1765." 4. The Ode, above mentioned, to Sir Robert Walpole [This Ode is also preserved in the "Select Collection of Miscellany Poems, 1780," vol. VI. p. 205.] Some time before, Sir William had published "Odes in Imitation of Horace; addressed to Sir John Dolben, to Sir John Turner, to Doctor Askew, and to Robert Lord Walpole."

The active part taken by Sir William Browne, in the contest with the Licentiates, occasioned his being introduced by Mr. Foote in his "Devil upon Two Sticks." Upon Foote's exact re presentation of him with his identical wig and coat, tall figure, and glass stiffly applied to his eye, he sent him a card, compli menting him on having so happily represented him; but, as he had forgot his muff, he had sent him his own. This goodnatured method of resenting disarmed Foote.

The Author modestly calls this" a very hasty performance;" and says, "In my journey from Oxford to Bath, meeting with continued rain, which kept me three days on the road, in compassion to my servants and horses; and having my friend a pocket-companion, I found it the best entertainment my tedious baiting could afford, to begin and finish this translation." This was dated Oct. 24, 1768; and his second part was com

pleted

lated for a Second Religio Medici. By Sir William Browne, late President, now Father, of the College of Physicians; and Fellow of the Royal Society, 1768," 4to.

8. "Fragmentum Isaaci Hawkins Browne completum, 1769, 4to.

9." Appendix ad Opuscula *; Six Odes†, 1770,"

4to.

10. Three more "Odes, 1771," 4to.

pleted on the 20th of the following month: " My undertaking," he says, "to complete, as well as I could, the Fragment of my Friend hath appeared to me so very entertaining a work, even amongst the most charming delights, and most chearful conversations at Bath; that I have used more expedition, if the very many avocations there be considered, in performing this, than in that former translation. To this part was prefixed a congratulatory poem, " to Isaac Hawkins Browne, Esq; son of his deceased friend, on his coming of age, Dec. 7, 1766."

* The good old Knight's " Opuscula" were continually on the increase. The Master of a College at Cambridge used to relate a story of him, that, waiting for Sir William in some room at the College where he was come to place a near relation, he found him totally absorbed in thought over a fine quarto volume of these "Opuscula," which he constantly, he said, carried about with him, that they might be benefited by frequent revisals.

1. "De Senectute. Ad amicum D. Rogerum Long, apud Cantabrigienses, Aula Custodem Pembrokianae, Theologum, Astronomum, doctissimum, jucundissimum, annum nonagesimum agentem, scripta. Adjecta Versione Anglica. Ab Amico D. Gulielmo Browne, annum agente ferè octogesimum." 2. "De Choreis, et Festivitate. Ad Nobilissimum Ducem Leodensem, diem Walliæ Principis natalem Acidulis Tunbrigiensibus celebrantem, scripta. A Theologo festivo, D. Georgio Lewis §. Adjecta Versione Anglica ab Amico, D. Gulielmo Browne." 3. "De Ingenio, et Jucunditate. Ad Lodoicum § Amicum, Sacerdotem Cantianum, ingeniosissimum, jucundissimum, scripta. Adjecta Versione Anglica. A D. Gulielmo Browne, E. A. O. M. L. P. S. R. S." 4." De Wilkesio, et Libertate. Ad Doctorem Thomam Wilson, Theologum doctissimum, liberrimum, tam mutui Amici, Wilkesii, Amicum, quam suum, scripta." 5." De Otio Medentibus debito. Ad Moysæum || Amicum, Medicum Bathoniæ doctissimum, humanissimum, scripta." 6. "De potiore Metallis Libertate: et omnia vincente Fortitudine. Ad eorum utriusque Patronum, Gulielmum illum Pittium, omni et titulo et laude majorem, scripta."

§ Vicar of Westerham in Kent, famous for his performance of Ignoramus when a Westminster scholar. || Dr. Moysy.

11. "A Proposal on our Coin*: to remedy all present, and prevent all future Disorders, To which are praefixed, praeceding Proposals of Sir John Barnard, and of William Shirley, Esq. on the same subject. With Remarks, 1771," 4to.

12. "A New Year's Gift. A Problem and Demonstration on the XXXIX Articles †, 1772," 4to.

* "To the most revered memory of the Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons during XXXIII years; for ability, judgement, eloquence, intregity, impartiality, never to be forgotten, or excelled: who, sitting in the Gallery, on a Committee of the House, the day of publishing this Proposal, and seeing the Author there, sent to speak with him, by the Chaplain; and, after applauding his performance, desired a frequent correspondence, and honoured him with particular respect, all the rest of his life; this was, with the most profound veneration, inscribed."

+ "This Problem, and Demonstration, though now first published, on account of the praesent controversy concerning these Articles, owe their birth to my being called upon to subscribe them, at an early period of life. For in my Soph's year, 1711, being a Student at Peter-house, in the University of Cambridge, just nineteen years of age, and having performed all my exercises in the Schools, (and also a First Opponency extraordinary to an ingenious pupil of his, afterwards Dr. Barnard, Prebendary of Norwich), on Mathemetical Quaestions, at the particular request of Mr. Proctor Laughton, of Clare-hall (who drew me into it by a promise of the Senior Optime of the year), I was then first informed, that subscribing these Articles was a necessary step to taking my degree of B. A. as well as all other degrees. I had considered long before at school, and on my admission in 1707, that the universal profession of Religion must much more concern me through life, to provide for my happiness hereafter; than the particular profession of Physic, which I proposed to pursue, to provide for my more convenient existence here: and therefore had selected out of the library left by my father, (who had himself been a regular Physician, educated under the tuition of Sir John Ellis, M. D. afterwards Master of Caius College,) Chillingworth's Religion of a Protestant; the whole famous Protestant and Popish Controversy; Commentaries on Scripture; and such other books as suited my purpose. I particularly pitched upon three for per petual pocket companions, Bleau's Greek Testament, Hippocratis Aphorismata, and an Elzevir Horace; expecting from the first to draw Divinity, from the second Physick, and from the last Good Sense and Vivacity. Here I cannot forbear recollecting my partiality for St. Luke, because he was a Physician; by the particular pleasure I took in perceiving the superior purity of his Greek, over that of the other Evangelists. But I did not then know, what I was afterwards taught by Dr. Freind's learned

History

13. "The Pill Plot. To Doctor Ward *, a Quack of merry Memory, written at Lynn, Nov. 30, 1734, 1772, 4to.

14. Corrections in Verset, from the Father of the College, on Son Cadogan's + Gout Dissertation: con

History of Physick, that this purity was owing to his being a Physician, and consequently conversant with our Greek Fathers of Physick. Being thus fortified, I thought myself as well praepared for an encounter with these Articles, as so young a person could reasonably be expected. I therefore determined to read them over as carefully and critically as I could: and upon this met with so many difficulties, utterly irreconcileable by me to the Divine Original, that I almost despaired of ever being able to subscribe them. But, not to be totally discouraged, I resolved to reconsider them with redoubled diligence; and then at last had the pleasure to discover, in Article VI, and XX, what appeared to my best private judgement and understanding a clear solution of all the difficulties, and an absolute defeazance of that exceptionable authority, which inconsistently with Scripture they seem to assume. I suscribe my name to whatever I offer to the public, that I may be answerable for its being my sincere sentiment: ever open however to conviction, by superior Reason and Argument. WILLIAM BROWNE."

* Dr. Joshua Ward, the celebrated Quack; who first began to practise Physic about 1733; and combated, for some time, the united efforts of Wit, Learning, Argument, Ridicule, Malice, and Jealousy, by all of which he was opposed in every shape that can be suggested. After a continued series of success, he died Dec. 11, 1761, at a very advanced age.

† Although the corrections are jocular, it is not intended that they should be less but more sensibly felt, for that very reason: according to the rule of Horace.

Ridiculum acri

Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res,

AD FILIVM.

Vapulans lauda Baculum Paternum,

Invidum, FILI, fuge suspicari,

Cujus i-denum trepidavit aetas

Claudere Lustrum."

The Author repeating these verses to Dr. Cadogan himself, who censured their want of rhyme; he answered, that "the gout had a fourth cause, study, which was never his case: if he did not understand law and gavelkind, he would not talk to him; for there were two sorts of gout, freehold and copyhold: the first where it was hereditary, the other where a person by debauchery took it up."

Occasioned by a pamphlet which at the time made a considerable noise in the world, under the title of " A Dissertation on the Gout, and all chronic Disorders; jointly considered, as pro

ceeding