that he should have just lived long enough to see the Shakspeare Lottery disposed of; for, on the day he paid the debt of Nature, not a ticket remained unsold. Of his unbounded liberality let the Council-chamber of the City of London, the Court-room of the Stationers' Company, and the Dining-room at the Sessions House, loudly speak. To every benevolent institution he was a generous benefactor and attentive guardian.. Witness, particularly, "The Royal Humane Society," and the "Literary Fund for the Relief of distressed Authors;" of both which he was for several years a most worthy Vice-president, and a frequent attender at their meetings. Of his private charities, were they to be brought before the publick, the list would be abundant. His remains were interred in great funeral state, in the afternoon of the 19th of December, in the church of St. Olave Jewry, where an excellent funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Robert Hamilton, LL. D. vicar of the church, and rector of St. Martin, Ironmonger-lane*.

written more than a century ago by my grandfather, the Rev. John Boydell, Vicar of Ashborne, and Rector of Mappleton, in Derbyshire. Perhaps they will not be thought inapplicable to the series of engravings, on the subjects of PROVIDENCE, INNOCENCE, CONJUGAL AFFECTION, WISDOM, and HAPPINESS, which are now nearly ready for publication. Some allowances will be made for the time at which they were written ;-and if any apology be thought necessary for now printing them, I shall only plead that partiality, which it is allowable, and perhaps laudable, for me to feel for the memory of one whom, from my very early years, spent with him, I have ever recollected with affection and veneration, and for lines which have often beguiled and cheered my way by the repeating of them. JOHN BOYDELL, Alderman. 1799.”

*The following is a correct statement of the procession =

Twelve City Constables.
Mace-bearer's Attendant.

Warden.

Two Pages, with Wands.

Beadle of School.

A Painting of St. Anne.
Two Boys.

Two Masters.

Mr.

The Lottery was drawn on the 28th of January 1805; and the principal prize (the Shakspeare Gallery) fell to the lot of Mr. Tassie, the ingenious Modeller, in Leicester Square.

The gentlemen were supported by 32 Pages, and followed by Mr. Reading, Mr. Williams.

* This Lottery, it may be observed, furnished one of the many very pleasant and original Numbers of "The Projector." See Gent. Mag. yol. LXXV. p. 113.

VOL. III.

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MR.

MR. JOSEPH POTE.

This respectable and intelligent Bookseller resided many years at Eton, where in 1730 he published, "Catalogus Alumnorum, è Collegio Regali B. Mariæ de Etona in Collegium Regale B. Mariæ & S. Nicholai apud Cantabrigienses cooptatorum, ab A. D. 1734, ejusdem Collegii Etonensis Fundationis primo, usque ad An. 1730," 4to.; [continued to 1750.] These were collected from the oaken pillars that supported the roof of the underschool, on which their names were cut as they left school; and some other authorities. In 1749 he published, "The History and Antiquities of Windsor Castle, and the Royal College, and Chapel of St. George with the Institution, Laws, and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter: including the several Foundations in the Castle from their first Establishment to the present Time; with an Account of the Town and Corporation of Windsor; the Royal Apartments, and Paintings in the Castle; the Ceremonies of the Installation of a Knight of the Garter; also an Account of the first Founders, and their Successors Knights-Companions, to the present Time, with their several Styles or Titles, at large, from the Plates in the Choir of St. George's Chapel; the Succession of the Deans and Prebendaries of Windsor; the Alms-Knights, the monumental and ancient Inscriptions; with other Particulars not mentioned by any Author. The whole entirely new wrote, and illustrated with Cuts. Eton, 1749," 4to.; treating of many particulars not in Ashmole, Anstis, or any other writers. The collection of titles at large of the knights-companions, from the plates of St. George's chapel, is here first attempted. The work was abridged in "Les Delices de Windsore; or a Pocket Companion to Windsor Castle and the Country adjacent, &c. Eton, 1755, 1769,” 12mo; full of blunders, particularly in the names of the Painters.-An appendix

to

to Mr. Pote's book was published in 1762, 4to, continuing the Knights to the last installation; with an alphabetical index of Knights from the institution to that year, and another of all the plates of arms.

Mr. Pote was the printer of many other learned and useful works, and was himself the editor of several. He died at Eton, aged 84, March 3, 1787.

Of his sons, 1. Joseph, a regular scholar at Eton, was afterwards of King's College, Cambridge; B. A. 1755; M. A. 1759. He was some time Chaplain to the Factory at Rotterdam *; and obtained in 1766 the rectory of St. Margaret Lothbury, which he resigned in 1768. He was also Prebendary of Sandiacre in the cathedral of Lichfield; and had the rectory of Milton near Gravesend in Kent, with that of St. George, Southwark, through the interest of Earl Camden, when Chancellor, who had boarded at his father's house when at Eton, and resigned in his favour his Fellowship of the College. Mr. Pote died July 29, 1797, in his 60th year.

Another son, Thomas, who succeeded to his Father's business, was Master of the Stationers Company in 1791, and was very generally esteemed, as a cheerful, lively companion, and an openhearted, obliging friend. He died Dec. 28, 1794, of an inflammation on the lungs, occasioned by a cold caught on Windsor Terrace; leaving a widow and four children.

A daughter of the elder Joseph Pote was married to Mr. John Williams, Bookseller, of Fleet-street, well remembered as the publisher of "The North Briton" in the days of Wilkes and Liberty. His son, Mr. John Williams, is now a very worthy member of the Company of Stationers; and carries on the Grandfather's business at Eton with considerable reputation, in partnership with Mrs. Maria Pote, widow of his uncle Thomas.

* Harwood's Alumni Etonenses, p. 338.

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MR.

MR. JOHN PRIDDEN,

was one of the many instances that integrity and perseverance introduce their attendant votaries to ease, affluence, and satisfaction. To animate others to appreciate the value of unsullied honour, or bear up against the torrent of stern oppression, a few particulars respecting the life of this truly worthy man cannot be omitted. He was born July 20, 1728, at Old-Martin-hall, in the parishes of Ellesmere and Whittington, in Shropshire, of a very respectable and rather wealthy parents. But his father dying when he was only 12 years old, and his mother marrying again, the object of our remarks soon experienced the withholden protection of his mother, and the most unmerciful and cruel treatment of his step-father. Indeed, the severity he endured was so great, that he was frequently laid up; and often rescued by his neighbours from the tyrannic grasp of his father-in-law. But, alas! nothing could subdue the inexorable temper of his foster-parent; and the oppressed youth determined to leave his home, and try his fortune in the Metropolis. This happened soon after the breaking-out of the French war in 1744, when, having proceeded on his journey as far as Worcester, and finding there a hot press for soldiers, he did not relish the probability of a military attachment, but adopted what he conceived to be the least of two evils, and returned back again. For this selfdefensive offence he was regularly and systematically thrashed every Tuesday and Saturday, the days of his exit and return, for nearly three years, when, unable any longerto endure his unmerited sufferings, he once more bid an eternal adieu to his unpropitious habitation, and arrived in London on the 25th of March, 1748, where he soon found protectors in Mr. John Nourse, in the Strand, and Mr. Richard Manby, Ludgate-hill; the latter of whom he succeeded in business. The libraries of many eminent and distinguished characters passed through his hands; his offers on purchasing them were liberal; and, being content with small profits, he soon found himself supported by a numerous and respect