tive company made me forget to finish?-The Library is left tơi the Wardens of Merton College in succession, as well as his MSS." "Nov. 27. I am glad you have sent for the Collection of Oxfordshire Pamphlets and Tracts; late the property, and collected by, the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Trasy*. He was attentive; no one had a better, and probably a more complete one. I have been very ill for some days past, otherwise I had bought it. But it should have been in better hands when I had learned you had sent for it." "May 17, 1794. If you think Mr. Nichols will give any place to the little memorial inclosed of the present four worn-out Oxford Booksellers †, be so good as to give it him, making any different remarks you or he shall please. I have also sent a parcel for you, containing: "The arms of the family of Prince, as no one remains of my name in this place. In the Oxford Graduate Book you will see, about 30 years ago, Pead (Prince) M. A. of Wadham, who was also Proctor. His mother, who was a Princess, gave me these arms. "Thomas Aquinas's Hymn on the Eucharist, which is said to be well translated by Tom Philips, Author of the Life of Cardinal Pole, and Senior Canon of Tongres, which is meant by T. P. S. C. T. "Benwell of Trinity College on the Arts, 1787. He was the author of the verses spoken by Powell of Trinity, which by accident so resembled Richards's Modern France. "Abbot on the Use and Abuse of Satire, 1786. "Also two Papers from the King and Parliament, about 1644 and 1645.-I would not have sent you the above, if I had not known that Antiquaries do not like to have any papers destroyed, but by themselves; so if one only is worth your keeping, the carriage of the rest is nothing." "July 19. As I know you in general like to see the literary productions of this place, and, perhaps, may have a more than usual wish to peruse the inclosed Essay on Liberty,' which you may have heard of, as the subject and the freedom of the writer commanded attention; and still more as it comes from one of Dr. Parr's school; I have procured you a copy. The Author of it perhaps may not give us much light in the knowledge of Liberty; but that he cares not about, so he can give his ideas.-And now I have approached you in the Eastern fashion with a present in my hand, I will take the liberty to inquire of you if you know, or think you could hear, of a situation for a young man, a good scholar, of an active disposition; one who does not dislike a fagg as it is called; one of perfect good manners, and good repute, not under any the least disgrace, capable of any business to be expected from a young scholar, for half a year only in London-longer he could not be absent from hence, with moderate pay. He does not want to live idly in London; he was London bred, at Christ's Hospital; and, entre nous, his case is this: he has been a little, and but a little, too expensive in books, and would willingly employ his Warden of All Souls; see before, p. 686. † See before, p 683. spare spare time to get something before his setting out in the church, without any mill-stone about him. I have already tried Mr. Nichols, without success, though he was so kind as to inquire of his neighbour Mr. Strahan. I have formerly found employment for several such industrious scholars. If you can help this deserving young man, pray send a line soon. DANIEL PRINCE." "March 18, 1795. You see by the papers that Mr. Marlow* is elected President of St. John's College. I suppose he is a Londoner, as the Fellows are chiefly from Merchant Taylors. The Society have great credit in electing him without opposition.Dr. Richard Rawlinson's Saxon Professorship takes place at Michaelmas next. St. John's is to furnish the first Professor, as that College was Rawlinson's. Since the deaths of Mr. Lye, RoweMores, and two or three, of Bishop Gibson's encouragers ab Queen's College, I cannot hear of a buyer of Saxon Books.After St. John's College, the Colleges are to give Professors according to antiquity, as University, Baliol, Merton, &c.— Before May-day I am assured that the two first volumes, in octavo, and the first in quarto, of Wyttenbach's Plutarch will be published, and I am also encouraged to say that Dr. Bradley's Observations, so long under Dr. Hornsby's hands, occasioned by his many epileptic fits, will now be finished without delay, perhaps by July next. Wyttenbach's small piece of Plutarch in 1772 has not been here, as I am told. I have not been out of my house since the middle of October last, occasioned by the cold season, my lameness, and 84th year. About half the time I have had a troublesome cough; and now, though I thank God I am better, I believe I had best wait until spring appears. On the whole, though we have a bleak and flat country to the North and North-east, open to the very severest winds, we have fared pretty well, less snow than our neighbours, and less havock in our gardens. Your account of Mr. - surprizes me greatly, and I hope his health and strength will hint to him how capable he is of farther business in town-as a man may have outlived, or become quite tired of one branch of trade, and become, with the help of money, quite entertained, and pleasantly advanced and benefited in another; which to a Londoner must, with a summer excursion, be far more satisfying than a country life, and its melancholy hours, without a habit for books, or a hobby-horse to maintain. He knows of several easy and perhaps safe quarters, without the risque of banking or insuring. By Dr. Bathurst's removal to Durham, the Bishop of Durham is allowed to be Patron to Dr. Holmes, the Collater of the Septuagint, to be Canon of Christ Church. We have in our press one of Euripides' Tragedies, with a world of notes, by Mr. Francis Egerton, Prebendary of Durham, son to the late Bishop. I will not promise it to you soon. *Michael Marlow, of St. John's College, Oxford; M. A. 1784; B. D. 1789; D. D. and President of St. John's 1795; Vice-chancellor 1798, 1799, 1800, and 1801.-This learned and respectable Divine is son of Michael Marlow, M. A. who died Jan. 30, 1795, æt. 84; see Ellis's History of horeditch, p. 146; and Gent. Mag. vol. LXV. pp. 173. 407. "The “The candidates for the Saxon Professorship are, Dr. Finch and Mr. Mayo, both Fellows of St. John's. DANIEL PRINCE." "June 4. You might fairly apply to me to get sheets wanted to complete the Oxford Bible, folio, for Churches, in 1716; and I hope they still may be had; for great care was taken to preserve the waste of that book, and indeed of some few others of Basket's printing, worth preserving. — About the year 1762, all Basket's stock, &c. was removed to London; and I have often procured sheets of that Bible, and also of the beautiful octavo Common Prayer Book, which were almost his only shining examples of paper and print. Any Bookseller of long standing in Paternoster-row-of which but few remain, yet Mr. Nichols may find them—will tell you whether a room, or small warehouse, still remains of Basket's books, where even waste sheets are still preserved. This is all I can suggest at this late date, viz. 33 years, from 1762 to 1795. I am not in the least habit of gain, farther than the stocks, bridges, and roads, can give interest to a cripple for his money. I can felicitate Messrs. when they are successful in insuring, and hope they are careful in playing small game, lest an unlucky event happens. Have you seen a pamphlet printed here, said to be done by Professor Randolph, a list of the early printed books in the Bodleian Library? It is in Elmsly's shop. I am told Strabo may be next winter; but no speedy prospect is seen." "Oct. 8. Inclosed is a small laconic scrap of Sir Richard Steele's, which must be genuine, and has no other value but its genuineness, as it serves no purpose, but an evidence of the writer's affection, and may add to the scraps about Bickerstaff. I send this by Orion Adams, an old itinerant type, remembered by me about 50 years.— I may congratulate you that the Gentleman's Magazine, which I recollect for 63 or 64 years, contrary to all other undertakings of that kind, is stronger now than on the day it was of age, 21. Accept the best wishes of, Yours, &c. DANIEL PRINCE." "Feb. 20, 1796. As Messrs. Gough, Nichols, and Pridden, did not call on poor old Daniel Prince before they left this place, he troubles Mr. Nichols with the scraps he had laid by for him, viz. -Verses on Miss Cotes and Miss Wilmot *, from Trinity College Junior Common-room, the first of T. Warton's performances which appeared in print. List of the principal Books printed at the Clarendon Press while D. P. was manager t. The gold ring found at Malton in Yorkshire. The ring in the possession of Dr. Hunter of York. Good copy of the print of Thomas Hearne. — When Mr. Gough and Mr. Nichols come next to Oxford, they will do well to get Hearne's monument repaired. It was well restored about 1750 by the late John Loveday, esq. father of Dr. Loveday." * See these verses in Gent. Mag. vol. LXVI. p. 236. This List may be seen in p. 426. ADDITIONS TO THE EARLY MEMBERS OF THE RICHARD WATERSON, an early member of the Company of Stationers, and an eminent Bookseller at the corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, was thus noticed on a tablet placed by his son in St. Faith's Church: "Neer to this Pillar lyeth the body of Richard Waterson, Citizen and Stationer of London; who died the xviii of September, 1563. Simon Waterson his Son placed this heer the 1st of January 1599." The Son, who had been left an infant, took up his freedom by his father's copy in 1583; and came on the Livery in 1592. He was twice Master of the Company, in 1607 and 1621; was chosen a Common Councilman in 1608, and next year a Governor of two of the Royal Hospitals. He married Frances, daughter of Thomas Legat, esq. of Essex; by whom he had seven daughters and three sons; died March 16, 1634; and was buried in St. Faith's church, with the following inscription on his tomb : "Quâ fide resurrectionem carnis crediderit unusquisquis, in gloriam resurgat. Epitaphium M. sacrum, et more antiquo ascriptum, Simonis Wa, terson (Richardi filii, Biliopoli Stationarii Londinensis); Civis probi, justi, ac honesti, qui bis in Præfecturam Sodalitatis suæ adscitus, et munia fœliciter omnia ejus ac hujus parochiæ functus, in plebeium sive commune consilium Civitatis exinde electus, anno Millesimo Sexcentesimo octavo, Decembris vicesimo primo, necnon anno sequenti duorum Hospitalium præfectura decoratus' et consignatus: tota quæ omnia integerrimè perfunctus summâ cum famâ ac fide, usque ad plenam senectutem, et numerosam annorum seriem, gessit. Uxorem unicam habuit, Franciscam, Thomæ Legati, in agro Estsexiæ armigeri, filiam; quæ illi decimam prolem peperit; scilicet, septem filias et tres filios; quorum superstites junior, Joannes, Hæres et Executor, hoc monumentum morens ac piè posuit. Obiit anno Salutis MDCXXXIV. Mar. D. 16, ætatis suæ 72." Mr. THOMAS BENNET was a first-rate Bookseller in St. Paul's Church-yard, particularly noticed by the Established Clergy of that period, and by the leading men at Oxford, as appears by the controversy of Mr. Boyle with Dr. Bentley. He was, in consequence, patronized by Dr. Atterbury, who frequently mentions him in his "Epistolary Correspondence;" and, in a Funeral Sermon, thus ably pourtrays his character : "It will not be unsuitable to my design, if I close these reflections with some account of the person deceased, who really lived like one that had his hope in another life; a life which he hath now entered upon, having exchanged hope for sight, desire for enjoyment. I know such accounts are looked upon as a tribute due to the memory of those only who have moved in a high sphere, and have out-shone the rest of the world by their rank, as well as their virtues. However, the characters of men placed in lower stations of life, though less usually insisted upon, are yet more useful, as being imitable by greater numbers, and not so liable to be suspected of flattery or design. Several of this auditory were, perhaps, entire strangers to the person whose death we now lament; and the greatest part of you who were not had, for that reason, so just an esteem of him, that it will not be unwelcome to you, I presume, to be put in mind of those good qualities which you observed in him: And therefore I shall, in as few words as I can, comprise what twenty years experience hath enabled me justly to say of him. "He was a serious, sincere Christian; of an innocent, irreproachable, nay, exemplary life; which was led, not only at a great distance from any foul vice, but also in the even and uniform practice of many virtues; such as were suitable to a life of great application and business, such as became and adorned the state and profession to which it pleased God to call him. He highly valued and heartily loved that Church wherein he was baptized and educated; of which he gave the best proofs, by being a constant frequenter of its worship, and, in the latter part of his life, a never-failing monthly communicant; I add also, and by adhering steadily to its interest; two things which ought never to be separated. "Nor was his attendance on divine offices a matter of formality and custom, but of conscience, as appeared by his composed and serious behaviour during the service. It was such as shewed him to be in earnest, and truly affected with what he was doing. "His religion did not spend itself all in public; the private duties of the closet were equally his care; with these he began each morning, and to these he repaired as often as he entered upon any business of consequence (I speak knowingly); and his family were every evening summoned by him to common devotions; and in these too his regard for the public service of the Church appeared, for they were expressed always in her language. "Indeed he was a very singular instance of all those domestic virtues that relate to the good and discreet government of a family. He had great natural prudence, which experience had much improved; he was of a sweet temper, and a mighty lover of regularity and order; and, by the happy mixture of these good qualities, managed all his affairs (particularly those within doors) with the utmost exactness; and yet with as much quiet and ease to himself and others as was possible. "Those about him grew insensibly active and industrious by his example and encouragement; and he had such a gentle method of reproving their faults, that they were not so much afraid as ashamed to repeat them. He took the surest way to be obeyed, by being loved and respected; for he was free from any of those rough, ungovernable passions, which hurry men on to say and do very hard and offensive things. He had, indeed, a certain quickness of apprehension, which inclined him a little to kindle into the |