1716.

In the severe frost of January and February 171516, the river Thames was one solid block of ice; and shops of almost every description were erected on its surface *. Amongst these, printers and booksellers were also found pursuing their profession. Whether Mr. Bowyer was amongst the number I am not certain; but either he or his namesake Jonah the Bookseller, is thus recorded:

"In this place Bowyer plies; that's Lintot's stand.

In this year, Mr. Bowyer's accompt-book begins with regular entries. To enumerate all the works which he printed would be superfluous; but the following articles deserve to be cursorily mentioned: The Second Volume of "Pope's Homer."

"A Sermon preached before the King, at St. James's Chapel, Jan. 30, 1715-16, being the Day of the Martyrdom of King Charles I.; by the most reverend Father in God William [Wake] Lord Archbishop of Canterbury;" 4to.

"Archbishop Tillotson's Sermons."

"A Letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield §, a Poem, Habet Bibliopola Tryphon," folio.

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garb and finer ornaments than men,' she used a Saxon of the modern garb but not one of these reasons is of any weight with an Antiquary, who will always prefer the natural face to richer garb and finer ornaments;' and on his side is reason uncontrovertible. The fount of Miss Elstob, though approaching nearly to the old Saxon, has yet some tincture of the innovations brought by King Alfred from Rome, and by King Edward the Confessor from Normandy; all which coalescing formed the English hand." Mores, Dissertation on Founders, pp. 29, 30.

* Dawks's News Letter, Jan. 14, 1715-16.

+ Ibid. Feb. 15. See farther particulars in Malcolm's "Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London in the Eighteenth Century, 1808;" p. 325.

"This is to give notice to the Subscribers for Mr. Pope's Translation of Homer, that the Second Volume is now finished, and ready to be delivered to them, upon payment of one guinea (according to the conditions in the printed Proposals) to Bernard Lintott between the Temple Gates.-N. B. Those that have lost or mislaid their receipts for the first volume may receive it at the same time." Postman, March 24.

§ A poetical banter on Sir Richard Blackmore and on his bookseller.

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"The Royal Martyr a true Christian; or, a Confutation of a late Assertion, viz. that King Charles I. had only the Lay-Baptism of a Presbyterian Teacher; with an Account of the Government of the Church of Scotland since the Reformamation, shewing that Presbytery is an Innovation in that Kingdom. To which is added a particular Relation of the Solemnity of King Charles I. his Baptism, from the Heralds-office at Edinburg. By Henry Cantrell *, M. A. Vicar of St. Alkmund's, Derby."

"Parsons's Christian Directory, being a Treatise of Holy Resolution, in two Parts;" published by Dr. Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury; 8vo.

* Mr. Cantrell procured the perpetual curacy of St. Alkmund to be created into a vicarage in 1712; when he was regularly presented to it by the Mayor and Aldermen of Derby. He was living there in 1760; in which year (at the request of Thomas Bainbrigge, Esq. high sheriff of Derbyshire) he preached (but, I believe, did not print) an Assize Sermon. I have several of his original letters to the late Dr. Pegge; from one of which a curious anecdote relative to the civil war in 1644 is given in the History of Leicestershire, vol. III. p. 737.

†The original work appeared so long since as 1583 and 1591. It is an excellent book, and owes much of its celebrity to the amiable and exemplary patronage of the Dean of Canterbury; who, being sensible of its value, put it into modern English, and has adapted his abridgement of it, very judiciously, to the Protestant reader. The larger work of Mr. Parsons had obtained a just estimation in the world for its piety and usefulness; but, as the Dean observes, "no weight of matter or beauty of thought is sufficient, even for the most valuable pieces, to procure them that good acceptance with the generality of readers, which they would not fail to find if dressed in a more modish garb and therefore the making such writers speak as if they had lived and conversed with us at this day, while the force and substance of what they say is preserved entire, is so far from an injury, that I presume it will be allowed a kindness and advantage. And this hath been attempted in the present tract, with due fidelity, where the matter was esteemed either profitable or necessary to the main argument, and serving the interests of true religion and a good life. If Father Parsons (continues he) do not speak here as a Papist, yet he says such things only as suit a good Christian at large; without engaging in such others as distinguish him to be of any particular sort, and relate to controverted points, foreign to practical religion, and too evidently destructive of it.-It had been an easy, but I think not so fair a way of proceeding, to have formed a general system of faith

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"The Beauty of Holiness in the Common Prayer, as set forth in Four Sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel. By Thomas Bisse*, D. D. Preacher at

and manners out of this Directory,' and have offered it under another name; nay, there want not several treatises of this nature, composed by Protestants. But I was desirous that an adversary should not be defrauded of the reputation due to him. The parts which are suppressed, I looked upon as his blemishes and mistakes; and the covering thereof, as it is an act of charity to the reader, so I make no doubt but, is alobnois, if the souls departed have any sense of what we are doing upon earth, the author esteems it a good office done to himself too. Upon the whole, I am not conscious of any real injustice done to the original; and, fame not being any of the motives which induced me to undertake this work, I shall not be so much concerned for the reputation of it, as I very seriously am for its success. And, therefore, to my endeavours I add my most hearty prayers, that it may have the good effect of which, by the assistance of God's grace, I think it very capable, to turn men from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God.--See Preface to the Directory.' An eighth edition was published in 1782.

* Thomas Bisse, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; M. A. 1698; B. D. 1708; D.D. 1712; preacher at the Rolls 1715. He was a younger brother of Dr. Philip Bisse, bishop of St. David's, and afterwards of Hereford; by whom (on the deprivation of John Harvey, M. A. a Nonjuror) he was collated to the chancellorship of Hereford, in August 1716. He was also a prebendary in that cathedral; and rector of Crudley and Weston. He died April 22, 1731. He was a frequent and an cloquent preacher; and several of his single Sermons are in print. 1, A Defence of Episcopacy; preached on Trinity Sunday 1708; Heb. v. 4.— 2, "Jehosaphat's Charge," an Assize Sermon, 1711; 2 Chron. xix. 6.-3, on the Queen's Accession, 1711; Ps. cxliv. 14.4, "The Merit and Usefulness of Building Churches;" on opening a new Church, 1712; 1 Kings, viii. 18.-5, On Whit-Sunday, 1712; 1 Thess. v. 19.--6, An Act Sermon at Oxford; 1 Cor. iii. 10, 11-7, Before the House of Commons, May 29, 1714; Ps. Ixxi. 20.-8, "Pride and Ignorance the Ground of Errors in Religion;" 1716; 1 Tim. vi. 3, 4.—9, Before the Sons of the Clergy*, 1716; Isaiah, li. 1, 2.—10, “The Christian Use of the World," 1717; 1 Cor. vii. -31.—11, “The Beauty of Holiness in the Common Prayer," 1717; Four Sermons, on 1 Chron. xvi. 29.— 12, A Rationale on Cathedral Worship, or Choir Service, 1720; 1 Chron. xvi. 4, 5, 6.-13, Decency and Order in Public Worship," 1723; 1 Cor. xiv. 40.-14, On the opening of a Charityschool, 1725; Ps. cxliv. 12.-15, "The Ordination and Office of the Magistrate," 1726; Rom. xiii. 3, 4.—16, 'Musick the Delight of the Sons of Men," 1726, Eccies. ii. 8;-17, "Society

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* "A few English Notes on Dr. Bisse's Sermon to the Sons of the Clergy," were published in 1717.

recommended;"

the Rolls, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. Published at the Request of the Audience;" very large impressions in this

year. Dr. Bisse's" Latin Poems;" his "Sermon at the primary Visitation at Hereford, Aug. 4, 1716;" and another preached at Bath.

"Irrisio Dei Pannarii Romanensium: the Derision of the Breaden God worshiped in the Romish Church, gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, the Apocryphal Books, and Writings of the Holy Fathers. To which is added, A Sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of Sarum, the first Sunday in Advent, 1715;" Svo.

"Lay Nonconformity justified; in a Dialogue between a Gentleman of the Town, in Connexion with the Church of England, and his Dissenting Friend in the Country;" Svo.

Dr. Watts's "Guide to Prayer."

"The Freeholder; or Political Essays; by Mr. Addison;" complete in one volume, 8vo.

Æsopi Fabulæ;" for the Company of Stationers. "The antient and modern History of the Balearick Islands, or of the Kingdom of Majorca, which comprehends the Islands of Majorca, Minorca, Yvica, Formentera, and others, with their natural and geographical Description. Translated from the original Spanish, by Colin Campbell *.

"Report of the Committee in Ireland;"_folio.

"Trivia; or, the Art of walking the Streets of London; a Poem, by Mr. Gay;" second edition, 8vo; and his "Three Hours after Marriage;" 8vo. "The Lying Lovers, or the Ladies Friendship; a Comedy, by Sir Richard Steele;" 8vo.

Circular Letters from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and from each individual Bishop, on the Brief for Protestant Churches.

recommended;" preached at a County Feast, 1727; Ps. cxxxiii. 1, 2.-18, Another Sermon on Musick, 1729; Zech. iv. 10.-Eight of his Sermons were published, in one volume, 1731; and his Sermons "on the Lord's Prayer" were reprinted in 1740.

One of the same name was the publisher, in 1717, of the "Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect." "C. Plinii

"C. Plinii Panegyricus Trajano dictus, Interpretatione et Notis illustravit J. De la Baune, Soc. Jesu, Jussu Christian. Regis ad Usum Serenissimi Delphini. Huic Editioni adduntur quædam Notæ selectiores Lipsii, Livineii, Catanæi, Rayani, Baudii, Rittershusii, et aliorum; in Usum Scholæ Mercatorum Scissorum Londini. Impensis H. Clements, ad Insigne Lunæ falcatæ * in Cemeterio D. Pauli." "Epicteti Enchiridion; the Morals of Epictetus made English, in a poetical Paraphrase: corrected from the Errors of former Impressions. By Ellis Walker, M. A. This Paraphrase (which was first published in 1697) is dedicated "To my honoured uncle, Mr. Samuel Walker of York," to whom, it appears, he had "fled for shelter at the breaking out of the Troubles in Ireland." Several commendatory Verses are prefixed; by M. Bryan, LL, D. Oxoniensis, Ezekiel Bristed, M. A. William Clarke, of Katharine Hall, Cambridge; and William Peirse, of Emanuel College.-Of Mr. Ellis's performance it may justly be observed, that the versification is uncommonly terse and nervous; that the work exhibits a series of many admirable lines; and that the Stoical philosophy is here preserved, in verses which even a Stoic, perhaps, might not consider despicable. There are some false rhymes; but they do not detract from the energy of the composition.

* The Waning Moon, in some of Clements's titles.

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†M. A. author of "Reformation of Manners promoted, in several Essays, 1711," 8vo; and of Tradition no Rule to Christians, in Answer to Dr. Brett, 1721," 8vo.

From this circumstance it seems probable that Ellis Walker was the son of the Rev. George Walker, rector of Donoghmoore in Ireland, and governor of Londonderry during its memorable Siege; of which in 1689 he published " A true Account;" which in 1758 was re-printed by the celebrated Dr. John Brown, as "a useful lesson to the present times," under the title of "The Power of Protestant Religious Principles in producing a National Spirit of Defence, exemplified in a Diary of the Siege of Londonderry; and written by the Rev. George Walker, D. D. who commanded the Garrison during the Siege. Now published, as a useful Lesson to the present Times. To which is prefixed a Prefatory Address by the Editor." See other tracts on the same subject in Mr. Gough's "British Topography," vol. II. p. 807.

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