ively obtained several lectureships, and increased his popularity by publication of sermons and devotional pieces, which met with a very favourable reception. By these means he came into the possessson of an handsome income, but not proportioned to the style and manner of living in which he indiscreetly embarked. His popu larity made him vain, and his vanity led him into expences to which an opulent fortune would have been unequal. To augment his income he entered more largely into the line of an author, or editor, and during the course of several years published, or surperinteded the publication of, various origual pieces, new editions of esteemed works, translations, and compilations, by which he acquired considerable sums of money. the year 1757 he took his degree of M.A. at Cambridge. About this time he sustained an active part in the institution of the Magdalen hospital, which owed much of the support which it received to the zeal and ability with which he recommended it, particularly in his sermons as preacher to the charity, which were attended by very numerous and respectable audiences, For bis services in this situation he was presented with a gcuteel annual stipend. In the year

In

1763, Dr. Squire, bishop of St. David's, who had before made him his chaplain, procured for him a collation to a prebend of Brecon; and in the same year the late earl of Chesterfield, at the recommendation of Bishop Squire, gave him the appointment of tutor to his godson, Philip Stanhope, esq. the present earl. In the following year he was made one of his majesty's chaplains, and in 1766 took the degree of LL D. at Cambridge. In the year 1772 he set on foot a subscription, and gave rise to the truly benevolent society for the relief of prisoners confined for small debts; and in the same year was presented to the rectory of Hockliffe in Buckinghamshire. His increace of honours, however, and of lucrative situations, unhappily ministered fresh food to his vanity, and tempted him to indulge to a ruinous extravagance, by which he was involved in debts which he could not discharge. To extricate himself from this situation he bad recourse, in the year 1774, to a scandalous expedient, by which he hoped to procure the rich rectory af St. George's Honover-square, which had fallen to the disposal of the crown. With this view he caused an anonymous letter to be sent to the lord chancellor's lady, making her an

offer of 30001, if, by her means, he might be presented to the living. That letter was immediately communicated to the chancellor, and, after being traced to the person who sent it, laid before the king, who ordered Dr. Dodd's name to be ignominiously struck out of the list of his chaplains. The public disgrace and shame which followed this event had for a short time such an effect upon Dr. Dodd, that he withdrew from the kingdom, and went to Geneva, where his pupil then was. By him he was received with more kindness than under the circumstance in which he was placed he had reason to expect, and, as the means of relief, was presented with the living of Winge in Buckingha shire which a dispensation enabled him to hold in connection with that of Hockliffe. But the shame and distress in which he had involved himself did not cure him of his follies, or check his habits of profusion. The consequence was, that his embarrassment by degrees became greater than ever, and tempted him at length, in the year 1777, to the commission of a criminal act, by which he forfeited his life. That was, the forgery of lord, Chesterfield's name to a bond, on the credit of which he obtained a large sum

money, vainly flattering himself that the transaction would remain unknown till he should be in circumstances to redeem and destroy the fatal pledge. Detection, however, almost immediately followed the crime: and the wretched divine was committed to prison, tried, convicted, aud executed at Tyburn. He died with all the marks of the deepest remorse for the follies and vices of which he had been guilty, and with expressions of the most bitter regret for the scandal which, by his conduct, he had brought on his profession, and on the religion of which he was a minister.

We might apologize for the length of the preceding Biographical articles, but to have shortened them would have spoiled them;-the anecdotes respecting Hereward de Brunn, are extremely curious, and often border on the ro mantic, but they delineate the manners of the time in which he lived.

We are indebted to Mr T. Williams, solicitor, of Bourn, for much valuable information respecting the antiquities of that place.

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ASLACKBY.

Is a village about 2 miles south from Folkingham, it is in the hundred of Aveland, in the parts of Kesteven. Aslackby signifies "by a low place".

Doomesday Account.

Land of Robert de Todeni-In Aslacacbi (Aslack by) six oxgangs of land and a half to be taxed. Land to one plough. Six sokemen have there two ploughs, and six acres of meadow, and twelve acres of coppice wood.

Land of Gilbert de Gaunt.-In Aslacaesbi Aslackby) (half a carucate) and Spingeham (Sempringham) (two carucates and six oxgangs) three carucates of land and two oxgangs to be taxed. Land to three ploughs and a half. There are thirteen sokemen and one bordar having three ploughs, and, half the advowson of the church and a sixth part of the advowson of another