.. Disputatio Medica," by Wm. Heathcote, M. D. A Part only of "Mills's Answer to the Bishop of Bangor." A Part also of the Second Volume of Dr. South's Sermons; with three sheets of "An Index to South, by Mr. Maittaire;" which does not appear to have been ever published. 1719. "The Bishop of Bangor's New Defence," Svo. The fourth and fifth volumes of Le Neve's "Monumenta Anglicana," from 1620 to 1649, and from 1650 to the End of 1718; 8vo.-In these volumes Mr. Le Neve announces an intention of making Collections of the same sort, beginning at 1500. "The Testimony of a good Conscience, a Sermon, by Roger Smith*, M. A. Rector of Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire:" Svo. Three different Sermons by Dr. Mangey: 1. "Plain Notions of our Lord's Divinity; a Sermon preached upon Christmas-day, at the Royal Chapel of Whitehall;" 4to, four editions. 2. "The eternal Existence of our Lord Jesus Christ;" set forth in a Sermon preached at the Lord Bishop of Winchester's Visitation at Chertsey in the County of Surrey, on Friday the 22d of May." 3." The Holiness of Christian Churches; set forth in a Sermon preached Sept. 4, 1719, at the Consecration of the New Church at Sunderland." sion to the Church of Rome," and, "A Persuasive to Conformity, addressed to Dissenters," never before printed. He was a man of good abilities, and an excellent writer, though no profound scholar, nor ambitious of being thought one. He neither collected nor read many books; being persuaded, and indeed justly, that a few well chosen, and read to good purpose, serve infinitely more to edification, if not so much to ostentation and parade. We are told that the judicious Hooker and the ingenious Mr. Norris were his favourites; and that he was particularly conversant in their writings. * B. A. of St. John's college, Cambridge; M. A. 1701. He was presented in 1700 to the rectory of Husbands Bosworth, a family living, and died there Feb. 7, 1736, æt. 63. Dr. Dr. Mangey's "Defence of the Bishop of London's Letter." "A Sermon preached before the Society for Reformation of Manners; by John Leng *, D. D. Rector of Bedington in Surrey." * A native of Yorkshire; and educated at St. Paul's school, London; whence he removed to Catharine-hall, Cambridge; of which he became a fellow, and a noted tutor; B. A. 1686; M. A. 1690; B. D. 1698; and D.D. 1716. He was presented to the rectory of Bedington by his pupil Sir Nicholas Carew, bart.; and was appointed chaplain to King George I. who promoted him to the see of Norwich in October 1723. He died in London, of the small-pox; and was buried in the church of St. Margaret, Westminster, with the following epitaph: "H. S. E. JOANNES LENG, episcopus Norvicensis, et doctrinam exquisitam cum mira morum suavitate et facundia apud doctissimos famam, apud omnes summam sibi existimationem, Religionis Reformatæ vindex acerrimus, cum sub finem vitæ suæ oblata fuit Infula Episcopalis suam ut Spartam quam nactus erat strenuè ornaret, testantur etiamnum duæ filiæ pientissimæ ; quæ æternæ mariti charissimi memoriæ hoc marmor sacrum esse voluit." He was twice married. By the first wife he had no issue. By the second, Elizabeth daughter of Mr. Hawes of Sussex, he had two daughters, Elizabeth and Susanna. He was editor of the Cambridge Terence; and published, besides his Discourses at Boyle's Lectures, fourteen single Sermons on public oecasions. The sixth edition of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation of Tully's Offices was also revised throughout, and carefully corrected according to the Latin original, by John Leng, D. D. late Lord Bishop of Norwich." Blomefield's Norfolk, vol. II. p. 426. "The "The Difference between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy, as it more particularly regards the English Constitution; being a Treatise written by Sir John Fortescue*, Knight, Lord Chief Justice, and Lord High Chancellor of England, under King Henry VI. Faithfully transcribed from the Manu Of this very eminent judge, who was a native of Devonshire, it is truly said, in the preface to the above publication, that "all good men and lovers of the English constitution speak of him with honour; and that he still lives, in the opinion of all true Englishmen, in as high esteem and reputation as any judge that ever sat in Westminster-hall. He was a man acquainted with all sorts of learning, besides his knowledge in the Law, in which he was exceeded by none; as will appear by the many judgments he gave when on the bench, in the Year-book of Henry VI. His character in history is that of pious, loyal, and learned: and he had the honour to be called the chief counsellor of the king. He was a great courtier, and yet a great lover of his country." His remains were interred in the church of Ebrington in Gloucestershire, where he had purchased an estate (whence his descendant the present Earl Fortescue takes his second title of Viscount); and where another of his relations, in 1677, caused a monument to be repaired, upon which was the figure of this venerable person in his robes, and added the following inscription to his memory: "In felicem et immortalem memoriam clarissimi viri domini militis grandævi, Angliæ judicis primarii, necnon earundem hyperaspistis fortissimi; corporis exuvias lætam resurrectionem expectantes marmoreum hoc monumentum positum est A. D. 1677, Angligenas inter cancellos juris et æqui Lex viva ille fuit patriæ, lex splendida legis, Jam micat in tenebris, veluti carbunculus, orbi Vivit adhuc FORTESCUTUS laudatus in ævum; script Copy in the Bodleian Library *, and collated with three other Manuscripts. To which is added, Remarks in several Languages, by way of Glossary; with a Preface concerning the Antiquities, Origin, and Excellency of the Law of England. By Sir John Fortescue Aland §, Knight, one of the Judges of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench. The second Edition, with some Amendments, and an Index to the whole Work." "The Advantages of an early and religious Edu * This was a transcript by Sir Adrian Fortescue, a descendant from the author, who lived in the reign of King Henry VIII.; for at the end it is thus written: " Explicit Liber compilatus et factus per Johannem Fortescue, militem, quondam capitalem justiciarium Angliæ; et hic scriptus manu propriâ mei Adriani Fortescue, militis, 1532.” + Two of these are among the MSS. of Archbishop Laud, and Sir Kenelm Digby, in the Bodleian Library; the third in the Cotton Library. This was a re-publication of the volume noticed in p. 57, to have been destroyed whilst in the press, and reprinted in 1714. Third son of Edmund Fortescue, esq. of London, who married Sarah eldest daughter of Henry Aland of Waterford, esq.; was born in 1670. He was F. R. S. in 1714; a baron of the Exchequer in 1717; a puisne justice of the King's Bench in 1718; and in 1728, being then a knight, was removed to the Common Pleas; which he resigned in 1746, on account of his great age, and was created baron Fortescue, of Credan, in the county of Waterford, in the kingdom of Ireland, July 5, 1746; an honour which he enjoyed but a few months, dying Dec. 19 in that year. The title expired with his younger son Dormer, 1781. -A good analysis of the first edition is given in Oldys's "British Librarian, 1737," p. 250; the second retains the old dedication, and has a new one to the editor's nephew, Hugh Fortescue, baron of Clinton, &c.-Mr. Justice Fortescue was the friend and correspondent of Mr. Pope; to whom the Imitation of the "First Satire" of Horace is addressed: "Tim'rous by nature, of the Rich in awe, I come to Council learned in the law; You'll give me, like a friend both sage and free, He was the author of the facetious Report of Scriblerus, Stradling versus Stiles;" and to the same friend no less than LIV letters from Mr. Pope are addressed, which may be seen in Mr Bowles's late edition of Pope's Works, vol. X. pp. 187-244, transplanted from Polwhele's "History of Devonshire." Paralleled by T2 EMH xup Пavλov, 1 Cor. xvi. 21; Col. iv. 18; 2 Thess. iii. 17. cation, cation, a Charity Sermon, by Thomas Bell, M. A. Vicar of Liverpool;" 8vo. 1 Burchet's "History of Naval Transactions;" folio. "Two Discourses: 1. An Essay on the whole Art of Criticism, as it relates to Painting; 2. An Argument in Behalf of the Science of a Connoisseur. By Jonathan Richardson *.” "A full and impartial Account of all the late Proceedings in the University of Cambridge against Dr. Bentley; by a Member of the University;" He was born in 1665; and placed by his father-in-law apprentice to a scrivener, with whom he lived six years; when, obtaining his liberty by the death of his master, he followed his inclination, and at 20 years of age became the disciple of Riley the celebrated portrait-painter; with whom he lived four years. He married his niece, and acquired enough of his manner to support a solid and lasting reputation, even during the lives of Kneller and Dahl, and to remain at the head of the profession after their death. He quitted business some time before he died, and by his temperance contributed much to the protracting his life to a great length, in the full enjoyment of all his faculties; dying suddenly May 28, 1745, upwards of 80 years old. He had a son, with whom he lived in great harmony, as appears by the joint works they composed. Besides the Essay above noticed, he published, in 1722,"An Account of some Statues, Basreliefs, Drawings, and Pictures, in Italy, &c." The son made the journey; and, from his observations and letters, they both at his return compiled this valuable work. In 1734, they published a thick 8vo of " Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost, with the Life of the Author." In apology for this last performance, and for not being very conversant in classic literature, the father said " that he had looked into them through his son.” Hogarth, whom a quibble could furnish with wit, drew him peeping through the nether end of a telescope, with which his son was perforated, at a Virgil aloft on a shelf-The sale of his collection of drawings, in February 1747, lasted eighteen days, and produced about 20601.; his pictures about 7001. Mr. Hudson, his son-in-law, bought-in many of the drawings. † Whilst Dr. Bentley was engaged in disputes with his own society at Trinity college, he found himself involved in 1717 in a dispute with the University about the fees usually paid by Doctors of Divinity on their creation, and his supposed contempt of the Vice-chancellor's authority when cited before him for not returning the extraordinary fees, as he had engaged, whenever they were determined not to be his due. The irregularity of the proceedings against him was crowned by suspension from all his degrees in a manner equally irregular. Dr. Middleton, who was the most dangerous antagonist he had to deal with, drew up and published the two pamphlets above noticed. Somebody else |