colnshire girl; he opens for next election a propriety for Stillingfleet, Newton's pupil. "In the letter I sent to Bonwicke through your hands, I have inclosed an English copy of verses for the benefit of the ladies. I thought you would not forgive me, if I did not aim at something in the same way for your own. your own. To shew To shew you, therefore, that poets may still be found at St. John's, take the following Lyrick, made by a pretty, modest lad, one Taylor*, a junior soph, upon poor Eyles's death. I am, dear Bowyer, "Your friend and servant, St. John's, Sunday, April the 28th, [1723.] V. FOSTER. "In Obitum Viri Reverendi ROBERTI EYLES, 4. M. Coll. D. Joh. Cant. Soc. LASCIVIENTI dum citharæ vacat Soluta curis Musa protervior, Dilapsa Pindi Melpomene jugis Fila movens graviora plectro: Heu! quàm frequenti, Came, satellite, Quæ vis Deorum! quàm citatum Nil vota prosunt. Occidit, occidit, Ah! quo reversum littore Gallico * This was the same who was afterwards so great an orna ment of St. John's, residentiary of St. Paul's, &c. &c. and of whom an account will be given in the "Essays and Illustrations" in vol. IV. No. XIII. Quot Quot ipsa linguas disparibus sonis Roma, aut remotam qui colit Atticam Assiduus malè profuturâ. Dulcis juventæ nec facilis vigor, Dulce caput redimit sepulchro. Densare gaudens agmina lurido Huc ferte lauros, hùc pariter breves En! nostra laudum non satis æmula In June this year, the younger Bowyer entered into the printing business with his father; and from this period, to prevent the repetition of the elder or the younger Bowyer, I shall in general speak of them as one person; the principal attention to the executive or mechanical part of their business devolving on the father, the correcting of the proofs almost exclusively to the son. Among the books which they printed in the year 1722 was Mr. Maittaire's "Miscellanea Græcorum aliquot Scriptorum Carmina, cum Versione Latinâ et Notis," 4to; in the preface to which appeared the following very handsome testimonial: "Quoniam Græcorum præ cæteris editionum nitor impensè mihi semper placuit, me cepit illas aliquatenus imitandi desiderium. Nactus itaque Typogra phêum luculentum, necnon Artificem tam probum quàm solertem, peridoneúmque (quod est in arte typicâ maximi momenti) Correctorem, lepidum Batra Batrachomyomachic Poemation edidi; neque spes, quam de mei conaminis eventu conceperam, me fefellit, nec defecit amicorum gratia. Quamobrem primo non infeliciter experimento defunctum (nam menti stimulos addit successus) in ipso quasi limine laborum cessare puduit; et ultrà nihil, quod incœptis erectum magis quàm fessum me testaretur, moliri." "Grammatica Latina in Usum Principis Juventutis Britannica; cum Notis, necnon Conjecturis, tam veterum quàm aliorum Grammaticorum jugiter, atqui seorsùm subjunctis. Authore Sam. Prat†, * See p. 199. + Samuel Prat, vicar of Tottenham 1693, having been appointed tutor to the infant duke of Gloucester, was created D.D. at Cambridge in 1697 per literas regias; and in that year, being chaplain to the Duke, and master of the chapel of St. John the Baptist in the Savoy, he published "A Sermon preached at a County Feast ;" and another, "A Fast Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor, Sept. 2." In the same year he also obtained a canonry of Windsor, in which he was installed Dec. 8: and the deanry of Rochester, Dec. 18. He published a Sermon preached at a School Feast, " Public Spiritedness recommended," 1700; a Fast Sermon 1704; and another the same year, "Returns of Mercy," before the Lord Mayor. He was presented to the vicarage of Twickenham, in 1708; and dying Nov. 14, 1723, was buried in St. George's chapel at Windsor, with the following epitaph : "Hic requiescit Samuel Prat, S. T. D. Decanus Roffensis, et hujus ecclesiæ Canonicus; deinde summæ spei Principis immaturâ morte prærepti, utrique quoad vixerint gratus acceptusque. Versatus est in Aulâ sine fuco, sine fastu, sine ambitu; Ecclesiasticos Honores, et altiorem gradum pluris æstimans mereri, si posset, quàm consequi. Deo, officio, operibus Christiane charitatis unicè vacabat; quicquid superesset temporis, id omne Literarum studiis strenuus et indefessus impendit. Theologus eruditus et orthodoxus; Concionator nervosus et facundus; Presbyter sanctus et inculpatus, Tandem senectuti proprior, dum ultrà vires urget opus posteris profecturum, et ad umbilicum perducit, imminutâ sensim, et fractâ demum laboribus vigiliisque valetudine, carus suis, benevolus in omnes, cœlo maturus, placidè obdormivit in Domino. Obiit Nov. 14, A. D. 1723, ætat. 66. Natus, patre Daniele, Stratfordiæ in com. Essex, non ignobili familia oriundo; duxit uxorem Annam Samuelis Vause, mercatoris Londinensis filiam, ex quâ numerosum suscepit sobolem," One S. T. P. Dec. Roffensis. Londini, Typis G. Bowyer et J. Bettenham;" 8vo. This volume, of which One of his sons, Daniel Prat, rector of Harrietsham in Kent, died July 30, 1723; and was buried in a South chapel in Rochester cathedral, with this inscription: "Sub hoc lapide sepultus requiescit filius Samuelis, S. T. P. hujus Ecclesiæ nuper Decani, nenipe prudens, pius, benignus, abstinens, sui mirus castigator et reprehensor fuit durus. inde concionator et scriptor evadit fœlix; His mentem sæpe fatigatam studiis recreavit, Nos sanè illum satis superque fœlicem et beatum esse ducebamus; DEUS non sic; nempe annos vix quadraginta natum Another of the Dean's sons is recorded on a flat stone in the same cathedral: "Sacred to the memory of the reverend George Prat, A. M. curate of Chatham, and vicar of Boughton Monchelsea, who died March 11th, 1746-7, aged 57; and was buried in the same grave with his brother the reverend Daniel Prat. He was of five, and two daughters, the youngest son of the reverend Samuel Prat, S. T. P. dean of that cathedral. "The reverend Samuel Prat, A. B. son of the reverend George and Mary Prat; who was born Aug. 2, 1727, and died Jan. 1, 1765. "Mary Prat, daughter of the reverend George and Mary Prat, who was born Feb. 11, 1728-9, and died Dec. 13, 1765. "The afflicted widow and mother, Mary Prat, out of a tender regard to the deceased, hath marked the place of their interment with these short inscriptions." On another flat stone, five other children of George and Mary Prat are thus noticed : "James, born Aug. 1, 1732; died Nov. 22, 1737. "Katharine, born March 31, 1723; died April 27, 1736. "Aune, born March 1, 1723-4; died Jan. 22, 1740-1. "George, born May 9, 1725; died Sept. 29, 1743. "Daniel, born March 23, 1728-9; died June 2, 1729; buried at Boughton Monchelsea." 1000 copies were printed, is in two parts (bound together); the first of 215 pages, the second of 350: besides an Index Verborum et Rerum to the first, and an Index Rerum præcipuarum to the second. "A Sermon preached before the Sons of the Clergy, at their Anniversary Meeting in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Dec. 14, 1721; by Daniel Waterland, D. D. Master of Magdalen College in Cambridge, &c." "Bede's Ecclesiastical History in Latin and Saxon, together with his other Historical Works in Latin; by John Smith *, D. D. late Prebendary * This learned and eminent Antiquary was the eldest son of the Rev. William Smith, rector of Lowther in Westmorland; who, after being himself for some years the superintendant of his son's studies, was unfortunately advised to send him to Bradford, under the care of Mr. Christopher Nesse, a leading man among the Dissenters; with whom he continued two years, and lost almost all that he had learned from his father; but recovered it again under Mr. Thomas Lawson, a Quaker, who was a favourer of learning, an excellent school-master, and grounded Smith well in the learned languages. An early foundation in classical learning being thus raised, his father conceived thoughts of sending him to an University. The nearness of the place, and the company of a young student who was going thither, recommended Glasgow; and the day was fixed for the journey; but it proved so rainy and tempestuous a season, that his father would not venture him from home: and the family, it is said, always looked upon this as a providential escape from the Scottish religion, to which his intended companion was made a proselyte. Oxford was now thought of; two sons of a neighbour going at that time to St. John's college in Cambridge, Smith's father yielded to the great desire of his son to go with them. He was admitted of St. John's college in 1674; where he took the degree of B. A. in 1680; and afterwards went into orders. He was admitted a minor canon of the church of Durham, July 20, 1682; and had the office of precentor. He was appointed to Croxdale curacy, July 20, 1683; and to Witton-Gilbert curacy (being then M. A.) July 1, 1684. In 1686, he went abroad as chaplain to Lord Lansdown, when his Lordship was made ambassador-extraordinary to the court of Spain; and, after his return home, which was soon after the Revolution, was made domestic chaplain to Dr. Crew, bishop of Durham; collated to Gateshead rectory and hospital June 12, 1695; and on the 26th of September was installed a prebendary of Durham, being the only instance of ascending from a minor canon's seat to a prebend. He |