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translation of Tacitus, 2 vols. in folio, in 1728, was in general esteemed; but surely his style is too bombast. His discourses on that author were taken from the Italian of Malvezzi Scipio Ammirato, and a Spanish author, Don Balthazar Alamos Banientos, who translated that author, and commented on him, and, I have heard, judiciously; it is an uncommon book, in folio, about 1640. His Sallust was, I think, not so well esteemed as his Tacitus. He got a good deal of money by the first, as it was published by subscription; and Sir Robert Walpole, to whom he dedicated one volume, encouraged it. The two most humourous things he wrote (for he had some humour) was, 'A Dedication to a great Man, concerning Dedications;' and 'The Tryal of William Whiston clerk, before Lord Chief Justice Reason;' in which he imitates Bishop Sherlock's Trial of the Witnesses;' and makes Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul, on my Father's side, as witnesses, and the Jury give it for him. Mr. Gordon was also author of The Independent Whig,' three volumes of which he published in his life time; a fourth is posthumous; pretty severe against the Clergy." Mr. J. Whiston, MS.

P. 479. In 1702 Mr. Rymer published "Three Letters to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Carlisle; occasioned by some Passages in his late Book of the Scotish Library: wherein Robert the Third is beyond all dispute freed from the imputation of Bastardy; a particular account is given of King David's Ransom, and of the Hostages for the Payment of the same: with several original Papers relating to the Scotish affairs; and a Grant of the Liberties of Scotland. Letter I." The second Letter containing "An Historical Deduction of the Alliances between France and Scotland; whereby the pretended old League with Charlemagne is disproved, and the true old League is produced and asserted. To which is added, a notable Piece of Church History from her Majesty's Archives, never before published."—The third Letter I have not seen; though the copy of the two former (Mr. Gough's) has in it this memorandum: "These Three Letters were presented by the Author, Thomas Rymer, esq. his Majesty's Historiographer Royal, to Ralph Thoresby, 1708."

P. 493. My conjecture has been confirmed by the following extract from the Register, communicated by the Rev. H. S. Watkins, the present worthy rector: "Dr. William Nichols was buried in the middle aile of St. Swithin's Church, May 5, 1712." P. 505. Rev. Thomas Whiston, son of Daniel, died in July 1795. See a full account of him in Gent. Mag. vol. LXV. p. 617. P. 548. for "vol. VI. p. 51;" read " vol. IV. p. 517."

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P. 569. William-Howell Ewin, of St. John's College, Cambridge; B. A. 1753; M. A. 1756; LL. D. 1760. He was suspended, by vote of the University, pronounced by Dr. Watson, Divinity Professor, ab omni gradu suscepto et suscipiendo'; but, from some error in the proceedings, was restored by the King's Bench. He was a man of good education and considerable talents; had seen mnch of the world, and viewed mankind with keen observation. He had a retentive memory, and an

inexhaustible fund of interesting anecdote, which he frequently enlivened by original and sarcastic humour. With the Sciences he was imperfectly acquainted; but he was much attached to the Polite Arts, particularly Painting and Sculpture, in which he had great taste. His manners were easy, and his temper cheerful, his disposition communicative, and his knowledge extensive. Being frugal and economical in all his habits, he was generally considered extremely avaricious, though instances might be adduced in which he displayed the utmost liberality and generosity. His strict attention to the administration of parochial concerns, quick to discern and severe to condemn every species of idleness and imposition, created him many enemies, particularly among the lower orders of people. He was supposed to have left property to the amount of more than 100,000l. the bulk of which he divided between his sister and the family of his nephew. He died at Brentford Butts Dec. 20, 1804, and was buried in the chapel of New Brentford; where a monument by Flaxman has been erected to his memory and that of his sister Sarah Howell Ewin, with their names, ages, &c. on a pedestal above.

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P. 571. Mrs. Jebb, the widow of Dr.{Jebb, died Jan. 30, 1812. She was the eldest daughter of the late Rev. James Torkington, rector of King's Rippon and Little Stukeley in Huntingdonshire. and of Lady Dorothy Sherard, daughter of Philip second Earl of Harborough. She was married to Dr. Jebb in 1764, when he was in the height of his literary reputation at Cambridge. Doctor, it is well known, engaged in some very serious controversies with the University, particularly on abolishing Subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles, at the time of taking degrees, and on public annual examinations of Under-graduates. These disputes found exercise for the first talents at that time in the University; and Mrs. Jebb was not content with being a silent observer: she became the active opponent of Dr. Powell, the Master of Saint John's college, who conducted the other side of the controversy, and who felt as sensibly the point of Mrs. Jebb's pen in the public prints, as he did of the learned Doctor's. It was in reference to the force of argument contained in a smart pamphlet written by Mrs. Jebb on the same subject under the signature of Priscilla, that the late Dr. Paley said at the time, "The Lord had sold Sisera into the hands of a Woman." When Dr. Jebb, having embraced some speculative opinions which he thought made it necessary for him to resign his preferment, and to leave the Church, settled in London; he became Physician, and a strenuous political Reformer. No name is better known among the advocates of Parliamentary Reform, than that of Dr. Jebb; and the active energy of Mrs. Jebb is also well known. Being an invalid, she lived a retired life: buter zeal rose to the full level of her husband's: she saw with the same quickness, glowed with the same ardour, and wrote occasionally with the same spirit. But Mrs. Jebb was not more distinguished for the vigour of her mind, than for the qualities of her heart. She was a Christian, without bigotry a moralist, without severity; a politician, without a

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self-interest or ambition: a sincere friend, without disguise, and without reserve.-With considerable powers of mind, she possessed all the amiable softness of the female character. With as few failings as could well fall to the lot of humanity, she exercised an unlimited candour in judging those of others. Candour and benignity were the prominent features of her character. Her friends, therefore, were numerous, and she could not have a single enemy. These superior qualities of mind and heart were lodged in a body of the most delicate texture. The frame of Mrs. Jebb was extremely feeble; her countenance always languid and wan. She used to recline on a sofa, and had not been out of her room above once or twice these twenty years -she seemed the shadow of a shade, or rather all soul and intellect, like one dropped from another sphere. For her ardour and patriotic firmness, mixed with urbanity and gentleness, and occasionally brightening with innocent playfulness, gave that to her countenance, which the mere bloom of health cannot bestow, nor the pen describe; it gave a singular interest to her character; it can only be felt, and will be lastingly remembered by her surviving friends.

P. 596, note, 1. 3. read " Psalm cxxxix."

P. 615, 1. 25, for 1762, read 1760.

P. 667. 1. 3. for "ten" read " two.”

P. 669. Among the Donation MSS. in the Museum, No. 5173, is a drawing of the West Tower of St. Clement's church-yard at Cambridge, and Mr. Cole's epitaph, presented by Dr. Farmer in 1785. The original drawing from which Mr. Kerrich made the copy in the Museum, was indorsed as follows, in Mr. Cole's own hand-writing. "This West Tower in St. Clement's churchyard in Cambridge, was ordered to be done under the direction of James Essex, esq. architect, Dec. 1782, at the expence of Mr. William Cole.' Attached to the drawing is, "My own epitaph, in due time, when it pleases God, after taking me out of this world, to make it proper for me;" exactly as printed in p. 669, with this in the margin, opposite the fifth line. "If buried in Haddenham church, this to be added after Gent., Lord of the Manor of Halls in this parish."

In the centre (nearly) of the tower are Mr. Cole's Arms on a plain shield, with DEUM COLE inscribed in black characters somewhat above.

P. 694. Mr. George Steevens, who delighted in mischievous wit, having, by an early purchase, after the death of Mr. Cole, obtained his copy of the "Anecdotes of British Topo- · graphy," in which were two or three severe remarks on the learned Author; transcribed them in a hand resembling that of Mr. Cole, and transmitted them to Enfield, with the following direction: "To Richard Gough, esq. F. S. A. William Cole doth, in all good humour, dedicate, present, and consecrate, these his labours, to live with the Eternity of his Fame."

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