Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Dec. 10, 1713; by Henry Sacheverell, D. D. Rector of St. Andrew's, Holbourn*." "An Elegy on the lamented Death of the right honourable and virtuous Lady Elizabeth late Mar chioness of Carmarthen, Daughter to the most honourable the Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, humbly inscribed to the right honourable the Marquis of Carmarthen, the most honourable the Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, and the most noble Peregrine Duke of Leeds. By Mr. H. Castleton], of the Custom-house." "Some Testimonies of learned Men in favour of the intended Edition of the Saxon Homilies, concerning the Learning of the Author of those Homilies, and the Advantages to be hoped for from an Edition of them. In a Letter from the Publisher to a Doctor in Divinity." Thus far did our worthy Printer proceed by the kind assistance of his brethren of the profession. In October 1713, he again began to superintend the labours of his own press, in an office which he opened in Temple-lane, White Fryars. The following particulars are connected with the typographical annals of this year. "Mr. John Dyer, late author of a news-letter called by his name, being deceased, the said Letter will be discontinued for the future. And all gentlemen and others, who have received his letters of City Divine of any character; but yet a very numerous assembly, and a good collection." The Wisdom of looking backwards, P. 324. "In the inscription, or short dedication, of this Sermon to the worshipful stewards by name, eleven of them, one of the twelve was purposely omitted, Thomas Burnet, esq. a younger son of the lord bishop of Sarum, though he had not less birthright, nor less wit and learning, than his fellow-stewards; but every one knew the meaning of this sorry partiality." p. 325. Ibid., † Mrs. Elstob; see p. 17; and the "Essays and Illustrations", in vol. IV. No III. intelligence, intelligence, and are indebted to him for them, are desired forthwith to remit their several sums to Mr. Thomas Dyer, attorney-at-law, at his chamters in Staple Inn, in Holbourn, who is the only son of the said John Dyer*." Mr. Henry Hills, printer in Black Fryars, being dead, his stock, consisting of the most eminent Sermons, Poems, Plays, &c. is now to be disposed of, at the Blue Anchor, Pater Noster Row.-N. B. There can never be any of the same, any in the like manner, reprinted after these are gone, there being an Act of Parliament to the contrary. or This Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb were for a short time (from Jan. 10, 1709) printers to the Queen, under a reversionary patent for 34 years, granted Dec. 24, 1665, on the expiration of a patent then held by the Barkers; in which family it had continued from the reign of Queen Elizabeth; who granted a patent to Christopher Barker and Robert his son," in consideration of the father's great improvement in the Art of Printing." From the executors of Newcomb and Hills, the remainder of their term was purchased by John Baskett, esq. and others. But, on the 13th of October this year, another patent passed the great seal, constituting Mr. Benjamin Tooke and Mr. John Barber printers to the Queen's most excellent Majesty §; which, as was explained at the time by a public advertise *Postboy, Sept. 8, 1713.-It appears by subsequent advertisements that Mr. Dyer died intestate on Sunday, Sept. 6; and that the News-letter was not continued by any of his family.A ludicrous epitaph on him was inserted in the Flying Post of Sept. 19.-Robert Dyer, esq. (a grandson of the news-writer) died in Gray's Inn, Sept. 4, 1748; and left 20,000l. to Christ's Hospia!. + Evening Post, Nov. 12, 1713. The two Barkers (who in 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary, had been styled the Queen's Printers) lived at the Tiger's head in Paternoster-row; and kept also the Grasshopper in St. Paul's Church-yard. § Lawks's News Letter, Oct. 15, 1713. ment, ment, was to commence after the expiration of the term then existing to Mr. Baskett; namely, in January 1739*. For this valuable grant they were indebted to the steady friendship of Dr. Swift; who had before obtained for them several lucrative appointments, as he himself states it with much complacency in several parts of the Journal to Stella: and in a letter more than 20 years after, the Dean says, "Alderman Barber was my old acquaintance; * Evening Post, Oct. 17, 1713. † See particularly, Jan. 15, 16, and 18, 1711-12. John Barber, son of a barber in the city of London, was bred a printer, in which business, by a successful train of circumstances, which brought him acquainted with Lord Bolingbroke, Swift, Pope, and others of the most eminent writers of the age, he acquired considerable opulence. A remarkable story is told of his dexterity in his profession. Being threatened with a prosecution by the House of Lords for an offensive paragraph in a pamphlet which he had printed, and being warned of his danger by Lord Bolingbroke, he called in all the copies from the publishers, canceled the leaf which contained the obnoxious passage, and returned them to the bookseller with a new paragraph supplied by Lord Bolingbroke: so that, when the pamphlet was produced before the House, and the passage referred to, it was found unexceptionable. He added greatly to his wealth by the South Sea scheme, which he had prudence enough to secure in time, and purchased an estate at East Sheen with part of his gain. In principles he was a Jacobite; and in his travels to Italy, whither he went for the recovery of his health, was introduced to the Pretender, which exposed him to some dangers on his return to England; for immediately on his arrival he was taken into custody by a king's messenger; but was released without punishAfter his success in the South Sea scheme he was elected alderman of Castle Baynard ward 1722; and sheriff 1730; and in 1732-3 lord mayor of London. During his mayoralty it happened that the scheme of a general excise was brought forward; by his active opposition to which, he acquired, for a time, a considerable degree of popularity, though he is accused of procuring clandestinely from Mr. Bosworth, the city chamberlain, the documents which enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure upon that occasion. Among the alderman's public actions, it should be mentioned, that he put up a monument to Butler, in Westminster Abbey; upon which occasion Pope is said to have written the following severe lines, which he proposed thould be placed on the vacant scroll under Shakspeare's bust : ⚫ment. "Thus Britain lov'd me, and preserv'd my fame, By I got him two or three employments when I had credit with the Queen's ministers."-The reversionary interest, however, of Tooke and Barber was prudently purchased by Baskett; who afterwards obtained another renewal of 60 years; the latter 30 of which he conveyed to Charles Eyre, esq. of Clapham, and his heirs; which patent having expired in 1799, a new one has been granted to George Eyre, Andrew Strahan, and John Reeves, esqrs. the present Printers to the King's most excellent Majesty. "A Sermon before the Sons of the Clergy, by George Bell*, M. A. Chaplain to the Bishop of London, 1712-13." 1714. The regular returns to the brief obtained by Mr. Bowyer not having been made at the time of Queen Anne's decease; the following order was soon after applied for, and obtained: "At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 25tli of October, 1714; present, the Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. Upon reading this day at the Board a petition of William Bowyer, of the precinct of White Fryars, in the By his will, dated Dec. 29, 1740, he desired that his body might be buried at Mortlake, as near as possible to the ground which he had given to enlarge the church-yard. He bequeathed 3007. to Lord Bolingbroke, 2001. to Dean Swift, and 100l. to Mr. Pope ; and dying a few days afterwards, was buried pursuant to his request. His tomb is thus inscribed: "Under this stone are laid the remains of John Barber, alderman of London; a constant benefactor to the poor. True to his principles in Church and State, he preserved his integrity, and discharged the duty of an upright magistrate in the most corrupt times. Zealous for the rights of his fellow-citizens, he opposed all attempts against them; and, being Lord Mayor of London in the year 1733, was greatly instrumental in defeating a scheme of general excise, which (had it succeeded) would have put an end to the liberties of his country. He departed this life January 2, 1740-41, aged 65." See Lysons's Environs of London, vol. I. p. 374. Mr. Bell published two other single Sermons; one on the election of a lord mayor, 1713; the other on May 29, 1718. City of London, printer; and also of several other persons to whom eleemosinary protections were granted within these twelve months last past, for losses by fire and otherwise; humbly praying, that all such Briefs which were in force at the death of her late Majesty may be continued according to the tenor and purport thereof respectively: Which being taken into consideration, it was thereupon ordered in Council, that all Briefs granted by her said late Majesty, for losses by fire or otherwise, not yet expired, or the collections thereupon not compleat, be read in the several Parish Churches where the same have not been already published, and the collections proceeded in, according to the tenor of the respective letters patent in that behalf. And all parsons, vicars, curates, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, and all other his Majesty's officers and ministers whom it may concern, are to take notice thereof, and govern themselves accordingly. JOHN POVEY." Among the books of the year 1714 may be named: "Important Points of Primitive Christianity maintained and defended, in several Sermons and other Discourses; by George Bull*, late Lord Bishop of St. David's. To which is prefixed the History of his Life, and of those Controversies in which he was engaged; with an Abstract of those *Dr. George Bull was born March 25, 1634; and entered of Exeter college, Oxford, July 10, 1648. He was made rector of Suddington St. Mary, co. Gloucester, in 1658, to which the vicarage of Suddington St. Peter was added in 1662; prebendary of Gloucester in 1675; archdeacon of Landaff in 1685; and bishop of St. David's April 29, 1705. He died Feb. 17, 1709-10, and was buried at Brecknock between two of his predecessors; where his grave was covered with a plain stone thus inscribed: "Here lieth the right reverend Father in God Dr. George Bull, late Bishop of this Diocese; who was excellently learned, pious, and charitable; and who departed this life February the 17th, 1709, aged 75." fundamental |