with me, and it grew in my garden for several years, though I could never since find it, Filix alpina, Pedicularis rubræ foliis subtùs villosis,60 R.S.M.: it growes about the middle of the rock Clogwyn-y-Garnedd, faceing the north: 'tis above the head of the highest fountain. If the gentlemen are favoured with a fair day, perhaps they may meet with it in the moist places. In the same part of the rock you'll find Alsines Myosotis facie, Lychnis alpina, flore amplo niveo, repens,61 R.S. M.; and in several places about the north side of the hill, Mr. Lloyd shewed it me, from the top of Snowdon, where Bistorta alpina pumila varia,62 Park. growes, viz. in the steep pastures of Grîb-Gôch, which lay opposite to it; but I had not time to see it. He told me it growes there in great plenty, and flowers about the end of June.-Nasturtium petræum 63 we did not meet with; but I found it on a moist rock, above the lake Llyn-On, as you ascend Snowdon.— I have now in my garden plants from thence, which thrive well with me.-Pilosella majoris, s. Pulmonariæ lutea species magis laciniata,64 J. B., I brought from the rocks nigh Llyn-Plern, in the way to LlanRwst.-About three miles from thence, in a wood called Pancretch, by the way-side, nigh a large oak, growes Campanula Cymbalariæ foliis.65

If the gentlemen would leave at Mr. Evans's a collection of dried specimens of the plants of Snowdon, and their native places, it would be a great encouragement to young botanists.-I have severall times designed it; but either my want of time or the bad season would not allow of it. This with my service to the gentlemen that design to visit Snowdon, tho' unknown, and my hearty wishes for their health. I am

Your entire friend and servant,

RICHARD RICHARDSON.

LETTER XCVII.

Dr. Sherard to Dr. Richardson.

DEAR SIR,

LONDON, April 5th, 1726.

I fully design'd answering your's on Saturday; but my brother's coming to town and taking me down with him, put it out of my thoughts. However, I hope this will be time enough, to give you notice that Mrs. Wansall sent, on Friday last, by John Firtle, directed to Benjamin Bartlett, for you, three pounds of Bohea tea. "Tis the same she procures for my sister and me, and hopes you'll like it. She paid twelve shillings pound for it, as we do; which is cheaper by three than it can be bought in the shops.

This warm weather, I hope, will have its good effects on you, so that this may find you pretty free from the gout.

I have put you amongst the subscribers of my list for the Botanicum Parisiense, which it will be time enough to pay for when the books arrive, as I do by others.

I am glad to hear the Subularia repens, &c. is like to flower with you this summer: I think I may call it so, and shall be much pleas'd to ascertain that genus.

Not only Mr. Brown, but Mr. Brewer and Dr. Dillenius design to visit Wales this summer; but they will be too early for Mr. Lhwyd's Subularia: however, I have given them orders to speak and encourage Mr. Evans to look after it.

My brother has received no seeds from abroad as yet, and last year gather'd very few. Some are coming from Italy, which will serve for autumn sowing.

Pray return my service to Mr. Wood, when you write. I hope this year will prove more favourable than the last, that he may gather the specimens I desir'd. I shall be glad to see his additions and observations on the Synopsis. Pray let me know, as near as you can, the time we may hope to see you here.

I am, dear SIR,

Your most faithfull friend and humble servt,

W. SHERARD.

LETTER XCVIII.

Mr. Hearne to Dr. Richardson.

HONOURED SIR,

EDM. HALL., OXFORD, April 8th, 1726.

I thank you for the farther account you sent me (in your letter of the nineteenth of last month) of Mr. Thoresby's Museum. Some body or other hath since told me, that 'tis got to London but I cannot yet learn the certainty.

I am very glad so worthy a person (who is your relation) is Præcentor of York. I should be much pleased to have some good account of Thomas Eccleston, from whom there are many valuable things in Leland's Collectanea and in Mr. Wood's Antiquities of Oxford. But I think Mr. Wood had all from second-hand. He is a rare author. I could never see him.

Mr. Yarburgh hath got your Langtoft still by him. The second volume of John of Glastonbury (that I am now printing) is going on.

1 John Richardson, M. A., Rector of Beeford, Prebendary of Wistow, 1703; Archdeacon of Cleveland, 1711; and Precentor, 1712; to whose kind assistance, in his account of the Dignitaries of the Church of York, Browne Willis acknowledges himself much indebted. -See Memoir of the Richardson Family.

I have lately seen the Works of Walter Moyle, Esq. in eleven volumes, 8vo. The author, I find, was a Latitudinarian: I never hardly met with a more confident writer. There is a letter (amongst the several pieces) of Mr. Dodwell's, about Lucian's Philopatris; but 'tis not only most faultily printed, but many material things are omitted, and others transpos'd. Mr. Moyle hath spoke very contemptuously of some of the greatest men, as well ancient as modern. He hath aspers'd the Clergy and their friends, and endeavoured to do disservice to religion. His criticisms are bold, but often wrong. His papers had better been concealed; at least most of them. Mr. Moyle lov'd to have the last word, however in the wrong. This appears from what he writ against Mr. Richard King, with respect to "the thundering

2 A very different character of Mr. Moyle from that which is here given will be found in the Biographical Dictionary; but this is one instance among many, and I therefore point it out, how Hearne's judgment was warped by his political opinions. Moyle, according to the work just mentioned, "came into the world with a firm zeal for the Protestant settlement, and a great contempt of those who imagined that the liberty of our Constitution and the Reformation could subsist under a Popish King;" and hinc illæ lacrymæ on the part of honest Tom Hearne, who was too honest to conceal his sentiments, and too indiscreet to place them under the controul of prudence; an extraordinary instance of which he gave, by publishing, in the Vita Ricardi I., a letter from Charles I. to the Duke of Buckingham, on the subject of an intrigue on the part of the King, which letter Hearne is convinced does not exist, and only prints it to show how far the malice of his enemies will go, while the original, which was among the Macro papers, is actually now in my possession.