his exterior appearance, however, he never condescended to study the Graces; and, unfortunately for himself, he was a total stranger to œconomy *.

A character of him may be found among Lord Lyttelton's Letters.

* I have now before me an angry but characteristic Correspondence between Dr. Morell and Mr Bowyer, which is not worth preserving at large; but from which I shall make some extracts. The Doctor and Mr. Bowyer were very old friends; and the squabble was a mere trifle, the whole matter in dispute not amounting to forty shillings.-In October 1766 the Doctor wished to engage Mr. Bowyer to print his "Prometheus Vinctus;" of which 250 were to be in 8vo, for Dr. Foster, for Eton School; and 250 in 4to, for Dr. Morell's benefit.

Oct. 1766. "REV. SIR, As you own yourself a bad œconomist, it is one step to your ceasing to be so. To the same purpose I must beg leave to tell you, I do not chuse to print your book, unless you find the paper for it; as Booksellers always send in the paper for the books in which they have the property. I would advise you, by way of economy, to get subscriptions, and put the money by in a drawer, to pay your Printer."

Dec. 26. "SIR, Half a sheet in two months, and that a very indifferent one, far beneath your usual care and great abilities, is what, I believe, no one would submit to with patience. I own I cannot. It would have been more just in you, at first, instead of sending me an impertinent letter, about getting subscriptions (which, though often intended, I never yet could stoop to) to have told me that you wanted either leisure or inclination to serve me; for, when I take a work in hand, as I cannot apply myself to any thing else, this delay has been so much loss of time to me; which, at my age, cannot but be very disagreeable. If you doubted your pay, I told you the money should be advanced beforehand, or at least by the sheet. I know not why you should treat me in this manner, and desire to be delivered from this suspence one way or other. T. M." Dec. 28. REV. SIR, I cannot blame you for being displeased at the delay of schylus. But I beg you will believe, that, as your copy is a little intricate, I cannot get a Compositor who will undertake it, especially while there are so many English works which may be carried on with abundantly more ease. The lubourers are too few, or too feeble, for the harvest. To prevent any further disappointment, I have returned the copy without any sort of ill-will, as I hope you will receive it. If any expres sion in my letter gave offence, I am sorry for it, and ask pardon. But the substance of it, viz. a desire of having the money advanced for the paper, or to have the paper sent in by the proprietor, I believe you will find agreeable to the expectation of every other Printer. W. B."

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No. XII. REV. WILLIAM COLE.

On examination of dates, and of the Pedigrees of the Coles, in the Manuscript Volumes in the British Museum*, it appears that their ancestors, who were yeomen of respectability, lived for several generations in that part of Cambridgeshire which borders on Essex.

William Cole, the father of our Antiquary, had a little farm at Baberham in Cambridgeshire; and had four wives:

1. Anne, daughter of . . . . . Mole, of Elmdon, in Essex, who died 1697.

2. Elizabeth, daughter of . . . . Babbes, of Ongar, in Essex, widow of Mr. Meyer, who died 1712. 3. Catharine, daughter of Theophilus Tuer §, of Cambridge, merchant, widow of Charles Apthorp, who died April 25, 1725.

4. Margaret, daughter of Berkeley Green, of Cotteridge in Worcestershire.

Our Antiquary, who was a son of the third wife, was born at Little Abbingdon, a village adjoining to Baberham, Aug. 3, 1714. His mother died April 25, 1725; and his step-mother, whilst he was a

*Cole's MSS. vol. XI. pp. 164. 165.

+ Cole's MSS. vol. XVIII. p. 158; vol. LI. p. 75. All his father's family were seated about Shepereth, and the borders of Essex adjoining to Cambridgeshire.--A William Cole lived at Shepreth IS Richard II.-The earliest ancestor from whom he could trace descent in a direct line was John Cole, of Ashden in Essex, who occurs in a will in the Ely Register, 1521.

"The first arms I ever tricked out from painted glass in' windows of churches were in Baberham church in Cambridgeshire, where my father lived, and in Moulton church in Lincolnshire; so early a taste had I for Antiquities, even when at school at Eton. I have the notes still by me, this 24 July, 1772." Cole's MSS. vol. XLIII. 339.

§ Whose mother Catharine Tuer was the third and youngest daughter of Owen Vaughan, of Llwydiart; which Owen Vaughan married Margaret, second sister of Mr. George Herbert the Poet, fifth son of Richard Herbert, of Montgomery, by Magdalen his wife, daughter of Sir Richard Newport by Margaret' his wife, daughter and sole heir of Sir Thomas Bromley, of the Privy Council to Henry VIII. VOL. I.

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boy at Eton school, in 1729, or 1730. His father died Jan. 14, 1735.

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Mr. Cole received the early part of his education under the Rev. Mr. Butts at Saffron Walden. learned French of a Mons. Henebert, who was then teacher of the modern languages at Cambridge, whom he describes as an ingenious man, and above the common run of that sort of people.

After going to these several schools, a Dame's school at Cambridge, Linton, Saffron Walden, and Eton, where he was five years on the foundation, he was entered a Pensioner of Clare Hall (where he was a Fellow in 1735); and after three or four years' stay removed to King's, where he had a younger brother* then a Fellow, and was accommodated with better apartments, which was the occasion of his removal. He took the degree of B. A. in 1736; proceeded M. A. in 1740; and was ordained in the Collegiate Church of Westminster, by Dr. Wilcocks, Bishop of Rochester, Dec. 25, 1744, by letters dimissory from Dr. Gooch, Bishop of Norwich, on the Curacy of Wethersfield in Suffolk.

In 1749, he was resident at Haddenham in the Isle of Ely; and in that year was collated by Bishop Sherlock to the Rectory of Hornsey in Middlesex (at his institution Father Courayer was present); but resigned it Jan. 9, 1751, in favour of Mr. Territ, who had just been appointed by Bishop Sherlock to instruct the young Prince of Anamaboe on the Coast of Guinea, and then in England, in the principles of the Christian Religion.

In 1753, he was presented by his early Friend and Patron Browne Willis, esq. to the Rectory of Bletchley in Buckinghamshire; which he resigned, March 20, 1768, in favour of his Patron's Grandson.

In 1755 he was confined by a broken leg. Mr. Cole was an early and intimate acquaintance of the Honourable Horace Walpole, afterwards Earl

* "Cole, John, mon cher frere, buried in Moulton church," MSS. vol. XXII. 43. 339, 373, 374.-" Cole, Jane, ma sœur, her riddle on a pair of snuffers," ibid. 31. 130.-" Cole, Robert, of Linton, mon cousin." ibid. 41. 308.

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