have for and bear to the said Michael Tyson, Esquire, who gave his Burgess Oath, as use is.

"In 1776, on Mr. Colman's quitting the place of one of the Preachers at Whitehall, the Bishop of London, at the request of Doctor Hamilton, his son-in-law, formerly of C. C. C. C. who had been applied to for it for Mr. Tyson, by the present Master, gave it to him. The Master told me that he had the utmost difficulty to persuade him to take it: he not liking the ceremony of attending on the Bishop, and the duty consequent on it.

"In 1776 he was presented by the College, for the first time, to the Living of Lambourn in Essex, which the family of litigated, and, after a suit in chancery, it was determined in favour of the College: however, they threatened a second prosecution; but to prevent it a composition was made, one of the articles of which was to let Mrs. Calvert continue in the Parsonage House till Christmas, 1778: but Mr. Tyson, being eager to marry, and wanting to quit College, where he did not accord with any one of the Fellows, and impatient to marry, after a courtship of ten years or rather more, immediately upon his voting for the new Master of his College, who was elected, 25 June, 1778, and he, with the new Master and Miss Wale dining with me, June 28, he told me that Mr. Nasmith, his friend, Rector of Snailwell, was to marry him in Bene't Church, on Tuesday, June 30, and immediately to set off for lodgings for Chigwell, near Lambourn, when Mrs. Caivert would not even permit him to stack up wood against his coming thither. I am afraid he will not do well after he is married; his passions are violent, and get the better of his judgment. Miss Margaret Wale, daughter of Mr. Hitch Wale of Shelford, son of my godfather, Gregory Wale, Esq. is one of the prettiest and most amiable women I ever met with. Hitch Wale was a poor creature, a son by a second wife, and mar rying his servant, left four daughters, and small portions to each: one married Mr. Lambourn the engraver; Mr. Tyson, in one of his mad frolics after drinking, in 1777, used her so disrepectfully, that she determined never to have any further connections with him, and absolutely left him, went to London, and was got part of the in the Oxford coach, with a design to go to a sister or

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relation married in that county; but a messenger express was sent after her by her friends to persuade her return, as they suspected Mr. Tyson would make away with himself; for he was perfectly out of his senses about it. On her return he made a resolution to drink no more wine, and has kept it pretty well for a twelvemonth: I hope he will persevere : but as he has not the resources of company in the country, as in the University, though he has a taste for books, ingenious in drawing, painting, and languages, yet I doubt his perseverance. May I be wrong! He has sense and capacity in abundance, if his passions would let them act their part.

"Poor Mr. Tyson on the morning he was to have married was taken ill with a putrid sore throat, and thought to have been in danger of his life: however, on sending to know how he fared, on Friday, July 3, my servant spoke to him, and he was got pretty well again. He was married the day after, viz. Saturday, July 4, 1778, and I hope will be happy, though I much doubt it. His first son was born at five in the morn, on Ascension Day, Holy Thursday, 13 May, 1779, at Lambourn. Poor Mr. Tyson died on Wednesday, May 3, 1780, of a violent fever, see my vol. 54, p. 333, 334, at Lambourn.

"He gave to me two copies of English verses on these two subjects, by himself.

"On the Birth of the Prince of Wales, 1762. An Ode on Peace, 4to. 8 pages the two.

"There were very few copies printed, as he told me."

5. James Stanley, Bishop of Ely, Benefactor to Jesus College and St. John's.

"See his Life, which I sent, together with the notes to it, to Mr. Bentham, who has printed it at p. 185, 186, 187, in his History of Ely; where, at p. 187, he thus acknowledges my assistance, without naming my name- A Gentleman, who has contributed materials to the biographical part of this History.' If. I had only contributed to the biographical part, many other parts

of his history would have been very bad and deficient: and as to the biographical part, he had little or no trouble about it, having all ready done to his hand, and sent to him before I came from Blecheley, and much improved when I got to Milton. A more cool acknowledgement could not have been to any one, who had only sent scanty materials; mine were already duly arranged: indeed he gave me a copy of his book, but it was in exchange for the proof sheets he sent to me, as they were printed off, for my correction and amendment: I had a complete book of them, and by his desire, through his brother the Alderman, who was the medium by which our correspondence was kept up, gave them all back again, when he sent me his book: but I did not look upon it as any great obligation, for I paid him seven guineas for the plate of Bishop de Luda, though my request was to have Norwold or Kilkenny's monument; but it was the way of all of them, never to do as desired, though they would, unasked, do more than was expected, particularly the Alderman, who was generous to a great degree; but then it must be in his own way, and never if any disposition was shown to expect it. I procured him also at the late Lord Montfort's the following plates: one for his Lordship, which I think is not named, and after his death, (as the dedication to Bishop Keen, when his great and kind patron, Bishop Mawson, was just dead) transferred to another; the present Lord Montfort's plate of one of the Ely pillars, and the second from the present Lord Cadogan of the same sort; Cardinal de Luxemburgh's of the present Earl of Orford, whom I met at the present Lord Montfort's: the same section of the Cathedral from Lord Dupplin, now Earl of Kinnoul, to whom I am now and was then Chaplain; another section, from Mr. Soame Jenyns, member for Cambridge. This miscellaneous plate, 48, containing the old Cathedral and St. Etheldreda's shrine, which I got my friend Mr. Allen to subscribe for, and which he gave me ten guineas for, to give to Mr. Bentham, and procured of Lady Eliz. Stanley, at my request, the monument of Bishop Stanley in Manchester church, which she desired might not appear under her name: it is vilely done: I took a better draught of it, which see in my vol. pI also strongly solicited, at his request, the Eton College, by my

half brother, Dr. Apthorp, Vice Provost at present, for a plate of the Ely Tablet, which at the price of ten or twelve guineas displeased them, I could not procure for him: it was subscribed for by three jointly. I also procured him the following subscriptions to his book, which indeed was rather an advantage to the subscribers than to himself, as the price was only eighteen shillings originally, but after near twenty years mumbling about it, and enriched with many supernumerary plates, he only demanded a guinea at the delivery; which was giving his book away: it now sells for three guineas.-I got him Sir Robert Throgmorton, his sou George Throgmorton, Esq. Mr. Horace Walpole of Strawberry Hill, Mr. Tho. Willis of Blecheley, Mr. Southernwood Fellow of Eton, Mr. John Allen, Mr. Barton Rector of Sherington, Sam. Berkley of Little Chelsea, Esq. and of Great Russell St. the Rev. Mr. Alban Butler, President of the College at St. Omers; the present Lord Cadogan; my poor friend, this week departed, Dr. Forester, Chancellor of Lincoln and Archdeacon of Buckingham; Mr. Goodwin, Rector of Loughton; Lord Montfort, father and son; Earl of Orford; Mr. Pitts, Rector of Great Brickhill; for all of whom I paid the money to Mr. Bentham. I mention this, to disburthen myself of any obligation for the book.

"The large coat, mentioned at p. 45, 46, of Bp. Stanley, and probably designed for a chimney ornament, is now, 1778, in my possession, and makes an ornament in my small hermitage, in my garden at Milton, near Cambridge. It was originally given to me by Mr. Barbe of Clavering in Essex; but was sent to me about 1770 by Mr. Gotobed of Ely, agent for Lord Hardwick's estate in the Isle of Ely.

"He ought to have particularly acknowledged the critical note relating to Doctor Knight's mistake about Bishop Stanley, which I sent to him; and though he says, at p. 187, that a Gentleman contributed materials to the biographical part of this history, meaning me, yet nothing could be expressed cooler or with more indifference on the subject, considering he had the lives of all the Bishops, Deans, and Canons, &c. drawn up by me for himVide my vol. K. p. 72.”

3. Dr. Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore.

THE Editor of RESTITUTA, using WM. COLE'S MSS. for the materials of the present Collectanea, is continually met by those articles which he finds necessary in many cases materially to abridge, more especially as to those persons who were Cole's cotemporaries. It is unnecessary to remind the reader that Cole was a gossip, full of passions and prejudices end it would be imprudent, and even unjust, to record all his venom. The task of abridging is difficult; for many of his articles consist of scarcely any thing but tattle. The Editor has scarcely ever attempted to fill up any of the memoirs with his own additions, because he had neither leisure nor perhaps talent or information to enable him to perform the task satisfactorily: but let it not be supposed that he could have added nothing, or that he always agrees with the impressions of character which Cole's words convey. Educated at Cambridge himself, under those who were not only Cole's cotemporaries, but many of them Cole's familiars, he retains strong impressions of the memory of many of those, whom Cole recorded in the last ten years of his life: but he has seldom presumed to record these impressions: he is aware that his youth, his ignorance of the world, and many other deficiencies at the time these im pressions were made, would make the record of them reprehensible. Yet even then his literary curiosity was ardent and enthusiastic: he looked upon a successful author in the higher departments of literature with a wild and perhaps foolish admiration: he lived