like him the feet and legs are too small. It would have been more like his figure, had it been drawn in a loose great coat, which he always wore, of a brown colour. I used often to meet him at Dr. Middleton's. In July 1769 I was mentioning him to Mr. Walpole, and he tried to recollect the above six verses, but could not recover them all: but Mr. Gray remembered them, and gave them to Mr. Tyson. Mr. Etough was violent and vehement to a great degree: bore an hostile hatred to any thing bordering on a Tory; and a Jacobite would fling him into an agony: he was remarkably abstemious, and I have heard very charitable. I met with a nephew of his at Lady Betty Germain's at Drayton in Northamptonshire about 1764, when I was there with Mr. Walpole, whose name was Etough, and who had married an upperservant, as I understood, or farmer's daughter, in that parish. He told me he was educated at Cambridge.

"Mr. Horace Walpole dining with me at Milton, Sunday, April 27, 1777, whither he came on purpose from Barton Mills, where he had been attending on his nephew, George Earl of Or ford, for above a week, as guardian and nearest relation, he being then seized with a frenzy for the second time, and had attempted to throw himself out of the window more than once: I say Mr. Walpole told me, that Mr. Etough's papers were in the hands of Archdeacon Plumptre, but that he had got one of them, viz. a character and account of Frederick Prince of Wales, having copied it from one in the possession of the late Earl of Leicester, who had purchased the original after Mr. Etough's death.”

14. Thomas Ashton, Fellow of King's and Eton.

"Of Lancashire, had a brother of Trinity or St. John's: a great friend of Mr. Hor. Walpole till a rupture separated them: his picture however is still in the elegant Gothic gallery at Strawberry Hill. Mr. Walpole's interest procured him the Fellowship of Eton; and on a Living, viz. Hitcham, next to my parish of Burnham, being vaeant, the Bishop of London's son, Gibson, being then Rector of Bishopgate, a valuable one, but not suiting

his taste, and rather wanting an agreeable retirement, he proposed an exchange, in Bishop Sherlock's time, which was agreed to: but Gibson vacating it before the formalities of his possession were fully concluded, the Bishop was uneasy that Eton College-took the advantage of his living.

"I am rather doubtful whether I have represented this fact as it ought to be. Dr. Ashton kept his London living to his death, where I have occasionally visited him. He was calculated for a large city parish, had a monstrous assurance, was a great scholar, an admirable preacher, and cheerful companion, but too much addicted to sneering and sarcasm: poor man, he suffered many years a tedious illness before his death, being helpless and confined by a stroke of palsy: he was a large, raw-boned man, and to all appearance equal to any attack. His mezzotinto print is extremely like him, prefixed to a volume of his sermons. I know not what family he left behind him, or whom he was married to.

"In Mr. Walpole's Fugitive Pieces, printed at Strawberry Hill, 1758, is at p. 6 an Epistle to him, then not in orders, dated at Florence, 1740.

"In Mr. Walpole's Edes Walpolianæ, printed at London, 1747, 4to. at p. 87 is a Sermon by him, preached at Houghton before the Earl of Orford, 1742, ON PAINTING, from Psalms, cxv. v. 5. They have mouths, but they speak not, &c. It is as fulsome a piece of flattery as Whaley's Poem on the same subject, printed in the same volume."

15. Tho. Archer, Trin. Coll. 1608.

"Born at Bury St. Edmunds, 12 Aug. 1554, Fellow of Trinity College, inducted Rector of Houghton-Conquest and HoughtonGildable in Bedfordshire, 21 May, 1589, to which parishes he was a great benefactor. Admitted Chaplain to his near kinsman, Dr. John May, Bishop of Carlisle, Nov. 14, 1584, and on his death was admitted Chaplain, May 12, 1599, to Bishop Whitgift. On the 19th June, 1588, he was admitted Public Preacher of the University, being then Master of Arts of six years standing, * Qu? Editor.

and had been ordained Minister (Priest, I suppose) by With. Wickham, Bp. of Lincoln, Sept. 24, 1584. King James being at Hawnes in Bedfordshire, he preached before his Majesty, July 30, 1605, and was the same day, by the King's command, sworn one of his Majesty's Chaplains in ordinary. In 1623, he made a vault for himself in the chancel of Houghton-Conquest, and added his epitaph in 1628 in English and Latin verses. I suppose he survived but few years after, as his obituary ends at 1630. [ have large extracts from his diary, obituary of eminent persons de ceased in his time, and his account of the parish and neighbourhood: the original was lent to me in 1760 by his worthy successor, Dr. Zach. Grey, and I suppose belonged to the Rectors, or parish chest. He seems to have been a very worthy, good man, and a noted preacher. In one part of the MS. are the initials of his name, enclosing an arrow; which looks as if arrows were part of his arms, being well known to belong to the name of Archer, and alluding to it. In the book are many curious anecdotes."

16. Dr. Edw. Barnard, Provost of Eton, St. John's Coll.

"Son of Mr. Barnard, schoolmaster at Luton in Bedfordshire, and Vicar there. He was Fellow of St. John's College, after having been educated at Eton school: somewhat lame in one of his joints: very lively, ingenious, and a great scholar, but subject at times to great depression and lowness of spirits. He was chosen for his firmness and scholarship to be Head Master of Eton school, which he brought to that point of glory and reputation, as to have near six hundred boys at one time; and was lucky enough to succeed Dr. Sleech in the Provostship at a time when Lord Granby, on a change of the ministry, was able to get it for him, it having been long promised by Lord Sandwich to my old friend Dr. Rich. Lyne; who dying soon after, it was believed by many that the disappointment shortened his days; but Dr. Lyne had been declining for some time; yet I think it hurt his spirits, and might hasten his death. Dr. Barnard brought in his brother soon after to be Fellow of Eton, who had been also educated at St. John's

College: a bold, noisy man, and settled and married at a living in Maryland, with many children; and on Dr. Burton's going to Warplesden I think presented to the Rectory of Maple-Durham.

“Dr. Barnard married a West Indian, who died and left him a son, now about ten or twelve years of age. Dr. Roberts, Fellow of Eton, about two years ago printed a little book, and inscribed it to Dr. Barnard, calling him in the exordium-Servant of God; which though Dr. Barnard may `as justly claim to be stiled, as most clergymen of these times, yet he is not so singularly eminent in that notion, as to be nominated so: and indeed almost every one judged it a very odd kind of expression at this time of day, where ecclesiastics, no more than laity, seem to value themselves on such distinctions. It might have been proper and characteristic a century and half ago, when religion and fanaticism would either of them have supported the appellation: but Dr. Barnard, though a very decent and orderly Clergyman, is rather noted for a jolly, laughing, witty, sneering, merry companion, than at all complicated with the severe idea of a devout Christian, or formal Sectary. Dr. Worthington, in his preface, p. vi. and vii. to Mr. John Smith's Select Discourses, gives Mr. Smith the same title of Servant of God; and justifies the name from its having been given to Moses, for too many reasons to be here taken notice of, and few of which would serve to apologise for the same being given to a modern Divine, and King's spruce Chaplain.

About January, 1777, he resigned the Vicarage of Ospringe, in Kent. He was about the same time confined, as I was, with a shabby sort of gout, which left such a weakness, though without pain, that he had no use of his feet on occasion of weakness of his ancles.

"About Oct. 1777, presented by the Dean and Chapter of Windsor to the Vicarage of Isleworth, Middlesex.

"In a letter from my sister, Jane Cole, who has for many years altogether resided at Bath, is the following paragraph, dated Bath, Jan. 11, 1778.

"I saw some Windsor ladies yesterday, who told me that Dr. Barnard was going to be married to Miss Sleech. The lady is

about twenty, and so disproportioned to his own age, that I think he has more sense than to confirm such a report."

In 1743 he was presented by the Hon. Tho. Townshend to the Rectory of Paul's Cray in Kent, which he holds, 1779. In 1760, Canon of Windsor.

"In Gent. Mag. for 1779, p. 559, is a copy of verses on the death of Queen Caroline, signed E. Barnard, St. John's College.

"This, says Dr. Kippis, the Editor of the new edition of Biographia Britannica, 1780, in vol. ii. p. 650, where is inserted the life of Mr. Isaac Hawkins Brown, Dr. Edward Barnard, the present learned and worthy Provost of Eton College, told Mr. Brown, both by writing and in conversation, that, in treating a very interesting and important subject, (De Animi Immortalitate) he had adopted, with great judgment, the manner of Lucretius, but that his arguments were conducted with more logic and perspicuity; and that he had very happily enriched the didactic style with many sentiments and expressions from the more glowing parts of Cicero's Philosophical Pieces.'

"On Saturday last (Dec. 2, 1781) died suddenly the Rev. Edward Barnard, D. D. Provost of Eton, Canon of Windsor, and one of his Majesty's Chaplains in ordinary."*

17. Isaac Madox, Bishop of Worcester.

"Bred at Aberdeen, and married Bishop Waddington's niece. D. D. Cantab. Rector of Vedast, Foster Lane, Bp. of St. Asaph and Worcester.

"Sermon preached before the Society, corresponding with the in

corporated Society in Dublin, for promoting the English Protestant working schools in Ireland, at St. Mary-le-Bow, Mar. 19, 1739, on Isa. xi. 13. L. 1740, 4to.

See an admirable character of Dr. Barnard by Mr. George Hardinge, in vol. viii. of Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, p. 543-551. His only son, the Rev. Edw. Barnard, a most amiable man, went into orders late in life, having been formerly Major of the Romney Fencible Cavalry, 1795—1798. He now lives at Bexley in Kent.