CATHARINE HALL.

P. 168. Archbishop Parker says, the Charter of Catharine Hall was confirmed, 1475, a. 15 Edward IV. 6th of April. Dr. Fuller makes 1475, the 16th of Edward IVth. Yet both agree as to 1475. Mr. Parker's History (p. 114) dates the King's License, 1459, ten or eleven years before Edward began his reign. Carter's History dates the founda

tion, 1457, a false print though, I perceive, for 1475. P. 169, l. 16, instead of semicolon put full stop, and dele

and.

P. 169, 1. 28, dele and died Bishop of Norwich, in 1619. P. 170, l. 14. But several, &c. down to act, should be placed four lines backward, in the room of but I suspect, &c. down to here, which lines may be dele'd.

P. 172, l. 2, after 1674, add, John Jeffery, D. D. 1696, edited Dr. Whichcote's Sermons, 4 vols. 8vo. Vid infra, p. 196. He published also a volume of his own, entitled, Select Discourses upon divers Important Subjects, 1710; and a complete collection of his Discourses and Tracts, was published in 2 vols. 1753. He was Archdeacon of Norwich. Dr. J. was an Arminian, and his writings are remarkable for simplicity and a freedom from party spirit, unless his Tracts against Canting in Religion and the Quakers may be excepted: for notwithstanding some enthusiasm and peculiarities, the Quakers have maintained many benevolent and great principles; and Voltaire knew what he meant, when he called them that philosophic sect.

P. 175. Sir William Meredith was member for Liverpool, not Yorkshire.

P. 178, notes. Archbishop Dawes had been one of Queen Anne's Chaplains, and in 1701 published a volume of Sermons dedicated to her Majesty, and printed at the Univer

sity Press. A complete edition of his Sermons was pub lished in 1735.

P. 176, 1.3, for 1783, 1733.

KING'S COLLEGE.

P. 183, 1. 8. The belief that Henry VI. was murdered in the Tower by order of Richard III. rests on the following passage of Petrus Blesensis: Taceo, hoc temporis interstitio inventum esse corpus Regis Henrici in Turri Londinense exanime: parcat Deus et Spatium Penitentia ei donet, quicunque tam sacrilegas manus in Christum Domini ausus est immittere: unde et agens, tyranni, patiensq. gloriosi Martyris,titulum mereatur. HIST. CROILAND. CONTINUATIO. Mr. Carte, however, gives his reasons for not believing the report true and says, it was never heard of till Henry VII. thought of canonizing Henry VI. See a Letter of Carte's on the subject, vol. III. Letters, &c. from originals in Bodl.

Libr.

P. 187, 1. 21. He was always called Glynn, though his monumental inscription is, (as afterward) Robert Glynn Clobery.

P. 188, 1. 20, for Portsmouth, read Chatham. Bryant was contemporary with Gray at Eton School, next boy to him, or Gray next to him, as I am informed by Mr. Mathias.

P, 195, l. 14. A curious account of Dr. Giles Fletcher may be seen in Lloyd's Statesmen and Favourites of England, p. 477, by Mr. Ramsey, who married the widow of Giles Fletcher, the poet, the Dr.'s son. Dr. F. himself was a poet. The Russian Commonwealth was suppressed by Queen Eli

zabeth. I am not aware he published the book mentioned, p. 195, therefore dele it.

Mr. Carter has Bishop Story, Chancellor in 1471. If my authority is correct, he could only be Deputy.

He

P. 195. Mr. Robert Smyth is generally correct. only notices, that Cartshill was said to be nominated before his death to the see of Worcester; and that he was never consecrated, and therefore not bishop; see Godwin de Præsul, &c. p. 470, where his name ought otherwise to have been.

P. 195, 1. 10. Queen Elizabeth's Liturgy was only Edward the VIth's altered, by retaining some things that were in Henry the VIIIth's time, as her articles of 1562, were Edward's articles of 1552, with some additions.

Of Anthony Wotton, B. B. first Divinity Professor in 1596, and his writings, an account may be seen in WARD'S Lives, &c. p. 39 of the Professors of Gresham College. The principal was, De Reconciliatione Peccatoris: ad Regium Colleg. Cantab. libri IV. This excited at the time much controversy, and Mr. Wotton was charged with Socinianism.

P. 198, 1. 19. Instead of, Nor must I, &c. down to works, two lines from the bottom, insert the following: Nor must I pass over W. Oughtred, B. D. an eminent mathematician, author of Horologiographia Geometrica, written when he was but twenty-three years old. He was also deep in astrology and alchymy. He used, says John Aubrey,* to talk much of the maiden earth for the philosopher's stone, and said he could make that stone. Benjamin, his son, said he was sure he understood magic. Aubrey, who knew the son, has given a curious account of the father. It has been said, he died with joy, being a zealous loyalist, for the coming in

John Aubrey's Letters, &c. and Lives, &c. of eminent men, from originals in the Bodl. Library, vol, II. Aubrey, as appears from another publication of his, was a great believer in astrology, alchymy, spirits, and other wonders, and therefore a great admirer of John Dee, Oughtred, &c. Our early Cambridge astronomers and mathematicians were commonly astrologers and alchymists. See Ben Jonson's Alchymist, who takes his character from John Dee.

of Charles II. He was born near Windsor, 1574, and died 13th June, 1660.

I shall here add a short list of critics, as they were nearly contemporaries, and followed nearly in succession.

James Upton, A. M. 1701, edited in 1702, an edition of Dionysius of Halicarnassus's Treatise, Пept ZuveεGEWσ OVOMarwv, inserting among his own notes, Sylburgius's, and following throughout that edition (of 1586;) subjoining too Bircovius's Exempla Latina. Upton, also, edited a very useful school book, entitled, Пoxiλ Isopia, being collections from Elian, Polyænus, Aristotle, and Maximus Tyrius, with notes, partly his own, partly extracted from different writers, in the manner of his former work, well adapted to schoolboys.* Non pari successu about the learning of Shakspeare. Mr. Upton was one of his commentators, and here he was misled by his Greek and Latin. See Dr. Farmer's Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare. In 1711, Upton republished Roger Ascham's excellent book, the Schoolmaster, with Corrections, and some good explanatory notes.

Mr. Tho. Johnson published two of Sophocles's plays in 1705, with notes, &c.; two more in 1708. The whole seven were published in 1746. In 1758 Mr. Bowyer, the printer, republished this with additions, and it was also reprinted at Eton in 1775-Mr. J. was A.M. 1692.

Dr. Hare, Fellow, Bishop of St. Asaph, in 1727, translated to Chichester, 1731, was an eminent critic, and published the Psalms of David, with a Prolegomena, exhibiting a peculiar hypothesis as to the metre. There are extant also of Bishop Hare's various works, theological, critical, and controversial.

Richard Mounteney, Fellow, A. M. 1735, published an edition of Demosthenes's Select Orations, that has gone through various editions, accompanied with Greek Scholia, and useful notes on the Scholia and Greek Text. Edition,

*Re-edited, with additions, 1803.

1781. The Dedication to Sir Robert Walpole is much admired. Mounteney was afterwards made a Baron.

John Foster, S.T.P. 1766, Fellow, published at Eton, a learned Essay on Accent and Quantity, in reference to the English, Latin, and Greek languages. A second edition, corrected and much enlarged, was published in 1763, containining some additions from the papers of Dr. Taylor and Mr. Markland, together with a reply to Dr. Gally's second Dissertation in answer to the 1st edition of the Essay.

John King, M. D. Fellow, edited, in two volumes, 8vo. 3 plays of Euripides, viz. Hecuba, Orestes, and Phoenissæ, with Greek Scholia, and notes. 1726. The text and Scholia are emended from ten MSS.; they are accompanied also with an improved version, Dissertation on Greek Metres, &c. Dr. King also published, Epistola ad Virum ornatissimum Joannem Friend, 1722.

In 1748, Dr. Morell re-edited King's Euripides, subjoining a fourth play, the Alcestis. Dr. Morell also published the Prometheus Vinctus of Eschylus, with an English poetical version, accompanied also with various readings and notes. He edited, too, the Philoctetes of Sophocles, with Scholia, and notes, and subjoined a few notes to a 4to. edition of all Sophocles's Plays: various other pieces were published by him: but his most famous and most useful work, was his Thesaurus Græcæ Poesews, sive Lexicon Græcoprosodiacum, after the manner of the Latin Gradus ad ParAn improved nassum, first published at Eton, in 1762. and greatly enlarged edition of this valuable work, is just published by the learned Dr. Maltby.

Nathaniel Kent, A. M. 1735, published Excerpta Quædam, from Lucian's works, with a corrected version, and A new edition was printed in 1777.

notes.

George Steevens, Esq. the celebrated commentator on Shakspeare's Plays, was admitted Fellow Commoner here, 1751-2. The taste, acuteness, and knowledge of old English literature, displayed in his notes, are well known. "John