son, (it has been said,) with his giant strides, could not walk by his side." He first published, in 1766, twenty of these plays, in four volumes. Johnson's and Steevens's edition, in ten volumes, was published in 1773, and republished in 1778; and a third edition, in fifteen volumes, with considerable additions, appeared in 1793. Mr. Reed afterwards gave a new edition, in 1803; and Mr. Harris, the respectable Librarian of the Royal Institution, corrected the Press. By this work, Mr. Steevens has certainly acquired a well-earned fame; but he also wrote a Commentary on Hogarth; and says one of his biographers, "that alone would have stamped a lasting fame on his critical acumen." He died January 20, 1800. For further particulars of Mr. Steevens, see Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 70, p. 178; the Pursuits of Literature, and Mr. Dibdin's Bibliomania.

Christopher Anstey, Esq. also, (son of Christopher Anstey, Fellow and Tutor of St. John's, D. D. 1715) was Fellow Commoner here. He was author of several small sprightly poems; but is principally known by the New Bath Guide, a very humorous poem, that was, by the fashionable world, at the time, much read and admired. It has been since followed by a poem (said to be written by one of the Anstey family) in the same spirit, but composed of better materials-the Pleader's Guide-which though it has not been so much read, is to be more admired. Mr. Anstey died in 1805, aged eighty-one; and, by the duty of his son, there is a monument erected to him in Poet's Corner, Wesminster Abbey.

Some good portraits might have been noticed in the Master's Lodge; such as those of Sir Robert Walpole, and Dr. Sumner, Provost, with others. I have, however, mistated matters (vol. II. p. 207) by confounding a picture in the Master's Lodge, with the celebrated painting over the altar piece, in the chapel; and p. 200, 1. 8, for VI. read VII.

To our Catalogue of bishops and men eminent for rank or talents may be added, John Chedworth, Provost, Bishop of Lincoln, 1451. Oliver King, Fellow, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1495. Nicholas West, Fellow, Bishop of

Ely, 1515. John Pearson, Bishop of Chester, 1672. James Fleetwood, Provost, Bishop of Worcester, with others; and Judge Hall, Historiographer; Sir John Osborne, Fellow, Commissioner to King James; Sir Albert Morton, Fellow, Secretary of State to King James. In more modern times may be added, Sir Robert Walpole, created first Earl of Orford, the celebrated minister of George I. and II. whose life has been circumstantially written by Mr. Coxe, and a defence by Governor Pownal. His younger brother, Horatio Walpole, Under-Secretary of State to George II. and in 1756 created Baron Walpole of Wolterton; Charles, second Marquis Townsend, the eminent associate of Sir Robert Walpole; Charles Pratt, the celebrated Lord Camden, made Lord Chancellor in 1766; and to these a few more might be added.

P. 196. I have read, I think, somewhere, (I forget where) that Dr. Whichcote most probably did take the Covenant; but on recollecting that he was an Arminian, and that Dr. Tillotson says he did not take it, I must conclude, that he did not. Dr. Salter republished Dr. Whichcote's Controversial Work in 1751.

P. 197. This Sir William Temple was the confidential friend of Sir Philip Sidney, (in Elizabeth's reign) to whom he dedicates his Latin Treatises, and Secretary to the Earl of Essex, till his tragical death. He died provost of Trinity College, Dublin. Sir William Temple, so distinguished as an ambassador (see him under Emmanuel College) and a writer, was his grandson. See the Life and Character of Sir William Temple, the grandson, written by a particular friend. P. 199. On a second perusal, the epitaph alluded to may be admired as an expression of regard, but I doubt whether uch as a composition.

P. 200, 1. 8, for VI. read VII,

William Fleetwood, Fellow, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1708, died Bishop of Ely, 1723: cujus opera (says Richardson in Godwin) omnium manibus terunter. He was a theological writer. A volume of his Sermons, preached on public occa

sions, should be mentioned, though it were only to notice one delivered to his Brethren of Eton, in which he pays the proper tribute to his Royal Foundation. He was studious also in ecclesiastical matters and antiquities. John Aubrey observes, he was supposed to be the author of a curious work, entitled an Historical Account of Coins, dated 1707. It had the merit of confirming a person in his fellowship, by settling the relative value of English money in different reigns. This work was republished in 1745, with his name, and the coins. All his works were reprinted in one volume, folio, 1737.

CHRIST'S COLLEGE.

Leland was A. B. of Christ's, 1722. That Dr. Fuller has mistaken Leland's words, in calling him Fellow, see a statement in Nichols's Anecdotes, &c. vol. II. p. 626.

P. 220, 1. 11, for Oxford, Cambridge; so Aubrey has it, (Letters, &c. vol. III. p. 288,) and so I have put Cleveland under St. John's.

It is surprising, on many accounts, that under Clare Hall, I should have overlooked such a man as Martin Folkes, Esq. chosen President of the Royal Society in 1741, and of the Antiquarian, 1749-50, eminent as a philosopher, antiquary, and general scholar. I therefore notice him here, because his principal works relate to coins; entitled a Table of English Gold Coins, and a Table of English Silver Coins, from the Norman Conquest to the present time, published in 1745. They are allowed to excel every thing done in that way before, and to leave little room for future additions. He was admitted of Clare Hall, 1706-7. He took no degree at the usual time; but was created A. M. Comitiis Regiis, 1717. A very valuable memoir of him, including an account of his communications to the Royal and Autiquarian Societies, and other literary pursuits, may be seen in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. II. p. 578.

P. 200. John Harrington's name not in Richardson's Catalogue of Graduates: 1. 11, for Oxford, Cambridge, see Aubrey's Bodl. Let.; and for some curious and authentic particulars concerning Milton, see Aubrey's Letters, &c. vol. III. and Wharton's edition of Milton's Poems, p. 421. Edition of 1791.

P. 218, 1. 27, add:

Anthony Gilby, "a fierce writer against ceremonies," (so described by Fuller, Church History, Book IX, p. 76,) one of the ante-signani of the Puritans.

Mr. Adam Wall was only Fellow, and died a good deal advanced in years. He declined, I have been informed, holding any Church-preferment, from some scruple of conscience. There was also, contemporary with Adam, a Gilman Wall, whom Dr. Farmer, in a letter to Dr. Thomas Warton, calls the Antiquary of Christ's College. But I do not recollect any thing published by him. If it be true, that Buck's MS. Book of University Ceremonies, &c. is irrecoverably lost, Adam Wall's will rise in value.

P. 223, Paley took much of his turn of thinking in theological matters, from Abraham Tucker's (SEARCH's) Light of Nature, and Bishop Law's works: his Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy are, therefore, with much propriety and decent acknowledgment, dedicated to the latter; and the well-written Memoirs of the Bishop, printed in Hutchinson's History of Cumberland, are by the Archdeacon. It should have been noticed by me, too, that John Law, the Bishop's second son, was the fellow-tutor and confidential friend of Dr. Paley. I am not aware he published any thing, but he is understood to have rendered Paley assistance in the composition and arrangement of "The Principles of Political and Moral Philosophy," and that he wrote the chapter on Reverence of the Deity. Dr. Law died Bishop of Elphin in Ireland, 1710.

In the HORE PAULINE, Dr. Paley seems to have taken for his guide, the celebrated Hermannus Witsius, in his

Prælectiones de Vitâ et Rebus Gestis Pauli Apostoli, Lugd. Bat.; and here this reminds me, that Paley's talent very much resembled that of this elegant Leyden tutor, and Calvinist divine, described by himself thus: Neque quidquam tribui mihi postulo, nisi fortassis, si ita benevoli Lectores velint, collectionem rerum haud indiligentem, dispositionem non inconcinnam, et aliquain orationis non salebrosæ perspicuitatem. DEDICATIO Acad. LUGD. BAT. CURATORIBUS ad Prælectiones de Vitâ et Rebus Gestis Pauli Apostoli, Lugd. Bat.

P. 229, as last paragraph:

To our list of bishops and eminent men, the two or three following names, out of several, may be added:

Nicholas Heath, Scholar, Lord Chancellor, and Archbishop of York, 1555, but set aside by Elizabeth, as being a Papist; though both Protestants and Papists deemed him a very conscientious, excellent man,-(see Godwin, de Præsul. &c. p. 710, and Lloyd's Statesmeu, &c. p. 337), and, according to Camden, so did Queen Elizabeth herself.

Cuthbert Scott, Bishop of Chester, set aside by Queen Elizabeth.

John Still, Fellow, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1592. William Chaderton, Fellow, Bishop of Lincoln, 1595. Humphrey Henchman, (Smyth's MS.) Fellow, raised for his attachment to Charles II. to the see of London, 1669. (Godwin.)

John Sharp, Archbishop of York, 1691. He published two volumes of Sermons.

Frederic Cornwallis, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1749, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1768; with several other bishops.

To our men of eminence in the state, may be added, Sir Robert Raymond, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. Walpole's Catal. of Royal and Noble Authors, Vol. 11.