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"V. Hist of King-Killers, or 30th of January commemorated. Lond. 8vo. 1719, p. 58, and Wood's Ath. Ox. ii. 156.

"Author of "The divine Catastrophe of the kingly Family of the House of Stuarts: or a short History of the Rise, Reign, and Ruin thereof, wherein the most secret and chamber Abominations of the two last Kings are discovered, divine Justice in K. Charles his overthrow vindicated, and the Parliament's proceedings Tagainst him clearly justified. By Sir Edw. Peyton, Kt. and Bart. a diligent observer of those times. Lond. 1652 in 8vo. pp. 149. Dedicated, to the supreme authority of this nation, assembled in this present Parliament.",

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{ ble seems by his writing to have been an enthusiast of the fifth monarchy sort; and sets out with a most glaring proof of false history, making Francis II. King of France, husband to Mary Q of Scots, to have been killed with a shiver of a lan a lance at a tournament; whereas it was that young King's f 's father who was killed in that manner. But his divinity and history are equally valuable. V. p. 7, 22; 31, 35, 51, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 74, 113, 118, 119, 120, 134, 139."

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56. Morris Drake Morris, Esq. Trinity College, 1715.

His Athena Cantabrigienses, in three vols. folio, were given to me by Dr. Conyers Middleton, who married his mother, to his first wife. They are only collections from Fuller, Wood, Lloyd, Walker, and other printed accounts. He was a Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Lord of the Manor of Coveney in the Isle of Ely, where I think he died, and was buried at his family estate in Kent. Mat. Robinson, Fellow of Trinity Hall, Esq. and Member of Parliament, being his heir, (probably) a son of his sister; for I remember Mr. Robinson calling Dr. Middleton jocosely his grandfather, (&c.) There is some account of Mr. Morris prefixed to each of these three volumes." Cole.

Mr. Morris was son of Mr. Drake, Recorder of Cambridge, by the daughter and heir of Thomas Morris, Esq. of Mount Morris, in the parish of Horton, near Hythe, in Kent. His sister and heir married Matthew Robinson, Esq. of West Layton, in Yorkshire, and was mother of the celebrated Mrs. Montagu, Mrs. Scott, Matthew, 2d Lord Rokeby, who died 1800, &c.

57. Dr. Conyers Middleton of Trinity College.

"The character of him, sent by the Rev. Mr. Smyth of Woodston, near Peterborough, to be inserted in Carter's History of Cambridge, was this :

"As Dr. Middleton is lately dead, you cannot but give him a place amongst the writers of Trinity College, of which he was Fellow: his style that of Principal Librarian, as he was no where a Dignitary: he was really a man of considérable parts and learning; but his pride and self-sufficiency were his ruin. His true character, I think, as it should be entered, is this:-Dr. Conyers Middleton, Principal Librarian of the University, author of The Life of Cicero, and many late pieces On the Miracles, and other subjects of religion, in which he displayed his learning, and lost his character as a Divine and a Churchman."

He died at Hildersham, in Cambridgeshire, July 28, 1750.
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58. Tho. Nevile, Fellow of Jesus College.

The fourteenth Satire of Juvenal, imitated by T. N. A. M. Fell. of Jesus Coll. Camb. 1769.

Imitations of Juvenal and Persius. By T. N. Fell. of J. C. Camb. Lond. 8vo. 1769. pp. 120%. .

Imitations of Horace, by Tho. Nevile, A. M. Fell. of Jes. Coll. Cam. Cambr. 8vo. before 1760.

"I was informed, Mar. 4, 1776, that this gentleman never associates with any of the College; spends all his time with himself; and rarely goes out of the College walls. He is of a good gentleman's family in Lincolnshire; tall and thin; has an impediment in his speech, which may occasion his much solitariness, and is a layman.

"Dr. Ashton not allowing him to go out in physic, he removed to Emanuel, where he took his M. B. degree, and then retired to his old society, where he died, Wedn. Sept. 19, 1781, of an epidemical fever, weak nerves and hypochondria.

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Supposed to be the author of The Capitade, printed in Gent. Mag. 1781, p. 530."

I remember him, when I first went to Cambridge, under the character and appearance here noticed. Editor.

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59. Tho. Lowndes of Overton, in Cheshire, Esq.

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Founded the Astronomy Professorship in 1749. V. Carter's Cambridge, p. 460.

"I once was with him, with my most worthy friend, the late Dr. Conyers Middleton; we were then together in the Court of Requests; and he was then soliciting with printed papers some project about salt, which he was distributing to the Members of Parliament, as they passed. Dr. Middleton was tired of his company; and soon shook him off, looking upon him as a whimsical, odd kind of man, and a professed projector. He was then dressed very ordinarily.

In Mr. West's Catalogue, 1773, N° 157, p. 8. is a pamphlet, called Lowndes's Improvement of Brine Salt, 1746, 4to. I know this was a favourite project of his."

60. Wm. Mason of Pembroke Hall.

"He was esteemed at College, where I had the good fortune to be acquainted with him, to be one of the chief ornaments of the University; is now married, and preferred in Yorkshire by Lord Holdernesse, and Precentor of York. His friend, Mr. Gray of the same College, dying, 1771, left him 5007. all his books, MSS. musical instruments, medals, &c. and executor to do with his papers as he should judge proper.

"On Friday, Jan. 7, 1774, I was assured for certain that he was the author of The Heroic Epistle, &c. 1773. When I read it, I easily saw the reason of its great character, exclusive of its being well written, in fine poetry; and running through so many editions. Satire and ill nature is always acceptable. The King himself is not spared in several places of this short and snarling poem; so his ministers need not grumble that they are under the lash. He shews himself too much of a party-man throughout. I am sorry for it, as I had a great veneration for his character."-HE DENIES IT-14th edit. in 1777.

61. Wm. Melmoth, Eman.

"One of our best translators of the classics into English. He is son of an eminent lawyer, who wrote The Importance of a religious Life. Mr. Melmoth is a most worthy and amiable character; and lived for some time at Shrewsbury, but now, `1771, at Bath, where he married his second wife, an Irish Lady, soon after the death of his former."*

Courtney Melmoth "is a different person from the respectable Mr. Melmoth. This last is a young man whose real name is PRATT.-Being a lad of some parts, he taught school for a time, and, by means of a friend, got interest with Bishop Green of Lincoln to put him into orders: after which he got a curacy at Peterborough, where, being a flowery and agreeable preacher, he was so much caressed and admired that he got into debt as much as he pleased, and borrowed money where he liked. Dr. Goddard of Clare Hall lent him 201 When he had got to the amount of 800% he thought it time to decamp; got an inferior commission in the army, and

62. Milner, Jesus College.

"In or about 1774 he was presented to a College Living, and died about the end of June, 1779, of a dropsy, occasioned by his drinking too great quantities of small beer. He was an excellent Botanist, and a worthy man: of a large size, and black complexion.

63. Cæsar Morgan, 1780.

"V. Crit. Rev. 1780, p. 67, Monthly Review, 1780. p. 479.” I remember him Minor Canon of Ely, in the year 1782; and afterwards Prebendary there. He was a learned man; an indefatigable student; and published a volume of very dull Poems, &c. Editor.

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Author of Palladis Tamia. Wit's Treasury; being the Second Part of Wit's Commonwealth.

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"He was originally of Pembroke Hall; B. A. in 1587; and M.A. 1591. About 1602, he became Rector of Wing, in Rutland; and died there, 1646, in the 81st year of his See Farmer's Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare, 2nd edit. Cambr. 8vo, 1767, p. 89. Wood's Ath. Ox. F. i. 146."

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65. Owen Manning, B. D. Fellow of Queen's College.

Editor of Lye's Saxon Dictionary, 1772.

"An ingenious man; a warm petitioner against the Articles and Liturgy; is collecting materials for an History of Surry." 1-(Published since his death by Mr. Bray.)

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entered upon the stage: and afterwards going to Dublin, married a player there, of the name of Melmoth, which liking better than his own, he took that, and is now known by the name of Courtney Melmoth; and is a writer for booksellers in town. This account I rec'd Dec. 9, 1778, from M. L

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