In the third, his favourite doctrine of the ward: but his three last please me above measure. is brought for "An Answer to the Disquisitions on Government and civil Liberty in a Letter to the Author of Disquisitions on several Subjects. Lond. 8°. 1782, p. 49. Warm whiggish pamphlet, and taking notice only of the 7th disquisition. "The Dean and the Squire: a political Eclogue, humbly dedicated to Soame Jenyns Esq. by the author of the Heroic Epistle to Sir Wm. Chambers. Lond. 4to. 1782, pr. 1s. 6d. 16 pages. "This flippant republican poet, Mr. Mason, takes liberties, as a free man, to abuse all whom his politics are adverse to, the King, his Abp. nobility, clergy, and gentry. Lord Hardwick, for being the friend of Mr. Jenyus, can't escape his rancour. Indeed whiggery is the bane of good-nature. V. European Magozine, for 1782, first number, p. 189 to 192. "Candid Suggestions, in eight Letters to Soame Jenyns, Esq. on the respective subjects of his Disquisitions. By B. N. Turner, M. A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d. Lond. 1782. Crit. Review for 1782, p. 236. V. Monthly Review for 1782, p. 193, 200." 103. George Sandby, Master of Magdalen College. "On the unexpected death of the late Master, Dr. Ogden and Mr. Elliot of Magdalen College, posted up to town to make interest to succeed him, which was given by the Countess of Portsmouth, the patroness, to her cousin, my worthy friend and acquaintance, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Frederick Hervey, late of Bene't College, and brother to the Earl of Bristol, about a week before." This was entered prematurely in my interleaved Carter's History of Cambridge, from the public papers, which said so, and I wrote a congratulatory letter to him on the occasion; but it was a mistake; for the Countess gave it to Mr. Sandby, beneficed and married in Suffolk, and formerly Fellow of Merton College, and one of the three who were sent or returned to the Abp. on the death of the late Warden. : "The Countess, on application from the Duke of Newcastle for another person, said, That she was sorry she could not oblige his Grace, but that she had given it to Mr. Sandby, in case of a vacancy, by will. This Countess, daughter to Lord Griffin, was as stately and proud as Lucifer: no German princess could exceed her. I have seen her often at my late worthy friend Colonel Vachel's at Abington, he being in the entail for the estate at Billingbeare, in Berkshire. Dr. Sandby is son to a prebendary of Worcester; took his D. D. degree at the Commencement, 1760, and is a cheerful agreeable man. His mother, a Nottinghamshire woman, very ancient, died at his living at Denton in Norfolk, in 1770. In 1769 he was made Chancellor of Norwich, and has four children, three daughters and a little boy. He took this Mastership on a bond of resignation to a young gentleman, who, it was supposed, before he took orders very lately, would chuse any other profession than the Church: being entirely given up to sporting of every kind. The College, about three years ago, was filled with his dogs, pointers, and hounds, and a cow, actually kept on purpose in the College close for milk for them. Milton, March 9, 1773. 66 Vice-Chancellor, 1760. "I called on Dr. Sandby, Wedn. March 2, St. Chad, 1774, being the day my aunt Cock was buried at St. Clement's Church, when I found both him and Mrs. S. very much chagrined and melancholy, on account of their quitting Magdalen College, which they propose next week, without taking leave of any one. He had been to London the week before, to try his last effort to continue Master; but in vain, as Mr. Wallop had determined to come himself, though more than an equivalent was offered to him by Dr. Sandby's friends. Both the Doctor and Mrs. Sandby were so affected with it, that they actually cried on the occasion: I was very sorry to see them so weak: it would have looked better to have carried it off more steadily. Mrs. S. took occasion to deprecate Mr. W.'s person, behaviour, parts; and said he had better have accepted the offers inade him, for that he must be ViceChancellor, and that would be a terrible trial of him. I was concerned to see so much ill-judged spleen on an occasion which must have been foreseen for a long time: but it seems they were in hopes he would never have made choice of an academic life for reasons before specified. I lose a good neighbour and acquaintance, and am sorry to lose him: but wished it had been more manly. He came and dined with me at Milton on Saturday, and on Monday he quitted the College for ever. He is Chancellor of Norwich, which he probably got by being Master." 104. Henry Taylor, Fellow of Queen's College, 1733. "I remember this person very particularly: he was made Fellow of Queen's College in 1733, the year after I was admitted at Clare Hall. The place where I was acquainted with him at, was at Rivenhall, in Essex, where he was Curate to Mr. Hatsess the Rector, and much in the family of my most intimate and never-tobe-forgotten friend, Thomas Western, of that place, Esq. He was a most lively, cheerful, and sensible little man, very thin, and of no promising appearance: yet he is said to be the author of the three following pieces, much esteemed by persons of his way of thinking. The last published, which I shall mention first, is written against my very worthy and most ingenious friend, Soame Jenyns, Esq. and for which he is much blamed by most people : for however faulty Mr. Jenyns may have been in some of his theological arguments, the consequences of which he might attend to, yet his writing in defence of the Christian religion, at a time when it was attacked on all sides by infidels and philosophers, was a merit that ought to have screened him from the attacks of the clergy, whose cause he had espoused. However a Dr. Maclaine at the Hague began the siege, which was carried on by Mr. Taylor in the following pamphlet, which was published in June, 1777. « A full Answer to a a late View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion. In a Dialogue between a rational Christian and his Friend. By the Editor of Ben. Mordecai's Letters to Elisha Levi. Lond. 8vo. 1777, pages 165, with a preface, &c. of 23. "The seven Letters of Benjamin Ben Mordecai to his Friend, Elisha Levi. An Enquiry into the Opinions of the learned Christians, both ancient and modern, concerning the Generation of Jesus Christ. Published by the Editor of Benjamin Ben Mordecai's Letters. "Thoughts on the Nature of the grand Apostacy: with Ob servations on the 15th Chapter of Mr. Gibbon's Roman History. To which are added three Dissertations, &c. By Henry Taylor, Rector of Crawley, Vicar of Portsmouth in Hants, and Author of Ben. Mordecai's Apology for embracing Christianity. Lond. 8o. 1781. Price 3s. 6d. unbound." 105. Tho. Stanley, Pembroke Hall. "Quidam Tho. Stanley cooptatur in ordinem Magr. in Arti bus per gratiam, Mar. 12, 1641, una cum Principe Carolo, Georgio Duce Buck. et aliis nobilibus. Regr. Acad. Cant. T.B. "Tho. Stanley Aul. Pembr. convict. 1. admissus in matriculam Acad. Cant. Dec. 13, 1639. Regr. Acad. Fuit igitur Artium Magister Extraordinarius. T. B." "Vid. pref. to Dr. Needham's edition of Theophrastus, where it is evidently proved that the publications which go under the name of T. S. are James Duport's. "Vide his life by Dr. Birch, in his History of the Royal Society, vol. iii. p. 443, and of Tho. Stanley, jun. his son, at p. 444.”* 106. Sir Roger Twysden, Kt. and Bart. Emanuel Coll. Edited Historia Anglicana Scriptores Decem. Lond. 1652. Fol. Ancestor to the present Sir William Twysden, Bart. * His scarce volumes of Poems and Translation of Anacreon, &c. have lately been republished by Longmans, in small 8vo. SONNETS addressed to Persons of Distinction, By JOHN DAVIES of Hereford. To the Right Hon. and most reverend Father in God, my Lord Thou temp'rate soule, that hold'st promotion To the most gracious Prince, the Duke of Lennox, &c. For no respect, great Lord! but for the love I owe to grace and greatnesse join'd in one, |