44. John White, B. D. St. John's.

"Died in Oct. 1755, Mr. John White, Rector of StokeNayland in Essex, and author of Letters to a Dissenting Gentleman, and other pieces. Cambridge Journal, Nov. 1, 1755.

"A Letter to a Gentleman dissenting from the Church of England, concerning the Lives of Churchmen and Dissenters, wherein Dr. Watts's Humble Attempt towards the Revival of practical Religion among Christians, so far as relates to this subject, is largely examined; and the popular argument (or prejudice) arising from the supposed or real better lives of Dissenters, in favour of their Churches, is fully considered. By John White, B.D. some time Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 2nd edit. Lond. 8vo. 1745, pr. 1s. 6d.

"A 2nd Letter to a Gentleman, dissenting from the Church of England, wherein the great and popular pleas of Dissenters against Communion with the Church, are reflected back upon themselves. By J. W. &c. 2nd edit. Lond. 8vo. 1745. p. ls.

"The 3d and last Letter to a Gentleman dissenting from the Church of England, wherein the design of the 2nd (which was to refute the great and popular objections of Dissenters against Communion with the Church of England, and to reflect them back upon themselves) is further pursued and completed. To which is added, an Appendix, containing some considerations on the lawfulness, expediency, and necessity of requiring all who are to be admitted to the ministry, or to any ecclesiastical preferment in the Church of England; or to be preachers or teachers in any dissenting congregation, to subscribe the Articles of Faith and Religion and setting forth the inconsistencies between the notorious practices of Dissenters, and the avowed principles of many of them touching that matter. By J. W. &c. Lond. 8vo. 1745, pr. Is.. 3d. Letter dated at p. 64, Nayland, Apt. 19, 1745. Appendix or whole book finished at p. 85.

"This ingenious and learned Gentleman had been tutor to Mr. Soame Jenyns of Botisham, where I often meet his brother, the Vicar of Swaffham-Bulbec, next parish to Botisham. I saw him there, 1770, in the autumn.

"See a Letter written by a private Clergyman to Abp. Herring, in 1771, p. 44, 45, 46, 47, where it is said Mr. White was author of Free and impartial Considerations of the free and candid Disquisitions, 1751.”

45. Ric. Brathwaite.

"V. Ath. Ox. vol. ii. p. 516, 627.

:

"I have his Survey of History, which is pedantic. By Ric. Brathwaite, Esq. Oxon. Lond. 4, 1638. The frontispiece is curious and emblematical, with his head by Wm. Marshall, an. ætat. 48, 1638. Short hair, picked beard and whiskers, rough face and stern, falling laced band, round the oval, partly covered by a curtain, is this inscription: -Theatrum Mundus, ærarium Tempus Historiæ Thesaurus.' The whole title to his book is :A Survey of History; or, a Nursery for Gentry: contrived and comprised in an intermixed Discourse upon historical or poetical Relations. By Ric. Braithwaite, Esq, Oxon. London, printed by N. and John Okes, 1639.' 4to. It is dedicated to Hen. Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton: and a 2nd to Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Southampton. Contains 415 pages. Print the best part of my purchase of the book, which cost me 1s. 6d. in 1779."*

46. Dr. John Byrom.

"V. Spectator, vol. viii. No. 603, p. 182.

"Miscellaneous Poems, by Dr. John Byrom, F. R. S. sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Inventor of the universal English short-hand, and author of the celebrated pastoral— My time, O ye Muses, &c. Manchester. 8vo. 1773. 2 vols. p. 103. He was a very tall thin man: I remember him coming to Cambridge about 17..4, and reading lectures on short-hand, and teaching it there.

* See Archaica. Part VI.

"V. Gent. Mag. for 1780, p. 175, 423, 424, a letter of his. V. an account of him in Mr. Nichols's Miscell. Poems, vol. vii. p. 156, &c. Lond. 8vo. 171. donum editoris, 1781."

47. Vincent Bourne, Trinity College.

“Poematia, Latine partim reddita, partim scripta. A. V. B. Collegii Trinitatis, apud Cantabrigienses aliquando socio, Lond. 8, 1734. Ded. to the Duke of Newcastle. "Miscellaneous Poems, consisting of Original and Translations, by V. B. M. A. 4to. Lond. 11s. Dodsley. In the Critical Review of April, 1772, some short memoirs of his life, which finished in Dec. 1747. Usher of Westminster School."*

48. Sir Richard Bulstrode of Cambr

Original Letters written to the Earl of Arlington by Sir R. B. Envoy at the Court of Brussels from King Cha. 2nd, with a preface, giving an account of the Author's Life and Family, Lond. 8vo. 1712. Ded. by E. Bysshe to Geo. E. of Cardigan. V. Carter's Cambridge, p. 397. Knt. Envoy at Brussels from Ch. 2. and Ja. 2. Miscellaneous Essays, published by his son, B. Whitlock, Esq. with a pref. W. R. Miscell. 383.

"In the History of Long Livers, by Eugenius Philalethes, p. 97, Lond. 8vo. 1722, it is said, that "Sir William Bulstrode at St. Germains en Laye, near Paris, died Oct. 3, 1711, aged 105. He left 17 children, the eldest was 72 years old, and the youngest only 14." I suppose it is a mistake for Sir Richard: for in letters between Dr. Wood and Whitelock Bulstrode, Esq. (Lond. 8vo. 1717) p. 2, Dr. Wood says, that "his father-in-law, Sir Richard, of late is much impaired in his health by a diabetes." This Letter was wrote, Feb. 22, 1708-9."

See Life and Letters of Wm. Cowper. Editor.

49. Walter Balcanqual, Dean of Durham, Pembroke Hall.

"V. Sir Dudley Carleton's Letters, Lond. 4to. 1757, p. 317, published by the 2nd Earl of Hardwick. His letters to Sir Dudley Carleton concerning the Synod of Dort are at the end of Hales' Golden Remains. V. Dean Barwick's English Life, p. 413, 444. Nalson's Collections, vol. i. p. 428. vol. ii. p. 447. The King's Large Declaration, ao. 1639, fol. p. 272, 273, 274, 275.. Kennet's Register and Chronicle, p. 28, 29. Original Papers relating to Lord Clarendon, p. 37. an 8vo. pamphlet among my collection of pamphlets, vol. 10. Lloyd's Memoirs, ed. 1677, p. 523. Fasti Oxon. vol. i. p. 211. W. B. A. M. Admissus Socius Aula Pembr. Sept. 8, 1611. Fuller's Ch. Hist. L. 16, p. 79.”*

"Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler, p. 84. edit. 4. Lond. 8vo. 1668. Ath. Ox. vol. ii. p. 812.

" Mr. Knight, jun. shewed me a MS. written by Wm. Basse, and corrected by him, in 4to. called Polihymnia. DedicationTo the Right noble and vertuous Lady the Lady Bridget, Countess of Lindsey, and Baroness of Eresbie and Ricot, in verse, with verses to the Right hon. Francis Lord Norreys, Earl of Berkshire (in his days) To the Right hon. the Lady Aungier (then wife of Sir Tho. Wenman) upon her coming out of Ireland, and return thither. To the Right hon. the Lady Viscountess Falkland, upon her going into Ireland, two sonnets. The Youth in the Boat. Acrostics of the truly noble, vertuous, and learned Lady the Lady Agnes Wenman; of the Lady Penelope Dynham; of Mrs. Jane Wenman. Verses on the Chapel of Wadham College consecration, St. Peter's day, 1613; on Caversham, or Causham House; of Witham House, Oxfordshire, the house of a noble Knight and favourer of my Muse, and Elegy on a Bullfinch, 1648; of the four wide course of Bagarde's Green six times over, by two famous Irish footmen, Patrick Dorning and Wm. O'Farrell. It contains about 40 leaves, much corrected, and at the end is L'Envoy.

*See Coll. Peerage, new edit. vol. ii. Art. Thynne,

Go, sweet Polymnia, thanks for all your cost
And love to me; wherein no love is lost.
As you have taught me various verse to use,
I have to right you to be a Christian Muse.'

"The poetry seems to be below mediocrity: so no wonder he has escaped the list of poets, and that we know so little of him.

"He took his A. M. degree in Eman. Coll. 1636, at least one of both his names. V. my vol. 50, p. 22.

"Wm. Basse admitted sizar in Eman. Coll. 1629. of Suffolk, A.B. 1632, A. M. 1636. id. P. 55.

In Warton's Life of Dr. Bathurst, p. 288, is a copy of English verses by Dr. Bathurst.

To Mr. W. Basse upon the intended publication of his poems, January 13, 1654.'

“Mr. Warton has added this note at the bottom: 'I find no account of this writer or his poems.' But from the beginning and end of the short poem of about 40 verses, it should seem that the Emanuelian was too modern for the poet, who might be his father. They begin thus ;—

'Basse, whose rich mine of wit we here behold

As porcelain earth, more precious, 'cause more old;
Who, like an aged oak, so long hath stood,
And art religion now as well as food:

Though thy grey Muse grew up with elder times,
And our deceased grandsires lisp'd thy rhymes;
Yet we can sing thee too, and make the bays,
Which deck thy brow, look fresher with thy praise.

Though these, your happy births, have silent past
More years than some abortive wits shall last;
He still writes new, who once so well hath sung:
That Muse can ne'er be old, which ne'er was young.'

* See Commendatory Verses to Shakespeare; and Restituta, vol. i.