bridge, and at last, about 1770, or 1771, was forced to leave England, and died at Boulogne, or thereabouts.

“Mr. Charles Jenner was of an expensive turn; and had hurt his fortunes. Mr. Donald M'Kinnon of Aberdeen University, a native of the Isle of Skye, succeeded him," &c.

In the Cambridge Chronicle for Saturday, Dec. 23, 1775, is this Epitaph, &c.

"An elegant monument is erected in Claybrook Church, by a lady of very superior rank, to the memory of Mr. Charles Jenner, Vicar of that parish, author of Town-Eclogues, Louisa, &c. on which is the following inscription and epitaph:

"To the memory

of

Charles Jenner Clerk, M. A.

Vicar of this parish,

Who died, May 11, 1774, aged 37.

Here in the earth's cold bosom lies entomb'd
A man, whose sense, by every virtue grac'd,
Made each harmonious Muse obey his lyre:
Nor shall th' erasing hand of powerful Time
Obliterate his name, dear to each tuneful breast,
And dearer still to soft humanity;

For oft the sympathetic tear would start
Unbidden from his eye. Another's woe
He read :

and felt it as his own,

Reader,

It is not Flattery, nor Pride, that rais'd

To his remains this modest stone; nor yet
Did partial Fondness trace these humble lines;
But weeping Friendship, taught by Truth alone,
To give, if possible, in future days,

A faint idea to the race to come,

That here reposeth all the mortal part
Of one, who only liv'd to make his friends
And all the world regret he e'er should die."

E. C. 1775.

69. Sam. Kerrich, D. D. C.C. C. C.

Author of "A Sermon preached in the parish churches o. Dersingham and Woolferton, in the county of Norfolk, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 1746, being the day appointed for a genera Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the suppression of the late unnatural Rebellion, &c. on Ps. cxxiv. 7. Cambridge, 1746."

8vo.

"He was father to my ingenious friend, Mr. Kerrich, Fellow of Magdalen College, who drank coffee with me at Milton this very day, June 24, 1777. Mr. Kerrich had Mr. Worts's Travelling Fellowship, and was at the same time tutor to Mr. Pettiward, Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, son to Dr. Roger Mortlock, alias Pettiward, my acquaintance while Fellow of that College. They travelled together through France and the Low Countries: settled at Paris for six months, and at Rome two years: he is an excellent draughtsman.

"Dr. Kerrich, his father, married the daughter of Matthew Postlethwayt, Rector of Denton, and Archdeacon of Norwich: but had been engaged in the former part of his life to a young person at Cambridge, of the name of Newton, who left him her fortune and estate, and for whom he composed her epitaph in Bene't Churchyard, in Cambridge, which he also did for his fatherin-law, Archd. Postlethwayt, which see in Mr. Masters's History of Bene't College, in the Appx. p. 105, as also the former in my vol. vi. p... where is more relating to Dr. Kerrich, who, in 1726, was Rector of St. Benedict's Church in Cambridge."

70. Extract of a Letter from the Hon. Horace Walpole to the Rev. Mr. Cole at Milton, near Cambridge.

Berkeley Square, Feb. 5, 1780.

"I have been turning over the new 2nd volume of the Biographia (Britannica) and find the additions very poor and lean performances. The Lives entirely new are partial and flattering,

being contributions of the friends of those, whose lives are recorded. This publication, made at a time when I have lived to see several of my cotemporaries deposited in this national Temple of Fame, has made me smile, and made me reflect, that many preceding authors, who have been installed there with much respect, may have been as trifling personages as those that we have known, and now behold consecrated to memory. Three or four have struck me particularly; as Dr. Birch, who was a worthy, goodnatured soul, full of industry and activity, and running about like young setting-dog, in quest of any thing, new or old; and with no parts, taste, or judgment. Then there is Dr. Blackwell, the most impertinent literary coxcomb upon earth. But the Editor has been so just as to insert a very merited satire on his Court of Augustus. The third is Dr. Brown, that mountebank, who for a little time made as much noise by his Estimate, as ever quack did by a nostrum. I do not know whether I ever told you how much I was struck the only time I ever saw him. You know one object of the anathemas of his Estimate was the Italian opera. Yet did I find him one evening in Passion Week accompanying some of the Italian singers at a concert at Lady Carlisle's. A Clergyman, no doubt, is not obliged to be on his knees the whole week before Easter; and music and a concert are harmless amusements but when Cato or Calvin are out of character, reformation becomes ridiculous: but poor Dr. Brown was mad; and therefore might be in earnest, whether he played the fool, or the Reformer.

"You recollect perhaps the threat of Dr. Kippis to me, which is to be executed on my father, for my calling the first edition of the Biographia the Vindicatio Britannica. But observe how truth emerges at last! In this new volume he confesses that the article of Lord Arlington, which I had specified, as one of the most censurable, is the one most deserving that censure, and that the character of Lord Arlington is palliated beyond all truth and reason words stronger than mine. Yet mine deserved to draw vengeance on my father! So a Presbyterian Divine inverts diviue judgment, and visits the sins of the children on the parents !"

A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David; and upon
the Hymnes dispersed throughout the Old and New
Testaments. By. G. S. London, at the Bell in St.
Paul's Churchyard, 1636.
Majestatis.

Cum privilegio Regia

THIS was the production of GEORGE SANDYS, the celebrated traveller; of whom an account was given in Censura Literaria, V. 233, with specimens of his version of Ovid's Metamorphoses. To that lighter and more visionary undertaking he probably alludes in his dedication of the present; which may recal the memory of the reader to Pope's sacred Eclogue.

To the King. (Charles I.)

"Our graver Muse from her long dreame awakes;
Peneian groves and Cirrha's caves forsakes:
Inspir'd with zeale, she climbs th' æthereal hills
Of Sólyma, where bleeding balm distills:
Where trees of life unfading youth assure,
And living waters all diseases cure:
Where the sweet singer in cælestiall laies
Sung to his solemn harp Jehovah's praise.
From that falne temple on her wings she bears
Those heavenly raptures to your sacred ears.
Not that her bare and humble feet aspire
To mount the threshold of th' harmonious quire :
But that at once she might oblations bring
To God," &c.

A second dedication is thus offered to the Queen (Henrietta Maria).

"() you! who like a fruitful vine,
To this, our royall cedar, joine;
Since it were impious to divide,
In such a present, hearts so ty'd;
Urania, your chast cares invites
To these her more sublime delights.
Then, with your zealous lover, daign
To enter David's numerous fane.
Pure thoughts his sacrifices are,
Sabaan incense,-fervent prayre.
This holy fire fell from the skies,

The holy water from his eyes." &c.

A commendatory poem from Lord Falkland to his noble friend, Mr. George Sandys, occupies seven pages. This is likely to have been Lucius the second Lord; whose poetical talent cannot be so highly extolled as his political character has been. The following perhaps are among the best lines. The Travels and Ovid of Sandys had been previously complimented.

"Yet, tho' we wonder at thy charming voice,
Perfection still was wanting in thy choice:
And of a soule which so much power possest,
That choice is hardly good which is not best;
But though thy Muse were ethnically chast,

When most fault could be found: yet now thou hast
Diverted to a purer path thy quill,

And chang'd Parnassus' mount to Sion's hill.
So that blest David might almost desire
To heare his harp thus echo'd by thy lyre.