veral times to see him, in order to look over his curious prints, of which he had no small collection, especially of English heads; many of which at different times I purchased of him to add to my collection of the same sort. He lived in a strange alley or lane in Wapping; was, a patten-maker, an Anabaptist, with a spice of Deism mixed with it. I have often thought it no small reproach and disgrace to the Antiquary Society, to have so very illiterate a person to be their Secretary: he could not even spell, much more write, English: I have several letters of his by me at this time, which prove it. It was by no means proper to have such a person in that station, which required reading aloud at the meetings of the Society, several papers, in various languages often, of which he was used to make miserable work; more especially when strangers and foreigners happened to be there, which was often the case.

"He was a little, friendly, good-tempered man; a person of vast application and industry in collecting curious old printed books, prints, and other curiosities, both natural and artificial. It is to this must be attributed his office of Secretary to the Society: but surely, a Secretary who could neither read nor write, was an odd appointment for a learned Society! He must have procured some one to have perused his book for him, which yet is full of blunders, and proves my assertion in an hundred places: the printers would correct the false English and spelling. Wm. Cole.

"What is singular, Mr. Stephen Wren employed Mr. Ames, an Independent, and Deist professed, to usher into the world the Parentalia, or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens in 1750, which throughout is a most orthodox book, full of reflections upon the fanatics of King Charles I.'s time,"

3. George Tollet, Esq. King's College.

"He was a Fellow Commoner of King's College, and my cotemporary, about 1745. A shy, reserved man, and of no genteel appearance or behaviour. He was much acquainted with the late Mr. Ewin, father of Dr. Ewin, whose sister told me, 1780, that' the acquaintance began when she went to Stratford-le-bow school,

where Mr. Tollet's aunt (a little, crooked woman, but a sharp wit, and author of some poems in print) took notice of her.

"Mr. Tollet has many notes in Mr. Steevens's Edition of Shakespeare in the first volume of which he has an ingenious dissertation on the figures of some pantomimes in his house at Betley in Staffordshire, a print of which morris dancers is at the head of it, and sent to me by Mr. Steevens in September, 1780, who was also a Fellow Commoner of the same College, but came thither the year after I left it, viz. in 1753, as he told me at Dr. Lort's chambers in Trinity College. He died Oct. 22, 1779."

4. Michael Tyson, Fellow of Bene't Coll. Nov. 20, 1769.

"Son of the Rev. Wm. Tyson, Dean of Stamford in Lincolnshire, who had been Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge: mother's family-name Curtis, of the same place. He was born in All Saints parish in Stamford, Nov. 19, 1740, admitted in Bene't College, A. B. A. M. ordained Deacon at White Hall Chapel by John Green, formerly Master of his College, and now Bishop of Lincoln, Sunday, March 11, 1770. In 1776, being then Bursar of the College, made one of White Hall preachers on the death of Mr. Colman of C. C. C. C. Vide some account of the name and family of Tyson of the North, in Leland's Itinerary, vol. viii. p. 5. edit. 1744.

"His father, Michael Tyson, A. M. about Christmas, 1773, made Archdeacon of Huntingdon by Bishop Green, great sportsman and gunner, who appointed him soon after his Official; about which time, or before, he was made Bursar of the College, 1774. About this same time, on Mr. Colman's quitting it, Minister of St. Bene't's Church in Cambridge.

"In 1766, he went with a young gentleman of his College a tour into the North, and at Glasgow he was honoured with the freedom of that city. The ticket is about a foot square of parchment, the border being nicely printed with a scroll at top and bottom, of 'let Glasgow flourish;' at one corner a bird, at another parti per pale, A. and G. a tree proper, on the top of which is a bird, and hanging from a bough, a bell azure in chief, and in base

a salmon on its back; being parts of the arms of the city, which are thus blazoned on the back: party p. pale A. and G. a tree proper, on the top of which is a bird, and hanging from a bough, a bell azure in chief, and in base a salmon on its back en ➖➖ over all, argent, with an annulet in its mouth Or; above all are two boys holding a scroll over their heads, and let Glasgow flourish,' blowing trumpets: underneath is written, Michael Tyson, Esq. his Burgess Ticket of Glasgow, 1766; on the other side is this-At Glasgow, the twelfth day of Sept. 1766 years: The which day, in presence of the Right Honourable John Bowman, Esq. Lord Provost of the said city, John Alston, Robert Donald, and George Buchanan, Baillies thereof, Arthur Connel Dean of Gild, and sundry of the Gild Council of the said city, Michael Tyson, Esq. of Lincolnshire, is admitted and received Burgess and Gild Brother of the said city, and the whole Liberties, Privileges, and Immunities, belonging to a Burgess and Gild Brother thereof, are granted to him in most ample form, who gives his oath of fidelity as use is. Extracted from the Gild books of the said city by John Wilson.

"My freedom was given to me there, 25 August, 1749: v. my vol. 34, p. 123, 124. The same arms, and exactly the same words, mutatis mutandis. In the same expedition Mr. Tyson went as far as Inverary, where he had the same compliment, on a piece of parchment of about six inches by ten; on the back of which is written-Burgess Act in favour of Michael Tyson, Esq. 1766, Inverary; on the other side a shield; and at the bottom a large seal of red wax, with five herrings swimming into a net, and at its top is written Inverary, and round it, Semper tibi pendeat Halec. At the Burgh of Inverary the 17 day of September, 1766 years: The which day, Michael Tyson, Esq. of Lincolnshire, was, by the unanimous advice and consent of John Duncanson, Esq. Provost, Messrs. John Mac Neill and John Colquhoun, Baillies, Dugald Mac Keller, Dean of Guild and Common Council of the Burgh, received, created, and admitted Burgess, Freeman, and Guild Brother thereof, with power for him -and enjoy the Privileges, Liberties, and immunities belonging to a Burgess, Freeman, and Guild Brother of the same, and that for the love, favour, and respect the said Magistrates and Council

have for and bear to the said Michael Tyson, Esquire, who gave his Burgess Oath, as use is.

In 1776, on Mr. Colman's quitting the place of one of the Preachers at Whitehall, the Bishop of London, at the request of Doctor Hamilton, his son-in-law, formerly of C. C. C. C. who had been applied to for it for Mr. Tyson, by the present Master, gave it to him. The Master told me that he had the utmost difficulty to persuade him to take it: he not liking the ceremony of attending on the Bishop, and the duty consequent on it.

"In 1776 he was presented by the College, for the first time, to the Living of Lambourn in Essex, which the family of litigated, and, after a suit in chancery, it was determined in favour of the College: however, they threatened a second prosecution; but to prevent it a composition was made, one of the articles of which was to let Mrs. Calvert continue in the Parsonage House till Christmas, 1778: but Mr. Tyson, being eager to marry, and wanting to quit College, where he did not accord with any one of the Fellows, and impatient to marry, after a courtship of ten years or rather more, immediately upon his voting for the new Master of his College, who was elected, 25 June, 1778, and he, with the new Master and Miss Wale dining with me, June 28, he told me that Mr. Nasmith, his friend, Rector of Snailwell, was to marry him in Bene't Church, on Tuesday, June 30, and immediately to set off for lodgings for Chigwell, near Lambourn, when Mrs. Calvert would not even permit him to stack up wood against his coming thither. I am afraid he will not do well after he is married: his passions are violent, and get the better of his judgment. Miss Margaret Wale, daughter of Mr. Hitch Wale of Shelford, son of my godfather, Gregory Wale, Esq. is one of the prettiest and most amiable women I ever met with. Hitch Wale was a poor creature, a son by a second wife, and marrying his servant, left four daughters, and small portions to each: one married Mr. Lambourn the engraver; Mr. Tyson, in one of his mad frolics after drinking, in 1777, used her so disrepectfully, that she determined never to have any further connections with him, and absolutely left him, went to London, and was got part in the Oxford coach, with a design to go to a sister or

of the

way

relation married in that county; but a messenger express was sent after her by her friends to persuade her return, as they suspected Mr. Tyson would make away with himself; for he was perfectly out of his senses about it. On her return he made a resolution to drink no more wine, and has kept it pretty well for a twelvemonth: I hope he will persevere : but as he has not the resources of company in the country, as in the University, though he has a taste for books, ingenious in drawing, painting, and languages, yet I doubt his perseverance. May I be wrong! He has sense and capacity in abundance, if his passions would let them act their part.

"Poor Mr. Tyson on the morning he was to have married was taken ill with a putrid sore throat, and thought to have been in danger of his life: however, on sending to know how he fared, on Friday, July 3, my servant spoke to him, and he was got pretty well again. He was married the day after, viz. Saturday, July 4, 1778, and I hope will be happy, though I much doubt it. His first son was born at five in the morn, on Ascension Day, Holy Thursday, 13 May, 1779, at Lambourn. Poor Mr. Tyson died on Wednesday, May 3, 1780, of a violent fever, see my vol. 54, p. 333, 334, at Lambourn.

"He gave to me two copies of English verses on these two subjects, by himself.

"On the Birth of the Prince of Wales, 1762. An Ode on Peace, 4to. pages the two.

"There were very few copies printed, as he told me."

5. James Stanley, Bishop of Ely, Benefactor to Jesus Col lege and St. John's.

"See his Life, which I sent, together with the notes to it, to Mr. Bentham, who has printed it at p. 185, 186, 187, in his History of Ely; where, at p. 187, he thus acknowledges my assistance, without naming my name-A Gentleman, who has contributed materials to the biographical part of this History.' If I had only contributed to the biographical part, many other parts