of his history would have been very bad and deficient and as to the biographical part, he had little or no trouble about it, having all ready done to his hand, and sent to him before I came from Blecheley, and much improved when I got to Milton. A more cool acknowledgement could not have been to any one, who had only sent scanty materials; mine were already duly arranged: indeed he gave me a copy of his book, but it was in exchange for the proof sheets he sent to me, as they were printed off, for my correction and amendment: I had a complete book of them, and by his desire, through his brother the Alderman, who was the medium by which our correspondence was kept up, gave them all back again, when he sent me his book: but I did not look upon it as any great obligation, for I paid him seven guineas for the plate of Bishop de Luda, though my request was to have Norwold or Kilkenny's monument; but it was the way of all of them, never to do as desired, though they would, unasked, do more than was expected, particularly the Alderman, who was generous to a great degree; but then it must be in his own way, and never if any disposition was shown to expect it. I procured him also at the late Lord Montfort's the following plates: one for his Lordship, which I think is not named, and after his death, (as the dedication to Bishop Keen, when his great and kind patron, Bishop Mawson, was just dead) transferred to another; the present Lord Montfort's plate of one of the Ely pillars, and the second from the present Lord Cadogan of the same sort; Cardinal de Luxemburgh's of the present Earl of Orford, whom I met at the present Lord Montfort's: the same section of the Cathedral from Lord Dupplin, now Earl of Kinnoul, to whom I am now and was then Chaplain; another section, from Mr. Soame Jenyns, member for Cambridge. This miscellaneous plate, 48, containing the old Cathedral and St. Etheldreda's shrine, which I got my friend Mr. Allen to subscribe for, and which he gave me ten guineas for, to give to Mr. Bentham, and procured of Lady Eliz. Stanley, at my request, the monument of Bishop Stanley in Manchester church, which she desired might not appear under her name: it is vilely done: I took a better draught of it, which see in my vol. p. I also strongly solicited, at his request, the Eton College, by my

half brother, Dr. Apthorp, Vice Provost at present, for a plate of the Ely Tablet, which at the price of tea or twelve guineas displeased them, I could not procure for him: it was subscribed for by three jointly. I also procured him the following subscriptions to his book, which indeed was rather an advantage to the subscribers than to himself, as the price was only eighteen shillings originally, but after near twenty years mumbling about it, and enriched with many supernumerary plates, he only demanded a guinea at the delivery; which was giving his book away: it now sells for three guineas.-I got him Sir Robert Throgmorton, his son George Throgmorton, Esq. Mr. Horace Walpole of Strawberry Hill, Mr. Tho. Willis of Blecheley, Mr. Southernwood Fellow of Eton, Mr. John Allen, Mr. Barton Rector of Sherington, Sam. Berkley of Little Chelsea, Esq. and of Great Russell St. the Rev. Mr. Alban Butler, President of the College at St. Omers; the present Lord Cadogan; my poor friend, this week departed, Dr. Forester, Chancellor of Lincoln and Archdeacon of Buckingham; Mr. Goodwin, Rector of Loughton; Lord Montfort, father and son; Earl of Orford; Mr. Pitts, Rector of Great Brickhill; for all of whom I paid the money to Mr. Bentham. I mention this, to disburthen myself of any obligation for the book.

"The large coat, mentioned at p. 45, 46, of Bp. Stanley, and probably designed for a chimney ornament, is now, 1778, in my possession, and makes an ornament in my small hermitage, in my garden at Milton, near Cambridge. It was originally given to me by Mr. Barbe of Clavering in Essex; but was sent to me about 1770 by Mr. Gotobed of Ely, agent for Lord Hardwick's estate in the Isle of Ely.

"He ought to have particularly acknowledged the critical note relating to Doctor Knight's mistake about Bishop Stanley, which I sent to him; and though he says, at p. 187, that a Gentleman contributed materials to the biographical part of this history, meaning me, yet nothing could be expressed cooler or with more indifference on the subject, considering he had the lives of all the Bishops, Deans, and Canons, &c. drawn up by me for him.Vide my vol. K. p. 72.”

8. Dr. Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore.

THE Editor of RESTITUTA, using WM. COLE'S MSS. for the materials of the present Collectanea, is continually met by those articles which he finds necessary in many cases materially to abridge, more especially as to those persons who were Cole's cotemporaries. It is unnecessary to remind the reader that Cole was a gossip, full of passions and prejudices end it would be imprudent, and even unjust, to record all his venom. The task of abridging is difficult; for many of his articles consist of scarcely any thing but tattle. The Editor has scarcely ever attempted to fill up any of the memoirs with his own additions, because he had neither leisure nor perhaps talent or information to enable him to perform the task satisfactorily: but let it not be supposed that he could have added nothing, or that he always agrees with the impressions of character which Cole's words convey. Educated at Cambridge himself, under those who were not only Cole's cotemporaries, but many of them Cole's familiars, he retains strong impressions of the memory of many of those, whom Cole recorded in the last ten years of his life: but he has seldom presumed to record these impressions: he is aware that his youth, his ignorance of the world, and many other deficiencies at the time these impressions were made, would make the record of them reprehensible. Yet even then his literary curiosity was ardent and enthusiastic: he looked upon a successful author in the higher departments of literature with a wild and perhaps foolish admiration: he lived

in a College (perhaps he may add, an University) where the fashion of metaphysics and mathematics rendered the love of the works of fancy, and the cultivation of the Classics and Belles Lettres, neglected and despised: and when he heard Gray, who was his idol, spoken of as a petit maitre and trifler, disgust and scorn took possession of his bosom, and he withdrew himself from all but the small and select circle who in his mind possessed a more enlarged and refined taste. The amiable and eminent Dignitary, who now presides over the College, was then the Tutor: he was acute, powerful, and eminent for scientific genius; but the present writer had the misfortune to love, by native cast, and to cultivate, by habit, opposite pursuits: he has no reason to complain of his Tutor's harshnesses on this account: if he was not encouraged in his studies, he was left to himself; and he does not yet repent of having cultivated moral and poetical knowledge, rather than metaphysical and mathematical. Colleges, like larger societies, change their habits and manners : the fault of Queen's, when the Editor belonged to it, was an ostentatious pretension to elegance, politeness, and worldly fashion. He commenced his residence in Oct. 1780, and quitted it in Jan. 1783. Dr. Robert Plumptre was then Master.

"DR. THOMAS PERCY was educated at Oxford. He took his degree of D. D. at Emanuel College, Cambridge, 1770: is Rector of Easton-Mauduit, Northamptonshire. Son of a draper of Bridgnorth in Shropshire: married an agreeable woman, Miss Anne

Guttridge, near his own living, and Mr. Robinson of Cransley, by whom he has several children: and when he was taken into the Duke of Northumberland's family as Chaplain and Tutor, by whose Dutchess he was acknowledged as a relation, by her interest his wife was made wet-nurse to one of the Queen's children, and has a pension. Mr. Walpole told me that his acquaintance was dropped with Dr. Percy on account chiefly of his importunacy with him to get him preferment: but, as he never asked favours for himself or others, he was dissatisfied. He is a tall, thin man, of great ingenuity.

"The Hermit of Warkworth, 1771, 4to.

"Northern Antiquities, with a Translation of the Edda, 1771, 8vo. 2 vols.

"In Oct. 1778, he was made Dean of Carlisle, in tl.e room of Dr. Wilson, deceased.

"Dr. Farmer told ine, that on his kissing hands (yet before the change of the Ministry in March, 1782) for his Prebend of Canterbury, the people at Court were busily inquiring after a person to give the new vacant Bishopric in Ireland to, by Bishop Garnet's death, that had any royal preferment: that he immediately wrote to Dr. Percy, who had but two small livings; and the Deanery of Carlisle; and a family to provide for; and no great prospect of succeeding in England; to exchange his Deanery, and take the Irish Bishopric: which advice he followed; and Dr. Elkins accepted the exchange. April 20, 1782, he was announced in the Gazette, as Bishop of Dromore.

9. Dr. William Samuel Powel, Master of St. John's Col

lege.

Of this eminent man, who died Jan. 19, 1775, aged 58, Cole has given a long account, which has been transcribed for this work: but, as on reference to Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, I find it printed at length in vol. i. p. 566–584, I omit it here.