engaged. To these is subjoined a letter to Mr. Edmund Law, of Christ's College, Cambridge, (afterwards Master of Peter House and Bishop of Carlisle,) containing some ingenious suggestions with reference to one of Mr. Law's notes on Archbishop King's Origin of Evil, respecting what constitutes moral good and evil, and their connection with the present well-being of the world.

In addition to the above-mentioned letters, (which could have formed but a small part of his extensive correspondence,) there have been found copious marginal notes, in Dr. Waterland's hand-writing, upon some of his own works, and upon the works of other writers; sufficient, if collected together, to form a volume of very considerable magnitude.

The additional notes upon his own writings, it has been thought expedient to print entire. Those on his Importance of the Doctrine of the Trinity, are contained in a copy met with accidentally in the shop of a London bookseller. Those on two of his Charges and his tract on Regeneration are in copies now in possession of the Rev. Archdeacon Pott. They were all probably intended by the author for the improvement of any subsequent impression that might be called for.

The notes upon other writers are much more numerous. Some are polemical, some merely illustrative, or corrective. The following is a list of them, in chronological order. 1. Johnson's Unbloody Sacrifice. 2. Whitby's Disquisitiones Modesta. 3. Hoadley's Answer to the Lower House of Convocation. 4. Wheatly on the Common Prayer. 5. Brett's Discourse on discerning the Lord's Body

in the holy Communion. 6. Jackson's Remarks on Waterland's Second Defence. 7. Dr. Clarke's Observations on Waterland's Second Defence. 8. Tindal's Christianity as old as the Creation. 9. Stebbing's Defence of Dr. Clarke. 10. Middleton's Letter to Waterland. 11. Sober and charitable Disquisitions on the Importance of the Doctrine of the Trinity. 12. Dr. Reed's Essay on the Simony and Sacrilege of the Bishops of Ireland. The copies of the works in which they are written, are all (except Wheatly on the Common Prayer) deposited among Rawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian library. That of Wheatly is in the library of St. John's College, Oxford; to which College it was bequeathed by Mr. Wheatly himself, once a Fellow of that Society".

"The editor has since been favoured by Mr. Neville, the Master of Magdalene College, with the perusal of some other marginal notes by Dr. Waterland, preserved in the library of that College, viz. on his Second Defence of the Queries, his Critical History of the Athanasian Creed, his Review of the Eucharist, and Mr.. Gilbert Burnet's Full Examination of several important Points relating to Church-Authority, &c. in a second Letter to Mr. Law, 17.18.

The notes upon his Second Defence and his Review of the Eucharist relate to the first editions of those works, and were most of them adopted in the revision of the second editions. Those upon the Critical History of the Athanasian Creed relate also to the first edition; but they are not in his own handwriting. They appear to have been written by one of his friends, (perhaps Mr. Wanley,) and to have been submitted to Dr. Waterland's consideration; some use having evidently been made of them in his second edition. The notes upon Mr. Burnet's tract contain some valuable observations upon the several heads into which it is divided, human authoritative benedictions, human authoritative absolutions, and Church-communion. Mr. Gilbert Burnet was

The authenticity of all these notes is unquestionable; and it had been in contemplation to publish them entire, in an additional volume. But, upon further consideration, the intention was relinquished. Some of the notes, it is probable, have already, in substance, been introduced into the author's subsequent publications. Comparing the dates of those on Johnson, Whitby, Brett, Jackson, and Clarke, it may be reasonably supposed, that, in his printed animadversions on those works, Dr. Waterland used them as materials for his purpose, as far as he was himself satisfied with them. The same may have been done with the notes on Sober and charitable Disquisitions, which gave occasion to his work on the Importance of the Doctrine of the Trinity, as he states in the introduction to that work. The notes on Wheatly were most probably turned to account by Wheatly himself, in the later editions of his work, which vary considerably from the folio edition in which these notes were written; and from a cursory inspection of the notes this conjecture is strongly confirmed. Again; with respect to such marginal observations in general, some of them might have been hasty effusions, which the author, upon reconsideration, would not have entirely apsecond son of Bishop Burnet, of Merton College, Oxford, and afterwards Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. He is said to have been a contributor to Hibernicus's Letters, a periodical paper carried on at Dublin, and also to the Freethinker; and to have been considered by his father as one of his best assistants in the Bangorian Controversy. He wrote also two other tracts in that Controversy: 1. A letter to the Rev. Mr. Trapp; 2. An answer to Mr. Law's first Letter to the Bishop of Bangor. See Biographia Britannica, second edition, vol. iii. p. 39.

proved, or would, at least, have more carefully guarded against misconstruction, or the hazard of giving offence. Others could hardly have justice done to them, without large citations of the passages to which they relate. And after all, few readers, perhaps, would now be inclined to encounter the toil of going through so great a mass of desultory observations, impossible to be connected together in any regular series, and the spirit of which cannot be thoroughly felt or understood, without being well conversant with the writings which gave occasion to them.

There are also extant some valuable manuscript notes by Dr. Waterland, which confirm what has been already said respecting his skill in Anglo-Saxon literature. He laboured much in this way for the improvement of Hearne's edition of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle; of which there is a copy preserved among Rawlinson's collections in the Bodleian library, full of his marginal corrections and illustrations. The following memorandum is prefixed to the title-page;-"This book was collated with some "MSS. by the Rev. Dr. Daniel Waterland, Rector of "Twickenham in Middlesex, Canon of Windsor, "and Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge; and purchased in his auction by R. R. 24 Feb. 1741.” Besides the above-mentioned fruits of his almost incessant labours, Dr. Waterland had made several annotations upon the holy Scriptures; apparently not with any view to publication, but for his own private use. They are inserted in an interleaved quarto Bible, and are in his own handwriting; consisting chiefly of short, critical remarks, intended either to elucidate

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the text, or to correct the translation of it; and not very numerous. They afford, however, a valuable accession of materials to a commentator; and, as such, have, most of them, if not all, been brought before the public in Dr. Dodd's Commentary on the Bible, published in 1765. The Bible which contains these manuscript notes found its way into Dr. Askew's library. At the sale of Dr. Askew's books, it was purchased by Dr. Gosset; at Dr. Gosset's sale, it was purchased by the late Dr. Combe, and is said to be now in his son's possession.