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dent of Dean Prideaux; he appears also to have been intimately acquaint. ed with Dr. Davenant, (for whom "he translated Xenophon's tract upon improving the Revenue of the State of Athens,") and with Fletcher of Saltoun, To many of your readers he is known by some of his writings, as no credu lous inquirer into ancient Ecclesiastical History. I refer to "the Miracle of the Thundering Legion examined," in Vol. II. of his Works, and the conclusion of his argument in "A Discourse to prove Marcus Antoninus a Persecu, tor." The latter was first printed in Theol. Repos. 1. 77-99, 147-173. From an "Introduction" to the 3rd Volume, by his friend, Mr. Antony Hammond, it appears that Mr. Moyle was the son of Sir Walter Moyle, of Bake, near Loo, in Cornwall; that he studied at Oxford, and thence moved to the Temple, where he applied himself chiefly to the general and more noble parts of our law, such as led him into the knowledge of the constitution of our government; there was a drudgery in what he called Law-Lucrative, to which he could never submit." He appears, indeed, to have been incapacitated for drudgery by succeeding early to his paternal inheritance of Bake, where he died in 1721, aged 49. See pp. 444, col. 1, 445, col. 1.

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"Mr. Moyle came into Parliament," for a short time; "but he had made so great advances in the most polite branches of learning, and was so bent upon those studies, that he never had any relish for that station." The only remaining trace of this scholar in his senatorial capacity, is the following passage quoted by his biographer from his speech on a Poor-Bill, in 1704:

"Though religion and interest govern the world, and when these happen to interfere, the most part of mankind sacrifice their religion to their interest; yet in relation to providing for the poor, we in England act contrary to both, in not relieving all that are really impotent, and in not employing all that are capable of employment. And, in my opinion, the Government is responsible for all those who are reduced to the hard and criminal necessity of begging or stealing."

P. 329, col. 2. "Old Mr. Trosse." George Trosse, M. A., a native of Exe

ter, where he died in 1713, aged 81, He was silenced in 1662. See Calamy's Account, p. 257; Cont. pp. 383 394.

P. 330, col. 2. Mr. Peirce discovered that he had very partially adopted "the true principle of Nonconformity," as we understand the terms, and that he was likely enough to have believed "the 39 Articles," or "all excepting one," when in 1718 he dedicated, as remarked p. 223, the 2d edition of his Vindication, to the Church of Scotland, which, though an imposing orthodor establishment, as really as the Church of England, he commends, in unqualified terms, "for Christian discipline and pure religion."

P. 331, col. 2. "Mr. James Peirce's tomb." Dr. Benjamin Avery, in the Preface to Mr. Peirce's "Fifteen Sermons," 1728, has preserved the Latin epitaph which "the Rev. Mr. Gey," rector of "St. Leonards, near Exon," where Mr. Peirce was buried in 1726, would not permit to be inscribed on his tomb.

"It was afterwards requested, that he would give leave to have inscribed on the tomb-'Here lies the reverend, learned and pious Mr. James Peirce.' But the reverend rector would by no means be persuaded to consent to that; saying, that Mr. Peirce could not be reverend, because he was not lawfully ordained; and that he was not pious, because he taught errors."

P. 441, col. 2. "Chief Justice King." Sir Peter King, appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, on the accession of Geo. I., and Chancellor in 1725. See p. 222, col. 1.

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P. 445, col. 1. Dr. Dillenius." John James Dillenius, a native of Darmstadt, who died in 1747, aged 66. He was the first botanical professor at Oxford on the foundation of Dr. Sherard, whom he had accompanied to England in 1721.

P. 505, col. 1. "The learned Boerhaave;" who in 1701 became "lecturer upon the institutes of physic," and in 1709, Professor "of Medicine and Botany," and "of the Practice of Physic;" resigning these offices in 1731. Dr. Burton, his biographer, mentions the " great number of students from different and distant parts, for many years successively, who at

tended his public and private lectures.” (Life of H. Boerhaave, 1746, pp. 23, 32, 44. 48.)

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P. 506, col. 1. "Secretary to the Royal Society." Dr. James Jurin, who died in 1750, was also President of the College of Physicians. P. 507, col. 2. 'Mr. Townley." This adventurer in the cause of James VIII., is described by Mr. Patten, whom I quoted, p. 274, as “a Papist in Lancashire" who "married Lord Widdrington's sister. This gentleman's servants were found guilty of hightreason, for being in the rebellion with their master, and some of them afterwards executed in Lancashire; but he was acquitted by the Jury at the Marshalsea. After which, endeavouring to go beyond seas, he was retaken into custody, but soon discharged."

P. 571, col. 2. "Sir Isaac Newton" was now Master of the Mint, to which he had been appointed in 1699.

"The Prince," afterwards George II. P. 572, col. 1. "Mr. Chandler's church at Peckham,” with which he appears to have been connected till 1726, when he was chosen minister of "the congregation in the Old Jewry." Biog. Brit. III. 430, 431.

Ibid. col. 2. "Bishop Hoadly's pamphlet." This was, probably, his "Reasons for the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts," answered by Sherlock, to whom Hoadley replied in " The Common Rights of Subjects defended, and the Nature of the Sacramental Test considered." 1719.

P. 573, col. 1. "Mr. Toland." It appears that "in 1717 he published The State Anatomy of Great Britain,' which being answered by Dr. Fiddes, chaplain to the Earl of Oxford, and by Daniel De Foe, he set forth a second part by way of vindication." Gen. Biog. Dict. 1784, XII. 246.

Ibid. col. 2. "A gentleman in the West." This was Dr. Thomas Morgan, the celebrated author of the Moral

Philosopher. "Mr. Chandler" was a minister at Bath; the father of Mr. Fox's friend Dr. C. The "ordination" was at Marlborough. (See XIII. 601, 602.) A biographer of Dr. Chandler says, that "the point discussed in the preface is, that "ordination to the Christian ministry doth not and cannot give authority to the per

sons ordained." He further commends "the propriety and utility of the sentiments the preface contains, and the credit they do to Mr. Chandler's good sense and liberality of mind, especially considering the time when they were delivered." Prot. Diss. Magazine, I. 218.

Ibid. "Mr. Pierce's notion of ordination." See supra, 222, 223. Ibid. "Mr. Peirce's Sermon;" entitled, "The Curse Causeless," from Prov. xxvi. 2. It was republished among the Fifteen Sermons, 1728. The preacher especially designed a vindication of the Presbyterians of 1649, from the charge of "putting the king to death;" and appeals to the "Vindication of the Ministers of the Gospel in and about London, 1648-9." The names of the 59 "Presbyterian Ministers of London" who, "with many country ministers," signed the Representation, presented to the Lord General Cromwell, Jan. 18, 1648-9, are given by Calamy, in his Baxter, 1713, pp. 60, 61, Note. Yet, as Lord Orford justly remarks, in the case of the Earl of Anglesey, "if a king deserves to be opposed by force of arms, he deserves death;-the executing him afterwards is a meer formality." (R. and N. Authors, 1759, II. 69.) That Earl, like the Lords Hollis and Kimbolton, after having fought against the father, became so servile a courtier of his unprincipled and profligate son, as to be found, in 1660, “sitting in judgment on the regicides;" a conduct which Lord Orford justly exposes as "not only a servile complaisance, but glaring injustice."

One of the 59 Remonstrants, Christopher Love, who was beheaded in 1651, for a clearly-proved treasonable attempt to bring in Charles Stuart, had been chaplain to the Parliament's Commissioners at the Treaty of Uxbridge, in 1645. "Preaching before them," according to Ludlow, I. 150, "he averred that the king was a man of blood, and that it was a vain thing to hope for the blessing of God upon any peace to be made with him, till satisfaction should be made for the blood that had been shed."

The author of "The Presbyterians unmasked," 1676, (106, 107,) severely, though not unfairly, exposes the versatility of these clerical Remon

strants in behalf of "the Protestant religion," which they say was "never yet stained with the least drop of the blood of a king," as if the blood of a peasant, if not more pure, were not equally precious. "These very men," says this anonymous unmasker, "could join with the Presbyterian Lords and Commons, in making war against the King, and sending an army" (in which Baxter and others rode, as chaplains) "to shed his blood in the high places of the field." He adds, referring to a circumstance which I never met with elsewhere" If God had not had a greater care of his anointed, than of their rebellious pretences, that bullet from the Earl of Essex his cannon, which grazed at the king's heels, as he was kneeling at his prayers on the side of a bank, had taken away his life; and the Presbyterian religion, such as it is, had been stained with the blood of a king."

P. 573, col. 2. "A very mystical author has wrote lately to Dr. Bentley." In Biog. Brit. II. 230, it is noticed, that in 1716 the Doctor had two printed letters inscribed to him-"concerning his intended edition of the Greek Testament." Dr. Kippis adds, (p. 244,) that Dr. Bentley" took the resolution of not letting the work appear in the world during his own life," and that "it is now [1780] in the possession of his executor."

Ibid. "The disputed passage in John." Considering who was the writer of this letter, it is worthy of remark that Porson, in his "Letters to Travis," (1790,) p. 320, refers to "two archbishops, Wake and Secker, and five bishops, who have all applied the verse to prove the Trinity, without mentioning any argument against it, or producing any in its behalf."

Ibid. "Printed editions." In Phil. Lips. 1713 (Pt. i. xcvi.), Dr. Bentley, speaking of "Robert Stevens's edition" as "counted the standard," adds, "if the conceit" of its accuracy "in all points, is but spread and propagated, within a few years that printer's infallibility will be as zealously maintained as an evangelist's or an apostle's."

Ibid. "Twenty MSS. of 1000 years each." Dr. Bentley "intended to make no use of any MS. in this edition that was not a thousand years old or above, of which sort he had got at that time

twenty together in his study, which made up, one with another, 20,000 years." Biog. Brit. II. 230.

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Ibid. A paper under the name of Censor," published in Mist's Weekly Journal. To this paper Theobald was a frequent contributor. See Cibber's Lives, V. 277.

P. 574. " Jerry Hunt." Dr. Jeremiah Hunt died in 1744, aged 66. Dr. Lardner preached his funeral sermon at Pinners' Hall, and concluded with a short biographical account. From this it appears, that Dr. Hunt was, like Mr. Fox's friend Burroughs, (193,) a preacher, in the proper sense of the expression. On being invited by a small English congregation at Amsterdam," while a student at Leyden," he adopted and pursued through life the method of "preaching without notes, that being the universal custom abroad-he did not write out his sermons at length;" (to repeat them memoriter;) "but having, with care and diligent examination, made himself master of his text and subject, and well digested his thoughts, he clothed them in the language which offered in the delivery. Which to me," adds Lardner, (praising, with his usual candour, an accomplishment which he had not himself cultivated,)" appears an excellent method, when there are sufficient abilities for it. I mean a stock of knowledge, readiness of thought and a good memory." Works, X. 111, 112. According to the judicious Lardner, how many of our Readers ought to become Preachers, if they would escape the imputation of possessing an unoccupied talent!

Ibid. "Mr. Pope and Mr. Gay have published a new farce which was damned." It was a comedy of three acts, entitled Three Hours after Marriage; "written," says Johnson, (1783, III. 114,)" by the joint assistance of Pope and Arbuthnot. One purpose of it was to bring into contempt Dr. Woodward, the fossilist, a man not really or justly contemptible. It had the fate which such outrages deserve :-and the performance was driven off the stage with general condemnation." In Jacob's Poetical Register, 1723, I. 115, this play is charged with offences against "female modesty," for which it might have been deservedly "damned." In the same volume (p. 289) is mentioned

a "farce, called The Confederates, written to expose the obscenity and false pretence to wit" in the above comedy.

P. 574. "Cibber ridiculed it upon the stage" in the rehearsal, to a scene in which he added a passage exposing the false wit of the Mummy and the Crocodile, which had been designed in Three Hours after Marriage, to ridicule Dr. Woodward. Thus appears to have commenced Pope's rancour against Cibber. See Dilworth's Life of Pope, 1759, pp. 106, 107; Johnson, and Biog. Brit. III. 587.

P. 633, col. 1. "Mr. Chandler conducts his flock with great success." The biographer, to whom I have already referred, speaking of Chandler's ministry at Peckham, adds, "in which situation his abilities shone with so much lustre, as to attract the notice of eminent citizens, and to occasion him to be employed in some extraordinary services in the metropolis."-Prot. Diss. Mag. I. 219.

Ibid. "The Nonjuror." This, I apprehend, was Cibber's "comedy, acted at the Theatre Royal, 1717, dedicated to the King," who rewarded the author with " a grant of £200." Jacob says, (I. 39,) that "this play was acted for near three weeks together with great applause." It appears, by Cibber's Apology, (II. 54-56,) that the Nonjuror was written with a political design, to counteract Jacobitism, which he says had " lately exerted itself by a most unprovoked rebellion." (Biog. Brit. III. 585.)

Ibid. "Mr. Ridgly." Probably the author of a "Body of Divinity," much used as a text-book in Calvinistic academies.

Ibid. "Stockden." Perhaps Hubert Stogdon, who wrote in 1714, in concert with Mr. Withers, in the controversy at Exeter, concerning laybaptism. Of Mr. Stogdon, there is some account, if I recollect right, by Dr. Toulmin, in one of your earlier

volumes.

Ibid. "Mr. Pope has lately published all the poems he will own himself author of." This was a folio volume, 1717, containing Pastorals, Windsor Forest, Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock, Temple of Fame, Translations, and Miscellanies," including the Eloisa. On the title-page is the deservedly common quotation

from Cicero pro Arch. "Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt," &c.

Ibid. This "very handsome, smart preface" is prefixed, with a few variations, to Pope's Works by Warburton. It does not contain any thing about Pope's "having left off writing" or of" his Homer."

Ibid. "The King and Prince." There is a record of this family dissension, (not uncommon between royalty in possession and royalty in expectance,) in a volume published in 1789, from a MS. which had been neglected for 60 years. It is entitled, "Vie privée Du Cardinal Dubois," written by his Secretary. The Cardinal was sent into England in 1718, by the Regent of France, to attach George I. to the quadruple alliance. To promote his project, (p. 125,) the crafty minister, who well understood the dimensions of crowned heads, procured from his own country, dainties to gratify the royal palate, (Il faisait venir, pour ce Prince, des fromuges de Cramayel, et à toutes les postes, les plus belles truffes que Brives pouvait fournir,) and magnificent dresses, (pièces d' étoffe d'or entières—des robes du meilleur goût, et de la dernière mode,) as presents to the King's mistresses, and to the Lords and Ladies of the Court. He was, however, sometimes more worthily employed; though his character appears, on the whole, to have been worthless. Il travaille avant son départ à réconcilier le Roi George I., avec le Prince de Galles, son fils. L'Abbé, pendant son séjour en Angleterre, avait employé toutes les voies et tous les moyens possibles pour procurer cette réconciliation" (133). There is no account of his success.

P. 634, col. 1. "The Duke of Devonshire." This peer had lately rendered himself acceptable to the Court by heading a gross outrage on the rights of the people. In 1716 he brought into the House of Lords "the bill to repeal the Triennial Bill," which being sent to the Commons, was there passed by 264 against 121.

"Among a thousand unanswerable particulars, which were urged against it," says the author of The Use and Abuse of Purliaments, (1744, I. 205, 206,) "Mr. Snell," M. P. for Glou cester, said, "If we have a right to continue ourselves one year, one month or day, beyond our triennial

term, it will unavoidably follow we have it in our power to make ourselves PERPETUAL. But this worthy member pleaded in vain, as did many others beside him. The fate of the bill was predetermined, and when passed, it was submitted to.-Of such weight and utility," adds my author, "is a standing army!"

P. 634, col. 1. "Mr. Tong." See p. 222, col. 2. Mr. Tong was a zealous advocate for the Trinitarian subscription at Salters' Hall, in 1719.

Ibid. col. 2. "Careless Husband." This has been regarded as Cibber's "most celebrated dramatic perform ance." It was 66 applauded even by Mr. Pope." (Biog. Brit. III. 584.) I represented (p. 274, col. 1)" the Commonwealth and Protectorate," as the only governments in England which, in cases of treason, had forborne to aggravate the severity of capital punishment, by barbarous mutilations of the dead. I have since found, if Lord Clarendon may be credited, in an accusation of Cromwell, that to the Commonwealth alone belongs the honour of such forbearance; the Protector, a few weeks before his death, having assumed, for the first time, that favourite prerogative of royalty.

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The noble historian relates (III. 626) how "Colonel Ashton, Stacey and Bettely, condemned," in 1658, for a plot in favour of Charles Stuart, were hanged, drawn and quartered, with the utmost rigour." Royalists were now the sufferers, and a courtly historian is suitably horror-struck. As if forgetting the scenes which followed the " King's blessed Restoration," he proceeds to declare, that "all men appeared so nauseated with blood, and so tired with those abominable spectacles, that Cromwell thought it best to pardon the rest who were condemned, or rather to reprieve them."

J. T. RUTT.

P. S. Your Correspondent (p. 659) may be regarded as very fortunate, should he have satisfied any number of your readers that "common sense and common candour" to which he appeals, will decide in favour of his, probably, hastily penned P. S. (p. 279). They will thus relieve him from a serious imputation, though, without the

slightest communication with my friend Mr. Flower, it had appeared to me, as well as to several whose opinions were expressed to me, that Dr. J. Jones, in that P. S., had fully substantiated the charge. And, even now, unless I would become justly liable to the imputation of "confusion of ideas," I must continue to distinguish between the exposure, by evidence and argument, of what I may happen to deem an opponent's misrepresentation, and the less laborious method of denying that he is "a man whose assertion has any pretensions to credit" thus assuming that "it would be a waste of time to reply to any part of his effusion," which our common readers are expected to pronounce "puerile and scurrilous" on the mere ipse dixit of an irritated controversialist.

I can, however, assure your Correspondent, that I never designed to impute to him any wrong so deliberate as attempting to compensate or disguise a calumny, under a display of learned research." I only intended to say, hypothetically, that in the judgment of well-regulated minds, no exertion of talents, however eminent or successful, could compensate for a great moral impropriety. Your Correspondent's accomplishments for "learned research,” I have neither reason, nor inclination to dispute. On the success of his inquiries I am incompetent to hazard an opinion, having been able to form, amidst the pressure of other occupa tions, only a very slight acquaintance with any of his writings. But I have no hesitation in believing, that the more Dr. J. Jones shall apply to his own use the conclusion of his last P. S., (p. 660,) and determine "to respect himself." by forbidding his pen to digress into "rudeness or violence," the more will his learning appear to advantage, and his arguments receive the consideration they may deserve.

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