was vested in her, which it certainly could not have been by virtue of the patent of April 20th, 1663. Undoubtedly, before the Union, Scots peerages were surrenderable to the crown, and new grants, with a new succession, were frequently made: this may have been the case with respect to the Buccleugh Dukedom; if it were, I should suppose that the surrender and regrant took place between 1663 and 1685, but I have already stated, that the Records have been searched as far as 1673, within which period none is to be found.

Mr. Walter Scott, in a letter, says, "I should not be surprized to find that Duchess Anne, who was a woman of very high spirit, had arranged her son's assumption of the title at her own. hand, and in her own way, which, as she was indisputable possessor of the whole fortune, her son could have no great interest to dispute."

T. B. HOWELL.

P. 541. His Grace HENRY, LATE EARL, and third Duke of Buccleugh, died at his palace of Dalkeith, January 11th, 1812, æt. 66. His Grace succeeded, at an early age, to a princely fortune, which gave him the means of indulging his natural disposition to public spirit and private liberality, to which purposes, accordingly, a considerable part of his numerous funds were known to be applied. He was exceedingly affable in his manners; and what deserves to be recorded of a person so greatly exalted both in rank and fortune, was generally accessible to the poor. As a landlord, his liberality was well known; he was easy of access, and always ready to take an active part in of benevolence and humanity. He possessed great political inany scheme fluence.a

He was succeeded by his eldest son,

CHARLES WILLIAM MONTAGUE SCOT, BARON TYNDALE, (see Vol. VII. p. 113) now EARL OF DONCASTER, and fourth Duke of Buccleugh.

EARL OF SHAFTSBURY.---P. 543.

P. 589. ANTHONY ASHLEY, SIXTH and late EARL OF SHAFTSBURY, died May 14th, 1811, after a few hours illness, of the gout in his stomach, æt. 50, leaving only a daughter, when he was succeeded by his only brother,

a Gent. Mag. January, 1812.

CROPLY ASHLEY, SEVENTH and PRESENT EARL OF SHAFTSBURY, who was at that time clerk of the deliveries in the Ordnance, and one of the representatives for Dorchester.

His Lordship has had issue by Anne, daughter of George, Duke of Marlborough,

First, Lady Caroline Mary, born September 14th, 1797.
Second, Lady Harriot Anne, born September 15th, 1798.
Third, Lady Charlotte Barbara, born October 15th, 1799.
Fourth, Anthony, Lord Ashley, born April 28th, 1801.
$ Fifth, Anthony William, born October 4th, 1803.

Sixth, Frederica, born May 25th, 1805, died March 25th, 808.

Seventh, Anthony Henry, born May 6th, 1807.

Eighth, Anthony John, born December 21st, 1809.
Ninth, Anthony Francis, born January 10th, 1810.

EARL OF BERKELEY.---P. 591.

P. 607. My attention has been drawn, at the last moment, (July 5th, 1812,) by my very valuable friend, Mr. Haslewood, (of whose industry accuracy and zeal of research they only who know it intimately can appreciate the extent,) to a strange omission of a passage in the last edition of Collins, 1778, which had appeared in the edition of 1756, a passage which one is at a loss to guess by what perversity of judgment could be struck out.

Thomas, Lord Berkeley, ob. July 13th, 1416. After the word "bodies," which terminates the second paragraph, follows

this:

a

"He was a lover of learning, and encourager of the famous John Trevisa, Vicar of Berkley, author of several pieces, being, as Bale writes, a man of much learning, and exceeding eloquent. "He married Margaret, daughter," &c.

Such," says Mr. Haslewood, whose words I shall use, "is the passage in Collins, (Vol. II. p 496, ed. 1756, called the third), which narrows the extent of family patronage bestowed on the learned and laborious Trevisa through half a century, to that of a single person.

"Trevisa, by the Colophon to the Polychronicon, says, 'This translacyon is ended on a Thursdaye the eyghtenth daye of Apryll, the yere of our Lord a thousande thre hundred fyfty and

a Balai Cent. p. 518.

seuen, the one and thyrty yere of kynge Edwarde the thyrde after the conqueste of Englonde: the yere of my lordes aege Syre Thomas lorde of Barkley, that made me make this translacyon fyue and thyrty." This is the language of Caxton, but being only applicable to Thomas, the Lord of that name, who died October 27th, 1361, it must be presumed his age has been misprinted, and was more properly "fyue and syxty."

"This was the early patron of Trevisa, and to whom we are indebted for one of the most valuable of our English Chronicles.

"To this Thomas succeeded Maurice, Lord Berkeley, who imbibed, at an early age, a passion for arms, and attended the Black Prince at the battle of Poictiers. Though afterwards given to the pious course of his father, possessing the title only eight years, (dying June 8th, 1367), we have no existing proof of his love of letters, though such an hereditary disposition may be believed, when we find it afterwards supported by his son, Thomas, Lord Berkeley, who died July 13th, 1416. To him we are indebted for a translation of that copious and valuable performance, known as Bartholomeus de proprietatibus rerum. "Thise translaciounes," says Trevisa, at the conclusion of his work, "I ended at Berkeleye, the sixte day of Feuerer, the yere of our lorde a thousande thre hundred foure score and eigtetene the yere of kyng Richarde the secounde after the conquest of Engelonde two and twenty,

the yere of my lordes age Sire Thomo lord of Berkeley that made

me make this translacioun seuene and fourty."

Trevisa produced other pieces, which have been lost by time, or lie buried and unknown in some collection of ancient MSS. To him has been attributed the momentous task of a new translation of the Bible; a subject which has received due attention from the industry of Mr. Dibdin, (vide his Ames, Vol. I. p. ;) and whatever the work may hereafter prove, it was considered by his patron a gift worthy the munificence of his prince to accept; and as it was lately supposed to exist in the Vatican at Rome, the curiosity of some literary traveller may hereafter be excited to ascertain the nature of the composition, if the great Marauder of the Continent has, in the spoliation of the capitol, "left a wreck behind. J. H.

P. 625. George Frederick Henry, eldest son of Admiral Berkeley, was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the thirty-fifth Regiment of Foot, June 13th, 1811. Georgina Mary, married, in 1811, Captain G. F. Seymour, royal navy, son of Lord Hugh.

His youngest daughter married at Lisbon, June 20th, 1812, the Earl of Euston.

P. 626. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, FIFTH and LATE EARL OF BERKELEY, died at Berkeley Castle, August 8th, 1810, aged 65. The subsequent discussion, as to the person on whom the inheritance of the honours devolved, is known to the whole nation. It was admitted that the Earl was married to the present Countess, (Mary Cole), at Lambeth Church, May 16th, 1796; but the late Earl, and his widow, asserted a former marriage, on March 30th, 1785, which would legitimate all the children, as well prior, as subsequent, to 1796. The question was referred to a Committee of Privileges, in the usual way; and they heard such a mass of evidence, as makes two large folio volumes. At length they came to a vote, on July 1st, 1811, disallowing the fact of the former marriage. Accordingly the Earldom, &c. fell on the fifth son, (being first born after the marriage of 1796.) Therefore, THOMAS MORTON FITZHARDING, born October 19th, 1796, became SIXTH and PRESENT EARL OF BERKELEY.

EARL OF ABINGDON.---P. 628.

P. 635. The late EARL OF ABINGDON, left three sons. Willoughby, second son, was a Captain in the Royal Navy, born Feb. 8th, 1779, who, when commanding the Satellite Sloop of War, of sixteen guns, was lost with all his crew, on December 19th, 1910, having sailed two days before to join the ships cruizing off La Hogue. He married Miss Fisher of Plymouth Theatre, by whom he had a posthumous son, born in March, 1811.

Hon. F. Bertie, third son, is a Lieutenant in the second Dragoon Guards, (or Queen's Eays).

The PRESENT EARL has issue,

First, Lord Norreys, born May 18th, 1808.
Second, a daughter, born July 23d, 1809.

EARL OF PLYMOUTH.---P. 637.

P. 663. It is highly probable that Alice Windsor's husband, George Puttenham, was nearly connected with, if not the same person as, George, the author of the Art of Poesy, a critical treatise of Queen Elizabeth's reign, hitherto of great rarity; but which has lately been so beautifully and accurately edited by Mr. Haslewood.

P. 691. Lady Maria Windsor married, October 25th, 1811, Arthur, Marquis of Downshire.

The PRESENT EARL OF PLYMOUTH married, August 5th, 1811, Lady Mary Sackville, sister of the Duke of Dorset.

EARL OF SCARBOROUGH.---P. 693.

P. 718. Harriet, wife of the Hon. Frederick Lumley, died July 20th, 1810.

P. 719. Hon. William Lumley is now a Major General.
Lady Louisa Hartley died October 10th, 1811.

EARL OF ALBEMARLE.---P. 728.

P. 743. Add to the children of the PRESENT EARL,
Twelfth, a son, born January 17th, 1811.

AUGUSTUS, now Viscount Bury, was, on February 4th, 1811, appointed an Ensign in the first Regiment of Foot Guards.

EARL OF COVENTRY.---P. 744.

P. 759. The Hon. John Coventry, born in 1765, married, first, in 1788, Miss Clayton, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. He married, secondly, in August, 1809, Anna Maria, second daughter of Francis Eves of Clifford Place, in Herefordshire, Esq. relict of Ebenezer Pope, Esq.

P. 760. GEORGE WILLIAM, Viscount Deerhurst, (on the death of his first wife), married, secondly, in Scotland, June 22d, and in Worcestershire, November 6th, 1811, Lady Mary Beauclerk, only daughter of Aubrey, Duke of St. Albans, by his first wife, who died in 1800.

T. Bensley, Printer,

Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.