* Wood, Ath. Oxon. Bliss's edit. vol. i. coll. 211, 212.

† Acts of Privy Council, edited by Sir H. Nicolas, vol. vii. p. 153.

^{page 3 note a} See Lucian, Deor. Dialog. Ed. Hemsterhusii. Amst. 1743, torn. i. p. 205.

^{page 6 note a} Philosopher

^{page 12 note a} Thomas Leaver, Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1551.

^{page 12 note b} Henry and Charles, sons of Charles Duke of Suffolk, whose almost simultaneous deaths are so eloquently described by Wilson, in his Arte of Rhetorique, 4to. Lond. 1553.

^{page 12 note c} Henry Eland, or Ailande, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

^{page 15 note a} It should be σνσχηματíζεσθε τῷ ώíνιι τοừτῳ. Rom. xii. 2.

^{page 17 note a} Sic MS

^{page 32 note a} Comment, on the Laws of Engl. 8vo. Lond. 1811. vol. i. p. 196.

^{page 32 note b} Anc. Laws and Instit. of England, 8vo. edit. vol. i. p. 470.

^{page 33 note a} Patent p. 2. 17 Edw II. m. 12.

^{page 40 note a} Annals of Q. Eliz. an. 1581.

^{page 41 note a} Strype's Life of Abp. Grindal, p. 42.

^{page 54 note a} About 1529.

^{page 59 note a} “A briefe discourse of Warre. Written by Sir Roger Williams, knight; with his Opinion concerning some parts of the Martiall Discipline.” 4to. Lond. 1590. Two editions of it were published in the same year.

Another work must be mentioned here, in the title page called “A Breefe Discourse,” &c. dedicated to Henry Carey baron of Hunsdon, then Lord Chamberlain, “by Humfrey Barwick, gentleman, souldier, captain, et encor plus ultre.” The head-paragraph of the first page, however, calls the book “Certaine Discourses written by Humfry Barwicke, Gentleman, with his opinion concerning the severall Discourses, written by S. John Smith and S. Roger Williams, knightes, and of their contrarie opinions, touching Muskets and other fierie weapons, and the long-bowe: with diuers other pointes of war by some others afore-time mistaken.” 4to. London, without date: but published in 1591.

A great deal of curious information may be gleaned from the military Tracts of the time of Queen Elizabeth: though most of the writers, as professional men, carried themselves, like Sir John Smith, with “a Spanish port.”

^{page 59 note b} “Discoura Politiques et Militaires du Seigneur de la Noüe: nouuellement recueillis & mis en lumiere.” 8vo. Basle, 1587. They were translated into English by E. A. and published in London in the same year.

^{page 69 note a} “Alexandri Nevylli Angli, De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto Duce, Liber unus. Ejusdem Norvicus:” first appeared from Bynneman'g press in 4to. 1575. A Translation of the first part of this volume, entitled “Norfolkes Furies, or a View of Ketts Campe: necessary for the Malecontents of our Time:” was published in 1615, 4to. “by R. W. [Richard Woods], Minister at Frettenham in Norfolke, and a Citizen borne, who beheld part of these things with his yong eyes:” reprinted in 1623. A tract containing much curious information for those who take an interest in the aneient localities of Norwich: which will account for the entire reprint of it in the second volume of Blomfield's History of Norfolk.

^{page 79 note a} Lands MS 60 art 59.

^{page 86 note a} Hare, Collect ad an 3 Eliz. printed in Weever.

^{page 104 note a} In his address “ad Lectorem,” in the edition of 1600, Camden still further clears this point. “Post decimum annum (tanto enim tempore pressi) anno à Christo nato 1586, in lucem primÙm emisi; Britanniam inscripsi, honoratissimoque Domino Gulielmo Barono Burghley summo Anglitæ Thesaurario hunc tenellum tum quidem et exilem industriæ meæ foetum dicavi, qui, pro ea quæ fuit humanitate, libens lubensque recepit.”

^{page 105 note a} Two editions of an Epitome of the Britannia of 1607 appeared in Holland, by Regner Vitellius Zirizæus, accompanied by a series of small Maps; the first in small 8vo. Amst. 1617; the second, 12mo. Amst. 1639, “apudBlaeu.”

^{page 106 note a} Worthies of England, Warwickshire, 1st edit. p. 128.

^{page 106 note b} Engl. Histor. Library, edit. 1776. pp. 3, 4.

^{page 106 note c} At the end of the second volume of this edition, Bishop Gibson has printed, separately, Holland's Insertions, in addition to Camden's text, in the translated edition of 1637.

^{page 110 note a} Speed's Catalogue of the Religious Houses, their founders and valuation of revenues, t. Hen. VIII. still referred to by our Antiquaries, is given in his “History of Great Britain,” ut supr. p. 787—800.

^{page 111 note a} The following is the notice which Speed gives in his History, edit. 1611, p. 169, of the early British Coins engraved in his Work. He thanks Sir Robert Cotton, but makes no mention in it of Mr. Cole's Collection.

“Their trafficke amongst themselves was not of much worth, in that as Cæsar saith “‘the Coines which they had were either of brasse, or else iron rings sized at a cer-“‘taine waight, which they used for their monies.’ Of which kind some have averred they have seen found and lately taken up in little cruses or pitchers of earth. But “as times grew more civill, and trafficke more frequent, they shortly after stamped “both silver and gold; and thereone the faces of their kings even in the daies of Julius ‘Cæsar, who was the first that had his owne stampt on the Roman coynes. Many of “these are amongst us remaining, whereof I have inserted some few, as in their due places shall follow, which I received from the liberall hand of that most learned knight and worthy restorer of Antiquities Sir Robert Cotton of Cunington. These “Coyne s are commonly embossed outward and shield-like, whereon the inscription “or face is seen, the reverse hollow, and therein their devise set: and by these formes “are they known to be the Britaines, no other nation stamping the like, except some “few among the Grecians.”

^{page 112 note a} apace.

^{page 113 note a} Sir Robert Cotton's Library possessed several Manuscripts at this time relating to the reign of Henry V. Particularly a MS. of Elmham's Life of Henry V. (Jul. E. IV. fol. 9.) which had been presented to him in 1603 by Sir Walter Cope: followed by the shorter Metrical Life, ascribed to Elmham, now bound in the same Volume, fol. 89; and an imperfect Copy of the Narrative written by a Chaplain in the Royal Army (Ibid. fol. 115.) which had been presented to Sir Robert Cotton by Patrick Young. Sir Robert's Library also possessed An English prose Chronicle of Henry V. (Claud. A. VIII. 1.) and a Fragment of a History of Henry V. from the battle of Azin-court in 1417 to 1422, partly metrical. (Cleop. C. iv. fol. 22.) It is possible that some of these might have been acquired after Speed had compiled his History. The only MS. Speed quotes in the reign of Henry V. “Ex antiq. MS. D. Roberti Cotton” is one which gives an account of the Queen's Coronation.

^{page 113 note b} Winwood's Memorials, p. 482.

^{page 124 note a} MS. Cotton. Vespas. D. XXI. fol. 18. “Vita et Miracula Sancti Guthlaci anacho-retæ, per Felicem Croylandensem monachum, primum Latine scripta, et deinde ab incerto scriptore Saxonice versa.”

^{page 126 note a} This alludes to some aspersions upon Mr. Camden in an anonymous work which at that time went by the short name of Analeeta, printed at Cologne in 1619, the full title, together with an account of which, will be found in Nicolson's Irish Historical Library, edit. 1776, p. 4. See also various Letters in Gul. Camdeni Epist. 4to. Loud. 1694, pp. 209, 211, 230, 236, 245, &c.

^{page 126 note b} “Parr's Life of Usher, Letters, pp. 302, 303.

^{page 131 note a} “Italia illustrate: give Rerum Italicarum Scriptores varii.” edit, ab A. Cambierio. fol. Franc. 1600.

^{page 133 note a} This History of the Bishops of Durham now forms the first part of the Cottonian MS. Titus. A II.

^{page 133 note b} Now to be found in the Cotton. MS. Titus A. XVIII. fol. 11.

^{page 133 note c} Claud. A. I. “Breviloquium vitæ, virtutum, et obitus B. Wilfridi episcopi et confessoris: auctore Fridegoda, rogatu Odonis archiep. Cantuar. carmine hexametro conscriptum.”

^{page 133 note d} Now in the volume Claud. A. v. fol. 45, 128 b.

^{page 133 note c} Erpeniu s died Nov. 13, 1624.

^{page 134 note a} Archbishop Usher, writing to Dr. Samuel Ward, June 23, 1626, sayg “Since I wrote unto you last, I have received intelligence from Leyden that all Erpenius's Printed Books are already sold; and his Matrices of the Oriental Tongues are bought by Elze-vir the printer there; so that now you must content yourselves with big Manuscripts only, which are a very rare treasure indeed, and for which your University shall rest much beholden unto your Chancellor.” Parr's Life of Usher, Letters, p. 343. From a Letter of Archbishop Usher already quoted, it appears that the Duke of Buckingham purchased Erpenius's Collection of Arabic Manuscripts.

^{page 135 note a} Now MS. Cotton. Cleopatra A. II. Codex membran. in 4to. min. “Vita S, Modvennæ Virginis Hibernicæ, per Galfridum Edys, Burtonensem monachtun.”

^{page 135 note b} MS. Cotton. Tiber. A. XI.

^{page 136 note a} This Manuscript is now preserved in the Public Library at Cambridge, Fe. 3. 60.

^{page 136 note b} This Register, written on 329 leaves of vellum, folio, is at present (1843) in the possession of Edinond Wodehouse, Esq. of Sennowe: one of the gilt clasps is still remaining to the volume.

^{page 136 note c} Now in the Public Library at Cambridge, Ff. 2. 29.

^{page 143 note a} Bishop Williams founded the Library.

^{page 148 note a} Called Howlesworth in the next Letter. This wag Richard Holdaworth, or Oldis-worth, afterwards Master of Emanuel College, and Margaret Professor of Divinity.

^{page 151 note a} Van Loon has engraved various Dutch medals with this device, and the motto “Frangimur si collidimur.” One of them relates to the disputes between Holland and Zealand, of the date of 1596. This device and motto were frequently repeated, both at earlier and later periods, upon the Dutch medals, as monitory against internal dissensions, which might prove their ruin.

^{page 153 note a} Wheelocke's Transcript of Ælfric's Caaons, with a Latin translation on the pages opposite to the Saxon text, is now among the Harl. MSS. No. 440. It was given to Lord Oxford by Dr. George Hickes.

^{page 153 note b} This is a fault in Baker's Transcript. It should be Sigencus, See the preface in Elstob's intended publication of Ælfric's Sermons, folio.

^{page 154 note a} De Laet gave up the intention himself, resigning the task to Sir Symonds D'Ewes, to whom, in a letter dated Lugd. Batavor. 24 Aug. 1640, he says, “Specimen Lexici tui lubens accepi atque perlustravi. Placet summopere, et optarem jam prælo commissum esse: non tamen necessarium mihi videtur Germanicas aut Belgicas voces addere, nisi eas quæ etymo aut derivatione cum Anglosaxonicis congrunnt, aut ex Anglo-saxonicis sunt quodammodo corruptæ: omnino autem necessarium ostendere quo pacto voces quæ vobis hodie in usu sunt, a veteribus aut scriptura aut notione deces-seriut.”

^{page 168 note a} “1641. June 7. Lords voted the Bishops to retaine theire voice in Parliament.” Gesta Anglorum, MS. Addit. Brit. Mns. 11,302. fol. 156.

^{page 190 note a} The Bishops of this period made no scruple to interfere in elections. But it was sometimes dangerous. Lloyd bishop of Worcester, who had been made lord Almoner whilst bishop of St. Asaph, continued in that office till 1702, when, together with his son, having too warmly interested himself in the election for the County of Worcester, a complaint was made to the House of Commons, and a resolution passed of addressing the Queen to remove William lord bishop of Worcester from being lord Almoner o t her Majesty, and that “Mr. Attorney General do prosecute Mr. Lloyd, the lord “bishop of Worcester's son, for his said offence, after his privilege as a member of the “Lower House of Convocation is out.” In consequence of this vote an Address was presented to the Queen, with which Her Majesty complied, and dismissed the bishop from his office.

^{page 205 note a} “The Transactioneer, with some of his Philosophical Fancies; in two Dialogues.” 8vo. Lond. 1700.

^{page 206 note a} The third Volume, or “Supplement of the Historia Plantarum,” was published shortly before Ray's death, fol. Lond. 1704.

^{page 205 note b} i. e. 170 4/5f.

^{page 207 note a} Dr. Peter Hotton, professor of Botany at Leyden. Ray thus mentions him in the Preface to his Supplement to the Historia Plantarum:

“Nec tamen in Stirpibus indagandis et colligendis conquievit nostrorum hominum indnstria; sed in eisdem colendis, ordinandis, et diseecandis prsecipue emicuit. Tria sunt (inquitVir longé celeberrimus D. Petrus Hotton Medicinte et Botanices Professor in Academia Lugduno.Batava, non Rei tantùm Herbariæ: reliqwwjpie Historia; Naturalis totiusque Medicinee scientiâ instructissimus, sed et emni Hteraturæ, omni virtu-tum genere excultissimus, Amicus noster plurimum honorandus) qute setati nostrse ram debemus.

“I. Hortorum splendorem, et ad hæe usque tempera inusitatam Stirpium exotica-culturam.

“II. Plantarum anatomen, deteetamque partium secretissimarnm conformationom et nsus.

III. Concinnam illom et mirè sibi cohærtntem Herbarom dispositionem.”

^{page 213 note a} In another Letter to Dr. Charlett, dated Yorke-BuildiDgs, Aug. 4, 1694, Pepys say, “Among the many mortifications deriv'd on mee from my sin of Jacobitisme, it is noe little one to have had the handling of goe great a curiosity as your Torquis, without capacity of bidding (as time was 1 should have done) for the propriety of it.”

^{page 226 note a} This was Janus Junius Toland, commonly named John Toland, one of the founders of modern Deism, whose name is put at full length in the succeeding Letter. A sufficient Account of him will be found in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary.

^{page 238 note a} Wanley, in a note, says, “Here the good Doctor is mistaken, the Acta Ignatii that I found, not being among the Baroccian Manuscripts, but among those of Archbishop Laud, where is a great part of the old Mηνεîον (more antient than the time of Symeon Metaphrastes), in three large volumes in folio. These, I believe, may tally with those of Monsieur Colbert, according to what I have read of these last in Bernard Montfau-con's works.”

^{page 241 note a} See the Cat. MSS. Angl. et Hib. torn. ii. pt. ii. p. 65.

^{page 243 note a} Edit. Lond. 1687, p. 383.

^{page 245 note a} * The only Library in London at this time, which approached the nature of a public Library, was that of Sion College belonging to the London Clergy.

^{page 248 note a} That of publishing a Treatise on the various Characters of Manuscripts: a work which Wanley never completed.

^{page 251 note a} Humphrey Wanley's Answer to this Letter, dated July 8th, 1697, is printed in the Letters from the Bodleian Library, vol. i. p. 83–87.

^{page 259 note a} The remains of this curious Volume are still preserved under the press-mark Otho B. VI. in the Cottonian Library. The following was the account of it formerly written upon the first leaf by Dr. Richard James, Sir Robert Cotton's earliest librarian:

“Liber Geneseos pulcherrimis figuris illuminatus, et antiquissimis literis capttalibus, ante quatuordecim aut circiter centenos annorum ezaratus; quern de Philippis in Angliam secum tulerunt duo Greecorum Episcopi temporibus Henrici octavi, ei dona offerentes, et perhibentes ex antiqua traditione receptum, quodolim dominum agnosceret B. Originem. Elizabetha regina felicis memoriæ eum in bibliotheca Regise archivis repertum, dedit illustrissimo equiti, Johanni Fortescue, suo in Græis prælectori; qui eodem, consukns posteritati, beavit Thesaurum Cottoniarmm.”

In the fire at Ashburnham House, where the Cotton Library was then deposited, Oct. 23, 1731, this was among the Manuscripts which were wholly, or partially destroyed. Twenty-one fragments of this Manuscript were engraved by Vertue for the Society of Antiquaries in 1744, and inserted in their Vetusta Monumenta, vol. i. pll. lxvii, lxviii. When Mr. Planta compiled his Catalogue of the Cottonian Manuscripts, in 1796, only eighteen fragments of this volume remained, and none of these were among the fragments engraved in the Vetusta Monumenta. Other fragments have since been recovered from the preserved cinders of the Library, amounting, large and small, to the number of a hundred and fourteen.

^{page 261 note a} Wanley'e Accounxt of his access to the Royal Collection, subsequently attained, is printed in the Letters from the Bodleian Library, voi. i. p. 89, dated May 30, 1698. “Honored Sir, I have at length got the D^r in a perfect good humour, and this day began to take a specimen of the Aloxandtian MS. The D^rmade me dine with him, and treated me with the greatest kindness.”

^{page 264 note a} The University, it appears, declined the purchase of this Manuscript, which had formerly been part of the famous Library founded in 1485 at Buda, by Matthæus Corvinus King of Hungary. In 1529 the city of Buda was taken by the Turks, and in 1686 retaken, after a long siege, by the forces of the Emperor Leopold. This manuscript was a portion of the plunder taken at the latter siege.

An original Letter relating to it from the celebrated Dr. Wallis, and a minute Analysis of its contents drawn up by Wanley himself, are preserved at the end of the Musical volume known by the name of “The Manuscript of Waltham Holy-Crots Abbey,” now (No. 763) in the Lansdowte Collection at the Muæum. D^r. Wallis's Letter has been printed ia the Notes to Sir John Hawkins's History of Music, vol. i. p. 391. Wanley's Analysis has not been printed; but it is made with such precision as to be quite a clue for the amateurs of Greek musical composition to trace this volume to its resting place, which is at present unknown.

D^r. Bumey was mistaken in supposing that this Manuscript had afterwards got into the Harleian Collection, and is now MS. HarL 1613. The two Volumes were undoubtedly written about the same time and in similar hands, but Wanley's MS. consisted of four hundred and thirteen leaves: the Harleian MS. of little more than three hundred.

^{page 266 note a} The humiliating condition to which they were reduced is strougly indicated in the Inventory of King James's goods and chattels, taken after his death. Among the Plate belonging to the Back-Stairs, two Chamber pots are included. A memorandum in the margin of the Inventory says, that one of them weighing 13 oz. 4gr. “wag delivered to Roettier, with the Chocolate pot, towards making the Great Seals of Scotland and Ireland.” See the Archæolog. vol. xviii. p. 230. This explains a Lampoon among the “Poems on Affairs of State,” 8vo. Lond. 1703, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 215, “O n Melting down the Plate, or the ———'s Farewell, 1697.”Google Scholar

^{page 266 note b} Antonin Nompar de Caumont, Comte (afterwards Due) de Lauzun, who escorted the Queen and Prince of Wales to France in 1688.

^{page 267 note a} The Durham Book has been described, and its history written, several times. See Smith's History and Synopsis of the Cotton Library, pp. xxxiii, xxxiv; Wanley's Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, appended to Hickes's Thesaurus; Stevenson's Account of it in the Graphic Illustrator; and Sir Frederic Madden's Description, illustrative of the second Plate of Shaw's Illuminated Ornaments.

^{page 270 note a} Nov 16 Cott. Libr. Titus C. x.

^{page 275 note a} These two volumes, bound in one (with the loss of one or two fragments), now form the Sloane Manuscript No. 526, in the British Museum.

^{page 278 note a} The edition of Mabillon referred to, is that printed at Paris in 1681, fol.

^{page 279 note a} Domit. VII. fol. 12–42. An elaborate account of this Manuscript by Wanley himself, will be found in the Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon MSS. appended to Hickes's Thesaurus, p. 249.

^{page 283 note a} Neither Evelyn nor Wanley appear to have been acquainted with the works of the Master of 1466 (the earliest of the German school)) nor with those of Martin Schōngauer, Israel van Mecken, &c.

^{page 284 note a} John Laughton, B.D, Fellow of Trinity College, and Public Librarian. He sent; an Account of the MSS. of Trinity College to the great Catalogue of English Manuscripts, 1697.

^{page 286 note a} The reader may help himself to a large choice of ancient scribes of the name of Theodore in the Index to Montfaucon's Palæographia Græca.

^{page 286 note b} The following is the Description of this MS. in Nasmith's Catalogue:—

“LXXXI. Codex chartaceus in folio, in quo continentur Homeri Ilias e t Odytaea eum Paralipomenis Quinti Calabri. Primæ paginæ inscribitur literia deauratis nomoa Theodori, hincque ilia Parkeri aliorumque opinio de hujus Codicis antiquitate; qui olim ad Augnstinos Cantuarienses pertinebat: hanc vero inscriptionem non de Theodoro Cantuariensi sed de alio quovis ejusdem nominis, qui hand longo ante arti s typographicæ: inyentionem floruit, intelligendam esse, docent characteres et omnis ornatus et habitus Codicis.”

^{page 286 note c} Nasmith's Catalogue of the Benet College MSS. Num. cxc. 1.

^{page 286 note d} Ibid. Num. CCCXXXIV.

^{page 286 note e} Ibid. CXCIII.

^{page 286 note f} Ibid. Num. CCCCI.

^{page 286 note g} Ibid. Num. CCCCLXXVIII.

^{page 287 note a} Nasmith's Catalogue of the Benet College MSS. Num. CCLX.

^{page 288 note a} See Nasmith's Catalogue, p. 28

^{page 289 note a} September 13th, 1699. A ludicrous Account of the amazement of the metropolis in expectation of this Eclipse, appeared in the Post-boy Newspaper of Sept. 14th, suspected to be from the pen of Swift, who frequently wrote in this Paper.

^{page 290 note a} See a further and more ample Account of this Volume by Wanley himself in the Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon MSS. appended to Dr. Hickes's Thesaurus, already quoted, pp. 168, 169.

^{page 297 note a} The first public specimen which Keill gave the world of his skill in mathematical science, was his “Examination of Burnet's Theory of the Earth,” in 1698. His second Book here alluded to, was his “Reply to Burnet's Defence,” 8vo. 1699.

^{page 302 note a} Dr. Hyde's reply to Mr. Hudson's application is printed among the Letters from the Bodleian Library, 8vo. 1813, vol. i. p. 172.

^{page 316 note a} Whitaker, 's Hist, of Whalley, 4to. Lond. 1818, pp. 488, 489.Google Scholar

^{page 320 note a} Chalmers's Life of De Foe, pp. 6. 31.

^{page 325 note a} Kennett's Gloss, to the Faroch. Antiq. v. CLERICVS sacerdotis.

^{page 325 note b} Registr. Burgh. Episc. Linc.

^{page 325 note c} Bridges's Northamptonshire, ii. 493, e cart. Hospit. de Browne Stamford.

^{page 325 note d} See particularly the Liber Albus Monast. S. Edmundi de Burgo, MS. Had. 1005, fol. 120.

^{page 325 note e} Registr. Abb. de Rading. MS. Harl. 1708. fol. 189 b.

^{page 325 note f} M. Parker de Antiq. Brit. Eccles. p. 390.

^{page 325 note g} Erdenwicke's Staffordshire, pp, 120,131. Dugd. Warw. p. 420.

^{page 326 note a} Wood, Ath. Oxon. edit. Bliss, vol. ii. p. 684

^{page 326 note b} Ibid. vol. i. p. 381.

^{page 326 note c} Stat. of the Realm, vol. iv. p. 658.

^{page 326 note d} Blackst. Comment. Christian's edit. 8vo. Lond. 1800. vol. iv. p. 54.

^{page 346 note a} Mr. Wren was sworn upon the Council of the Royal Society himself, on the day after the date of this Letter, March 29, 1710.

^{page 352 note a} Lord Oxford's release from the Tower has been already mentioned, p. 320.

^{page 359 note a} Probably that in the Lambeth Library, which once belonged to Dr. John Dee, and is quoted by Holinshed.

^{page 369 note a} Banduri Numismata Imperat. Romanorum, Lut Par. 1718. torn. ii. p. 131

^{page 370 note a} There is a mistake in this. Dr. Mead's coin had not the reverse of SPES; when sold it was thus described in his Catalogue, p. 13, Lot 110.

“IMP. c. ALLECTVS P. F. AVG. Caput Allecti laureatum.” Reverse, “ORIENS AVG. (infra MS.) Sol capite radiato et ad dextram inclinato; humeros pallio laxè pendulo amictus stans, dextrâ elatâ et expansâ sinistrâ globum cum flagro; hinc inde captivi duo sedentes aversi manibus post terga revinctis. gr. 69.”

Dr. Mead, in a Letter to Professor Ward, dated Ormond Street, July 27,1748, say,

“Dear Sir,

“Sir Andrew Fountaine is quite impatient to see my Allectus, which you have got. As you have no more occasion for it till you come to town again, if you will be pleased to send it me sealed up, by the Bearer, you shall bare it [again] as long as you please.”

^{page 394 note a} Mr. Hollis afterwards purchased this Marble when at Rome, in 1754, for fifteen sequins. He brought it to England, and subsequently bequeathed it, with his other property and curiosities, to Thomas Brand Hollis, Esq. of the Hyde; who again bequeathed them to Dr. Disney, This Marble is still at the Hyde, near Ingatestone, in Essex, the property of the Editor's friend John Disney, Esq.

^{page 394 note b} “Oriens murrhina mittit: inveniuntur enim ibi in pluribus locis, nee insignibus, maxime Parthici regni, præcipue tamen in Carmania. Humorem putant sub terra calore densari. Amplitudine nusquam parvos excedunt abacos; crassitudine vero quanta dictum est vasi potorio. Splendor his sine viribus, nitorque verius, quam splendor. Sed in pretio varietas colorum, subinde ciroumcingentibus se maculis in purpuram candoremque, et tertium ex utroque ignescentem, veluti per transitum colons purpura aut rubescente lacteo. Sunt qui maxime in his laudent extremitates, et quosdam colorum repercussus, quales in ccelesti arcu spectantur. His maculæ pingues placent: translucere quisquam aut pallere, vitium est: item sales verrucæque non eminentes, sed ut in corpore, etiam plerumque sessiles. Aliqua et in odore commendatio est.”—Plin. Hist. Nat. li. xxxvii. c. 2.

^{page 395 note a} Lamp'rid. Heliogab. c. 32. “In murrhinis et onychinis minxit,”

^{page 397 note a} Mr. afterwards Dr. Maskelyne, and Mr. Waddington were the two persons sent. Dr. Maskelyne's Account of his own Observations on the Transit, in a Letter to the Earl of Macclesfield, is printed in the Philos. Transact, vol. Lit. p. 196—201. Mr. Waddington took the passages of Venus and the sun's limbs, across the horizontal and vertical wire of the equal altitude instrument.

^{page 399 note a} The Observations made at this time, by Mr. Charles Mason and Mr. Dixon, the two Observers here alluded to, will be found recorded in the same volume of the Philosophical Transactions as Dr. Maskelyne's, p. 390 & seqq.

^{page 401 note a} Printed in Harris's life of Charles II. vol. it. Append, p. 393.

^{page 401 note b} Ibid. Append, p. 390.

^{page 410 note a} See his Memoirs, written by himself. 4to. Lond. 1806, p. 295.

^{page 418 note a} The Abbé Mann, in the fourth volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of Brussells, 4to. 1783, p. xxxii—xli. printed a short life of his friend, followed by a minute list of his writings. The Abbè John Turberville Needham was well known to the Catholic English: and in earlier days (1751—1762) had been the travelling preceptor to several young gentlemen of distinguished families in England, He made continental tours with the Earl of Fingal, with Mr. Howard of Corby, Lord Gormanstown, Mr. Towneley, and Mr. Dillon.

^{page 426 note a} Signor Jean Fabbroni, writing to Sir Joseph from Florence, 30th Dec. 1783, thus expresses himself: “The new application of Inflammable Air to make flying Balloons has already invaded the whole Earth, and turned the head to every body. I am glad to hear that even the English do amuse themselves about that play. I hope, however, that if those Ballons are to he applyed to the service of human kind, it will be in England that they will receive their greatest perfection. There are great many things to be known about the constitution of our atmosphere, and certainly they may be more easily discovered by the help of the flying Ballons. I expect to hear that men will fight no more by land and sea, but amidst the Air, in the common camp of the volatile tribe.”

^{page 427 note a} The reader who desires to know the history of the troubles in the Royal Society, at this time, may consult the following publications:—

1. “An authentic Narrative of the Dissensions and Debates in the Royal Society containing the Speeches at large of Dr. Horseley, Dr. Maskelyne, Mr. Maseres, Mr. Poore, Mr. Glenie, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Mary. 8° Lond. 1784. (This was Mr. Maty's Pamphlet.)Google Scholar

2. “An Appeal to the Fellows of the Royal Society, concerning the Measures taken by Sir Joseph Banks, their President, to compel Dr. Hutton to resign the Office of Secretary to the Society for their Foreign Correspondence. By a Friend to Dr. Hutton.” 8° Lond. 1784.Google Scholar

3. “An History of the Instances of Exclusion from the Royal Society which were not suffered to be argued in the Course of the late Debates. By some Members in the Minority.” 8° Lond. 1784.Google Scholar

4. “Canons of Criticism: extracted from the Beauties of Mary's Review and the Oratorical Powers of Dr. Horseley. A new Edition with Additions.” 8° Lond.

5. “Observations on the late Contests in the Royal Society,” by Dr. Kippis, Andrew. 8° Lond. 1784.Google Scholar

Also, The Remembrancer, N". 109, for April, 1784.

European Magazine, for April", 1784.

Critical Review of April, 1784.

Monthly Review of April, 1784.

On the same Dissensions.