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those three gentlemen in the distinguished and 

 enviable rank to which they were raised by the 

 University, as the reward of their labours. 



Gentlemen, The facts which I have submit- 

 ted to you form a part only of the literary his- 

 tory of this town. I have been obliged, from 

 a fear of intruding too much upon your time and 

 patience, to omit the names of several persons 

 whom I might otherwise have mentioned, to 

 complete that history ;* but the long list which I 



* Among the names omitted above may be mentioned those of the 

 following deceased persons: viz. GEORGE HADLEY, Esq., who, during 

 a temporary residence here, published, in 1788, his " New and complete 

 " History of the Town and County of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull ;" 

 and, afterwards, a Novel, printed here, entitled " Argal ; or, the Silver 

 " Devil ;" in two volumes, 12mo., being an imitation of Chrysal ; or, the 

 Adventures of a Guinea; THOMAS HODGSON, jun., Esq., the author of 

 "Poems, by Nobody, jun.;" the Rev. JOHN WALTHAM, M.A., late 

 Rector of Darlaston, in Staffordshire, a native of Hull, and the author 

 of " A short Memoir of the Life and dying Experience of the Right 

 " Hon. Jane, Countess of Burford, who departed this life July 18, 1800;" 

 (see Obituary for July, 1815, to Gent. Mag., vol. 85, part ii., p. 89) 

 The Rev. JOHN HAWKSLEY, also born here, who published a Sermon 

 " preached at Aldermanbury Postern, London Wall, on Sunday, March 21, 

 1813 ; occasioned by the death of the Rev. Edward Williams, D.D., 

 "Theological Tutor in the Dissenting College, at Rotherham, York- 

 " shire ;'' and likewise of the following Authors of Sermons published 

 here during the residence in the town of their respective writers : viz. the 

 Rev. JAMES LYONS ; the Rev. GEORGE PAYNE, M.A. ; the Rev. JOHN 

 SLACK; the Rev. JOSEPH BENSON; the Rev. THOMAS FINCH; the 

 Rev. SAMUEL BARNARD; the Rev. WILLIAM PENDERED; and others. 

 After the lapse of a century, it may perhaps be difficult to ascertain 

 whether the names " Abba Downe" and " J. Megg," affixed to 

 Poetical Communications, to the Gent.'sMag., in answer to an "Epigram 

 "on the Hull Beauties," (vol. 4, pp. 501 and 502,) were real or assumed ; 

 at all events the articles themselves may afford some amusement, and 

 will give to those who may wish to make the comparison, an oppor- 



